The Year We Chose Ourselves: Season 3 Reflections on Healing and Growth
About this episode
In this episode, Jessica reflects on Season 3's themes of healing and personal growth, discussing the importance of choosing oneself amidst life's challenges.
Personal growth often begins when we decide to choose ourselves. In this Season 3 reflection, Jessica explores healing, life transitions, and the courage it takes to redefine your path. Jessica and Ariele take time to look back on the conversations, lessons, and moments that shaped Season 3—a season centered on healing, boundaries, identity, and choosing ourselves with more honesty and care. From exploring softness as a foundational human need to unpacking family estrangement, modern dating, purity culture, child-free living, entrepreneurship, friendship dynamics, and major life transitions, this season held space for the real, the tender, and the complicated parts of being human. Jessica reflects on what it means to choose yourself in a world that often asks us to abandon our needs, bodies, and boundaries—and how this season invited listeners to move toward more presence, more honesty, and more agency in their lives and relationships. This episode is both a celebration and a pause—a chance to honor the growth that's happened, the conversations that lingered, and the community that continues to make this podcast what it is. We also share a few behind-the-scenes reflections…
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