As your life begins to expand, so does your visibility and that’s a blessing that requires balance. In this episode, I open up about what it feels like to grow publicly while learning how to protect your peace, your privacy, and your purpose in the process.

We’ll explore:

✨ The pressure and beauty of being seen while healing

✨ How to stay grounded through expansion

✨ The difference between transparency and sacred privacy

✨ Setting emotional and energetic boundaries as you grow

✨ How peace can coexist with success

Healing doesn’t stop when you grow it just requires deeper awareness, stronger boundaries, and softer grace. You can evolve in public and still protect your peace.

This season of my healing has been teaching me something new how to receive. In this episode, I open up about my first YouTube Creator Day Event in Atlanta, an exclusive experience that reminded me I belong in the rooms I once dreamed of.

We’ll talk about:

✨ How imposter syndrome can make it hard to accept your blessings

✨ Why it’s okay to receive praise, love, and rest without guilt

✨ Letting go of survival mode and stepping into your “soft girl era”

✨ Redefining softness as strength and surrender as alignment

✨ A powerful affirmation to welcome abundance with grace

Sometimes the hardest part of healing isn’t working for the opportunity it’s allowing yourself to receive it.

Healing isn’t just about forgiveness or letting go, it’s also about learning to trust yourself again. In this episode, I open up about what it really means to rebuild self-trust after trauma, postpartum changes, or years of criticism that made you question your own voice.

We’ll explore:

✨ How self-trust breaks and why it’s not your fault

✨ What it actually means to trust yourself again

✨ Simple daily practices that rebuild confidence from the inside out

✨ Releasing the old voices of doubt that aren’t truly yours

✨ An empowering affirmation to remind you that growth is happening, even when you’re uncertain

You are not broken for doubting yourself, you’re human. Trust can be rebuilt, one small promise, one deep breath, and one act of self-love at a time.

Healing isn’t just about the mind or spirit, intimacy is part of the journey too. In this episode, I explore the deep connection between healing, the body, and pleasure.

We’ll talk about:

✨ How trauma, stress, or postpartum changes can disconnect us from intimacy

✨ Why body awareness through yoga and movement transforms how we experience connection

✨ The power of emotional safety and communication in creating true intimacy

✨ Skin-to-skin closeness as a grounding, therapeutic way to feel safe and loved

✨ How embracing pleasure in and out of the bedroom becomes medicine for the soul

Healing doesn’t mean shutting down your desire or your connection to your partner. It means learning to embrace intimacy again, slowly, without shame and honoring your body every step of the way.

Overthinking doesn’t protect us it drains us. The late-night spirals, the second-guessing, the endless “what ifs” they keep us stuck in fear and away from peace. In this episode, I share my own struggles with overthinking, where it comes from, and the practices that help me break free when my mind just won’t let up.

We’ll explore:

✨ Why overthinking is often rooted in fear and childhood conditioning

✨ How unexpressed thoughts create anxiety and tension in the body

✨ Practical tools breathwork, movement, journaling, and self-talk to interrupt spirals

✨ Gentle ways to create more mental space and peace in your daily life

And I’m so excited to announce my Healing Circle Subscription is now live on Apple Podcasts! My very first subscriber-only audio is a 5-minute welcome meditation, created just for you. Subscribe today to go deeper in your healing journey with me.

Remember: peace doesn’t come from controlling everything it comes from choosing presence in this moment.

In this episode, I share how creativity through yoga, contortion, journaling, or any form of expression becomes a mirror for our emotions and a pathway to release what we hold inside. Creativity isn’t about perfection; it’s about honesty. Every time you create, you give your healing a voice.

We’ll explore:

✨ How creativity reflects where we are in our healing

✨ Why expression moves energy and emotions through the body

✨ The many ways healing can look beyond “traditional” practices

✨ How creating connects us to ourselves and others

This week, I invite you to give your soul space to create not to perform, not to impress, but simply to breathe.

Healing flows through expression. What will you create today?

Depression doesn’t only affect women. Men struggle too often in silence, hidden behind strength, responsibility, and the pressure to “man up.” In this episode, I open up a conversation for the fathers, husbands, and good men out there who quietly carry emotional weight with nowhere to put it down.

I share how vulnerable conversations with my husband remind me that men need safe spaces too, and how even my own traumatic birth experience impacted him deeply the fear of losing his wife, the helplessness of watching doctors take control, the scars no one asks fathers about.

Together, we’ll explore:

✨ Why male depression is often overlooked

✨ How unspoken trauma shapes men’s mental health

✨ Small steps men can take to begin healing

✨ How women can support the men they love with compassion

Healing is not gendered. Healing is human. And when men have room to heal, families grow stronger.

