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Episode 1: How Trauma Colors Our Life
LifeCode™: What happened to me shaped me, but it does not define me.
Episode Summary:
In this opening episode of The Soft Life as LifeCode™, Monica Wisdom invites you into a tender conversation about the invisible weight many of us carry. Before we can embrace softness, we must understand what hardened us.This episode explores how trauma—both personal and generational—shapes the way we love, work, rest, and show up in the world. Monica breaks down what trauma is, how it lives in the body, and what it takes from us. Most importantly, she offers a powerful reframe: you are not broken, you are patterned. And patterns can be changed.This is not about reliving the past. It’s about reclaiming the power we lost along the way. This is the first step in your journey home to yourself.
Mentioned in This Episode:
Soft Life Mornings – A free 7-day audio series to gently guide your mornings with intention and grace.[here]
The Soft Life Blueprint Journal – A beautiful guided journal to help you reflect, release, and reimagine your next chapter.[here]
Key Takeaways:
Citations & Further Reading:
Let’s Stay Connected
If this episode spoke to your spirit, please share it with your sister circle.
Tag @MonicaWisdom and tell us what your softness looks like today.To go deeper, download the tools above and subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss the next episode in this transformational series.
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LifeCode™: What happened to me shaped me, but it does not define me.
Episode Summary:
In this opening episode of The Soft Life as LifeCode™, Monica Wisdom invites you into a tender conversation about the invisible weight many of us carry. Before we can embrace softness, we must understand what hardened us.This episode explores how trauma—both personal and generational—shapes the way we love, work, rest, and show up in the world. Monica breaks down what trauma is, how it lives in the body, and what it takes from us. Most importantly, she offers a powerful reframe: you are not broken, you are patterned. And patterns can be changed.This is not about reliving the past. It’s about reclaiming the power we lost along the way. This is the first step in your journey home to yourself.
Mentioned in This Episode:
Soft Life Mornings – A free 7-day audio series to gently guide your mornings with intention and grace.[here]
The Soft Life Blueprint Journal – A beautiful guided journal to help you reflect, release, and reimagine your next chapter.[here]
Key Takeaways:
- Trauma isn’t just what happened to you; it’s what happened inside of you in response
- Black women often live in a state of high-functioning freeze, a trauma response mistaken for strength
- Healing begins in the nervous system, not just in the mind
- What was taken—peace, rest, softness—can be reclaimed
- You are not broken. You are becoming
Citations & Further Reading:
- Gabor Maté – The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
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- Joy DeGruy – Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
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- Stephen Porges – The Polyvagal Theory
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Let’s Stay Connected
If this episode spoke to your spirit, please share it with your sister circle.
Tag @MonicaWisdom and tell us what your softness looks like today.To go deeper, download the tools above and subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss the next episode in this transformational series.
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