Healing Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy

About Healing Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy

Healing Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy is a podcast for women ready to heal with hope, light, and laughter. Through honest conversations, playful practices, and uplifting stories, we explore how joy can be a powerful part of the healing journey.

Publisher

Angie

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Apr 2025

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

78 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Ep. 77 Lead With a Dash of Play: Why Play Is a Leadership Skill

   What does play have to do with healing, leadership, or teaching one of the heaviest subjects in human history? Everything, according to Mary Hendra. In this episode of Healing Doesn't Have to Be Heavy, Angie Berrett sits down with Mary, host of the Lead with a Dash of Play podcast, whose career has spanned schools, government, corporate, and nonprofit work, including years spent teaching educators about genocide. Mary shares how people began noticing her playfulness even while she taught abou...

2. 

   1 Sept 2026

   Ep. 76 Why Trauma Healing Is Not Linear (and What to Do When Old Wounds Resurface)

   🚨Trigger warning: this episode references child abuse and domestic abuse without going into specifics. In this solo episode of Healing Doesn't Have to Be Heavy, Angie Berrett opens up about a recent energy healing session that surfaced something she never expected: unprocessed wounds tied to her divorce nearly twenty years ago. What came up was not the emotional connection to her ex, which she had long released, but a deeper wound around leaving the Mormon faith and the way that choice valida...

3. 

   18 Aug 2026

   Ep. 75 Trauma Steals Your Imagination. Play Gives It Back with Steve Rix

   Show Notes: In this episode, Angie sits down with Steve Rix, founder of Play Lab, for a conversation that is equal parts inspiring, hilarious, and quietly profound. Steve opens up about growing up believing something was wrong with him, and how it took him 47 years and two little kids on a Honolulu beach to discover the tool that would change everything. After 90 days stuck in victim mode with an emotional fuel tank running bone dry, a simple question from two children, "Hey mister, you wanna...

Who has been a guest on Healing Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kathleen Harnish McKune
• Karen Dixon
• Sophia Moreno
• Lori Barnes
• Marie Triplett

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

442,243

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

73

Social presence

91

YouTube

82

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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