Loving Your Life Again | Toxic Relationship Recovery & Nervous System Healing For Women Ready to Heal

Christina Sommers | Somatic Coach & Breathwork Facilitator
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Loving Your Life Again is a warm, honest, and deeply grounded podcast for women who are still inside a toxic, emotionally abusive, or addiction-affected relationship — or who have just found their way out — and are finally ready to stop surviving and start healing for real. Hosted by Christina Sommers, trauma-informed breathwork facilitator and somatic coach, this show offers clarity, nervous system tools, and the kind of real talk that actually meets you where you are — so you can find your way back to yourself, your faith, and the life you were always meant to love. If you're exhausted from carrying everything and everyone, if you feel stuck but can't quite name why, or if you've tried the five-step resets and nothing has actually stuck — this podcast was made for you. Whether you're walking on eggshells around his moods, quietly enabling an addiction you never signed up for, or holding a marriage together while slowly disappearing inside it — you are not alone, and you are not crazy. With story-first teaching, embodied healing tools, and conversations rooted in faith, each episode is designed to help you feel less alone, more grounded in your own body, and one breath closer to real peace. Christina has walked her own journey through toxic relationship, addiction, and survival mode — all the way to wholeness — and she brings that lived experience into every single episode, alongside twenty years of grounded, practical wisdom. What you'll hear: Real conversations about toxic relationships, narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, and loving an addicted spouseNervous system healing, breathwork, and somatic tools you can actually useFaith-rooted healing for the woman who's been wrestling with God in the middle of her pain If you're asking any of these questions, you're in the right place: Is this even abuse if he doesn't hit me?Is it okay to leave if my husband is an addict — what does God say about that?Why do I feel so crazy — and why can't I trust myself anymore?Will I ever feel like myself again? This is the podcast for when you're done performing peace and ready to find the real thing. Tune in — and take the next breath back to loving your life. 🤍

  1. 4d ago

    When Your World Gets Smaller: The Quiet Isolation Nobody Warned You About

    Before we dive in — this episode came from a conversation that started in my newsletter, A Moment to Exhale. If you want to be part of where these conversations go next, come subscribe: breathofrenewal.com/exhale Sometimes isolation doesn't look like someone telling you, "You can't go." Sometimes it sounds more like: But what about me? Sometimes it's the tension you know will be waiting when you get home. The guilt that follows making plans without them. The questions about who you've been talking to when you start seeing things differently. And little by little, it becomes easier to stay home, stop sharing, stop reaching out — and your world quietly gets smaller. This week's episode wasn't the one I planned to record. After asking my community, "What part of an unhealthy or abusive relationship do you wish people talked more about openly?" one response stopped me in my tracks. She described the slow separation from family and friends that can happen when choosing anyone outside of the relationship comes with mental and emotional repercussions. So we're talking about it. In this episode, we explore: How isolation can happen without anyone explicitly saying, "You can't see them"The difference between relationships naturally drifting and connection becoming emotionally expensiveHow isolation can function as part of coercive controlWhy outside perspectives can threaten a dynamic built on questioning your own perceptionThe role identity, self-trust, people-pleasing, codependent patterns, and insecurity can play in making manipulation harder to recognizeWhy your patterns never make someone else's manipulation your faultThe difference between what feels familiar and what is actually supportive or healthyWhy healing isn't about using tools to make uncomfortable feelings disappearWhat it can look like to slowly reconnect — with yourself, with people you miss, or with new communityAnd perhaps most importantly, we come back to this: What if they didn't abandon you? What if somewhere there's still a friend thinking, I miss her. A sister wondering, Does she know she can call me? Someone who would love to hear from you again. You don't have to rebuild your entire world today. You can start with one small act of expansion. UNBOUND: Founding Five If this episode felt familiar because you're in the season of figuring out who you are after an unhealthy or abusive relationship, Unbound is now open for my Founding Five. This is a deeper space for rebuilding the relationship with yourself — your voice, your choices, your self-trust, your connection with your body, and your freedom to begin choosing your life again. If you already know you want deeper support, find more details here:  https://www.breathofrenewal.com/loving-your-life-again And if you know you want support but aren't sure what that looks like yet, A Space to Exhale is still here for you. You don't have to know exactly what you need before we talk: breathofrenewal.com/space-to-exhale One Question to Take With You Where has your world gotten smaller — and what would one tiny act of expansion look like? And I really do want to hear from you. What part of an unhealthy or abusive relationship do you wish people talked about more openly? Your response might just change the podcast schedule again. 🤍 Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. Support the show If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here. The kindest thing you can do is share this with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here. 🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here 📱 Instagram: @breath_of_renewal ✉️ hello@breathofrenewal.com Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍

  2. Sep 1

    When You're Safe Now, But Your Body Doesn't Know It Yet with Nora Rodden

    Before you dive in: this episode pairs perfectly with A Moment to Exhale — my weekly love note where we keep conversations like this one going. You can join us at breathofrenewal.com/exhale. What happens when your circumstances have changed, you know you're safe now… and your body is still responding as though the danger never ended? You left. You did the hardest thing. And somewhere in you, you thought — okay, I'm safe now. But then the pain showed up anyway. The stomach that won't settle. The sleep that won't come. And a small, tired voice starts asking: is this in my head? It's not. For years, my guest Nora Rodden lived with chronic back pain, digestive symptoms, and insomnia. She tried treatment after treatment without finding lasting relief — until a clinical research study introduced her to a completely different way of understanding the connection between her brain, body, symptoms, and nervous system. In this episode, Nora and I explore the mind-body connection, somatic awareness, chronic stress, and what can happen when your nervous system has spent years learning that it needs to protect you. We bring this conversation directly into the experience of healing after a toxic or abusive relationship — because leaving the relationship and being physically safe doesn't necessarily mean your body immediately knows the danger has passed. This is also the first of our guest conversations returning to the show, about once a month, bringing new voices and perspectives into this healing work. Inside this conversation, we talk about: Nora's journey from chronic pain, digestive issues, and insomnia to discovering mind-body work through a Harvard clinical research studyWhat "somatic" actually means, and how it differs from staying inside our thoughtsWhy curiosity toward a sensation can create a very different experience than immediately fearing or resisting itThe connection between stress, fear, hypervigilance, and persistent symptomsWhy chronic symptoms can have a structural or medical origin and still be influenced by the nervous system — and the importance of appropriate medical evaluation rather than trying to "breathe away" something that needs medical careHow people-pleasing, perfectionism, lack of boundaries, past experiences, and ongoing stress can keep the nervous system on high alertWhy you can leave an unhealthy relationship, logically know you're safe, and still experience a body that responds according to what it learned beforeThe shift from believing your body has failed you to becoming curious about how it may have been trying to protect youOne of my favorite reminders from this conversation? Your body isn't necessarily working against you. It may have become incredibly good at protecting you based on what it has experienced. And healing can include giving it new experiences that show it something different is possible. MEET NORA Nora Rodden is the Founder and CEO of Nervana, a digital health company making research-backed mind-body treatment more accessible for people with chronic symptoms. Nervana combines AI-guided support with access to human mind-body coaching to help people understand and change patterns that may be contributing to persistent symptoms. Nora holds an MS in Biotechnology and an MBA from Harvard, and previously worked in strategy and operations across the biotech industry. After recovering from chronic pain, insomnia, and digestive issues herself, she became passionate about helping more people access credible, non-drug approaches to recovery. Connect with Nora and learn more about Nervana at trynervana.com, where you can also start a 7-day free trial.  Find her @trynervana on  http://www.instagram.com/trynervana/ https://www.tiktok.com/@trynervana https://www.facebook.com/TryNervana/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/trynervana/ https://www.youtube.com/@trynervana READY FOR YOUR OWN SPACE TO EXHALE? If you've left a toxic or abusive relationship and you're beginning to realize that leaving was only one part of becoming free, I invite you to book a complimentary Space to Exhale conversation. This is a place to talk about where you are, what you're navigating, and whether deeper support may be the right next step for you. Book Your A Space to Exhale Session Now Not ready for a conversation yet? Join me for A Moment to Exhale, my weekly love note with reflections, practices, podcast conversations, and reminders to come back home to yourself, at breathofrenewal.com/exhale. Because leaving may have created freedom around you. Now you get to discover what it feels like to experience that freedom within you, too. #toxicrelationshiprecovery #nervoussystemhealing #loveyourlifeagain #breathofrenewal #somatichealing #healingjourney #mindbodyconnection #emotionalabuse #survivalmode #startingover Support the show If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here. The kindest thing you can do is share this with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here. 🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here 📱 Instagram: @breath_of_renewal ✉️ hello@breathofrenewal.com Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍

  3. Aug 25

    What Is Covert Narcissism? When the Relationship Doesn't Look Abusive From the Outside

    What if the relationship doesn't look abusive from the outside — and that's part of what makes it so hard to name? Before you dive in: this episode pairs perfectly with A Moment to Exhale, my weekly newsletter where we go even deeper into moments like this one. Get it delivered every Wednesday → breathofrenewal.com/exhale. In this episode of Loving Your Life Again, I'm beginning a new series called You Are Not Broken, where we're exploring the patterns, adaptations, and experiences that can leave women questioning themselves after unhealthy or abusive relationships. We're starting with covert narcissism — sometimes described as vulnerable narcissism — and the moment I first found language that helped me understand pieces of my own experience. This isn't about diagnosing your partner, your ex, or anyone else.  It's about awareness.  Because sometimes the most important question isn't: "Is this person a narcissist?" It's: "What is happening to me inside this relationship?" In this episode, we talk about: Why covert narcissistic patterns can be harder to recognizeThe difference between noticing narcissistic traits and diagnosing Narcissistic Personality DisorderWhat it can look like to become the fixer, peacekeeper, translator, or excuse-maker in a relationshipWalking on eggshells, rehearsing conversations, and slowly losing touch with your own wants and needsWhy someone can seem completely different to the outside world than they do inside the relationshipThe awareness checklist that helped me begin seeing my own adaptationsThe complicated overlap between addiction, manipulation, and narcissistic tendencies in my own marriageWhy "just leave" completely misses the reality of many abusive relationshipsMy experience of leaving more than once before leaving for goodThe emotional, financial, relational, and faith-based "hooks" that can make leaving complicatedHow my beliefs about God, marriage, forgiveness, and responsibility became part of my own struggleWhy awareness doesn't force you into action — it gives you access to choiceOne of the biggest realizations in my own healing was this: I wasn't only recognizing his behavior. I was recognizing mine. The ways I had adapted.  The ways I had minimized.  The ways I had learned to manage another person's emotions while becoming disconnected from my own voice. And that's where this series is going.  Not obsessing over them.  Not fixing them.  Not diagnosing them. Understanding you.  What you've carried.  How you've adapted.  What you need now.  And how you begin finding your way back to yourself. Because you are not broken.  Stay Connected  If something in this episode made you think, “Oh… that’s what I’ve been experiencing,” you don’t have to immediately know what to do with that awareness. You can simply let it land. Join me for A Moment to Exhale, my weekly love note for the woman learning how to come home to herself again: breathofrenewal.com/exhale  Ready for Deeper Support?  If you know you want support — whether that's deeper work or simply a space to process where you are right now — you can book a no-pressure conversation with me. You don't have to show up with everything figured out. We can simply talk about where you are, what you're navigating, and what might feel supportive from here: breathofrenewal.com/space-to-exhale Coming Up in the You Are Not Broken Series We'll continue exploring trauma bonding, functional freeze, codependency, why women stay, nervous system responses, the overlap between addiction and narcissistic behaviors, and what it really looks like to rebuild trust with yourself. Guest conversations will also continue to be woven throughout Loving Your Life Again, bringing in stories and perspectives around healing, identity, faith, relationships, and rebuilding. One day, one moment, one breath at a time — back to loving your life. #toxicrelationshiprecovery #narcissisticabuse #nervousystemhealing #covertnarcissism #loveyourlifeagain #breathofrenewal #christianwomenhealing #emotionalabuse #selftrustjourney #startingover Support the show If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here. The kindest thing you can do is share this with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here. 🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here 📱 Instagram: @breath_of_renewal ✉️ hello@breathofrenewal.com Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍

  4. Aug 18

    What If You Don't Need to Push Through?: Rest, Permission & Rebuilding Self-Trust

