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Popular but Insecure — When Applause Doesn’t Heal You

In this soul-stirring episode of The Healing Poetic Podcast, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach, gets real about the hidden truth behind popularity and public perception. She opens up about a time in her life when she was visible, celebrated, and surrounded — yet silently struggling with insecurity, emptiness, and disconnection from herself.

Keya explores how seeking validation from others can become a mask for unresolved pain and how healing requires choosing authenticity over applause. Through powerful reflection, she reminds listeners that peace will always outlast popularity and that true confidence is found in stillness, not in the spotlight.

This episode is a gentle yet powerful invitation to stop performing and start becoming.
Because the most magnetic version of you isn’t the one that’s liked — it’s the one that’s healed.

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In this heartfelt episode of The Healing Poetic Podcast, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach, dives into the difficult truth about knowing when it’s time to move differently in friendships and relationships. Growth often brings clarity — and sometimes that clarity reveals disconnection.

Keya shares three powerful signs that it’s time to pivot:
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This episode is a reminder that healing isn’t just about letting go of pain — it’s also about letting go of people who no longer align with your peace. Through reflection and personal insight, Keya explores how to release with grace, pivot with purpose, and honor the version of yourself that’s evolving.

Tune in for real talk, spiritual grounding, and poetic truth that helps you heal, detach, and move forward with love.

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Your spirit already knows what your mind keeps questioning.

In this episode, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach, dives deep into the sacred art of trusting your inner knowing — that voice that whispers before evidence shows up. Instinct for Strong Insight explores the tension between what you feel and what you fear, reminding listeners that intuition isn’t insecurity — it’s intelligence.

Through storytelling, spiritual reflection, and bold truth, Keya breaks down how ignoring your instinct can delay your destiny, and how listening to it can protect your peace, purpose, and power.

💭 Takeaway Thought: You don’t need another sign when your soul already sent the signal.
Your insight isn’t found in validation — it’s found in stillness.

🎧 Tune in and reconnect with the divine voice inside you that’s been right all along.

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In this deeply personal and transparent episode, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach, opens up about the life experiences that shaped her, broke her, and ultimately birthed her healing.

From her roots in St. Louis, Missouri, to her family’s move to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Keya shares how love, struggle, faith, and survival collided to form the foundation of her becoming. She reflects on childhood lessons, family secrets, anger management, faith transitions, and the powerful awakening that led her to walk away from religion and into an authentic relationship with her Creator.

This episode isn’t just her story — it’s a reminder that healing isn’t a single moment; it’s a lifelong devotion. Through raw honesty and poetic reflection, Keya invites listeners to see how pain can become purpose, and how unlearning can lead to liberation.

💭 Takeaway Thought: You can’t be the victim and the victor at the same time — your healing begins when you choose yourself.

🎧 Tune in as Keya shares how she turned silence into self-awareness, pain into poetry, and confusion into clarity — one layer of healing at a time.

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Sometimes, freedom doesn’t come from breaking habits — it comes from breaking attachments.
In this episode, Keya McClain, The Hardcore Healing Pen Coach, unpacks the sacred process of becoming free from your fellowship. What happens when your spiritual circle no longer aligns with your soul’s evolution? When loyalty starts to feel like a leash?

Keya takes us through the quiet heartbreak of outgrowing people you once prayed with, trusted, and walked beside. This conversation is about releasing community without bitterness, detaching from expectation, and understanding that peace sometimes requires distance.

You’ll hear reflections on spiritual manipulation, emotional control, and the courage it takes to walk alone — not in isolation, but in alignment.

💭 Takeaway Thought: You can love them and still leave them. Freedom doesn’t always require a fight; sometimes, it just needs permission.

🎧 Tune in to reclaim your right to evolve without explanation — and to be at peace with your own growth.

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In this episode, Keya McClain explores the power and complexity of honest communication—what it takes to speak truth without harm, to listen without defensiveness, and to protect your peace without silencing yourself.

Once a woman who communicated primarily through her pen, Keya reflects on her evolution into someone who now stands confidently in her voice. She shares how healing, self-awareness, and boundary work transformed the way she shows up in conversations, relationships, and moments of conflict. This episode examines when honesty builds connection, when silence becomes self-protection, and how emotional intelligence allows us to communicate with both clarity and care.

This is not a conversation about winning arguments—it’s about cultivating understanding, honoring yourself, and choosing authenticity over performance. Honest communication, as Keya reminds us, is not just about what we say, but how aware, grounded, and intentional we are when we say it.

Speak with love.
Stand in truth.
Protect your peace.

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In this episode, I honor the life and legacy of my uncle—the man who showed up as a father figure when I needed one most. When I became a mother at 18, he met me not with judgment, but with pride, love, and celebration. His presence affirmed my worth at a time when I needed it deeply.

Thirty years ago, his passing marked my first encounter with profound grief. It was a loss that shaped my understanding of love, absence, and the long road to healing. Today, I reflect on the lessons he left behind, the ways his spirit continues to guide me, and how his love became a foundation for the work I now do around grief, peace, and legacy.

This episode is not just about loss—it’s about remembrance. It’s about unconditional love, chosen family, and the truth that those we love never truly leave us. Their legacy lives on through who we become and how we choose to love others.

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In this episode, I get raw about the tension between hate and healing. I’ve been on this healing journey for years—doing the work, facing my shadows, and choosing love. But healing doesn’t mean hate disappears. It shows up in people’s actions, in systems, and in the very air of this country right now.

I open up about the exhaustion of carrying anger and disappointment, the frustration of watching religion used to justify hate, and the confusion of seeing whole communities treated as “less than.” I also share the ways I’ve refused to let that hate infiltrate my spirit—by clinging to what’s healthful, by grounding myself in healing practices, and by holding on to love as resistance.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, angry, or heartbroken about the state of the world while still trying to honor your own healing, this conversation is for you. Let’s talk truth, rage, resilience, and what it really means to heal in the face of hate.

🎧 Listen now and let’s walk this healing journey together.

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