Healing & Becoming

Tamika Thomas

Healing &Becoming is more than just a podcast—it’s a movement for faith-driven women who are ready to heal, elevate, and restore every area of their lives. Hosted by Coach Tamika, a transformational life and relationship coach, this podcast is a safe space for women of faith who refuse to let past trauma, heartbreak, or setbacks define their future. Each episode is filled with raw, transparent conversations designed to help you: ✨ Heal from past wounds and break generational cycles ✨ Elevate your mindset, money, and daily habits ✨ Restore your relationships—with God, yourself, and others ✨ Attract the life and love you deserve Through powerful testimonies, biblical wisdom, and practical strategies, you’ll hear from over comers, thought leaders, and industry experts who have conquered trauma, rebuilt their lives, and stepped into their God-given purpose. If you're a high-achieving woman of faith who is ready to stop settling and start thriving, this podcast is for you. 🎧 Tune in every Tuesday for your dose of faith, healing, and transformation! 💌 Want to go deeper? Join my Becoming H.E.R. Membership, sign up for coaching, or grab one of my digital resources! Email hello@tuesdaywithtamika.com to learn more. ✨ Because you were created to live a life that inspires, not impresses! #ChristianPodcast #FaithBasedPodcast #KingdomBusiness #HealingAndBuilding #InnerHealingJourney #FaithFilledBusiness #WomenInPurpose #PodcastForChristianWomen #ChristianGirlBoss RSSVERIFY

  1. 6d ago

    The Minister I Married Almost Destroyed Me: How I Escaped Abuse, Survived a Stroke & Found Myself Again

    What happens when the person you married to build a life with becomes the person you have to survive? In this deeply personal and powerful episode of Healing & Becoming, Coach Tamika shares her story of surviving an abusive and controlling marriage to a minister, experiencing a massive stroke, and ultimately finding the courage to reclaim her life. This is not just a story about leaving an abusive relationship. This is a story about what happens when you slowly lose yourself while trying to save a marriage. Coach Tamika vulnerably shares the relationship red flags she ignored, the controlling behavior that became normalized, emotional abuse, financial abuse, extreme jealousy, isolation, spiritual manipulation, and the psychological warfare that caused her to question herself and her own reality. She shares how her appearance, clothing, choices, and freedom became increasingly controlled and how attempts to seek spiritual guidance resulted in messages about being more submissive instead of receiving the support and protection she needed. Then came the moment that changed everything. A massive stroke left Tamika temporarily unable to move and speak. During one of the most vulnerable seasons of her life, she was forced to confront a painful truth: surviving was no longer enough. Her healing journey became the beginning of her awakening. In this episode, Coach Tamika shares how she moved from fear and survival mode into freedom, healing, self-worth, and purpose. She opens up about the moment she finally fought for herself and her children, left the relationship, and began rebuilding her life. Today, she uses the very experiences that once tried to break her to help other women heal from trauma, renew their minds, break unhealthy cycles, regulate their nervous systems, rebuild their confidence, and become who they were created to be. If you are healing from an abusive relationship, toxic marriage, emotional abuse, spiritual abuse, domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, trauma bonding, people pleasing, low self-worth, or the long-term effects of living in survival mode, this conversation is for you. This episode is also for the woman who may not have visible bruises but knows she has slowly disappeared inside her relationship. You are not weak because you stayed. You are not broken because you survived. And your story does not have to end where the pain began. Because healing is not just about leaving the relationship. Healing is learning how to find yourself again. Subscribe to Healing & Becoming for honest conversations about faith, trauma healing, nervous system regulation, emotional wellness, relationships, mindset, personal growth, purpose, and becoming the woman God created you to be. Your story is not over. Your healing is possible. And you were never meant to spend the rest of your life surviving.

