Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a turning point from my memoir Between Worlds, a moment when I finally spoke honestly about what I was experiencing and discovered that help could come from unexpected places. This chapter is about courage, truth, family, and the power of being heard. It is a reminder that sometimes the first step toward healing is simply telling the t...

this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I reflect on what it feels like when your dreams are constantly dismissed, redirected, or compared to someone else’s. From wanting to become a lawyer to dreaming of modeling, I share how criticism and comparison slowly affected my confidence and my belief in what was possible for my future. This episode is about identity, discouragement, survival...

this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a chapter from my story Between Worlds about moving to Miami, searching for love, and losing myself in the process. What began as hope and emotional connection slowly became emotional exhaustion, loneliness, and self-destruction. This episode reflects on toxic relationships, survival patterns, emotional pain, and the difference between be...

New York Was Not Freedom In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a chapter from my story, about moving to the United States and realizing that a new place does not always mean a new beginning. What I thought would be freedom became another space where I felt overworked, blamed, and unseen. This episode explores what it feels like to carry emotional weight in a place that doe...

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a chapter from my memoir Between Worlds about the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the unexpected emotions that came with it. While the world around me was shaken, something inside me shifted too. For the first time, I experienced relief from a life that had already felt heavy. Later, moving to the Dominican Republic gave me a glimpse of...

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a personal story about sibling comparison, childhood jealousy, and the healing that can come with time. Little Sister explores what happens when children are compared inside the family, when love feels uneven, and when resentment forms before we are old enough to understand our emotions. This is also a story of growth. As I look back n...

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a chapter from my memoir Between Worlds about a time in my life when silence became my way of surviving. As a teenager, I learned to stay quiet, to observe, and to hide my emotions in order to feel safe. What looked like disconnection on the outside was, in reality, a mind trying to protect itself. This episode is a reflection on what...

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a chapter from my memoir Between Worlds a story about growing up feeling like nothing I did was ever enough. From school to home, I learned to associate love with performance, and mistakes with pain. I speak about the pressure to be perfect, the fear of getting things wrong, and the quiet loneliness of being a child who felt unseen and...

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a deeply personal chapter from my memoir Between Worlds. This is the story of how I came into this world not through love, but through survival. A story shaped by rejection, silence, and the quiet strength of a mother who chose to carry me when everything around her told her not to. I speak about childhood memories that stayed in my bo...

Today’s episode is different, I am reading it from my story “Between worlds” today I am sharing a poem I Called “Papa” it’s about seeing my father not only as a parent but as the young man he once was.

I wrote this poem when I began thinking about my mother not only as a parent, but as the young girl she once was.

A Haitian daughter learning to love herself,my podcast is a story of survival awakening and choosing clarity over chaos through memories of child hood migration,family wounds, not to seek sympathy but to reclaim my voice. I invite every listener who has ever carried pain in silence to finally step into freedom.