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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. 🤍
Episodes
87 episodes
Walking on Eggshells: The Exhausting Work of Managing Someone Else's Peace
You walk into a room and you already know. Before anyone says a word. Before he even fully walks through the door. Your body has already adjusted — softer voice, different topic, a joke you don't find funny, just to test the temperature. <...
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Is It Me?": What Gaslighting Does to Your Self-Trust (And How You Get It Back)
Have you ever walked away from a conversation wondering if you're the one losing it?Maybe you don't even have a word for what's happening yet — just a quiet question running underneath everything: is it me? Or maybe you already ...
I Took the Pause I Teach — Here's What's Coming Next
I stepped away. Not because I ran out of things to say — but because I needed to do the thing I actually teach. Integrate.In this first episode of a new season, I'm sharing why the podcast went quiet, who this show is really for, and wha...
Capacity and Choice: Why Growth Requires Integration
Have you ever made the decision to change your life…only to find yourself slipping back into the same patterns?You know what you want.You’ve made the choice.And yet something inside you keeps pulling you back to what’s famili...
Cocoon Season: When Your Old Identity No Longer Fits
Have you ever felt like you're working really hard… but nothing is actually moving forward?Like you're busy, exhausted, doing all the things — yet somehow every day feels the same.In this episode, Christina shares a moment from he...
From Accident to Self Trust: My Origin Story
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 sha...
Financial Self-Trust: Identity, Money Leadership & Learning to Lead Your Numbers
In this week’s episode, we’re continuing the conversation around self-trust and boundaries — but from the financial lens.Because financial leadership isn’t just about spreadsheets…It’s about identity.It’s about who you believe...
Learning to Say No: Healing People-Pleasing, Fawning & Over-Giving
Saying no isn’t just about boundariesIt’s about self-trust.In this episode, Christina continues the monthly theme of Self-Trust & Boundaries by exploring what it really means to learn how to say no — emotionally, somati...
Why You Don’t Trust Your Financial Decisions — And How to Start Rebuilding
Financial self-trust doesn’t just impact your bank account — it impacts how you lead, decide, and feel building your business.In this Supported Life (Money) episode, Christina continues the conversation from earlier this week — moving fr...
Rebuilding Self-Trust After Survival
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 th...
Your Numbers Tell a Story: How to Use Financial Data to Support Your Vision
Coming fresh off a two-day live event, Christina records this episode in real-time integration — reflecting on the connection between nervous system safety, identity, structure… and money.Inspired by the metaphor of water — flow, resista...
From Safety to Capacity: When Structure Supports Instead of Suffocates
In January, we focused on safety — what it feels like in the body, how to recognize when you’re surviving instead of truly living, and why change isn’t simple even when you know something isn’t serving you anymore. B...
Why Looking at Your Numbers Feels So Hard (And How to Make It Safe Again)
So many women think their money struggles are about discipline, willpower, or “not being good with numbers.”Most of the time, they’re not.They’re about safety.In this episode of Loving Your Life Again, Chris...
Why You’re Always Tired, Tense, or On Edge: Understanding Nervous System Bracing
So many women think they’re anxious, broken, or “too much.”But often, they’re not.They’re braced.In this deeply grounding episode of Loving Your Life Again, Christina explores what nervous system bracing rea...
The First Financial Boundary Every Business Owner Needs (and How to Set It)
If even thinking about looking at your numbers makes your chest tighten, you’re not bad at money — your nervous system doesn’t feel safe yet.In this practical, compassionate episode of Loving Your Life Again, Christina wa...
Boundaries, Codependency, and Losing Yourself: How to Start Trusting Your Signals Again
Boundaries. Codependency. Losing yourself. These aren’t personality flaws — they’re survival strategies.In this deeply personal and grounding episode of Loving Your Life Again, Christina weaves together lived experien...
Why Looking at Your Numbers Feels So Overwhelming (And How to Make It Feel Safe Again)
If you’ve ever opened your banking app, your bookkeeping software, or even thought about your numbers and felt your whole body tighten — this episode is for you.In this episode, I’m introducing a new lane here on the podc...
Why Leaving Isn’t Simple (Even When You Know You Should)
Have you ever looked at your relationship and thought, “Why am I still here?”In this episode, we’re talking about why people stay in relationships that hurt — even when, on some level, they know something isn’t right....
Is This Relationship Serving Me — or Am I Just Surviving It? | Safety, Self-Trust & Coming Home to Yourself
Have you ever been in a relationship that didn’t look that bad on the outside — but felt exhausting, confusing, or heavy on the inside? In this episode of Loving Your Life Again, Christina explores a gentler, more ...
Safety First: Why Healing Starts in the Body (Not a “New You”)
There’s a lot of “new year, new you” messaging this time of year — and if that’s ever made you feel like you’re broken or behind, this episode is for you.In today’s episode of Loving Your Life Again, we’re starting the year with...
Choice, Voice, and the Nervous System: Rebuilding Self-Trust from the Inside Out
Have you ever said yes to something that made sense logically — only to feel resentment, exhaustion, or frustration hit later?In this episode, Christina explores the hidden cost of saying yes when your body is asking for no, and h...
Why Do We Lose Joy While Doing the Work?
As we close out the year, many of us feel the pull to push harder, do more, and prepare for what’s next. But what if the most powerful thing you could do right now… is pause?In this episode of Loving Your Life Again, Christina s...
The Law of Opposites: Why Everything Gets Hard Right Before It Gets Better
This episode is all about the Law of Opposites and how the universe uses contrast to help you choose your next level. In this raw, honest, deeply human episode, Christina shares a real-time story about traveling that started ...
Are You Still Hiding in Plain Sight? How to Feel Safe Being Seen
What if the version of you that’s been “playing it safe” was never hiding at all—she was simply protecting the parts of you that didn’t yet feel safe to be seen? In this deeply personal solo episode, host Christina Sommers op...