This week, Molly shares a special episode recorded from Maui just after the fourth and final live retreat of 2025 — with the retreat magic still swirling in her.

Molly takes you behind the scenes to the intuitive calling that led her to begin offering live retreats in the first place and offers a glimpse into what becomes possible when compassionate people gather in real time and space to do high-level somatic healing work.

She describes her very first retreat in Alaska with a notebook full of carefully planned teachings — and then (in a moment of deep intuition) she threw the whole plan away to allow something more powerful to take shape.

This episode is a love letter to beautiful transformation that can happen in spaces of live community healing — and a glimpse into what’s coming next, including Molly’s upcoming book tour and a call for musicians that align with the Compassionate Revolution.

Key Highlights:

• how live healing work generates a magical energy and deep tectonic shifts of the psyche
• the intuitive nudge that led Molly to start hosting live retreats… and why she threw out her plans as soon she felt the energy of the group
• how ancestral survival strategies get passed down — and how they can be released with honor
• how Molly is envisioning live retreats in 2026 (including a music and a sound healing element)
• a call for aligned musicians who want to build something beautiful together

Musicians: If you feel aligned with the heart-led purpose of the Compassionate Revolution and want to join an experiment weaving music into somatic healing work (including recordings and live gatherings), reach out to Molly and her team at support(at)boundaried(dot)com.

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For retreat updates, book tour news, and Boundaries resources for compassionate people, visit Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

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Molly sits down with Christi Byerly, MCC, founder and CEO of Awaken Coach Institute, to explore how religious trauma, fear-based theology, and high-control faith systems shape a child’s identity, sense of worth, and ability to trust. Christi shares her personal story of growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian environment where obedience, hierarchy, and punishment were normalized – and how that upbringing led to depression, anxiety, and lifelong confusion about goodness, desire, and love.

Together, Molly and Christi unpack the invisible ways spiritual abuse fractures a compassionate person’s inner world, how fear becomes a first language, and why so many survivors struggle with boundaries, self-trust, and worthiness well into adulthood.

This is an episode about waking up from fear and waking into love – reclaiming your voice, your body, your desires, and your right to a spacious, grounded, joyful life.

Molly and Christi discuss:

• how hierarchies and obedience-based teachings shape a child’s developing brain.
• why compassionate people are more vulnerable to spiritual abuse.
• how fear-based theology disconnects us from our intuition, emotions, and desires.
• why self-care feels wrong for survivors of fundamentalism.
• what it means to move from hierarchy and fear into love and equality.
• the spiritual (and beautifully human) process of awakening.

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Today’s Guest:

Christi is the CEO and founder of Awaken Coach Institute, an ICF-accredited coach training school that is, at its heart, a school of love. Awaken Coach Institute trains coaches, healers, helpers, and compassionate humans to listen deeply, grow spiritually, and awaken to their own inner wisdom. Christi has helped shape the journeys of hundreds of coaches and clients. Explore free classes, group programs, Q&A calls, book updates, and Christi's upcoming 2026 Spain retreat at: https://www.awakencoachinstitute.com/.

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For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

This week, Molly is joined by Brenda Knight, award-winning publisher, author, intuition-led trailblazer, and founder of Books That Save Lives (a mission-driven publishing house devoted to changing minds, healing hearts, and creating a more compassionate world).

Brenda is the publisher of Molly's new book, The Great All, and a deep force in today’s world of writing and media. Her story is one of courage, intuition, integrity, and following the “omens” that led her toward her purpose.

Together, Molly and Brenda explore the twists, initiations, and inner guidance that shape a life – and the extraordinary ripple effects of choosing compassion over conformity.

Molly and Brenda discuss:

• Brenda’s extraordinary journey from a dirt road in West Virginia to HarperCollins, and why reading became her portal to possibility.
• moments when integrity can speak louder than ambition.
• a behind-the-scenes story of Paulo Coelho’s classic, The Alchemist.
• how veteran and first-responder stories inspired Books That Save Lives (BTSL).
• the birth of The Great All, and Molly’s weird, wondrous, divinely timed idea that wouldn’t let go.
• why parables and teaching stories work at a soul-level and why The Great All feels like essential guidance for navigating today’s world.

Today’s Guest:

Brenda Knight began her career at HarperCollins, working with luminaries Paolo Coelho, Marianne Williamson, Mark Nepo, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Knight was awarded IndieFab’s Publisher of the Year in 2015. Knight is the author of Random Acts of Kindness, The Grateful Table, and Women of the Beat Generation, which won an American Book Award. Knight is Publisher at Books That Save Lives. She also teachers at the San Francisco Writers Conference, Writing for Change and serves as President of the Women’s National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Follow her on Instagram @LowerHaightbk and @BooksThatSaveLives.

