This is my first-ever guest episode (!), and I couldn’t be more grateful to share this tender conversation with my friend Cara Havens — therapist, mother, and one of the most down-to-earth, loving people I know.

Together we talk about healing in relationship — how therapy creates a safe space to return to yourself, how old coping strategies often stop working when we become parents, and how faith and body wisdom intertwine when we let God meet us where we are.

We explore somatic healing, spiritual hurt, self-compassion, and permission to slow down and tune in — even in the messy, ordinary middle of life.

Wherever you’re listening from today, let this conversation be a gentle reminder: you don’t have to rush to heal.

If you’d like to connect with Cara, you can reach her at Cara@mederi.group.

A breath-led return to presence, glow, and divine design.

This isn’t a track about looking beautiful.

It’s about becoming soft again—beneath the armor, behind the effort, before the glow.

This loop is an emotional exhale for the ones who’ve braced their way through life.

The ones who know what it’s like to be called “strong” but feel tight, tired, and far from themselves.

Let this breath-led script unwind what tension has been protecting.

Let your nervous system remember what it feels like to rest without guilt.

And if you want to carry the loopable version with you,

you can find it in the Softening Tracks bundle—linked below.

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🎧 TRACK INTENT

This track was created for:

• Gentle nervous system regulation

• Releasing facial/jaw tension and emotional bracing

• Restoring a sense of internal dignity and divine design

• Emotional reset in moments of shame, shutdown, or self-pressure

Includes 528 Hz frequency—known as the “love frequency”—to support cellular and emotional repair.

This is spiritual, emotional, and physiological softening.

Let it breathe you back to your glow.

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Get the full Softening Tracks bundle (loopable versions)

A soft, loopable track for re-inhabiting your body, releasing tension, and returning to a safe internal space—where glow arises not from performance, but from presence.

This track is designed for:

• Passive nervous system reconditioning

• Subconscious emotional rewiring

• Gentle use during skincare, rest, prayer walks, or recovery from overwhelm

• Supporting healing from dissociation, hypervigilance, or shutdown

You won’t hear the word “beauty.”

But you will hear the words your body’s been longing for—

soft invitations to return to yourself.

Let it play while you move gently through your day or drift toward sleep.

Let it work beneath resistance. Let it remind you: your glow isn’t gone—it’s just been waiting for your return.

🎧 Features soft ambient backing + subconscious support

💫 Loopable version available in the Softening Tracks

This one is for the end of long days, frayed edges, and feelings you didn’t have time to feel.

The Soft Return: A Night Note is the first of the Softening Tracks—a gentle spoken word audio to help your body return to safety, softness, and rest. It’s not about fixing anything. It’s about finally letting go.

You can listen while lying in bed, closing your eyes, or simply needing to be reminded that you’re already allowed to rest—even if the to-do list isn’t finished. Let this track play as you fall asleep, unwind, or simply come back to yourself.

💤 Designed for nighttime listening

🌿 Loopable version available here: Softening Tracks

🕊️ Features soft ambient music and soft subconscious support for restoration.

You don’t have to brace anymore.

You can rest now.

And grace will meet you there.

A gentle note before you begin.

This isn’t a typical episode—it’s a quiet introduction to the season.

Softening Tracks is a small collection of spoken word recordings made to help you return to your body, your breath, and the presence of God—without pressure. These aren’t motivational or instructional. They’re meant to be felt more than understood.

Each track invites you to release, receive, and rest.

To let go of the grip.

To glow again—not because you hustled, but because you softened.

Here’s what you’ll find in this 3-part series:

The Soft Return: A Night Note – for the end of long days or moments of disconnection

The Glow Beneath – for reclaiming your presence without disappearing

The Beauty of Softening – for those who’ve spent years bracing

Listen as you fall asleep, during skincare, while resting, or wherever your body needs safety.

💫 Loopable version available in the Softening Tracks

When you’re ready… scroll to Episode 1.

Let the softening begin.

You’ve walked through something hard. You’ve healed—not perfectly, but enough to look back and see God’s hand in it.

Now there’s a quiet invitation to speak. To tell the truth. To testify.

But instead of peace, you’re feeling fear. Not because you’re still wounded—but because sharing what’s been healed still feels vulnerable.

This episode is a gentle follow-up to “Healing in Public vs. Healing in Private.” We’re talking about what it means to feel ready, how to know when it’s time to speak, and why God never rushes us through sacred stories.

It’s not pressure. It’s an invitation.

✨ For the ones standing at the door with shaky hands

✨ For the ones who feel the words rising but aren’t sure how to say them

✨ For the ones who are healing—even in the silence

Wherever you are right now, there’s room for you here. This breath prayer is a gentle invitation to return —not by fixing or striving, but by simply breathing.

Inhale: You are here.

Exhale: I am held.

Soul Care Breath + Prayer – Bonus Episode

In the beginning, God breathed into dust—

and we became living souls.

That first breath was a gift.

Not something to earn.

Not something to perform.

SoulCare Breath + Prayer is a new rhythm of gentle, scattered episodes—

a few minutes of stillness for the ones holding their breath emotionally or spiritually.

They won’t follow a schedule.

They’ll just show up when needed.

The first breath prayer—Come Back Gently—arrives Monday.

You’ll know it’s time when your shoulders soften just reading the title.

Come breathe with me.