Broken to Brave | Guiding you to heal & break free from anxiety

Dr. Stephanie Lopez
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On the outside you look like you have it all together. On the inside you feel anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, or stuck in survival mode. Broken to BRAVE is where high-achieving women learn they’re not failing and finally find the calm, confidence, and freedom they’ve been craving. I’m Dr. Steph, a former NASA psychologist turned healing coach. In this podcast, I’ll walk with you through the patterns that keep you over-functioning, people-pleasing, and second-guessing yourself, and I’ll show you how to break free. You’ll hear real stories, simple steps, and the brave questions that change everything. You don’t need another set of coping tools. What you need is a way back to yourself. Week by week, I will help you calm your nervous system, build self-trust, and see yourself in a new way….not as failing, not as too much. Instead, as a woman who is capable of peace, presence, and joy.  Follow on Instagram @drstephanielopez

  1. 5d ago

    Your Body Will Make You Listen with Chelsea Litsey

    From the outside, it can look like you have it all handled. The career, the family, the life you said you wanted. But underneath, something keeps breaking down, and it starts to feel like life is just happening to you. In this episode, I sit down with Chelsea Litsey, who spent years high-functioning on the surface while her body was quietly falling apart. Autoimmune illness since she was nine, anxiety she had never felt before, and a rock bottom that finally made her stop pushing through. What she found when she looked underneath all of it surprised her, and it changed everything. We talk about what it really means when your body keeps screaming at you, and what becomes possible when you finally turn toward it instead of away. In This Episode, I Cover: What happens in your body when you keep pushing through instead of listening.The connection between suppressed emotion, chronic illness, and anxiety.Why tying your worth to your work or your partner keeps you stuck.Connect with Chelsea: Website: https://www.chelsealitsey.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizclaritycoach Download Chelsea's meditations: https://meditations.chelsealitsey.com use the code BRAVE20 for a discount ______________________________________ [FREE TRAINING] How high-achieving women can DITCH anxiety in as little as five minutes a day www.brave-method.com/anxiety [FREE CALL] Book a free call to ask me questions directly and see if we are a fit for working together. www.bravemethod.com/book [RESULTS] Which of these results do you want and inspire you the most? www.brave-method.com/testimonials 💗 Dr. Steph @DrStephanieLopez www.brave-method.com

    22 min

  2. May 26

    Are You Arguing for Your Limitations?

    There's a moment in the healing process that can stop everything. Not because something went wrong, but because the mind steps in with something that sounds completely reasonable. "Now isn't the right time." "I need to understand it more." "I'm too overwhelmed to start." Those phrases feel like honesty, like self-awareness even. But sometimes they're something else entirely. In this episode, I'm walking through what's actually happening when we argue for the very things keeping us stuck. Every pattern gives us something, even the ones we say we want to change. Getting curious about what that is, that's where real movement begins. In This Episode, I Cover: Why the nervous system defends familiar patterns, even painful ones.The hidden payoff inside anxiety, overthinking, people-pleasing, and hypervigilance.What shifts when you stop asking "what's wrong with me" and start asking "what has this been protecting me from".______________________________________ [FREE TRAINING] How high-achieving women can DITCH anxiety in as little as five minutes a day www.brave-method.com/anxiety [FREE CALL] Book a free call to ask me questions directly and see if we are a fit for working together. www.bravemethod.com/book [RESULTS] Which of these results do you want and inspire you the most? www.brave-method.com/testimonials 💗 Dr. Steph @DrStephanieLopez www.brave-method.com

    15 min

  3. May 19

    The Pattern That's Making Your Anxiety Stronger

    There's something most people don't realize they're doing. They're speaking to their fear, their anxiety, their scared parts, in a way that's actually making everything worse. I'm walking through what happens when those anxious parts of you get met with frustration instead of understanding. Why minimizing what you're feeling, or telling yourself it's not a big deal, tends to turn the volume up, not down, and what shifts when you start to notice that pattern. In This Episode, I Cover: Why speaking harshly to your anxious parts intensifies the thoughts and sensations.The difference between dismissing fear and actually working with it.What it looks like to respond to yourself the way you'd respond to someone you care about.Did you miss the Anxiety Relief Experience? For a limited period of time, you can see the replay here: https://www.brave-method.com/anxiety-relief-experience ______________________________________ [FREE TRAINING] How high-achieving women can DITCH anxiety in as little as five minutes a day www.brave-method.com/anxiety [FREE CALL] Book a free call to ask me questions directly and see if we are a fit for working together. www.bravemethod.com/book [RESULTS] Which of these results do you want and inspire you the most? www.brave-method.com/testimonials 💗 Dr. Steph @DrStephanieLopez www.brave-method.com

    5 min

  4. May 12

    Trusting the Answers Already Inside You with Jen Armistead

    Some of us are really good at looking fine. We keep moving, keep achieving, keep showing up, and we get so good at it that even we start to believe the story we're telling. But underneath that, Jen was doing what so many of us do: shoving it all down and powering through. In this episode, I sit down with Jen Armistead to talk about what it actually looks like to rebuild your life more than once. Cancer in her early 30s. Divorce. A cross-country move as a single mom, barely making ends meet. And then, just when things finally felt steady, her agency was shut down overnight. What's remarkable isn't the list of things she survived. It's how differently she met each one as she did the inner work. In This Episode, I Cover: The default setting of pushing through and what it costs you physically, emotionally, and mentally.Why grief forced Jen to stop solving and start feeling.How a daily yoga practice became the first place she could just breathe.What it means to be a beginner again and why that willingness changes everything.How to recognize when something is slowly draining you and what it takes to finally listen.Connect with Jen: Website: https://www.yogaendeavour.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yogaendeavour Free 5-Day Series - The Breath Shift: https://www.yogaendeavour.com/breath ______________________________________ [FREE TRAINING] How high-achieving women can DITCH anxiety in as little as five minutes a day www.brave-method.com/anxiety [FREE CALL] Book a free call to ask me questions directly and see if we are a fit for working together. www.bravemethod.com/book [RESULTS] Which of these results do you want and inspire you the most? www.brave-method.com/testimonials 💗 Dr. Steph @DrStephanieLopez www.brave-method.com

    37 min

  5. Apr 28

    What Nervous System Recalibration Actually Feels Like

    There's a question I hear underneath almost everything my clients share with me. Not just "how do I understand my anxiety better," but "what would actually be different for me? How would my life feel?" In this episode, I'm walking you through exactly that. What shifts when your nervous system recalibrates. Not the theory, but the real, lived changes that happen in your body, your mind, and how you move through your days. In This Episode, I Cover: Why your baseline changes first, and why "neutral" can feel like peace when you've been living in anxiety.How your body stops treating thoughts, sensations, and what-ifs as threats.The shift from reacting automatically to having actual space and choice in your responses.Register today for the Anxiety Relief Experience workshop: www.brave-method.com/anxiety-relief-experience ______________________________________ [FREE TRAINING] How high-achieving women can DITCH anxiety in as little as five minutes a day www.brave-method.com/anxiety [FREE CALL] Book a free call to ask me questions directly and see if we are a fit for working together. www.bravemethod.com/book [RESULTS] Which of these results do you want and inspire you the most? www.brave-method.com/testimonials 💗 Dr. Steph @DrStephanieLopez www.brave-method.com

    10 min

  6. Apr 21

    Why Holding Everyone Together Breaks You

    If you're the one who reads the room, keeps the peace, and makes sure everyone is okay, you know how automatic it feels. It doesn't even feel like a choice anymore. But somewhere along the way, staying aware of everyone else's emotions turned into feeling responsible for them. In this episode, I'm walking through why that pattern makes complete sense and where it actually comes from. What your nervous system learned to do to create safety, and what it costs you when you keep losing yourself in the process of caring for everyone else. In This Episode, I Cover: How feeling responsible for others' emotions becomes a nervous system pattern.What you stop paying attention to when you stay focused outward.Why including yourself in the care you give everyone else is where the shift begins.Register for the Anxiety Relief Experience today! It starts April 27: www.brave-method.com/anxiety-relief-experience ______________________________________ [FREE TRAINING] How high-achieving women can DITCH anxiety in as little as five minutes a day www.brave-method.com/anxiety [FREE CALL] Book a free call to ask me questions directly and see if we are a fit for working together. www.bravemethod.com/book [RESULTS] Which of these results do you want and inspire you the most? www.brave-method.com/testimonials 💗 Dr. Steph @DrStephanieLopez www.brave-method.com

    8 min

  7. Apr 14

    Your Anxiety Is Not Your Personality

    You've probably spent years thinking, "This is just who I am," when it comes to your anxiety, and let me tell you, it's not. When anxiety has been there long enough, it starts to feel like it belongs to you. Like it's woven into how you think, how you react, how you move through the world. In this episode, I'm walking you through something that shifted everything for me. Anxiety isn't your personality. It's what your nervous system learned to do. And because it was learned, it can be unlearned. I'm breaking down what anxiety is actually trying to protect you from and why trying to think your way out of it keeps you stuck. In This Episode, I Cover: The difference between anxiety as identity and anxiety as a conditioned nervous system responseThe most common experiences anxiety is trying to protect you fromWhy solving anxiety from the mind keeps the pattern intact underneathRegister for the Anxiety Relief Experience workshop: www.brave-method.com/anxiety-relief-experience ______________________________________ [FREE TRAINING] How high-achieving women can DITCH anxiety in as little as five minutes a day www.brave-method.com/anxiety [FREE CALL] Book a free call to ask me questions directly and see if we are a fit for working together. www.bravemethod.com/book [RESULTS] Which of these results do you want and inspire you the most? www.brave-method.com/testimonials 💗 Dr. Steph @DrStephanieLopez www.brave-method.com

    12 min

  8. Apr 7

    When Doing the Work Does Not Feel Like Enough

    There's a particular kind of discouragement that comes when you're trying, you're showing up, you're doing everything you're supposed to do, and it still doesn't feel like enough. Not because nothing is changing, but because you can't see it yet, and that gap is where so many people start to question themselves. In this episode, I'm walking through seven things I wish I had known during the hardest parts of my own healing journey. Things that, if I had understood them sooner, would have moved me through that feeling so much faster. In This Episode, I Cover: Why feeling stuck and actually being stuck are not the same thing.How avoiding emotions builds pressure in your system.Addressing fear, not just controlling behavior.What self-forgiveness really means.The hidden payoffs keeping familiar patterns in place.______________________________________ [FREE TRAINING] How high-achieving women can DITCH anxiety in as little as five minutes a day www.brave-method.com/anxiety [FREE CALL] Book a free call to ask me questions directly and see if we are a fit for working together. www.bravemethod.com/book [RESULTS] Which of these results do you want and inspire you the most? www.brave-method.com/testimonials 💗 Dr. Steph @DrStephanieLopez www.brave-method.com

    13 min
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On the outside you look like you have it all together. On the inside you feel anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, or stuck in survival mode. Broken to BRAVE is where high-achieving women learn they’re not failing and finally find the calm, confidence, and freedom they’ve been craving. I’m Dr. Steph, a former NASA psychologist turned healing coach. In this podcast, I’ll walk with you through the patterns that keep you over-functioning, people-pleasing, and second-guessing yourself, and I’ll show you how to break free. You’ll hear real stories, simple steps, and the brave questions that change everything. You don’t need another set of coping tools. What you need is a way back to yourself. Week by week, I will help you calm your nervous system, build self-trust, and see yourself in a new way….not as failing, not as too much. Instead, as a woman who is capable of peace, presence, and joy.  Follow on Instagram @drstephanielopez

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