Soul Medicine...HEALING OUT LOUD

Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP

 Soul Medicine… HEALING OUT LOUD offers accessible psychoeducation, reflection, and meaningful conversation for people who want to understand themselves more deeply and live with greater intention. Hosted by licensed mental health practitioner Angela McCree, the show explores regulation, relationships, identity, emotional health, faith, and personal responsibility without reducing complex human experiences to quick answers. 

  1. 3d ago

    What Have You Noticed?

    A Season of Healing Out Loud What if growth isn't measured only by what you've healed, changed, or finally figured out—but by what you've learned to notice? In the Season 1 finale of Soul Medicine: HEALING OUT LOUD, Angela invites you to reflect on what your body, patterns, relationships, boundaries, capacity, faith, and the ways you are still becoming. This isn't a performance review of your healing. You don't have to resolve everything you've noticed. Sometimes awareness simply asks you to stop pretending you didn't notice. Notice. Regulate. Discern. Choose. Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud returns for Season 2 on New Year's Eve — December 31, 2026. Spill The Tea With Me: What's resonating with you? Share your thoughts, breakthroughs, questions, or reflections from today's episode. Your voice matters here. Thank you for listening to Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud. A space for reflection, awareness, and intentional living. If today's conversation resonated with you, take a moment to sit with what you've noticed. Until next time... Remember: Regulation Before Resolution™. If you're ready to take the next step in your healing journey, or if you'd like to learn more about The Relationship Room™, upcoming trainings, speaking engagements, and additional resources, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Until next time, take care of your nervous system...and take care of yourself. About Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud is a podcast hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP, founder of The Healing Advocate™. Through thoughtful conversations and practical insights, each episode explores emotional regulation, trauma recovery, relationships, identity, leadership, and sustainable well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional, leader, caregiver, or someone on your own healing journey, you'll be invited to slow down, notice, and cultivate a more regulated life.

  2. Sep 20

    Just Because You Have the Capacity Doesn’t Mean You Have the Obligation

    You have the time. You have the resources. You know how to help. You may even have the emotional capacity to hold what someone else is experiencing. But does that mean it belongs to you? In this episode of Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud, Angela explores the often-overlooked difference between capacity and obligation—and why being able to meet a need does not automatically make that need your responsibility. Through a nervous-system-informed lens, this conversation examines what can happen when usefulness becomes connected to belonging, dependability becomes part of our identity, and another person’s disappointment begins to feel like evidence that our boundary must be wrong. Together, we explore:  Capacity versus obligation  Need versus entitlement  Access versus ownership  Ability versus assignment  Why we may feel compelled to over-explain our “no”  The difference between communication and seeking permission for a boundary  How faith, service, generosity, and discernment can coexist How the nervous system can interpret discomfort as danger—and why another person’s disappointment doesn’t automatically mean something is wrong  How to recognize when service has become overfunctioning And perhaps most importantly, we consider a different understanding of capacity: Capacity is information. It tells you what is available within you. It does not automatically tell you what is required of you.  Because sometimes the work isn’t learning how to say no. Sometimes the work is learning how to remain regulated after you’ve said it.  Before automatically saying yes, consider asking: Is this mine? Notice. Regulate. Discern. Then choose. Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP Learn more and connect at aaspiringwellness.com Regulation Before Resolution™ Spill The Tea With Me: What's resonating with you? Share your thoughts, breakthroughs, questions, or reflections from today's episode. Your voice matters here. Thank you for listening to Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud. A space for reflection, awareness, and intentional living. If today's conversation resonated with you, take a moment to sit with what you've noticed. Until next time... Remember: Regulation Before Resolution™. If you're ready to take the next step in your healing journey, or if you'd like to learn more about The Relationship Room™, upcoming trainings, speaking engagements, and additional resources, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Until next time, take care of your nervous system...and take care of yourself. About Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud is a podcast hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP, founder of The Healing Advocate™. Through thoughtful conversations and practical insights, each episode explores emotional regulation, trauma recovery, relationships, identity, leadership, and sustainable well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional, leader, caregiver, or someone on your own healing journey, you'll be invited to slow down, notice, and cultivate a more regulated life.

