Hope Regained

About Hope Regained

Tune into our podcast episodes every Sunday! We may not have much control over what is happening in this world of ours, and we may feel powerless to change things, but the truth is that we can change it by starting with ourselves. If every one of us started making the changes within ourselves and at home first, eventually positive things would evolve and stand out in the world around us. That’s how we can be an integral part of the world we want to see.

Publisher

Christianne Boudreau

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Mar 2025

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

89 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Oct 2026

   He Was Given Less Than 1% to Survive. This Is What He Did Next.

   On October 11, 2024, Brussels entrepreneur and restaurateur Vincent Van den Broeck was struck by a car while riding an e-scooter — hit at 55 km/h in a 30 km/h zone. He suffered multiple fractures and severe brain trauma, spent weeks in a coma, and was told he had almost no chance of surviving. In this episode of Hope Regained, Vincent sits down with host Christianne Boudreau to talk about what actually happened in that hospital room, the three months of rehabilitation that followed, and the mindset that got him walking out of rehab months ahead of schedule. He opens up about the people who carried him through it, the nightly ritual of three questions he still asks himself today, and why he calls his new book ‘our’ story instead of his own. Vincent is the author of Everything Feels Impossible Until It's Done: How the Life You Build Becomes the Life That Saves You — releasing today, October 11, 2026, exactly two years after the accident. This is Part 7 of our seven-part “Rebuilding Your Life” series. 📖 More from Vincent: Instagram @vincentinthekitchen Website https://untilitsdone.eu/ Linkedin: @vincentvandenbroeck Book: Everything Feels Impossible Until It's Done - Available for purchase on Amazon The Until It's Done Club:  https://www.skool.com/until-its-done-9289/about 🌿 More from Hope Regained: hoperegained.com/blog Timestamps: 0:00 The Moment Everything Changed 1:08 The Accident That Defined a Journey 2:59 The Core of Authenticity 6:03 Building a Life You Love 8:22 Non-Negotiable Happiness 14:02 The Last Moments Before the Impact 18:31 Waking Up to a New Reality 28:54 Defying the Odds in Rehabilitation #HopeRegained #rebuildingyourlife  #resiliencemindset

2. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Who Are You Becoming? (Not Just What You Survived)

   You don't have to know exactly who you're becoming to start becoming them — you just have to stop waiting for a finished blueprint before you take the next small step. In this season finale of The Rebuild, I'm breaking down why we get stuck waiting to "figure ourselves out" before we're allowed to move forward, and introducing the Identity Blueprint — a simple, four-part framework for rebuilding your sense of who you are after a hard chapter, without needing a finished picture of the new you first. If you've spent this whole season rebuilding — your confidence, your routines, your relationships, your capacity for joy — and you're still quietly stuck on the question "okay, but who am I now?", this episode is for you. You are not required to have that answer memorized. You're allowed to still be drafting it, one small, ordinary action at a time. In this episode: • Why waiting to "feel like yourself again" before you act is backwards — and what the research on identity actually says instead • The psychology of "possible selves" and narrative identity, and why the story you tell about your hard chapter shapes who you become next • The Identity Blueprint: a 4-part framework for rebuilding who you are — The Old Floor Plan, The Load-Bearing Values, The Unbuilt Rooms, and Moving In • This season's final Rebuilding Journal prompt (free printable in the show notes) • What's coming next week: my season-finale conversation with Vincent Van den Broeck TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro: The Question Nobody Asks You Out Loud 1:26 Welcome Back + Everything We've Rebuilt This Series 3:06 The Reframe: Why You Don't Need a Finished Blueprint First 8:19 The Identity Blueprint Framework Begins 9:35 Part 1: The Old Floor Plan 11:20 Part 2: The Load-Bearing Values 12:42 Part 3: The Unbuilt Rooms 14:25 Part 4: Moving In 17:06 Practice of the Week: Rebuilding Journal Prompt #6 21:21 Coming Next Week: My Conversation With Vincent Van den Broeck FREE COMPANION WORKSHEET Grab this week's Identity Blueprint printable and the full series's Rebuilding Journal — free — at hoperegained.com/blog THE REBUILD: A HOPE REGAINED SERIES This is Episode 6 of a 7-part series on what it actually takes to rebuild your life after a hard chapter — not the highlight-reel version, the real one. This is the final solo episode of the series — next week closes with an in-depth, inspiring conversation with Vincent Van den Broeck, author of the upcoming book "Everything Feels Impossible Until It's Done: How the Life You Build Becomes the Life That Saves You," available October 11, 2026, on Amazon. New here? Start with Episode 1 — "You Don't Have to Feel Ready to Start Rebuilding Your Life" — it sets up this whole season. Comment and tell me: what's one small, ordinary thing you did this week that only the person you're becoming would do? I read every one. Subscribe so you don't miss Episode 7 — and wherever you are in figuring out who you're becoming, you don't need the whole blueprint finished to start moving in. You're WORTH it. hoperegained.com/blog #RebuildingYourIdentity #HopeRegainedPodcast #TheRebuildSeries #WhoAreYouBecoming #StartingOver #RebuildingAfterTrauma #PersonalGrowthPodcast #IdentityAfterLoss #SelfDiscoveryJourney #MentalHealthPodcast #RebuildingYourLife #HealingJourney #NewBeginnings #PossibleSelves #SelfImprovementPodcast

3. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Why Feeling Happy Again Feels Like a Betrayal

   Feeling happy again after a hard chapter shouldn't feel like a betrayal — but for so many people rebuilding their lives, it does. In this episode of Hope Regained, we break down why joy feels unearned, far away, or even guilt-inducing after loss, trauma, or a major life reset — and we introduce a simple, research-backed framework called The Joy Ledger to help you let good feelings back in without your nervous system slamming the door. This is Episode 5 of "The Rebuild," a seven-part Hope Regained series on what it actually takes to rebuild your life after a hard chapter — one piece at a time. Today we're tackling rebuilding joy: the guilt that shows up when things start going right, the psychology of survivor's guilt in everyday life, and why your brain treats good news like a threat after it's spent months (or years) scanning for the next bad thing. You'll learn: ✔️ Why feeling guilty about being happy again is far more common than anyone admits ✔️ The real psychological reason joy can feel unsafe after trauma or loss (hint: it's not a character flaw) ✔️ The Joy Ledger — a 4-part framework (The False Debt, The First Deposit, The Guilt Audit, and Compounding) to help you let joy back in, on purpose, in small doses ✔️ The research behind savoring and Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions ✔️ This week's Rebuilding Journal prompt (#5 in our season-long journal thread) → Grab the free companion worksheet for this episode at hoperegained.com/blog — it walks you through The Joy Ledger and this week's journal prompt so you can actually use what you just listened to. This series is building toward something big: Episode 7 is a full-length interview with @Vincent Van den Broeck, tied to his upcoming book "Everything Feels Impossible Until It's Done." If this episode moved you even a little, that conversation is the one to stick around for. → New episodes of Hope Regained every week. Subscribe so you don't miss Episode 6: "Rebuilding What Comes Next." And remember — whatever chapter you're rebuilding from: you're worth it. — Free Episode 5 Worksheet: hoperegained.com/blog (http://hoperegained.com/blog) Subscribe for new episodes weekly Comment below: what's one small good moment you're letting yourself keep this week? — Timestamps: 0:00 Why good days can feel worse than bad ones 1:13 Welcome back to The Rebuild 2:34 The reframe: is joy a betrayal of what you survived? 9:09 The Joy Ledger framework begins 9:50 Part 1: The False Debt 11:08 Part 2: The First Deposit (the 4-second savoring practice) 13:52 Part 3: The Guilt Audit 15:55 Part 4: Compounding (the science of positive emotion) 18:27 Practice of the week + Rebuilding Journal prompt #5 20:50 What's coming next + closing thoughts Hope Regained | Rebuilding after loss, trauma, and hard chapters — one honest conversation at a time. #RebuildingJoy #HopeRegainedPodcast #HealingJourney #TheRebuild #SurvivorsGuilt #HealingIsNotLinear #PersonalGrowthPodcast #MentalHealthMatters #SelfHealingJourney #YouAreWorthIt #RebuildingYourLife #PostTraumaticGrowth #PermissionToBeHappy #HealingGuilt #JoyAfterTrauma #RebuildingAfterLoss #SelfImprovementPodcast #EmotionalHealing