Home is Within You

Rising from shame isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about remembering who you are beneath the stories, the past, and the survival patterns that once kept you safe.

In this episode, we explore what shame really is, how it lives in the body and mind, and the ways it once shaped our responses—hiding, numbing, striving, or self-abandoning. I share how my relationship with shame has changed over time, and what it looks like today to meet it with presence, compassion, and truth instead of resistance.

This conversation is an invitation to pause, listen beneath...

As we step into a new year, this episode is an invitation to slow down and listen to the quiet reminders of your soul calling you inward. We explore what it means to choose the spiritual path, rise above the noise of the mind, and gently release the grip of shame.

When we learn to witness our thoughts rather than be ruled by them, the door to the light within us opens. In that rising, pain and darkness begin to reveal their deeper purpose—not as punishment, but as a passage back to wholeness.

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The holidays often bring family patterns to the surface. In this short episode, I offer a quiet reminder from recovery: when we slow down and see the bigger picture, we create room for compassion, we empower our ability to respond rather than react. 

Time isn’t linear—old wounds, present moments, and future healing can meet right here. Our parents often respond from what was never healed, and when we choose a different response, we begin to change what gets passed on. 

This holiday season remember: most anything anyone does is either an active love or a c...

This episode is your permission slip to stop shrinking.

In this intimate and beautifully raw conversation, two women in recovery sit together, not as experts or influencers, but as sisters walking the same path—peeling back the layers, naming the truth, and reclaiming the parts of themselves long hidden under shame.

Guest Teri Lynn, whose story has never been shared publicly, offers a rare look into the quiet bravery it takes to rise authentically and be who you are. Her honesty doesn’t just inspire—it disrupts the old narratives that tell women to shrink...

PART III - Through heartfelt reflection, spiritual insight, and practical everyday tools, this episode Nadia and Janice invites you to breathe into the mystery of life — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and light behind it - ultimately turning sorrow into something beautiful for the whole family. 

Even with a deeper understanding about death, sorrow still visits. Loss still hurts. And too often, we carry shame for grieving, as if spiritual understanding should make us immune to pain. But grief does not mean we’ve forgotten our infinite natur...

Are you ready to unlock the doors and COME HOME to a place WITHIN that has felt distant for a long time? A space that  seems unreachable amidst thoughts and emotions seemingly pulling you away? Are you confused about why, how, and where to start on a personal journey of awakening? Ok, let's get you there, let's start. A home within is but a breath away. It already gently speaks to you in the heart-strings and gut intuitions you might be pushing away.

In this episode, Nadia shares a relatable personal journey of finally m...

PART II - Through heartfelt reflection, spiritual insight, and practical everyday tools, this episode Nadia and Janice invites you to breathe into the mystery of life — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and light behind it - ultimately turning sorrow into something beautiful for the whole family. 

Even with a deeper understanding about death, sorrow still visits. Loss still hurts. And too often, we carry shame for grieving, as if spiritual understanding should make us immune to pain. But grief does not mean we’ve forgotten our infinite nature — it mean...

PART I - Through heartfelt reflection, spiritual insight, and practical everyday tools, this episode Nadia and Janice invites you to breathe into the mystery of life — to honor the finite and the infinite, the body and the soul, the tear and light behind it - ultimately turning sorrow into something beautiful for the whole family. 

Even with a deeper understanding about death, sorrow still visits. Loss still hurts. And too often, we carry shame for grieving, as if spiritual understanding should make us immune to pain. But grief does not mean we’ve forgotten our infinite nature — it mean...

Why would a parent in recovery want to look deeper into shame and inner healing? Because the tools we’ve worked so hard to build in recovery—awareness, acceptance, honesty — CAN become some of the greatest gifts we offer our children.

But the truth is, the same patterns of shame that once shaped our survival can still quietly reappear in the tender moments of parenting, affecting our ability to guide and nurture our children. But when they do, they ALSO offer us an invitation - not to judge ourselves - but to move deeper into love and connect...

What if the path to becoming the parent you always wished you had starts not with learning new parenting techniques—but with going inward?
In our latest episode, we dive deep into a transformative truth: sobriety isn’t the finish line—it’s the starting point of returning to your truest self. It’s where the real work begins. And that work leads to something powerful: parenting from the heart.
From Survival Mode to Self-Discovery
When we strip away the coping mechanisms, the numbing, and the patterns we inherited unconsciously, what’s left is raw, unfiltered presence. Th...

Ever feel a "hole" in your heart? a disconnect from others, life, purpose? The mind feels the pain of disconnection to one's own heart. It gives us many reasons not to seek, be, and stay connected to it, and even more reasons not to feel it, not to hear it speak. But the heart is the space of complete acceptance of what is. It offers refuge from the mind, and all its chains and bonds we often attempt to escape, in various forms and ways. The heart gently offers us a home.

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As parents in recovery, we have the unique opportunity to end the cycle of trauma for generations to come. Recovery for us has always meant more than reaching physical sobriety alone, more than mental stability on its face. Recovery for us also means healing our inner childhood wounds and freeing ourselves of false beliefs that once harmed us.

With sobriety and stability we GET learn how to reparent ourselves. Reparenting is the process of creating a sense of "home within" one's own heart for your inner-child. It is learning how to give your inner c...

Welcome HOME. Welcome to the home in your heart. In this episode, Nadia explores the capacity to find freedom within oneself by living from and through an open heart. Our inner divinity exists within the heart. It is not swayed by ego nor affected by fear. It simply exists in a state of expanded awareness and unconditional acceptance. In this episode, Nadia shares her experience, strength, and hope of returning home to her heart on a daily basis, as well as tips and suggestions using stillness, presence, and breath to tap into your own heart and find freedom within.  

