Episodes

  • #183 From Red Flags to Resilience: Rebuilding After Toxic Love
    Feb 26 2026

    Have you ever felt that something was “off” in a relationship — but couldn’t explain why?

    In this deeply grounding and empowering episode, Rose Davidson is joined by trauma-informed relationship recovery coach and author Romilly Golding to explore how women can move from red flags to resilience after toxic relationships.

    Many unhealthy relationships don’t begin with obvious abuse. They begin quietly — with subtle control, confusion, self-doubt, and moments that feel small enough to dismiss. Romilly shares how these patterns develop, why they are so hard to name, and what’s actually happening beneath the surface.

    Drawing on her forthcoming book 21 Red Flags: Spotting the Subtle Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship and her lived experience, Romilly introduces her powerful four-step recovery framework:

    Recognise — identifying subtle red flags and validating your instincts
    Respond — coping strategies and protective tools while still in the relationship
    Rebuild — restoring safety, stability, and nervous system regulation
    Reclaim — reconnecting with confidence, autonomy, and personal sovereignty

    Together, Rose and Romilly explore the psychological and physiological impact of prolonged exposure to toxic dynamics, including how the body holds stress, fear, and hypervigilance. Romilly also shares practical tools women can use in real time — from power phrases and boundary setting to understanding the motivations behind controlling behaviours.

    This conversation is compassionate, practical, and deeply validating. It’s for anyone who has ever questioned their reality, minimised their pain, or wondered if they were “overreacting.”

    If you’re navigating recovery — or supporting someone who is — this episode offers clarity, language, and hope for what healing can truly look like.

    CONNECT WITH ROMILLY

    Website: https://www.romillygolding.com

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/relationship_recovery_coach/

    Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HPNbTltLVrZ15k07yITJo

    PROMOTION: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a8cKr5qCYgdPCB7AmKYHhPeDJsX0qFJZ/vi ew?usp=share_link
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    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about domestic and family violence in the community. Co-founded by Rose Davidson and Sharlene Lynch, it aims to support survivors by hosting pamper day events that provide a safe space for healing, empowerment, and connection. The organisation also hosts the Healing Through Love Podcast, which shares inspiring stories, insights, and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives. Through compassion and community, Healing Through Love strives to create a world where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

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    21 mins
  • #182 The Hidden Cost of Domestic Violence on Children’s Adult Lives
    Feb 26 2026

    What happens when the trauma of a violent childhood goes unseen for decades—and what if misunderstanding that trauma costs someone their life?

    In this deeply moving episode, Leigh-Anne Sharland shares a story that challenges how we view trauma, obesity, self-worth, and responsibility. Growing up in a household of physical and verbal violence, Leigh-Anne and her brother carried the impact into adulthood in very different ways.

    For her brother, the pain became embodied. His morbid obesity was not a choice, nor a lack of willpower—it was the visible expression of invisible trauma and a deeply rooted belief that he had no worth. Yet time and again, the medical system responded with judgment rather than understanding, pressure rather than support.

    He died at 53, not because he failed to change, but because the world failed to see what his body was holding. His story is a stark reminder that unresolved trauma does not disappear—it embeds itself into our nervous system, our behaviours, and sometimes our bodies.

    In this episode, Leigh-Anne invites us to rethink long-held assumptions about weight, motivation, and personal responsibility. She speaks with honesty and compassion about grief, loss, and the urgent need for trauma-informed care—not only in healthcare systems, but in how we treat one another as human beings.

    This conversation is for anyone who grew up in a violent or unstable home, anyone who has struggled with self-worth, and anyone working with people whose pain may not be immediately visible. It is a call to replace judgment with curiosity, and shame with compassion—because understanding is not optional. It is vital.

