Where Healing Began

🌿As a little girl, I believed in fairy tales. I dreamed of love, a family, a little house with a white picket fence, and happily ever after. But trauma has a way of rewriting the stories we tell ourselves. In this episode, I share how childhood wounds shaped what I believed love was—and how healing began when I stopped chasing a fairy tale that was never mine to live. Every little girl deserves a...

I thought I was trying to get away from the little girl, The truth was, I was trying to get away from what happened to her. That realization changed the way I saw my past...And maybe it will change the way you see yours. In this episode, I share how compassion began replacing shame and why the little girl I once wanted to hide became the reminder that healing doesn't replace our story- it redeems...

Children don't process trauma the way adults do. When life keeps hurting them, they don't ask, "Why is this happening?" They ask, "What did I do wrong?" By the time I was diagnosed with leukemia, I had already survived years of sexual abuse and physical beatings. Somewhere along the way, I came to believe that everything bad happening to me was punishment. So when I hea...

Survival isn't just something you go through, sometimes it becomes the way you live. In this episode, I share how childhood trauma shaped the way I saw pain, relationships, and myself. I talk about what survival taught me, the hidden cost of simply making it through, and why healing begins when we finally tell the truth about our story. If you've ever wondered why it's so hard to let your guard do...

When this podcast began, we started out on milk. We were all new to "THIS" Journey. We talked about survival. We talked about healing. We talked about making it through. But healing has a way of making us go deeper. Today, you will be introduced to a little girl. A little girl who was once happy, joyous and free. A little girl who believed the world was full of possibilities and that she had a pla...

⚡🌳🌹 As a child, there was one tree in the orchard I never forgot. It had been struck by lightning. Damaged, yet still standing among the other trees. For years I wondered why I was drawn to that tree and what it was trying to teach me. In this episode of Where Healing Began, I reflect on scars, identity, survival, and the realization that what happens to us may change our appearance, but it doe...

In this episode of Where Healing Began, I take you back to a pecan orchard from my childhood-a place that became much more than a field of trees. It was a place of imagination, peace, and safety. As a little girl, I would step through the gate and become Cinderella. The trees stood at attention, the leaves seemed to applaud, and for a few precious hours, I felt completely safe. Join me as I reflec...

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