Recovery is heavy on the heart, both for ourselves and the family. Over time, the weight of self-pity and shame, regrets and resentments, fears and judgments, hardens the heart, separating us from solution, fellowship, support, and love. It happens to us all, in varying degrees and for different reasons. We might even think it is ok, as long as we don't relapse or harm others. But it is not ok. True recovery is about transforming our heart into a home of genuine love and joy, not only physical sobriety and mental stability. It is about creating serenity within ourselves...

Feel stuck in the past? Caught in fears for tomorrow? Find it difficult to accept everything exactly as it is today, in this very moment? If so, the universe is asking you to do something about it, to build a home within your heart where you can receive all the love it has to offer. In this episode, Nadia reviews the first steps to tune-in to the heart (Check Out "Building a Home Within #1"), plus introduces the healing power of changing one's perception of time itself. You’ll be challenged to explore the concept of “time” as a non-linear phenomen...

Grief is caused by many things, and is experienced in even more varying ways. Death, divorce, physical separation, even emotional distance, can cause intense feelings of loss, confusion, and despair. It might even seem no one could possibly understand what we are going through. We may isolate and even beat ourselves up for feeling so alone and depressed, denying ourselves the love, support, understanding, and grace we deserve.

In this episode, Dr. Monica Krishnan, Pharm D, joins Nadia for a meaningful discussion about this relationship between grief and shame, what we can do to support ourselves and...

Ever feel as though you can't get a moment's relief from your own thoughts and mind? Or as though you are your worst enemy, seemingly jeopardizing your recovery and relationships? If you're seeking a new way of living, in this episode Nadia gently walks through the first baby steps anyone can take to begin living differently through a space of refuge, calm, clarity, and love within, rather than solely the ego/mind.

The suggestions are basic and relatable, including a story, life update, and examples of how she mishandled shame-based thoughts in the past, i...

Part II - Parents in recovery are some of the most courageous individuals around. Practical, financial, emotional, mental, and legal challenges often present themselves as major roadblocks, making the road back home to their children's hearts complicated and, often, very painful for all involved. Yet there is hope!

Listen in to these episode discussions with Janice V. Johnson Dowd, LMSW, and Nadia, as they explore their journeys back home to their children's lives and hearts, as well as how other parents can get there too! 

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Part I - Parents in recovery are some of the most courageous individuals around. Practical, financial, emotional, mental, and legal challenges often present themselves as major roadblocks, making the road back home to their children's hearts complicated and, often, very painful for all involved. Yet there is hope!

Listen in to these episode discussions with Janice V. Johnson Dowd, LMSW, and Nadia, as they explore their journeys back home to their children's lives and hearts, as well as how other parents can get there too! 

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In this Solo Empowered Recovery episode, Nadia reflects on the beauty of building mindfulness and its many unexpected blessings, including being present enough to witness life's most joyful paradoxes. 

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One woman's recovery profoundly positively impacts all women's recovery - LUCKY LISA is absolute proof, having forged a long, arduous path to create the joyful, sober life she has today inspiring countless other women, men, and everything in between, along the way.

"Lucky Lisa," as she is lovingly called today, shares her incredible story in the newest episode of the Home is Within You, Empowered Recovery Podcast, available wherever you listen to yours. Her journey to healing and freedom from the frequency of addiction, childhood trauma, and unrecognized shame is an inspiration to all o...

One woman's recovery profoundly positively impacts all women's recovery - LUCKY LISA is absolute proof, having forged a long, arduous path to create the joyful, sober life she has today inspiring countless other women, men, and everything in between, along the way.

"Lucky Lisa," as she is lovingly called today, shares her incredible story in the newest episode of the Home is Within You, Empowered Recovery Podcast, available wherever you listen to yours. Her journey to healing and freedom from the frequency of addiction, childhood trauma, and unrecognized shame is an inspiration to all o...

In this solo episode, Nadia reflects on the blessings of parenting in recovery, sharing a story about her son's quest to "beat the world record" and the relationship between competitiveness, shame, and love, as well as lessons on parenting in recovery and chakra-based psychology. 

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In this episode, Nadia gives listeners a view into empowered recovery through a combination of twelve step insight, chakra-based energy tools, and shame-banning work. 

You'll receive specific tips and tools she uses to sustain a sense of home within her heart, including through challenges as a mother in recovery with chronic conditions, as well as sister and daughter of an elderly mother.

Listeners receive an example of how shame shows up and how to use it to empower your recovery, Instead of falling back, as well as what it means to empower ourselves through chakra-based h...

Chakra Medicine is a spiritual and yogic psychology that is empowering trauma and addiction recovery. In this episode, you'll enter the intricate world of energy and consciousness as guest Priya Jain, Founder Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences, guides Nadia in the practical application of this ancient wisdom in her daily life as part of Priya's chakra coach certification program.

You can empower your recovery by better understanding the seven primary energy centers in the body and how they shape human behavior, health, and spirituality, as well as how imbalances impact your life, and...

The universe wants you to play again! Yet often on our recovery journey, past narratives and trauma wounds still get in the way, keeping us stuck.

The key is building awareness of how trauma manifests in the body, having a safe space within ourselves to sit with it, and building the capacity to harness its energy and direct it for our greater good. Sound impossible? It's not! R.G. Shore is proof.

For nearly 3 years, Shore was incarcerated in a racially divisive and predominantly white prison in the Pacific...

This episode is dedicated to all mothers in trauma and/or addiction recovery, a REMINDER that, if they have been shamed by others, that their true self remains whole, divine, and complete, and that their power resides within.

