Reclaiming your inner knowing after life shatters your certainty
Episode Snapshot: Have you ever wondered, Can I trust myself again?
If you’ve experienced identity collapse, religious manipulation, emotional betrayal, or a season where your beliefs fell apart, this episode is for you.
In this first episode of The Notion of You, I share how losing my sense of identity in 2019 shattered my self-trust — and the exact steps I took to rebuild it from the inside out.
Self-trust is not gone forever. It can be reclaimed.
What You’ll Learn About Rebuilding Self-Trust
- Why women lose self-trust after external pressure, manipulation, or perfectionism
- How identity collapse impacts your nervous system and body awareness
- The turning point that helped me reconnect with my intuition
- The three practical shifts to rebuild self-trust in daily life
- A journaling practice to begin trusting your inner voice again
Key Moments in This Episode
0:00 Grounding practice and why this space is different
1:57 My September 2019 identity collapse and losing trust in myself
8:39 How religious manipulation and inherited beliefs disconnect women from intuition
12:29 What self-trust actually is (and what it is not)
15:24 A guided integration practice to start rebuilding self-trust today
The Lesson: How to Rebuild Self-Trust After Losing Yourself
- Section One: The Collapse: When the beliefs you inherited crumble, you’re left face-to-face with who you really are. I share the moment in September 2019 when everything inside me fell apart, and I could no longer pretend my life was working.
- Section Two: The Body Never Lies: Self-trust doesn’t just break in the mind. It breaks in the body. I describe the fog, the numbness, the grief of waking up every day feeling like I was acting in someone else’s story.
- Section Three: The Turning Point: Nine months of anger, confusion, and emotional exhaustion led to one quiet moment of clarity. I sat down, asked God what needed to change, and heard one truth with no resistance: stop drinking.
- Section Four: What Self-Trust Actually Is: Self-trust is not confidence. It’s not certainty. It’s the ability to hear your own voice and honor it. I walk through the patterns that destroy self-trust — external pressure, perfectionism, and overgiving — and why none of them mean you’re broken.
- Section Five: Rebuilding from the Inside Out: Awareness. A new north star. Daily tuning in. I teach you the three foundational shifts that bring you back home to yourself and invite you to begin practicing them today.
Journal Prompt: List one area where you disregarded your own cues recently.
Quote Worth Remembering
“My voice matters. I tune into me.”
Links & Resources
If this episode resonated, I created two things to help you go deeper:
- First, grab my free Scattered to Steady Workbook– it’s the exact framework I use when life feels chaotic.
- Then, if you want the full transformation, check out my ebook Return to Wholeness – 45 pages of practices, oil pairings, and guided rituals.