  2. Aug 25

    Episode 273 Healing for Impact

    Healing for Impact: Why Your Healing Is Bigger Than You | Coach Tam What if your healing isn’t just about feeling better? What if there are people, relationships, opportunities, and assignments connected to the version of you that is willing to heal? In this special episode of Healing & Becoming, Coach Tamika shares a powerful conversation from The Sanctuary featuring guest expert Coach Tam. Together, we unpack Healing for Impact and why doing the deeper work matters not only for you, but for everyone connected to you. One of the truths we explore in this conversation is simple but confronting: Unhealed pain doesn’t stay contained. It can show up in the way we lead, love, parent, communicate, build businesses, respond to conflict, set boundaries, and even in the way we see ourselves. Healing gives us an opportunity to interrupt those patterns. In This Episode Coach Tam shares why healing is essential when we desire to make a meaningful impact in the lives of others. You'll hear about how healing affects: How we show up — Unhealed wounds can influence our reactions, decisions, boundaries, and ability to receive what is healthy.How we impact others — What we refuse to address internally can unintentionally become something the people around us have to experience externally.How we steward our influence — Greater impact requires greater internal capacity. Healing helps us carry more without allowing old wounds to lead us.Want More Conversations Like This? Join The Sanctuary. This episode is just a glimpse of what happens inside The Sanctuary, Coach Tamika's community created for women who are ready to heal, grow, deepen their faith, and become who God has called them to be. And every fourth Monday, we open the room to a special Guest Expert who brings wisdom, tools, perspective, and powerful conversations designed to help our community continue healing and becoming. We would love for you to be in the room for the next one. Join The Sanctuary: https://thesanctuarymethod.app.clientclub.net/communities/groups/the-sanctuary Connect With Coach Tamika Coach Tamika Thomas is a transformational identity and inner-healing coach, bestselling author, speaker, and host of the Healing & Becoming Podcast. Her work helps women heal past wounds, reconstruct their identity at the root, renew their minds, and become the women they were created to be. Website: coachtamikathomas.com Instagram: @TheeCoachTamika TikTok: @CoachTamika Podcast: Healing & Becoming Community: The Sanctuary If this conversation spoke to something you have been carrying, don't just listen and move on. Ask yourself: What could change around me if I finally healed what has been happening within me? Your healing is personal. But the impact of your healing was never meant to stop with you. If this episode encouraged you, share it with a woman who is healing, becoming, and preparing for greater impact. And don't forget to follow Healing & Becoming so you don't miss the conversations coming next.

  3. Aug 17

    Waking up to Yourself

    Tamika and Patrick unpack why so many women unknowingly connect their worth to what they produce. Patrick helps unpack the psychological meaning behind the dream, including how comparison can cause us to shrink and how our internal standards can become more powerful than the truth we claim to believe about ourselves. The conversation raises a challenging question: Self-Love Is a Direction Tamika and Patrick also explore self-love, particularly for people who have experienced painful or traumatic circumstances. Patrick offers a practical shift: Instead of thinking about self-love as a feeling you must somehow achieve, begin thinking about it as self-valuing. You may not wake up every morning feeling completely healed, confident, or loving toward yourself. But you can ask: “What would valuing myself look like today?” Self-love isn't necessarily a destination you finally arrive at. It's a direction you continually choose. You'll Hear About Why busyness can become an emotional avoidance strategyThe hidden relationship between productivity and worthinessHow childhood experiences shape our internal definition of “enough”Why perfectionism creates standards that may not actually existHow unmet needs can eventually turn into resentmentWhy blaming others keeps us disconnected from identifying what we truly needThe difference between destructive comparison and constructive comparisonHow comparison can reveal desire without determining worthWhat Tamika's childhood dream revealed about perfectionism and shrinkingThe intersection of psychology, spirituality, faith, and neuroscienceWhy creating new patterns can create new neural pathwaysHow living in alignment with truth can produce greater clarity and peaceA healthier definition of self-love for people navigating healingWhy self-valuing may be a more practical starting point than trying to “love yourself” Patrick Marando is a psychologist, spiritual teacher, energy healer, and author of Waking Up to Your Self: A Guide to Living Your Truth. His work combines modern psychology and spiritual insight to help people reconnect with their true selves, break free from conditioned patterns, and live with greater clarity, peace, and alignment. Learn more about Patrick, his work, book, meditations, and resources: PatrickMarando.com Connect With Coach Tamika Thomas Want to continue your healing and becoming journey? Visit: CoachTamikaThomas.com Explore coaching, resources, community, and opportunities to work with Coach Tamika. Share This Episode

