Ronni and Jennie: Conversations on Recovery from Childhood Trauma and Abuse
Episodes
How Guilty Pleasures Help Us Heal
18 Apr 2026
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Send us Fan MailSurvivors of childhood trauma are often made to feel that they don’t matter in the world. Our guilty pleasures can help us tap into ...
Embracing a Wholistic Approach to Healing
11 Apr 2026
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Send us Fan MailWhen you are healing from childhood trauma, you need a wide range of supports. Ronni and Jennie discuss how to go about ensuring that ...
What If It All Works Out?
04 Apr 2026
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Send us Fan MailSurvivors of childhood trauma are often good at worrying—catastrophizing, even. Ronni and Jennie talk about how you can turn that dy...
Change, Trust, Regret, and Joy
28 Mar 2026
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Send us Fan MailChange is an inevitable part of life. How you approach it can determine what you get out of each decision you make.Ronni and Jennie ar...
More on How to Effectively Challenge the Critical Voice Inside Your Head
21 Mar 2026
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Send us Fan MailWe all have negative thoughts that run through our minds—for many of us, they can seem like constant companions. Ronni and Jennie ta...
When the Universe Invites You to Heal
14 Mar 2026
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Send a textThere are times when situations keep coming up in our lives—these are invitations from the Universe to heal. Ronni and Jennie talk about ...
Trauma, “Positivity,” and Misplaced Loyalty
07 Mar 2026
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Send a textSometimes we cling to things, “hoping” they’ll get better—our trauma background primes us for this. Ronni and Jennie share how they...
Authenticity, Transparency, and Boundaries
28 Feb 2026
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Send a textIn this first episode of their 7th season, Ronni and Jennie talk about how authenticity, transparency, and boundaries are interconnected, a...
BONUS: Putting More JOY into Your Holidays!
17 Nov 2025
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Send a textThe holiday season can leave us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Ronni and Jennie share ideas for making your celebrations more joyful--w...
REPLAY: How to Navigate the Holidays with Family
01 Nov 2025
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Send a textNow is the time to begin planning what you want your holidays to look like—especially if there are some challenges in your family relatio...
BONUS: What Do You Carry from Your Lineage?
10 Aug 2025
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Send a textMany of us carry the trauma that has run through our families, but we also carry forward gifts. As Ronni and Jennie are with their families...
Take a Vacation from Healing!
05 Jul 2025
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Send a textWe all need to take break from the mental, emotional, and physical effort involved in healing from trauma. Ronni and Jennie talk about how ...
Transformational Coaching is Here!
28 Jun 2025
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Send a textRonni and Jennie talk about their plans to use all that they’ve learned, in their personal healing journeys and professional trainings, t...
The Power (and Joy) in Visualization
21 Jun 2025
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Send a textYou don’t need any special training or technique to harness your visualization power. Ronni and Jennie tell you how in this episode.
Getting to the Root of the Problem Brings True Freedom
14 Jun 2025
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Send a textWe tend to revisit patterns or problems many times over our lives, healing in layers. But what does it feel like to get to the root of the ...
How to Create Effective Affirmations
07 Jun 2025
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Send a textAffirmations are a powerful tool for self-transformation. Ronni and Jennie share their tips for creating ones that are specific to your exp...
How to Manage High-Stress Life Situations
31 May 2025
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Send a textSometimes events around you leave you feeling out of control and under stress. Ronni and Jennie share ways to stay grounded—rooted in the...
How a Breathwork Session Can Accelerate Your Healing
24 May 2025
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Send a textAfter studying breathwork and training to be facilitators, Ronni and Jennie discuss what to expect from a session—and how it could accele...
How Focusing on Your Breath Can Change Your Day…and Your Life
17 May 2025
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Send a textTaking just a few moments to focus on your breath can help you reset/regulate your nervous system, ground yourself, and gain clarity about ...
Creating Healthy Parent-Child and Sibling Relationships Throughout Your Life
10 May 2025
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Send a textAs your children move into adulthood, their relationships with you (and each other) begin to shift—just like your relationships with your...
