What happens after you survive the unimaginable at a young age? How do you begin to face what happened and find a way toward healing?   In this episode, Molly sits down with her dear friend Jennifer Evridge, a survivor and truth-teller whose story is living proof that healing is possible — even after years of long-term abuse.   Jennifer shares her experience navigating repeated abuse by people in positions of authority, how fear and shame ended up running the show in her adult life, and what changed when she finally began to look directly at what happened — and step toward healing.   This conversation is tender, raw, and hopeful: a reminder that the parts of you that were buried for survival are often the very parts that can lead you home to self-worth, self-trust, and self-love.   In this episode, you’ll hear about: The fear so many survivors carry: “If I open up that box, I’ll never stop crying.” How shame and self-blame can keep people trapped for decades Why boundaries can become the first real crack of freedom for a survivor How meditation and inner listening can reconnect you to a loving presence within How healing can coexist alongside grief, anger, and complex relationships A powerful reminder: you have a voice inside you that knows the way   During their conversation, Jennifer mentions fawning and how Dr. Ingrid Clayton’s work impacted her. You can learn more in Episode 23, Ingrid Clayton: Fawning, Trauma, & the Healing Path Home to Self, where they unpack fawning as a trauma response and what healing can look like on the other side.   Today’s Guest: Jennifer Evridge Jennifer describes herself as “spiritual being having a human experience.” She is a survivor and truth-teller with a background as a successful businesswoman, 911 dispatcher, and criminal defense investigator.   She is also the creator of Talk2MeAboutLove: Field Notes from a Spiritual Investigator. Through interviews and reflections, Jennifer travels the world talking with everyday people about their spiritual experiences, awakenings, and inner truths — exploring what it means to be human, to heal, and to live with honesty and love.   You can follow Jennifer and Talk2MeAboutLove on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.   *****   Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE – and kickstart your boundaries journey.   Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All, and get an illustrated copy of the companion journal for free.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls: follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or leave a review. Remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly is joined by Melinda Lloyd, PhD — a Native Hawaiian researcher, clinical social worker, author, and coach for the Becoming Boundaried Bootcamp — for conversation on Makahiki – a season of rest, renewal, and right relationship that begins with the Hawaiian New Year.   This cultural framework centers on slowing down, reflection, and the intentional pausing of conflict — a radical contrast to dominant cultural ideas of productivity, urgency, and performance. Melinda shares how Makahiki functions as a season of realignment rather than striving, and how Hawaiian worldviews emphasize reciprocal relationship: with spirituality, ancestors, community, the natural world, and the self.   Together, Molly and Melinda weave Hawaiian cultural wisdom and history with individual healing and boundaries work — exploring what it means to stop shrinking as a survival strategy, reclaim one’s pride, and come home to yourself.    The conversation also touches on somatic healing, code-switching, and the grief that emerges when identity, language, and culture are forcibly suppressed — alongside the hope found in cultural restoration, community healing, and embodied belonging.   Molly and Melinda discuss: the meaning of Makahiki and how Native Hawaiian culture approaches the New Year why rest, play, and renewal are essential for individual and collective well-being how cultural and historical trauma can show up as anger, shrinking oneself, or learned helplessness how boundaries create the conditions for right relationship — with self, others, and the world why somatic and community-based healing can release what insight alone cannot the difference between honoring cultural wisdom and appropriating it   Today’s Guest: Melinda Lloyd, PhD, is a Native Hawaiian clinical social worker, researcher, and author. For over 35 years, her work has centered on working with other Native Hawaiian children and families on grief, loss, trauma, and healing.   Melinda is a coach inside the Becoming Boundaried Bootcamp, where she supports compassionate people in recognizing that boundaries are a powerful act of self-love and self-care — not something you have to earn.    She is also the author of a three-books series written for her grandchildren – From Puna with Aloha – available through Kindle Unlimited.   *****   In this episode, Melinda mentions the “House & Garden” metaphor from Molly’s bootcamp. To get access to this life-changing boundaries blueprint – along with many other practical teachings and community supports – start your 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.   Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls: follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or leave a review. Remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly is joined by Samuel Ohana — a social worker and compassionate human who embodies love. Together, they explore what it means to love people in a world where people also hurt people… and how we can hold a “both/and”: naming harmful behavior clearly while still recognizing the untouched humanity underneath. At the heart of this conversation is attachment. Sam breaks down attachment styles in a way that’s clear, compassionate, and helpful — and how a deeper understanding of attachment styles helped him start understanding everybody better – like “seeing the code written behind the program.” Molly and Samuel discuss: believing in the goodness of humanity while making sense of bad things that people do how attachment styles form when we are preverbal and become our default blueprint for love what “macro attachment” looks like in our dominant cultural context why diversity is natural — and why insecure systems try to stamp it out the incredible power of allowing people be themselves and change their minds about who they are how to speak up with courage and integrity when someone says or does something hurtful   Today’s Guest: Samuel Ohana is a social worker in nonprofit work with a deep love for people, families, and community well-being. Sam’s work is rooted in compassion, systems thinking, and the belief that secure, loving connection is something we can practice — personally and collectively. He is also a gender-expansive human and leads a gender-expansive group, holding space for belonging and safety in a time when many in the LGBTQ+ community are under increased stress and threat. *****   If overgiving, people-pleasing, or guilt around boundaries has been holding you back, Molly’s Boundaries Breakthrough mini course is currently free.Start here: www.boundaried.com/breakthrough Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path. Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way.

