In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa continues the conversation from Episode 2, The Strong Woman Is Tired, with Tasheena Cunningham-Rimmer.

Tasheena reflects on the question that stayed with her most: What do I need? Together, they talk about what happens when being “the strong one” becomes more than something we do and starts to become who we believe we have to be.

Their conversation explores the expectations attached to strength, the ways women can lose themselves inside that identity, and what it means to begin making room for our own needs without having to abandon the strength that has carried us.

What changes when we finally include ourselves in the list of people we care for?

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What happens when something you once wanted—or thought you wanted—is no longer what you want?

In this episode, Lisa reflects on a TikTok conversation sparked by coach Siobhan J. Middleton and a simple statement: “I got married because I was asked.” That sentence opens a larger conversation about being chosen, the lives women are taught to want, and what happens when the woman you are today wants something different.

This isn’t only a conversation about marriage. It’s about changing our minds, honoring what came before without being bound by it, and asking ourselves a different question:

What does the woman I am today choose?

In this first Conversations Continued episode, Lisa sits down with Kristi to reflect on Episode 5, Becoming the Woman I Needed.

Their conversation moves through what it means to belong to yourself, the lifelong work of releasing the need for external approval, and the reminder that valuing yourself cannot always come after caring for everyone else.

Together, they explore how our circumstances and experiences may shape us without getting the final word. We still get to choose who we are becoming. And sometimes, an honest conversation with another woman creates the opening we need to hear ourselves more clearly.

What might it mean for you to belong more fully to yourself—and who are you choosing to become?