In this deeply honest and powerful episode of Powered by Joy, I’m joined by intuitive guide and alchemical coach Rhonda Skallan of Spark Alchemy. Together, we explore the many layers of trauma—both the big, life-altering events and the quiet, hidden wounds (death by a 1000 papercuts!) that shape us just as much.

We dive into how our personal stories and past experiences affect how we show up in life, love, and success—and how healing these layers, especially through inner child work, is essential to creating a life that feels joyful, empowered, and free to experience success at your highest level.

Rhonda shares insights on working with the nervous system, self-trust, and what it means to come home to yourself after loss, grief, or disconnection. Whether you’re navigating your own healing or supporting someone you love, this episode will offer comfort, perspective, and powerful reminders that transformation is possible—and success, health and joy are still yours to claim.

• How trauma shows up in subtle and surprising ways
• The connection between healing and true success
• Inner child work as a tool for freedom and self-compassion
• Why your nervous system matters in healing
• The importance of emotional honesty and curiosity
• Tools for reconnecting with your truth and joy

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This guided meditation is a gentle, powerful space to begin healing the emotional wounds passed down or received from the feminine—whether through mothers, sisters, friends, or collective patterns.

If you've felt misunderstood, judged, abandoned, or dimmed by the women in your life (or your own inner feminine), this is your invitation to soften, reconnect, and reclaim the unfiltered, whole version of you that’s been waiting to be seen.

Through breath, presence, and intention, we’ll release old pain, call back lost parts of yourself, and awaken the divine feminine within—restoring trust, worthiness, and wholeness. You don’t have to carry the weight of old wounds anymore.

✨ This is your space to feel, heal, and return to your truth—with compassion, clarity, and courage.

🌀 Use this meditation to:

• Heal emotional wounds tied to feminine energy
• Reconnect with your inner feminine wisdom
• Reclaim joy, self-trust, and your full expression
• Invite more softness, creativity, and power into your life

🎧 Use headphones and find a quiet space to receive the full experience.

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On this enlightening episode of Powered by Joy Podcast, we get to learn so many ways it matters that we heal and connect with our inner child and intuition. My guest, Sami Bell S.U.R.E. Parenting and Reparenting Realm brings so much insight and practical new ways of thinking. She is a coach for cycle-breakers to become the healed parent they needed as a kid, so now they can raise children, of all different brain types, with respect, empathy, and emotional intelligence. Doing this work has brought light to the importance of our journey to healing old wounds and Sami shares so many aha’s!

Tune in to hear Sami’s very practical, easy to do tools to switch up perspective AND this brings a chance to heal and rewrite your story! There is always more growth and healing possible, that makes even more space for joy and connection with yourself and those you love.

We also discussed a number of resources and books that are listed below! Including how to connect with Sami if you feel ready or curious about reparenting.

Books:

SURE Parenting Book on Amazon- bit.ly/sureparentingbook

Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb, PhD

The Power of Showing Up by Daniel J. Siegel, MD, Tina Payne Bryson

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C Schwartz

Connecting to Sami:

Free Call with Sami- bit.ly/callsami

Instagram- instagram.com/sureparenting

SURE Parenting Website- sureparenting.com

EmpoweringMomsToUpliftKids FB- facebook.com/groups/empoweringmomstoupliftkids

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