Room2Breathe Podcast

Shawnta "LifeCoach614" Hill
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Welcome to The Room2Breathe Podcast™—a soft place to land and a strong place to rise. Hosted by Shawnta’ Hill, known to many as LifeCoach614, the podcast offers honest conversations about self-care, mental wellness, boundaries, relationships, faith, and healing. Each episode blends relatable stories, compassionate truth, and practical tools to help you breathe, reflect, heal, and grow. Because healing has a soundtrack, Room2Breathe Music™ and the Room2Breathe Community™ extend the journey beyond the conversation. Visit selfcareclub.org.

  1. 1d ago

    Austin Rampt: Rock Bottom Wasn't the End of My Story | Addiction, Recovery & Second Chances

    What if rock bottom wasn't the end of your story?Austin Rampt, author of One Last Hit, joins Shawnta Hill on the Room2Breathe Podcast™ for an honest conversation about addiction, recovery, identity, self-worth, healing, and the courage to rebuild your life after everything falls apart.CONTENT ADVISORY | This episode includes open and honest discussions about addiction, substance use, overdose, incarceration, trauma, and emotional pain. While these topics are shared through the lens of healing, recovery, and hope, they may be difficult for some listeners. Please honor your well-being while listening.Austin's journey includes addiction, multiple relapses, incarceration, overdose, and choices that nearly cost him everything. But this conversation isn't simply about how far he fell.It's about what happened when he decided to get back up.Austin opens up about the pain beneath his addiction, the belief that he wasn't worthy, the role therapy played in helping him understand himself differently, and what it took to begin building a new identity beyond his past.We also explore the unexpected lessons he learned during some of the darkest seasons of his life, what recovery looks like beyond simply getting sober, marriage and fatherhood, finding purpose after rock bottom, and why he decided to tell his story in his memoir, One Last Hit.Because addiction may be part of Austin's story, but the message reaches much further.Whether your own rock bottom has looked like addiction, grief, trauma, heartbreak, burnout, shame, losing yourself, or simply wondering whether you've gone too far to begin again, this conversation is a reminder that your hardest chapter doesn't have to become your whole story.Rock bottom wasn't the end of Austin's story—and it doesn't have to be the end of yours.💚 If something in this conversation speaks to you, drop a 💚 in the comments. It's our way of saying, "I'm healing, I'm growing, and I'm showing up for me."👍🏾 Like💬 Comment↗️ Share🔔 Subscribe to the Room2Breathe Podcast™📖 ONE LAST HIT — AUSTIN RAMPT https://a.co/d/0isFkXej🔗 CONNECT WITH AUSTIN https://onelasthitbook.com/🌿 ROOM2BREATHE / SELF CARE CLUB selfcareclub.org🎧 Room2Breathe Podcast™ | Where Healing Has a Soundtrack.

  2. 4d ago

    Toxic Tuesday: Stop Making People Pay for What They Didn’t Do | Resentment, Trust & Healing

    What happens when the person who hurt you is gone, but the hurt they caused keeps showing up in every relationship afterward?In this Toxic Tuesday episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast™, Shawnta’ Hill gets raw about unresolved resentment, trust issues, emotional triggers, boundaries, co-parenting, relationships, friendships, family wounds, and the ways old pain can make innocent people pay debts they never created.Your new partner shouldn't have to spend the relationship proving they're not your ex. Your friends shouldn't have to pass tests they don't know they're taking. Your child shouldn't have to manage tension between adults. And YOU shouldn't have to spend the rest of your life paying for the way somebody else mishandled you.We’re also getting into the uncomfortable side of “protecting your peace.” Because sometimes it's a healthy boundary—and sometimes we've learned enough healing language to make avoidance, fear, and emotional walls sound healthy.The question underneath this entire conversation is simple:Am I responding to what's happening now—or am I still responding to what happened then?You can remember without reenacting. You can have discernment without assuming everybody is guilty. You can protect yourself without building a prison around yourself.Healing isn't pretending the debt never existed. It's deciding you're done collecting it from the wrong people.💚 Learn more about the Room2Breathe Project™, community, coaching, music, and Self Care Club at SelfCareClub.org.

  3. 5d ago

    Loving You From Empty: When Love Becomes Self-Abandonment | Self-Care & Boundaries

    How much of yourself can you give away before you realize you're missing from your own life? In this Music Motivates Monday episode of the Room2Breathe Podcast™, Shawnta’ Hill unpacks the message behind her song “Loving You From Empty” and the thin line between loving deeply and abandoning yourself in the process. Sometimes nobody has to take everything from you. Sometimes you've gotten so used to being the dependable one, the fixer, the caregiver, the strong one, and the person everybody can count on that you don't notice how much of yourself you're giving away. We’re talking about overgiving, people-pleasing, emotional exhaustion, resentment, boundaries, caregiver fatigue, and the pressure to prove your love through sacrifice. Because healthy love may require sacrifice sometimes—but your exhaustion is not evidence of your love. And being needed doesn't make you inexhaustible. This episode asks some uncomfortable but necessary questions: Are you giving because you genuinely want to, or because you're afraid of what happens if you don't? Have you confused being needed with being loved? Are you resentful because someone keeps taking—or because you've struggled to stop giving? And most importantly: Where did YOU go? L.O.V.E. shouldn't cost your L.Y.F.E. Losing Ourselves Validating Everyone. You can love people deeply without disappearing from your own life. 🎧 “Loving You From Empty” is available now on streaming platforms. 💚 Learn more about the Room2Breathe Project™, music, community, coaching, and Self Care Club at selfcareclub.org.

