Healing often gets spoken about like it’s a straight line. Something happens, you fall apart, you do the work, and eventually you come out the other side. But the bit in the middle is where so much of the real change happens.

In this episode, I’m talking about the quieter cognitive shifts that come with healing. The way your perception changes, the way you stop managing everyone else’s comfort before your own, the way you begin trusting yourself differently, and the reality that nobody can actually do the integration for you.

This one is about the parts that can feel unfamiliar, confronting and lonely at times, but also happen to be the parts that change you the most.

If you’re somewhere in the middle of it, I hope this makes it feel a little less isolating 🫶

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After a tech mishap deleting my planned episode this was a “sit down and see what happens” kind of recording. I reflect on turning 39, grieving the version of life I thought I’d have by now, and what the past year has forced me to confront.

I talk about healing, dating after loss, disappointment, gratitude, getting older, and the difference between simply getting through life and actually allowing it to change you.

I used to think that growth came with time, or that eventually I’d wake up feeling like the person I imagined I’d become. Instead, I’ve realised that some lessons don’t arrive until life quietly holds up a mirror.

This episode is about the stories we tell ourselves, the expectations we carry, and what happens when life gently (or not so gently) breaks character.

Because maybe falling apart isn’t what’s happening at all, maybe we’re just finally meeting ourselves…

As per, no neat answers, just the lessons I’ve learned along the way and a reminder that progress doesn’t always look productive, healing isn’t linear.

Thanks for being here!

Stevi x

Thanks for tuning into That Makeup Gal! If you loved what you heard, be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode. And if you’re feeling generous, drop a review—it helps more people find the show. Connect with me on Instagram @thatmakeupgal.pod for more behind-the-scenes moments, tips, and all the good vibes. Until next time, keep being unapologetically you bb!

In this episode, we speak openly about being childfree in your late 30s, the grief that can sit beside freedom, and the strange ache of realising life didn’t unfold the way you thought it would.

This is not an episode about regret, and it is not an episode about motherhood being the only meaningful path.

It is a conversation about altered timelines, grief, womanhood, aunties, emotional survival, being taken seriously, and the quiet pain of living outside the story society still expects women to follow.

For anyone who has ever looked at their life and thought, “this isn’t quite how I thought it would go,” this one is for you.

Thanks for tuning into That Makeup Gal! If you loved what you heard, be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss an episode. And if you’re feeling generous, drop a review—it helps more people find the show. Connect with me on Instagram @thatmakeupgal.pod for more behind-the-scenes moments, tips, and all the good vibes. Until next time, keep being unapologetically you bb!