Qualified Solicitor | Higher Court Advocate | Story Listener | Emotional Mentor Rachel Elimelech is the warm, courageous voice behind Unspoken Emotions - a podcast that gives voice to the feelings we so often keep buried. A qualified Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate, Rachel combines professional insight with deeply personal lived experience - from surviving sexual abuse, loss, and single parenthood to rebuilding her life with quiet strength and unwavering resilience. Her journey from teenage single mum to respected legal professional has shaped her gift for deep connection. With empathy and authenticity, Rachel creates a safe, judgment-free space where guests are invited to speak the unspoken - grief, guilt, shame, anger, fear - and begin to let go of what no longer serves them. Through honest, unfiltered conversations, Unspoken Emotions explores how real people have turned pain into purpose and silence into healing. Rachel believes that healing begins the moment we speak the truth of our experiences - and that none of us should carry our emotions alone.
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Qualified Solicitor | Higher Court Advocate | Story Listener | Emotional Mentor Rachel Elimelech is the warm, courageous voice behind Unspoken Emotions - a podcast that gives voice to the feelings we so often keep buried. A qualified Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate, Rachel combines professional insight with deeply personal lived experience - from surviving sexual abuse, loss, and single parenthood to rebuilding her life with quiet strength and unwavering resilience. Her journey from teenage single mum to respected legal professional has shaped her gift for deep connection. With empathy and authenticity, Rachel creates a safe, judgment-free space where guests are invited to speak the unspoken - grief, guilt, shame, anger, fear - and begin to let go of what no longer serves them. Through honest, unfiltered conversations, Unspoken Emotions explores how real people have turned pain into purpose and silence into healing. Rachel believes that healing begins the moment we speak the truth of our experiences - and that none of us should carry our emotions alone.
The High Cost of Silence: How Hiding Emotions Nearly Cost Nic Collins His Life
Unspoken Emotions
1 hour 12 minutes
1 month ago
The High Cost of Silence: How Hiding Emotions Nearly Cost Nic Collins His Life
In this raw and necessary conversation, Rachel welcomes Nic Collins, a therapist, coach, and host of The Advance men’s retreat. He opens up about his personal journey from high-pressure industrial sales to a life of sobriety and authentic connection. For 20 years, Nic lived with the unspoken weight of substance use, depression, and suicidal thoughts, masking his struggles in an environment that valued toughness over vulnerability.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The Cost of Emotional Suppression: Nic's experience highlights how bottling up emotions, particularly in male-dominated, high-pressure environments, can lead to severe mental health struggles, including substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation, reinforcing the idea that vulnerability is not an option.
Growth is Non-Linear, but Consistency is Key: Nic's decade-long path to sobriety and self-discovery was a "slow burn," not a single, dramatic breakthrough.
Unspoken Emotions Don't Die, They Just Grow: Suppressed emotions will eventually find a way to express themselves, often through destructive behaviour patterns.
Finding Safety and Your True Community: Being truly authentic can cause some people to leave your life, but that simply makes space for the right people—a tribe that supports, challenges, and resonates with your genuine self—to enter.
Shifting the Narrative on Coping Mechanisms: Nic’s story shows that certain behaviours, like using weed and music, were a necessary "gasp of air" that kept him here long enough to find professional help and eventually replace those habits with healthier ones.
BEST MOMENTS
"The cost of not sharing who I truly am almost took my life."
"Unspoken emotions never die. If we ignore them, they just grow bigger and bigger."
"I was so desperate for that connection, but I wasn’t really feeling the connection because I wasn't presenting my genuine, true self."
"I think it can be simple, but it's not easy. Vulnerability is difficult."
"We overestimate what we can do in a day, but we underestimate what we can do in a year."
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HOST BIO
Rachel Elimelech is the warm, courageous voice behind Unspoken Emotions - a podcast that gives voice to the feelings we so often keep buried. A qualified Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate, Rachel combines professional insight with deeply personal lived experience - from surviving sexual abuse, loss, and single parenthood to rebuilding her life with quiet strength and unwavering resilience.
Her journey from teenage single mum to respected legal professional has shaped her gift for deep connection. With empathy and authenticity, Rachel creates a safe, judgment-free space where guests are invited to speak the unspoken - grief, guilt, shame, anger, fear - and begin to let go of what no longer serves them.
Through honest, unfiltered conversations, Unspoken Emotions explores how real people have turned pain into purpose and silence into healing. Rachel believes that healing begins the moment we speak the truth of our experiences - and that none of us should carry our emotions alone.
Unspoken Emotions
Qualified Solicitor | Higher Court Advocate | Story Listener | Emotional Mentor Rachel Elimelech is the warm, courageous voice behind Unspoken Emotions - a podcast that gives voice to the feelings we so often keep buried. A qualified Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate, Rachel combines professional insight with deeply personal lived experience - from surviving sexual abuse, loss, and single parenthood to rebuilding her life with quiet strength and unwavering resilience. Her journey from teenage single mum to respected legal professional has shaped her gift for deep connection. With empathy and authenticity, Rachel creates a safe, judgment-free space where guests are invited to speak the unspoken - grief, guilt, shame, anger, fear - and begin to let go of what no longer serves them. Through honest, unfiltered conversations, Unspoken Emotions explores how real people have turned pain into purpose and silence into healing. Rachel believes that healing begins the moment we speak the truth of our experiences - and that none of us should carry our emotions alone.
