💬 Episode Summary

Hey girl friends, this week’s episode is a little different. Ciara is inviting you to slow down, breathe, and refill your cup with affirmations that speak to your peace, confidence, and glow.

After spending a few weeks in her own company, she’s reflecting on how solitude can feel both humbling and healing. This episode is your cozy reset. Something to play while you get dressed, clean your space, or lay in bed reminding yourself that your worth isn’t tied to how productive you feel.

If you’ve been moving through a seasonal dip, this one’s for you. These affirmations will ground you, lift you, and help you walk through this season fine, centered, and in full main character energy even when it’s cloudy out.

🌸 In This Episode

You’ll hear Ciara share:

• A gentle reminder that slowing down is still progress

• How to hold space for both gratitude and sadness

• Over 50 affirmations to reset your energy and peace

✨ Affirmations You’ll Love

🕊️ I honor my feelings and know they are not always facts

💎 I glow differently when I’m rested

🌤️ The light always returns and so do I

💫 I attract genuine people, aligned money, and moments that feed my soul

🌸 I am deeply worthy, wildly capable, and always evolving

💕 Connect

If this episode speaks to you, share it with a girl friend who might need the reminder and be sure to subscribe so you never miss what’s next.

Connect with Ciara on

Instagram: @choosingciara

Podcast: @choosingher.pod

TikTok: @choosingciara

Until next time, keep choosing you.

💬 Episode Summary

Hey girl friends, this week we’re getting real about seasonal sadness. That quiet shift that creeps in when the days get shorter and your energy starts to fade a little. We’re talking about what it really feels like to move through this season with grace, honesty, and a little luxury.

This episode was inspired by my own week of feeling low energy and realizing that so many of us are trying to push through instead of soften into what our bodies and minds are asking for. I share real science-backed ways to support your mood, your body, and your peace as the seasons change.

🌸 In This Episode

You’ll hear Ciara talk about:

• How to notice early signs of seasonal sadness

• The power of sunlight, Vitamin D, and small daily rituals

• Why movement, rest, and routine matter for your mood

• How to embrace slower seasons with softness

Because you deserve to feel grounded, supported, and at peace.

💌 Connect with Ciara

Follow along on Instagram:

@choosingciara | @choosingher.pod

🎧 Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

💬 Episode Summary

Hey girl friends, this week we’re talking about friendship. Not the surface kind or the quick text check-ins. I mean the real ones. The people who know your voice when you’re pretending to be okay.

This episode was inspired by watching my husband spend time with his best friend. I heard him laugh from a place that felt so free, and it reminded me that we all need people who bring that out of us. Romantic love gets all the spotlight, but friendships sustain us in ways we rarely stop to honor.

🌸 In This Episode

You’ll hear Ciara talk about:

• The quiet grief of friendships that no longer fit

• How to stay open to new connections after disappointment

• The beauty of realizing your soulmates can also be your friends

Because sometimes the people meant to heal us don’t come as lovers. They come as friends who remind us who we are.

💌 Connect with Ciara

Follow along on Instagram:

@choosingciara | @choosingher.pod

🎧 Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

💬 Episode Summary

This week, Ciara gets real about the “soft girl era” and how it’s slowly turned from a gentle reminder to rest… into another aesthetic to perform. From the matcha mornings to the curated calm, she unpacks how the pursuit of peace has become yet another form of pressure and how to get back to real softness.

Through her own story of craving presence over performance, Ciara invites listeners to explore what true softness actually looks like, not the kind that can be captured in a reel, but the kind that lives quietly inside of us.

If you’ve ever caught yourself performing peace instead of practicing it, this one’s for you.

🌸 In This Episode

You’ll hear Ciara talk about:

• The fine line between peaceful living and performative peace

• Why “soft girl” culture sometimes feeds burnout instead of healing it

• How we traded hustle culture for beige burnout (yes, she said it!)

