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
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    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.
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    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.
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    29 mins
  • Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Head Center (Types 5,6,7) with Ro Elliott

    Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Head Center (Types 5,6,7) with Ro Elliott
    Jun 11 2026
    What if fear isn’t meant to control you… but inform you?

    In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Head Triad (Types 5, 6, and 7) and the ways fear quietly shapes how we think, plan, avoid, prepare, and protect ourselves.Together, they unpack how the head-centered types seek safety through information, vigilance, certainty, distraction, and future planning — while also revealing the wisdom and gifts hidden inside those strategies.

    This conversation explores:
    • How fear manifests differently in Types 5, 6, and 7
    • Why knowledge, questioning, and optimism can become protective shields
    • The tension between self-protection and trust
    • The hidden anxiety beneath overthinking and constant movement
    • Why sevens struggle with limits and emotional constriction
    • How sixes learn self-trust
    • The journey from fear-driven leadership to grounded presence
    • What it means to become fully embodied: head, heart, and gut aligned
    This episode is an honest and compassionate exploration of anxiety, leadership, emotional balance, and the courage required to stay present in an uncertain world.

    Connect With Ro Elliott:
    https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott

    Resources & Announcements:

    Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop
    Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others.

    Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949

    To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways

    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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    30 mins
  • Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Heart Center (Types 2,3,4) with Ro Elliott

    Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Heart Center (Types 2,3,4) with Ro Elliott
    Jun 4 2026
    What if the image you protect is also the thing keeping you disconnected?

    In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Heart Triad (Types 2, 3, and 4) and the emotional realities beneath image management, connection, and belonging.Together, they discuss how shame shapes identity, relationships, leadership, and the hidden longing to be fully seen and loved. Through honest reflection and vulnerable storytelling, this conversation reveals how heart-centered strategies are often attempts to secure love while unintentionally building walls against it.

    Topics include:
    • Why image consciousness is deeper than appearances
    • The hidden shame narratives of Types 2, 3, and 4
    • How people-pleasing, achievement, and emotional intensity become coping strategies
    • The paradox of wanting connection while hiding the true self
    • Moving from performance to genuine relationship
    • Why “people can’t have a relationship with an image”
    • What healthy vulnerability looks like in leadership and community
    This episode offers powerful insight for leaders, helpers, creatives, achievers, and anyone learning how to move from curated identity toward authentic connection.

    Connect With Ro Elliott:
    https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott

    Resources & Announcements:

    Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop
    Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others.

    Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949

    To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways

    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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    26 mins
  • Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Gut Center (Types 8,9,1) with Ro Elliott

    Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Gut Center (Types 8,9,1) with Ro Elliott
    May 28 2026
    What if anger isn’t the problem… but the signal?

    In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Gut Triad (Types 8, 9, and 1) and the hidden emotional patterns beneath instinctive leadership styles. Together, they unpack how anger shows up differently across the gut center and how each type develops protective strategies to maintain control, peace, or perfection.This conversation moves beyond stereotypes to examine the deeper motivations beneath these patterns and the cost of living disconnected from the body, truth, and vulnerability.You’ll hear reflections on:
    • Why anger is often misunderstood in the gut center
    • The hidden narratives driving Types 8, 9, and 1
    • How control, avoidance, and perfectionism form as survival strategies
    • The relationship between embodiment and authentic leadership
    • What begins to change when instinctive types soften their defenses
    • How grounded leadership emerges through honesty, presence, and integration
    This episode is both deeply practical and deeply human — an invitation to understand yourself and others with more compassion and awareness

    Connect With Ro Elliott:
    https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott

    Resources & Announcements:

    Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop
    Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others.

    Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949

    To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways

    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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    31 mins
  • Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 4 - From Shame to Wholeness w/ Daniel Herron

    Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 4 - From Shame to Wholeness w/ Daniel Herron
    May 21 2026
    In this final conversation, Daniel and Patria move beyond awareness into integration. They explore what it actually looks like to live from a grounded sense of identity rather than from shame, performance, or fragmentation. Together, they discuss compassion, curiosity, safety, regulation, and the healing power of being truly seen.

    Daniel reflects on how survival mechanisms often develop alongside our deepest gifts, and how healing untangles those gifts from fear, shame, and self-protection. This episode is ultimately about wholeness — not becoming someone new, but returning to who you were before shame convinced you to hide.

    If you’ve spent years trying to earn your worth, this conversation offers another path: grounded identity, authentic connection, and the freedom to fully inhabit your own life.

    In This Episode
    • What grounded identity actually means
    • Why compassion and curiosity are transformative
    • The role of safety in healing
    • Authenticity versus performance
    • How gifts emerge through healing
    • Moving from fragmentation toward wholeness
    Connect With Daniel:
    https://www.musathewild.com/

    Resources & Announcements:
    Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop

    Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others.

    Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949

    To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways

    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
    28 mins
  • Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 3 - Reclaiming What Shame Buried w/ Daniel Herron

    Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 3 - Reclaiming What Shame Buried w/ Daniel Herron
    May 14 2026
    Many people grow up believing their emotions, sensitivity, curiosity, or instincts are “too much.”

    In this episode, Daniel and Patria explore what it looks like to reclaim the very parts of ourselves that shame taught us to bury. Daniel shares the powerful shift from seeing himself as destructive to understanding himself as dangerous — not harmful, but no longer easily controlled by systems built on fear and conformity.

    Together, they unpack attachment, authenticity, emotional regulation, and why systems often react strongly to people who threaten the status quo simply by being fully themselves. This conversation offers a hopeful reframe for listeners who’ve spent years trying to shrink themselves to stay connected: maybe the traits you learned to fear are actually connected to your deepest gifts.

    In This Episode
    • The difference between “wild” and “destructive”
    • Attachment vs. authenticity
    • Emotional regulation and dysregulation
    • Why systems label people as “too much”
    • Reclaiming instinct, emotion, and intuition
    • The connection between shame and control
    Connect With Daniel:
    https://www.musathewild.com/


    Resources & Announcements

    Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop

    Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others.

    Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949

    To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways

    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
    34 mins