Nadia encourages mothers who may be struggling to not let shame keep them in the darkness, guiding listeners through a few moments breath and mantra, acknowledging the sacredness of motherhood and evoking the adi shakti energy to empower mothers in recovery to rise up and shine!

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In this episode, Nadia is joined by special guest Dr. LaTisha Bader, Chief Clinical Officer at the Women's Recovery Center in Colorado, a woman in divinely aligned work empowering other women to heal and return to their truest selves.

The Center serves as a model of service delivery specifically for the treatment of women's mental health, substance use, and trauma. They address the whole body, mind, and spirit, as well as the entire family system, including the much needed resource of helping mothers stay with their children while receiving the help they need.

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What is the single most important thing you can do today to empower your recovery? Choose love over fear. Choose love over judgment. Choose love over shame. While pain and negative experiences are unavoidable, harming interpretations of and responses to them are not.

Love generates more love and is the foundation of all things healed, magical, and yes, blissful. But empowering recovery isn't rocket science. It is one negative thought at a time, one breath at a time, one minute at a time, and yes, one day at a time. Listen in to hear t...

Let's EMPOWER our RECOVERY by shifting out of chaos and instead into a VIBRANT SOBER LIFESTYLE. In this episode guest SHANA EPPS offers her inspiring story as a path for anyone to get there, especially young single mother's struggling with alcoholism/addiction and/or interpersonal violence.

Shana's story is one of strength, hope, and resilience - through recovery she found freedom from false shame-based beliefs that once kept her imprisoned in unhealthy relationships and alcoholism. From pain and chaos, to a life today filled with connection, happiness, meaning, and purpose, Shana Epps is an i...

When we align our recovery goals with heart and soul driven intentions, rather than ego or fear and shame-based choices, progress becomes a regular phenomenon and manifests right before our eyes.

In this episode Nadia shares about the work and process of deepening her awareness of spirit, or a higher power; how "it" presented itself over three decades of time in divine alignment of past, present, and future experiences. She then guides us through how to begin clearing blocks to our soul and start to "listen" more deeply to the synchronicities in life.

"Recovery" means a lot of different things to different people, but everyone would agree it requires dedicating time, energy, and resources into obtaining good physical, mental, and emotional health. What does that all add up to? Investing in HOLISTIC WEALTH!

In this episode, Nadia speaks with the Mother of Holistic Wealth, KEISHA BLAIR, Author and Founder of the Holistic Wealth Institute. Listen to this episode if you want to have an end game, or goal, for your recovery, because holistic wealth is the way to go!

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What is the source of any spark of inspiration? Where does that energy come from? And what inspires you? Because whatever inspires you can also empower you to seek and find your home within.

In this episode, Nadia describes how meaningful human connection inspires her elderly mother to live and how it can so powerfully serve as a bridge to the infinite source of love, light, and warmth within our own hearts.  

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Don't let what binds you break you. The wake up call is now!

Empower your recovery through this week's episode with inspiring guest Tiffany Gaston, mother, author, speaker, coach, athlete, philanthropist, and internationally published fitness model and personality who, with a gun at her head, MADE A DECISION to turn her pain into power! Years of abuse broke Tiffany's spirit in inexplicable ways very few survive. Having also struggled with body image and an eating disorder, she found refuge in health and fitness.

Serving as her ultimate therapy, they...

Founder of Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences and Spiritual Counselor, Priya Jain, discusses the basics of our CHAKRA SYSTEM and the key to using it to empower our recovery: What is the chakra system? How is the human body and psychology related to it? How is Western Psychology failing us? What is spiritual psychology? and How can we use yogic medicine to address physical symptoms in recovery?

"The chakras are a mirror of our internal world. When we heal them, we don’t just change how we feel—we transform how we see and...

If you feel stagnant or stuck on your recovery journey, this episode is for you. In this week's episode, Nadia shines light on how to begin a path to empowered recovery - how to shift out of shame-based thinking and living, and all the anxiety and disconnection it creates within, into a calmer, grounded, fulfilling life driven by love and soul-based inspirations.

Nadia reads an excerpt from her memoir with a personal touch for listeners, shares a story about her sons and song lyrics, describes how to create a space for calm, and walks u...

In this week's episode, Nadia is joined by guest Trey Downes: Father, Husband, Seeker of Truth, and Podcast Host of “Your Superior Self.” Nadia first explores Trey's personal story, particularly why he became so passionate about exploring the nature of human existence, our relationship with the infinite, and its relationship with us, viewing all as a beautiful reminder to put the little world in our heads into perspective, including shame-based emotions that may pop up and try to separate us from our true essence and a miraculous deeper consciousness.

Together, they delve into important quest...

In this episode, Nadia is joined by top behavioral scientist and expert Dr. Abbie Maroño, PhD, TEDx Speaker, and Author, who raises important questions about understanding and even, dare we say, embracing shame to empower our recovery.

In her new book, Work in Progress, Dr. Maroño debunks the pervasive myth that shame is the antithesis of empowerment, proposing that, "if we better understand and embrace it, it can guide us to our most authentic selves."

Nadia strongly believes everyone deserves a safe space to feel and face al...

Let's EMPOWER our RECOVERY by dedicating this New Year to being more "present" for ourselves and others - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, thereby protecting our Home Within along the way.

How do we transition ourselves out of an unfulfilling, hectic lifestyle fueled by the mind and "ego," into a more meaningful life fed by stillness in the present moment? How do we release ourselves of the urgency to always "be, do, and prove," and enter the frequency of love in our heart? In this episode, Nadia shares her journey to create more stillness...

In this HOLIDAY EPISODE, Nadia shares moments of GRATITUDE, pieces of WISDOM, and tips gained over a dozen years of recovery, solely in hopes other parents might be inspired to find their way back HOME to their children, in whatever shape or form is appropriate for their circumstances.

