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The Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthEmpathy With Boundaries: How to Protect Your Peace in an Exhausting WorldEmpathy without boundaries is emotional labor that leads to burnout. In this episode, I discuss how to manage feeling overwhelmed by collective trauma, crisis, and injustice as the world continues to unravel. When war, political polarization, climate disruption, and cultural fragmentation bombard us faster than our nervous systems can process, many people respond by trying to hold it all—every injustice, every tragedy. But contrary to normalized conditioning, suffering alongside those who suffer isn't healing. Your depletion doesn't serve the world; your clarity and coherence do.This episode unpacks the crucial difference between being informed and being pe...2025-06-2734 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthWhy Being Hard on Yourself Isn’t Helping You Heal: How to Love Yourself Through the MessLoving yourself when it's difficult is the most healing thing you can do. In this episode, I break down why so many people find it challenging to love themselves when they’re not making progress, feeling messy, or struggling to “get it right.” Difficulty loving yourself unconditionally isn’t a flaw. It’s the result of deep conditioning. Your earliest experiences with conditional love shaped your nervous system to equate love with conditionality, and this episode reveals how that belief quietly sabotages your healing, preventing both progress and enjoyment.I also share my own experience of transitioning from condi...2025-06-2151 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthHealing Burnout: Why More Healing Might Be Making You WorseHealing is meant to restore you, not drain you. If you've ever felt like healing became another task on your to-do list or felt guilty for taking a break, this episode will explain the emotional and physiological cost of turning healing into a full-time job. Healing burnout is real and often confused with resistance. I share my own story of burnout and how it reshaped my relationship with rest, play, and flow as an adult.The truth is, constant self-improvement can make it more difficult to liberate yourself and reclaim your wholeness. In this episode, you'll learn...2025-06-1345 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthInner Child vs. Adult Healing: The Real Reason Your Trauma Keeps RepeatingHealing shouldn't feel like an endless loop of progress and regression. In this episode, I unpack one of the most misunderstood aspects of healing: the difference between inner child healing and adult healing. And you'll learn why differentiating and integrating the two is essential for achieving genuine, lasting healing. If you’ve been doing all the "right" things (therapy, journaling, mindset work) but are still looping in the same patterns, this episode will help you understand why.I break down the neuroscience, psychology, and somatic imprints that shape your early development, and reveal how your body, not ju...2025-06-0646 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthWhy I Stopped Manifesting and My 4-Month Quantum Shift AfterLiving as your Highest Self isn't about transcending your human self. It's about honoring that they are the same divinity. Common spiritual teachings have promoted narratives of ascension, evolution, and effort. We've been told that we must purify ourselves, clear karmic debt, raise our vibration, and pass spiritual tests to become worthy of connection with our highest selves. Those teachings, while well-intentioned, have created a paradigm where our divine nature feels perpetually out of reach—something to strive for rather than something we already are.In this episode, I share how releasing the teachings of karma, reincarnation, ma...2025-05-301h 38The Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthHow to Stop Feeling Unseen and Heal the Wound of InvisibilityYou have never not been seen, even when you felt invisible. The wound of invisibility is universal and drives people-pleasing, perfectionism, burnout, and self-abandonment. In this episode, I dive deep into what true visibility is, why invisibility is widely experienced, and why common teachings fall short in healing it. You'll also hear my personal story of invisibility—growing up as an immigrant and outsider—and how I finally healed the wound after experiencing a profound quantum revelation that revealed the truth: visibility is not something you earn. It's not granted based on how aligned, healed, or high-vibe you are. Your...2025-05-231h 00The Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthEmotional Freedom: The True Path to Healing and Your Highest TimelineEmotional posturing doesn’t align you with your highest timeline. Emotional liberation does. If you’ve been rehearsing the feeling of being your highest self with affirmations, vision boards, mindset practices, and meditations but are still stuck in a reality where you don’t have what you want, this