    CONNECT WITH LEIGH-ANNE

    Facebook: https://facebook.com/leigh-anne.sharland

    LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/leighannesharland

    Websites:

    https://www.suddenlydifferent.com
    https://www.leigh-anne.sharland.com

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    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about domestic and family violence in the community. Co-founded by Rose Davidson and Sharlene Lynch, it aims to support survivors by hosting pamper day events that provide a safe space for healing, empowerment, and connection. The organisation also hosts the Healing Through Love Podcast, which shares inspiring stories, insights, and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives. Through compassion and community, Healing Through Love strives to create a world where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

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    21 mins
  • #181 How Outdoor Living Spaces Improve Health, Calm & Connection
    Jan 31 2026

    What if one of the most effective ways to improve your mental, emotional, and physical health was already right outside your door?

    In this episode, Julie Beckwith explores the often-overlooked health benefits of outdoor living spaces and how they can play a powerful role in reducing chronic stress and supporting overall wellbeing. As modern life becomes increasingly indoor-focused, many people are unknowingly disconnecting from a natural source of regulation, calm, and healing.

    Julie explains how chronic stress impacts the nervous system, mental clarity, emotional resilience, and physical health—and why spending time outdoors can help counteract these effects. Drawing on lived experience and practical insight, she breaks down the science-backed benefits of nature in a way that’s easy to understand and apply.

    This conversation goes beyond aesthetics or expensive renovations. Julie shares simple, no-cost ways individuals and families can gain the benefits of outdoor living, regardless of space, budget, or lifestyle. From intentional pauses outside to creating small outdoor rituals, this episode offers realistic strategies that support wellbeing without adding pressure.

    Listeners will walk away with a renewed understanding of how outdoor environments support emotional regulation, connection, and restoration—especially during periods of overwhelm or fatigue. Whether you have a backyard, balcony, or access to shared outdoor spaces, this episode invites you to rethink how you engage with the outdoors as part of everyday health.

    This is a gentle yet empowering conversation about slowing down, reconnecting with nature, and using what’s already available to support a calmer, healthier life.


    CONNECT WITH JULIE

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Livingonthepatio/100090906502437/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-beckwith-aa0686315

    Website: https://www.livingonthepatio.com

    📌 PROMOTION: https://livingonthepatio.com/learn-the-surprising-health-benefits-of-an-outdoorliving-space-with-simple-easy-no-cost-ways-to-boost-good-health/

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    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about domestic and family violence in the community. Co-founded by Rose Davidson and Sharlene Lynch, it aims to support survivors by hosting pamper day events that provide a safe space for healing, empowerment, and connection. The organisation also hosts the Healing Through Love Podcast, which shares inspiring stories, insights, and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives. Through compassion and community, Healing Through Love strives to create a world where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

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    23 mins
  • #180 Decluttering After Trauma: Creating Safety, Control & Freedom at Home
    Jan 31 2026

    What if the clutter in your home isn’t a personal failure — but a survival response?

    For many women, especially survivors of family and domestic violence, clutter goes far deeper than “too much stuff.” It can be rooted in trauma, guilt, fear, and nervous system survival patterns that once helped them cope — but now keep them stuck.

    In this deeply compassionate conversation, Rose is joined by decluttering mentor Dorota Kuldo to explore how decluttering can become a powerful tool for healing after trauma. Together, they unpack why traditional decluttering advice often feels overwhelming or unsafe for trauma survivors — and how a gentle, trauma-informed approach can restore a sense of control, agency, and calm.

    Dorota explains how clutter is often linked to “good girl conditioning,” emotional attachment, and fear of scarcity, and why pushing through with harsh rules or perfectionism can retraumatise rather than heal. Instead, she shares brain-friendly, nervous-system-aware strategies that allow women to take small, compassionate steps — creating safety without overwhelm.

    This episode reframes decluttering as an act of self-protection and self-trust, not discipline. It’s about creating a home that supports healing, freedom, and peace of mind — one gentle decision at a time.

    If you’ve ever felt ashamed of your space, frozen by where to begin, or disconnected from your own home, this conversation offers a kinder, more empowering way forward.

