This episode is about visibility not the kind that performs, proves, or protects itself with armor, but the kind that comes from feeling safe within yourself.

I’m talking about what it really means to let yourself be seen after healing without shrinking, over-explaining, or bracing for judgment. When being seen once felt unsafe, hiding became protection. But as healing deepens, staying small starts to feel heavier than stepping forward.

In this episode, I explore:

✨ Why visibility can feel threatening after emotional wounds

✨ How healing changes your relationship with being seen

✨ The difference between confidence with armor and embodied confidence

✨ Letting yourself take up space without apology

✨ Allowing praise, recognition, and support to land

✨ Being seen gently, on your own terms

If you’ve ever felt the urge to dim yourself to stay safe, this episode is an invitation to soften and to trust that you no longer need to disappear to protect your peace.

Take a breath.

Stand tall.

And allow yourself to be seen.

Because this… This Is Healing.

This episode is an invitation to soften.

I’m talking about what it really means to receive love, rest, support, joy, and care without guilt, overthinking, or feeling like you have to earn it.

When you grow up in survival mode, receiving can feel unsafe. Support may come with strings attached. Rest can feel uncomfortable. Joy can feel temporary. So we learn how to give, over-function, and carry everything on our own.

In this episode, I explore:

✨ Why receiving often feels uncomfortable after emotional instability

✨ How guilt around rest and support is a learned response

✨ The difference between intuition and trauma-based guilt

✨ How the body holds resistance to receiving

✨ Learning to accept care without feeling indebted

✨ Small, gentle ways to practice receiving in everyday life

✨ What begins to shift when you allow yourself to soften

If you’ve ever struggled to rest without guilt, receive love without fear, or accept support without bracing this episode is for you.

Take a breath.

Let your shoulders drop.

And allow yourself to receive.

Because this… This Is Healing.

In today’s conversation, I’m talking about what happens when you grow up in emotional instability, where the people you depended on also became the source of your pain. I share how that kind of environment creates codependency that feels like loyalty, and how stepping away from it can pull you straight into hyper-independence not because you want to be strong, but because your spirit no longer feels safe leaning on anyone.

Inside this episode, I’m diving into:

✨ How emotional manipulation and gaslighting shaped my sense of safety

✨ Why I once believed certain people were the only ones I could trust

✨ How motherhood exposed truths I couldn’t ignore anymore

✨ The shift from codependency into intense hyper-independence

✨ Learning to trust my body again after years of survival mode

✨ What softening looks like without returning to toxic cycles

✨ Creating a new definition of love, safety, and support

If you’ve struggled with trust, if you’ve walked away from people who felt like “home,” or if you’re trying to rebuild yourself after emotional chaos this episode will sit gently with your heart.

Take a breath.

Settle into your body.

And allow yourself to soften with me.

Because this… This Is Healing.

There’s a version of you a younger version who still remembers the pain, the criticism, the emotional neglect, and the moments she didn’t feel protected. In this episode, I explore what it means to reconnect with that little girl, honor her wounds, and finally give her the love, safety, and softness she deserved all along.

We’ll talk about:

✨ Who the “inner daughter” is and how she still shows up in adulthood

✨ The childhood wounds that shape trust, relationships, and identity

✨ How to begin reparenting yourself through kindness, protection, and emotional safety

✨ Healing your inner daughter while mothering your own children

✨ Rewriting the story for your lineage through conscious, gentle parenting

Your inner daughter doesn’t need perfection she needs presence, patience, and love.

And the moment you choose to reparent her, everything starts to shift.

Some of us weren’t just born into generational pain we were born to end it. In this episode, I open up about what it really means to become the cycle breaker in your family: the one who chooses healing over history, softness over survival mode, and emotional responsibility over inherited dysfunction.

We’ll dive into:

✨ Recognizing the toxic patterns you refuse to pass down

✨ The moment you realize you’re the generational shift

✨ The weight and loneliness of breaking cycles

✨ How healing becomes a daily choice, not a single moment

✨ Raising your daughter and son with the love, safety, and softness you never saw modeled

Cycle breaking is not easy it’s intentional, spiritual, and powerful.

For many of us, trust issues don’t begin with friendships or relationships they begin at home. In this episode, I open up about the emotional wounds that formed from the women in my family, and how those early experiences shaped the way I view womanhood, connection, and feminine safety today.

We’ll explore:

✨ How betrayal, jealousy, and emotional instability from family women create deep trust wounds

✨ Why it’s hard to trust even during a healing journey

✨ The difference between the “female wound” and the “mother wound”

✨ How to slowly, safely, and intentionally rebuild trust with women

✨ What healthy, stable feminine connections can look like

Healing trust issues with womanhood is a delicate process but it’s possible. You deserve safe women, healthy connections, and feminine relationships rooted in softness, stability, and love.

