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Monica Sharma shares her journey of identity, burnout, and healing after losing everything.

What happens when the life you carefully built no longer feels like your own? In this emotional and inspiring episode of Words of Wisdom from Kick-Ass Women, hosts Liz Brohan and Mary Olivieri welcome therapist and holistic wellness advocate Monica Sharma for a candid conversation about identity, burnout, intuition, and starting over. Monica shares the pivotal moments that reshaped her life across three decades — battling depression while outwardly successful, walking away from relationships and expectations that dimmed her spirit, becoming a mother on her own terms at 42, and ultimately making the painful decision to close the thriving practice she spent years building. Along the way, she reveals how grief, exhaustion, and uncertainty pushed her toward deeper self-awareness and healing. This episode is a powerful reminder that sometimes the moments that break us open are the same ones that guide us back to ourselves — stronger, wiser, and more aligned than before.

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