  3. Sep 6

    NOTICE BEFORE YOU NAME IT

    What if the answers you've been searching for have been quietly introducing themselves to you all along? In this episode of Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud, Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP—also known as The Healing Advocate™—invites listeners to slow down and rediscover one of the most overlooked practices in emotional wellness: noticing. Too often, we ask ourselves, "How did I end up here?" Perhaps the better question is, "What did I notice before I got here?" Through a calming nervous system regulation exercise and a thoughtful exploration of relationships, boundaries, discernment, and emotional regulation, Angela examines how our bodies often recognize what our minds are not yet ready to accept. She explores the connection between noticing, wisdom, and healthier decision-making while encouraging listeners to move beyond assumptions and return to curiosity. In this episode, you'll explore:  Why emotional regulation creates space for discernment  The difference between noticing and judging  How our nervous system often recognizes danger before our thoughts do  Why love alone cannot sustain healthy relationships  The relationship between forgiveness, boundaries, and protecting your peace  Practical questions to help you cultivate greater awareness in every relationship This episode is an invitation to become more intentional—not only in how you relate to others, but in how you relate to yourself. You're Invited If this conversation resonates with you, I invite you to experience these principles in a completely different way at The Relationship Room™—a one-of-a-kind social-emotional wellness experience designed to help people slow down, cultivate meaningful connection, and practice the art of noticing through guided conversations, creativity, movement, and shared community. To learn more or reserve your seat, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Connect with The Healing Advocate™ 🌿 Website: www.aaspiringwellness.com 🌿 Speaking • Training • Therapy • Workshops 🌿 Follow for future episodes of Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Remember: Curiosity before conclusions. Awareness before reaction. Ownership before blame. Regulation must precede resolution. Spill The Tea With Me: What's resonating with you? Share your thoughts, breakthroughs, questions, or reflections from today's episode. Your voice matters here. Thank you for listening to Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud. A space for reflection, awareness, and intentional living. If today's conversation resonated with you, take a moment to sit with what you've noticed. Until next time... Remember: Regulation Before Resolution™. If you're ready to take the next step in your healing journey, or if you'd like to learn more about The Relationship Room™, upcoming trainings, speaking engagements, and additional resources, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Until next time, take care of your nervous system...and take care of yourself. About Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud is a podcast hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP, founder of The Healing Advocate™. Through thoughtful conversations and practical insights, each episode explores emotional regulation, trauma recovery, relationships, identity, leadership, and sustainable well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional, leader, caregiver, or someone on your own healing journey, you'll be invited to slow down, notice, and cultivate a more regulated life.

  4. Aug 23

    From Awareness to Embodiment: Self-Trust, Discipline, and the Nervous System

    What does it actually take to keep your word to yourself? In this episode of Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud, Angela sits down with Sherreallyum Allen for a grounded conversation about self-trust, discipline, nervous system regulation, and what it means to live in alignment consistently—not perfectly. Together, they explore:  why follow-through is deeply connected to self-trust  how anxiety and survival patterns can become familiar in the body  the difference between discipline and devotion  how rest, movement, faith, and self-awareness support regulation  what happens when you stop performing and start allowing yourself to simply be This conversation is not about perfection, hustle culture, or becoming someone else. It’s about learning how to stay present with yourself long enough to build trust, one choice at a time. If you’ve ever struggled with consistency, self-judgment, burnout, or feeling disconnected from yourself, this episode offers a different way to think about healing and alignment. Practise makes mastery, not perfection.  Regulation must precede resolution. Spill The Tea With Me: What's resonating with you? Share your thoughts, breakthroughs, questions, or reflections from today's episode. Your voice matters here. Thank you for listening to Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud. A space for reflection, awareness, and intentional living. If today's conversation resonated with you, take a moment to sit with what you've noticed. Until next time... Remember: Regulation Before Resolution™. If you're ready to take the next step in your healing journey, or if you'd like to learn more about The Relationship Room™, upcoming trainings, speaking engagements, and additional resources, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Until next time, take care of your nervous system...and take care of yourself. About Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud is a podcast hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP, founder of The Healing Advocate™. Through thoughtful conversations and practical insights, each episode explores emotional regulation, trauma recovery, relationships, identity, leadership, and sustainable well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional, leader, caregiver, or someone on your own healing journey, you'll be invited to slow down, notice, and cultivate a more regulated life.

