The Room to Be Brave: April Day Garcia on Trauma Healing, Sobriety, ADHD & Reclaiming Identity

Send us Fan MailSome memories don’t feel like “the past.” They feel like rooms we have locked, avoided, and quietly built our lives around without realizing it.In this powerful episode of Women Like Me Stories & Business, Julie Fairhurst sits down with April Day Garcia, author of The Room to Be Brave, to talk about what happens when you finally walk back into the moments that shaped your identity — and decide you do not have to carry the same story out with you.April shares how sobriety and a near-simultaneous ADHD diagnosis forced a new kind of honesty. From the outside, life may look successful, but inside, old wounds can still be quietly running the show.Together, Julie and April explore the patterns that often reveal unhealed pain: waiting for abandonment, accepting behavior you do not deserve, shrinking your voice, believing you are “not enough,” and feeling like you do not belong in rooms you have every right to stand in.April explains why healing can feel safer the second time around — because now you enter with choice, awareness, and the power to leave. She also shares why compassion matters more than judgment when revisiting shame, trauma, and old self-talk.This conversation also offers practical tools for emotional recovery. Therapy can be powerful, but April believes healing often requires a multi-tool approach, including journaling, meditation, yoga, Reiki, acts of service, and intentionally making space for joy.By the end of this episode, you will have simple prompts to help you name the identity you were told to be — and choose the one you are brave enough to live as.If you have been feeling stuck in old self-talk, shame, trauma patterns, or the belief that you are not enough, this conversation will meet you with truth, compassion, and hope.Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more women can find these stories and start doing the work too.Reach out to April:  https://www.aprildaygarcia.com/If this conversation stirred something in you… good. That’s where change begins.Make sure you’re subscribed, share this with someone who needs it, and if you’re ready to tell your story, step into your voice, or build a life that actually feels like yours… You’re in the right place.I’m Julie Fairhurst, and this is where stories turn into power.Go to my website if you would like to be a guest on the Women Like Me Stories & Business in the toolbar click Let's PodcastJulie's Website