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My Healing is Your HealingOverfunctioning Isn’t Love — It’s Fear: How Overgiving Became a Survival Strategy (and How to Stop Carrying the Whole Relationship)This week on My Healing Is Your Healing, we’re talking about over-functioning—the kind that gets praised, rewarded, and mistaken for love, loyalty, and effort, but is actually anxiety in motion.Many of us were never taught how to rest in relationships. We were taught how to hold everything together. How to anticipate needs. How to manage emotions. How to make ourselves useful, easy, and indispensable so we wouldn’t be left.Over-functioning often looks responsible, caring, and mature on the outside. On the inside, it’s a nervous system trying to stay saf...
2026-02-0912 minMy Healing is Your HealingThe UnBusy Woman: Finding the Easier Way with Alyssa WolffWhat if the problem isn’t that you need better time management… but that you’ve been trying to do too much for too long?In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I’m joined by Alyssa Wolff, founder of The UnBusy Woman and a mom of five who has never identified as “busy”—even while raising children and building a business.Together, we unpack why so many women live in constant hustle, guilt, and mental overload—and how that pressure isn’t a badge of honor, but a warning sign. Alyssa shares how...
2026-02-0530 minMy Healing is Your HealingSelf-Worth Is a Decision, Not a Feeling: Why How You Treat Yourself Matters More Than How You Feel About YourselfThis week on My Healing Is Your Healing, we’re talking about self-worth in a way that might feel a little uncomfortable, but deeply honest.Not the Instagram version. Not confidence. Not affirmations. Not “loving yourself” only on the days when life feels easy.This episode is about self-worth as a decision, not a feeling.Because most of us were taught to wait. To wait until we felt confident enough, healed enough, secure enough, and then we’d finally choose ourselves. Set the boundary. Stop overgiving. Leave what doesn’t fit. Say the th...
2026-02-0215 minMy Healing is Your HealingGenerational Healing and the Power of Self-Leadership with Robin HouserSomewhere in your lineage, women learned to survive by going quiet. No therapy. No “how do you feel?” No language for needs. Just grit, compliance, and the unspoken rule: don’t rock the boat.In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I sit down with Robin Hauser to talk about generational healing—what it really is, how it shows up as people-pleasing, over-responsibility, fear-based parenting, and silence, and why one woman choosing to heal becomes a ripple that moves backwards and forwards through a family line.Robin is...
2026-01-2958 minMy Healing is Your HealingIdentity Breakthroughs: The Moments That Change You ForeverSome moments don’t just change your life — they change you. They shift what you tolerate, what you crave, what you’re available for, and what you can no longer pretend not to see.In this episode, we’re talking about identity breakthroughs — the flashpoints that quietly but permanently alter who you are. The moments when something clicks in your body or your awareness and you realize: I can’t go back to who I was before this.We explore the catalysts that shape identity — heartbreak, endings, loss, illness, relocation, self-dates, and the quiet realizations that arrive wh...
2026-01-2614 minMy Healing is Your HealingYour Brain is Always Listening: How to Rewire Self-Worth with Lisa ManzoWhat if the words you use every day are quietly programming your nervous system, your confidence, and your future?In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I sit down with Lisa Manzo, NLP practitioner, nurse, and subconscious reprogramming guide, to explore how language shapes identity—and how small shifts in the words we use can dismantle survival patterns we didn’t even know we were running.We talk about: • Why your unconscious mind runs the show (and doesn’t hear the word “not”) • How familiar survival stories become mistaken for truth •...
2026-01-2246 minMy Healing is Your HealingUnlearning the Woman You Were Told to Be: Good Girls, Masks, and Survival SelvesWho you became wasn’t a mistake—it was survival.In this grounding episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, Celeste explores how identity is shaped long before we’re conscious of it—through family roles, gender expectations, praise, punishment, and the quiet rules we learned about love, safety, and belonging.This episode is not about fixing yourself. It’s about understanding why you became who you became—and deciding what no longer belongs.We talk about:How early conditioning shapes identity and self-worthThe “good girl,” achiever, caretaker, and chameleon survival rolesWhy people-p...
