The Healing Poetic Podcast - R.I.S.E Series

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet reflects on her ten-year entrepreneurial journey and the many moments she considered walking away. From starting as a life coach without the tools she needed, to becoming a self-publishing coach for work she never truly desired, to finally embracing her most authentic role as the Hardcore Healin...

Send us Fan Mail Not Every Strong Emotion Is Anger In this powerful episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet explores the emotional nuance that is often denied to women—especially Black women. Anger vs. Frustration examines how passion, honesty, disappointment, exhaustion, and direct communication are frequently mislabeled as anger, aggression, or hostility. Through personal...

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply reflective and emotionally intelligent episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet explores the important distinction between judgment and alignment — and why discernment does not have to come from superiority, condemnation, or ego. Judgment vs. Alignment dives into the emotional, psychological, and energetic differences between intentionally livi...

Send us Fan Mail Why do so many of us choose the box over the sky? The box feels familiar. Predictable. Safe. The sky feels uncertain. Expansive. Uncomfortable. In this episode of The Healing Poetic Podcast , Keya explores why we often remain in relationships, careers, beliefs, identities, and patterns that no longer align with who we are becoming. Through reflection and personal insight, she disc...

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply honest and emotionally layered episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet explores the uncomfortable but necessary conversation surrounding performative empowerment, hidden competition, projection, and the emotional tension that can quietly exist between women. Empowerment & The Box dives into the ways many women genuinely begin relationships...

Send us Fan Mail In this bold and deeply honest episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet explores the emotional and societal policing of women’s desire, confidence, sensuality, and self-expression. The Policing of Women’s Desire, Confidence & Expression dives into the contradictions women — especially Black women — often face when embracing their femininity, sexuality, co...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful continuation of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet explores the emotional complexity many layered women experience while navigating modern dating and relationships. Dating and the Box examines the pressure women often face to become emotionally digestible in order to be loved, accepted, understood, or chosen. From being labeled “too much,” “too in...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet dives into the emotional performance many Black women are forced to navigate in corporate and professional spaces. Corporate Spaces and the Box explores the unspoken pressure to constantly self-monitor, code-switch, emotionally regulate, and shrink parts of yourself in order to survive professionally w...

Send us Fan Mail In this thought-provoking episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet explores why multifaceted women often disrupt traditional leadership models and challenge environments built on predictability, hierarchy, emotional suppression, and control. Why Multifaceted Women Threaten Traditional Leadership Models dives into the emotional, cultural, and professional real...

Send us Fan Mail In this heartfelt and deeply reflective episode of The Box & The Sky series, Keya McClain the Poet explores the emotional weight, identity shifts, and invisible expectations that often come with motherhood — especially for Black women. The Pressure to Be Everything and Still Be Judged dives into the exhausting reality many mothers experience while trying to nurture, protect, p...

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply honest and emotionally layered episode of The Healing Poetic Podcast, Keya McClain the Poet explores the unspoken pressure many Black women experience to flatten themselves in order to be accepted, understood, successful, or easier to manage. Inspired by a short video that resonated deeply with her spirit, Keya opens up about the complexity of being a multifaceted B...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a unique kind of heartbreak and emotional tension that comes with loving your adult child while realizing you can no longer control their choices. In this deeply honest and vulnerable episode, Keya McClain the Poet opens up about the emotional weight of watching her adult son navigate a relationship that triggers fear, concern, anxiety, and protective instincts. From raisi...

Send us Fan Mail Healing does not make you unworthy of love. In this special free episode of the RISE podcast, Keya McClain-Goodwin explores a powerful truth many people struggle to believe: you do not have to be completely healed, perfect, or finished with your personal growth to deserve love. Through reflection, personal insight, and grounded wisdom, Keya discusses how healing and love can exist...

Send us Fan Mail In this heartfelt episode of The Healing Poetic Podcast, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach, dives into the difficult truth about knowing when it’s time to move differently in friendships and relationships. Growth often brings clarity — and sometimes that clarity reveals disconnection. Keya shares three powerful signs that it’s time to pivot:  1️⃣   2️⃣   3️⃣  This episo...

Send us Fan Mail Popular but Insecure — When Applause Doesn’t Heal You In this soul-stirring episode of The Healing Poetic Podcast, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach, gets real about the hidden truth behind popularity and public perception. She opens up about a time in her life when she was visible, celebrated, and surrounded — yet silently struggling with insecurity, emptiness, and dis...

Send us Fan Mail Your spirit already knows what your mind keeps questioning. In this episode, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach , dives deep into the sacred art of trusting your inner knowing — that voice that whispers before evidence shows up. Instinct for Strong Insight explores the tension between what you feel and what you fear, reminding listeners that intuition isn’t insecurity —...

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal and transparent episode, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach , opens up about the life experiences that shaped her, broke her, and ultimately birthed her healing. From her roots in St. Louis, Missouri, to her family’s move to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Keya shares how love, struggle, faith, and survival collided to form the foundation of her b...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes, freedom doesn’t come from breaking habits — it comes from breaking attachments. In this episode, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach , unpacks the sacred process of becoming free from your fellowship. What happens when your spiritual circle no longer aligns with your soul’s evolution? When loyalty starts to feel like a leash? Keya takes us through the quiet hea...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Keya McClain explores the power and complexity of honest communication—what it takes to speak truth without harm, to listen without defensiveness, and to protect your peace without silencing yourself. Once a woman who communicated primarily through her pen, Keya reflects on her evolution into someone who now stands confidently in her voice. She shares how healing,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I honor the life and legacy of my uncle—the man who showed up as a father figure when I needed one most. When I became a mother at 18, he met me not with judgment, but with pride, love, and celebration. His presence affirmed my worth at a time when I needed it deeply. Thirty years ago, his passing marked my first encounter with profound grief. It was a loss that s...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I get raw about the tension between hate and healing. I’ve been on this healing journey for years—doing the work, facing my shadows, and choosing love. But healing doesn’t mean hate disappears. It shows up in people’s actions, in systems, and in the very air of this country right now. I open up about the exhaustion of carrying anger and disappointment, the frustra...

Send us Fan Mail Cousins are often positioned as built-in siblings—sharing childhood memories, family traditions, and deep emotional bonds. But when jealousy, competition, and unresolved family dysfunction take root, those relationships can quietly turn harmful. In this episode, I reflect on my lived experience with cousin betrayal, toxic comparisons, rumors, and the pain of being misunderstood wi...

Send us Fan Mail Forgiveness doesn’t always mean what we’ve been taught it should mean. In this episode, I share why I don’t forgive my sisters—not from a place of bitterness or resentment, but from a place of healing and self-respect. For me, forgiveness is not about excusing harm, restoring access, or rewriting the truth. It’s about releasing myself from the weight of what happened and choosing...

Send us Fan Mail In the final chapter of this four-part series, Keya McClain centers what healing actually looks like after betrayal—not reconciliation for appearance’s sake, not forced forgiveness, and not silence disguised as peace. This episode is about integration: taking everything that was revealed and choosing a way forward rooted in self-respect, discernment, and emotional truth. Keya refl...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3, Keya McClain reaches the turning point—the moment where pain can no longer be ignored, minimized, or rationalized away. This episode centers on recognition: recognizing patterns that once felt familiar but were never safe, recognizing how grief exposed the cost of staying connected to what continuously harmed her, and recognizing that endurance is not the same as loy...