Why the World Needs to Hear Your Story
03 May 2025
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Send a textRonni and Jennie discuss why sharing your story is an important part of the healing process, and how it can help you, as well as others.
How the Heaviness in the World Can Trigger You
26 Apr 2025
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Send a textIf you are healing from trauma, observing pain, chaos, or injustice in the world around you can be extremely triggering. Ronni and Jennie s...
Overcoming Fear and Dread
19 Apr 2025
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Send a textMost people recovering from childhood trauma know what it’s like to live with fear. Ronni and Jennie talk about how to move through fear—...
Finding Empowerment When You’re Feeling Powerless
12 Apr 2025
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Send a textTraumatic situations (including current events) can leave anyone feeling powerless. Learning how to reclaim your power is crucial for creat...
Every Day, We Invite You to Begin Again
05 Apr 2025
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Send a textThere is a Buddhist saying: “Every day, you should begin again.” This saying resonates with Ronni and Jennie deeply, and they explain h...
YOU are the Healer!
29 Mar 2025
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Send a textMany people claim to be “healers,” but the real healer is inside each of us. Ronni and Jennie talk about why it is important to underst...
Releasing Attachment to Outcome
22 Mar 2025
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Send a textTaking action in the world while releasing attachment to outcome is the key to peace of mind. Ronni and Jennie discuss how they have embrac...
How the Stages of Recovery Mirror the Stages of Grief
15 Mar 2025
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Send a textThe process of recovering from childhood trauma include stages that mirror those of grieving. Ronni and Jennie talk about how they have (an...
Good-bye, Dad
08 Mar 2025
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Send a textRonni and Jennie share funny/happy memories of their father in this send-off.
The Roller Coaster Ride of Long-Term Estrangement from Parents and Family
01 Mar 2025
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Send a textIt has been almost 30 years since Ronni and Jennie had to walk away from their parents in order to heal from their childhood. The death of ...
How To Navigate Seasons of Loss
22 Feb 2025
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Send a textThe last four months have brought many changes and losses for Ronni and Jennie. They talk about the strategies they have used to manage the...
BONUS #3: Navigating the Holidays with Family
16 Nov 2024
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Send a textNow is the time to begin planning what you want your holidays to look like—especially if there are some challenges in your family relatio...
BONUS #2: Now What? (How to Move Forward After the 2024 Election)
09 Nov 2024
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Send a textThe Red Wave that gave Donald Trump a victory in the 2024 election has left many feeling anxious about the future. Ronni and Jennie talk ab...
BONUS: Navigating Changing Family Relationships
17 Aug 2024
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Send a textAs Ronni and Jennie are together for their annual family reunion, they reflect on how they navigate changes and challenges in their family ...
When You Want to Do Something…But Realize You’re Not Ready to Do It
20 Jul 2024
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Send a textSometimes there are things in our lives that we want to accomplish, but we have to acknowledge that we might not be ready to actually do th...
How to Set Effective Boundaries
14 Jul 2024
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Send a textOne of the ongoing challenges in our healing journeys is learning how to set effective boundaries with friends, family, co-workers…or eve...
How to Disrupt Negative Self-Talk
06 Jul 2024
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Send a textThe endless loop of negative thoughts running through our heads can feel as natural to us as breathing. But each of these thoughts tears do...
Why Pursuing Healing Takes Great Courage
29 Jun 2024
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Send a textFacing the trauma you endured in childhood can be downright terrifying. Continuing to walk a healing path requires courage, as you meet the...
The Tremendous Healing Power of Conscious Connected Breathing
22 Jun 2024
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Send a textConscious connected breathing can help you access physical pain and emotions (especially around trauma) that have been trapped in your body...
The Physical Impact Childhood Trauma Can Have on Your Body Over Your Lifetime
15 Jun 2024
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Send a textSpending your childhood in fight-or-flight mode increases the cortisol levels in your body, which can have a negative impact on your health...