Postpartum changes everything your body, your mind, your spirit. And when you’re also on a healing journey, the weight can feel unbearable. In this episode, I open up about the guilt, loneliness, and identity loss that comes after a traumatic birth, an emergency C-section, and NICU life.

This is for the moms who love their children deeply but still feel like they’ve lost themselves. For the women carrying guilt for not “bouncing back,” who smile on the outside while struggling inside.

We’ll talk about:

✨ Why postpartum makes healing even more complex

✨ The silent guilt moms carry and why it’s not the truth

✨ What it feels like to not recognize yourself after trauma

✨ How to begin relearning and embracing the new you

You are not broken. You are becoming. And you don’t have to walk through this alone.

Have you ever had one of those days where everything comes crashing down, even though you’ve been doing the work to heal? You’re meditating, journaling, breathing… and then one small moment sends you spiraling.

In this episode of This Is Healing by Kontortion with Kalise, I share a raw and honest story about my own emotional breakdown, why it happened, and what I did to pick myself back up without drowning in shame.

We’ll talk about:

• Why emotional crashes happen even when you’re “doing the work”

• The right way to recover without punishing yourself

• How to communicate your needs clearly in your relationships

• The powerful lessons that come after the storm

If you’ve ever felt like you failed at healing because you fell apart, this episode will remind you: breaking down doesn’t mean you’re broken.

Tune in, breathe, and let’s heal together.

What happens when you finally escape toxic relationships and step into a healthy one, but you don’t know how to adjust? In this episode, I open up about the hidden struggles of going from chaos to peace, and how old wounds can follow you into even the healthiest marriages.

We’ll talk about:

✔ Why stability can feel scary after years of dysfunction

✔ How past trauma creates strain in a loving relationship

✔ Practical ways to unlearn old patterns and accept love without fear

If you’ve ever wondered why healthy love still feels hard, this episode is for you.

In this episode of This Is Healing by Kontortion with Kalise, I dive into one of the most overlooked truths about the healing journey: it’s not a straight line. Healing comes with setbacks, revisiting old wounds, and moments where you feel like you’ve slipped backwards. But each loop, each pause, and each stumble is still part of the forward motion.

I’ll share how I’ve navigated those moments when old patterns resurface, what vulnerability has taught me about true strength, and why self-compassion is the key to moving through the hard days without shame.

If you’ve ever felt discouraged because your healing doesn’t look “perfect” this episode is here to remind you that your journey is valid, messy, and beautifully your own.

Episode 5: Choosing Yourself Without Guilt

Sometimes the hardest part of healing isn’t the yoga, the meditation, or the affirmations, it’s the relationships we have to reevaluate. In this episode, I open up about the moment I realized certain connections in my life were no longer safe for my peace or my growth. This isn’t a story about cutting people off; it’s about recognizing when the dynamic has changed, protecting my mental health, and allowing space for healing… without guilt. Whether you’re navigating similar challenges or simply curious about the emotional side of setting boundaries, this episode offers a raw and honest look at choosing yourself in the most difficult moments.

In this episode, I open up about how broken trust shaped my life, from childhood pain to adult hyper-independence. I talk about the walls I built to protect myself, the loneliness that followed, and the hard work of learning how to let people (and peace) in again. Through motherhood and my yoga practice, I’m slowly relearning how to trust myself, my body, and this journey. If you’ve ever felt like you had to do it all alone… this one’s for you.

In this episode, I open up about how anxiety shaped my life long before I ever had the words for it. From being berated for childhood mistakes to overworking myself in adulthood, I learned to live in survival mode always performing, always on edge. I share how becoming a mother forced me to confront my patterns and how yoga helped me begin the process of softening, surrendering, and relearning how to rest. If you’ve ever struggled to feel safe in stillness, this one’s for you.

In this episode, I open up about the parts of postpartum we don’t talk about enough, the rage, the disconnection, the shame, and the slow return to myself. I share how becoming a mother reactivated old wounds and pushed me into a new level of healing I didn’t see coming. If you’ve ever felt angry, lost, or like a stranger in your own body… this episode is for you. This is honest. This is real. This is healing.

In this first episode, I’m opening my heart and sharing the real reason I created This Is Healing. From postpartum shifts to family wounds, anxiety, and spiritual awakening, this space was born from my own journey back to self. Whether you know me from Yoga with Kalise or you’re just joining me here, welcome to the soft return. We’re breathing through the pain and into the truth one story at a time.