December has a way of pulling us back into old roles, old expectations, and old emotional patterns — even after we’ve done deep healing.

In this episode, Thérèse speaks directly to caregivers in The After who are moving through the holidays and quietly asking:

How do I get through December without losing myself again?

This is not about pushing through.
It’s not about pretending you’re okay.

It’s about holding yourself — emotionally, mentally, and energetically — when the holidays test your healing.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• why December feels so destabilizing in The After
• how to protect your healing without guilt
• what it really means to “hold yourself” through the holidays
• how to do December differently and perhaps for the first time, true to yourself.

You are not doing December wrong.
You are allowed to choose yourself now.

🎧 Listen to “Don’t Lose Yourself This December” —
Part 4 of December’s Healing Series.

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There comes a moment in healing when simply getting through the day isn’t enough anymore.

In this third episode of December’s Healing Series, Thérèse explores what happens when caregivers in The After feel a quiet pull toward more — more life, more expansion, more meaning.

This episode is about pushing beyond the comfort zone — not in dramatic leaps, but in small, intentional steps that rebuild confidence, curiosity, and momentum. Thérèse weaves together psychology, lived experience, and deeply human examples to show why growth requires movement, how comfort zones quietly limit us, and what expansion actually looks like after caregiving ends.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:
• Why comfort zones feel so appealing — and why they eventually hold us back
• The psychology behind growth, motivation, and expansion
• What stepping out of the comfort zone really looks like in The After
• Why confidence follows action — not the other way around
• How small, brave steps can bring you back to life

Thérèse also shares how she is practicing expansion in her own life, including pushing beyond her own comfort zone during this season of healing.

If you’ve been feeling a quiet restlessness…
If you sense there’s more for you than staying safe…
If you’re ready to gently stretch into the next chapter of your life…

This episode is for you.

🎧 Listen now and take one small step toward the life waiting for you.

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Caregiving reshapes a person at every level — physically, emotionally, spiritually.
And when it ends, most caregivers don’t feel “strong.”
They feel emptied out. Unsteady. Disconnected from their bodies. Unsure how to start again.

This episode is for anyone in that place.

In Part 2 of December’s Healing Series, Thérèse guides you through what real strength looks like in The After — not the strength you were praised for during caregiving, but the kind of strength that grows quietly, steadily, and compassionately as you rebuild your life from the inside out.

You’ll explore:

• The myth of being “strong” during caregiving
• What strength actually looks like when survival mode ends
• How caregiving imprints itself on the body — and how to begin repairing that relationship
• The emotional strength required to tell the truth about how you feel
• A micro-bravery challenge to gently rebuild confidence and momentum
• Why strength in The After begins with listening to yourself, not pushing yourself

Thérèse also shares her own journey of rebuilding strength — and how her upcoming solo pilgrimage to Rome is a sacred step in her healing and a powerful reminder that growth always happens outside the comfort zone.

This episode is your permission slip to begin again, exactly where you are.

If this episode spoke to your heart, I invite you to follow along all December as we continue The Healing Series.
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December can feel heavy for former caregivers.

While the world rushes into celebration, many of us struggle with grief, longing, disorientation, and the ache of no longer knowing where we fit.

In this opening episode of The Healing Series, Thérèse invites you into a softer, more compassionate way of moving through this month — not with pressure, perfection, or forced resolutions, but with courage, awareness, and the quiet work of coming home to yourself.

This episode explores:

✨ Why December feels so emotionally intense in The After
✨ What “The Gentle Return” truly looks like after caregiving
✨ How to reconnect with your needs, your body, and your identity
✨ A simple daily practice to begin honoring yourself again
✨ Why you are not behind — you’re becoming

Healing doesn’t require a grand transformation — it begins with one small, intentional step back toward yourself.

If this episode speaks to your heart, I invite you to follow along all December as we continue The Healing Series.

