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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/Stephen R Sanders Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Self-Help Social Sciences Success
Episodes
  • You Were Never Disqualified with Sher Nyquist

    You Were Never Disqualified with Sher Nyquist
    Jul 2 2026
    What if the very things you believe disqualify you are actually the places where your deepest wisdom is being formed? In this final conversation, Sher and Patria explore belonging, mothering, connection, creativity, self-compassion, and the lifelong nature of healing. Sher shares tender stories about the people who offered moments of nurturing when she needed them most and reflects on how those experiences helped reshape her understanding of worth and love. Together they challenge the belief that our failures, wounds, or struggles make us less valuable. Instead, they discuss how healing invites us to slow down, become present, and reclaim parts of ourselves that have been hidden by fear, shame, or survival. This episode is a beautiful reminder that healing is not about becoming someone else. It's about returning to the person you've always been beneath the wounds.

    In This Episode:
    • Why no one is truly disqualified by their story
    • The many ways nurturing and mothering appear in our lives
    • Healing through connection and belonging
    • How trauma impacts creativity and imagination
    • Slowing down enough to experience love and beauty
    • Why relationships continue to reveal opportunities for growth
    • Moving from fear toward curiosity and awe
    • The lifelong process of coming home to yourself
    Memorable Quote:
    "Healing is not a project of becoming someone else. It's a process of coming home to who we've been all along."

    Connect with Sher:
    The Broken & Beautiful Website

    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
    Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
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    35 mins
  • When Love Interrupts Shame with Sher Nyquist

    When Love Interrupts Shame with Sher Nyquist
    Jun 25 2026
    Most of us already know we are supposed to be loved, valued, and worthy. The challenge is that knowing something intellectually and experiencing it emotionally are often two very different things. In this powerful continuation of the conversation, Sher shares how receiving compassion in the middle of a story she deeply feared would expose her became a turning point in her healing. Rather than finding rejection, she encountered love—and that experience began creating entirely new possibilities inside her nervous system.

    Sher and Patria explore the inner critic, self-compassion, attachment wounds, and the neuroscience behind healing. Together they unpack why information alone rarely changes us and why genuine transformation often requires experiencing something different than we've known before. This episode offers hope for anyone who feels trapped by old beliefs, reminding us that healing often begins when love reaches places shame once controlled.

    In This Episode:
    • Why information alone doesn't create transformation
    • The role of compassion in healing trauma
    • Understanding the inner critic as a survival strategy
    • How shame shapes relationships and self-perception
    • The neuroscience of Story Work and healing
    • Creating new neural pathways through safe experiences
    • The difference between knowing you're worthy and feeling worthy
    • Learning to receive care where you once expected rejection
    Memorable Quote:
    "Healing happens when we experience something different, not simply when we understand something different."

    Connect with Sher:
    The Broken & Beautiful Website

    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
    Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
    Show More Show Less
    29 mins
  • The Deep Dark Secret Was Never What Happened to Me with Sher Nyquist

    The Deep Dark Secret Was Never What Happened to Me with Sher Nyquist
    Jun 18 2026
    What if the deepest wound isn't what happened to you—but what you came to believe about yourself because of it? In this conversation, Sher Nyquist shares her journey through shame, loneliness, and the relentless feeling that she needed to earn her place in the world. Looking back, she recognizes how survival adaptations like hypervigilance, over-functioning, and people-pleasing helped her navigate life while quietly reinforcing the belief that she was somehow not enough.

    Together, Sher and Patria explore the difference between being defined by pain and being shaped by it. They discuss childhood trauma, identity, belonging, and the courageous work of allowing hidden stories to be seen by safe people. Sher reflects on the moment Story Work changed her life and how compassion began challenging beliefs she had carried for decades.

    This episode is an invitation to consider the stories beneath your struggles and what might happen if those stories were met with understanding rather than judgment.

    In This Episode
    • The connection between shame, loneliness, and identity
    • How survival adaptations become lifelong patterns
    • The hidden cost of hypervigilance and over-responsibility
    • Being defined by pain versus being shaped by it
    • Why shame thrives in secrecy
    • The power of Story Work and compassionate witnesses
    • How healing begins when hidden stories are brought into the light
    • The surprising ways our greatest wounds can shape our calling
    Memorable Quote
    "The deepest wound isn't simply what happened to us. It's what we came to believe about ourselves because of what happened."

    Connect with Sher
    The Broken & Beautiful Website

    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
    Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
    Show More Show Less
    29 mins
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