Awakened 2 Purpose Podcast
by Larissa (Rizzy) Rhone
Awakened 2 Purpose Podcast is a Christian podcast for survivors of childhood sexual trauma, by a survivor of multi-generation CSAfor those ready to stop hiding and heal out loud. Hosted by Larissa (R Rhone - survivor, faith-based empowerment coach, and founder of Journey 2 Free. Covering:Childhood sexual trauma,Faith after abuse,Griefidentity loss, Generational cyclesand rebuilding life on your own terms.Here we Reassign Shame. Renew our minds. Learn to trust God again, even after trauma.You are not broken. You are becoming. And survival was never the final destination.
Episodes
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Whose Shame Are You Carrying? Why Survivors Blame Themselves for What Someone Else Chose
What if the heaviest thing you are carrying was never yours to begin with? In this episode, Larissa “Rizzy” Rhone shares her own story of misplaced guilt and walks through why so many survivors of childhood sexual abuse blame themselves for what someone else chose. She explains the difference...
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Functioning But Not Free: Why Surviving Was Never the Final Destination
What if the strongest person you know is still not free? What if that person is you? You can work, raise children, serve in church, build a business, and be the one everyone calls. And still have parts of your life run by what happened to you years ago. That is functioning. But functioning is not...
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Why Didn’t They Choose Me? How Childhood Betrayal Shapes Adult Relationships
What happens when the adults who were supposed to protect you knew you were being harmed, and still failed to protect you? In this episode, Tammy and I begin by asking how trauma can make someone look like a “bad friend.” But the conversation quickly takes us beneath the behavior and into the...
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Bad Friend or Trauma Respond | Awakened 2 Purpose Podcast ft Coach Tammy
Larissa and Tammy get honest about the friendships they’ve lost, the ones they walked away from without explanation, and the moment it took real self awareness to finally say out loud, this made me uncomfortable, and I need you to hear me. They talk about what it looks like to catch yourself mid...
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Who Am I When No-one Needs Me?
Have you ever found yourself asking, "Who am I when no one needs me?"When my sons left for vacations with their father, I expected to miss them. What I didn't expect was the painful realization that followed.For the first time in a long time, I was alone, and I discovered that somewhere between...
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Awakened 2 Purpose Quick Bite ~ What is easier: staying comfortable or choosing freedom? With Dorcas Pittman
In this powerful Awakened 2 Purpose Quick Bite, Larissa Rhone asks guest Dorcas Pittman one simple question that opens the door to a much deeper conversation about trauma healing, familiar pain, faith, identity, and freedom. Dorcas shares how she became comfortable navigating trauma because it…
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I almost let fear keep me out of the room.
I almost let fear keep me out of the room.I'm fresh off the Podcast Summit in Alabama, and I have to be honest with you, I almost didn't go. My head was already picturing a room with over two thousand people in it and talking myself out of showing up before I even got there. But I went anyway. I...
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Until You Can Say It, You Are Not Free: Call the Thing a Thing - Guest Appearance On: Staci Speaks
I was invited onto Staci Speaks Hope, a podcast dedicated to healing the little girl within, and I left that conversation knowing it needed to live on this platform too. This is one of the most honest conversations I have ever had on record. We talk about what it really means to call a thing a...
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The Survival Strategy That Saved Me | Was Secretly Keeping Me Stuck | Awakened 2 Purpose Podcast
At 47, I had a revelation in therapy that cracked something wide open. I realized I am afraid of adults, and that fear traces all the way back to a childhood without safe people. No protected father. No shielding mother. Seven women who knew about the abuse and chose silence. In this solo episode…
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Thirty years of research | One finding | And survivors already knew | Speak 2 Heal
Welcome back to Speak 2 Heal through the Awakened 2 Purpose Podcast. This is Part Two of our conversation with survivor advocate, activist, and social justice clinician Ms. Regina Dyson. Last week we talked about why survivors stay silent when their abuser holds power. Today we go deeper. A...
