Soul Assignments, Power Tools and Breaking Generational Chains with Steffani LeFevour – Ep.354
Release Date: 12/10/2025
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info_outline"We wake up every morning as a soul in a human body. That alone should be so incredibly fascinating to us." What if the hardest things you've lived through weren't punishments, but assignments your soul chose to help you grow? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Steffani LeFevour, modern-day soul strategist and author of You Are a Badass Mom and the forthcoming book Soul Assignments. Stteffani shares how childhood trauma, an alcoholic father, and the tragic loss of her sister cracked her open to a lifelong search for spiritual truth.
What You Will Learn:
The impact of childhood trauma and grief on emotional development and identity.
How growing up with an alcoholic parent shapes beliefs, coping mechanisms and adulthood patterns.
Why families often end up on "grief islands" when they lack tools, language or support to process loss.
How early exposure to death can spark a lifelong search for meaning, spirituality and healing.
The role spiritual teachers and books can play in offering language and comfort when religion wasn't present at home.
How alcohol can become an unconscious way to avoid feelings, fit in socially, or suppress unresolved pain.
What it looks like to break generational chains of addiction through awareness, boundaries and intentional behavior.
How to examine your own relationship with alcohol and shift from unconscious use to empowered choice.
The importance of creating an alcohol-free "safe house" environment for teens and modeling a different norm.
The concept of soul assignments and how reframing painful experiences can move someone out of victimhood.
Why radical acceptance of past experiences becomes the foundation for emotional freedom and conscious creation.
How thoughts, words, feelings, beliefs and stories function as "power tools" that shape every experience.
The difference between using those power tools unconsciously vs. consciously.
How to identify outdated stories and rewrite them into truer, more empowering narratives.
The process of finding gifts inside even the most difficult events and how that transforms inner resilience.
The value of viewing life from a soul-level perspective rather than only through a human-level lens.
The path from learning spiritual principles to embodying them, teaching them and serving others with them.
How a long-held dream can manifest through clarity, courage and consistent sharing of one's message.
Why owning your unique perspective allows your voice, work and mission to expand in powerful new ways.
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