She shares her personal struggle with un-recognized shame and how it negatively impacted her efforts to obtain re-unification with her children, as well as tools she gained over the years that enabled reunification and healthy co-parenting. When we CHOOSE LOVE, by learning to listen to our...

In this episode, we get into an inspiring alternative approach to achieving wellness, stability, and sobriety with special guest Carol Ann Ferguson, #booksoverbooze Founder and Mother in recovery who found a way out of the choking grasp of shame through avid reading of others' recovery stories. After struggling for a dozen years to maintain sobriety, Carol Ann literally went from "Bottles to Bookmarks" by releasing shame-based emotions over lengths of time exposing herself to others' written shared struggles.

Today she inspires others to achieve wellness and sobriety by openly sharing about her struggles, lessons...

In this week's episode, Nadia is joined by Jessica Falcon, who brings her inspiring personal journey along with essential answers to our discussion: How can we overcome being the target of another's negative feelings, such as shame, rage, and resentment, projected onto us, while staying committed to our recovery? How do we stay aligned with our truth and true selves while navigating difficult interactions with those who seek to bring us down?

This is incredibly relevant in today's environment, where toxic relationships and situations seem commonplace, often pulling us into isolation, and/or further a...

In this episode, Nadia encourages us to generate GRATITUDE by setting aside a few moments of silence to connect with the miracle of every heartbeat. She shares about how her relationship" with SILENCE profoundly changed over years of trauma and addiction recovery.

Once completely uncomfortable with silence, and all the thoughts and feelings she had to sit with, today she finds refuge and solace in its grace, guiding us to sit in it during this month of gratitude, using our breath to connect with the rhythm, frequency, and miracle of every heartbeat. 

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In this episode, I'm joined by Monica Mancillas, author of The Worry Balloon, inspired by the challenges she and those she loves sometimes face managing anxiety, and the tools, great and small, that have helped them walk through each of them. During these times of angst, contentiousness, and worry in our Nation, this discussion and these suggestions couldn't be more timely.

Our children deserve to know that their anxiety is seen, as well as manageable, without fear of being shamed for opening up about all the many ways it can be manifesting within and a...

EMPOWERED RECOVERY ("ER") is protecting our sobriety, trauma healing, and spiritual growth from the toxic emotion of shame, or a feeling that our trauma and/or addiction means we are flawed, defective, and unworthy of acceptance and love.

In this series, WE empower recovery together by learning how to identify, remove, and shift shame-based thoughts and emotions from being harmful and separating, to being healing and connecting. Let's lower the number of addiction and mental health related emergency room (ER) visits and empower recovery instead by banning all shame related to such struggles both...

Award Winning Author Christa Bruhn joins Nadia for a discussion about finding peace, joy, and dignity in a land two peoples call home, yet attempt to carve up between them. In her award winning memoir, Crossing Borders, The Search for Dignity in Palestine, deeply important and timely thought-provoking questions are asked. And here in this episode, Nadia dives deep into the birth and evolution of Christa's passion for peace and justice, as well as looking for answers to how we can come together in a place increasingly divided in mind and on the ground, all the while each begging...

When one person blames another person for something bad or unfortunate, and never, or rarely, attempts to own their part and find a solution, a "Blame Game" exists. Blame games are confusing, frustrating, painful, and emotionally exhausting experiences. No one wants to be in one, so why are they so common and seemingly drawn out?

A blame game will continue "UNLESS and UNTIL BOTH individuals sit with their own discomfort first," Dr. Poulter explains, emphasizing that, by accepting responsibility for our own feelings, acts, and emotions, we are courageously vulnerable, which true intimacy requires...

STORY TIME for Parents in Recovery, intended to inspire those seeking family reunification and healing. In this episode, Nadia shares how facing our FEARS empowers an ability to notice LOVE and see CALM in chaos. She tells a story about taking her twin boys, mother, and dogs to a local dog park, the beauty of hawks flying above, as well as incredible LOVE bestowed by her young son onto her mother; how in the past, unrecognized fears would've distracted her from noticing such things, yet how today she finds CALM and BEAUTY in chaos much more than she ever...

Ready to spark positive change in your life and the world around you? Start by listening in to this episode with Rick Ornelas - ultimate success coach, best selling author (12 Hours of Heaven), and founder of "I SPARK CHANGE" - a podcast and community of people wanting to make the world a better place. Rick believes We can indeed move from "fearful" to fearless, and from "hopeless" to hopeful if we connect to a love and light within our hearts, despite what we might be going through.

Rick shares how every positive act we...

"Silence is the warmest hug you can ever receive," Priya Jain explains, Founder Seventh

Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences. So why are we so afraid of it? Why do we fill our days with a sensory overload to the point we actually believe it is reality. It isn't. "Reality" exists in the non-tangible truths of life - in our heart, intuition, and knowing - all of which are available to us

through silence. The challenge is that silence requires us to put down our ego and simply just be, exactly as we are in the...

Don't let shame be a roadblock in your recovery, relationships, and life! Shame, or a secret belief you are defective, acts like warfare on our soul, spirit, and relationships, separating us from our true selves and one another. In this episode, Nadia continues to share how to spot shame when it shows up, quell it, then transform it into healing and personal power. You get additional tips and mantras to use throughout your day if shame shows up within you, or other's seem to be project theirs onto you. Let's stop the shaming of all human struggle, especially those...