This week, Molly shares a special episode recorded from Maui just after the fourth and final live retreat of 2025 — with the retreat magic still swirling in her. Molly takes you behind the scenes to the intuitive calling that led her to begin offering live retreats in the first place and offers a glimpse into what becomes possible when compassionate people gather in real time and space to do high-level somatic healing work. She describes her very first retreat in Alaska with a notebook full of carefully planned teachings — and then (in a moment of deep intuition) she threw the whole plan away to allow something more powerful to take shape. This episode is a love letter to beautiful transformation that can happen in spaces of live community healing — and a glimpse into what’s coming next, including Molly’s upcoming book tour and a call for musicians that align with the Compassionate Revolution.   Key Highlights: how live healing work generates a magical energy and deep tectonic shifts of the psyche the intuitive nudge that led Molly to start hosting live retreats… and why she threw out her plans as soon she felt the energy of the group how ancestral survival strategies get passed down — and how they can be released with honor how Molly is envisioning live retreats in 2026 (including a music and a sound healing element) a call for aligned musicians who want to build something beautiful together   Musicians: If you feel aligned with the heart-led purpose of the Compassionate Revolution and want to join an experiment weaving music into somatic healing work (including recordings and live gatherings), reach out to Molly and her team at support(at)boundaried(dot)com.   ***** For retreat updates, book tour news, and Boundaries resources for compassionate people, visit Molly at: www.boundaried.com. Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path. Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

