Life can feel like the most insane and exciting adventure, while other days it can feel like a living hell of which we cannot escape. Rarely do we feel like we can divulge what we truly think and feel and sometimes we don’t even know ourselves. In this podcast, I hope to dive into the deepest parts of our hearts and minds to find the keys to freedom together. I hope, if I do anything at all, I remind you that there is immeasurable beauty in both the light and shadow. *** follow @light._and_.shadow on instagram for essential graphics and related posts ***
Throughout the healing journey, we will all face discouragement. We may feel like we're fighting a war on all fronts and not see the way out. We may think that everything we try still ultimately leads to failure, leaving us feeling powerless over changing our lives. What we don't realize is that healing stands on multiple moving parts. A house isn't built on one stick, or branch - it's built on multiple items bonded together, and just because you have one of those items doesn't mean you're failing or it's the wrong one, it's simply that there's still more items we need to bond together and integrate to get to the finished picture. In this episode, I talk about how to deal with despair when it comes knocking, helping you see from a new perspective rather than the one that got you into despair in the first place.
While interrupting the cycle teaches specific skillsets at the nervous system, thought, feeling, body sensation, urge/impulse, and behavioral levels, renewing and rebuilding is all about making those skills become an integral part of your daily routine to not just choose healed responses, but to live a completely healed life. In this episode, I talk about how interjecting these practices work to re-program your earlier childhood development, allowing you to rewire your brain and body toward health and holistic wellness rather than living in the dysfunction of your past. This episode is all about the integration of previous episodes and how they fit into your daily life to bring about maximum growth and sustainable change.
17 Jan 2026
29. Mapping healing: [step three] interrupting the cycle
This is the rehab episode! Therapy and treatment centers are not always accessible to the general public - especially those who truly need the help, so I've decided to bring rehab to you. In this episode, I've compiled everything I've learned from psychological facilities, therapists, self-help books, counselors, and my own life experiences over the past 12 years to tell you what really works when trying to break the cycle of addiction or toxic cycles. Even if you don't specifically struggle with a life impairing problem, this episode will help you break just any bad habit because it gets to the root of the issue rather than trying to fight it at the branch level. After a decade long battle with an eating disorder, I can assure you, I touch on every level of the journey, so you can learn and heal much faster than I could.
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