Anger is one of the most misunderstood emotions in healing spaces. It’s often judged, suppressed, spiritualized away, or feared.

But what if anger isn’t the problem…
What if it’s the messenger?

In this episode, we gently explore what anger is trying to tell us when it shows up in our bodies, relationships, faith, and inner world.

Rather than pathologizing anger or rushing to fix it, this conversation invites you to pause and listen beneath the surface.

We’ll touch on how anger often forms as a response to unmet needs, unspoken pain, crossed boundaries, or moments where you didn’t feel safe enough to speak or feel fully.

This episode creates space to reconsider:• Why anger shows up when something deeper hasn’t been acknowledged.
• How anger can be protective rather than destructive.
• The difference between reacting from anger and responding to its message.
• Why suppressing anger often leads to disconnection — not peace.

If you’ve ever wondered why certain situations trigger you more than others, why you feel too much, or why anger seems to arrive uninvited, this conversation will help you approach it with curiosity instead of shame.

Anger isn’t asking you to explode. It’s asking you to listen.

Press play if you’re ready to understand what your anger has been trying to protect, and what healing might look like on the other side of that awareness.

Avoidance often disguises itself as peace.

As boundaries.
As being unbothered.
As protecting your energy.

But in this episode, I gently name the truth we don’t talk about enough: avoidance comes with a cost, and it always sends the bill later.

Join me as we unpack the difference between healthy boundaries and emotional withdrawal, between peace and suppression, and between self-protection and self-abandonment.

This conversation explores:• Why avoidance is often a learned survival strategy.
• The hidden emotional, relational, and spiritual cost of avoiding hard truths.
• How avoidance erodes intimacy, confidence, and self-trust.
• The difference between boundaries and fear-based disengagement.
• How avoidance shows up in relationships, trauma responses, and faith spaces.
• Why spirituality without emotional honesty can become a form of bypassing.
• What healing actually requires: courage, truth, and self-presence

If you’ve ever said I’m fine when you weren’t, avoided difficult conversations, stayed busy to avoid feeling, or confused silence with peace, this episode is for you.

You’ll also be invited to reflect on questions like:
What conversation am I avoiding?
What emotion do I numb instead of feel?
Where have I chosen silence over self-respect?

Avoidance may keep you safe in survival, but honesty is what sets you free in healing.

Some conversations don’t start because they’re new; they start because they’re familiar.

In this episode, I sit with a truth that stopped me in my tracks after hearing it spoken by Iyanla Vanzant: “The masks we wear become our baggage.” Not poetic. Diagnostic.

This episode was sparked by watching how quickly people respond when someone dares to remove a mask, especially when that someone is a Black woman. What’s often labeled as discernment is, in reality, control. What is often called holiness is actually legalism. And what’s framed as concern can be judgment wrapped in religious language.

As a woman of faith who has served in ministry, lived inside religious systems, and later began the work of deconstruction, I share what it looks like to move from performance to healing, from conformity to conviction, and from survival to autonomy.

Within this episode, we explore:• How masks form as survival strategies.
• When faith becomes surveillance instead of transformation.
• The difference between legalism and healing.
• Why Black women feel this weight so deeply.
• The emotional cost of being the strong one, the good one, or the spiritual one.
• And what it means to unmask without shame.

This is a conversation about reclaiming your body, your voice, your choices, and your relationship with God, without fear, policing, or performance.

I’ll leave you with this question:
What mask are you still wearing… and what has it cost you?

Because when the mask is no longer serving your healing, it becomes baggage, and you deserve to travel lighter.

🎧 Press play if you’re ready to breathe again.

If you've ever felt uneasy when things are finally calm, or if peace makes you suspicious instead of settled, this conversation is for you.

Today, we're talking about the paranoia trauma leaves behind; the quiet hypervigilance that lingers even after the danger has passed.

We're unpacking why so many of us are healed enough to function, but not healed enough to rest, and how survival patterns like over-functioning, emotional guarding, and anticipating harm can follow us into new seasons if we don't pause and address them.