  4. Sep 11

    Featured Voice: Keith A. Cole | The Cost of Being the Strong One: You Don’t Have to Carry It All Alone

    What happens when being “the strong one” becomes too heavy to carry? In this Featured Voice conversation on the Room2Breathe Podcast, Shawnta’ Hill sits down with U.S. Marine Corps Vietnam combat veteran, author, and speaker Keith A. Cole for an honest conversation about burnout, trauma, men’s emotional health, faith, vulnerability, and the courage to ask for help. Keith spent much of his life carrying responsibility. From combat and unresolved trauma to family responsibilities and professional success, strength often meant enduring, providing, and continuing to move forward—even when the weight was becoming too much. Eventually, that strength came at a cost. In The Cost of Being the Strong One: You Don’t Have to Carry It All Alone, Keith shares what happened when years of carrying the load led to emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual burnout—and how surrender, faith, community, and daily practices became part of his recovery. We talk about: • What burnout can look like in men • The hidden pressure of always being the strong one • Trauma and the battles people carry in silence • Why asking for help can feel so difficult • Reaching rock bottom and recognizing something has to change • Faith, surrender, and healing • How loved ones can recognize and support someone experiencing burnout • Moving from endurance into recovery Keith also shares the story behind his book, Burnout: God's Recovery Plan: A Marine's Story of Trauma, Surrender, and Healing through Faith, along with his companion resource, God's Recovery Plan: The Workbook — From Burnout to Recovery. This conversation is for the man who's tired but keeps saying he's fine. It's for the person everyone depends on. And it's for the family members and friends who love someone carrying a weight they don't know how to put down. Just because you can carry it doesn't mean you were meant to carry it alone. 📚 CONNECT WITH KEITH A. COLE Recovery By Faith: ⁠RecoveryByFaith.com⁠ Facebook: Keith A. Cole / kacolecpa Book: ⁠Burnout: God's Recovery Plan: A Marine's Story of Trauma, Surrender, and Healing through Faith⁠ https://a.co/d/03wgvPQP Workbook: ⁠God's Recovery Plan: The Workbook — From Burnout to Recovery⁠ https://a.co/d/07E7ITEB 💚 MAKE ROOM2BREATHE If something in this conversation hits home, drop a 💚 in the comments and tell us what you're taking away from Keith's story. Like, subscribe, and share this episode with someone who may need the reminder that asking for help doesn't make us weak. Room2Breathe Podcast Where Healing Has a Soundtrack.

  5. Sep 9

    WOW: MERAKI — Does Your Life Have YOU in It? | Self-Care, Identity & Finding Yourself Again

    You show up for work. You take care of your family. You handle the responsibilities. You pour into your relationships. You keep everything moving.But somewhere in the middle of being everything to everybody else, have you slowly disappeared from your own life?This week's Room2Breathe Word of the Week is MERAKI—a word used in modern Greek to describe putting your soul, creativity, love, and a piece of yourself into what you do.But we're taking it one step deeper:Does your life have YOU in it?In this episode, Shawnta’ Hill explores what happens when responsibility becomes identity, being needed becomes proof of worth, hobbies become productivity, and the life you've worked so hard to build no longer feels like it has your fingerprints on it.We're talking about self-abandonment through responsibility, losing yourself while taking care of everyone else, rediscovering joy and creativity, allowing yourself to change, and learning how to put yourself back into your own life without abandoning the people you love.Because maybe you don't need a whole new life.Maybe you need more of yourself in the life you already have.Your joy matters.Your creativity matters.Your preferences matter.Your dreams matter.Your presence matters.You are more than what you do for everybody else.Reflection Question: Where in your life have your fingerprints gone missing?Welcome to Room2Breathe—where healing has a soundtrack and you have permission to make room for yourself, too.🌐 Visit SelfCareClub.org

