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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.
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Grief comes in many shapes – quiet, explosive, unexpected, lifelong – and it finds every one of us eventually. Some losses tear through our lives with no warning. Others arrive slowly, tenderly, preparing us and breaking us at the same time. In this week’s episode of Hard Beautiful Journey, I sat down with someone whose […]
November 27, 2025
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When Love, Boundaries, and Growth Collide Mother-daughter relationships…they’re a lot. Beautiful, messy, complicated, hilarious, exhausting – sometimes all in the same afternoon. They hold decades of love and history, but also expectations, misunderstandings, and the occasional dramatic teenage moment. I had one of those. Back in Grade 11, my mom told me I couldn’t go […]
November 12, 2025
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Are You Really Here…or Just Showing Up? Have you ever felt like you’re going through the motions? You’re doing all the things – taking care of people, showing up to work, checking the boxes – but deep down…something’s missing. You’re not broken. You’re just not showing up in the way you were designed to. In […]
November 4, 2025
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It was like any other morning in my house….I gave Ella and Puss (the cat) their treats, made my coffee and made my way to my chair where Ella was waiting for her morning snuggles. After giving my Ella girl her hugs and kisses, I drank some coffee, listened to some meditative music and thought […]
September 19, 2025
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Have you ever wondered why you keep falling into the same painful patterns, no matter how much self-work you do? This week on Hard Beautiful Journey, I had the honor of sitting down with Rapid Transformational Therapist Kate Semeniuk, who helps people rewire subconscious beliefs that were formed in childhood—but still run the show today. […]
May 13, 2025
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A raw conversation about trauma, burnout, and the quiet strength of staying. Some people survive the fire—and some become it. In this episode of Hard Beautiful Journey, I sit down with therapist, speaker, and creator Malisa Hepner, whose story is both devastating and lit from within. After a lifetime of trauma, the loss of both […]
May 6, 2025
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What happens when the life you built no longer feels like your own? On this episode of the Hard Beautiful Journey podcast, I sat down with Bob Martin—a man whose journey might just stop you in your tracks. From high-stakes criminal trials in Miami’s infamous cocaine cowboy era to publishing spiritual books that blend Taoist […]
April 15, 2025
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There’s a moment so many women quietly live through: when you’re doing all the “right” things—showing up, achieving, pushing through—but inside, you’re falling apart. In this episode of Hard Beautiful Journey, transformational coach Michelle Gauthier shares her personal story of healing from burnout, and how she let go of perfectionism, career-driven identity, and hustle culture […]
April 8, 2025
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“I think it’s time we consider separating” I said to James. It was May 15, 2022. Our 19th wedding anniversary. Now, it wasn’t a day to celebrate. Never having gone through a divorce before, I had no idea what was coming. There were many times over the course of our marriage when I would think […]
May 20, 2024
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I have been thinking of writing this blog post for over a month. In my meditation yesterday I was encouraged to finally write it. But still resisted. Then the very sad news of the death of “Twitch” by suicide came out today….and now I know I need to write this. By sharing, I hope it […]
December 14, 2022
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