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Whether you're looking for support after grief, tools for nervous system healing,
or a recap of a conversation that moved you - this is where it all lives.
Whether you're looking for support after grief, tools for nervous system healing, or a recap of a conversation that moved you - this is where it all lives.
This blog is home to everything from
deeply personal reflections, to show notes for the Hard Beautiful Journey podcast.
This blog is home to everything from
deeply personal reflections, to show notes for the
Hard Beautiful Journey podcast.
It's not a space for productivity hacks or polished how-to's. It's a space for tenderness, truth, and tools that actually help - especially when you're in the middle of your own hard, beautiful journey.
It's not a space for productivity hacks or polished how-to's.
It's a space for tenderness, truth, and tools that actually help - especially when you're in the middle of your own hard, beautiful journey.
- Grief that sneaks up on you in the grocery store.
- The ache of divorce and learning to love your story
- How to breathe again after holding it all in
- Why rest is a revolution
- What happens when joy returns after a long absence
- And much, much more.
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Looking for something specific?
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Reclaiming Power After Childhood Sexual Abuse “Healing doesn’t necessarily come from speaking up—but absolutely comes from feeling heard.” – Kath Essing On this week’s episode of Hard Beautiful Journey, I sat down with the wise and courageous Kath Essing—a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, author of The Courage to Speak Your Truth, and advocate for […]
June 12, 2025
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The Moment Everything Cracked Open When Ovi Paulter first picked up a paintbrush, it wasn’t to make something beautiful. It was to breathe again. After years of surviving childhood trauma, navigating infertility, and juggling the demands of motherhood and a full-time job, Ovi found herself in a hospital—completely depleted. A therapist encouraged her to find […]
June 3, 2025
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A Sacred Invitation to Come Home Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to live completely free—not from your life, but from the suffering inside your mind? That’s the question we explore in this sacred and moving conversation with Thich Dieu Thien, a Buddhist nun, spiritual teacher, and founder of the Universal Door […]
June 2, 2025
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When Life Gives You a Second Chance—Will You Take It? Some stories stay with you.Not because they’re dramatic—but because they’re honest. This week on the Hard Beautiful Journey podcast, I sat down with Dan Reilly—a man who’s been through the kind of moments that split life in two. A bank robbery. A wildfire. And a […]
May 20, 2025
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What if grief wasn’t something you had to get over… but something you could grow through? That’s the powerful question Laura Walton has spent the last two decades living into. In this deeply moving episode of Hard Beautiful Journey, I sat down with Laura Walton, a licensed therapist, grief and trauma expert, and the founder […]
April 1, 2025
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Some stories don’t just ask to be heard – they demand it. On this episode of the Hard Beautiful Journey podcast, I had the immense honour of sitting down with JenniSue Jessen – a survivor of child trafficking, an advocate for global change, and the founder of Compass 31, a nonprofit dedicated to guiding survivors […]
March 25, 2025
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Breaking Generational Cycles with Emily Cleghorn Motherhood is a journey filled with love, laughter, and growth. But for many, it also brings unexpected triggers, emotional flashbacks, and deep-seated wounds from childhood. If you’ve ever felt like your reactions to your children’s behavior were coming from a place much deeper than just frustration, you are not […]
March 18, 2025
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Grief has a way of changing everything. It shifts our perspective, our priorities, and the way we move through the world. Some people get lost in it, unable to find their way forward. Others, like Denise Clanin, find a way to use it—transforming pain into purpose. Denise lost her brother to NF2 (neurofibromatosis type 2), […]
March 11, 2025
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What If Healing Is Simply Letting Go? We all carry emotional weight—grief, fear, self-doubt, limiting beliefs. But what if the key to true healing wasn’t about fighting these emotions but releasing them? In this episode of Hard Beautiful Journey, I had a mind-expanding conversation with York Wang, a professional channeler and energy worker who has […]
March 4, 2025
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Healing often begins in the most unexpected places. For Aaron French, it started in the jungle, sitting in stillness, studying the behavior of birds and monkeys—only to later realize he was actually training his mind for something much deeper. Now a psychic medium, Akashic Records reader, and spiritual mentor, Aaron helps people unlock their soul’s […]
February 25, 2025
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