• The difference between chasing softness and becoming it

• Why true softness is emotional maturity and not a mood board

• How to return to a rhythm that feels safe, grounded, and sustainable

🧘🏽‍♀️ Key Takeaway

Real softness isn’t a vibe, it’s a rhythm.

It’s not something you buy or post.

It’s the way you breathe before you respond, the way you rest before you burn out, and the way you choose peace when chaos invites you to perform.

🪞This Week’s Challenge

Find one small way to practice real softness without buying, posting, or performing it.

✨ Let yourself rest before you crash.

✨ Respond with understanding instead of defense.

✨ Breathe, stretch, pray, or sit in silence. For you, not the feed.

💌 Connect with Ciara

Follow along on Instagram:

@choosingciara | @choosingher.pod

🎧 Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

In this week’s episode of Choosing Her, Ciara invites you to pause, breathe, and take a hard look at the boxes you’ve been checking. You know…the ones the world told you define success: the degree, the marriage, the kids, the house, the hustle. But what if those boxes were never yours to begin with?

Ciara opens up about her own journey of realizing she built a life that looked right but didn’t feel right, and how she found the courage to stop living by someone else’s checklist and create her own.

If you’ve ever looked at your life and thought, “I did everything right… so why do I still feel unfulfilled?” this episode will meet you right where you are.

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In this episode, we explore:

✨ The invisible pressure to “do life right” and where those expectations come from

✨ Why checking every box can still leave you feeling empty

✨ How to know when you’re living by someone else’s checklist

✨ Practical steps to redefine what success, peace, and alignment mean to you

✨ Journal prompts to help you create boxes that actually belong to you

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Key Reflection Questions:

• Who handed you the boxes you’ve been checking?

• What boxes are you still chasing just to make others proud?

• What would your own boxes look like if nobody else got a say?

• What does peace feel like for you?

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Your challenge this week:

Ask yourself:

“Which boxes have I been checking that don’t belong to me and if I had the courage to create new ones, what would they be?”

Write it down. Say it out loud.

Because clarity plus action? That’s how you change your life.

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Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you tune in.

🎧 Connect on Instagram: @choosingciara | @choosingher.pod

In this episode of Choosing Her, Ciara gets real about the ways we settle for less, whether it’s in relationships, in our health, or in the way we show up for ourselves.

She shares a personal story about walking away from crumbs in her dating life and how that same lesson became the mirror she needed for her own body journey. If you’ve ever told yourself “this is just how it is now” or hidden behind clothes instead of facing the deeper work, sis you’ll feel seen here.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• The turning point when Ciara stopped accepting crumbs in her dating life.
• How that experience exposed the crumbs she was accepting with her health and body.
• The sneaky ways we normalize pain, exhaustion, or shrinking ourselves.
• Why self-worth and health are deeply connected and how to reclaim both.

Resources + Links:

• Follow Ciara on Instagram: @choosingciara
• Follow the podcast: @choosingher.pod
• Subscribe, rate, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help more women find the show.

In this very first episode, Ciara pulls back the curtain and gets real about what it means to choose yourself in a world that constantly asks women to give more, do more, and carry more.

We talk about the myth of “legacy” being only about money and why your health (physical, emotional, and mental) is the truest form of wealth you can pass on.

Inside this episode, you’ll learn:

• What performative confidence looks like and how to build real self worth.
• Why creating legacy begins with protecting your body and mind, not just building financial assets
• The hard truth about whether you’re showing up as an asset or a liability in your own family

This isn’t about quick fixes or surface-level advice. It’s about choosing a different kind of leadership in your own life that is rooted in wholeness, strength, and unapologetic self-prioritization.

Because when you choose her, everybody around you wins.

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✨ Let’s Connect

• Follow Ciara on Instagram: @choosingher.pod and @choosingciara

• Share this episode with the woman you know who always puts herself last

• Subscribe so you don’t miss what’s coming next