In this tender, end-of-year episode released on Christmas Eve, Talia reflects on loss, healing, and the sacred invitation to pause before moving forward. She shares vulnerably about how this time last year she was coming out of a season marked by depression, health crisis, and relational loss, and how the Lord used community, attachment healing, and deep inner work to restore joy, peace, and rootedness.

This episode explores Pete Scazzero’s Going Back to Go Forward pathway from Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, examining why unresolved pain often shows up in our present until it is brought into the light with compassion rather than shame. Talia unpacks generational patterns, attachment wounds, and the importance of processing pain with safe, mature support, what Life Model Works calls a “bigger brain.”

You will also hear how somatic awareness, therapy, and EMDR played a role in healing her nervous system and reshaping everyday responses, along with a powerful reminder that healing is not about perfection, but about noticing sooner and returning to joy more quickly.

The episode introduces A Rooted Reflection, the first She’s Rooted Life resource, designed to help you reflect on your story, losses, wins, and rhythms with intention and hope as you move toward the new year.

This conversation is an invitation to slow down, grieve honestly, receive healing deeply, and partner with Jesus as you move forward more free, more whole, and more rooted.

Resources mentioned:

A Rooted Reflection:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P5xlZ_rbEbEZWEPBcYMfnJHId_cK7b_T/view?usp=sharing

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Genogram Workbook: https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/GENOGRAM-WORKBOOK.pdf

As we continue the countdown to 10 episodes, Advent, and the transition into a new year, this episode holds a deeply personal and sacred reflection. I share how this podcast has stretched me after a long season of self doubt, fear, and a lack of joyful belonging, and why this message feels especially timely. We explore God’s original design for belonging beginning in the Garden of Eden and how that belonging was fractured by the fall. Through the story of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, we see how belonging with Jesus transforms us slowly and honestly, from secrecy to courage. Belonging with Jesus does not demand perfection or immediate boldness, but offers steady presence and secure attachment. This episode unpacks how fear based attachment shapes our relationships and how Jesus invites us into a deep knowing that we are safe, seen, and wanted. Belonging always changes us, either toward fear or toward freedom. Immanuel, God with us, meets us in the process and gently leads us from night, to questions, to courageous love.

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In this episode we explore how Jesus, the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6), forms us into kingdom people who live from a deep, embodied peace. This isn’t passive calm or the absence of conflict this is shalom: the wholeness, restoration, and groundedness that comes from attachment to Christ Himself.

We unpack what Scripture means by peace that surpasses understanding, how peace and joy work together, why emotional and nervous system regulation are deeply biblical, and how God uses peace to transform our lives, relationships, and reactions.

We also practice a guided “passing the peace” exercise inspired by Life Model Works—an invitation into quieting, rest, and co-regulation with the Lord.

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In this episode, we explore how joy and light are inseparably connected in Scripture and in our lived experience. Joy expands. Joy strengthens. Joy matures us into the people we were always meant to be. And joy ultimately flows from the light of God’s love a light that exposes, heals, and invites us into secure attachment with Him.
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In this episode, we explore the life of Jesus as the clearest picture of maturity, secure attachment, and human wholeness. Jesus lived fully human and fully God without iniquity, without character flaws, without insecure patterns. His life reveals what it means to be rooted in love because He is love, grounded in identity, and formed by the Father’s love rather than fear.

We walk through how iniquity shapes our identity, attachment, and development, and how Jesus came to heal what is immature or broken within us. Using the Life Model’s 5 Stages of Maturity — Infant, Child, Adult, Parent, and Elder — we examine where we often get stuck and how Jesus restores us to who we were designed to be.

You’ll hear about:

What iniquity really is and how it forms

How Jesus embodies perfect, secure, steadfast love

The connection between attachment, identity, and spiritual maturity

The 5 Stages of Human Maturity and why many adults stay developmentally “infant-level” or “child-level”

How the cross heals immaturity, instability, and insecure love

What it means to grow into true sonship and daughterhood

How to partner with God in becoming a new creation

This episode invites you into a deeper understanding of how Jesus heals, forms, and matures us and how we can honor the life He has given us by becoming a reflection of His secure, rooted love.

Resources:

Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You

Becoming a Face of Grace

EHS Maturity

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In this conversation, Talia Thomas, Amy Pierson, and Lisa Hamel explore the epidemic of loneliness, particularly among women, and the importance of fostering genuine relationships. They discuss the impact of technology on real connections, the significance of joy bonds in friendships, and the role of curiosity & groundedness in maintaining healthy relationships.

The conversation emphasizes the need for healthy life-giving boundaries, taking risks for starting & building connections, and the cultivation of sacred sisterhood across different life stages.

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Purchase Makers in a Thinkers World: https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Thinkers-World-Spiritually-Transforming/dp/1959099434/ref=sr_1_1?crid=293ORJM2ARTC1&keywords=makers%20in%20a%20thinkers%20world%20amy%20pierson&qid=1699299361&sprefix=makers%20in%20%2Caps%2C280&sr=8-1

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In this episode, Talia briefly shares her background as a behavior analyst and dives into one of the most important skills for emotional and spiritual maturity — emotional regulation. She explores the six core emotions (anger, fear, disgust, sadness, shame, and hopeless despair) and how learning to validate, comfort, and recover helps us return to joy and peace. This conversation invites you to slow down, notice what’s happening in your body, and practice the stillness that leads to lasting transformation.

Mentioned Resources:

• Life Model Work
• 4 Habits of Joy Filled People
• THRIVE Today Emotions Resource

In this first episode, Talia shares the heart behind the re-launch of the show, how “Life” was added to the name, the story of her faith journey, healing from trauma, walking through postpartum thyroiditis, rediscovering peace, and what it truly means to live rooted in love, joy, and peace through Jesus.

She opens up about her past as a pastor’s kid, her introduction to Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, and how the work of Dr. Jim Wilder, Dr. Marcus Warner, and others have shaped her understanding of attachment, healing, and the victorious Christian life. This episode is a testimony of redemption, emotional growth, and the transformative power of God’s presence.

If you’ve ever felt like you’ve wandered from your faith, or you’re longing to move from surviving to living in wholeness and joy, this episode will speak directly to your heart.

Resources:

• Emotional Maturity Assessment
• Dr. Marcus Warner – Wilderness of Mediocrity

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