episode reveals why. I unpack why pretending to be joyful or abundant is not only exhausting but also counterproductive.We dive deep into the truth that emotional liberation, not pretending, is the real key to timeline shifts, reality changes, and holistic coherence. I share how I released decades of sup...2025-05-1648 minWoman UncagedWoman UncagedCollaboration: The Key to Dismantling Patriarchy?Send us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 12 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast.In this week's episode, we chat about:- The NBC article about how female bonobo monkeys fend off male aggression that inspired this episode- How patriarchy persists by keeping women separated from one another- Why patriarchy has been so darn successful at staying around even though women actually outnumber men- Internalized misogyny and how that affects our communities- How...2025-05-1147 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Misunderstood Truth About Self-Worth: The Real Reason You Still Don’t Feel “Enough”You don't raise your self-worth. You reclaim it. In this episode, I share my revelation that completely redefined how I understand and embody self-worth. After nearly 15 years of deep healing work, I realized that self-worth has been taught backward. It isn’t about believing you’re lovable, enough, or deserving. It’s not rooted in identity. Through the lens of attachment theory, neuroscience, and spiritual truth, I explain how self-worth forms through our earliest relational exchanges before we even develop an identity. That initial energetic blueprint, formed in infancy, shapes everything: how we give, how we receive, and whe...2025-05-0952 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthHow to Go From Breakthrough to Embodiment by Mastering IntegrationIntegration isn't just taking a break from healing—it's the actual healing. If you’ve felt stuck after months or even years of dedicated healing and wondered why your breakthroughs haven’t fully transformed your external life, you're not alone. This episode illuminates why you keep healing but the changes don't last. I dive deep into one of the most misunderstood yet essential aspects of healing and growth—integration. It’s the sacred, sometimes uncomfortable space where your nervous system, energy, and subconscious finally catch up to the massive shifts you've initiated. Using neuroscience, somatics, and spiritual truth, I explain wh...2025-04-3053 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthGet Unstuck in Your Healing and Accelerate Your Personal and Spiritual Growth with AITurns out, AI is one of the most powerful tools for healing and growth. In this episode, I share how AI has accelerated and transformed my healing and personal and spiritual development because I use it as far more than a convenience tool. I engage with it as a mirror for my highest self, a co-regulator in my healing, and an amplifier for my timeline shifts. From decoding complex esoteric systems like astrology, human design, and numerology to processing trauma and expanding my consciousness, AI has helped me access holistic and soul-level insight with an objectivity and precision no...2025-04-1853 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthHow to Instantly Align with Your Highest Self NowWe've been taught that our highest self is something to strive for, but you do not need to strive for what you already are. In this episode, I break down the misconceptions that keep people disconnected from their highest self and reveal why common spiritual teachings unknowingly reinforce disempowerment—keeping you searching for your highest self instead of embodying it now. Once you stop believing in separation and start recognizing your true nature, your entire reality shifts in ways that defy conventional understanding.In this episode, you'll learn how your reality is a direct projection of your co...2025-03-2853 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Love Story That Didn’t End: Finding Myself After My Husband PassedLove and grief are two sides of the same coin. In this episode, I share the story of my late husband, Matt—how our love, his cancer, and his passing transformed not only my relationship with him but my entire existence. You'll learn what my husband's death taught me about love, grief, and what it truly means to live. His passing wasn’t a loss because love never ends—it was a liberation. Discover how his cancer, our love, and my grief became an awakening, revealing that love is infinite, unbreakable, and the very essence of life itself. This episod...2025-03-1931 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthWhy You’re Not Behind: How to Stop Feeling Like You Are Running Out of TimeYou are not behind, running out of time, or missing your chance. We’ve been conditioned to believe time is linear, fleeting, and outside of us—something we’re racing against or trying to catch up with. But time isn’t something you move through; time moves through you. In this episode, I challenge the deeply