What if your biggest struggle isn’t finding yourself… but learning to stop abandoning yourself?

In this deeply personal episode of Embodied Truth, I sit down with my dear friend Kendra for a conversation that goes places neither of us could have planned.

Kendra’s embodied truth isn’t a simple statement.

It’s a question:

How do I stop abandoning my embodied truth?

For much of her life, Kendra learned how to read the room, keep the peace, stay quiet and become whatever she needed to be to feel safe, loved and accepted.

Growing up without knowing her biological father, carrying the weight of a complicated childhood and becoming a parentified daughter, she developed an unconscious belief that she didn't truly belong.

That belief followed her into adulthood.

Into relationships.

Into marriage.

Into the way she saw herself.

Until eventually, she realized she had become so disconnected from her own voice that she couldn't even trust herself to know what she wanted.

In this conversation, Kendra opens up about the moment she finally found the courage to leave her marriage, the uncomfortable process of figuring out who she was underneath all the roles she had been playing for so long, and connecting to the little girl she had buried along the way.

This isn't simply a story about leaving a marriage and finding yourself again.

Because just when Kendra began to rediscover who she was and experience a kind of love and connection she hadn't known before, life dealt her another devastating blow...

This conversation explores grief, abandonment, generational trauma, forgiveness, self-worth, belonging, authentic connection, suicide and what it really means to become a safe place for yourself.

We talk about breaking cycles, giving ourselves the same grace we offer other people, and the difference between becoming someone new and remembering who you have always been.

If you've ever felt like you don't belong…

If you've lost yourself trying to keep other people happy…

If you've stayed somewhere because you were afraid of what would happen if you left…

Or if you're carrying the kind of grief that changes you to your core...

I know you'll find lots of value in this conversation.

Every time I listen to this episode I get a new powerful insight.

Trust your body. Live your truth.

Kendra does love a good email and this podcast was way out of her comfort zone so send her some love. kendraduff9@gmail.com