Echoes & Edges

Patria Rector
  • 5.0 (13)
  • Mental Health
  • Updated Weekly

Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast is a storytelling and healing podcast hosted by Patria Rector — coach, mentor, and founder of The Broken and Beautiful. Through trauma-informed storywork, the Enneagram, and real-life relationship insights, Patria explores what it means to grow, grieve, and live with authenticity. Listeners will hear personal narratives, practical tools for emotional health, and gentle practices for self-awareness. Each episode invites you to discover beauty in the middle of life’s messiness — and to embrace your story with kindness. Perfect for anyone interested in emotional healing, self-discovery, relationships, or the Enneagram, Echoes and Edges is your companion for the journey toward hope and wholeness. You are not too much. You are not too late. You’re right on time — and you’re welcome here.

  1. 3d ago

    Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Head Center (Types 5,6,7) with Ro Elliott

    What if fear isn’t meant to control you… but inform you? In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Head Triad (Types 5, 6, and 7) and the ways fear quietly shapes how we think, plan, avoid, prepare, and protect ourselves.Together, they unpack how the head-centered types seek safety through information, vigilance, certainty, distraction, and future planning — while also revealing the wisdom and gifts hidden inside those strategies. This conversation explores:How fear manifests differently in Types 5, 6, and 7Why knowledge, questioning, and optimism can become protective shieldsThe tension between self-protection and trustThe hidden anxiety beneath overthinking and constant movementWhy sevens struggle with limits and emotional constrictionHow sixes learn self-trustThe journey from fear-driven leadership to grounded presenceWhat it means to become fully embodied: head, heart, and gut alignedThis episode is an honest and compassionate exploration of anxiety, leadership, emotional balance, and the courage required to stay present in an uncertain world. Connect With Ro Elliott:  https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott Resources & Announcements: Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook Instagram The Broken & Beautiful Website Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders Music Promoted by Envato Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

    30 min

  2. Jun 4

    Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Heart Center (Types 2,3,4) with Ro Elliott

    What if the image you protect is also the thing keeping you disconnected? In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Heart Triad (Types 2, 3, and 4) and the emotional realities beneath image management, connection, and belonging.Together, they discuss how shame shapes identity, relationships, leadership, and the hidden longing to be fully seen and loved. Through honest reflection and vulnerable storytelling, this conversation reveals how heart-centered strategies are often attempts to secure love while unintentionally building walls against it. Topics include:Why image consciousness is deeper than appearancesThe hidden shame narratives of Types 2, 3, and 4How people-pleasing, achievement, and emotional intensity become coping strategiesThe paradox of wanting connection while hiding the true selfMoving from performance to genuine relationshipWhy “people can’t have a relationship with an image”What healthy vulnerability looks like in leadership and communityThis episode offers powerful insight for leaders, helpers, creatives, achievers, and anyone learning how to move from curated identity toward authentic connection. Connect With Ro Elliott:  https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott Resources & Announcements: Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook Instagram The Broken & Beautiful Website Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders Music Promoted by Envato Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

    26 min

  3. May 28

    Hidden Enneagram Narratives: Gut Center (Types 8,9,1) with Ro Elliott

    What if anger isn’t the problem… but the signal? In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Gut Triad (Types 8, 9, and 1) and the hidden emotional patterns beneath instinctive leadership styles. Together, they unpack how anger shows up differently across the gut center and how each type develops protective strategies to maintain control, peace, or perfection.This conversation moves beyond stereotypes to examine the deeper motivations beneath these patterns and the cost of living disconnected from the body, truth, and vulnerability.You’ll hear reflections on: Why anger is often misunderstood in the gut centerThe hidden narratives driving Types 8, 9, and 1How control, avoidance, and perfectionism form as survival strategiesThe relationship between embodiment and authentic leadershipWhat begins to change when instinctive types soften their defensesHow grounded leadership emerges through honesty, presence, and integrationThis episode is both deeply practical and deeply human — an invitation to understand yourself and others with more compassion and awareness Connect With Ro Elliott:  https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/remote-collective/ro-elliott Resources & Announcements: Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook Instagram The Broken & Beautiful Website Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders Music Promoted by Envato Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

    31 min

  4. May 21

    Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 4 - From Shame to Wholeness w/ Daniel Herron

    In this final conversation, Daniel and Patria move beyond awareness into integration. They explore what it actually looks like to live from a grounded sense of identity rather than from shame, performance, or fragmentation. Together, they discuss compassion, curiosity, safety, regulation, and the healing power of being truly seen. Daniel reflects on how survival mechanisms often develop alongside our deepest gifts, and how healing untangles those gifts from fear, shame, and self-protection. This episode is ultimately about wholeness — not becoming someone new, but returning to who you were before shame convinced you to hide. If you’ve spent years trying to earn your worth, this conversation offers another path: grounded identity, authentic connection, and the freedom to fully inhabit your own life.  In This Episode What grounded identity actually meansWhy compassion and curiosity are transformativeThe role of safety in healingAuthenticity versus performanceHow gifts emerge through healingMoving from fragmentation toward wholenessConnect With Daniel:  https://www.musathewild.com/ Resources & Announcements: Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook Instagram The Broken & Beautiful Website Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders Music Promoted by Envato Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

    28 min

  5. May 14

    Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 3 - Reclaiming What Shame Buried w/ Daniel Herron

