Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast is a storytelling and healing podcast hosted by <a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/lincoln-collective/patria-rector" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patria Rector</a> — coach, mentor, and founder of <a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken and Beautiful</a>. Through trauma-informed storywork, the Enneagram, and real-life relationship insights, Patria explores what it means to grow, grieve, and live with authenticity.<br /><br />Listeners will hear personal narratives, practical tools for emotional health, and gentle practices for self-awareness. Each episode invites you to discover beauty in the middle of life’s messiness — and to embrace your story with kindness.<br /><br />Perfect for anyone interested in emotional healing, self-discovery, relationships, or the Enneagram, Echoes and Edges is your companion for the journey toward hope and wholeness.<br /><br />You are not too much. You are not too late. You’re right on time — and you’re welcome here.
Echoes & Edges
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Podcast Overview
Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast is a storytelling and healing podcast hosted by <a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/lincoln-collective/patria-rector" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patria Rector</a> — coach, mentor, and founder of <a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken and Beautiful</a>. Through trauma-informed storywork, the Enneagram, and real-life relationship insights, Patria explores what it means to grow, grieve, and live with authenticity.<br /><br />Listeners will hear personal narratives, practical tools for emotional health, and gentle practices for self-awareness. Each episode invites you to discover beauty in the middle of life’s messiness — and to embrace your story with kindness.<br /><br />Perfect for anyone interested in emotional healing, self-discovery, relationships, or the Enneagram, Echoes and Edges is your companion for the journey toward hope and wholeness.<br /><br />You are not too much. You are not too late. You’re right on time — and you’re welcome here.
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Recent Episodes
June 25, 2026
When Love Interrupts Shame with Sher Nyquist
Most of us already know we are supposed to be loved, valued, and worthy. The challenge is that knowing something intellectually and experiencing it emotionally are often two very different things. In this powerful continuation of the conversation, Sher shares how receiving compassion in the middle of a story she deeply feared would expose her became a turning point in her healing. Rather than finding rejection, she encountered love—and that experience began creating entirely new possibilities inside her nervous system.<br /><br />Sher and Patria explore the inner critic, self-compassion, attachment wounds, and the neuroscience behind healing. Together they unpack why information alone rarely changes us and why genuine transformation often requires experiencing something different than we've known before. This episode offers hope for anyone who feels trapped by old beliefs, reminding us that healing often begins when love reaches places shame once controlled. <br /><br /><b>In This Episode:</b><br /><ul><li>Why information alone doesn't create transformation</li><li>The role of compassion in healing trauma</li><li>Understanding the inner critic as a survival strategy</li><li>How shame shapes relationships and self-perception</li><li>The neuroscience of Story Work and healing</li><li>Creating new neural pathways through safe experiences</li><li>The difference between knowing you're worthy and feeling worthy</li><li>Learning to receive care where you once expected rejection</li></ul><b>Memorable Quote:</b><br /><i>"Healing happens when we experience something different, not simply when we understand something different."</i><br /><br /><b>Connect with Sher:</b><br /><a href="https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/sher-nyquist" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken & Beautiful Website</a><br /><br />If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.<br /><b></b><br /><b>Connect With Patria<br /></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/beautifulleaders8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenandbeautifulstories" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram</a><br /><a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken & Beautiful </a><a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Website</a><br /><b></b><br /><b>Credits:<br /></b>Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: <a href="https://stephenrsanders.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stephen R. Sanders</a><br />Music Promoted by <a href="https://elements.envato.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Envato</a><br />Echoes and Edges is a part of <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/vividlivid--18552410" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VividLivid Podcast Network</a> - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
June 18, 2026
The Deep Dark Secret Was Never What Happened to Me with Sher Nyquist
