Joy Reset: How to Find Joy Again When Life Feels Heavy
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
Release Date: 09/10/2025
To Be Honest, Growing Up Changes Everything
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
In this week’s To Be Honest episode, I’m sitting down with my cousin Sam for an honest conversation about loss, family, healing, and navigating relationships as you grow up. Sam shares what it was like growing up without her dad, who passed away before she was born and how grief can still leave a hole in your heart, even when you never got the chance to know someone. We talk about how that grief has changed as she’s gotten older, how her family has worked to keep his memory alive, and what it means to live with a piece of someone you’ve never met. We also talk about her relationship...
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You Don't Have to Hate Your Body to Feel Better in It
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
January is here, and so is the familiar pressure to “fix” our bodies, get disciplined, and finally become a better version of ourselves. If you’ve ever set fitness or health goals that were secretly rooted in not liking your body… you’re not alone. I’ve been there too. So in this episode of Always Becoming, I’m talking about what it looks like to take care of your body from a place of respect and love, not punishment, shame, or self-hate. This isn’t about giving up on goals or pretending you don’t want things to change. It’s about shifting why you’re doing it and...
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What If This Could Actually Be Your Year?
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
As the year comes to a close, there’s so much talk about resolutions, glow-ups, and how this is finally going to be “your year.” And while a new beginning can feel exciting, it can also bring pressure, fear, and the quiet worry that nothing will really change. In this final episode of the year, I reflect on what it actually means to make a year your year. Not through drastic reinvention or unrealistic expectations, not in a "new year, new me" way, but in a way that makes space for growth without burning yourself out or expecting everything to magically change overnight. ...
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To Be Honest, I'm Still Learning to Heal From Hard Experiences
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
In this episode I’m joined by one of my best friends, Abbey, for an honest conversation about trauma, healing, and the quiet ways our past continues to shape us. Abbey opens up about surviving a life-altering car accident and how that moment changed her relationship with boundaries, safety, and the world around her. We also talk about growing up in a home where her dad was physically present but emotionally unavailable due to bipolar disorder and how those early experiences influenced the way she learned love, attachment, and self-protection. We explore how unprocessed trauma shows up later...
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Your Pain Matters And So Does Theirs
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
In this episode, we’re talking about something I think a lot of us quietly wrestle with: How do you honor your own feelings, while also caring deeply about what other people are going through? Lately, I’ve been feeling the weight of my own emotions and the heaviness of the world around me, and it made me realize how often we try to choose between the two. But the truth is: you don’t have to pick. You can be hurting and compassionate. You can care for others and acknowledge your own pain. You can hold both at the same time. In this episode, we explore: Why your emotions don’t become...
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Stop Breaking Promises To Yourself: How Showing Up & Consistency Build Self Trust
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
Some days, showing up for yourself feels impossible. You’re tired, overwhelmed, unmotivated and skipping the thing you said you’d do feels so much easier. But every time we break a promise to ourselves our self-trust erodes. And without self-trust, it becomes harder to make decisions, harder to follow through, and harder to feel grounded in who we are. In this episode I share what it really looks like to show up for yourself even when it’s uncomfortable. I open up about why self-trust is one of the most important foundations in healing and growth, how tiny promises create big internal...
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Redefining Success as a Recovering Overachiever: Unemployment & Finding Worth Beyond Achievement
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
If you grew up being known as the “high achiever,” you probably know the pressure that comes with it. The need to always be doing, producing, and proving your worth through accomplishments. But what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan? When you’re in a season of uncertainty, and all the usual markers of success disappear? In this episode, I get real about my own journey of redefining success during unemployment, unmet expectations, and years of tying my value to achievement. I share what it’s been like to unlearn societal beliefs, navigate identity loss, and rebuild...
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Books That Helped Me Heal: My Favorite Fiction & Nonfiction for Growth
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
In this week’s episode of Always Becoming, I’m sharing the books that played a big role in my healing journey, the ones that gave me tools, perspective, hope, and comfort when I needed it most. From self-discovery and love to grief and creativity, these stories helped me reconnect with myself and remember what’s possible. I talk about how both nonfiction and fiction can support healing in different ways. Nonfiction gives you knowledge and frameworks to grow, while fiction lets you escape, dream, and see yourself in someone else’s story. In this episode I share: How reading helped me...
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To Be Honest, I Had Everything I Wanted and Was Still Depressed
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
This episode kicks off a new interview series on Always Becoming called “To Be Honest,” where I sit down with real people to share raw, honest stories of resilience because I think it’s so beautiful how the human heart can endure so much and still keep going. In this first conversation, I talk with my mom about her powerful healing journey. How she went from feeling depressed and angry, even when her life looked “perfect,” to experiencing a spiritual awakening that changed everything. It’s emotional, hopeful, and full of wisdom for anyone navigating their own healing or...
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Healing SIBO: Symptoms, Treatment, and Learning to Love My Body Again
Always Becoming: Real Stories of Resilience, Healing, & Growth
In this episode of Always Becoming, I’m sharing my journey with SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth). I'll dive into what it is, how it impacted my life, and what healing has looked like for me so far. From the symptoms and struggles to treatment and body acceptance, this is an honest look at living with gut health challenges and learning to love your body again. Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: What SIBO is and how I discovered I had it The symptoms I was experiencing and how they affected my daily life My treatment journey and the improvements I’ve seen The...
info_outlineWhen life isn’t going the way you hoped, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing everything sucks. But if we wait for things to be perfect, we’ll never find happiness. Luckily joy doesn’t have to wait for perfect circumstances. That’s where a joy reset comes in!
In this episode, I’ll share 5 simple steps you can use to start noticing small joys, even in the middle of hard seasons, and how those little moments can add up to a life you actually love.
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Why waiting for perfect keeps us stuck
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The power of micro-joys in everyday life
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Simple practices to spark joy right where you are
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How small joys make life feel lighter
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