What if something you’ve believed about yourself for 20 years isn’t the whole truth?

A few weeks ago, Chandler was sitting in her bathtub when a memory she had buried long ago came back. By the end of the night, she was on the bathroom floor, asking how she could have missed it after so much healing work.

For more than two years, Chandler has asked heroines to share their hardest moments on this show. She couldn’t keep asking without doing the same. So in this solo episode, she takes the guest seat and walks through her own heroine’s journey: the beliefs she inherited, the call she almost walked past, and the part she’s only now ready to share.

No script, no teaching, just Chandler.

What You Will Learn

• [00:09:30] A fifth-grade teacher’s accusation that made her stop trusting adults.
• [00:14:30] Signing as a plus-size model in NYC to disprove the thin-equals-beautiful narrative.
• [00:16:00] Training for a triathlon to prove the weight narratives wrong.
• [00:21:30] Trusting a nudge at JFK Airport to purchase one life-changing book.
• [00:24:30] Healing as remembering and shedding the survival self, not self-help.
• [00:32:30] A recent Heroine named "self-trust" as Chandler's real remaining issue.
• [00:42:00] Chandler embracing her younger self with compassion years later.
• [00:43:30] Surrendering what was too big to carry alone, and finding God in the quiet.
• [00:45:30] Releasing the need to prove anything and showing up regardless.

Resources Mentioned

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Host, Chandler Stroud
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