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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
From Accident to Self Trust: My Origin Story
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This episode is more personal than most…
Because I realized something recently:
I’ve been teaching self-trust…
I’ve been guiding women back into their bodies…
I’ve been holding space for healing…
But I’ve never fully shared where my own self-trust journey truly began.
And it didn’t start when I found breathwork.
It started ten years ago.
In 2016, I felt an undeniable call to move back to Virginia — even though I had no job, no home, and no real plan. I trusted the pull anyway.
About a month later, I was in a head-on collision.
Coma.
Multiple surgeries.
Wheelchair for four months.
Loss of independence overnight.
And in the middle of that breaking…
I was faced with a choice.
Stay in victimhood…
Or decide what my “new normal” would be.
That moment — lying in a hospital bed, stripped of everything familiar — was the true beginning of my self-trust journey.
In this episode, I share:
• The intuitive call that led me to move
• The accident and recovery that changed everything
• The identity unraveling that followed
• How survival patterns shaped my life and relationships
• Why mindset work alone wasn’t enough for healing
• How breathwork became the bridge back to my body
• The difference between top-down and bottom-up healing
This conversation is about more than my story.
It’s about the moments in life that break us open…
And the power we reclaim when we choose to rebuild instead of remain stuck.
If you’ve ever felt disconnected from yourself…
If you’ve been surviving instead of living…
If you’re craving a way to release what your body has been holding…
You’re not alone.
And there is a path back to yourself — breath by breath.
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If you feel called to experience this work firsthand, you’re invited to join me inside the Breathwork Membership — a space for nervous system regulation, emotional release, and rebuilding self-trust from the inside out.
Each month includes guided breathwork journeys, integration, and a supportive space to soften survival patterns and come home to yourself.
Join for one session to give it a try or the month
https://www.breathofrenewal.com/membership
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Thank you for being here.
For witnessing my story.
And for doing the brave work of choosing yourself.
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.
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If this episode resonated, the kindest thing you can do is share it with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here.
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Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