    CONNECT WITH DOROTA

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dorotakuldo/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dorotakuldodecluttering/

    Website: https://dorotakuldo.podia.com/3moves

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    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about domestic and family violence in the community. Co-founded by Rose Davidson and Sharlene Lynch, it aims to support survivors by hosting pamper day events that provide a safe space for healing, empowerment, and connection. The organisation also hosts the Healing Through Love Podcast, which shares inspiring stories, insights, and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives. Through compassion and community, Healing Through Love strives to create a world where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

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    24 mins
  • #179 Exiting Survival Mode: Healing After Teenage Domestic Violence
    Jan 30 2026

    What if the exhaustion, over-functioning, and constant pressure you live with isn’t your personality—but survival mode that never switched off?

    In this deeply powerful episode, Rose sits down with Leticia Francis, trauma recovery mentor and author of Survival Mode Exit Plan, to explore what it truly means to exit survival mode after trauma.

    Leticia shares her lived experience of teenage domestic violence and how that early trauma shaped decades of survival-based functioning—hyper-independence, emotional suppression, and identity built around coping rather than choice. Together, this conversation gently dismantles the belief that survival mode equals strength, revealing instead the hidden cost it places on the body, relationships, and sense of self.

    This episode goes beyond awareness. Leticia breaks down:
    • The residual impacts of unresolved trauma on the nervous system
    • How survival identities form and why they’re so hard to release
    • The three distinct phases of exiting survival mode, and what each requires

    You’ll hear why healing isn’t about “fixing yourself,” why high-achieving women often stay stuck the longest, and how reclaiming truth, ease, and power begins with understanding your survival patterns—without shame.

    This is an honest, grounded, trauma-informed conversation for anyone who has lived through adversity and wonders why life still feels heavy long after the danger has passed.

    CONNECT WITH LETICIA

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticia-f/

    Website: https://www.leticiareneefrancis.com

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    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about domestic and family violence in the community. Co-founded by Rose Davidson and Sharlene Lynch, it aims to support survivors by hosting pamper day events that provide a safe space for healing, empowerment, and connection. The organisation also hosts the Healing Through Love Podcast, which shares inspiring stories, insights, and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives. Through compassion and community, Healing Through Love strives to create a world where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

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    20 mins
  • #178 Mindset After Trauma: How Healing Begins in the Mind
    Jan 22 2026

    What if the greatest healing you’ll ever experience begins in your own mind?

    In this powerful episode of Healing Through Love, Jonathan McLean shares how a major physical trauma and a near-death experience in the Himalayas completely altered the trajectory of his life. What followed wasn’t just physical recovery, but a deep, transformative journey into mindset, fear, and inner healing.

    Jonathan speaks candidly about how mindset became the most critical factor in his recovery, shaping not only how he healed, but how he chose to live afterward. Through lived experience, he explains why our thoughts are not passive — they actively influence the direction of our lives, our capacity to heal, and our ability to move forward after trauma.

    This conversation explores the uncomfortable truth that growth and healing rarely happen inside our comfort zones. Jonathan unpacks why fear is often misunderstood, and how the very thing we avoid can be our greatest invitation to heal. Rather than seeing fear as something to escape, he reframes it as a signpost pointing toward growth, integration, and self-trust.

    Listeners are invited to reflect on their own mindset patterns, the stories they tell themselves after adversity, and where they may be holding back out of fear. With warmth, clarity, and grounded insight, Jonathan offers a perspective that bridges spirituality and practicality, reminding us that healing is not about fixing what’s broken — it’s about remembering who we are beneath the fear.

    This episode is for anyone navigating recovery, change, trauma, or a personal turning point, and for those ready to explore how mindset can become a powerful ally in the healing journey.

    CONNECT WITH JONATHAN

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Osprey-Guide/61573432047440/#

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-mclean-b9a71489/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/osprey.guide/

    Website: https://www.OspreyGuide.com

    📌 PROMOTION: https://www.ospreyguide.com/course-relationship

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    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about domestic and family violence in the community. Co-founded by Rose Davidson and Sharlene Lynch, it aims to support survivors by hosting pamper day events that provide a safe space for healing, empowerment, and connection. The organisation also hosts the Healing Through Love Podcast, which shares inspiring stories, insights, and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives. Through compassion and community, Healing Through Love strives to create a world where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

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    23 mins
  • #177 Healing Through Dreamscapes: Travel, Visualization & Inner Freedom
    Jan 11 2026

    What if healing didn’t start with fixing your life—but with giving yourself permission to dream again?