What if the deepest wound isn't what happened to you—but what you came to believe about yourself because of it? In this conversation, Sher Nyquist shares her journey through shame, loneliness, and the relentless feeling that she needed to earn her place in the world. Looking back, she recognizes how survival adaptations like hypervigilance, over-functioning, and people-pleasing helped her navigate life while quietly reinforcing the belief that she was somehow not enough.<br /><br />Together, Sher and Patria explore the difference between being defined by pain and being shaped by it. They discuss childhood trauma, identity, belonging, and the courageous work of allowing hidden stories to be seen by safe people. Sher reflects on the moment Story Work changed her life and how compassion began challenging beliefs she had carried for decades.<br /><br />This episode is an invitation to consider the stories beneath your struggles and what might happen if those stories were met with understanding rather than judgment. <br /><br /><b>In This Episode</b><ul><li>The connection between shame, loneliness, and identity</li><li>How survival adaptations become lifelong patterns</li><li>The hidden cost of hypervigilance and over-responsibility</li><li>Being defined by pain versus being shaped by it</li><li>Why shame thrives in secrecy</li><li>The power of Story Work and compassionate witnesses</li><li>How healing begins when hidden stories are brought into the light</li><li>The surprising ways our greatest wounds can shape our calling</li></ul><b>Memorable Quote</b><br />"The deepest wound isn't simply what happened to us. It's what we came to believe about ourselves because of what happened."<br /><br /><b>Connect with Sher</b><br /><a href="https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/sher-nyquist" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken & Beautiful Website</a><br /><br />If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.<br /><b></b><br /><b>Connect With Patria<br /></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/beautifulleaders8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenandbeautifulstories" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram</a><br /><a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken & Beautiful </a><a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Website</a><br /><b></b><br /><b>Credits:<br /></b>Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: <a href="https://stephenrsanders.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stephen R. Sanders</a><br />Music Promoted by <a href="https://elements.envato.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Envato</a><br />Echoes and Edges is a part of <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/vividlivid--18552410" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VividLivid Podcast Network</a> - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
June 11, 2026
Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Head Center (Types 5,6,7) with Ro Elliott
What if fear isn’t meant to control you… but inform you?<br /><br />In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Head Triad (Types 5, 6, and 7) and the ways fear quietly shapes how we think, plan, avoid, prepare, and protect ourselves.Together, they unpack how the head-centered types seek safety through information, vigilance, certainty, distraction, and future planning — while also revealing the wisdom and gifts hidden inside those strategies.<br /><br /><b>This conversation explores:</b><ul><li>How fear manifests differently in Types 5, 6, and 7</li><li>Why knowledge, questioning, and optimism can become protective shields</li><li>The tension between self-protection and trust</li><li>The hidden anxiety beneath overthinking and constant movement</li><li>Why sevens struggle with limits and emotional constriction</li><li>How sixes learn self-trust</li><li>The journey from fear-driven leadership to grounded presence</li><li>What it means to become fully embodied: head, heart, and gut aligned</li></ul>This episode is an honest and compassionate exploration of anxiety, leadership, emotional balance, and the courage required to stay present in an uncertain world.<br /><b></b><br /><b>Connect With Ro Elliott: </b><br /><a href="https://www.musathewild.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott</a><br /><b></b><br /><b>Resources & Announcements:</b><br /><br /><b>Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop</b><br />Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others.<br /><b></b><br /><b>Register here:</b> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949</a><br /><br /><b>To learn more about Courageous Pathways</b> and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: <a href="https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways</a><br /><br />If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.<br /><b></b><br /><b>Connect With Patria<br /></b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/beautifulleaders8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebrokenandbeautifulstories" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram</a><br /><a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Broken & Beautiful </a><a href="https://thebrokenandbeautiful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Website</a><br /><b></b><br /><b>Credits:<br /></b>Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: <a href="https://stephenrsanders.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stephen R. Sanders</a><br />Music Promoted by <a href="https://elements.envato.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Envato</a><br />Echoes and Edges is a part of <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/vividlivid--18552410" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VividLivid Podcast Network</a> - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
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