When Life Did Not Go The Way I Planned is a personal storytelling podcast about healing, resilience, and rebuilding after life takes an unexpected turn. Through honest reflections and gentle encouragement, each episode offers space to process disappointment, find strength, and remember that even when life changes, your story is not over.
After spending so much time trying to understand another person’s behavior, I eventually had to turn inward and ask a more difficult question: What was happening within me when I chose this relationship?
In this episode, I reflect on why I entered my marriage, the parts of myself that may have been drawn to what felt familiar, and the healing work that began when I stopped searching only outside of myself for answers. This isn’t about blaming myself for what I experienced. It’s about understanding my patterns with honesty, compassion, and the wisdom I have now.
As I began to heal, grow, and reconnect with myself, the distance within the marriage became harder to ignore. Sometimes one person’s healing changes the entire relationship, especially when the other person isn’t willing to look inward.
This episode is an honest conversation about self-awareness, outgrowing old patterns, and learning that taking responsibility for your healing doesn’t mean taking responsibility for someone else’s harm.
Visit my website to explore more episodes, reflections, and resources created for women who are healing, rebuilding, and beginning again:
whenlifedidnotgothewayiplanned.com (https://whenlifedidnotgothewayiplanned.com/)
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17 Jun 2026
Episode 2: Strong Women Can Be Broken Down
In this episode, I’m talking about a question that stayed with me for a long time: How did I get here?
I had always seen myself as strong, capable, and aware. I came from a legal background, trusted my judgment, and believed I would recognize the signs if something was wrong. Yet behind closed doors, I slowly became a woman who questioned herself more than she trusted herself.
“Strong Women Can Be Broken Down” is an honest reflection on how emotional abuse can gradually wear away at a woman’s confidence, identity, and sense of safety. Strength does not make you immune to manipulation, and being broken down does not mean you were ever weak.
This episode is for the woman who has carried the shame of thinking she should have known better. You are not defined by what happened to you. Your strength is still there, and you can learn to trust yourself again.
Visit my website to explore more episodes, reflections, and resources created for women who are healing, rebuilding, and beginning again: whenlifedidnotgothewayiplanned.com (https://whenlifedidnotgothewayiplanned.com/)
You can also listen to When Life Did Not Go As Planned on Apple Podcasts. If Apple Podcasts is where you prefer to listen, I’d love for you to follow the show there so you don’t miss future episodes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-life-did-not-go-the-way-i-planned/id1896912614 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-life-did-not-go-the-way-i-planned/id1896912614)
11 Jun 2026
Episode 1: The Beginning
In this first episode, I’m opening the door to a part of my story — not to tell everything at once, but to begin sharing the moments that shaped me.
Sometimes life does not unfold the way we imagined. Plans change, relationships shift, and we find ourselves grieving the life we thought we were building while trying to find the strength to begin again.
For me, one of those seasons looked like walking through a divorce — grieving what I thought my life would be, while slowly learning how to rebuild a life I never expected to start over.
This episode is a gentle reflection on disappointment, resilience, healing, and finding strength when life takes an unexpected turn. If you are in a season where things feel different than what you hoped for, this conversation is a reminder that your story is not over.
Visit my website to explore more episodes, reflections, and resources created for women who are healing, rebuilding, and beginning again: whenlifedidnotgothewayiplanned.com (https://whenlifedidnotgothewayiplanned.com/)
You can also listen to When Life Did Not Go As Planned on Apple Podcasts. If Apple Podcasts is where you prefer to listen, I’d love for you to follow the show there so you don’t miss future episodes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-life-did-not-go-the-way-i-planned/id1896912614 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-life-did-not-go-the-way-i-planned/id1896912614)
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