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Loving Your Life Again | Toxic Relationship Recovery & Nervous System Healing For Women Ready to Heal
Loving Your Life Again is a warm, honest, and deeply grounded podcast for women who are still inside a toxic, emotionally abusive, or addiction-affected relationship — or who have just found their way out — and are finally ready to stop surviving and start healing for real. Hosted by Christina Sommers, trauma-informed breathwork facilitator and somatic coach, this show offers clarity, nervous system tools, and the kind of real talk that actually meets you where you are — so you can find your way back to yourself, your faith, and the life you were always meant to love.
If you're exhausted from carrying everything and everyone, if you feel stuck but can't quite name why, or if you've tried the five-step resets and nothing has actually stuck — this podcast was made for you. Whether you're walking on eggshells around his moods, quietly enabling an addiction you never signed up for, or holding a marriage together while slowly disappearing inside it — you are not alone, and you are not crazy. With story-first teaching, embodied healing tools, and conversations rooted in faith, each episode is designed to help you feel less alone, more grounded in your own body, and one breath closer to real peace.
Christina has walked her own journey through toxic relationship, addiction, and survival mode — all the way to wholeness — and she brings that lived experience into every single episode, alongside twenty years of grounded, practical wisdom.
What you'll hear:
- Real conversations about toxic relationships, narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, and loving an addicted spouse
- Nervous system healing, breathwork, and somatic tools you can actually use
- Faith-rooted healing for the woman who's been wrestling with God in the middle of her pain
If you're asking any of these questions, you're in the right place:
- Is this even abuse if he doesn't hit me?
- Is it okay to leave if my husband is an addict — what does God say about that?
- Why do I feel so crazy — and why can't I trust myself anymore?
- Will I ever feel like myself again?
This is the podcast for when you're done performing peace and ready to find the real thing. Tune in — and take the next breath back to loving your life. 🤍
Loving Your Life Again | Toxic Relationship Recovery & Nervous System Healing For Women Ready to Heal
Rebuilding Self-Trust After Survival
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Self-trust doesn’t disappear overnight.
It erodes slowly — through survival patterns, people-pleasing, codependency, and years of putting everyone else’s needs before your own.
For many women, the realization comes when they find themselves questioning everything — their decisions, their intuition, their voice.
In this episode, Christina opens an honest, compassionate conversation about rebuilding trust in yourself after living in survival mode.
Because self-distrust isn’t a personal failure.
It’s an adaptive response.
Through personal reflection and somatic insight, she explores how self-trust is repaired — not through force or mindset alone — but through micro-moments of honoring your body, needs, and boundaries.
In this episode, we explore:
• How survival patterns erode self-trust
• Intuition vs. hypervigilance
• What self-distrust looks like in daily decisions
• People-pleasing and codependency patterns
• Boundaries as internal safety
• Nervous system healing and trust
• How self-trust shows up in the body
• Micro-moments that begin repair
A key reminder:
Self-trust isn’t rebuilt in giant leaps.
It’s rebuilt every time you:
• Listen to your body
• Follow through on your needs
• Hold a boundary
• Choose not to abandon yourself
Small moments create deep repair.
Invitation: Monthly Breathwork Session
If you feel disconnected from yourself…
If your mind is loud but your body feels quiet…
Breathwork helps rebuild trust from the inside out.
Our next live session is this Thursday.
Join as a one-time experience — or step into the monthly membership for ongoing support.
Inside this space, we focus on:
• Nervous system regulation
• Body reconnection
• Releasing survival bracing
• Rebuilding internal safety
You don’t have to do this alone.
Sign up for the next Renewal Room session:
https://www.breathofrenewal.com/membership
Flow Your Dough — 5-Day Challenge
If self-trust wounds are showing up around money too, this is a powerful next step:
https://flowyourdough.com/challenge
💬 Reflection Question
Where in your life are you learning to trust yourself again?
And what is one small way you can honor that trust this week?
If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing.
And when you're ready, I'm here.
🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here
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Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