  4. Jul 29

    Your Body Isn't Betraying You... It's Trapped in Survival Mode | Dr. Tara Perry on Stress, Trauma & Healing

    Your Body Isn't Betraying You... It's Trapped in Survival Mode What if your anxiety, exhaustion, people-pleasing, or chronic stress weren't personality flaws—but survival patterns your brain learned years ago? In this powerful episode of Healing & Becoming, Coach Tamika sits down with holistic medicine practitioner, former UCLA professor, and subconscious healing expert Dr. Tara Perry to unpack how unresolved stress silently affects your body, mind, emotions, and relationships. Together they explore the fascinating connection between the subconscious mind, nervous system regulation, faith, and holistic healing while providing practical tools to begin your own healing journey. If you've ever felt stuck in survival mode, overwhelmed by anxiety, or trapped in unhealthy patterns, this conversation will help you understand why—and more importantly, how to heal. In This Episode You'll Learn: ✔️ Why your body remembers stress long after the event is over ✔️ The difference between Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn responses ✔️ How people-pleasing develops as a survival strategy ✔️ Why your subconscious mind controls far more than you realize ✔️ The surprising connection between stress and chronic physical symptoms ✔️ How social media may be quietly triggering old emotional wounds ✔️ Why gratitude and laughter are scientifically proven healing tools ✔️ The importance of creating new neural pathways for lasting transformation ✔️ Practical ways to calm your nervous system naturally ✔️ How faith and neuroscience beautifully complement one another in the healing process Memorable Quotes "Your body isn't fighting against you—it has been trying to protect you." "The subconscious mind speaks through pictures, emotions, and feelings—not logic." "Healing begins when we stop surviving and start becoming." "Live a life that inspires people—not one that simply impresses them." Resources Mentioned Connect with Dr. Tara Perry 🌿 Consultations: https://consultterra.com 🌿 Nashville Practice: https://nashvillehealer.com 🎙️ Podcast: Next Level Healing Connect with Coach Tamika 🌐 Website: https://www.coachtamikathomas.com 💜 Join The Sanctuary Community: https://bit.ly/CoachTamikaSanctuary 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachtamika 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoachTamika 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coachtamika 🎧 Listen to Healing & Becoming on your favorite podcast platform.

    Your Body Isn't Betraying You... It's Trapped in Survival Mode | Dr. Tara Perry on Stress, Trauma & Healing
  5. Jul 26

    The Truth About Betrayal Trauma: Why Infidelity Changes Everything & How to Truly Heal | with Mr. J

    Have you ever wondered why betrayal feels different than every other kind of pain? Why does one person's decision leave you questioning your worth, your identity, your faith, and even your future? In this powerful episode of Healing & Becoming, Coach Tamika sits down with betrayal trauma practitioner and intrapersonal relationship coach Mr. J for one of the most eye-opening conversations we've ever had. Together, they unpack what betrayal trauma actually is, why traditional advice often falls short, and what real healing can look like. Whether you've experienced infidelity, emotional betrayal, family betrayal, church hurt, or simply feel like you've lost yourself after trusting the wrong person, this conversation will remind you that healing is possible. This episode combines practical psychology, faith, neuroscience, and compassionate truth to help you begin rebuilding your life from the inside out. In This Episode You'll Learn ✔ What makes betrayal trauma different from every other type of trauma ✔ Why betrayal impacts your identity, not just your relationship ✔ How silent grief keeps so many people stuck ✔ Why every healing journey should be personalized ✔ What happens to your brain during the first few months after betrayal ✔ How triggers affect the nervous system ✔ Why self betrayal often starts long before someone else betrays us ✔ The role forgiveness actually plays in healing ✔ How faith can become a source of restoration after devastating loss ✔ Why healing yourself breaks generational cycles Memorable Moments "Trauma that's not transformed will be transferred." "Forgiveness begins with understanding what forgiveness means to you." "The relationship you have with yourself determines every other relationship you'll ever have." "Healing isn't about becoming who you were before. It's about becoming who God created you to be." Resources Mentioned Visit Mr. J for resources, coaching, and support: 🌐 MrJRelationshipCoach.com Connect with Mr. J Website: MrJRelationshipCoach.com Follow his work for betrayal trauma education, relationship coaching, and healing resources. Connect with Coach Tamika 🌿 Join The Sanctuary https://thesanctuarymethod.app.clientclub.net/ 📸 Instagram @thecoachtameka 📘 Facebook Tamika Thomas 🎵 TikTok @CoachTameka