Studies show 83% of men want their partner to respect them, rather than love them, an astounding statistic "when many have not yet learned to do the work" to earn it, Dr. Stephan Poulter, PhD, explains, author of "Modern Masculinity, A Compassionate Guide to Men's Mental Health" and "The Shame Factor." What is "the work"? "'Hugging the cactus' is learning to sit with discomfort," the unresolved emotions and issues within, Dr. Steve says. "Before "the pain outweighs the pleasure," physical symptoms persist, or crises hits, "you have to FIRST DECIDE TO DO THE WORK" he emphasizes. It may sound harsh...

"If what you've tried up until now hasn't worked, it's not failure, it's a wake up call!," Dr. Stephan Poulter, PhD. says, or an urge from the universe to actually "do the work!" A renowned Clinical Psychologist and Author of the groundbreaking "Modern Masculinity, A Compassionate Guide to Men's' Mental Health" and "The Shame Factor," Dr. Steve explains "the work" is to "learn to sit with yourself," your deepest fears, and every other uncomfortable feeling motivating unhealthy and/or destructive thinking patterns and behaviors.

It may seem like a tough thing to do. Nadia kn...

Part 2 of 3 in Nadia's #BANSHAME Series. Don't let shame be a roadblock to your recovery, relationships, and life! Nadia believes the feeling of shame, or a secret belief you are defective, acts like warfare on our spirit and relationships, separating us from our true selves and each other. She found a way to spot it by creating a sense of home within, and today, transforms it into healing and personal power. YOU CAN TOO! In this episode, you get additional tips and mantras you can use anytime throughout your day, no matter what might be going on inside your...

Kim Bellas is an extraordinary woman that transformed an important lesson she wanted to teach her child into her own empowering self-care, love, and respect, as well as a phenomenal movement normalizing the choice to be sober, regardless of motivating factors. Sober is the New Cool is a social media sensation bringing sobriety into every day households! In this episode, Nadia and Kim also dive into how shame showed up in her life as a feeling she "was never enough," how opening up about it quelled the shame, and ultimately, led to her amazing work today making the world...

STORY TIME for Parents and Caregivers in Recovery is intended to inspire anyone seeking family reunification and healing. In this episode, Nadia talks about the key foundational shift from making others proud to making ourselves proud. She believes "success" is measured by the level of internal peace within, or heartsease, the lack of stress and anxiety.

 As a result of recovery, actions and words begin to align more and more with core values, and internal peace grows. As a result of this shift, beautiful teaching moments with our children are possible, such as the on...

Nicole Dake is a spiritual life coach, blogger, author, and mom of three. In this episode, Nicole shares her personal journey of healing, the sources she used to overcome shame, and how she transformed it into power through her work writing about mental health and spirituality for moms and kids, with a focus on whole person wellness. Nicole graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a BA in Psychology in 2008. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, yoga and playing Magic the Gathering.

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Why should we care about quelling our own internal shame? Why should we stop the shaming of others? Shame is "spiritual warfare," Nadia explains in this episode, Part 1 of 3 in the Stop Shame & Shaming Series. 

Shame "attacks" us individually and collectively. It erodes at our sense of self-worth, but even more so, prevents us from building a deeper connection with our true selves, a higher power, and others. Often a major roadblock during trauma and addiction recovery, shame impedes meaningful introspection, growth, healing, and connection with others. 

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Dr. Monica Krishnan, Pharm D, joins Nadia for a meaningful discussion about the interplay between grief and shame-based emotions, including guilt, fear, and anger, and why it is important to build awareness. Whether death of a loved one, divorce, or separation, grief comes in various sources, and so does the shame that tags along with it. In this episode, you'll hear steps you can take to ensure shame does not impede healing but rather leads to it.

Dr. Monica Krishnan, PharmD, is a Clinical Pharmacist with over 25 years experience, a Mental...

What is that hole in our heart? Why won't it go away, no matter what we surround ourselves with and do? What steps can we take to quell that longing for something more in life? In this episode, part 5 of 5 in the Core Wound Series, Nadia gives us the important answers, shares her experience, strength, and hope, and then challenges us all to go back to the home within our hearts, giving a road map and steps to get there. A powerful episode for anyone seeking a spiritual awakening and/or in trauma and addiction recovery.

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Happiness can't be a by product of success - it must be pursued as it's own goal, says Brandi Hudson, a sought after happiness coach and motivational speaker with over 20 years in leadership and strategy. In this episode, Brandi shares the roots of her childhood shame, how she overcame it, and the work she does today to empower others into happiness. Her B.A.S.E. Program (beliefs, alignment, self-awareness, and emotional resilience) enables others to realize they hold all the answers and transition from seeking to embodying our inner hero!

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Karma & Dharma, with guest Priya Jain. What is the purpose of life? What is the difference between karma and dharma, and why should we care? In this episode, you'll get the answers. "Our soul is in our body intentionally, and we come here to fulfill our dharma, often creating karma," Priya explains, Do our actions, words, and beliefs align with or go against the intentions of our soul? Are we using life experiences to get closer to our soul, or feeding entanglements and shame that hold us back? The choice is ours. Priya Jain is the Founder/Lead Trainer...

Part 4 of 5 in Nadia's Core Wound Series. The Core Wound series is designed to help us discover and release false beliefs our ego uses to create shame-based thoughts. Self-awareness of these beliefs and thoughts prevents a sense of separation from our true selves and each other. In this episode, Nadia discusses the false belief that death is an end. She shares how a deep rooted belief that death is an end drives unhealthy habits and patterns, and then steps we can stake to find freedom from it. If we understand life as a journey of our soul, and death...

Inspired to support the work of A HOME WITHIN, an entity providing healing therapy to current and prior foster care youth, in this episode Nadia interviews National Director, Grace Manger, to learn more. Grace shares how shame showed up in her own childhood, how she overcame it, and how she transformed it into power and ended up leading A Home Within. The founders of A Home Within understood the profound impact a single, lasting relationship could have in the life of a person who, through no fault of their own, currently or previously has been in foster care. Today...