    🌿 Before you dive in: this episode pairs perfectly with A Moment to Exhale, my weekly newsletter where we go even deeper into moments like this one. Get it delivered every Wednesday → breathofrenewal.com/exhale Have you ever looked back at your week and thought, I didn't really do anything? That was me this week. My energy was low. My body was asking for rest. And instead of pushing through simply because there were things I could be doing, I listened. In this episode, I'm talking about what it looks like to honor the seasons when your body, energy, and intuition are asking you to slow down — and why that can be so uncomfortable when you've spent years overriding yourself. I share some of the ways understanding my own rhythms, including through Human Design and being a Manifestor, has given me permission to stop treating every low-energy season like a problem that needs to be fixed. And we go deeper than rest. Because when you've spent years questioning your own needs, instincts, feelings, or knowing, choosing to listen to yourself again becomes part of rebuilding self-trust. Maybe you don't need to push through. Maybe you don't need to turn your rest into a breakthrough or prove that it made you more productive afterward. Maybe you needed rest simply because you needed rest. In this episode, we explore: The pressure to always be doing, producing, or moving forwardWhat it can look like to honor your body's natural rhythmsHow constantly overriding yourself can disconnect you from your own knowingThe connection between rest, self-trust, and reclaiming your voice and choiceGiving yourself permission to have seasons where less really is enoughShow Notes: 0:00 — Intro: Almost Skipping This Episode1:37 — This Week's Honest Story2:40 — The Pull to Rest & Human Design4:01 — Checking In: What Rest Actually Looked Like6:12 — The Old Voice of "Should Haves"8:23 — Rest as a Practice10:06 — Rebuilding Trust With Yourself11:18 — Rest Doesn't Need to Produce Anything12:25 — Closing Thoughts & Where to ConnectIf you've been telling yourself you should be doing more, consider this your invitation to ask a different question: What is my body actually asking of me right now? Journal Prompts: Where are you waiting for a "big enough" reason to rest?What would it feel like to trust a "not now" from your body without guilt?What's one small way you can check in with yourself today — and actually honor what you hear?🤍 Ready to go deeper? Book a Space to Exhale — a no-agenda conversation, just for you → breathofrenewal.com/space-to-exhale Support the show If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here. The kindest thing you can do is share this with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here. 🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here 📱 Instagram: @breath_of_renewal ✉️ hello@breathofrenewal.com Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍

  5. Aug 11

    How Did I Not Know?: Releasing the Mom Guilt No One Talks About

    🌿 Before we dive in — if this episode resonates, the quiet space to stay close to this work is my newsletter, A Moment to Exhale. Every week you'll get a story, a somatic practice you can actually use, and a peek at what's coming next. Sign up at breathofrenewal.com/exhale. How did I not know? That question knocked on my door again this week — when a new piece of my daughter's story came to light, years after the fact. Not the first time. And I have a feeling I'm not the only mom who's asked herself that. In this episode, I'm sitting in the messy middle with you — processing mom guilt in real time. Not from a place of having it figured out, but from inside it. There are pieces of this that belong to my daughter, and those stay hers to tell. What I can share is what happens on my side when new information changes the way I see the past. You'll walk away with: The difference between guilt that invites repair and guilt that just keeps you trappedWhy hindsight convinces us we "should have known" — and why that's a lie worth questioningA handful of questions to help you separate grief from shame, and start setting down what was never yours to carry🌱 Journal Prompts from This Episode Where are you judging your past self through today's awareness?What responsibility are you carrying that was never yours?Is your guilt inviting growth, or keeping you imprisoned?What would compassion toward your younger self sound like today?If you've ever looked back and thought I should have known — this one's for you.  🤍 If you're ready to talk it through, there's a no-agenda conversation waiting at breathofrenewal.com/space-to-exhale. Timestamped Show Notes 0:00 — Introduction Christina welcomes listeners to Loving Your Life Again and introduces the episode topic: mom guilt and the courage it takes to process it. 3:59 — What Is Mom Guilt? Defining mom guilt as the experience of believing you failed your child — even when the situation was outside your control, or when you're judging yourself with information you didn't have at the time. 4:57 — Healthy vs. Toxic Guilt The key distinction between healthy guilt (which invites repair and growth) and chronic, toxic guilt (which keeps us trapped in self-condemnation). 7:32 — Where Does Mom Guilt Come From? Exploring the roots: deep attachment, cultural messaging, comparison, perfectionism, and the people-pleasing patterns many of us brought into motherhood long before our children arrived. 12:09 — Hindsight Bias Why we can't judge our past selves through today's awareness — and how "shoulding" all over yourself keeps you stuck. Christina shares her own story of seeing things clearly only after years of personal work. 19:14 — What Healing Has Looked Like Healing isn't convincing yourself you did everything right. It's grief, honesty, authentic conversation with your kids, and recognizing you were a different person then. 21:57 — Journal Reflection & Closing A grounding breathwork moment followed by four journal prompts to help you separate grief from shame and begin releasing what was never yours to carry. #momguilt #nervoussystemhealing #lovingyourlifeagain #breathofrenewal #somatichealing #healingjourney #selftrustjourney #hindsightbias #motherhoodhealing #startingover Support the show If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here. The kindest thing you can do is share this with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here. 🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here 📱 Instagram: @breath_of_renewal ✉️ hello@breathofrenewal.com Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍

  6. Aug 4

    What Happened to Fun? (Fun as a Signal of Safety)

    Before you dive in — every week I send A Moment to Exhale, a short note with one real story and one small tool you can actually use, so healing doesn't feel like one more thing you have to figure out alone. Join at breathofrenewal.com/exhale. What if the fact that you can't remember the last time something felt fun isn't a small thing — it's information? In this episode, Christina shares a personal pattern she's been caught in: setting intentions around fun, falling back into old routines, and what she's finally learned about why that cycle isn't failure. Drawing from a real moment in an advanced facilitation call and a somatic experiencing session, she explores why fun doesn't just reappear after a hard season — and why your nervous system may actually be the thing standing in the way. If you've done the work, healed, rebuilt, and something still feels flat, this episode is for you. Christina closes with a gentle somatic practice to help your body remember what fun even feels like. Timestamped Show Notes 0:00 — Introduction0:41 — Welcome & Show Overview1:42 — When Did Fun Disappear?2:40 — The Cycle of Falling Back Into Old Patterns5:20 — A Seed is Planted: Fun at Work6:16 — Somatic Exploration: Where Did Fun Go?8:47 — Childhood Stories & the Guard We Built13:46 — Fun as a Nervous System Signal14:51 — Why Fun Feels Unsafe After Survival Mode16:19 — Somatic Practice: Let Your Body Express Fun21:45 — Closing & Call to Action🤍 If you're ready for support putting this into your own life, you can book a conversation with me here: breathofrenewal.com/space-to-exhale #toxicrelationshiprecovery #nervoussystemhealing #loveyourlifeagain #breathofrenewal #somatichealing #healingjourney #christianwomen #joyafterhealing #whatisyourbodytellingyou #startingover Support the show If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here. The kindest thing you can do is share this with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here. 🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here 📱 Instagram: @breath_of_renewal ✉️ hello@breathofrenewal.com Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍

  7. Jul 28

    Loving an Addict: When Enabling Feels Like Devotion

    🤍 A Moment to Exhale: If you've ever loved someone with an addiction, this is a quiet place to keep going between episodes — one story, one nervous system tool, and a reminder every week that you're not carrying this alone. Join at breathofrenewal.com/exhale Loving an Addict: When Enabling Feels Like Devotion In this deeply personal episode, I open up about what it actually means to love someone with an addiction — and the quiet, gradual way that love can cause you to disappear. I break down the difference between devotion and self-abandonment, explain enabling and codependency without shame or clinical labels, and share some raw moments from my own story I haven't told this directly before. This one's for the woman who has given everything trying to love someone back to life — and is finally ready to turn some of that love back toward herself. What You'll Hear 🌿 Why enabling almost never feels like enabling while you're in it 🌿 The real difference between devotion and self-abandonment 🌿 What codependency actually is — without the shame or the clinical language 🌿 One small, somatic way to start choosing yourself again Timestamped Show Notes 0:00 – Introduction — the theme of the episode: what happens when deep love slowly makes you disappear2:21 – What Is Enabling? — why it doesn't look like weakness from the inside, it looks like love6:00 – My Story — covering, managing two versions of reality, and the moment I realized how deep in it I actually was15:02 – Understanding Codependency — what it really means, how it develops, and why it doesn't end when the relationship does18:51 – Gaslighting & Self-Abandonment — how not pushing back on an untrue version of events was also enabling, and why that was survival, not weakness21:16 – Why the Patterns Don't Stop — the grooved pathways in your nervous system that persist after the relationship ends, and why that's something to get curious about, not ashamed of22:45 – Turning Love Back Toward Yourself — practical, grounded ways to begin redirecting love inward26:45 – Breathwork & Grounding Practice — a guided moment to come back into your body29:14 – ClosingIf this episode named something you've been carrying quietly, you don't have to sort through it alone.  Book a no-agenda conversation: A Space to Exhale 🌿 Ready to go deeper into unwinding these patterns for good? Join the UNBOUND waitlist, no pressure, simply to receive information as it becomes available: https://www.breathofrenewal.com/loving-your-life-again #toxicrelationshiprecovery #nervoussystemhealing #loveyourlifeagain #breathofrenewal #codependencyrecovery #healingjourney #christianwomen #lovinganaddict #selftrustjourney #startingover Support the show If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here. The kindest thing you can do is share this with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here. 🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here 📱 Instagram: @breath_of_renewal ✉️ hello@breathofrenewal.com Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍

  8. Jul 21

    "Can I Get Divorced?": Faith, Free Will, and Finding Your Way

    Before you hit play — this one might bring things up. If you want somewhere to land afterward, A Moment to Exhale shows up in your inbox each week with the story behind the episode, a tool to help you process what surfaces, and a reminder you're not carrying this alone. breathofrenewal.com/exhale 🤍 What happens when your faith is the very thing making it hardest to choose yourself? In this deeply personal episode, Christina — breathwork facilitator, somatic coach, and host of Loving Your Life Again — walks through one of the most tender and complex tensions women of faith face: staying in a difficult marriage because of God, vows, and the fear of what leaving means about who you are. Christina shares her own story — a cross-country move on blind faith, a near-fatal car accident, and the night she cried out to God and finally heard something back — alongside a powerful reframe of the scripture that kept so many women (including herself) stuck. She also names what no one talks about: that leaving doesn't make it stop hurting, that your body keeps score long after the situation changes, and that "just pray harder" without the real work is spiritual bypassing. In this episode, you'll walk away with: Permission to grieve — the marriage you wanted, the love that doesn't just switch off, even when leaving was rightA different way to hold the verses that have felt like they were holding you captiveThe truth about free will, and why loving someone fully still couldn't save them for youThis episode is for you if your faith feels like both your greatest comfort and your heaviest weight right now. If this one stirred something in you and you want to talk it through, I'd love to sit with you — no judgment, just a safe space: breathofrenewal.com/space-to-exhale #toxicrelationshiprecovery #nervoussystemhealing #loveyourlifeagain #breathofrenewal #faithandhealing #somatichealing #healingjourney #religioustrauma #selftrustjourney #startingover Support the show If something in this episode is still sitting with you — stay there a moment. You don't have to rush to the next thing. And when you're ready, I'm here. The kindest thing you can do is share this with a woman who needs to hear she's not alone. And if you haven't yet — hit follow and leave a review. It helps more women find their way here. 🌐 Start here: www.breathofrenewal.com/start-here 📱 Instagram: @breath_of_renewal ✉️ hello@breathofrenewal.com Until next time — one day, one moment, one breath at a time back to loving your life. 🤍

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Loving Your Life Again is a warm, honest, and deeply grounded podcast for women who are still inside a toxic, emotionally abusive, or addiction-affected relationship — or who have just found their way out — and are finally ready to stop surviving and start healing for real. Hosted by Christina Sommers, trauma-informed breathwork facilitator and somatic coach, this show offers clarity, nervous system tools, and the kind of real talk that actually meets you where you are — so you can find your way back to yourself, your faith, and the life you were always meant to love. If you're exhausted from carrying everything and everyone, if you feel stuck but can't quite name why, or if you've tried the five-step resets and nothing has actually stuck — this podcast was made for you. Whether you're walking on eggshells around his moods, quietly enabling an addiction you never signed up for, or holding a marriage together while slowly disappearing inside it — you are not alone, and you are not crazy. With story-first teaching, embodied healing tools, and conversations rooted in faith, each episode is designed to help you feel less alone, more grounded in your own body, and one breath closer to real peace. Christina has walked her own journey through toxic relationship, addiction, and survival mode — all the way to wholeness — and she brings that lived experience into every single episode, alongside twenty years of grounded, practical wisdom. What you'll hear: Real conversations about toxic relationships, narcissistic abuse, emotional abuse, and loving an addicted spouseNervous system healing, breathwork, and somatic tools you can actually useFaith-rooted healing for the woman who's been wrestling with God in the middle of her pain If you're asking any of these questions, you're in the right place: Is this even abuse if he doesn't hit me?Is it okay to leave if my husband is an addict — what does God say about that?Why do I feel so crazy — and why can't I trust myself anymore?Will I ever feel like myself again? This is the podcast for when you're done performing peace and ready to find the real thing. Tune in — and take the next breath back to loving your life. 🤍

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