Rising From Shame

This episode is your permission slip to stop shrinking. In this intimate and beautifully raw conversation, two women in recovery sit together, not as experts or influencers, but as sisters walking the same path—peeling back the layers, naming the truth, and reclaiming the parts of themselves long hidden under shame. Guest Teri Lynn, whose story has never been shared publicly, offers a rare look in...

PART III - Through heartfelt reflection, spiritual insight, and practical everyday tools, this episode Nadia and Janice invites you to breathe into the mystery of life — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and light behind it - ultimately turning sorrow into something beautiful for the whole family.  Even with a deeper understanding about death, sorrow still visit...

Are you ready to unlock the doors and COME HOME to a place WITHIN that has felt distant for a long time? A space that  seems unreachable amidst thoughts and emotions seemingly pulling you away? Are you confused about why, how, and where to start on a personal journey of awakening? Ok, let's get you there, let's start. A home within is but a breath away. It already gently speaks to you in the heart...

PART II - Through heartfelt reflection, spiritual insight, and practical everyday tools, this episode Nadia and Janice invites you to breathe into the mystery of life — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and light behind it - ultimately turning sorrow into something beautiful for the whole family.  Even with a deeper understanding about death, sorrow still visits...

PART I - Through heartfelt reflection, spiritual insight, and practical everyday tools, this episode Nadia and Janice invites you to breathe into the mystery of life — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and light behind it - ultimately turning sorrow into something beautiful for the whole family.  Even with a deeper understanding about death, sorrow still visits....

Why would a parent in recovery want to look deeper into shame and inner healing? Because the tools we’ve worked so hard to build in recovery—awareness, acceptance, honesty — CAN become some of the greatest gifts we offer our children. But the truth is, the same patterns of shame that once shaped our survival can still quietly reappear in the tender moments of parenting, affecting our ability to gu...

What if the path to becoming the parent you always wished you had starts not with learning new parenting techniques—but with going inward? In our latest episode, we dive deep into a transformative truth: sobriety isn’t the finish line—it’s the starting point of returning to your truest self. It’s where the real work begins. And that work leads to something powerful: parenting from the heart. From...

Ever feel a "hole" in your heart? a disconnect from others, life, purpose? The mind feels the pain of disconnection to one's own heart. It gives us many reasons not to seek, be, and stay connected to it, and even more reasons not to feel it, not to hear it speak. But the heart is the space of complete acceptance of what is. It offers refuge from the mind, and all its chains and bonds we often atte...

As parents in recovery, we have the unique opportunity to end the cycle of trauma for generations to come. Recovery for us has always meant more than reaching physical sobriety alone, more than mental stability on its face. Recovery for us also means healing our inner childhood wounds and freeing ourselves of false beliefs that once harmed us. With sobriety and stability we GET learn how to repare...

Welcome HOME. Welcome to the home in your heart. In this episode, Nadia explores the capacity to find freedom within oneself by living from and through an open heart. Our inner divinity exists within the heart. It is not swayed by ego nor affected by fear. It simply exists in a state of expanded awareness and unconditional acceptance. In this episode, Nadia shares her experience, strength, and hop...

Recovery is heavy on the heart, both for ourselves and the family. Over time, the weight of self-pity and shame, regrets and resentments, fears and judgments, hardens the heart, separating us from solution, fellowship, support, and love. It happens to us all, in varying degrees and for different reasons. We might even think it is ok, as long as we don't relapse or harm others. But it is not ok. Tr...

Feel stuck in the past? Caught in fears for tomorrow? Find it difficult to accept everything exactly as it is today, in this very moment? If so, the universe is asking you to do something about it, to build a home within your heart where you can receive all the love it has to offer. In this episode, Nadia reviews the first steps to tune-in to the heart (Check Out "Building a Home Within #1"), plus...

Grief is caused by many things, and is experienced in even more varying ways. Death, divorce, physical separation, even emotional distance, can cause intense feelings of loss, confusion, and despair. It might even seem no one could possibly understand what we are going through. We may isolate and even beat ourselves up for feeling so alone and depressed, denying ourselves the love, support, unders...

