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This episode discusses personal experiences with Christianity and religious deconstruction. The views shared are based on lived experience and are not intended to represent all Christians, churches, or faith traditions.

This content may be triggering for individuals who have experienced spiritual or religious harm. Listener discretion is advised.

The purpose of this episode is to encourage awareness, reflection, and healing—not to debate theology or persuade belief.

This episode will trigger some people — and liberate many more.
That’s the tradeoff of truth. Worth it.

You are not burning bridges.
You’re building clarity.

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Let’s talk about the kind of breakthrough nobody glamorizes.

Not the vision-board kind.
Not the “I followed my passion and everything worked out” kind.

I’m talking about leaving the identity that paid your bills.

The version of you that was competent, dependable, respected…
but quietly dying on the inside.

If you’ve ever stayed in a role, a career, or a version of yourself because it was responsible—this episode is for you.

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We don’t just inherit eye color and jawlines—we inherit stress responses, survival patterns, beliefs, and unspoken rules. Epigenetics explains the how. Faith explains the why. Healing is the choice.

What you’ll cover (no lab coat required):

• Epigenetics 101 (plain English):

  • Trauma, famine, abuse, war, poverty → can alter gene expression

  • Genes load the gun, environment pulls the trigger

  • These markers can be passed down for generations

• Translation for real life:

  • Why anxiety “runs in families”

  • Why some people are wired for hyper-vigilance

  • Why success, rest, or joy can feel unsafe

• Faith-based lens (without preaching):

  • “The sins of the fathers” ≠ punishment, but patterns

  • Free will + awareness = interruption

  • Healing isn’t betrayal of your ancestors—it’s the evolution they didn’t get to finish

“You didn’t imagine this. Your body remembers what your mind was never told.”

• A personal realization:

  • When you noticed a pattern you didn’t consciously choose

  • A reaction, relationship, or career loop that felt bigger than “just you”

• The aha moment:

  • “This isn’t a personality flaw—this is inheritance”

• The emotional truth:

  • Grief for what your family endured

  • Anger for what was normalized

  • Relief that it wasn’t all your fault

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Here’s the permission slip I wish someone had given me:

You don’t have to heal all the way today.
You don’t have to release the pain completely.
You don’t have to rush peace.

Healing can be:

• holding the memory without self-destruction

• smiling without guilt

• laughing without apology

• choosing moments of joy without explaining yourself

You can carry love forward without carrying the wound.

And when you’re ready—not before—you’ll feel it:
That quiet shift from raw ache to sacred remembrance.

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Here’s the biggest lie we’re sold about grief:
that closure is the goal.

Closure implies something is finished.
Closure implies we’re supposed to move on.

But how do you “move on” from someone who shaped your heart?
You don’t.

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Welcome to Own Your Narrative, the space where we stop editing ourselves for approval and start writing like we mean it. I’m Dawn, your real-talk guide to breaking patterns, rewriting identity, and coloring outside the lines without asking permission.

Today’s episode is about two things most people pretend they’re okay with but secretly fear:

1. The moment our Book of Life closes, and

2. The fact that we’re living like we only deserve six crayons out of a 64-pack.

And trust me… by the end, you’re gonna want the bold colors with names like Electric Sunset, Fierce Fuchsia, and Phoenix Red.

Let’s get into it.

Hey Legacy Rebel fam, welcome back to Own Your Narrative, the place where your past doesn’t get to hold your pen anymore. I’m your host, Dawn — your favorite HR Generalist turned generational pattern assassin and transformation strategist.

Today, we’re getting into a topic that will either make you exhale with relief… or shift uncomfortably in your chair. Maybe both.

Because we are talking about trauma recovery — but not the soft-and-fluffy, inspirational-quote version.
Nope.
We’re talking about the truth:
Trauma recovery is a YOU rescue mission.

Not because other people didn’t fail you.
Not because what happened didn’t break pieces of you.
But because the only person who has the power, access, and authority to pull you out of that rubble…
is the YOU who’s alive today

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🎧 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Growth Is Scary — And That’s Exactly Why It’s Worth It
Length: 19 minutes

We love a good glow up transformation story…
but hardly anyone talks about the messy middle:

👀 Overthinking everything
😬 Being terrified to let go of who we were
😭 Ugly cry moments that do NOT look cute on camera
🤯 The chaos that shows up right before the breakthrough

In this episode, Dawn gets real about why growth can feel like emotional CrossFit — and how to keep going even when your brain is panicking like “hey what if we just… didn’t??”

You’ll learn:

• Why fear gets louder the closer you are to the breakthrough

• How to navigate identity shifts without losing yourself

• Simple, non-negotiable steps that make transformation less chaotic

• Ways to celebrate imperfect progress like a freaking champion

Growth isn’t rainbows and unicorns — at least not at the beginning.
But every tear, every leap, and every shaky step is evidence of your becoming.

Keep rising, Phoenix.
Your wings weren’t built for the ground.