We talk a lot about showing up for others. But what happens when no one shows up for you?

In this episode of Trusting Her Journey, we unpack:

• What unequal support really looks like in everyday life
• Why over-giving often creates one-sided, transactional connections
• The grief, disappointment, and even resentment that surface when others don’t show up for you
• How to take inventory of your relationships so you can create space for the support you’ve been praying for
• A new way to think about strength. One that makes room for softness and care, like resting, asking for help, and letting yourself be supported

✨️ Fuel for the Road Ahead:
Just because you can carry it all doesn’t mean you should. Release what drains you so you can receive what (and who) God is sending.

💭 Reflection Question:
Where have you been over-giving out of a desire to be seen or chosen? What would it look like to redirect that love back to yourself?

👉🏾 One Small Step:
This week, choose one way to show up for yourself the same way you show up for others, no apologizing, no over-explaining, no guilt.

Tell us what spoke to you (send us a text)

New episodes drop every Monday to help you start your week grounded in truth. Because healing isn’t a performance, it’s a practice.

🔗 Resources & Announcements

We’re building a supportive online community.
Stay tuned for ways to connect with us off the podcast and meet other listeners on the journey.

Let’s Stay Connected

Follow the show on Instagram → @trustingherjourneypodcast
Follow Felicia → @soulguidedhealing_wellness
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Christalyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina. She offers faith-integrated therapy for women navigating burnout, boundaries, and emotional exhaustion.
→ carolinacounselingsc.com

Felicia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. She provides trauma-informed, spiritually grounded therapy for women ready to heal and reconnect w...

We talk a lot about setting boundaries.
But not enough people talk about what happens after.

➤ What do you do when guilt shows up unexpectedly?
➤ When someone you love pushes back?
➤ When choosing peace feels heavier than people-pleasing ever did?

In this episode of Trusting Her Journey, we’re talking about the part no one prepares you for: the emotional aftermath of boundary work.

We’re naming the hard, unspoken parts:

The grief no one warned you about

The guilt that shows up even when you’re doing what’s right

The silence you feel when others don’t celebrate your growth

The truth is:
You might not be feeling guilty.
You might be grieving the version of you who was always available.
The one who got love by overgiving.
The one who never said no.

We break down what a boundary really is (spoiler: it’s not a wall), how to stay grounded when people push back, and why choosing yourself doesn’t make you selfish—it makes you whole.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• What a boundary really is, beyond the buzzwords
• Why boundaries are love, not punishment
• Boundaries vs. walls: how to tell the difference
• What to do when people don’t respond well
• The faith piece, what Jesus actually modeled
• Why guilt after a boundary might actually be grief
• What to do when boundary setting feels lonely or isolating

✨️ Fuel for the Road Ahead:

Boundaries are an act of bravery.
Be brave enough to do what’s not easy but necessary.
And when, not if, the guilt shows up… remind yourself:
​I’m growing. I’m grieving old patterns. And I’m showing love to myself. I can trust this part of my journey.

💭 Reflection Question:

Where in your life are you feeling guilty for choosing peace, and what would it mean to honor that choice anyway?

👉🏾 One Small Step:

This week, notice one place where you’ve set a boundary—and instead of apologizing for it, affirm it.

Say to yourself: “This boundary honors me.” "This boundary honors my values and the healing I’m working toward."

Tell us what spoke to you (send us a text)

New episodes drop every Monday to help you start your week grounded in truth. Because healing isn’t a performance, it’s a practice.

🔗 Resources & Announcements

We’re building a supportive online community.
Stay tuned for ways to connect with us off the podcast and meet other listeners on the journey.

Let’s Stay Connected

Follow the show on Instagram → @trustingherjourneypodcast
Follow Felicia → @soulguidedhealing_wellness
Follow Christalyn → @christalynthecounselor

Tap Follow wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

Got a topic you’d love us to cover, or a story to share?
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If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who needs it.

Looking for Therapy?

Christalyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina. She offers faith-integrated therapy for women navigating burnout, boundaries, and emotional exhaustion.
→ carolinacounselingsc.com

Felicia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. She provides trauma-informed, spiritually grounded therapy for women ready to heal and reconnect w...