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What Happens When Your Hero Hurts You | Part 1 | Speak 2 Heal
**TRIGGER WARNING** Discussions of Child Sexual Abuse. Episodes may contain graphic details. Hi! You didn’t land here by accident; this is divine alignment.Welcome to Journey 2 Free, where survivors heal out loud, shame is reassigned, and we awaken to our God-ordained purposes.What do you do when...
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How Trauma Is Secretly Running Your Life... And You Don't Even Realize It | Manifestations of Sexual Trauma
You survived the abuse. But now you have to survive the healing. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, I sit down with intimacy and relationship coach Tammy Bodie to talk about what the manifestations of sexual trauma actually look like in everyday life, in your relationships, your intimacy, your...
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Triggers Don't Mean You're Broken: I Closed the Door and Fell ApartAwaken to Purpose Podcast
I went back to Jamaica to bury my uncle. I thought I was healed. I thought I was further along. And then I closed a bathroom door and fell completely apart.In this raw, unscripted episode of the Awaken 2 Purpose Podcast, I sit down with my co-host, activist, clinician, and survivor Ms. Regina...
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Do Triggers Ever End? | I Thought I Was Okay Until I Went Back Home
Have you ever thought you were okay, until something brought it all rushing back?In this very first solo episode, I'm sharing something raw, unfiltered, and still very fresh. I recently returned from Jamaica after attending two funerals, and walking back into the childhood homes where I was...
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Awaken 2 Purpose | Healing | Grief & The Forgiveness Trap
What happens when the people who were supposed to protect you tell you to forgive and forget? In this raw, faith-rooted conversation, host Larissa sits down with survivor advocate Regina Dyton and co-host Candy to unpack what nobody tells you about healing after childhood sexual abuse, the grief...
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I Worked So Hard to Serve, But I Didn't Work So Hard to Heal" feat. Coach Tammy
What happens when the church teaches you how to worship but never teaches you how to heal?In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Larissa sits down with her sister-friend and fellow survivor Tammy Bodie, host of Sex Ed for Saints Podcast, for a testimony that will break you open and put you back...
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Two Survivors | One Family Secret | Breaking the Silence Together.
Some conversations are too heavy to carry alone, so we carry them together. In this episode of Speak 2 Heal on the Awaken to Purpose Podcast, I sit down with someone who is not just my aunt, she is my fellow survivor. The same man who violated me as a child violated her too. For decades we both...
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Diddy, Epstein & the Cost of Disclosure: What Survivors Actually Feel | Speak 2 Heal Ep. 1
This is for the one who's been watching the headlines and feeling everything, and couldn't explain why.In this debut episode of Speak 2 Heal the honest, unfiltered segment of the Awaken to Purpose Podcast, host Larissa sits on the couch with two fellow survivors, Ms. Regina and Candy, for a raw,...
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Awakened 2 Purpose Intro | I'm Back After 4 Years | Breaking Silence & Reassigning Shame
Awakened 2 Purpose Intro | Breaking Silence, Reassigning Shame, Healing Forward After 4 years away, I'm back, not because I'm fearless, but because I fear staying silent more than I fear speaking up. I'm Larissa, founder of Journey 2 Free, survivor empowerment coach, and your host. This is the...
About this show
Awakened 2 Purpose Podcast is a Christian podcast for survivors of childhood sexual trauma, by a survivor of multi-generation CSAfor those ready to stop hiding and heal out loud. Hosted by Larissa (R Rhone - survivor, faith-based empowerment coach, and founder of Journey 2 Free. Covering:Childhood sexual trauma,Faith after abuse,Griefidentity loss, Generational cyclesand rebuilding life on your own terms.Here we Reassign Shame. Renew our minds. Learn to trust God again, even after trauma.You are not broken. You are becoming. And survival was never the final destination.
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Larissa (Rizzy) Rhone
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