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Do you slip back into childhood roles with your siblings at the holidays?

You aren't alone. In this episode of The Road Back Podcast, Mel & Dez dive deep into sibling codependency during the holidays. Discover why codependent patterns run so deep in family and sibling dynamics.

Learn practical somatic and emotional tools to practice true individuation, stop taking responsibility for your siblings' distress, give yourself permission to stay on your own team without sacrificing connection.

Download The FREE Codependency Guide: Learn if you Just Care Deeply, or if your Self Worth is Coming From Another Person’s Happiness:

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What happens when your roadmap to motherhood is entirely shaped by growing up in a large family and carrying the weight of raising 11 siblings? In this second episode Dez and Mel welcome back special guest Katie Miller for a deep, vulnerable conversation on navigating the transition from second-mom to having her first daughter.

Katie opens up about her six-year therapeutic journey to decide if she even wanted children, facing down panic attacks, unpacking deep-seated religious and cultural norms, and learning how to tune into her own desires instead of defaulting to self-abandonment. She also shares the raw reality of navigating an unexpected early delivery, a month-long NICU stay, and how somatic awareness and co-regulation transformed her approach to parenting and mom guilt.

Whether you come from a big family or are simply learning how to parent from your authentic adult self rather than your past conditioning, this episode is a masterclass in boundaries, self-capacity, and coming home to who you truly are.

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What happens when your entire life has been defined by groupthink, survival mode, and managing everyone else’s needs except your own?

In this milestone episode of The Road Back Podcast, Mel & Dez sit down with their very first podcast guest ever—life consultant, somatic coach, and first-time mom, Katie Miller. As the oldest of twelve children growing up in a conservative religious system, Katie shares her raw and deeply relatable journey of stepping out of the predefined roles and confronting generational cycles of control, and discovering her own individual voice.

Tune in as we unpack what it means to untangle your identity from family expectations, embrace your physical and emotional capacity, and find your road back to your true self and realize that capacity is not a group project!

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