Watching Your Loved Ones Struggle
08 Jun 2024
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Send a textNo one likes to watch the people they care about struggle. But if you are recovering from childhood trauma, there can be additional (often ...
The Silver Linings of Walking a Path of Recovery
01 Jun 2024
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Send a textNo one chooses to be abused, and experiencing trauma changes your life forever. But there can be silver linings—even blessings—in walki...
Accepting What the World is Offering You
25 May 2024
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Send a textThings don’t always go according to plan; sometimes the world is inviting you to embrace a different option, or path. Ronni and Jennie ta...
Finding Balance Between Doing and Being
18 May 2024
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Send a textIt is so easy to get caught up in the pressure to do more—living in a whirlwind of activity that can leave you feeling overwhelmed, even ...
How to Meet Your Triggers with Compassion
11 May 2024
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Send a textAnyone healing from trauma has experienced being “triggered”—often by things that seem harmless or minor to other people. Ronni and J...
Breaking the Cycle Takes Longer Than You Think
04 May 2024
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Send a textMany who are healing from childhood trauma have vowed to break the intergenerational cycle that has been the source of their pain—they ar...
What Do I Need Right Now?
27 Apr 2024
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Send a textFor many, this is a difficult question. But being in touch with your needs is crucial to living a healthy, balanced life. And for trauma su...
Why is It so Hard to Ask for More?
20 Apr 2024
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Send a textWhy is it so hard to ask for more, even when you know you really deserve it? Ronni and Jennie share their own struggles with asking for mor...
People Have the Right NOT to Heal
13 Apr 2024
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Send a textWhen we find healing, it’s natural to want to bring those we love with us on our journey. But not everyone is ready to examine themselves...
Do You Know the Difference Between Sibling Rivalry and Sibling Abuse?
06 Apr 2024
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Send a textSibling abuse is the least understood (and most common) form of family violence—and a source of trauma for many people. Because sibling r...
How to Identify Red Flags in Abusive Relationships
30 Mar 2024
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Send a textAbusive relationships are (sadly) quite common, but identifying the warning signs early makes it much easier to leave. Ronni and Jennie sha...
How do You “Mother Yourself?”
23 Mar 2024
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Send a textThose recovering from childhood trauma, who don’t have a nurturing mother (or who have had to break contact with their mothers), are ofte...
Managing Feelings of Worthlessness
16 Mar 2024
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Send a textIf you grew up with addiction, abuse, or other forms of trauma in your home, you likely struggle with feelings of worthlessness. Ronni and ...
What to Do When You Feel "Stuck"
09 Mar 2024
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Send a textWe all go through periods in our lives where we feel like we're not where we want to be, or aren't able to move forward the way w...
BONUS EPISODE: What Does It Mean to "Live Authentically" in Recovery?
26 Aug 2023
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Send a textAs Ronni and Jennie gather with their families for their yearly summer reunion, they consider what it means to "live authentically&quo...
You Don’t Have to Be “Healed” (or “Love Yourself First”) to Build a Healthy Love Relationship
15 Jul 2023
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Send a textSome in the healing/recovery committee think that you have to “heal yourself” or “learn to love yourself” first, before you are abl...
You Don't Have to Forgive Your Abuser to Heal
08 Jul 2023
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Send a textThere is sometimes a great deal of shaming in recovery communities, urging people to "forgive" someone who has abused them, sayin...
How Do You Know If You're Healing?
01 Jul 2023
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Send a textRecovery takes consistent work, and when you’re doing it, it can be hard to tell if your effort is paying off. Then, all of a sudden, you...
Are You Afraid to "Shine Your Light" and "Share Your Gifts with the World?"
24 Jun 2023
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Send a textWe all have gifts to share with this world. Experiencing trauma or abuse in childhood can leave us feeling like what we have to offer is wo...
Unpacking the Language of Recovery and Spirituality
17 Jun 2023
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Send a textThe language used in healing communities can sometimes seem confusing or contradictory. If we are all “beings of Light,” what is “the...
"Don't Take It Personally!"
10 Jun 2023
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Send a textEasier said than done! But this week, Ronni and Jennie talk about situations that trigger defensiveness, and the strategies they use to man...
Recovery from Growing Up with Addiction, Abuse, and Mental Illness
03 Jun 2023
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Send a textRonni and Jennie talk about what the word “recovery” means to them, in the context of healing from childhood trauma, and what their rec...
Sonya Renee Taylor: "The Body is Not an Apology"
27 May 2023
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Send a textBody shaming is rampant in American culture; the “body positivity” movement has done much to challenge this and help people feel good a...
What Does It Feel Like, Growing Up with Addiction, Abuse, and Mental Illness?
20 May 2023
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Send a textThis week, Ronni and Jennie share the second chapter of the audio version of their book, “Healing Begins With Us: Breaking the Cycle of T...
Oprah, Prince Harry, and "The Me You Can't See"
13 May 2023
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Send a textThis episode from Season Two of the podcast really resonated with listeners, so we are sharing it again. In their series,"The Me You C...
How to Unwind Dysfunctional Patterns
06 May 2023
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Send a textTrying to unwind what you learned growing up in a home with trauma and abuse can be daunting, and generate a wide range of uncomfortable em...
Reconnecting with Your Body in Recovery from Childhood Trauma
29 Apr 2023
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Send a textSurvivors of childhood trauma and abuse often dissociate from their bodies in order to survive. Ronni and Jennie share their strategies for...
Setting Intentions for What You Want (and We Want All the Joy We Can Get!)
22 Apr 2023
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Send a textJennie shares her experience of setting her intention for how she wants to live her life moving forward, and the excitement of seeing how h...
Caring for Aging Parents and Recovery
15 Apr 2023
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Send a textIf we grew up with abuse or other traumas, taking care of aging parents can be fraught with additional difficulties and emotional landmines...
How to Take Up All the Space You Deserve
08 Apr 2023
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Send a textThose of us who have survived childhood trauma often make ourselves small to do so. We learn that our needs don’t matter, and that we hav...
Nurturing Your Relationship with Yourself
01 Apr 2023
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Send a textDo put as much effort into building a relationship with yourself as you do building relationships with others? Do you check in with yoursel...
Parenting in the Aftermath of Childhood Trauma and Abuse
25 Mar 2023
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Send a textAs Ronni and Jennie work on their second book, they reflect on what they should share about their own struggle to break the intergeneration...
Life Changes, Relationship Changes
18 Mar 2023
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Send a textIn season three, Ronni and Jennie shared their excitement (and anxiety) surrounding major life changes they were experiencing. In this epis...
Healing Our Sibling Relationship: A Deeper Dive
11 Mar 2023
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Send a textHaving a sibling as a partner in healing from childhood trauma can be a tremendous asset, but difficult to achieve. In this episode, Ronni ...
Back Again: What We’ve Learned in Promoting Our Book
04 Mar 2023
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Send a textRonni and Jennie have enjoyed being interviewed about their book, and in the first episode of their fourth season, share what they are cont...
Recovery Check-In: Lessons Learned and Future Plans
13 Aug 2022
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Send a textIn this season’s last episode, Ronni and Jennie reflect on how podcasting, and writing their first book together, have aided their recove...
Milestones in Our Lives Help Us Reflect on How Far We Have Come in Our Healing
06 Aug 2022
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Send a textThis week, Jennie’s youngest daughter is getting married. Milestones such as these, whether for us or our children, give us the opportuni...
How Our Pets Provide a Loving Lifeline--Helping Us Survive and Heal
30 Jul 2022
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Send a textFor survivors of trauma, our pets are often lifelines—providing the unconditional love and support we needed (but didn't get) from o...
What Grandparenting Has Taught Us About Parenting (and Our Own Recovery)
23 Jul 2022
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Send a textRonni and Jennie reflect on how being grandparents, and watching their children parent, connects to their own recovery process, and helps t...
Gaslighting, Triangular Communication, and Other Forms of Manipulation in Abusive Families
16 Jul 2022
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Send a textDysfunctional families use multiple techniques to keep patterns of abuse hidden. Ronni and Jennie explore how these destructive dynamics op...
Even Abusive Childhoods Can Produce Happy Memories
09 Jul 2022
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Send a textEven in abusive homes, there can be some good times . This week, Ronni and Jennie share some of the happy memories of their family that the...
More on Reiki and Energy Healing (Listener's Request)
02 Jul 2022
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Send a textIn response to a listener request, Ronni and Jennie talk more about their work with Reiki and other forms of energy healing.
Giving Ourselves Grace When Old Patterns Re-Emerge
25 Jun 2022
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Send a textNo matter how far along we are in our healing journey, there are deeper layers of challenges that may emerge—sometimes out of nowhere. Tr...
How to Minimize Your Own Suffering
18 Jun 2022
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Send a textThis week, Ronni and Jennie share how they’ve tried to apply Eckhart Tolle’s teaching on suffering to their lives--to minimize pain and...
It's OK to Not be OK
11 Jun 2022
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Send a textThis week finds Ronni and Jennie both working through some challenges--leading them to talk about what they do when they don't feel OK...
Cultivating Everyday Joys for Greater Peace
04 Jun 2022
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Send a textThere are many points in the day where, simply by paying greater attention, we can experience more joy—and if we are able to string these...
A Surprise Preview of Our Book: Chapter One
28 May 2022
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Send a textThis week, Ronni and Jennie are sharing the first chapter in the audio version of their book: Healing Begins With Us: Breaking the Cycle of...
Navigating Change, Part 2
21 May 2022
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Send a textWhile starting something new can be exciting and freeing, it also means letting go of the past. In this episode, Ronni and Jennie continue ...
Navigating Change
14 May 2022
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Send a textWe each face so many choices in life—moments where our lives can change directions—sometimes dramatically. Ronni and Jennie talk about ...
Mother's Day Without Mom
07 May 2022
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Send a textRonni and Jennie talk about breaking the cycle of abusive parenting--trying to figure out how to mother in a new way. They reflect on their...
Somebody Read Our Book!
30 Apr 2022
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Send a textOne of Jennie’s childhood friends, who has read their book, recently visited and Jennie had a chance to talk to her about how it impacted...
Do We Really Want People to Read Our Book??
23 Apr 2022
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Send a textNow that their book is out, Ronni and Jennie reflect on what it feels like to share the big news with everyone, and to know that people are...
Ronni Lives With Anxiety, Too
16 Apr 2022
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Send a textIn their first season, Jennie shared about her struggles with anxiety and depression. As part of writing the book, Ronni realized that she ...
We are Ronni and Jennie!
09 Apr 2022
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Send a textAs Ronni and Jennie transition from being the "Heart and SoulSisters" to being simply "Ronni and Jennie," they are enga...
Our Book is Done!
02 Apr 2022
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Send a textIn this first episode of Season 3, Ronni and Jennie share the exciting news that they have finished their book, in which they tell the stor...
Time For A Reboot!
08 Aug 2021
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Send a textAs Ronni and Jennie come to the end of their second season of podcasting and are finishing their first book manuscript, they talk about wha...
Kripalu and Omega: Places of Profound Learning and Healing
31 Jul 2021
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Send a textIn this episode, Ronni and Jennie talk about places that have nourished them and brought them in contact with like-minded souls--all of whi...
Oprah, Dr. Perry, and "What Happened to You?
24 Jul 2021
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Send a textRonni and Jennie discuss Oprah’s powerful reframing of the question most people ask of children who are troubled: What’s the matter wit...
Oprah, Prince Harry, and "The Me You Can't See"
17 Jul 2021
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Send a textFor decades, Oprah has worked to raise awareness around childhood trauma and illuminate paths to healing. In this week’s podcast, Ronni a...
Matt Kahn, Part II: The Universe Always Has a Plan
10 Jul 2021
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Send a textRonni and Jennie devote another podcast to Matt Kahn’s latest book, with ten “rules” to live by, including their favorite: “You did...