Healing After Hurt

TRIGGER WARNING!!

In one of the most raw and human conversations to date, Amy sits down with therapist and podcast host Malisa for a deeply honest exploration of trauma, emotional reactivity, survival, and the lifelong work of coming home to yourself.

Malisa shares her story with remarkable vulnerability, from a childhood marked by abuse, neglect, and loss, to a breaking point in 2023 when she quietly planned to end her life. What followed was a profound unraveling and a return to self through therapy, embodied healing, and learning to understand the emotional wounds driving her reactions.

Together, Amy and Malisa unpack the patterns so many of us carry:

• Childhood conditioning that taught us compliance over curiosity

• Being labeled “too sensitive” when we were actually being hurt

• The shame of emotional reactivity

• The disconnection from intuition that forms in dysfunctional families

• The moment healing begins, not in perfection, but in awareness

Malisa shares the tools that pulled her back into her life, including the “core wounds” framework that helped her understand betrayal, neglect, and the behaviors built around them. She also describes the moment she felt herself “come home” to her body for the first time.

Today, Malisa is a therapist helping others navigate their own stories of trauma and reconnection, and she brings that same clarity, gentleness, and truth to this conversation.

This episode is for anyone who has ever felt too much, carried shame they didn’t earn, or believed they had to hold everything together alone.

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