How to Reclaim Your Voice, Set Boundaries, and Live Authentically

In this honest and empowering episode, Audrey Alice dives deep into the tangled roots of people pleasing—especially in the wake of divorce. With vulnerability and boldness, she unpacks the lifelong patterns that kept her small, how those habits showed up in her marriage and motherhood, and what it took to finally start choosing herself. If you’ve ever said “yes” when you meant “no,” stayed silent to keep the peace, or lost yourself in the pursuit of keeping everyone else happy, this episode is for you.

The People-Pleasing Pattern
Audrey begins by naming the core beliefs that fuel people pleasing—from childhood conditioning to societal expectations around being “good,” polite, and selfless. She shares how this showed up in her own life and the toll it took on her sense of identity.

What Divorce Teaches You About Boundaries
Post-divorce, people-pleasing tendencies can either intensify or collapse under the weight of self-discovery. Audrey walks through her own process of redefining boundaries, reclaiming her voice, and learning to prioritize what she wants and needs.

Permission to Be Too Much
There’s power in taking up space. Audrey unpacks the inner work it takes to move from “I don’t want to disappoint anyone” to “I refuse to disappoint myself.” She shares how she stopped minimizing her needs to make others comfortable and started living unapologetically.

Healing the Inner Child Who Needed to Be Liked
This episode also touches on the spiritual and emotional healing involved in becoming a “recovering” people pleaser. Audrey explores the ways reiki, breathwork, and somatic practices supported her in releasing guilt and embracing wholeness.

Practical Tools for People Pleasers in Recovery
Audrey closes with tangible tools to support listeners ready to step out of people-pleasing mode—including journaling prompts, affirmation practices, and real-life scripts to help say “no” with love and self-respect.

If you’ve been called “too much,” if you’ve been told you’re crazy, or if you’ve silenced your magic to make others comfortable—this one’s for you. I hope it gives you permission to stop fitting in and start fitting out. The world doesn’t need a watered-down version of you. It needs all of you. Tell me how you're reclaiming your space and belonging to yourself again. I'm here for every loud, wild, free, authentic piece of it.

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Giving Credit To My Tribe

• Music created and composed by my son, Hugo
• This podcast is produced by Jen, my Unicorn!

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