Molly sits down with Christi Byerly, MCC, founder and CEO of Awaken Coach Institute, to explore how religious trauma, fear-based theology, and high-control faith systems shape a child’s identity, sense of worth, and ability to trust. Christi shares her personal story of growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian environment where obedience, hierarchy, and punishment were normalized – and how that upbringing led to depression, anxiety, and lifelong confusion about goodness, desire, and love. Together, Molly and Christi unpack the invisible ways spiritual abuse fractures a compassionate person’s inner world, how fear becomes a first language, and why so many survivors struggle with boundaries, self-trust, and worthiness well into adulthood. This is an episode about waking up from fear and waking into love – reclaiming your voice, your body, your desires, and your right to a spacious, grounded, joyful life. Molly and Christi discuss: how hierarchies and obedience-based teachings shape a child’s developing brain. why compassionate people are more vulnerable to spiritual abuse. how fear-based theology disconnects us from our intuition, emotions, and desires. why self-care feels wrong for survivors of fundamentalism. what it means to move from hierarchy and fear into love and equality. the spiritual (and beautifully human) process of awakening.   *****   Today’s Guest: Christi is the CEO and founder of Awaken Coach Institute, an ICF-accredited coach training school that is, at its heart, a school of love. Awaken Coach Institute trains coaches, healers, helpers, and compassionate humans to listen deeply, grow spiritually, and awaken to their own inner wisdom. Christi has helped shape the journeys of hundreds of coaches and clients. Explore free classes, group programs, Q&A calls, book updates, and Christi's upcoming 2026 Spain retreat at: https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/.   *****   For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com. Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path. Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly is joined by Brenda Knight, award-winning publisher, author, intuition-led trailblazer, and founder of Books That Save Lives (a mission-driven publishing house devoted to changing minds, healing hearts, and creating a more compassionate world). Brenda is the publisher of Molly's new book, The Great All, and a deep force in today’s world of writing and media. Her story is one of courage, intuition, integrity, and following the “omens” that led her toward her purpose. Together, Molly and Brenda explore the twists, initiations, and inner guidance that shape a life – and the extraordinary ripple effects of choosing compassion over conformity.   Molly and Brenda discuss: Brenda’s extraordinary journey from a dirt road in West Virginia to HarperCollins, and why reading became her portal to possibility. moments when integrity can speak louder than ambition. a behind-the-scenes story of Paulo Coelho’s classic, The Alchemist. how veteran and first-responder stories inspired Books That Save Lives (BTSL). the birth of The Great All, and Molly’s weird, wondrous, divinely timed idea that wouldn’t let go. why parables and teaching stories work at a soul-level and why The Great All feels like essential guidance for navigating today’s world.   Today’s Guest: Brenda Knight began her career at HarperCollins, working with luminaries Paolo Coelho, Marianne Williamson, Mark Nepo, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Knight was awarded IndieFab’s Publisher of the Year in 2015. Knight is the author of Random Acts of Kindness, The Grateful Table, and Women of the Beat Generation, which won an American Book Award. Knight is Publisher at Books That Save Lives. She also teachers at the San Francisco Writers Conference, Writing for Change and serves as President of the Women’s National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Follow her on Instagram @LowerHaightbk and @BooksThatSaveLives.   BTSL includes an invitation to the Heart Wisdom panels in their newsletter. If you’d like to join, sign up at: https://www.booksthatsavelives.net/contact-us/.   An extra thanks to Duncan MacLeod, the business side of BTSL! He oversees operations, finance, and fulfillment. He’s also an author, and cares deeply about the BTSL mission. He is the author of Money Magic: Easy and Surprising Ways to Not Be Broke.    *****   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!   For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com. Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path. Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

This week, Molly sits down with poet, minister, and Abstract Voices founder Taikeya J to explore how poetry – and the stillness beneath it – can reconnect compassionate people to their truth, emotions, and deepest dreams. Taikeya shares how poetry became her sanctuary, how a high school poem about slavery was deemed “too strong” to publish, and how anger, healing, ancestry, and creativity can intertwine in the work of reclaiming one’s voice.   What if the doorway back to your voice wasn’t through force… but through tenderness, creativity, and quiet?   Together, Molly and Taikeya explore: why compassion often leads to self-silencing. how anger can be a righteous, clarifying emotion that signals a boundary violation. why poetry and creativity create a safe space for emotions that were once shamed. how ancestral stories and trauma echo in our bodies and beliefs and benefit from having a place to be expressed and heard. why many compassionate people stop dreaming – and what it takes to start again.   Today’s Guest: Taikeya J is a poetic voice, non-profit leader, change-maker, family historian, minister and faith-rooted creative whose work bridges art, identity, and spiritual healing. She inspires audiences to rediscover wholeness, purpose, and divine rhythm. Taikeya holds a Bachelor of Arts in Hospitality Management and a master’s degree in ministry. She also founded Abstract Voices, a creative movement originally launched as a student poetry organization; it evolved into a dynamic community that bridges artistry, healing, and empowerment through written and spoken expression: https://abstractvoices.com/.   *****   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!   For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com.Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

