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Echoes & Edges

Echoes & Edges

Written by: Patria Rector
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Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast is a storytelling and healing podcast hosted by Patria Rector — coach, mentor, and founder of The Broken and Beautiful. Through trauma-informed storywork, the Enneagram, and real-life relationship insights, Patria explores what it means to grow, grieve, and live with authenticity.

Listeners will hear personal narratives, practical tools for emotional health, and gentle practices for self-awareness. Each episode invites you to discover beauty in the middle of life’s messiness — and to embrace your story with kindness.

Perfect for anyone interested in emotional healing, self-discovery, relationships, or the Enneagram, Echoes and Edges is your companion for the journey toward hope and wholeness.

You are not too much. You are not too late. You’re right on time — and you’re welcome here.Patria Rector Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Self-Help Social Sciences Success
Episodes
  • Rerelease: When Faith Breaks Trust: A Sacred Story - Part Two with Hannah May

    Rerelease: When Faith Breaks Trust: A Sacred Story - Part Two with Hannah May
    Sep 24 2026
    Part Two continues the sacred conversation begun in Part One, turning toward voice, integrity, and life after spiritual harm has been named.

    Listener note: This episode includes discussion of spiritual abuse and institutional betrayal. Content is non-graphic but may be activating. Please listen with care.

    Host Patria Rector is again joined by Hannah May as they explore what comes after silence—after shame loosens its grip and self-trust begins to return. This episode centers the often costly work of reclaiming agency, setting boundaries, and choosing integrity when institutions cannot or will not change.

    Together, they reflect on accountability without repair, the grief of leaving faith communities, and the slow disentangling of God from systems that caused harm. Rather than offering easy answers, this conversation invites discernment, honesty, and courage.

    In this episode, we explore:
    • Reclaiming voice and self-trust
    • Accountability without apology
    • The grief of leaving unsafe systems
    • Faith after institutional betrayal
    • Boundaries, discernment, and integrity
    This episode continues the Echoes and Edges 2026 theme, Rise with Us: Voices that Heal, Stories that Lead, inviting listeners into a deeper conversation about healing, faith, and post-traumatic growth.

    Connect with Hannah May


    If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.

    Connect With Patria
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    The Broken & Beautiful Website

    Credits:
    Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders
    Music Promoted by Envato
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    24 mins
  • Rerelease: When Faith Breaks Trust: A Sacred Story - Part One with Hannah May

    Rerelease: When Faith Breaks Trust: A Sacred Story - Part One with Hannah May
    Sep 17 2026
    Listener note: This episode includes discussion of grooming and spiritual abuse. Content is non-graphic but may be activating. Please listen with care.

    In this episode of Echoes and Edges, Patria Rector is joined by Hannah May, founder of Sacred Story Space. Hannah shares a personal story of spiritual harm and institutional betrayal within the church. Raised in systems that blurred obedience with holiness, she reflects on how suppressed intuition, unexamined authority, and silence shaped her sense of safety, identity, and God.

    Together, we explore ambiguous grief, nervous system impact, and the ways trauma lives on in relationships and self-trust. Through storywork, discernment, and reflection, this episode invites curiosity in place of compliance—and connection in place of isolation. In this episode, we explore:
    • Spiritual harm and institutional betrayal
    • Attachment, boundaries, and loss of self-trust
    • Ambiguous grief and emotional regulation
    • Reclaiming intuition and inner authority
    • The role of storywork, community, and personal rhythms in healing
    This is not a story told for spectacle.
    It is a story held with care,

    Part Two continues the conversation, focusing on repair, resilience, and post-traumatic growth.

    Connect with Hannah May


    If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.

    Connect With Patria
    Facebook
    Instagram
    The Broken & Beautiful Website

    Credits:
    Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders
    Music Promoted by Envato
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    43 mins
  • The Front Door Was Never Locked

    The Front Door Was Never Locked
    Sep 10 2026
    The Enneagram and the Way Back to Ourselves Enneagram Series, Part 1 What if the thing you’ve spent your life searching for was never actually missing? Before we had language for personality, before we learned how to earn belonging or protect ourselves from pain, there was already a self there. In Part One of this ten-part exploration of the Enneagram, Patria begins with lightning bugs, a little backyard stream, and a childhood experience of wonder—a time before she knew to question whether she was enough. Somewhere along the way, something changed. The world began to feel as though something was missing. Then life felt as though something was missing. Eventually, she felt like the thing that was missing something. And so began the search. Years later, that search led Patria to the Enneagram. After nearly nine years of study, professional typing, teachers, coaches, mistyping and retyping, she eventually discovered that she wasn’t really searching for the right number. She was searching for herself. This series isn’t primarily about learning nine personality types. It’s about learning to recognize the patterns through which we organize our experience: what captures our attention, the meaning we make of what we see, and the strategies we developed to find love, safety, belonging and significance. Patria introduces three ideas that will guide the journey:The Holy Idea — a glimpse of reality and ourselves before personality obscures our visionThe Wound — what happened, and how we were affected by what happenedThe Strategy — the intelligent adaptations we developed in response Those strategies aren’t evidence that something is wrong with us. Many of them helped us survive, belong, achieve, connect and create. The trouble begins when a strategy becomes so familiar that we mistake it for who we are. Through her own long and winding journey toward recognizing herself as a Type Four, Patria explores what happens when a strategy becomes nearly invisible to the person using it. What if envy doesn’t look like envy? What if it becomes effort, achievement, searching and creating? What if intuition—a genuine gift—slowly becomes an assignment to notice what is missing and do something about it? And what happens when the very capacities that helped us navigate life begin narrowing what we’re able to see? But the Enneagram isn’t here to put us in a box. It’s here to help us see the pattern. Because a pattern we cannot see feels like identity. A pattern we can see becomes something we can relate to. We can begin noticing: What has my attention? What meaning am I making of what I see? And what am I compelled to do next because of that meaning? That small space between attention, interpretation and action is where choice begins. And choice makes freedom possible—not freedom from being ourselves, but greater freedom to be ourselves. In this episode: Why the Enneagram is more than a personality testHow attention, interpretation and motivation create our patternsThe relationship between wound, strategy and identityWhy our greatest adaptations can become difficult to distinguish from who we areHow Patria’s own experience of Type Four changed her understanding of envy, intuition and what’s “missing”Why gratitude can widen attention without denying painHow awareness, discernment and choice can help us recover parts of ourselves we’ve learned to leave behindBefore we begin exploring the nine types, Patria offers one invitation: Don’t fix your pattern. Notice it. What are you noticing? What meaning are you assigning to what you see? What do you find yourself wanting to do next? And perhaps, underneath all of that: What part of you might be waiting to be welcomed home? Because maybe healing isn’t finally becoming good enough to come home. Maybe we don’t have to solve ourselves before we’re allowed to be here. Maybe the front door was never locked.If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.Connect With PatriaFacebookInstagramThe Broken & Beautiful WebsiteCredits:Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. SandersMusic Promoted by Envato
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    40 mins
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