What was the first lie you ever believed?

In this episode, Melissa Allison walks us through the tender and tangled territory of self-erasure—the moment a young girl silences her voice to be loved, accepted, or simply… less of a disappointment. Told through raw personal story, The Lie explores how that first betrayal of self becomes the script we carry into adulthood, relationships, religion, motherhood—and how we begin to rewrite it.

From childhood wounds to moments of defiance, Melissa traces the path from shapeshifting to sovereignty. This isn’t a tale of reinvention—it’s a remembering. A return to the self that was always there, hidden beneath the performance, waiting for permission to speak.

You’ll hear stories of pain, silence, and the quiet fire of awakening. And more importantly, you’ll be asked:

What lie are you still living?

And what would happen if you stopped believing it?

This episode is for every woman who’s ever made herself smaller to survive—and is finally ready to take up space, speak her truth, and come home to the voice that was hers all along.

Show Notes:

This episode is a reckoning.

A return to the first moment we learned to shrink ourselves in exchange for acceptance.

Melissa Allison opens the door to a deeply personal and universally resonant story—one that begins with a child's voice at a pulpit and the silence that followed. Through vivid, raw storytelling, she explores the wounds left by mothers, teachers, churches, and systems that taught us being “too much” was dangerous—and being ourselves was somehow wrong.

But The Lie is not just about pain. It’s about the quiet fire of awakening.

The moment you realize: I was never broken. I was just buried.

As the episode unfolds, Melissa takes us through her journey of unlearning the distortions and returning to the truth of who she’s always been. She reminds us that healing isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about remembering the self that was never truly gone.

This is not a self-help pep talk. It’s a sacred initiation.

And it asks you:

What lie did you believe in order to survive?

And what would happen if you stopped believing it?

You don’t need to reinvent yourself.

You just need to come home.

Takeaways:

• The truth of who we are often gets buried beneath years of expectation, silence, and shame—but it never disappears.
• We shrink to survive, but at some point, we must face the moments that taught us to disappear—and choose to come back to ourselves.
• This journey isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you were before the lie.
• The stories we were handed are not the ones we have to keep. When we challenge them, we begin to transform—not just ourselves, but the entire narrative.

shadow work, mother wound, reclaiming voice, healing journey, self-worth, breaking generational patterns, feminine power, forbidden stories, emotional truth, remembering who you are, identity reclamation, podcast for women