This week, Molly is joined by Dr. Melanie Griffiths – an academic, lecturer, and migration scholar whose work reveals what most of us never learned: how borders function, why human movement is not something new, and what’s really shaping the stories we’re told about “the other.”   Together, Molly and Melanie pull back from the news cycle and ask some big, tender questions: What is migration, really? Who taught us to fear it? And what happens when compassionate people start questioning the stories we’ve inherited about borders, race, and scarcity?   Exploring the myths, fears, and power structures that create division, this chat offers clarity and hope.   (And, as mentioned in the show, to step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly, visit www.boundaried.com/path.)   Molly and Melanie explore: why migration is a normal part of life on this planet, and how borders are a recent human invention. how myths of “crisis,” “invasion,” and “not enough to go around” get into our bodies and nervous systems. links between colonialism, capitalism, race, and today’s migration policies. how generational trauma, propaganda, and fear-based narratives keep us divided and disempowered. the role of artists, writers, and creatives in imagining new ways of living together. how boundaries can be an act of rebellion for compassionate people – helping us stop pouring our life force into abusive systems and relationships.   Today’s Guest: Dr. Melanie Griffiths is an associate professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has been researching migration systems since 2007 and specializes in immigration politics and enforcement. She has written on the asylum system, irregular migration, immigration detention, deportation and other topics. Learn more at: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/griffiths-melanie.   Book Suggestions:  Hein de Haas. 2023. How Migration Really Works: A factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics. Nancy Fraser. 2023. Cannibal Capitalism: How our system is devouring democracy, care and the planet – and what we can do about it. David Graeber and David Wengrow. 2021. Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Tricia Hersey (founder of the Nap Ministry). 2022. Rest is resistance: Free yourself from Grind Culture and Reclaim your Life.   *****   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!   For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at www.boundaried.com.Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at www.boundaried.com/path.Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