In this deeply informative and moving episode, Dr. Donna Bevin-Lee, Ph.D., MSW, known for her pioneering work in childhood trauma, shares her incredible story and expertise, including: What keeps people stuck after trauma; What allows others the ability to move forward; and How we can get to a safe middle ground within.

A Seattle-based psychotherapist in private practice for over forty years, Dr. Bevin-Lee has worked with everyone from sexual assault and domestic violence victims to first responders, including training police in trauma informed interviewing. Her programs have helped both men and women, couples in crisis...

This episode is part of Nadia's Story Time Series, full of inspiring moments when recovery learnings gracefully play out in life today as a mother and woman. This episode includes an excerpt from her book, a zip-line story with her children, and reflections on fear, trust, and the workings of our mind as we enter a new relationship. She shares past and current learnings to connect with and inspire others in recovery, hoping together, we all keep going, one day at a time, believing wholeheartedly in the love we are and give our children and others. 

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Arlina Allen believes wholeheartedly "If you can change your mind, you can change your life!" She celebrates 30 years of a sobriety and is a Certified Recovery Coach (IAPRC), Certified Hypnotist CH, the Founder of Sober Life School, and Host of award winning "The One Day At A Time Recovery Podcast" with over 300 episodes. In this inspiring episode, Arlina dives into the healing process that initiated her sobriety, including how shame showed up as a child, how she overcame it, and why unfreezing the little one within enables not only long term sobriety, but most importantly, living a healthy, joyful...

In this episode, Dr. Stephan Poulter, PhD, explains what attachment theory is, the four different styles, and how each is a template for how we create relationships today, including how we emotionally connect/disconnect and feel secure/insecure. He describes the different styles: Distant, Depressed, Anxious, and Secure, as well as their impact on our intimate relationships. There are underlying reasons why one person becomes co-dependent, while another keeps their distance, and why one person gets enmeshed, and another ultimately leaves. "Understanding breeds insight and healing. Blaming our parents or partners doesn't," he says. If you want to a...

Do you feel ashamed for having had a "bad picker"? Let's change that. Did you know trauma affects the functioning of the pre-fontal cortex, the part of the brain that assesses what or who is safe? In this episode, you'll learn how to re-activate and balance it through "the negative mind," as it is referred to in kundalini yoga teachings. Special guest Priya Jain, Founder of Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences, explains the role of the negative mind when assessing safety and danger. She describes how it functions and what we can do to balance it so as...

Part 3 of 5 in Nadia's Core Wound Series, helping uncover original sources of shame-based thoughts that harm us today. In this episode, Nadia dives into the sense we are always in battle with ourselves, where it comes from, how it impedes growth, as well as steps you can take to get out of it. She shares details about a near death experience, its revelations about human existence, and how our minds work. Nadia believes everyone can tap into the truth she witnessed through breath and mantra, and guides us through to begin building a sense of home within where self-acceptance...

WE ignore red flags when dating because they feel familiar to us! Whoa! But, ladies and gentlemen, something that is familiar doesn’t make it right! 

Are you familiar with being blamed, berated, and punished by a past or current partner? Do they never, or rarely, take responsibility for their actions, even possibly hide unhealthy behaviors? If so, this episode will resonate with you. You’ll get a list of red flags, learn why you ignore them, understand the role of shame and, most importantly, receive helpful tools to not ignore the red flags again. 

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This is a short inspiring solo episode from Nadia dedicated to all the sons of the world, and anyone who knows and loves them. She challenges us all to move beyond the blame and shame game as we walk through tensions, accusations, and strife between the genders, and instead into a place of choosing love over judgment-driven responses. She advocates for the healing of all sons as one of the best means through which interpersonal violence and abuse can be prevented and end, leaving us with a reading from her book as a token of hope and strength to...

In this episode, we learn how to approach men's mental health with compassion, understanding, and grace, contrary to the antagonistic approach that seems so common these days. Here, Dr. Steve and Nadia put an end to the blame and shame game, embracing the fact that WE are all in this life together. You'll learn tips about how to hold each other accountable with mutual empathy and respect, as well as gain a deeper understanding of why the "masculine" often treat emotions and feelings a certain way.

Dr. Steve gives us an overview: What is modern masculinity? What...

In this episode, Dr. Steve lays out the brutal truth, then empowers us with details to walk away with. “It gets down to the need to be needed,” he says. When unaware of this shame-driven emotion, reflags are ignored, and we so often become the target of another’s shame and blame game. He gives helpful lists of red flags, such as love bombing, disrespecting others, blaming, never owning one’s part, punishment, ghosting, triangulation, getting grilled about past relationships. “That’s not companionship. That’s a straight-jacket.”

Mutual respect, on the other hand, has ground rules that are respect...

In this episode, Nadia shares two different stories with her sons, one who accidentally used his middle finger, and another who showed empathy for a fellow student. Using empathy, Nadia found the truth behind one of her son's actions, and thereafter learned of her other son demonstrating empathy for another. She discusses: What is empathy? Why is it critical to having a healthy relationship with ourselves and others? How does shame impede empathy? And what can we do about it? As parents in recovery, let's support one another by sharing inspiring moments like these when past learnings are blessing...

What is self-acceptance? Why is it key to empathy? How does SHAME impede both? In this episode, Dr. Steve beautifully defines and explains all three, as well as the interplay between them in our intimate relationships. Self-acceptance is the roadmap for overall happiness, direction, and interpersonal success is life. "It's going within, taking an inventory, and knowing our blind spots...It can't be found in another person!," he says. Without self-acceptance, shame goes unrecognized and interrupts intimacy, honesty, and authenticity. How? and, most of all, What can we do about it?