  5. Aug 9

    Regulated, Not Rigid: How to Allow Connection Without Overgiving

    What happens after you’ve done the work to regulate yourself—but connection still feels complicated? In this episode of Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud, Angela explores the difference between healthy boundaries and emotional rigidity, and what it means to stay connected without abandoning yourself in the process. You’ll learn:  why regulation changes the way people experience you  how confidence is often misread in relationships  the difference between discernment and guardedness  how control quietly interferes with connection  what it means to allow connection without overexplaining, chasing, or overgiving This episode is for anyone who has learned how to protect themselves—but is now learning how to remain open, present, and emotionally available without losing who they are. Because healing is not about becoming closed off.  It’s about becoming regulated enough to stay connected without self-abandonment. Regulation must precede resolution. Spill The Tea With Me: What's resonating with you? Share your thoughts, breakthroughs, questions, or reflections from today's episode. Your voice matters here. Thank you for listening to Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud. A space for reflection, awareness, and intentional living. If today's conversation resonated with you, take a moment to sit with what you've noticed. Until next time... Remember: Regulation Before Resolution™. If you're ready to take the next step in your healing journey, or if you'd like to learn more about The Relationship Room™, upcoming trainings, speaking engagements, and additional resources, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Until next time, take care of your nervous system...and take care of yourself. About Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud is a podcast hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP, founder of The Healing Advocate™. Through thoughtful conversations and practical insights, each episode explores emotional regulation, trauma recovery, relationships, identity, leadership, and sustainable well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional, leader, caregiver, or someone on your own healing journey, you'll be invited to slow down, notice, and cultivate a more regulated life.

  6. Jul 26

    Regulation in Relationships: Attachment, Conflict, and Repair

    Most people think regulation is something we practise alone. But some of our most dysregulated moments happen in relationship—when connection feels uncertain, conflict feels threatening, or attachment wounds become activated. In this episode of Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud, Angela explores how attachment patterns and nervous system responses shape the way we experience conflict, disconnection, and repair. You’ll learn:  how attachment influences your reactions in relationships  why conflict often feels bigger than the actual issue  what happens in the body during emotional activation  how misinterpretation can occur through a dysregulated nervous system  why repair is not possible without regulation first This episode invites you to become more aware of your default responses when connection feels threatened—without judgment and without shame. Because regulation is not just about how you feel alone.  It’s about how you show up when relationships become emotionally charged. Regulation must precede resolution. Spill The Tea With Me: What's resonating with you? Share your thoughts, breakthroughs, questions, or reflections from today's episode. Your voice matters here. Thank you for listening to Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud. A space for reflection, awareness, and intentional living. If today's conversation resonated with you, take a moment to sit with what you've noticed. Until next time... Remember: Regulation Before Resolution™. If you're ready to take the next step in your healing journey, or if you'd like to learn more about The Relationship Room™, upcoming trainings, speaking engagements, and additional resources, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Until next time, take care of your nervous system...and take care of yourself. About Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud is a podcast hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP, founder of The Healing Advocate™. Through thoughtful conversations and practical insights, each episode explores emotional regulation, trauma recovery, relationships, identity, leadership, and sustainable well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional, leader, caregiver, or someone on your own healing journey, you'll be invited to slow down, notice, and cultivate a more regulated life.