This week, Molly and clinical psychologist Dr. Molly Tucker – co-author of Saying the Wrong Thing – explore how compassionate people can speak up in emotionally charged moments. You’ll learn about psychological flexibility vs. rigidity, how to assess situational safety, what to try in the moment, and how to repair relationships when you’ve said (or not said) the “wrong” thing.   They also introduce a simple challenge: One Bold Thing per week through 2025 – small, values-aligned actions that build courage and change culture. Will you join us?   Build the skill (and nervous-system capacity) to speak up – kindly, safely, and consistently.   This packed episode covers: tools for speaking up with courage (and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, or ACT). why being “afraid to say the wrong thing” is common. the cost of chronic peace-keeping. staying in hard talks without shutting down or exploding. how to gauge situational safety, micro-advocacy at the dinner table, and advocating for a trans family member ideas for repair after saying the “wrong” thing.   Today’s Guest: Dr. Molly Tucker is the co-author of the newly released book Saying the Wrong Thing: How to Speak Up in Difficult, Controversial, or Emotionally Charged Conversations. (Order and receive a 25% discount with code SPEAKUP25: https://www.pesi.com/item/saying-wrong-thing-156754.) She has been interested in relationships and mental health since the fifth grade when she first was trained as a “Peer Mediator” to help fellow students resolve disputes. That’s when she knew she wanted to be a Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Tucker received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Texas. She then completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System, with a specialty in Advanced Interprofessional Mental Health. Beyond formal training in multiple Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs), she has also received extensive training in administration and interpretation of cognitive, personality, and vocational psychological assessments. If you're looking to find meaning and engage fully with life, she would be honored to walk alongside you in that journey. ***** Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Explore the Compassionate Revolution Swag Store for t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more! Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Dr. Ingrid Clayton – clinical psychologist, author, and complex trauma survivor – joins Molly to explore what it really means to heal from the fawn response (a trauma pattern that teaches compassionate people to abandon themselves to stay safe). Ingrid opens up about her new book, Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back, offering insights into how the need to please can lead you away from your true self. Together, Molly and Ingrid discuss why fawning is a nervous system adaptation, not a personality flaw, and how laughter, creativity, and embodied practices can restore a sense of self after relational trauma. They also examine spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity, and the cultural forces that keep compassionate people over-giving and disconnected from their truth. If you’ve ever felt yourself disappearing into relationships, or you’re trying to find your way back home to yourself, this episode is for you!   *****   In this chat, Molly and Ingrid uncover: the fawn response as a survival strategy, not pathology, and how it intertwines with attachment and early relational trauma. why “people-pleasing” and “codependency” miss the systemic and trauma roots. spiritual bypassing and toxic positivity as hidden self-abandonment. nervous system healing through EMDR, IFS, and body-based awareness. how true healing helps reclaim self, agency, and authenticity.   Today’s Guest: Ingrid Clayton, PhD, is a psychologist and author who specializes in the intersection of spirituality, addiction, and trauma. Her latest book, Fawning, shines a light on an often-overlooked trauma response, fawning, and delves into what it is, why it happens, and how survivors can reclaim their voice and sense of self. Her memoir, Believing Me, chronicles her personal awakening to a traumatic past, while Recovering Spirituality explores how spiritual bypassing can hinder true healing in recovery. Learn more at: https://www.ingridclayton.com/, and connect with Ingrid on Instagram @ingridclaytonphd.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Explore the Compassionate Revolution Swag Store for t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more! Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

In this powerful conversation, Molly sits down with Neha Bhat (ABT, ATR-P), a licensed arts-based sexual trauma psychotherapist, visual artist, entrepreneurial coach, and bestselling author of Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist. Neha is also the creator of India’s first Global Sexual Trauma Healer’s Collective.   Together, Molly and Neha explore how sexual trauma, shame, spirituality, and culture intertwine – in the East and the West – and what true healing looks like when we reconnect to our hearts, bodies, and creative life force. They also dive into taboo topics with tenderness and truth: the generational silence around sexuality, the impact of religious and cultural conditioning, the psycho-spiritual dimensions of trauma, and the sacred work of reclaiming the body as our own.   This episode is both a deep dive into embodied healing and a compassionate invitation to slow down, integrate, and honor your becoming.   *****   In this episode, Molly and Neha explore: the intersection of spirituality, intuition, and psychology in healing work. cultural shame around sex and its lasting impact on the body and soul. community as medicine: why deep work in groups compliments one-on-one therapy. how cultural polarization between East and West mirrors the inner split between head and heart. healing not as a straight line but a circle – slowing down, tending the body, and reclaiming self-trust   Connect with Neha: Neha Bhat is an Indian arts-based sexual trauma-focused psychotherapist, bestselling author, and expressive arts practitioner weaving together the clinical and the mystical between India and the US. Instagram: @indiansextherapist Facebook: @neha.n.bhat Website: www.nehabhat.org Book: Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist – available wherever books are sold.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Explore the Compassionate Revolution Swag Store for t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more! Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

When loyalty becomes unboundaried, we lose sight of love and begin justifying anti-relational behavior. Group identification shapes perception, loyalty, and morality – and this phenomenon is playing out on the world stage. Unboundaried over-identification with a group – political, religious, social, or otherwise – can pull us away from our values. When loyalty becomes the highest law, love gets sacrificed and great harm is often done.   In this thought-provoking episode, Molly explores a powerful human pattern: our instinct to pick a “team” and stay loyal to it, no matter what. This can be healthy and fun – or it can do damage.   But there’s hope: We can step back, remember our shared humanity, and choose love as the guiding boundary. And in modeling this for ourselves, we become a mirror that can help others break free.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Explore the Compassionate Revolution Swag Store for t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more! Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.   *****   In this episode, discover: the psychology behind why we feel loyal to “our team.” how group identity can distort perception and morality. why unboundaried allegiance causes humans to justify harmful behavior. why arguing from a position of sides rarely works – and what helps instead.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