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Part 3 of a 6 Part Core Wounds Series, for anyone on a recovery journey feeling disconnected to their soul and/or a higher power. Here, WE ARE NOT DEFECTIVE, rather our mind creates defective thoughts based on false beliefs detrimental to our physical and emotional sobriety. By identifying core wounds, the source of shame-based thoughts becomes clear. When we used to habitually ignore or numb these thoughts away, Today we work to acknowledge, process, and lift away, empowering ourselves to gain deeper spiritual and human connections. In this episode, Nadia shares about a personal false belief she had/has to...

In this episode, we dive into the spiritual journey and heart of Wes Geer, Founder of Rock to Recovery and best known as a founding member of the band Hed PE. As a guitarist, songwriter and producer in the band until his departure in 2003, Geer then toured with nu metal band Korn. Here, Wes and Nadia talk deep - How did a 'rock star', once ruled by unaddressed trauma and addiction, transform struggle into a powerhouse helping others heal with music? What is Wes' spiritual, trauma healing, and addiction recovery "journey" beyond the facts and timeline we may hear about?<...

Listen in to this episode to learn: 1) What is the "ego mind"?, 2) How does it develop and create a game of life?, 3) What is our true identity? 4) What is the quest of our soul? 5) How does shame, or "ego" in action, impede our relationship to the soul? and 6) How do we stop "hitting a wall" in life?

For anyone seeking a straightforward overview of human existence and the purpose of life, this a short, insightful, and powerful discussion between Nadia and Priya Jain, a Spiritual Psychology Coach and Trainer, the Founder of Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual...

How can we replace shame-based responses to trauma survivors with trauma informed policies and practices? Why is this so important to end the cycle of trauma? In this episode, Jesse Kohler, a leader of the Campaign for Trauma Informed Policies and Practices (CTIPP), a national organization building a cross-sector movement, provides answers to these important questions and more, including sharing his personal story of tragedy to triumph, the powerful work of CTIPP and its collaborators, as well as valuable resources for survivors and how each of us can get involved.

Every trauma survivor's story matters, especially how...

Part 2 of What's the Solution, with Dr. Stephan Poulter, PhD, a shame expert, and author of The Shame Factor. We all long for three things: to be seen, understood, and approved of. In this episode, Dr. Poulter and I discuss why we have to do that for ourselves first and where to begin. "Insight is an acquired skill," he explains, "by accepting who we are, we begin to remove the amnesia many don't even recognize they're in!" Basically, we gotta discover the narrative we've been carrying around in our head since childhood. "You can't drive the car when it's...

"If we are transparent, shame can't exist. Turn the lights on, it's no longer dark," Dr. Stephan B. Poulter, PhD, explains in this episode, including insight into healing the lost boy and girl within us. He walks us through the first baby steps out of shame, including seven red flags to begin acknowledging it. What's next? "What's the inner narrative in your head?" he challenges us, then "What's the rebuttal to that false belief?," and "What's the action you can take to change that?"

Dr. Poulter, PhD, is a shame expert and author of "The Shame Factor"...

In this episode, Nadia talks about how we perceive, give, and seek LOVE as a thing, proposing that instead we change the WAY we love by building a closer relationship to the love within our own soul. She explains how her concept of receiving and giving love changed over the years, providing insight and tips on how to dramatically improve authenticity and honesty in relationships, creating much more fulfilling love in her life. We all deserve relationships where we can share openly, cry, grow, and be vulnerable. If you struggle to create or find that in your life, this...

The Blame Game - Story Time is for Parents in Recovery, or anyone caring for little ones. There are opportunities every day to transfer lessons learned on our journeys to the next generation. In this episode, Nadia talks about: What is blame? How is blame projecting one's own shame onto another? When is blame ok? When it is not ok? She shares about playing a football game with her kids, how blame showed up and easily could've become shame, as well as how it showed up in her adult life, both within and from others, and the steps she...

This is a raw, powerful episode. Nancy is a national victim's rights leader and wrote the preface in Nadia's memoir, Home is Within You. As a result of a violent assault that included strangulation, Nancy and other leaders championed changes to strangulation laws, investigations, and findings. Please be advised that Nancy and Nadia discuss aspects of interpersonal violence and abuse as well as why trauma-informed practices and investigations are critical to finding the truth. How can trauma informed responses and media coverage increase public safety and awareness? What are the causes of victim-blaming? How can we reduce the shaming...

In this episode, Dr. Dawson Church, gives us straight scientific answers about how shame negatively affects our brain, confirming why it is so important to identify, understand, and quell its sources so we can heal our brains! Why is shame so commonplace in trauma survivors? How do emotions affect our "gene expression"? and most of all, What can we do to heal our brain and free ourselves from trauma-based shame? Dr. Dawson Church is a best selling science writer and author of several award winning books, including The Genie in Your Genes and Bliss Brain.

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Part 2 of a 5 Part Series on Core Wounds. Building awareness of core wounds and beliefs from childhood empowers us to recognize the source of shame-based thoughts and thereafter transform them into power. In this episode, Nadia describes the core wound of "feeling separate" - including how it evolves young, what it feels like, and how it negatively affects us, including two short readings from her book, Home is Within You, A Memoir of Recovery and Redemption. We do not have to live with the phenomena of feeling separate from our true selves and others. We can indeed find freedom...

