My Healing is Your Healing

Unlearning the Woman You Were Told to Be: Good Girls, Masks, and Survival Selves

Celeste Case-Ruchala Season 2 Episode 6

Who you became wasn’t a mistake—it was survival.

In this grounding episode of My Healing Is Your Healing, Celeste explores how identity is shaped long before we’re conscious of it—through family roles, gender expectations, praise, punishment, and the quiet rules we learned about love, safety, and belonging.

This episode is not about fixing yourself.
 It’s about understanding why you became who you became—and deciding what no longer belongs.

We talk about:

  • How early conditioning shapes identity and self-worth
  • The “good girl,” achiever, caretaker, and chameleon survival roles
  • Why people-pleasing and overperforming feel like safety
  • Mistaking survival strategies for personality
  • What it means to unlearn without blaming yourself
  • How reclamation is courage—not rebellion

If you’ve ever wondered why you keep shrinking, adapting, or performing to be accepted—this episode will help you separate survival from self and begin coming home to who you actually are.

✨ You’re not becoming selfish. You’re becoming honest.

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