    Many people grow up believing their emotions, sensitivity, curiosity, or instincts are “too much.” In this episode, Daniel and Patria explore what it looks like to reclaim the very parts of ourselves that shame taught us to bury. Daniel shares the powerful shift from seeing himself as destructive to understanding himself as dangerous — not harmful, but no longer easily controlled by systems built on fear and conformity. Together, they unpack attachment, authenticity, emotional regulation, and why systems often react strongly to people who threaten the status quo simply by being fully themselves. This conversation offers a hopeful reframe for listeners who’ve spent years trying to shrink themselves to stay connected: maybe the traits you learned to fear are actually connected to your deepest gifts. In This Episode The difference between “wild” and “destructive”Attachment vs. authenticityEmotional regulation and dysregulationWhy systems label people as “too much”Reclaiming instinct, emotion, and intuitionThe connection between shame and controlConnect With Daniel:  https://www.musathewild.com/ Resources & Announcements Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook Instagram The Broken & Beautiful Website Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders Music Promoted by Envato Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

    34 min

  6. May 7

    Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 2 - The Stories That Keep Shame Alive w/ Daniel Herron (Re-Release)

    Shame rarely survives alone. In this episode, Daniel and Patria explore the narratives, secrecy, and systems that protect shame from ever being questioned. They unpack how family stories, cultural expectations, and relational patterns reinforce identities that were formed long ago — often without our awareness. Daniel shares the painful realization that decades later, his “wild child” narrative was still being passed down through his extended family. Together, they discuss how narratives become embedded in systems, how secrecy develops as a survival strategy, and why so many people organize their lives around avoiding exposure, rejection, or disconnection. This conversation also begins turning toward healing: what happens when compassion, curiosity, and safe relationships begin disrupting the old story? What if the narrative you inherited was never the full truth about who you are? In This Episode How shame narratives become generationalSecrecy as a survival strategyWhy systems resist changeThe relationship between shame and belongingIdentity fragmentation and moral injuryThe first steps toward challenging old narrativesConnect With Daniel:  https://www.musathewild.com/ Resources & Announcements Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook Instagram The Broken & Beautiful Website Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders Music Promoted by Envato Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

    30 min

  7. May 7

    Shame and the Hidden Narrative: Pt. 1 - When Shame Becomes Identity w/ Daniel Herron (Re-Release)

    In this opening conversation, Daniel Herron and Patria explore the hidden narratives that shape how we see ourselves, others, and even God. Together, they unpack the difference between guilt and shame, why shame attaches itself to identity, and how survival strategies formed in childhood can quietly follow us into adulthood. Daniel shares personal stories of growing up labeled as “wild,” while Patria reflects on the loss of identity that can happen inside systems that reward compliance over authenticity. This episode traces the roots of shame, emotional suppression, religious conditioning, and belonging, while offering a compassionate lens for understanding why so many people feel disconnected from themselves. If you’ve ever felt like something was fundamentally wrong with you, this conversation invites a gentler possibility: maybe your survival strategies were never the problem.In This Episode The difference between guilt and shameWhy shame becomes attached to identityChildhood survival strategies and emotional suppressionThe impact of religious and family systemsWhat happens when authenticity threatens belongingWhy shame often functions as protectionConnect With Daniel:  https://www.musathewild.com/ Resources & Announcements Coming Home to Yourself — June Virtual Workshop Patria is hosting a live virtual workshop, Coming Home to Yourself: A Journey Into Secure Belonging, on June 13, 2026. This experience is designed to help participants explore survival patterns, grounded identity, and secure connection with themselves and others. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-to-yourself-a-journey-into-secure-belonging-registration-1986430449949 To learn more about Courageous Pathways and the work being done to support healing, growth, and transformation through nonprofit care and community support: https://www.thebrokenandbeautiful.com/courageous-pathways If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook Instagram The Broken & Beautiful Website Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders Music Promoted by Envato Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

    1h 2m

  8. Mar 27

    When Your Nervous System Is Running Your Relationships with Laurie Proctor

    Why do the same patterns keep showing up in your relationships—no matter how self-aware you are? In this episode, we unpack how dysregulation quietly shapes the way we connect, react, withdraw, and pursue. What looks like “overreacting,” shutting down, or conflict spirals is often your nervous system trying to protect you—not sabotage you. We talk about:How emotional triggers are formed (and why they feel so fast and overwhelming)The difference between reaction and responseWhy awareness alone doesn’t break the cycleWhat it actually takes to interrupt patterns in real timeHow regulation changes the way we experience love, conflict, and connectionThis conversation isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about understanding what’s been running underneath—and learning how to work with it instead of against it. About the Guest: Laurie Proctor is a professionally certified coach, Internal Family Systems practitioner, Human Design coach, and certified Enneagram instructor who partners with individuals, teams, and organizations seeking healing and transformation. She is the founder of SOWThat (Self Others World), where her work centers on the belief that healing begins within and ripples outward to others and the world. Laurie holds multiple certificates in narrative-focused trauma care from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and is passionate about helping people discover the treasures within that can change their lives—and the world. Learn more about her work at sowthat.com.  If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding. Connect With Patria Facebook Instagram The Broken & Beautiful Website Credits: Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders Music Promoted by Envato Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.

    38 min
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About

Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast is a storytelling and healing podcast hosted by Patria Rector — coach, mentor, and founder of The Broken and Beautiful. Through trauma-informed storywork, the Enneagram, and real-life relationship insights, Patria explores what it means to grow, grieve, and live with authenticity. Listeners will hear personal narratives, practical tools for emotional health, and gentle practices for self-awareness. Each episode invites you to discover beauty in the middle of life’s messiness — and to embrace your story with kindness. Perfect for anyone interested in emotional healing, self-discovery, relationships, or the Enneagram, Echoes and Edges is your companion for the journey toward hope and wholeness. You are not too much. You are not too late. You’re right on time — and you’re welcome here.

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  • Creator
    Patria Rector
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Patria Rector/Stephen R Sanders
  • Show Website
    Echoes & Edges

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