  6. Jul 25

    EPISODE 269 | Why the Enemy Attacks Right After Your Breakthrough

    Have you ever noticed that right after God answers your prayers, everything seems to fall apart? You're finally making progress. Your business is growing. Your marriage is improving. Doors you've prayed for are opening. Then suddenly... You begin questioning yourself. Your confidence disappears. A conversation hits differently. You start wondering if you're really called. That isn't random. In this deeply personal episode, Coach Tamika shares what happened after one of the biggest breakthrough seasons of her life and the revelation God showed her about why the enemy always attacks our identity before anything else. You'll discover why healing doesn't begin when your circumstances change. Healing begins when your awareness changes. In this episode you'll learn: ✨ Why attacks often follow breakthrough ✨ Satan's greatest strategy against your purpose ✨ The biblical meaning of Sozo and what God actually wants for your life ✨ Why Jesus always addressed identity before behavior ✨ The powerful framework: Reaction Awareness Choice Transformation ✨ How to recognize the lies you've believed about yourself ✨ A practical faith action step to begin renewing your mind this week If you've been feeling discouraged, questioning yourself, or wondering why life suddenly became difficult after God opened a door... This episode is for you. Join The Sanctuary This episode is exactly why I created The Sanctuary. A private community where women heal, renew their minds, strengthen their faith, and become everything God created them to be. Join us here: https://thesanctuarymethod.app.clientclub.net/ Connect with Coach Tamika Instagram: @CoachTamika Facebook: Tamika Thomas TikTok: @CoachTamika Email: TuesdayWithTamika@gmail.com

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Healing &Becoming is more than just a podcast—it’s a movement for faith-driven women who are ready to heal, elevate, and restore every area of their lives. Hosted by Coach Tamika, a transformational life and relationship coach, this podcast is a safe space for women of faith who refuse to let past trauma, heartbreak, or setbacks define their future. Each episode is filled with raw, transparent conversations designed to help you: ✨ Heal from past wounds and break generational cycles ✨ Elevate your mindset, money, and daily habits ✨ Restore your relationships—with God, yourself, and others ✨ Attract the life and love you deserve Through powerful testimonies, biblical wisdom, and practical strategies, you’ll hear from over comers, thought leaders, and industry experts who have conquered trauma, rebuilt their lives, and stepped into their God-given purpose. If you're a high-achieving woman of faith who is ready to stop settling and start thriving, this podcast is for you. 🎧 Tune in every Tuesday for your dose of faith, healing, and transformation! 💌 Want to go deeper? Join my Becoming H.E.R. Membership, sign up for coaching, or grab one of my digital resources! Email hello@tuesdaywithtamika.com to learn more. ✨ Because you were created to live a life that inspires, not impresses! #ChristianPodcast #FaithBasedPodcast #KingdomBusiness #HealingAndBuilding #InnerHealingJourney #FaithFilledBusiness #WomenInPurpose #PodcastForChristianWomen #ChristianGirlBoss RSSVERIFY