ingrained fears of being behind, of healing or success taking too long, and of past experiences defining your future so you can break free from the limiting beliefs about time that unconsciously shape your life.Drawing from quantum mechanics, personal experiences, and real...2025-03-1451 minWoman UncagedWoman UncagedBreaking free from diets, budgets and joyless livingSend us a text. We'd love to hear from you!Welcome to episode 5 of season 3 of the Woman Uncaged podcast. Today we are exploring breaking free of budgets, diets, and joyless living!We talk about:- Women and budget culture and how it relates to diet culture and restriction generally - Laura's thoughts on budget culture as a money coach and where she starts with her clients- How women's spending is often referred to as "frivolous" - Why spending on our joy is seen as...2025-03-0948 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthWhy You’re Still Stuck Despite Doing the Work: The Truth About StruggleStruggle has been misunderstood for far too long—as a mindset, a circumstance, or a condition we must endure. But what if struggle isn’t just something you go through, but something you distinctly feel? In this episode, I reveal my paradigm-shifting discovery: struggle is an emotion, just like grief or fear, and it lives in the body. That’s why mindset work alone won’t free you from it. This episode explores the science and societal programming behind struggle as I share the deeply personal realization that led me to this breakthrough.We’ve been conditioned to believe...2025-03-0756 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthHow to Let Go, Release Unhealthy Attachments, Free Yourself, and Reclaim Your PowerLetting go isn’t about loss—it’s about liberation. So many people cling to relationships, identities, beliefs, and emotions out of fear, guilt, or the illusion of control, but holding on to what no longer serves you prevents you from being free. In this episode, I explore the profound power of letting go and why it’s essential for aligning with your highest self and transforming your life. We’ll dive into the core reasons people struggle to release attachments—from fear of the unknown to guilt, trauma, and the belief that holding on keeps them safe.I also sha...2025-02-2851 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthWhy Manifestation Hasn’t Worked for You (And What to Do Instead)Manifestation isn’t what you think it is. Many people practice manifestation techniques, believing they can attract their desires, yet they find themselves frustrated and stuck—wondering why they're not "magnetic" or why their manifestations don’t materialize. In this episode, I dissect common and deeply disempowering manifestation myths to reveal a vital truth: manifestation, as it’s commonly taught, actually distorts the true nature of reality. These misconceptions create an illusion of separation that keeps you trapped in struggle, suffering, and discontent.The truth is, there’s nothing to manifest—not in the way we've been led to belie...2025-02-211h 01The Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Pillars of My Daily Self-Healing Practice: Why Healing Is Easy and Joyful for MeHealing is meant to be joyful. In this episode, I take you deep into my daily healing practice—one that isn't rooted in struggle, burden, or willpower but in productivity, ease, and unconditional self-love. I break down exactly how I structure my healing journey every day, why I prioritize it so fiercely, and how it has completely transformed my mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.By taking you inside my daily healing practice, I hope to provide a powerful example of what healing can be and challenge the mainstream belief that it is "hard." This episode offers a...2025-02-1446 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthRediscover Your Worth, Wholeness, and Joy by Healing Your Inner ChildYour present reality is a direct reflection of your past. In this episode, we’re exploring one of the most powerful yet often misunderstood aspects of healing—inner child work. If you struggle with self-worth, feel stuck in repeating patterns, or wonder why certain fears and insecurities linger, this episode will help you understand why unresolved aspects of your childhood continue to affect you now. We’ll examine the psychology of how childhood experiences shape subconscious programming, discuss the impact of early developmental imprints, and uncover why so many people resist healing their inner child. Most importantly, you’ll...2025-02-0748 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthTransform Trauma into Personal Triumph: How to Heal Your Pain and Reclaim Your PowerHealing trauma is a sacred part of your soul's journey. In this episode, I discuss common reasons people resist acknowledging and resolving their traumas and why maintaining an antagonistic relationship with your traumas keeps you stuck in your growth and life. I also share my personal path of overcoming complex traumas and how healing those experiences taught