Could your healing journey be another mask you’re wearing?

What if the rituals, meditations, and sacred affirmations were just a spiritual costume—hiding the very wounds they claim to heal?

This week on Rabbit Hole Reflections, Lisa sits down with Dani Murrell for a piercing, powerful dialogue on spiritual bypassing, emotional addiction, and the high cost of performative healing. Together, they unravel what it means to perform healing, why softness matters in the middle of shame storms, and how motherhood, loss, and truth-telling exposed the truths she was never taught to name.

This isn’t curated spirituality—it’s the part no one talks about: the messy middle, the unfiltered truth beneath the ‘healed’ facade.

INSIDE THIS EPISODE:

• The emotional addiction of looking healed while falling apart
• Spiritual bypassing disguised as personal growth
• Releasing the pressure to “perform” your transformation
• Why raw truth trumps curated progress
• How grief, surrender, and divine connection cracked Dani wide open
• What authentic awakening actually requires

KEY QUOTE:
"My struggle wasn’t with healing itself. It was with being authentic without the facade." — Dani Murrell

ABOUT DANI MURRELL:
Dani Murrell is the author of Truthbunny: A Guide to Loving Yourself One Honest Conversation at a Time and founder of the Truthbunny™ movement—a practice and philosophy rooted in emotional clarity, self-compassion, and breaking generational cycles through radical truth. A former teacher turned speaker and emotional wellness educator, Dani helps women reconnect with their intuition, rewrite their internal scripts, and reclaim their truth—one soft, honest moment at a time.

CONNECT WITH DANI MURRELL:
Instagram: @truthbunny_guide

CONNECT WITH LISA VAN SLYKE:
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Email: rabbitholereflectionspodcast@gmail.com

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This is Episode #18 of Rabbit Hole Reflections

Thank you for joining us on another journey down the rabbit hole.
Together, we're creating a world where shared stories of resilience
light the way from darkness to strength.

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And stay tuned — Lisa’s book Quieted Flames & Silent Sparks is coming soon.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood abuse, bullying, chronic illness, and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised.

How do you reclaim your voice when life has silenced you at every turn?

Born with a rare genetic disorder and subjected to 30+ surgeries, Sophia Soul spent her early years trapped in cycles of chronic pain, bullying, and emotional abuse. From suicidal lows to feeling invisible in a world that couldn’t hold her—Sophia’s story could’ve ended there.
But instead… she rose.

This week on Rabbit Hole Reflections, Sophia shares her raw descent into despair and sacred rise into sovereignty, healing, and spiritual leadership. Her transformation proves that even the deepest wounds can become portals to power, purpose, and truth.

“Everything I lived through became part of the alchemy. I wasn’t being punished. I was being prepared.” — Sophia Soul

🎧 Inside This Episode
💥 Living with a rare genetic disorder + surviving 30+ surgeries
👥 Battling isolation, bullying, emotional trauma & suicidal ideation
🔊 Awakening through sound healing + transformational breathwork
🧠 Rewiring her relationship to pain—without medication
🫶 The power of shared stories, deep belonging, and embodied gratitude
🔥 Choosing sovereignty over silence, shame, or survival mode

🌿 About the Guest
Sophia Soul is the visionary founder of Sacred U, a global spiritual community rooted in empowerment, healing, and radical authenticity. Through breathwork, sound, and storytelling, she helps others reclaim their truth, embody wholeness, and reconnect with their divine spark.

🌐 Connect with Sophia Soul
Website + Panels: sacredu.love
YouTube: @SacredULove
Facebook Page: Sacred U
Facebook Group: sacredu.love Community
Instagram: @sacredu.love
🎁 Free Village Membership available on her website

🎙️ Connect with Lisa Van Slyke
All Links: linktr.ee/RabbitHoleReflectionsPodcast
Instagram: @TheLisaV
Podcast IG: @RabbitHoleReflections
YouTube: @RabbitHoleReflectionsPodcast
Email: rabbitholereflectionspodcast@gmail.com

🕒 New episodes every Thursday at 7PM CT
🎧 This is Episode #17 of Rabbit Hole Reflections

🌟 Coming Next Week
Dani Murrell joins us to explore spiritual sobriety, sensual reclamation, and what it means to rebuild your life when the masks come off.