What does having a relationship to the soul mean? Why is it essential to building authentic relationships? In this episode, Priya Jain, Founder of Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences, keeps it simple - "What is the being that talked to you as a child?," explaining it is only through a relationship to the soul that we understand ourselves - the inner child, inner adult, and spiritual self. Without understanding these areas, it's impossible to build authentic relationships. Listen in to discover how to build and nurture a relationship to your soul so that the relationships in your life...

This is a juicy episode! Regular guest, Dr. Stephan Poulter, PhD, explains two important things: 1) Shame, self-love, and intimacy are incompatible because they can never peacefully co-exist, and 2) The relationship with ourselves sets the tempo, platform, and rhythm for every other relationship in our life. Where to start? Dr. Steve says we must first acknowledge the "blind spot," or be honest with ourselves about symptoms of shame in order to build human connection with others. "All roads lead back to Rome," or back to the truth within us, otherwise, relationships are merely filled with mind games. Listen in and...

#2 in a Story Time Series from and for parents in recovery, or anyone who cares about the next generation. Nadia shares life moments when parenting merged with recovery learnings, transforming shame from the past into power today. Shame often impedes the ability of those in recovery to be truly present for our children. But there is a way forward. The truth is, we love our children and did the best we could with what we knew. TODAY, connected to the truth of love, we can better ban shame-based thoughts, focus on the NEW PATH, and respond to life differently...

How do we teach our children to dream big and make those dreams come true? In this episode, guest Erik Perezbrain, a father, entrepreneur, soccer coach, Jiu Jitsu medalist, art collector, avid traveler, and author "Good Luck is My Guardian Angel," explains how to guide children into manifesting their positive affirmations. What is good luck? How do we teach our children to think positively in any situation, good and bad? Erik knows the importance of positive self-control and hopes that young readers come away from his books with an improved concept of themselves, and parents gain insight into how...

Episode 1 in a 5-part series: New year, new self-awareness. In this episode, Nadia explains how to transform shame into power by first building self-awareness of core beliefs, narratives, and wounds from childhood. She describes what a core wound is and delves into a major core wound many people experience - fear of abandonment. Nadia shares examples of how this core wound played out through shame-based thoughts in her own life, giving listeners a roadmap to identify their own core wounds and begin the healing. This is a powerfully relatable episode and series to help others transform shame into power. 

Check Out Holiday Prep #1 before diving into this episode, using it as a "post-holiday" review of emotional triggers that came up, enabling healing and empowerment in the new year! During the holiday season, dormant feelings and beliefs get triggered. In this episode, Dr. Stephan Poulter and I continue giving tips to walk through them should they still be present, and they likely are. It's not about shutting off triggers, it's about what we do with them today! It's about not getting stuck in old issues, narratives, and patterns shame often breeds. What thoughts and emotions distracted...

The holiday season is an opportunity to heal! In this enlightening episode, Dr. Stephen Poulter, PhD and I discuss how to use increased contact with loved ones, or lack of it, to build awareness of core beliefs from childhood that may keep us hostage today. Dr. Steve and Nadia give a roadmap with tips to both prepare for emotionally triggering moments as well as how to transform them into emotional wisdom should they occur. Nadia, serving as the "guinea pig" to make the process relatable, describes a core personal false childhood belief everyone can relate to. Learn what secure...

Story Time is for any adult raising or caring for little ones while in the midst of any type of recovery, whether mental health, addiction, relationship, or family matters. Our recovery struggles and learnings can indeed evolve into gems of wisdom offerings for the younger ones in our life. In this episode, you get three mini-stories (Vanilla & Watermelon, Santa Letters, and Slumber Party) where lessons I learned on my recovery journey became more conscious parenting moments for my kids today. Here, we transform negative shame-based thoughts about being a parent in recovery into powerful parenting opportunities. Please share your...

What is shame? In this episode, Dr. Poulter and I get deep into defining and explaining what shame is, using my childhood story as a guinea pig. Do you have shame? You'll know the answer is "yes" after listening. Shame is the secret belief you are defective, inferior, or there's simply something wrong with you. Where does this come from? Why this belief? Why this misbelief? Why do we keep it secret? Plus, how does shame commonly show up? This is a powerful discussion serving as a starting point to drag shame out of the shadows so we can t...

In his element, Diego is a joy to listen to and explains exciting new astrophysics studies in a relatable and understandable way and how it helps with mindfulness, including observation of exo-planets and more. In this episode, we also get into some tough questions - What does he and his generation think about the world today? What do they wish we knew more about them? What is the single most important advice you'd give to parents? How do parents invalidate and shame? What can they do to change that? Diego is twenty years old, an astrophysics major, and an...

This is the first "Story Time for Parents in Recovery." One of the biggest blessings of trauma and addiction recovery is that we can teach our kids what we wish we knew when we were younger! How do we teach our children the importance of building a connection to a higher power, when ultimately its what saved our lives? How do we exemplify maintaining a supportive community around us, and not isolating? How do we teach our kids to do daily inventories of thoughts and emotions, when we have to do it ourselves? Let's tell our stories of parenting...

An ANGEL in every way, Hope Horlick a child advocate, realtor, and musician shares her inspiring journey of recovery and how she uniquely transformed shame into power through music and singing. In this episode, Hope brings us to a better understanding of how frequent moves as a child might affect us, how shame arises through subtle comments, and how the cunning, baffling disease of alcoholism begins in early thought patterns. HOPE courageously walks us through the steps she took to change her life for the better, including the falls and the victories along the way that ultimately led to...

In this SOLO Podcast check in, you get an overview of recent interviews and examples from my life about how to find and give unconditional love as well as how to get out of the muck of others shaming, with specific tips to prepare now for possible triggers over this holiday season. Let's commit to CHOOSE LOVE (soul), not fear and judgment (mind), for ourselves and those around us!

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