Breaking Cycles, Owning Your Story, and Living Authentically with Meridee Hlokoff

About this episode

Meridee Hlokoff discusses breaking cycles of trauma and embracing authenticity in parenting and personal growth.

In this episode of the Walk With Me Podcast , we sit down with Meridee Hlokoff — a spiritual guide, addictions coach, life coach, and business coach dedicated to helping people break free from destructive patterns and reconnect with their authentic selves. transcription Meridee's story begins in a challenging environment marked by generational trauma and a mother struggling with serious mental health issues. Growing up in that instability forced her to confront difficult questions about identity, responsibility, and the cycles we inherit from our families. transcription As she became a parent herself, those lessons deepened. Raising a son with ADHD and oppositional defiant tendencies pushed Meridee to rethink everything she believed about parenting, control, and human behavior. Instead of trying to change her children, she began focusing on conscious parenting, self-reflection, and personal accountability. transcription Over time, that journey led her into coaching and addiction recovery work. Meridee believes that trauma often sits at the root of addiction , and that healing begins when we stop blaming circumstances and start examining our own responses to life's challenges…

People in this episode

Host: Stephanie Bloom

Guest: Meridee Hlokoff

Topics covered

• authenticity
• trauma
• addiction recovery
• parenting
• self-reflection

Keywords

• authenticity
• trauma
• addiction
• parenting
• self-reflection
• personal accountability
• coaching

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Walk With Me Podcast

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