What Healing Will Cost You | Mid Week Tease

About this episode

Adelle Onyango explores the challenging aspects of healing, including the costs to relationships and identity.

Healing is beautiful but it’s not always soft. In this episode of The Mid Week Tease, Adelle Onyango unpacks the side of healing no one really talks about, the part where growth costs you relationships, comfort, certainty, and even the version of yourself you once needed to survive. If you’ve been feeling lonely, confused, or like your life is shifting in uncomfortable ways, this episode will help you understand why. Because what if nothing is going wrong? What if this is exactly what healing looks like? In this episode, Adelle explores: Why healing can lead to losing friendships and relationships The loneliness that comes with outgrowing old patterns How your nervous system reacts to peace after chaos Why you start questioning your career, relationships, and identity The grief that comes with becoming a new version of yourself How to navigate the discomfort of choosing yourself This episode is rooted in psychology-backed insights including attachment patterns, cognitive dissonance, and identity reconstruction, broken down in a way that’s easy to understand and apply to your life. If you’ve been doing the inner work and wondering why it feels harder before it feels better… this…

People in this episode

Hosts: Adelle Onyango, Adelle

Topics covered

• healing
• relationships
• personal growth
• psychology
• identity

Keywords

• healing
• loneliness
• nervous system
• career questioning
• identity reconstruction
• choosing yourself

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