Maybe you're not doing too much because you're ambitious. Maybe you're doing too much because you're afraid of what it means if you stop.

In this episode of Trusting Her Journey, we’re getting real about the pressure to prove yourself.

So many women feel pressure to prove you're strong, smart, capable, healed, mature, faithful, productive… enough. Whether it’s showing up at work when you're running on fumes, overexplaining your choices, or saying yes when you want to say no, this pressure often comes from silent scripts we picked up along the way; scripts that tell us we have to earn love, rest, and belonging.

But what if you didn’t have to prove anything to be worthy of peace?

We’re unpacking:

• The hidden roots of performance and overgiving
• How pressure shows up in rest, relationships, and responsibilities
• Why perfectionism and people-pleasing are often trauma responses
• Gentle ways to rewrite your internal script and let rest feel safe again

This conversation is your permission slip:
You don’t have to hustle your way into being enough. You already are.

✨️ Fuel for the Road Ahead:
You don’t have to prove that you’ve healed to be loved. You don’t have to overdeliver to be valuable. Lay the pressure down.

📝 Reflection Question:
Where in my life am I performing when I could be present?

💡 Take one small step:
Choose one thing to do this week without overexplaining, overprepping, or overthinking it. Let it be gentle. Let it be enough.

Tell us what spoke to you (send us a text)

New episodes drop every Monday to help you start your week grounded in truth. Because healing isn’t a performance, it’s a practice.

🔗 Resources & Announcements

We’re building a supportive online community.
Stay tuned for ways to connect with us off the podcast and meet other listeners on the journey.

Let’s Stay Connected

Follow the show on Instagram → @trustingherjourneypodcast
Follow Felicia → @soulguidedhealing_wellness
Follow Christalyn → @christalynthecounselor

Tap Follow wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

Got a topic you’d love us to cover, or a story to share?
Email us: hello@trustingherjourney.com

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who needs it.

Looking for Therapy?

Christalyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina. She offers faith-integrated therapy for women navigating burnout, boundaries, and emotional exhaustion.
→ carolinacounselingsc.com

Felicia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. She provides trauma-informed, spiritually grounded therapy for women ready to heal and reconnect w...

Maybe you're not indecisive. Maybe you're just afraid of getting it wrong.
Maybe you’re not lazy or distracted, you’re exhausted from trying to make the “perfect” decision.

In this episode of Trusting Her Journey, we’re talking about the real reason so many high-functioning women stay stuck in their heads: It’s not always hesitation or procrastination. Sometimes it’s protection.

We break down what overthinking is really doing in the background:

Trying to protect you from pain or regret

Trying to control outcomes so you don’t disappoint anyone

Trying to keep you safe from judgment, rejection, or failure

But the more we try to think our way into peace… the further away it feels.

This conversation is your reminder:
You don’t have to think harder. You have to trust yourself more.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Why overthinking feels safer than moving forward
• How fear, past hurt, and pressure to “get it right” keep us stuck
• The real-life impact of mental overpacking
• Practical ways to quiet the loop and move forward with clarity

✨️ Fuel for the Road Ahead:

Overthinking is just your brain trying to protect you. But peace doesn’t come from playing out every possible outcome. It comes from trusting that you're safe enough to take one step at a time, even if the outcome isn’t perfect.

🖊 Journal Prompt:

Where in your life have you been waiting for the perfect moment to make a move… even though you already know what you want to do?

💡 Small Step:

Pause the spiral. Instead of replaying the options again, ask yourself:
What do I already know to be true?
Then take one small step. Let that be enough for today.

Tell us what spoke to you (send us a text)

New episodes drop every Monday to help you start your week grounded in truth. Because healing isn’t a performance, it’s a practice.

🔗 Resources & Announcements

We’re building a supportive online community.
Stay tuned for ways to connect with us off the podcast and meet other listeners on the journey.

Let’s Stay Connected

Follow the show on Instagram → @trustingherjourneypodcast
Follow Felicia → @soulguidedhealing_wellness
Follow Christalyn → @christalynthecounselor

Tap Follow wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

Got a topic you’d love us to cover, or a story to share?
Email us: hello@trustingherjourney.com

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who needs it.

Looking for Therapy?

Christalyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina. She offers faith-integrated therapy for women navigating burnout, boundaries, and emotional exhaustion.
→ carolinacounselingsc.com

Felicia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. She provides trauma-informed, spiritually grounded therapy for women ready to heal and reconnect w...

Maybe you’ve started pulling back. Maybe you’re doing less than before. But there’s still a part of you that feels responsible for holding it all together.

In this episode of Trusting Her Journey, we’re talking about the silent ways strong women keep proving they’re okay, even when they’re not.
We unpack what real support looks like, why asking for help feels harder than it should, and how fear of being a burden keeps so many women locked in self-reliance.

Strength isn’t silence. And support doesn’t make you weak.
Sometimes the most courageous thing you can do is let someone help.

What We Talk About:
•The real reason “I’m good” is your default (even when you’re not)
•How strength becomes a mask instead of a support system
•The deeper fears underneath asking for help: rejection, disappointment, being “too much”
•What to do when you've been let down before
•How to practice receiving without guilt, shame, or overexplaining
•Why support starts with you
•A new way to think about strength in this season

✨ Fuel for the Road Ahead:
You weren’t meant to carry it all by yourself. Strength isn’t just pushing through, it’s learning when to receive. Let people love you. Let God hold on to what’s been weighing on you.

Journal prompt: Where in your life have you been disappointed or felt rejected, even when you really needed support?

That question might be uncomfortable. But you deserve to tell the truth about the hurt you’ve experienced, and still decide to keep your heart open to help.

💡 One Small Step:
This week, say yes to one small offer of help.
Let someone check in on you. Drop something off. Speak life over you.
Whatever it is, receive it without apologizing, downplaying it, or trying to repay it. Just receive it. You deserve that kind of support too.

Tell us what spoke to you (send us a text)

New episodes drop every Monday to help you start your week grounded in truth. Because healing isn’t a performance, it’s a practice.

🔗 Resources & Announcements

We’re building a supportive online community.
Stay tuned for ways to connect with us off the podcast and meet other listeners on the journey.

Let’s Stay Connected

Follow the show on Instagram → @trustingherjourneypodcast
Follow Felicia → @soulguidedhealing_wellness
Follow Christalyn → @christalynthecounselor

Tap Follow wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

Got a topic you’d love us to cover, or a story to share?
Email us: hello@trustingherjourney.com

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who needs it.

Looking for Therapy?

Christalyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina. She offers faith-integrated therapy for women navigating burnout, boundaries, and emotional exhaustion.
→ carolinacounselingsc.com

Felicia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. She provides trauma-informed, spiritually grounded therapy for women ready to heal and reconnect w...

In today’s episode of Trusting Her Journey, we’re naming something many of us carry but rarely talk about...
the exhausting, unspoken identity of being “the strong one.”

You know the role.
You’re the one people call in a crisis.
The one who holds it together even when you’re unraveling inside.
The one praised for her strength, but rarely asked if she’s okay.

This episode is a real conversation about what it actually costs to always be the strong one.

We talk about the silent pressure so many women carry, the pressure to keep showing up, to never need help, to keep calling it strength even when it’s breaking you.

We share how that identity gets formed (through family, culture, and even faith), and how it slowly wears down your mind, body, and spirit.

You’ll hear our personal reflections and one gentle reminder:
You don’t have to hold it all.
You’re allowed to rest.
You’re allowed to need support.
And God isn’t asking you to carry what’s breaking you.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• What being “the strong one” really looks like behind closed doors
• How your upbringing, faith, and culture shaped your view of strength
• Why overfunctioning feels familiar—but leads to burnout
• What it means to see rest and softness as faith, not failure (Matthew 11:28)
• A closing pause to check in with yourself and your soul

💡 Fuel for the Road Ahead:

• What are you carrying that feels too heavy right now?
• What do you need, but haven’t said out loud?
• What would it look like to be honest with yourself this week?

This is your space to stop pretending, let go of what’s too much, and start living from truth, not just survival.

Let’s talk about it.

Tell us what spoke to you (send us a text)

New episodes drop every Monday to help you start your week grounded in truth. Because healing isn’t a performance, it’s a practice.

🔗 Resources & Announcements

We’re building a supportive online community.
Stay tuned for ways to connect with us off the podcast and meet other listeners on the journey.

