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Joy is one of the first things we lose when fear and trauma take the wheel and it’s also one of the first things spiritual warfare targets. We sit down with writer and speaker Wanda Thibodeaux for an honest conversation about CPTSD (Complex PTSD), the slow accumulation of harm that can leave you stuck in shame, hypervigilance, and the crushing...

Dyslexia can teach you to shrink yourself fast. You learn to stay quiet, double-check everything, and assume you are the problem. Coach Willie Blake joins me for a candid, hope-filled talk about what it feels like to grow up neurodivergent, carry shame into adulthood, and still find a way to lead, serve, and build a life you are proud of....

Your mind can argue with a problem for years, but your body often tells the truth in seconds. I’m joined by Melanie Smithson, a somatic psychotherapist who helps people let go of anxiety, anger, and the old belief systems that quietly shape our lives. Her story starts with dance, expands into conscious movement, and lands on a powerful idea: when...

Why do we resist the quiet voice within? Fear can sound like wisdom when it’s loud enough. That’s why I wanted to sit down with Toni LaMotta, a former nun who spent 16 years in a convent and still speaks with refreshing honesty about faith, silence, and spiritual growth. We get into what it really means to follow an inner...

She went out for a late lunch in a place she’d visited hundreds of times, then lost nearly eight hours of memory and woke up in a hospital, badly beaten. What happened next was its own kind of trauma: Romy says she was criminalized and treated like the aggressor, even though she was the one who called for help. That...

A lot of us say we want clarity, but what we really want is control and life rarely offers that. I’m joined by Dr. Sheldon Greaves for a grounded, surprising conversation about releasing fear, staying open, and learning how purpose shows up through detours rather than perfect plans. Sheldon shares his path from doctoral work in ancient Near Eastern studies...

Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s can steal your confidence fast, but what happens when a diagnosis becomes a deadline to build something better? Sylvia Worsham sits down with Mark Burnett, a lifelong builder and database programmer who links his neurological symptoms to environmental toxin exposure and refuses to accept a future defined by decline. We walk through the moment Mark realized something...

Grief can make you shut down, speed up, or reach for anything that helps you feel less. Today we sit with the kind of story that cuts through the noise: Mia Godfrey’s path from Romania under the communist regime to life in the United States, and the losses that shaped her along the way. She opens up about losing her...

You can build a great life and still feel like you’re failing if your identity is glued to being the fixer. I’m talking with Adaku Mbagwu, a firstborn daughter who went from childhood scarcity and taking on a “second mom” role to earning six figures young, then hitting a brutal turning point: depression, suicidal ideation, and a season of homelessness...