2026-01-1916 minMy Healing is Your HealingMy Body Is for Me: Healing Beyond Chronic Illness with Courtney SommaIn this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I’m joined by Courtney Somma, a holistic health practitioner who lived for years with chronic migraines, IBS, inflammation, and daily pain while raising young children and holding a full life together from the outside. Like so many women, she was told her symptoms were normal, manageable, or something she’d simply have to accept. And for a long time, she did—until survival stopped feeling like living.We talk about what it’s really like to live in a body you can’t trust, how chronic illness slowly ero...
2026-01-1539 minMy Healing is Your HealingThe Radiant Woman Framework: Becoming Her From the Inside OutBecoming isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about coming home to who you already are.In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, Celeste introduces the Radiant Woman Framework, a grounded, embodied approach to identity transformation rooted in values, self-trust, aligned action, and self-love. This conversation explores why identity must come before goals, relationships, or reinvention—and how true change happens quietly through daily choices, not dramatic declarations.You’ll learn:Why identity is the root of everything (not your roles, titles, or relationships)How the Radiant Woman Framework (R.A.D.I.A.N...
2026-01-1220 minMy Healing is Your HealingBurnout Is Not Normal: Rebuilding Self-Worth and Confidence After Collapse with Deidre GestrinBurnout doesn’t happen because you’re weak. It happens because you’ve been strong for too long without support, boundaries, or permission to pause.In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I sit down with burnout and wellness specialist Deidre Gestrin, who shares her lived experience of burning out not once—but three times. We talk about what burnout actually looks like in real life (not the Instagram version), why so many women don’t recognize it until they hit a wall, and how our culture continues to normalize chronic exhaustion as success...
2026-01-0845 minMy Healing is Your HealingThe Identity You Outgrew & The Woman You’re Becoming NextIdentity Month | The Year of BecomingWhat if the discomfort you feel right now isn’t failure… but growth?In this opening episode of The Year of Becoming, we explore what happens when an identity you’ve lived inside for years quietly stops fitting—and the woman you’re becoming hasn’t fully arrived yet.This episode is not about resolutions, glow-ups, or “New Year, New You” energy. It’s about identity death, grief, and the sacred in-between space that precedes real transformation.Inside this episode, we talk about:Why
2026-01-0515 minMy Healing is Your HealingFrom Surviving to Magnetic: Dating, Scarcity, and the Feminine Archetypes with Lilli BewleyIf you’ve ever said “dating sucks” while doom-scrolling through the apps… this episode is your intervention.In this conversation, I’m joined by feminine dating coach and archetype queen Lilli Bewley — creator of the Feminine Dating Archetype Quiz and host of the Love with Lilli podcast. Lilli doesn’t teach scripts and tricks. She helps women heal the parts of them that keep choosing the same emotionally unavailable, breadcrumbing, half-in partners on repeat.We talk about how your dating patterns are not proof that you’re broken — they’re information. Lilli breaks down he...
2026-01-0155 minMy Healing is Your HealingWhat I’m Leaving Behind: A Ritual for Closing the YearThis is the episode your future self has been waiting for.Today we’re talking about the truth most women feel but rarely name:You can’t carry everything you survived this year into the next one.Some identities, patterns, relationships, expectations, and old storylines simply can’t come with you — not because you’re cold or heartless, but because they’re too heavy for the woman you’re becoming.In this episode, we move through a powerful year-end ritual to help you release what no longer fits and make room for what...
2025-12-2911 minMy Healing is Your HealingBeyond the Barbell: Rebuilding Identity After Rock Bottom with Natasha KostalasIn this episode, I sit down with former English teacher turned powerlifter, coach, and author Natasha “Tasha” Kostalas to talk about what really happens behind the stage-lean photos and polished fitness bios.Tasha spent 10 years in the classroom, climbing the ladder, overworking herself into panic attacks, sleep paralysis, and binge eating. The turning point? Her brother sitting on the edge of her bed and telling her she couldn’t keep living like this. From that moment to her very first terrifying step into the weight room, Tasha slowly rebuilt her life barbell by barbell.We t...
2025-12-2251 minMy Healing is Your HealingNo More Good Girl: The Year I Stopped Abandoning MyselfNo More Good Girl: The Year I Stopped Abandoning MyselfThis episode is a reclamation.Today I’m telling the truth about the year I finally retired the “good girl” and stopped abandoning myself.Not because I magically became unbothered, invincible, or spiritually bulletproof… but because every part of my life that wasn’t aligned became too heavy to keep carrying — and I had to put it down.This episode unpacks the patterns I had to release, the identity rupture that shook me awake, and the moment I realized: I am the o...
2025-12-1528 minMy Healing is Your HealingThe Glow After Rock Bottom: Choosing Self-Worth Over Survival with Angie Hawkins Today’s episode is one of the most powerful conversations I’ve had on this show — because it’s not just about survival. It’s about rebirth.My guest, Angie, has lived through things most people never talk about out loud: growing up unseen, perfectionism as protection, moving across the country for a fresh start, a condo flood, loneliness, grief, depression, and the moment that became her rock bottom — an intentional overdose during the pandemic.But the most surprising part?Her scariest leap wasn’t jumping out of helicopters or cliff diving.
2025-12-0847 minMy Healing is Your HealingWhen Life Gets Quiet: The Season That Rebuilds YouToday we’re talking about a season that most of us live through over and over again… but rarely understand:The quiet season. The in-between. The void. The slow chapter you keep trying to skip.It’s the stretch of life where: – The people you thought would always be there… suddenly aren’t. – The plans you were excited about… fall apart. – Your energy tanks, your body says no more, and the universe basically sits you down and says: “Baby, you’re not ready yet. Sit.”It feels like punishment. I...
2025-12-0131 minMy Healing is Your HealingThe Woman in the Mirror: Reclaiming Worth and Safety After It All Falls Apart with Nina LiteWhat if the life that looks perfect on paper feels wrong in your body?This week on My Healing Is Your Healing, I sit down with Nina, an emotional safety coach for high-achieving women who feel stuck in lives they’ve outgrown but are afraid to change. We talk about the quiet rock-bottoms no one posts about, why familiar pain can feel safer than unknown freedom, and how to rebuild self-trust one tiny promise at a time.In this episode you’ll hear:How “I’m fine” becomes a mask—and how to take it off
2025-11-241h 02My Healing is Your HealingBecoming The Radiant Woman Within: Returning to Your Truest SelfThere’s a version of you who isn’t performing, perfecting, or hustling to be chosen. She’s steady. Clear. At home in her own skin. In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, we name her—the Radiant Woman within—and walk the path back to her.We explore the three versions of self many of us cycle through:The Performative Self (polished, praised, and quietly exhausted),The Practicing Self (awake and integrating—messy, honest, courageous),The Radiant Self (embodied ease, self-trust, wholeness—no script required).You’ll hear how we lose touch with our radianc...
2025-11-1718 minMy Healing is Your HealingWhen You’ve Outgrown Your Old Life: How to build a Life for the Woman You were Meant to BeThere comes a moment when the life you worked so hard to build no longer feels like yours. The career you chased, the relationship you fought for, the routines and roles you once relied on—suddenly, they feel hollow. Like a story you’re still performing long after it stopped making sense.In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, we’re talking about the sacred and painful moment of outgrowing your old life. This isn’t failure—it’s an invitation. A threshold. The space between chapters where you begin to ask: Who am I becomin...
2025-11-1020 minMy Healing is Your HealingManfasting & Self-Sourcing: How to Stop Outsourcing Your Worth with Misty LynnWhat if the love you’ve been chasing isn’t what will save you? What if the real work is coming home to yourself?In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, Celeste sits down with coach, writer, and truth-teller Misty Lynn (@savvycoachingsolutions) for a raw conversation about relationships, self-abandonment, and what it means to reclaim your emotional autonomy.Misty shares her journey of man fasting—taking a conscious pause from relationships to rediscover who she was outside of them. Together, we explore:Why we crave relationships so deeply, even when they l...
2025-11-031h 00My Healing is Your HealingUnmasked: The Healing Power of Letting Yourself Be SeenSo many of us move through the world hidden in plain sight. We smile, we perform, we play small, and we present curated versions of ourselves to be more acceptable, more palatable, more loved. But underneath the masks, there is often a deep ache: the longing to be seen—not for the role we play, not for the version of ourselves that’s easy to love, but for the truth of who we really are.In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, we’re diving into the tender and often terrifying experience of visibility. What does i...