I'll help you understand how trauma-based paranoia shows up in real life, how it differs from intuition, and why your nervous system may still be operating as if something bad is always around the corner.

Together, we'll slow down, name what's happening (without judgment, of course), and begin creating safety from the inside out.

This conversation is an invitation to start the year softer, not guarded, not hardened, but grounded. You don't have to carry every survival skill into your next chapter.

Some things may have protected you once, but they don't have to lead you anymore.

How to Position Yourself to Win in the New Year is not about pressure, hustle, or becoming someone new. It’s about alignment.

In this episode, Coach Carla invites listeners into a grounded, honest conversation about what it truly means to prepare for a new season; emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and practically.

You’ll learn why most people carry old patterns into a new year, how healing and positioning go hand in hand, and what it looks like to release survival mode, allowing you to move with clarity and intention.

This episode explores mindset shifts, emotional regulation, boundaries, self-trust, and intentional decision-making without guilt or overwhelm.

If you’re entering the new year craving peace, clarity, and sustainable growth, not just goals, this conversation is for you.

Consider this your reset, your reminder, and your invitation to move forward aligned, healed, and ready to win.

As the year comes to a close, it’s the perfect time to reflect, not just on goals and achievements, but on the health of our relationships.

In this episode of the Woman Heal Podcast, Carla dives into 5 signs you may be overfunctioning in your relationships, often without realizing it.

Through a therapeutic yet conversational lens, this episode explores alignment, reciprocity, emotional responsibility, and the fine line between loyalty and self-abandonment.

With warmth, honesty, and real-life insight, Carla invites listeners to examine how overextending, especially from codependency or survival patterns, can quietly drain our emotional well-being.

This episode is for anyone ready to build healthier, more balanced connections and enter the next season of lifewith clarity and intention.

!!Important News!!Open enrollment for the Healing Conversations Community begins January 1, 2026. To join the waiting list, send a DM on any social media platform or emailcarla@womenofstandard.org.

This is a conversation many of us have avoided for years, but it’s one we can no longer run from.

In this episode, we’re diving deep into the truth about difficult family dynamics; the patterns we inherit, the roles we never asked for, and the wounds we carry into adulthood.

From emotionally unavailable parents to sibling dynamics, cultural expectations, religious trauma, and the unspoken rules families live by… we’re unpacking the things that shaped us long before we had language for them.

If you’ve ever felt like the strong one, the scapegoat, the black sheep, or the forgotten child… this episode will help you understand why these patterns exist and how they show up in your relationships today.

Most importantly, we talk about what healing looks like from boundaries, emotional capacity, and nervous system regulation, to rewriting old narratives and giving yourself the closure you may never receive from others.

This episode is for anyone ready to break cycles, reclaim their voice, and stop carrying emotional assignments that were never theirs to begin with.

Tune in, take a breath, and let’s navigate this together.
You’re not alone on this journey.

Learn more or join the Healing Conversations Community (HCC) at CarlaCannonLawrence.com.

Today's episode is the beginning of something BIG. I’m stepping into a brand-new chapter, one that’s been unfolding behind the scenes for years, and today, I’m finally sharing it with you.

From unexpected pivots to divine redirections, from lived experience to a deeper calling… everything has led to this moment. And now, it’s time for the podcast to evolve right along with me.

In this episode, I reveal a major transformation coming to the show, why this shift is necessary, and how it aligns with the work I’ve been doing individually, spiritually, academically, and in community.

If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like to answer a higher calling, expand your assignment, or boldly step into alignment, you’ll feel this one.

Get ready for transparency, excitement, clarity, and a glimpse into the future of this space.
A new season is here… and I want you to experience it with me.

CONNECT WITH CARLAGlobal: CarlaCannonLawrence.com

YouTube & Facebook: Healing Conversations with Carla

Instagram: @iamcoachcarla