The Wake-Up Hidden Inside Heartbreak, Trauma & Toxic Relationships with Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards

Welcome to Wake Up! with Joni, the podcast where embodied consciousness meets leadership through awareness — awakening lived, not theorized. What happens when heartbreak cracks open the identity you spent a lifetime building? In this deeply honest, funny, and transformational conversation, Joni sits down with Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards — spiritual counselor, speaker, and author of The Venus Flytrap — to explore trauma, toxic relationships, reinvention, emotional healing, and the awakening that can emerge from life's darkest nights. After childhood trauma, psychiatric hospitalization, addiction, multiple marriages, and profound emotional collapse, Steven shares the wisdom he gained through heartbreak, obsession, boundaries, healing, and remembering who he truly is. Together, Joni and Steven unpack: ✨ Why we repeat relationship patterns ✨ The hidden gifts inside heartbreak and emotional pain ✨ Trauma, triggers, and emotional healing ✨ Why "toxic" relationships may actually be teachers ✨ The power of boundaries and vulnerability ✨ Attachment, identity, and freedom ✨ Why we keep running — and what happens when we stop ✨ Remembering who you really are beneath the pain This episode is filled with humor, truth, compassion, and powerful perspective shifts for anyone navigating heartbreak, reinvention, trauma, or personal awakening. Connect with Dr. Stephen Paul Edwards 📖 The Venus Flytrap 🌐 VFT23.com 🎙 The Venus Flytrap Podcast Website: https://vft23.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephen_sapereaude/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seemiracles/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vft23_official?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575468609762 X: https://x.com/Stephen_Edwardz 📖 Stephen's channeled book: Communioncating With God Connect with Joni 🌐 Wake Up With Joni: WakeUpWithJoni.com 🌿 Solo & Couples Retreats: Paradise Ranch Retreats 📖 Book: Stop, Look, Choose: Your Journey to Peace and Freedom If this conversation moved you, please subscribe, rate, review, and share it with someone you love. Beautiful humans — it's your turn to wake up and live your most alive lives.