For women ready to trade self-sacrifice for self-worth..
You’ve spent years people-pleasing, keeping the peace, and putting yourself last. Journey to Self: Power Beyond People Pleasing helps you break free. Each week, Self-Discovery Coach Sandy Bartlett shares real stories, spiritual tools, and coaching insights to help you reclaim self-worth, confidence, and voice — and step fully into your Second Spring.
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Discover why people pleasing recovery takes decades, not months, and what actually shifts the pattern over time. Learn how a lifetime of self abandonment shapes the spiritual journey toward becoming a shamanic practitioner.
In this episode, Sandy tells her personal story for the first time. Sandy shares an unflinching look at the survival patterns laid down in childhood, three marriages shaped by people pleasing, the deaths that opened a door at sixty-six, and the first Akashic Records reading that changed the direction of everything. If you have ever wondered what a real-life spiritual awakening at midlife looks like — not a tidy version, the actual road — this is that account.
We follow the full arc of one woman's people pleasing recovery and spiritual journey — from the little girl who learned to disappear, through marriages built on self abandonment, into the loss that cracked the door open, and finally into the shamanic practice that turned her own healing outward into work she now holds for other women. This is for anyone in midlife who is starting to see the shape of their own road and wondering what comes next.
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24 May 2026
The Version of You That Wants to Skip
Your soul knows exactly who she is. She's light. She's free. She skips. She laughs. She doesn't monitor the room to see if she's being too much.
But somewhere along the way, you learned that being that version of yourself wasn't safe.
So you calibrated. You restrained yourself. You created a subdued version that could move through the world without being too much.
And that version worked. She kept you safe. She helped you fit in. She made sure you were never labeled as the problem.
But your soul never stopped wanting to skip.
There's a tug of war happening inside you. Between the soul that knows who you are and the conditioning that told you it wasn't safe. And your soul is done waiting.
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10 May 2026
When the Strategy That Saved You Stops Working
Your body learned to get quiet when things got tense. To shrink when you felt unwanted. To make yourself smaller so the other person wouldn't have to feel uncomfortable.
It worked. For decades, it worked. It kept you safe. It kept you in relationships. It kept you from being the problem.
And then one day, it stopped.
Not because you decided to change. But because your soul finally said: I can't do this anymore.
That moment — when the old strategy fails and you don't know what comes next — isn't a breakdown. It's a breakthrough. And if you're standing in it right now, this episode is for you.
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