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?

Inspired by the Roku Original series Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, Lisa reflects on what it means to stop waiting for the right person, the right body, the right invitation, or the right moment to enjoy your life.

From wearing the beautiful clothes to taking yourself to dinner, visiting the museum, buying the flowers, and creating pleasure in ordinary moments, this episode explores the ways women postpone living—and what can change when we decide that our lives are already worthy of our full participation. What have you been saving for someday? Maybe your life is the occasion.

In this episode, Lisa reflects on the habit of stepping in, solving problems, and making ourselves useful before anyone has even asked. With humor and honesty, she explores the difference between helping and rescuing, the discomfort of watching people struggle, and what becomes possible when we trust others to navigate their own lives. Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is pause, step back, and tell ourselves: Girl, sit down.

In this conversation, Lisa reflects on what happens when the thing we survived becomes part of how we are seen, valued, and known. With care and honesty, she explores the complicated relationship between pain, identity, recognition, and healing—especially for Black women who have often been valued for what they carry, endure, or overcome.

This is not a conversation about leaving our stories behind. It is an invitation to ask whether those stories still have room for the fullness of who we are becoming.

In this conversation from The Healing Nexus, Lisa reflects on what love can quietly teach us before we ever have language for it. Building from the previous reflection on voice and silence, she explores how love, responsibility, loyalty, and self-abandonment can become tangled over time. Listeners are invited to consider what they learned love required of them, and whether that version of love still deserves permission to shape their lives.

In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa opens the next movement of the conversation by returning to a childhood memory that shaped her early relationship with silence, voice, and self-protection. After exploring what it means to stay connected to ourselves through change, this episode begins asking where that disconnection may have first begun. Through the image of a little girl sitting quietly in the back seat, Lisa reflects on how silence can be learned, how survival can shape who we become, and what it means to begin listening for the parts of ourselves that had to go quiet.