Let’s Stay Connected

Follow the show on Instagram → @trustingherjourneypodcast
Follow Felicia → @soulguidedhealing_wellness
Follow Christalyn → @christalynthecounselor

Tap Follow wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

Got a topic you’d love us to cover, or a story to share?
Email us: hello@trustingherjourney.com

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who needs it.

Looking for Therapy?

Christalyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina. She offers faith-integrated therapy for women navigating burnout, boundaries, and emotional exhaustion.
→ carolinacounselingsc.com

Felicia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. She provides trauma-informed, spiritually grounded therapy for women ready to heal and reconnect w...

In a world that constantly tells women who they should be and what they should carry, we created Trusting Her Journey as a space to exhale.

A space where you don’t have to hide your struggles. Where you can say the hard things out loud.

Where you can finally admit what you need, without guilt.

In this first episode, you’ll meet your hosts: two therapists and women who’ve had to learn (and re-learn) how to listen to ourselves, set boundaries, and stop abandoning our needs. We talk about what Trusting Her Journey means to us, and how our own experiences with burnout, overgiving, and holding it all together brought us here.

This is where we talk about what it means to trust yourself again after seasons of burnout, grief, transition, or transformation. Especially when you’re feeling the pressure to be everything for everyone, or doubting your own voice.

In this episode (and every one after), expect honest conversations on self-love, setting boundaries, mental health, rest, community, and learning to hold space for both the beauty and the mess of your journey.

Whether you're a longtime listener of personal growth podcasts or this is your first one, we want this space to feel like a soft landing, a place where your story matters and your healing is welcome.

💡 Fuel for the Road Ahead:​

💭 Reflection Questions

Take a moment to breathe, then ask yourself:

• Where in my life am I still second-guessing what I know to be true?
• Where have I been showing up strong… but silently struggling?
• What would it look like to trust myself more in that area?

You don’t have to fix it all today.
You just have to be honest with yourself.

👉🏾 Small Step

Take a moment to acknowledge one decision that you've made that brought you peace, no matter how small.

Tell us what spoke to you (send us a text)

New episodes drop every Monday to help you start your week grounded in truth. Because healing isn’t a performance, it’s a practice.

🔗 Resources & Announcements

We’re building a supportive online community.
Stay tuned for ways to connect with us off the podcast and meet other listeners on the journey.

Let’s Stay Connected

Follow the show on Instagram → @trustingherjourneypodcast
Follow Felicia → @soulguidedhealing_wellness
Follow Christalyn → @christalynthecounselor

Tap Follow wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

Got a topic you’d love us to cover, or a story to share?
Email us: hello@trustingherjourney.com

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who needs it.

Looking for Therapy?

Christalyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina. She offers faith-integrated therapy for women navigating burnout, boundaries, and emotional exhaustion.
→ carolinacounselingsc.com

Felicia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. She provides trauma-informed, spiritually grounded therapy for women ready to heal and reconnect w...

Thanks for joining us! We’re so glad you’re here. In this short message, we’ll let you know what to expect, when Episode 1 drops, and how this private podcast is different from everything else in your feed.Take a breath, you’re in the right place.

Episode 1 goes live on Monday, July 7th, and this is your private access link to listen.

We can’t wait to walk this journey with you.

—Felicia + Christalyn

Tell us what spoke to you (send us a text)

New episodes drop every Monday to help you start your week grounded in truth. Because healing isn’t a performance, it’s a practice.

🔗 Resources & Announcements

We’re building a supportive online community.
Stay tuned for ways to connect with us off the podcast and meet other listeners on the journey.

Let’s Stay Connected

Follow the show on Instagram → @trustingherjourneypodcast
Follow Felicia → @soulguidedhealing_wellness
Follow Christalyn → @christalynthecounselor

Tap Follow wherever you listen so you never miss an episode.

Got a topic you’d love us to cover, or a story to share?
Email us: hello@trustingherjourney.com

If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who needs it.

Looking for Therapy?

Christalyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina. She offers faith-integrated therapy for women navigating burnout, boundaries, and emotional exhaustion.
→ carolinacounselingsc.com

Felicia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia. She provides trauma-informed, spiritually grounded therapy for women ready to heal and reconnect w...