  7. Jul 12

    Boundary Breakdown to Boundary Restoration: Why You Keep Crossing Your Own Boundaries

    You don’t struggle with boundaries because you don’t know what they are. You struggle with boundaries because of what happens right before you break them. In this episode of Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud, Angela walks you through the internal pattern behind boundary breakdown—so you can stop repeating the same cycle and start responding differently in the moments that matter. You’ll learn:  why boundary-breaking follows a predictable pattern (not random behavior)  how triggers, emotions, and urges lead to actions you later regret  why the urge to respond can feel like a need  how to recognize the critical moment where change actually happens  what it means to interrupt the cycle and choose differently This episode is not about becoming better at setting boundaries.  It’s about becoming more aware of what happens internally before you override yourself. Because real change doesn’t happen after the fact—  it happens in the moment. Discomfort is not danger.  Regulation must precede resolution. Spill The Tea With Me: What's resonating with you? Share your thoughts, breakthroughs, questions, or reflections from today's episode. Your voice matters here. Thank you for listening to Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud. A space for reflection, awareness, and intentional living. If today's conversation resonated with you, take a moment to sit with what you've noticed. Until next time... Remember: Regulation Before Resolution™. If you're ready to take the next step in your healing journey, or if you'd like to learn more about The Relationship Room™, upcoming trainings, speaking engagements, and additional resources, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Until next time, take care of your nervous system...and take care of yourself. About Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud is a podcast hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP, founder of The Healing Advocate™. Through thoughtful conversations and practical insights, each episode explores emotional regulation, trauma recovery, relationships, identity, leadership, and sustainable well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional, leader, caregiver, or someone on your own healing journey, you'll be invited to slow down, notice, and cultivate a more regulated life.

  8. Jun 28

    The Gap: Why You Don’t Follow Through

    Awareness can bring clarity, but it can also bring frustration. In this episode of Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud, Angela explores “the gap”—the space between knowing what needs to change and actually doing something differently. This episode helps listeners understand why follow-through is not always about motivation or discipline. Sometimes, the nervous system pulls us back toward what is familiar, predictable, and known—even when that familiar pattern is no longer helping. You’ll explore:  why awareness does not automatically create change  what happens in the space between knowing and doing  how resistance can be understood as protection  why familiar patterns can feel safer than new behavior  how to begin noticing what happens in your body before you fall back into old responses This is not about judgment.  It is about awareness, grace, and learning how to stay present when change begins to feel unfamiliar. Regulation must precede resolution. Spill The Tea With Me: What's resonating with you? Share your thoughts, breakthroughs, questions, or reflections from today's episode. Your voice matters here. Thank you for listening to Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud. A space for reflection, awareness, and intentional living. If today's conversation resonated with you, take a moment to sit with what you've noticed. Until next time... Remember: Regulation Before Resolution™. If you're ready to take the next step in your healing journey, or if you'd like to learn more about The Relationship Room™, upcoming trainings, speaking engagements, and additional resources, visit: www.aaspiringwellness.com Until next time, take care of your nervous system...and take care of yourself. About Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud Soul Medicine: Healing Out Loud is a podcast hosted by Angela McCree, M.Ed., LMFT, CTP, CSTFP, founder of The Healing Advocate™. Through thoughtful conversations and practical insights, each episode explores emotional regulation, trauma recovery, relationships, identity, leadership, and sustainable well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional, leader, caregiver, or someone on your own healing journey, you'll be invited to slow down, notice, and cultivate a more regulated life.

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 Soul Medicine… HEALING OUT LOUD offers accessible psychoeducation, reflection, and meaningful conversation for people who want to understand themselves more deeply and live with greater intention. Hosted by licensed mental health practitioner Angela McCree, the show explores regulation, relationships, identity, emotional health, faith, and personal responsibility without reducing complex human experiences to quick answers.