  6. Sep 4

    Featured Voice: Peter McLaughlin | You Are Not Your Trauma: Healing at the Root

    Why do we keep repeating patterns we already know are hurting us? You can recognize the behavior. You can understand your triggers. You can know where some of your wounds came from—and still find yourself responding the same way when life gets hard. So what are we missing? In this Featured Voice conversation on the Room2Breathe Podcast, I'm joined by certified hypnotherapist, life coach, author, and BlueSky Hypnosis founder Peter McLaughlin for a deeper conversation about trauma, subconscious patterns, root-cause healing, personal responsibility, and why awareness is only the beginning. Peter's own healing journey began after receiving Lyme disease and leukemia diagnoses on the same day. That experience eventually led him to explore the relationship between our emotional wounds, subconscious beliefs, and the patterns we carry into our everyday lives. In this episode, we're talking about: • Why we repeat unhealthy patterns even when we're aware of them • The difference between awareness and actual healing • How old emotional wounds can influence present-day behavior • Root-cause healing versus simply managing symptoms • Taking responsibility for your healing without blaming yourself for your pain • Why healing isn't a quick fix • Reconnecting with your own inner wisdom • Separating who you are from what you've survived One of the biggest reminders from this conversation is simple: Your pain is part of your story, but it doesn't have to become the author of your future. You are more than what happened to you. 🎙️ FEATURED VOICE Peter McLaughlin - Certified Hypnotherapist | Life Coach | Author and Founder of BlueSky Hypnosis 🌿 Learn more about Peter and his work: BlueSky Hypnosis: blueskyhypnosis.com Peter McLaughlin: petermclaughlin.com YouTube: @BlueSkyHypnosis Instagram: @thepetermclaughlin Peter's Relationship Reboot mini course is also available through BlueSky Hypnosis. 💚 ABOUT ROOM2BREATHE Room2Breathe is where we have honest conversations about healing, self-care, boundaries, relationships, personal growth, and making room for the person you're becoming. If something in today's conversation hits home, drop a 💚 in the comments. Subscribe and make room to breathe with us. #Room2Breathe #YouAreNotYourTrauma #TraumaHealing #EmotionalHealing #PersonalGrowth

  7. Sep 3

    When You Know Better But Still Don’t Do Better | Matthew 26:41 | TGIT

    You know better. You WANT better. So why do you still struggle to DO better?Yesterday on Word of the Week Wednesday, we gave that frustrating gap a name: Akrasia—knowing what you believe is the better choice but struggling to follow through when the moment actually comes.Today on TGIT, we're picking that conversation right back up through Matthew 26:41: “Watch and pray… The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”Because sometimes your intentions aren't the problem.You meant it when you said you'd set the boundary.You meant it when you said you'd start taking better care of yourself.You meant it when you said you weren't going back.You meant it when you said you'd stop procrastinating, get more rest, save more money, or finally change the pattern.But good intentions still have to survive real life.Stress. Exhaustion. Loneliness. Triggers. Temptation. Overwhelm. Old habits.In this episode, we're talking about why willpower alone isn't always enough, identifying your vulnerable moments, creating practical guardrails, combining prayer with preparation, recovering without shame when you slip, and building support systems for the version of you who won't always feel strong.Because preparation isn't a lack of faith.Preparation can be an expression of wisdom.💚 Today's Reflection Question:What's ONE thing you can put in place today that will make following through easier for yourself tomorrow?Don't make yourself another promise.Build a plan.

  8. Sep 2

    Akrasia: I Know Better… So Why Do I Keep Doing It? | Word of the Week

    You know better.You KNOW you need the boundary.You know you shouldn't send the text.You know checking their page is going to disturb your peace.You know you need to rest.You know you need to have the conversation.You know what keeps happening every time you go back.So why doesn't knowing better automatically mean we do better?This week's Room2Breathe Podcast™ Word of the Week is AKRASIA (uh-KRAY-zee-uh)—acting against your own better judgment. It's that frustrating gap between knowing what you believe is best for you and still choosing something else.And family...there's a whole lot happening inside that gap.In this episode, we're talking about why awareness doesn't automatically change behavior, immediate comfort versus long-term wellbeing, why familiar can feel stronger than better, the difference between understanding a pattern and excusing it, why we shouldn't label every struggle “self-sabotage,” and why your boundaries have to survive your feelings.We're also challenging the idea that you have to feel ready before you make a healthier choice.Sometimes confidence follows courage.Sometimes peace follows the boundary.Sometimes motivation follows movement.And sometimes you have to choose differently while part of you still wants the old thing.💚 Reflection Question: Where in your life do you already know better...but you're still learning how to choose better?Explore the Room2Breathe community at SelfCareClub.org.You probably don't need more information. Maybe it's time to practice living what you already know.

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Welcome to The Room2Breathe Podcast™—a soft place to land and a strong place to rise. Hosted by Shawnta’ Hill, known to many as LifeCoach614, the podcast offers honest conversations about self-care, mental wellness, boundaries, relationships, faith, and healing. Each episode blends relatable stories, compassionate truth, and practical tools to help you breathe, reflect, heal, and grow. Because healing has a soundtrack, Room2Breathe Music™ and the Room2Breathe Community™ extend the journey beyond the conversation. Visit selfcareclub.org.

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  • Creator
    Shawnta "LifeCoach614" Hill
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    303
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Shawnta "LifeCoach614" Hill
  • Show Website
    Room2Breathe Podcast