BTSL includes an invitation to the Heart Wisdom panels in their newsletter. If you’d like to join, sign up at: https://www.booksthatsavelives.net/contact-us/.

An extra thanks to Duncan MacLeod, the business side of BTSL! He oversees operations, finance, and fulfillment. He’s also an author, and cares deeply about the BTSL mission. He is the author of Money Magic: Easy and Surprising Ways to Not Be Broke.

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Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com.

Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path.

Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

This week, Molly sits down with poet, minister, and Abstract Voices founder Taikeya J to explore how poetry – and the stillness beneath it – can reconnect compassionate people to their truth, emotions, and deepest dreams.

Taikeya shares how poetry became her sanctuary, how a high school poem about slavery was deemed “too strong” to publish, and how anger, healing, ancestry, and creativity can intertwine in the work of reclaiming one’s voice.

What if the doorway back to your voice wasn’t through force… but through tenderness, creativity, and quiet?

Together, Molly and Taikeya explore:

• why compassion often leads to self-silencing.
• how anger can be a righteous, clarifying emotion that signals a boundary violation.
• why poetry and creativity create a safe space for emotions that were once shamed.
• how ancestral stories and trauma echo in our bodies and beliefs and benefit from having a place to be expressed and heard.
• why many compassionate people stop dreaming – and what it takes to start again.

Today’s Guest:

Taikeya J is a poetic voice, non-profit leader, change-maker, family historian, minister and faith-rooted creative whose work bridges art, identity, and spiritual healing. She inspires audiences to rediscover wholeness, purpose, and divine rhythm. Taikeya holds a Bachelor of Arts in Hospitality Management and a master’s degree in ministry. She also founded Abstract Voices, a creative movement originally launched as a student poetry organization; it evolved into a dynamic community that bridges artistry, healing, and empowerment through written and spoken expression: https://abstractvoices.com/.

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Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at: www.boundaried.com. Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at: www.boundaried.com/path. Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

This week, Molly is joined by Dr. Melanie Griffiths – an academic, lecturer, and migration scholar whose work reveals what most of us never learned: how borders function, why human movement is not something new, and what’s really shaping the stories we’re told about “the other.”

Together, Molly and Melanie pull back from the news cycle and ask some big, tender questions: What is migration, really? Who taught us to fear it? And what happens when compassionate people start questioning the stories we’ve inherited about borders, race, and scarcity?

Exploring the myths, fears, and power structures that create division, this chat offers clarity and hope.

(And, as mentioned in the show, to step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly, visit www.boundaried.com/path.)

Molly and Melanie explore:

• why migration is a normal part of life on this planet, and how borders are a recent human invention.
• how myths of “crisis,” “invasion,” and “not enough to go around” get into our bodies and nervous systems.
• links between colonialism, capitalism, race, and today’s migration policies.
• how generational trauma, propaganda, and fear-based narratives keep us divided and disempowered.
• the role of artists, writers, and creatives in imagining new ways of living together.
• how boundaries can be an act of rebellion for compassionate people – helping us stop pouring our life force into abusive systems and relationships.

Today’s Guest:

Dr. Melanie Griffiths is an associate professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has been researching migration systems since 2007 and specializes in immigration politics and enforcement. She has written on the asylum system, irregular migration, immigration detention, deportation and other topics. Learn more at: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/griffiths-melanie.

Book Suggestions:

• Hein de Haas. 2023. How Migration Really Works: A factful guide to the most divisive issue in politics.
• Nancy Fraser. 2023. Cannibal Capitalism: How our system is devouring democracy, care and the planet – and what we can do about it.
• David Graeber and David Wengrow. 2021. Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
• Tricia Hersey (founder of the Nap Ministry). 2022. Rest is resistance: Free yourself from Grind Culture and Reclaim your Life.

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Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

For boundaries resources for compassionate people, find Molly at www.boundaried.com. Step into a 30-day Guided Boundaries Journey with Molly at www.boundaried.com/path. Pre-order Molly's new book, The Great All.

This week, Molly and clinical psychologist Dr. Molly Tucker – co-author of Saying the Wrong Thing – explore how compassionate people can speak up in emotionally charged moments. You’ll learn about psychological flexibility vs. rigidity, how to assess situational safety, what to try in the moment, and how to repair relationships when you’ve said (or not said) the “wrong” thing.

They also introduce a simple challenge: One Bold Thing per week through 2025 – small, values-aligned actions that build courage and change culture. Will you join us?

Build the skill (and nervous-system capacity) to speak up – kindly, safely, and consistently.

This packed episode covers:

• tools for speaking up with courage (and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, or ACT).
• why being “afraid to say the wrong thing” is common.
• the cost of chronic peace-keeping.
• staying in hard talks without shutting down or exploding.
• how to gauge situational safety, micro-advocacy at the dinner table, and advocating for a trans family member
• ideas for repair after saying the “wrong” thing.

