She Lost Herself Until She Found What Changed Everything

About this episode

Julie shares her journey of losing herself and finding empowerment through personal challenges and metaphysical practices.

What happens when the life you built shatters - your child is struggling, your marriage is crumbling, and you realize you’re starting to sound like the parent who hurt you most? In this powerful conversation, Julie joins Walt and JodieLynn to share how losing herself became the doorway to everything she was truly here to be. From the start, Julie frames her journey as a path to becoming an “empowered matriarch” - someone who knows her worth and holds her seat at the table of her own life. She describes how we’re all born with inherent worth, but soon “protectors” take their place at our inner table: old patterns, trauma, ancestral fear. They tell us they’re keeping us safe, but really, they’re keeping us small. A pivotal moment came with the birth of Julie’s second daughter - highly sensitive, reactive, violent at times, and struggling with night terrors and strange inflammation. While other moms around her were exhausted but generally okay, Julie was being pushed past every limit she thought she had. One day, her young daughter slammed her toddler brother’s fingers in a door. Julie snapped. She screamed. She swore. In that instant, she recognized her own mother’s abusive…

People in this episode

Hosts: Walt Thiessen, JodieLynn

Guest: Julie

Topics covered

• personal transformation
• parenting challenges
• self-discovery
• metaphysical practices
• overcoming trauma
• empowerment

Keywords

• empowered matriarch
• inherent worth
• protectors
• Reiki
• yoga
• meditation
• energy healing
• parenting
• trauma

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