Thank you for joining us on another journey down the rabbit hole.
Together, we're creating a world where shared stories of resilience
light the way from darkness to strength.

If this episode moved you, follow the show and share it with someone who needs to hear it.

Connect with our community on Instagram and Facebook @RabbitHoleReflections,
and watch full video episodes on YouTube @RabbitHoleReflectionsPodcast.

Ready to launch your own podcast?
Check out the free workshop linked in the show notes.

And stay tuned — Lisa’s book Quieted Flames & Silent Sparks is coming soon.

⚠️ This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse, suicidal ideation, and medical trauma. Listener discretion is advised.

Four decades of buried trauma.
Three dismissive therapists.
One miracle phone call that changed everything.

What happens when traditional therapy fails—and your own mind whispers you're “too broken to be helped”?

For trauma coach Cari Rickabaugh, it meant being 24 hours from ending her life… until divine intervention and an unconventional guide helped her meet the wounded child within.

This episode explores how suppressed memories of childhood sexual abuse froze Cari in emotional adolescence… why therapy failed her… and how somatic healing unlocked trauma stored in her body.

From seizures and gallbladder attacks to suicidal ideation and spiritual awakening, Cari’s story reveals how emotional wounds often manifest physically—and how healing begins when we feel safe enough to feel.

🔎 Inside This Episode:
🧠 Why therapists dismissed 25+ years of trauma
🚨 The suicide plan—and the friend who refused to hang up
🔬 Seizures, fibromyalgia, and fatigue as trauma symptoms
⚡ Rewiring the nervous system through somatics and NLP
🫀 Feeling light in her chest after decades of darkness
🎤 Speaking to 250+ people and hearing “I thought I was the only one”
💪 Launching Resilience Mind and Body Coaching to help others heal

🗝️ Key Insight:
"You don't have to believe everything you think. Just because something's in your head doesn't mean it's true. You can doubt your doubts." — Cari Rickabaugh

This is for anyone dismissed by the medical system, failed by therapy, or convinced they’re “too broken” to heal. Cari’s story proves radical healing is possible—with the right support and fierce self-advocacy.

✨ About the Guest:
Cari Rickabaugh is a trauma-informed coach and founder of Resilience Mind and Body Coaching. She fuses massage therapy, energy work, and somatics to guide deep transformation. She’s also a featured author in A Journey of Riches: Unlock Your Hidden Potential.

🔗 Connect with Cari:
Linktree: linktr.ee/resiliencemindandbodycoaching
Website: resiliencemindandbodycoaching.com
LinkedIn: @cari-rickabaugh
Facebook: @cari.rickabaugh
Email: ResilienceMindAndBodyCoaching@outlook.com

🎧 Episode #16 of Rabbit Hole Reflections
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📲 Connect with Lisa:
All links: linktr.ee/RabbitHoleReflectionsPodcast
Instagram: @TheLisaV | @RabbitHoleReflections
Email: rabbitholereflectionspodcast@gmail.com

✨ Mentioned:
Lisa reflects on a prior episode with Olivia Caggiano
🎥 Watch: “The Body Never Forgets” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6P_uXJXyEw

🔮 Next Week:
From narcissistic abuse to neural rewiring—Sophia Soul reclaims her voice through breathwork, sound healing, and radical self-empowerment.

Thank you for joining us on another journey down the rabbit hole.
Together, we're creating a world where shared stories of resilience
light the way from darkness to strength.

If this episode moved you, follow the show and share it with someone who needs to hear it.

Connect with our community on Instagram and Facebook @RabbitHoleReflections,
and watch full video episodes on YouTube @RabbitHoleReflectionsPodcast.

Ready to launch your own podcast?
Check out the free workshop linked in the show notes.

And stay tuned — Lisa’s book Quieted Flames & Silent Sparks is coming soon.