2025-10-2718 min
Abounding & AliveS1 E5 - Celeste - My Healing Is Your HealingMy guest this week is Celeste Case-Ruchala, who had an epiphany moments after (and maybe even moments before) her wedding. Had she ever really felt seen? This led her on a self-discovery journey, leading her to move away and start over. She is now an author, coach and podcast host, where she helps women explore self-trust, authenticity and what it means to stop dimming their light. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing is not done in isolation, rather, as a collective of people healing and growing together. When one of us grows, we all...
2025-10-2341 minMy Healing is Your HealingFrom Self-Doubt to Self-Leadership: The Courage to Meet Yourself with Nicky VeenvlietEven the strongest women break. On the outside, Nicky looked unstoppable: a decorated Australian Army soldier, a solo mom, and an award-winning entrepreneur. But inside, she wrestled with imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and the quiet exhaustion of holding it all together.In this powerful conversation, Nicky shares her journey of stripping away performance, perfectionism, and people-pleasing to reclaim her voice and lead her life from the inside out. We explore what it really means to practice self-leadership, how to stop minimizing your wins, and why “happiness trumps all” has become her guiding mantra.This episode will remi...
2025-10-2050 minMy Healing is Your HealingStop Explaining Yourself: Say What You Mean, Then Stop TalkingStop Explaining Yourself: Say What You Mean, Then Stop TalkingOver-explaining looks harmless—“sorry, I just meant…”, “hope this makes sense…”—but it’s often a nervous system habit rooted in fear, shame, and old conditioning. In this episode, we explore why we rush to justify and soften our truth, how that erodes our self-trust, and what it feels like to speak from embodied clarity instead.You’ll learn to spot anxious explanation in real time, name the fear underneath (“If I don’t explain, what am I afraid will happen?”), and practice simple, grounded phrases that let your trut...
2025-10-1315 min
The Phoenix Mind with Lisa ManzoReclaiming Voice, Vulnerability, and Transformation with Celeste Case-Ruchala and Lisa ManzoIn this episode of The Phoenix Mind with Lisa Manzo, Celeste Case-Ruchala — storyteller, coach, and founder of women’s groups that champion vulnerability and truth-telling — shares her journey of self-abandonment, identity loss, and rebuilding from rock-bottom moments. She is the host of My Healing Is Your Healing and the author of works that help women reclaim their voice and rise beyond perfectionism.Celeste’s story includes a pivotal moment — a panic attack in the shower where, for the first time, she said yes to herself instead of yes to someone else. That choice marked the beginning of a transfor...
2025-10-0930 minMy Healing is Your HealingWhen The Roles Fall Away: Rebuilding Self-Trust After Identity Loss with Carolina GonzalezWelcome back to My Healing Is Your Healing. I’m Celeste — and today I sit with Carolina Gonzalez, a certified mindfulness and meditation teacher who helps women rebuild self-trust, clarity, and inner strength through seasons of loss, transition, and emotional depletion.Carolina spent two decades in corporate leadership before a convergence of life events—losing her mother and the end of a long marriage—forced her to ask the question we all dread: who am I without the roles I play? Through meditation, presence, and compassionate practice she rediscovered an inner anchor that didn’t depend on titles or...
2025-10-061h 00My Healing is Your HealingTrapped in Thought: Breaking Free from Overthinking and Inner ChaosIf your brain feels like a browser with 107 tabs open—10 frozen and mystery music blaring—this episode is your exit ramp. Overthinking isn’t a personality quirk; it’s a survival response. It’s your nervous system chasing safety through certainty, perfection, and control. The problem? You can’t think your way into peace.In this conversation, we unpack:How overthinking becomes a subtle form of self-abandonmentThe roots: trauma, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and controlThe real cost: time, presence, sleep, creativity, confidence, connectionWhy peace is body-first, brain-secondThree tools to interrupt the spiral a...
2025-09-2921 minMy Healing is Your HealingChoosing Yourself Without Guilt: One Woman’s Path Back to AlignmentFrom Misaligned to Magnetic with Criss Madrigal If your life looks shiny on paper but feels like a cage, this one’s for you. I’m sitting down with Criss Madrigal—former Fortune 500 leader turned Life Alchemist—to talk about the quiet cost of survival mode and the radical relief of coming home to yourself. We get honest about burnout, identity loss, nervous system crashes, and how Criss’s autoimmune diagnosis became a doorway to freedom, voice, and a soul-aligned version of success.In this episode, we cover:Why “checking the...
2025-09-2257 minMy Healing is Your HealingTaming the Inner Critic: Rewriting the Voice That’s Been Running Your LifeThere’s a voice in your head that sounds suspiciously like a concerned parent, a disappointed teacher, or you on your worst day—three hours into doom-scrolling with exactly zero snacks. She says you’re behind, too much, not enough, and definitely not ready.Today we stop handing her the mic.In this episode, we unpack what the inner critic really is (hint: a nervous-system bodyguard stuck in the past), why she gets so loud, and how to turn her volume down without declaring war on yourself. You’ll learn two simple tools to external...
2025-09-1515 minMy Healing is Your HealingStop Performing, Start Belonging: The Cost of Being "Nice"You’ve been called “the nice one,” “so easy to be around,” “low maintenance.” But let’s be honest—behind that gold star lies a woman who’s exhausted from scanning the room, editing her voice, and performing for acceptance.In this episode of My Healing is Your Healing, we unravel the hidden layers of people-pleasing—not just as a habit, but as a trauma-informed survival response tied to perfectionism, approval addiction, and the deep fear that our full selves might be too much.Through personal storytelling (hello, wedding wake-up call...
2025-09-0820 minMy Healing is Your HealingEpisode 5: How to Stop Leaving Yourself — From Self-Abandonment to Self-TrustHow to Stop Leaving Yourself — From Self-Abandonment to Self-TrustHow many times have you promised yourself, “This time will be different”—only to stay quiet, let it slide, or put someone else’s needs ahead of your own?That’s self-abandonment. It’s subtle, familiar, and often invisible until you realize you no longer trust your own voice.In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I’m breaking down:What self-abandonment really is (and how it shows up in everyday life)Why we were conditioned to leave ourselves behind...
2025-09-0118 minMy Healing is Your HealingWho Are You Without the Titles?Who are you without the titles? So many of us introduce ourselves through résumés, roles, or relationships—yet feel like strangers to ourselves inside. In this episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, we peel back the layers of performance and perfection to uncover your core identity, your true values, and the purpose that makes you feel alive. This is your invitation to stop living by titles—and start living in alignment with who you really are. ✨#identityshift #selfdiscovery #healingjourney #selfworth #selftrust #radiantwoman #corevalues #purposefulliving #innerhealing #growthmindset #personaldevelopment #alignment #magneticlivingSupport the showRe...
2025-08-2517 minMy Healing is Your HealingThis Podcast Is for the Woman Who’s Tired of PretendingIn episode three of 'My Healing Is Your Healing,' we dive deep into the exhaustion brought on by performing, pleasing, and living under the weight of imposter syndrome. This episode is for women tired of pretending and yearning to live a life that feels genuinely their own. Through raw and unfiltered storytelling, host shares personal experiences and invites listeners to imagine a life aligned with their core values and true purpose. Join us in exploring self-worth, personal power, boundaries, and much more, with practical takeaways for your journey towards a radiant life. Tune in and start your path...
2025-08-1811 minMy Healing is Your HealingI Used to Think Happiness Was for Other PeopleWhat if the life you're living isn’t yours—but a performance for everyone else watching?In this raw, deeply personal episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, I take you behind the highlight reel into the masked years of people-pleasing, performance, and perfectionism—where happiness always felt just out of reach.I share the story of how I spent decades collecting achievements instead of alignment. How I followed the script of success and still ended up curled in a shower on my wedding night asking, Is this it? This is...
2025-08-1115 minMy Healing is Your HealingEpisode 1: Why I Had to Start This Podcast (and What It Means for You)Welcome to My Healing Is Your Healing, a podcast for the woman healing out loud and reclaiming her story. I’m your host, Celeste Case-Ruchala, and this first episode is raw, real, and personal. Before we dive into tools, rituals, and stories of transformation, I’m sharing why this podcast had to be born—and what it means for you.This episode is a conversation about identity, invisibility, and what happens when we abandon ourselves for the sake of being chosen. I open up about the version of me who had all the accomplishments—the doctorate, the job titl...
2025-08-0411 min