Ever feel as though you can't get a moment's relief from your own thoughts and mind? Or as though you are your worst enemy, seemingly jeopardizing your recovery and relationships? If you're seeking a new way of living, in this episode Nadia gently walks through the first baby steps anyone can take to begin living differently through a space of refuge, calm, clarity, and love within, rather than so...

Part II - Parents in recovery are some of the most courageous individuals around. Practical, financial, emotional, mental, and legal challenges often present themselves as major roadblocks, making the road back home to their children's hearts complicated and, often, very painful for all involved. Yet there is hope! Listen in to these episode discussions with Janice V. Johnson Dowd, LMSW, and Nadia...

Part I - Parents in recovery are some of the most courageous individuals around. Practical, financial, emotional, mental, and legal challenges often present themselves as major roadblocks, making the road back home to their children's hearts complicated and, often, very painful for all involved. Yet there is hope! Listen in to these episode discussions with Janice V. Johnson Dowd, LMSW, and Nadia,...

In this Solo Empowered Recovery episode, Nadia reflects on the beauty of building mindfulness and its many unexpected blessings, including being present enough to witness life's most joyful paradoxes.  ⁠FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠   ⁠EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠   ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠   ⁠GIVE BACK⁠   ⁠FOLLOW⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One woman's recovery profoundly positively impacts all women's recovery - LUCKY LISA is absolute proof, having forged a long, arduous path to create the joyful, sober life she has today inspiring countless other women, men, and everything in between, along the way. "Lucky Lisa," as she is lovingly called today, shares her incredible story in the newest episode of the Home is Within You, Empowered...

In this solo episode, Nadia reflects on the blessings of parenting in recovery, sharing a story about her son's quest to "beat the world record" and the relationship between competitiveness, shame, and love, as well as lessons on parenting in recovery and chakra-based psychology.  ⁠FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET⁠ ⁠EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY⁠   ⁠YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery)⁠   ⁠GIVE BACK⁠   ⁠FOLLOW⁠ Le...

In this episode, Nadia gives listeners a view into empowered recovery through a combination of twelve step insight, chakra-based energy tools, and shame-banning work.  You'll receive specific tips and tools she uses to sustain a sense of home within her heart, including through challenges as a mother in recovery with chronic conditions, as well as sister and daughter of an elderly mother. Listener...

Chakra Medicine is a spiritual and yogic psychology that is empowering trauma and addiction recovery. In this episode, you'll enter the intricate world of energy and consciousness as guest Priya Jain, Founder Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences, guides Nadia in the practical application of this ancient wisdom in her daily life as part of Priya's chakra coach certification program. You c...

The universe wants you to play again! Yet often on our recovery journey, past narratives and trauma wounds still get in the way, keeping us stuck. The key is building awareness of how trauma manifests in the body, having a safe space within ourselves to sit with it, and building the capacity to harness its energy and direct it for our greater good. Sound impossible? It's not! R.G. Shore is proof....

This episode is dedicated to all mothers in trauma and/or addiction recovery, a REMINDER that, if they have been shamed by others, that their true self remains whole, divine, and complete, and that their power resides within. Nadia encourages mothers who may be struggling to not let shame keep them in the darkness, guiding listeners through a few moments breath and mantra, acknowledging the sacred...

In this episode, Nadia is joined by special guest Dr. LaTisha Bader, Chief Clinical Officer at the Women's Recovery Center in Colorado, a woman in divinely aligned work empowering other women to heal and return to their truest selves. The Center serves as a model of service delivery specifically for the treatment of women's mental health, substance use, and trauma. They address the whole body, min...

What is the single most important thing you can do today to empower your recovery? Choose love over fear. Choose love over judgment. Choose love over shame. While pain and negative experiences are unavoidable, harming interpretations of and responses to them are not. Love generates more love and is the foundation of all things healed, magical, and yes, blissful. But empowering recovery isn't rocke...