So many compassionate people are incredible at caring for everyone else yet struggle to turn that same care inward.     Today, Molly offers a 16-minute guided meditation that invites you to pause, reconnect with yourself, and remember that your needs matter, too.   Let this be your reminder that self-care is not selfish: It’s love in action.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Explore the Compassionate Revolution Swag Store for t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more! Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Thank you to NaturesEye via Pixabay for the beautiful background music “Elumias.”   *****   This meditation will help you: ground into the present moment and release the pressure to perform. send love and attention to the parts of you that need it most. envision a “future you” who honors their needs with ease and joy. feel what it’s like to treat your needs as sacred.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly sits down with Lauren Smallcomb, author of the newly released book Golden Child: My Descent to Scapegoat and Rise to Freedom.   Tune in for today’s moving conversation, as Lauren shares her powerful and deeply personal journey with grief, wonder, and unraveling from fundamentalism to step into her authentic self. Her courageous story is one of resilience, clarity, and hope.   Whether you’ve navigated family estrangement, struggled to set healthy boundaries, or want to learn about the role of “the golden child” in family systems, this discussion provides valuable insights.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Explore the Compassionate Revolution Swag Store for t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more! Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.   *****   In this episode, Molly and Lauren explore: family estrangement and what it really means to choose yourself. the roles given (golden child and scapegoat) in dysfunctional families and the impact they have on the recipient. the heavy cost of challenging a dysfunctional family system. how painful experiences can become portals to transformation.   Guest info: Lauren Smallcomb (https://flourishtherapy.co/) is a certified Mind-Body Practitioner whose journey as a healer began at 20 when she became a registered nurse, dedicating a decade to caring for patients in the ER. She later expanded her expertise to become a birth doula and, eventually, a nutritional therapist. In 2020, after making the difficult decision to walk away from a dysfunctional family system, Lauren embarked on a transformative process of rebuilding her mind and body through brain retraining and trauma healing. This journey inspired her to become a certified Mind-Body Practitioner. Her newfound sense of empowerment prompted Lauren and her therapist husband to establish Flourish Therapy, with the intention of helping others heal and thrive after childhood trauma. Born and raised in upstate New York, they now make their home in Northern Thailand with their children, two dogs, and a cat. Follow Lauren on Instagram and Facebook @goldenchildbook and on Substack @laurensmallcomb.   Order your copy of Lauren's new book, Golden Child: https://flourishtherapy.kartra.com/page/goldenchild   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

People don’t usually welcome adversity; it feels painful, lonely, and overwhelming. But what if some difficult seasons can become fertile ground for growth?   Molly explores how reframing hard times as a classroom can bring unexpected wisdom and healing. She also offers a song she wrote after just such a season, Song of the Seed.   If you’re in a difficult season right now: You’re not alone, you're not a failure, and there’s a way to move through it.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Sign up for Molly’s beloved Boundaries Newsletter. Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.   *****   In this episode, Molly shares: a reframe for challenging times. how difficulties can catalyze growth. the unexpected transformation that can arise from seasons that feel like a dark night of the soul, a volcanic eruption, or a fallen seed forgotten in the dirt.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