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In this fourth installment of The Month of the Unsung Heart, Thérèse guides you into the tender, complicated, utterly human reality of gratitude and grace after caregiving ends — especially for those navigating the holiday season with both love and longing in their chest.

Recorded on the 12th anniversary of her mother’s passing, this episode is a deeply personal offering — an exploration of what gratitude really means when you’ve walked someone you love all the way to the end… and are now learning how to live again.

Inside this episode:

🌟 When Gratitude Feels Complicated
Why gratitude in The After is layered, honest, and different from anything the world teaches.

🌟 Grace for the Body That Carried You
Understanding the physical aftermath of caregiving — and reclaiming your right to rebuild slowly.

🌟 Grace for the Heart Still Healing
Why grief has no timeline and why your heart deserves tenderness, not pressure.

🌟 Grace for the Life You Didn’t Choose
How to give yourself permission to grow into the person you’re becoming now.

If the holidays feel heavy, if you’re missing someone you cared for,
or if you're simply learning how to carry both love and grief at the same time…
this episode is a gentle companion for your journey.

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When caregiving ends, something unexpected begins —
a quiet unfolding of all the love, wisdom, and strength they left within you.

In this powerful third installment of the Month of the Unsung Heart for National Family Caregivers Month, Thérèse guides you through the emotional landscape of legacy — not the kind written in wills or possessions, but the kind etched into your heart, your spirit, and the deepest layers of your soul.

This episode explores:

💙 The Imprint They Leave Behind
How their voice, their laughter, their quirks, and even the smallest daily rituals continue to speak to you long after they’re gone.

💙 The Lessons You Carry Forward
The profound truths caregiving plants in you — patience, presence, steadiness, compassion — and how they rise to the surface in The After.

💙 When Their Love Becomes Your Compass
The moment grief softens just enough for you to realize their love never left…
it simply changed form and began guiding you from within.

💙 Turning Their Legacy Into Your Life
How to use everything they gave you — their courage, their tenderness, their belief in you — to build a life that honors them and yourself in the most beautiful way.

This episode is a soft landing place for anyone navigating loss, love, and the strange new identity that emerges once caregiving ends.
It’s a reminder that you’re not starting over —
you’re moving forward with a heart shaped by devotion.

✨ Because the Legacy of Love doesn’t fade. It evolves. And it continues through you.

✨ If this episode touches your heart, please share it with another caregiver navigating The After.

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Last week, we honored the strength that carried you through caregiving — the quiet heroism that too often goes unseen.

This week, we take the next step forward. Because once you’ve honored where you’ve been… you can finally begin to rediscover who you are.

In this second installment of The Month of the Unsung Heart, Thérèse invites you into the gentle rediscovery of you —
the person who existed before caregiving,
and the version still waiting to emerge in its aftermath.

Through powerful reflection and moments of stillness, she reminds us that:

💫 Healing isn’t about going back — it’s about arriving.
💫 Your purpose didn’t end when caregiving did — it’s evolving.
💫 The After doesn’t just deserve honor — it deserves you.

If you’ve ever felt lost in the quiet after of caregiving, unsure of who you are now,
this episode is your invitation home —
to your peace, your purpose, and your becoming.

Because you mattered before caregiving.
And you matter after.

If you know or love a caregiver whose journey has ended, please share this episode with them.

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When caregiving ends, the world goes quiet — but your heart doesn’t.

In this opening episode of The Month of the Unsung Heart, Thérèse explores what it means to honor the season after caregiving — not as an ending, but as a continuation of love in a new form.

Through raw truth and reflection, she shares how devotion leaves echoes in the body, why sensitivity is not weakness but brilliance, and how the strength that carried you through someone else’s pain can now rebuild your own healing.

This episode is a love letter to the caregivers in The After — the ones who carried, endured, and are still finding their way back to themselves.

💙 Because caregiving doesn’t end when the care does — it changes you forever. And The After Still Deserves Honor.

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