Today’s Guest:

Dr. Molly Tucker is the co-author of the newly released book Saying the Wrong Thing: How to Speak Up in Difficult, Controversial, or Emotionally Charged Conversations. (Order and receive a 25% discount with code SPEAKUP25: https://www.pesi.com/item/saying-wrong-thing-156754.) She has been interested in relationships and mental health since the fifth grade when she first was trained as a “Peer Mediator” to help fellow students resolve disputes. That’s when she knew she wanted to be a Clinical Psychologist. Dr. Tucker received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Texas. She then completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System, with a specialty in Advanced Interprofessional Mental Health. Beyond formal training in multiple Empirically Supported Treatments (ESTs), she has also received extensive training in administration and interpretation of cognitive, personality, and vocational psychological assessments. If you're looking to find meaning and engage fully with life, she would be honored to walk alongside you in that journey.

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Dr. Ingrid Clayton – clinical psychologist, author, and complex trauma survivor – joins Molly to explore what it really means to heal from the fawn response (a trauma pattern that teaches compassionate people to abandon themselves to stay safe). Ingrid opens up about her new book, Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back, offering insights into how the need to please can lead you away from your true self.

Together, Molly and Ingrid discuss why fawning is a nervous system adaptation, not a personality flaw, and how laughter, creativity, and embodied practices can restore a sense of self after relational trauma. They also examine spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity, and the cultural forces that keep compassionate people over-giving and disconnected from their truth.

If you’ve ever felt yourself disappearing into relationships, or you’re trying to find your way back home to yourself, this episode is for you!

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In this chat, Molly and Ingrid uncover:

• the fawn response as a survival strategy, not pathology, and how it intertwines with attachment and early relational trauma.
• why “people-pleasing” and “codependency” miss the systemic and trauma roots.
• spiritual bypassing and toxic positivity as hidden self-abandonment.
• nervous system healing through EMDR, IFS, and body-based awareness.
• how true healing helps reclaim self, agency, and authenticity.

Today’s Guest:

Ingrid Clayton, PhD, is a psychologist and author who specializes in the intersection of spirituality, addiction, and trauma. Her latest book, Fawning, shines a light on an often-overlooked trauma response, fawning, and delves into what it is, why it happens, and how survivors can reclaim their voice and sense of self. Her memoir, Believing Me, chronicles her personal awakening to a traumatic past, while Recovering Spirituality explores how spiritual bypassing can hinder true healing in recovery. Learn more at: https://www.ingridclayton.com/, and connect with Ingrid on Instagram @ingridclaytonphd.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

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In this powerful conversation, Molly sits down with Neha Bhat (ABT, ATR-P), a licensed arts-based sexual trauma psychotherapist, visual artist, entrepreneurial coach, and bestselling author of Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist. Neha is also the creator of India’s first Global Sexual Trauma Healer’s Collective.

Together, Molly and Neha explore how sexual trauma, shame, spirituality, and culture intertwine – in the East and the West – and what true healing looks like when we reconnect to our hearts, bodies, and creative life force. They also dive into taboo topics with tenderness and truth: the generational silence around sexuality, the impact of religious and cultural conditioning, the psycho-spiritual dimensions of trauma, and the sacred work of reclaiming the body as our own.

This episode is both a deep dive into embodied healing and a compassionate invitation to slow down, integrate, and honor your becoming.

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In this episode, Molly and Neha explore:

• the intersection of spirituality, intuition, and psychology in healing work.
• cultural shame around sex and its lasting impact on the body and soul.
• community as medicine: why deep work in groups compliments one-on-one therapy.
• how cultural polarization between East and West mirrors the inner split between head and heart.
• healing not as a straight line but a circle – slowing down, tending the body, and reclaiming self-trust

Connect with Neha:

Neha Bhat is an Indian arts-based sexual trauma-focused psychotherapist, bestselling author, and expressive arts practitioner weaving together the clinical and the mystical between India and the US.

• Instagram: @indiansextherapist
• Facebook: @neha.n.bhat
• Website: www.nehabhat.org
• Book: Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist – available wherever books are sold.

Thanks for listening to We Are the Compassionate Revolution! If you love the show, please help support it (at no cost) so we can reach more compassionate souls like you: Follow or subscribe wherever you listen, rate it five stars, or write a happy review. See you next week and remember: Love is the way!

Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s website: www.boundaried.com.

Get the Boundaries Breakthrough Mini Course for FREE (limited-time offer).

Explore the Compassionate Revolution Swag Store for t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and more!

Visit the We Are the Compassionate Revolution pod page.

Follow Molly on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.