The Misunderstood Podcast

Most people think healing ends with the breakthrough. In reality, that’s where the hard part begins. In this final episode of the Five Stages of Healing series, I’m talking about integration and why so many people find themselves slipping back into old patterns, old relationships, and old versions of themselves, even after they’ve done so much work. After years of therapy and my own healing journe...

I’m taking a brief pause from my five-part series to bring you something a little different today. This episode is pulled from a teaching I recorded inside my Brave Girls community on a topic that I believe every woman needs to hear: The Breakdown Is the Breakthrough. If you’ve been in a season where life feels tight, uncertain, messy, or like something in you is coming undone, this conversation w...

In this raw and emotional episode, I open up about my month-long silence, walking away from a 25-year nursing career, my son’s surgery, the refining season God has pulled me into, and the uncomfortable reality of slowing down when your nervous system has been wired for survival your entire life. We also dive deep into Stage 4 of healing: rewiring and reparenting. This is where healing stops being...

This episode is part three of my five-part healing series. If you haven’t listened to Stage One (Awareness) and Stage Two (Acceptance), go back and start there — because healing doesn’t work when we skip steps. Today we’re talking about Stage Three: The Root. This is the moment when everything finally starts making sense. For years I went to therapy, talked through my childhood, and intellectually...

Stage Two of Healing: Acceptance. This is where most people tap out. Last week we talked about Awareness — recognizing your patterns without defending them. But awareness alone doesn’t heal anything. Acceptance is where you stop running. In this episode, I break down: ​ Why modern-day therapy often keeps you stuck in your head ​ How trauma, childhood wounding, and unresolved emotions are stored in...

Most people think they’re self-aware. They’re just articulate. In this first episode of my five-part healing series, I break down what awareness actually is and what it’s not. You can talk about your childhood for ten years. You can label your attachment style. You can explain your trauma in perfect detail. And still be completely run by it. In this episode, I walk you through: • The difference be...

I didn’t plan to record this episode tonight. It’s almost midnight in Phoenix, and the last four days have left me spiraling, disconnected, and exhausted in a way I couldn’t think my way out of. This episode is about what happens when you stop overriding your body, stop forcing yourself forward, and finally listen to the resistance instead of shaming it away. We’re talking about energy leaks, emot...

I recorded this episode on my 46th birthday. Not from a place of celebration or performance but from slowness, honesty, and a deep awareness that time is moving whether we’re ready or not. This episode is a reflection on what 46 years of living, losing, healing, and waking up has taught me. About forgiveness and resentment. About slowing down instead of rushing through life. About how emotions com...

This episode wasn’t planned. After traveling to see my dad who nearly lost his life, and sitting with emotions that hadn’t fully settled, a moment with my 14-year-old son brought everything to the surface. In this deeply personal episode, I share what it feels like to love your child so fiercely and still realize you can’t protect them from pain. I talk about losing my temper, carrying guilt, rais...

You can feel grateful and still grieve. Healed and still healing. At peace and missing what you lost. This episode is about the messy middle where real healing happens. I talk about the duality of emotions, why your nervous system chooses what’s familiar over what’s actually safe, and how calm can feel uncomfortable when chaos was your normal. We explore co-parenting, relationships, and the guilt...

In this episode, I share how being labeled “dramatic” taught me to disappear. Growing up misunderstood, I learned to read rooms, manage other people’s emotions, and keep the peace at the cost of myself. What looked like confidence or drama on the outside was actually overwhelm, sensitivity, and a nervous system trying to survive. This episode is about the quiet grief of shrinking to belong and the...

In this first episode, I open the door to the parts of my life I’ve never said out loud…the heartbreak, the divorce that broke me open, the nervous system collapse, the faith crisis, and the quiet moments where I didn’t know how I’d make it through. Before The HeartAct™, before embodiment, before healing… there was just a woman trying to breathe. This is the story behind the mic…the story behind w...