Fear is real, but it doesn’t have to run you. In today’s destabilizing times, fear is marketed, and unfortunately, it’s easy to become accustomed to anxiety. But you matter. And your worth is not found in your performance, but in your being.   Through the wisdom of the rabbit – adaptable, resourceful, playful even on the edge of danger – Molly shares thoughts from her recent travels and explores how we can honor times of quiet burrowing, growth, and rest – without mistaking them for weakness.   Molly offers her original song, Sit You Rabbit Down, written in 2017 as a prayer of resilience in fearful times. And she reminds us that we can recalibrate to love, again and again, as an act of rebellion and empowerment.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Sign up for Molly’s beloved Boundaries Newsletter. Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.   *****   In this episode, Molly shares: the contrast between the harmony of nature and the clamor of fear-driven news cycles. how fear is being marketed and why we must resist it. why love is a radical act of truth and power.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

This 26-minute walking meditation is a tool to move beyond codependency: Molly guides you through a gentle, grounding practice to bring you back into your body, back into the present moment, and back to yourself.   Whether you’re new to boundaries, deep in the process of healing from codependency, or simply looking for a calming way to reconnect with yourself, this guided practice invites you to step into your wholeness.   For even more help shifting out of codependency, check out Molly’s mini course (currently available for free) at https://boundaried.com/breakthrough.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Sign up for Molly’s beloved Boundaries Newsletter. Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Thank you to NaturesEye via Pixabay for the beautiful background music “Shamanic Meditations.”   *****   This meditation will help you: release the pull of codependency and return focus to yourself. practice boundaries by listening to your body’s needs with kindness. cultivate gratitude for your body, your surroundings, and this moment. step into a deeper sense of freedom, presence, and self-love.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

In this continuation of last week’s conversation, Molly unpacks how an extreme, individualistic culture – summed up by the myth of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” – creates the perfect conditions for people-pleasing and codependency. She traces how compassionate, group-attuned folks internalize shame around needs, over-function to keep the peace, and burn out trying to do the impossible.   Molly also offers a powerful reframe: True strength is interdependence, and boundaries rooted in love are the doorway back to our power, personally and collectively.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Sign up for Molly’s beloved Boundaries Newsletter. Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.   *****   In this episode, Molly explores: the history of the original “bootstraps” phrase, and why it was meant to be sarcastic. four ways bootstraps-thinking shows up as codependency symptoms. why sensitivity isn’t a problem – it’s part of the medicine. how boundaries don’t harden your heart; they free it to love wisely. the truth that you are not the problem: You’re experiencing a symptom of a problem that is changeable.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

Have you ever been told that your struggles with codependency or people-pleasing are all about you? That if you were stronger, or clearer, or more disciplined, you wouldn’t be stuck in these patterns?   In this episode, Molly explores why that isn’t true. Codependency isn’t a personal flaw – it’s a set of traits that compassionate, empathic, loyal people often develop when they grow up in a culture that glorifies hyper-independence and devalues care.   In other words: It’s not your fault. Most importantly, you’ll hear why none of this means you’re broken.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Sign up for Molly’s beloved Boundaries Newsletter. Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.   *****   In this episode, Molly shares: three positive traits that make compassionate folks especially vulnerable to developing codependent patterns. how dominant culture, hyper-individualism, colonialism, and patriarchy shaped the conditions for codependent traits to thrive. the hidden cost of stuffing your feelings and ignoring your own needs in order to care for others. how including yourself in your circle of compassion is the beginning of healing.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

Codependency is a word many of us have heard – but do you really understand what it means? In this episode, Molly dives into the origins of the word codependency and explores why it so often traps compassionate people in painful relationship patterns. You’ll learn where the term came from, how it evolved, and why it still matters today – plus why boundaries are the key to moving out of codependency and into freedom.   There’s hope: Codependency isn’t your fault, and you’re not doomed to live in it forever.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com. Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer). Sign up for Molly’s beloved Boundaries Newsletter. Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page. Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.   *****   In this episode, Molly shares: why codependency is common for kind, empathic, and responsible people. the real costs of codependency – emotionally, relationally, and even physically. why compassion is a gift, but without boundaries, it can turn into a painful trap. how codependency is less a label and more a classroom.   Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!