    In this deeply grounding and expansive conversation, Julz Vitality introduces the concept of healing through dreamscapes—a powerful blend of visualization, mental travel, and adventure-as-therapy that supports emotional regulation, resilience, and personal renewal.

    For many women navigating trauma, grief, burnout, or major life change, reality can feel overwhelming. Julz shares how mental travel—imagining yourself in safe, expansive, or meaningful places—can calm the nervous system, restore a sense of agency, and gently reawaken hope. Whether you’re physically travelling or simply visualising it, the mind responds in ways that support healing, clarity, and emotional safety.

    Drawing on her training in NLP and the Law of Attraction, Julz explains how imagination is not avoidance—it’s preparation. Visualization helps the subconscious process emotion, create new neural pathways, and open space for possibility when life feels stuck or uncertain. This approach gives women permission to receive, to rest from survival mode, and to trust that new chapters can emerge.

    Julz also shares how she curates healing getaways for women at crossroads, offering supportive environments where confidence is rebuilt and identity is rediscovered. These retreats are not about escape, but about reconnection—to self, to freedom, and to what feels possible again.

    This episode is especially for women who:

    • Feel emotionally overwhelmed or stuck
    • Are navigating life after trauma or major change
    • Long for freedom, travel, or a sense of “elsewhere”
    • Need practical tools when reality feels unmanageable

    You’ll walk away with a grounded toolkit, renewed permission to dream, and a gentler way to meet yourself where you are—without pressure or force.

    Healing doesn’t always require movement.
    Sometimes it starts with imagination.

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    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about domestic and family violence in the community. Co-founded by Rose Davidson and Sharlene Lynch, it aims to support survivors by hosting pamper day events that provide a safe space for healing, empowerment, and connection. The organisation also hosts the Healing Through Love Podcast, which shares inspiring stories, insights, and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives. Through compassion and community, Healing Through Love strives to create a world where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

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    23 mins
  • #176 Women’s Wellness Over 40: Face Yoga for Natural Radiance
    Jan 11 2026

    What if taking just a few mindful minutes each day could transform how you feel about your face, your skin, and yourself?

    In this episode of Healing Through Love, we explore women’s wellness through the powerful and gentle practice of face yoga with holistic beauty educator Carin Andresen. Designed especially for women over 40, this conversation reframes ageing as a time of self-connection rather than self-criticism.

    Carin shares her personal journey from international modelling to natural skincare development and, ultimately, to face yoga after navigating menopause-related skin challenges and hair loss. Her story highlights a deeper truth: outer beauty evolves, but inner radiance grows when we nurture ourselves with intention.

    Listeners will discover how face yoga blends breathwork, facial exercises, acupressure, massage, and relaxation to support skin hydration, reduce puffiness, ease tension, and improve overall wellbeing. These techniques are simple, proven, and designed to be practiced at home, without expensive tools or invasive treatments.

    More than skincare, this episode is an invitation to slow down and practise self-love. Carin explains how face yoga can relieve headaches, support lymphatic drainage, and help women reconnect with their bodies during midlife transitions. You will also learn why it is never too late to learn something new and how even a short daily ritual can create lasting change.

    This episode offers a grounded, empowering perspective on ageing, wellness, and confidence. It reminds us that caring for ourselves does not have to be complicated or time consuming, and that true radiance comes from within.

    CONNECT WITH CARIN

    Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573235356160

    Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/people/Face-Yoga-New-Zealand/61573235356160/

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    Healing Through Love is a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness about domestic and family violence in the community. Co-founded by Rose Davidson and Sharlene Lynch, it aims to support survivors by hosting pamper day events that provide a safe space for healing, empowerment, and connection. The organisation also hosts the Healing Through Love Podcast, which shares inspiring stories, insights, and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives. Through compassion and community, Healing Through Love strives to create a world where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.

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    22 mins