Your Stories Matter

For months, I chalked up my brain fog, low motivation, and low-grade depression to everything but the real thing. In this episode, I get honest about the middle-of-the-night epiphany that revealed the truth, the exact moment "I hope this happens" turned into "this is happening," and the wild string of manifestations that followed, including winning a ticket to see Cathy Heller...

For the first time on the podcast, I'm inviting one of my Rewriters to share her rewrite with us. Cherie Faus-Smith, a clarity and confidence coach, memoirist, and domestic abuse and melanoma survivor, joins me to share what it was actually like to go through Rewritten after years of therapy that helped, but never quite got her unstuck. We talk about the difference between processing in a 50-...

Journaling is one of the most powerful tools in my narrative coaching practice, and in this episode, I'm going beyond the "just write in a journal" advice to talk about what's actually happening in your brain and body when you do it. I've been a journaler since I was a kid. But it wasn't until I started working with women in my Rewritten program, and going through the...

Have you ever made a decision by committee — polling your friends, hiring a coach, following the blueprint — because you just couldn't trust yourself to get it right? Same. In this episode, I'm getting into the thing that's been coming up again and again in my Rewritten cohort: decision-making. Specifically, why it feels so heavy, and why the answer isn't a better framework — i...

We don't just carry old stories. We follow their instructions. In this episode, I unpack one of the most persistent patterns I see in myself and in my clients: the stories we form to save ourselves that end up keeping us stuck. I get into how my background in history, narrative therapy, and my experience navigating a first marriage, to show you how these stories get created, what they're...

What does it actually look like to build something before you feel ready? In this episode, I’m, pulling back the curtain on the messy, nonlinear origin story behind Rewritten — my eight-week narrative coaching program — and why I almost never acted on the idea at all. From a one-time free workshop that got incredible feedback and then just…sat there, to a masterclass that cracked something open, t...

You did the hard part. You became aware. You named the pattern, traced it back, connected the dots. And then your nervous system completely lost the plot. So now what? In this episode — the follow-up to last week's pandemic PTSD story — I get into what actually happens after awareness hits and why digging into old stories often triggers nervous system dysregulation before it brings relief. I’...

Have you ever thought you moved on from something — only to have your body tell you otherwise? In this episode, I’m opening up about the pandemic chaos that led to PTSD: losing my job in China, living out of a backpack for 10 months across Vietnam, the Philippines, Liechtenstein, and Abu Dhabi — and what happened when I finally stopped moving long enough to feel it. From nervous system dysregulati...

What actually happens when you finally do the scary thing? Most of us wait to feel ready before we take the leap. But what if the terror you feel right before you do it is actually the sign you're exactly where you're supposed to be? In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on the 24 hours after launching this podcast — the feelings that came up, the feedback that surprised me,...

Ever feel like building a business is breaking you open in ways you never expected? That’s because it is, and it’s not an accident. In this episode, I’m breaking down why entrepreneurship is the most intense personal development journey you’ll ever sign up for, and what to actually do about it. We’ll cover: Why owning a business exposes every unhealed story you’re carrying How looking outside your...

Why do we spiral into crisis mode over things that don’t actually warrant it? In this episode, I’m getting honest about a pattern I’m currently rewriting in real time — moving from betrayal into trust. What started as a simple argument with my husband revealed a much deeper story that had been quietly running my reactions for years. We’ll cover: What betrayal actually means (hint: it’s probably no...

Do you know how to figure out what’s actually triggering you — and what to do with it once you do? Most of us can feel when something’s off. We just don’t have a process for tracing it back to the root.  In this episode, I’m walking you through my exact methodology for naming a trigger, finding the pattern underneath it, and beginning to rewrite the story attached to it. We’ll cover: How to identi...

This is the podcast for women who have done the therapy, the courses, the personal development deep-dives — and still find themselves stuck in the same patterns, making decisions from stories they didn't consciously choose. Here's what I know to be true: you don't have a decision problem. You have a story problem. Your Stories Matter is a space where we get honest about the narrativ...