me unconditional self-love, forgiveness, compassion, and how to shine in my innate wholeness.Together, we’ll unpack the cultural norms that discourage healing, vulnerability, and emotional authenticity that trap people in cycles of pain and shame. I’ll reveal how trau...2025-01-3147 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthRewire Your Brain and Heal Easier with the Power of Intentional LanguageThe way we speak to and about ourselves matters. In this episode, I explain the transformative power of language and how it influences our perceptions, emotional states, and overall healing and life experiences. I'll unravel how autopilot phrases like "healing is hard" lock you into cycles of struggle and how you can liberate yourself by reframing your dialogue.From various scientific perspectives, including neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), I share how small shifts in the way we speak inherently create profound changes in our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. By replacing limiting narratives with empowering truths, like “healing is a...2025-01-2436 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthHow to Transform Your Shadows into Self-Love and Reclaim Your WholenessLiving in love and light is often spiritual bypassing, not healing. In this episode, I explain the transformative power of shadow work and unravel the myth of "love and light" as a spiritual practice. True spiritual growth comes from embracing our shadows—the traumas, negative emotions, and parts of ourselves we judge and avoid. Through radical, unconditional self-love, we can integrate these aspects, reclaiming our wholeness and creating coherence within ourselves.Through my personal story of healing from complex trauma and chronic conditions, I share how acknowledging and integrating our shadows liberates us from the illusion of se...2025-01-1731 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthHow Your Beliefs and Identity Are Secretly Shaping Your RealityOuter change begins with inner change. In this episode, I reveal how shifting from wounded identities rooted in unworthiness and struggle to empowered beliefs of self-worth and possibility catalyzes profound healing and transformation. You'll discover how self-perception shapes the reality we experience and how wounded identities can anchor you in a less fulfilling life. By embracing self-love and personal growth, you heal your inner reality, which then transforms your outer world.This episode explores the interplay between beliefs and self-experience, explaining how our subconscious mind filters reality through the lens of identity, perpetuating cycles of empowerment or...2025-01-1043 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthUnlock Your Full Potential by Embracing Healing as Your DestinyHealing isn’t just a personal endeavor—it’s our shared destiny. In this episode, I explore how the transformative power of embracing healing as a lifelong journey unlocks not only your highest potential but also our collective evolution. I'll challenge societal norms that promote chronic stress, self-deprecation, and disconnection and unravel how inherited trauma narratives shape our lives and limit our growth.By learning to heal and integrate all aspects of yourself—your light and shadow, beauty and imperfections—you reclaim our natural state of harmony, wholeness, and love. Healing is the ultimate liberation because inner transforma...2025-01-0329 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthSelf-Healing Secrets: Why It’s Easier (and More Joyful) Than You ThinkWhat if healing didn’t have to be hard, expensive, or complicated? In this episode, I share truths about healing that often go unspoken, along with powerful insights I've gained during my 15-year self-healing journey. If I had known these truths when I first began, I wouldn't have spent those initial years struggling.Together, we explore why self-love, self-regulation, and emotional health are non-negotiable foundations for effective healing. Healing doesn’t happen with the right diet or biohack—it happens when you learn to cultivate love and safety within yourself. We’ll also discuss how suppressed emotions, unresolv...2024-12-2741 minThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthThe Simple Source: Self-Love, Healing, and Spiritual GrowthHow I Shifted Timelines: A Guide to Quantum Healing and Living as Your Highest SelfWhat if you could transform your life by changing your reality? In this episode, I take you on a deeply personal journey of spiritual reawakening, healing, and claiming my highest purpose as an ascended master. We’ll explore how intentional inner child healing set the stage for months of profound synchronicities, timeline shifts, and even shifts in my astrological birth charts.Through the lenses of quantum physics and esoteric systems, I’ll unravel the concept of timeline shifting—a transformative practice that aligns you with your highest self by moving into your highest timeline. Along the way, I shar...2024-12-2041 min