What happens when your body knows the truth before your mind is ready to admit it?

In this deeply personal episode of The Messy Middle, I reflect on a powerful message from a listener who paused the podcast to do inner child work in real time: hugging a childhood toy, asking what she needed to hear, and speaking words of truth her body had been waiting for.

That moment wasn’t random. It wasn’t “woo.” It was healing.

This episode is about learning to trust the moments your body speaks before your brain catches up - especially after narcissistic or emotional abuse, where self-trust has been systematically dismantled.

In this episode, we unpack:

• Why intuition gets overridden in abusive dynamics
• How gaslighting trains you to doubt your own knowing
• What somatic healing actually looks like in real life
• Why you don’t need full memories or flashbacks to heal
• How to gently rebuild trust with your intuition without forcing it

Through lived experience, client stories, and practical examples, this episode reminds you of something essential:

You are not broken. You are remembering.

If you’ve ever had a gut feeling you ignored, whispered truth to a younger version of yourself, or felt something shift in your body before you could explain it - this episode is for you.

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In this episode, I’m responding to listener messages that came in after the Inner Child ep, including one powerful moment that stopped me in my tracks.

A listener shared how she paused the podcast, climbed into bed with her childhood stuffed zebra, and spoke truth to the younger version of herself. What she described is exactly what real healing looks like - not performative, not perfect, but embodied, intuitive, and honest.

From there, we move into some big, thorny questions I get asked all the time:
Do we have to forgive our parents?
Do we have to forgive narcissistic abusers?
Is forgiveness actually necessary for healing, or has it been weaponized against us?

In this episode, we talk about:

• Why forgiveness is not a prerequisite for healing
• How women are conditioned to use forgiveness to stay small, quiet, and palatable
• The difference between forgiveness, freedom, integration, and indifference
• Why rage, grief, and truth-telling are often essential parts of recovery
• How to redefine forgiveness on your terms, or reject it altogether
• A body-based reflection to help you feel what forgiveness actually means to you

This is not a “just let it go” conversation. It’s a reclaim-your-power conversation.

If you’ve ever felt pressured to forgive before you were ready, or told that healing requires you to absolve the people who harmed you - this episode is for you.

📩 Send in YOUR questions and get them answered on the podcast!

📢 Get a Laster Coaching call for only $150. A 45-minute session to get to know me, experience my approach, and receive a personalized plan to kickstart your healing journey. Perfect for testing the waters before diving deeper.

🎬 Watch Unfu*kwithable Boundaries Masterclass for FREE. Learn how setting clear boundaries can change your life for good and where to start!

📝 Get the Somatic Keys Course. Learn how to recognize your signals, regulate your responses, and reclaim your nervous system as a place of truth.

In this final episode of The Messy Middle Six Keys series, we’re closing with the key that changes everything: Abuse Dynamics Education.

If you’ve ever wondered why you still doubt yourself… Why therapy, books, or “doing the work” hasn’t fully set you free… Or why a part of you still feels hooked to someone who treated you like shit…

This episode is for you.

We’re talking about the hidden mechanics of emotional and narcissistic abuse. Not surface-level red flags, but the real operating system behind manipulation, gaslighting, coercive control, and psychological warfare.

You’ll learn:

• Why abuse is not about anger or miscommunication, but power and control
• How coercive control works so quietly you often don’t see it until years later
• The most common abuse tactics and how they show up in real life
• Why you didn’t see it sooner and why that does not make you weak, naïve, or stupid
• How manipulation turns into your inner voice and how to start separating what’s yours from what was injected into you

This episode also includes a grounding, body-based validation exercise to help you stop gaslighting yourself and reconnect with what your nervous system has always known.

Because healing isn’t just about becoming more regulated, more forgiving, or more understanding.

Sometimes healing is about realizing:

This wasn’t yours to fix.
This was done to you.
And once you can name the game, you stop playing it.

If you’re ready to reclaim your power, rebuild self-trust, and finally answer the question “Is this always going to happen to me?” with a solid no, this episode will land.

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
And that’s where real freedom begins.

📩 Send in YOUR questions and get them answered on the podcast!

📢 Get a Laster Coaching call for only $150. A 45-minute session to get to know me, experience my approach, and receive a personalized plan to kickstart your healing journey. Perfect for testing the waters before diving deeper.

🎬 Watch Unfu*kwithable Boundaries Masterclass for FREE. Learn how setting clear boundaries can change your life for good and where to start!

📝 Get the Somatic Keys Course. Learn how to recognize your signals, regulate your responses, and reclaim your nervous system as a place of truth.