Gratitude is more than a feeling it’s a frequency. In this episode, I dive into how living with gratitude raises your vibration, attracts peace, and protects your inner glow. Healing isn’t just about releasing pain; it’s about nurturing the energy that keeps your spirit aligned and radiant.

We’ll explore:

✨ How gratitude expands your energy and rewires your perspective

✨ Simple daily gratitude rituals that ground and calm the mind

✨ The importance of protecting your energy as you grow

✨ Spiritual practices to cleanse and recharge your light

✨ An affirmation to help you stay aligned with peace and thankfulness

Your gratitude is your glow. When you live in that vibration, peace becomes your protection and abundance naturally follows.

There comes a moment in your healing when you realize you’ve become the woman you once prayed for. In this episode, I open up about what it really means to become her the version of yourself that walks in peace, confidence, and alignment after everything you’ve healed from.

We’ll explore:

✨ Recognizing your own growth and evolution

✨ Releasing the version of you that no longer fits

✨ Embodying your feminine strength with softness and grace

✨ Overcoming fear and imposter syndrome as you rise

✨ Affirmations to help you walk fully in your purpose

Becoming her isn’t about becoming someone new, it’s about remembering who you were before the world told you to shrink. You’re not chasing your highest self anymore… you’re stepping into her.

As your life begins to expand, so does your visibility and that’s a blessing that requires balance. In this episode, I open up about what it feels like to grow publicly while learning how to protect your peace, your privacy, and your purpose in the process.

We’ll explore:

✨ The pressure and beauty of being seen while healing

✨ How to stay grounded through expansion

✨ The difference between transparency and sacred privacy

✨ Setting emotional and energetic boundaries as you grow

✨ How peace can coexist with success

Healing doesn’t stop when you grow it just requires deeper awareness, stronger boundaries, and softer grace. You can evolve in public and still protect your peace.

This season of my healing has been teaching me something new how to receive. In this episode, I open up about my first YouTube Creator Day Event in Atlanta, an exclusive experience that reminded me I belong in the rooms I once dreamed of.

We’ll talk about:

✨ How imposter syndrome can make it hard to accept your blessings

✨ Why it’s okay to receive praise, love, and rest without guilt

✨ Letting go of survival mode and stepping into your “soft girl era”

✨ Redefining softness as strength and surrender as alignment

✨ A powerful affirmation to welcome abundance with grace

Sometimes the hardest part of healing isn’t working for the opportunity it’s allowing yourself to receive it.

Healing isn’t just about forgiveness or letting go, it’s also about learning to trust yourself again. In this episode, I open up about what it really means to rebuild self-trust after trauma, postpartum changes, or years of criticism that made you question your own voice.

We’ll explore:

✨ How self-trust breaks and why it’s not your fault

✨ What it actually means to trust yourself again

✨ Simple daily practices that rebuild confidence from the inside out

✨ Releasing the old voices of doubt that aren’t truly yours

✨ An empowering affirmation to remind you that growth is happening, even when you’re uncertain

You are not broken for doubting yourself, you’re human. Trust can be rebuilt, one small promise, one deep breath, and one act of self-love at a time.

Healing isn’t just about the mind or spirit, intimacy is part of the journey too. In this episode, I explore the deep connection between healing, the body, and pleasure.

We’ll talk about:

✨ How trauma, stress, or postpartum changes can disconnect us from intimacy

✨ Why body awareness through yoga and movement transforms how we experience connection

✨ The power of emotional safety and communication in creating true intimacy

✨ Skin-to-skin closeness as a grounding, therapeutic way to feel safe and loved

✨ How embracing pleasure in and out of the bedroom becomes medicine for the soul

Healing doesn’t mean shutting down your desire or your connection to your partner. It means learning to embrace intimacy again, slowly, without shame and honoring your body every step of the way.

Overthinking doesn’t protect us it drains us. The late-night spirals, the second-guessing, the endless “what ifs” they keep us stuck in fear and away from peace. In this episode, I share my own struggles with overthinking, where it comes from, and the practices that help me break free when my mind just won’t let up.

We’ll explore:

✨ Why overthinking is often rooted in fear and childhood conditioning

✨ How unexpressed thoughts create anxiety and tension in the body

✨ Practical tools breathwork, movement, journaling, and self-talk to interrupt spirals

✨ Gentle ways to create more mental space and peace in your daily life

And I’m so excited to announce my Healing Circle Subscription is now live on Apple Podcasts! My very first subscriber-only audio is a 5-minute welcome meditation, created just for you. Subscribe today to go deeper in your healing journey with me.

