Untangling the Heart

Have you ever felt like you had to rehearse every conversation? To carefully choose every word? To constantly monitor someone else's mood? Living that way is exhausting. Healthy relationships don't require you to walk on eggshells. They give you the freedom to be honest, imperfect, and fully yourself. 💙 Peace isn't found by saying all the right things. It's found in relationships where you don't...

Love should never feel like control. If you're constantly second-guessing yourself... Walking on eggshells... Or feeling responsible for someone else's emotions... It may be time to ask whether the relationship is built on trust—or fear. 💙 Healthy love gives you room to grow. It doesn't make you smaller. Hashtags

The healthiest relationships don't ask you to become someone else. They don't require you to hide parts of yourself to keep the peace. They create space for you to be fully seen, fully known, and fully accepted. 💙 The moment you stop performing for love is often the moment real healing begins. Watch this powerful clip from Untangling the Heart.

How do you learn to trust again after someone has broken your sense of safety? In this heartfelt episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei sits down with holistic health coach Emily White to discuss the emotional journey of healing after an emotionally controlling relationship. Emily shares her personal story of navigating manipulation, walking on eggshells, and slowly rediscoverin...

Being guarded can feel like strength. But over time, constantly protecting yourself can become emotionally exhausting. If you've ever felt tired without knowing why, ask yourself this: Am I carrying armor I no longer need? Healing doesn't mean pretending the pain never happened. It means discovering that you don't have to keep carrying it forever. 💙 Watch this powerful moment from Untangling the...

Connection can feel scary when you've been hurt. But healing doesn't ask us to trust everyone. It asks us to slowly discover who has earned the right to be trusted. The goal isn't to remove every boundary. The goal is to stop confusing protection with isolation. 💙 What's one relationship that has helped you feel safe enough to heal?

Sometimes we're still protecting ourselves from people who aren't even in our lives anymore. The defenses we built during painful seasons can quietly become habits that keep us from joy, connection, and peace. The question isn't: "Why did I build these walls?" The question is: "Do I still need them?" 💙 Healing begins when we feel safe enough to let go.

Have you ever felt emotionally exhausted without knowing why? Sometimes the fatigue isn't coming from everything happening around us. Sometimes it's coming from the energy it takes to keep our hearts guarded. In this solo episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei explores the emotional walls we build after heartbreak, disappointment, rejection, or simply years of being "the strong...

Adversity has a way of showing us who our people really are. The friends who show up. The family members who stay. The people who remind us we don't have to face difficult seasons alone. Sometimes the greatest gift hidden inside a challenge is discovering just how much support surrounds us. 💙 Who has been a source of strength during a difficult season in your life?

How often do you put yourself at the bottom of your own priority list? For many people, caring for others becomes second nature. But eventually, constantly giving without receiving can leave us exhausted, disconnected, and overwhelmed. Sometimes healing begins when we give ourselves permission to matter too. 💙 What is one thing you do to prioritize your own wellbeing?

From Armor to Openness: Learning to Feel Safe Again Guest: Heidi Joyce What happens when life forces you to stop carrying everything alone? In this heartfelt episode of Untangling the Heart , Elizabeth sits down with Heidi Joyce to explore resilience, vulnerability, and the courage it takes to let others in. After navigating an unhealthy marriage, raising a family, and facing a life-changing cance...

What if overthinking isn't really about finding the perfect answer? What if it's about trying to protect yourself from making a mistake? Many of us have learned to overanalyze, hesitate, or avoid asking for help because somewhere along the way it felt safer. In this clip from Untangling the Heart, we explore how fear and protective patterns can quietly influence our decisions. Awareness is often t...

Not every wall is wisdom. Sometimes what feels like protection is actually fear. Discernment allows us to stay aware and make thoughtful choices. Defensiveness keeps us expecting danger around every corner. In this clip from Untangling the Heart, we explore the difference and why emotional safety isn't the same thing as emotional armor. 🎧 Watch now and let me know which one you relate to most.

How often do you second-guess yourself? Many of us spend so much energy trying to figure out who or what we can trust that we overlook a deeper question: Do I trust myself? In this clip from Untangling the Heart, I explore why self-trust is one of the most important foundations for emotional healing and healthy relationships. When you learn to trust yourself, you stop looking outside yourself for...

Why do we hesitate to trust, ask for help, speak up, or let others get close? In this solo episode of Untangling the Heart , Elizabeth explores how emotional protective patterns quietly develop over time and how they can shape our relationships, decisions, and sense of safety without us even realizing it. What begins as a survival response to disappointment, rejection, criticism, loss, or emotiona...

Nurses spend their lives caring for others. But who takes care of the caregiver? In this heartfelt clip, Michelle shares how years of putting everyone else first eventually led her body to demand something different. Healing began when she stopped running on empty and started making herself a priority. Because self-care isn't selfish. It's essential. And sometimes the most important person you can...

What if the answer wasn't something new? What if it was something you had forgotten? After receiving devastating news, Michelle found herself remembering her childhood on the family farm — where food came from the soil and health felt natural. That memory became the beginning of a completely different healing journey. Sometimes healing isn't about adding more. Sometimes it's about returning to wha...

For 14 years, Michelle Ralls fought cancer while continuing to care for everyone around her. Then one day, her body said "enough." After collapsing on the nursing floor and being told there was nothing more doctors could do, she made a decision that would change the course of her life forever. This is a powerful story about listening to your body, trusting your inner knowing, and finding hope when...

In this powerful episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth sits down with Michelle Ralls for a deeply moving conversation about what happens when the body finally says, “enough.” Michelle shares her extraordinary journey through chronic illness, emotional exhaustion, nervous system overload, and a life-changing cancer diagnosis that forced her to stop, listen, and reconnect with herself in an ent...

What if you didn’t have to run from uncomfortable emotions? What if, for just one moment, you allowed yourself to feel them… without judgment? In this grounding clip, Elizabeth shares why emotional healing sometimes begins by simply sitting with discomfort instead of immediately trying to escape it, numb it, or fix it. You don’t have to fear your emotions. You can learn to move through them safely...

Have you ever overthought something so much… you felt completely stuck? Sometimes we analyze our emotions over and over trying to “figure them out” — but healing isn’t always found through more thinking. In this episode, Elizabeth talks about “paralysis by analysis” and how overthinking can keep us trapped in the very patterns we’re trying to escape. Awareness matters. But so does learning how to...

Healing doesn’t always happen through pressure. Sometimes it begins with permission. Permission to pause. Permission to breathe. Permission to feel what’s already there without immediately trying to fix it. In this clip from Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth explores how emotional release often starts the moment we stop fighting ourselves. Your body may not need force. It may simply need safety. 🎧...

Many people can recognize where their fears, triggers, people-pleasing, anxiety, or emotional reactions come from, yet still feel stuck in the same cycles. Why? Because awareness alone is not always enough. Elizabeth gently unpacks how trauma, stress, emotional overwhelm, and nervous system responses can remain stored within the body even after the mind understands the story. Through personal expe...

Many of the patterns we struggle with today began long before we understood what was happening. Childhood experiences can quietly shape our nervous system, emotional responses, relationships, and sense of self for years. In this honest clip, Camille Singleton shares how unresolved childhood trauma influenced the way she reacted, coped, and moved through life — until awareness helped her begin reco...

Forgiveness does not mean what happened was okay. It means you’re no longer allowing the pain to control your life. In this powerful moment, Elizabeth and Camille explore the difference between approval and release — and how forgiveness can become an act of freedom for yourself. You can forgive… and still protect your peace. 🎧 Untangling the Heart