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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.

Connect with Malisa:

https://linktr.ee/Mdhepner

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In this episode, Amy sits down with psychotherapist and author Lisa Gray for a transformative conversation about one of the most misunderstood parts of human connection: conflict.

Lisa explains why most of us were never taught how to handle conflict in a healthy way, and how that lack of skill quietly affects our relationships, workplaces, families, and friendships. Together, she and Amy explore how curiosity, communication, and emotional awareness can turn conflict into something healing instead of something harmful.

In this episode, Lisa and Amy discuss:

• Why avoiding conflict creates distance

• How curiosity can change the outcome of any hard conversation

• Childhood triggers and how they shape conflict styles

• How chronic illness impacts relationships

• Differentiating reaction from healthy response

• Why vulnerability makes conflict easier, not harder

• Tools for navigating conflict at home, work, and in community

Lisa also shares her work supporting couples and individuals with chronic illness, as well as insights from her books and therapeutic practice.

If you struggle with conflict, feel misunderstood, or want to communicate more authentically, this conversation will give you clarity, comfort, and practical tools to begin shifting your relationships.

Connect with Lisa:

www.lisagraymft.com

www.lisagrayauthor.com

Instagram: @lisagraymft and @therapybooknook

Tik Tok: @lisagraymftinc

X: @gray_therapy

Learn more about Amy, apply to be a guest on the podcast, or schedule a personal Holding Space session for yourself, your business, school, community, organization, etc. here:

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In this uplifting episode of Holding Space with Authentically Amy, Amy talks with Ethan Reis, a hypnotherapist living in Costa Rica, about the powerful link between the mind, body, and spirit.

Ethan shares how multiple concussions and chronic symptoms led him on a journey of healing that revealed the deep relationship between emotional resistance and physical health. Through hypnotherapy, mindfulness, and choosing joy over fear, he learned how presence and acceptance can transform the body from within.

Together, Amy and Ethan explore:

· How suppressed emotions can manifest as physical symptoms

· The difference between stress and our response to stress

· Why following joy isn’t selfish, it’s essential

· How hypnotherapy helps access subconscious barriers and create lasting change

This conversation is a gentle reminder that healing begins when we stop resisting life and start listening to what our bodies are trying to tell us.

Connect with Ethan:

ethanreishypnotherapy.com

ethan.reis21@gmail.com

Learn more about Amy, apply to be a guest on the podcast, or schedule a personal Holding Space session for yourself, your business, school, community, organization, etc. here:

linktr.ee/getamyshelp

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/amythurman

https://www.instagram.com/amycthurman

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