Remember: peace doesn’t come from controlling everything it comes from choosing presence in this moment.

In this episode, I share how creativity through yoga, contortion, journaling, or any form of expression becomes a mirror for our emotions and a pathway to release what we hold inside. Creativity isn’t about perfection; it’s about honesty. Every time you create, you give your healing a voice.

We’ll explore:

✨ How creativity reflects where we are in our healing

✨ Why expression moves energy and emotions through the body

✨ The many ways healing can look beyond “traditional” practices

✨ How creating connects us to ourselves and others

This week, I invite you to give your soul space to create not to perform, not to impress, but simply to breathe.

Healing flows through expression. What will you create today?

Depression doesn’t only affect women. Men struggle too often in silence, hidden behind strength, responsibility, and the pressure to “man up.” In this episode, I open up a conversation for the fathers, husbands, and good men out there who quietly carry emotional weight with nowhere to put it down.

I share how vulnerable conversations with my husband remind me that men need safe spaces too, and how even my own traumatic birth experience impacted him deeply the fear of losing his wife, the helplessness of watching doctors take control, the scars no one asks fathers about.

Together, we’ll explore:

✨ Why male depression is often overlooked

✨ How unspoken trauma shapes men’s mental health

✨ Small steps men can take to begin healing

✨ How women can support the men they love with compassion

Healing is not gendered. Healing is human. And when men have room to heal, families grow stronger.

Postpartum changes everything your body, your mind, your spirit. And when you’re also on a healing journey, the weight can feel unbearable. In this episode, I open up about the guilt, loneliness, and identity loss that comes after a traumatic birth, an emergency C-section, and NICU life.

This is for the moms who love their children deeply but still feel like they’ve lost themselves. For the women carrying guilt for not “bouncing back,” who smile on the outside while struggling inside.

We’ll talk about:

✨ Why postpartum makes healing even more complex

✨ The silent guilt moms carry and why it’s not the truth

✨ What it feels like to not recognize yourself after trauma

✨ How to begin relearning and embracing the new you

You are not broken. You are becoming. And you don’t have to walk through this alone.

Have you ever had one of those days where everything comes crashing down, even though you’ve been doing the work to heal? You’re meditating, journaling, breathing… and then one small moment sends you spiraling.

In this episode of This Is Healing by Kontortion with Kalise, I share a raw and honest story about my own emotional breakdown, why it happened, and what I did to pick myself back up without drowning in shame.

We’ll talk about:

• Why emotional crashes happen even when you’re “doing the work”

• The right way to recover without punishing yourself

• How to communicate your needs clearly in your relationships

• The powerful lessons that come after the storm

If you’ve ever felt like you failed at healing because you fell apart, this episode will remind you: breaking down doesn’t mean you’re broken.

Tune in, breathe, and let’s heal together.

What happens when you finally escape toxic relationships and step into a healthy one, but you don’t know how to adjust? In this episode, I open up about the hidden struggles of going from chaos to peace, and how old wounds can follow you into even the healthiest marriages.

We’ll talk about:

✔ Why stability can feel scary after years of dysfunction

✔ How past trauma creates strain in a loving relationship

✔ Practical ways to unlearn old patterns and accept love without fear

If you’ve ever wondered why healthy love still feels hard, this episode is for you.

In this episode of This Is Healing by Kontortion with Kalise, I dive into one of the most overlooked truths about the healing journey: it’s not a straight line. Healing comes with setbacks, revisiting old wounds, and moments where you feel like you’ve slipped backwards. But each loop, each pause, and each stumble is still part of the forward motion.

I’ll share how I’ve navigated those moments when old patterns resurface, what vulnerability has taught me about true strength, and why self-compassion is the key to moving through the hard days without shame.

If you’ve ever felt discouraged because your healing doesn’t look “perfect” this episode is here to remind you that your journey is valid, messy, and beautifully your own.

Episode 5: Choosing Yourself Without Guilt

Sometimes the hardest part of healing isn’t the yoga, the meditation, or the affirmations, it’s the relationships we have to reevaluate. In this episode, I open up about the moment I realized certain connections in my life were no longer safe for my peace or my growth. This isn’t a story about cutting people off; it’s about recognizing when the dynamic has changed, protecting my mental health, and allowing space for healing… without guilt. Whether you’re navigating similar challenges or simply curious about the emotional side of setting boundaries, this episode offers a raw and honest look at choosing yourself in the most difficult moments.