🌙Episode Summary

In this episode of Break the Cycles, I dive into what keeps us stuck in toxic patterns and generational cycles we didn’t consciously choose. I talk about how awareness is the gateway to healing and how many of the behaviors we struggle with are inherited, learned, or rooted in unhealed emotional wounds.

I share personal reflections and practical tools I use in my own healing journey, including awareness journaling, nervous system regulation, and intuitive boundary setting. This episode is an invitation to slow down, reflect, and recognize the patterns playing out in your life so you can consciously choose something different. Healing, for me, has always come back to choice — and the power we have to rewrite our stories once we see them clearly.

✨Key Takeaways

Awareness is the first step to transformation.

Triggers are messengers that reveal unhealed stories.

Relationships often mirror parts of us that need healing.

People pleasing is often self-abandonment in disguise.

Noticing a pattern is the first step to breaking it.

Generational cycles are inherited emotional patterns.

Ancestral trauma can affect our current emotional responses.

Setting boundaries is essential for maintaining authenticity.

🎙️Sound Bites

"Your relationships are teachers."

"Healing isn't just mental, it's physical."

"Your body always tells you the truth."

⏱️Chapters00:00 Understanding Toxic Patterns and Generational Cycles

09:47 Breaking Generational Cycles and Ancestral Trauma

13:52 Practical Steps for Healing and Integration

🌿Call to Action

If this episode resonated, I’d love to stay connected. ✨ Follow me on Instagram for daily reflections, healing insights, and behind-the-scenes moments from my journey.

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Download here: https://www.alishasheri.com/chakra_guide

✨ Join my Meetup Group: Healing After Toxic Cycles, a virtual, women-centered space for those exploring healing, self-trust, and energetic well-being. We meet every 3rd Tues. of the month.

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🌙Episode Summary

In this episode, I explore the concept of refinement as a spiritual process of letting go of what no longer serves us. I share personal experiences of feeling disconnected from my true self and the journey of shedding old identities and patterns. Through reflection and faith, I discuss how refinement is not about loss but about making room for growth and real love.

✨Key Takeaways

Refinement is a spiritual detox, not a punishment.

Letting go of old identities allows for personal growth.

True self-discovery requires shedding survival modes.

Faith plays a crucial role in the refinement process.

Refinement involves releasing what no longer serves us.

Real love doesn't demand or drain; it nurtures.

Breaking generational cycles is part of healing.

Refinement tests faith but leads to deeper trust.

Endings in refinement are graduations, not failures.

Refinement prepares us for our true purpose.

🎙️Sound Bites

“Refinement isn't about loss.”

“Let go of who you thought you had to be.”

“Refinement is a spiritual detox.”

⏱️Chapters

00:00:01 Introduction to Refinement

00:01:17 Understanding the Process

00:02:36 Personal Journey and Realizations

00:07:08 The Turning Point

00:23:16 Embracing Change and Growth

00:28:07 Releasing Old Identities

00:30:06 Faith and Trust in the Process

00:31:06 Integration and Reflection

🌿Call to Action

If this episode resonated, I’d love to stay connected.

✨ Follow me on Instagram for daily reflections, healing insights, and behind-the-scenes moments from my journey.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamalishasheri

✨ Download my free Chakra Beginner Guide to support your healing, alignment, and self-discovery practice.

Download here: https://www.alishasheri.com/chakra_guide

✨ Join my Meetup Group: Healing After Toxic Cycles, a virtual, women-centered space for those exploring healing, self-trust, and energetic well-being. We meet every 3rd Tues. of the month.

RSVP here: https://meetu.ps/e/PNw8g/RFMY1/i

🌙Episode Summary

In this episode, I explore the difference between isolation and solitude and how moments of silence often arrive as preparation, not punishment. I share how grief, loss, and separation can become powerful teachers on the path of healing and spiritual awakening. We talk about trusting divine timing, listening before reacting, and allowing isolation to transform into alignment with your truest self. If you’ve been feeling pulled inward lately, this episode is an invitation to soften, reflect, and honor what’s unfolding within you.

✨Key Takeaways

• Everything happening right now is for you, not to you
• Isolation is often the universe’s sacred invitation for your attention
• Grief is a reflection of love and connection, not weakness
• Silence creates space for clarity and intuition
• Isolation can become a sacred container for transformation
• The universe never removes without replacing
• As your vibration shifts, not everyone can rise with you
• Detaching with love is a necessary part of growth
• Listening before reacting supports deep healing
• Creating rituals of stillness helps anchor alignment

🎙️Sound Bites

“What if this silence is preparation?”

“Isolation is the universe’s sacred invitation.”

“Embrace the fact that you loved.”

⏱️Chapters

00:00 Embracing Silence and Solitude

07:14 The Journey of Isolation and Transformation

14:46 Understanding Isolation vs. Solitude

21:46 Rituals for Alignment and Healing

28:48 Trusting Divine Timing and Moving Forward

🌿Call to Action

If this episode resonated, I’d love to stay connected.

✨ Follow me on Instagram for daily reflections, healing insights, and behind-the-scenes moments from my journey.

IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamalishasheri

✨ Download my free Chakra Beginner Guide to support your healing, alignment, and self-discovery practice.

Download here: https://www.alishasheri.com/chakra_guide

You are not behind. You are becoming.

Episode 1: Breaking the Cycles Begins with Me

In this first episode of Break the Cycles, I share my personal journey of healing, loss, and transformation — and the calling that led me to create this space.

For years, I followed a path that looked right on paper but felt disconnected in my body and soul. Through career burnout, grief, toxic relationships, and deep inner child healing, I was brought face-to-face with the truth that healing doesn’t begin by doing more — it begins by remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.

This episode is an invitation.
To pause.
To listen inward.
And to begin breaking the cycles that no longer serve you.

Break the Cycles is not just a podcast — it’s a healing space for women who are ready to soften after survival and rebuild the woman behind the titles.

✨ In this episode, we explore:

• What it means to answer the call to your purpose

• How healing begins when you stop running from your pain

• The role childhood wounds and conditioning play in our adult lives

• Why releasing what no longer serves you is an act of self-trust

• How healing can stop generational patterns and cycles

🌿 A gentle reminder:
You are not broken.
You are being called back to yourself.
And you don’t have to have it all figured out to begin.

🎧 New episodes release weekly.
Follow or subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next.

Chapters:

• 00:00 Introduction to Break the Cycles

• 01:16 Answering the Call to Purpose

• 04:40 Facing Fear and Embracing Change

• 08:08 Healing Through Pain and Loss

• 11:39 Creating a Healing Community

• 14:00 Invitation to Begin the Journey

Connect with Alisha on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/iamalishasheri

Welcome to Break the Cycles.

Break the Cycles is a podcast for career-driven women and mothers who are done surviving and ready to soften, heal, and rebuild the woman behind the titles.

Hosted by intuitive coach and healer Alisha Sheri, this podcast explores healing childhood wounds, releasing toxic patterns, reconnecting with feminine energy, and rising into alignment with one’s highest self.

Each episode offers grounded conversation, spiritual insight, and gentle practices to support deep, sustainable healing without bypassing the nervous system.

New episodes are released weekly.

Connect with Alisha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamalishasheri