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Back Porch Confessions
by Gravesb41 - Barbara McCormick
Back Porch Confessions is your go-to spot for real talk, big laughs, and honest conversations with a splash of sass and soul. Hosted by Barbara and friends, we dive into life’s mess, miracles, and moments that matter... right from the porch where nothing’s off-limits and everything’s from the heart. Pull up a chair, grab your tea, and let’s get real. ✨ Coming soon in July: Back Porch Confessions – The Interviews… deeper conversations, powerful stories, and guests you won’t forget.
Episodes
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I Woke Up Prepared to Be the Bigger Person… But Apparently, the Bigger Person Called in Sick!
🎙️ I Woke Up Prepared to Be the Bigger Person… But Apparently, the Bigger Person Called in Sick! 😂 Ever wake up determined to choose peace, extend grace, and be the bigger person… only for somebody to test every ounce of patience you have before your morning coffee? Honey, the bigger person has...
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How long can you go on being Considerate without being Considered
🎙️ HOW LONG CAN YOU GO ON BEING CONSIDERATE WITHOUT BEING CONSIDERED? ❤️ How long can you keep thinking about everyone else’s feelings while nobody seems to think about yours? In this episode of Back Porch Confessions, we’re talking about the exhaustion of always being the understanding one, the...
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THE FIVE-SECOND PAUSE: Delaying Your Reaction, Breaking Emotional Traps & Choosing Your Response
🎙️ THE FIVE-SECOND PAUSE: Delaying Your Reaction, Breaking Emotional Traps & Choosing Your Response | Back Porch Confessions ❤️ What if five seconds could change the entire direction of a conversation? In this episode of Back Porch Confessions, we’re talking about the power of pausing before...
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Our First Exhausted Word - Fine
🎙️ I’M FINE: The 47 Meanings Behind the Most Overused Answer We Give | Back Porch Confessions ❤️ “How are you?” Fine. But are we? In this deep-dive episode of Back Porch Confessions, we unpack the 47 different things we may really mean when we say the word fine — because sometimes “fine” means...
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🎙️ THE LIMBO STATE: Learning to Live Again After Loss ❤️
What happens after the funeral, the flowers stop arriving, the phone stops ringing, and everyone else seems to return to normal… but you can’t? That’s The Limbo State. It’s the strange, empty space after losing someone you love where you’re no longer living in the initial shock of death, but you...
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They Should Know Syndrome
You know the feeling… “I shouldn’t have to tell them. They should KNOW.” And for those of us who have been internally maintaining an emotional spreadsheet of every offense, disappointment, side-eye, forgotten anniversary, unanswered text, and questionable comment since approximately 1977… this...
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Part 4 of 4: The Next Fifty Years are Mine!
The Next Fifty Years Are Mine! What if healing wasn't about forgetting your past... What if it was about refusing to let your past write the rest of your story? After years of carrying childhood trauma, rejection, emotional neglect, abandonment, and believing I wasn't enough, I finally realized...
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Bonus to Part 3 of 4: Mourning the Mother I Needed
Releasing the Weight Without Rewriting the Truth The Weight We Were Never Meant to Carry Truth Without Hatred What Forgiveness Is...and What It Isn't Freedom Doesn't Require Their Permission The Day I Stopped Arguing With Reality A Letter to the Child Inside
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Part 3 or 4: Mourning the Mother I Needed
Hour 3: Mourning the Mother I Needed Some grief doesn't begin at a funeral. Some grief begins when you realize you've spent your entire life waiting for someone to become the person you needed them to be. In Hour Three of the Giving the Anger Back series, we explore one of the deepest and often...
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Episode 2 of 4 Anger was never my enemy
What if your anger was never the problem? What if it was the part of you that protected a little child who never felt safe, seen, or unconditionally loved? In Hour Two of the Giving the Anger Back series, we take a deeper look at anger through a trauma-informed lens. Together, we'll explore the...
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Giving the Anger Back Episode 1 of 4
For years I believed I was the problem. I thought if I were prettier... quieter... smarter... more lovable... maybe my own mother would have loved me differently. But healing taught me something life-changing. The anger wasn't the enemy. It was the voice of a little girl who spent decades trying…
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Don’t Stop… Let Me Cry: Why Tears Are the Rainbow After the Storm
In this heartfelt episode, we talk about why so many of us interrupt tenderness with, “Stop, you’re going to make me cry,” instead of allowing ourselves to feel the beauty of the moment. Sometimes the tears we fight are not weakness. They are release. They are healing. They are the rainbow after...
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Learning That Not Everyone Leaves
What happens when life teaches you that the people you love can disappear? How do you learn to trust again when your heart has been conditioned to expect loss? In this deeply emotional and transformative episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara takes a powerful deep dive into the abandonment...
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The Core Belief: "People Leave"
What happens when a child learns that the people they need aren't always available? In this powerful 6-hour deep dive, Barbara explores the abandonment wound, childhood emotional neglect, parental absence, hyper-independence, trust issues, abandonment anxiety, relationship struggles, and the...
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Betrayal Trauma
What happens when the person you trusted the most becomes the source of your deepest pain? In this powerful episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara takes a deep dive into Betrayal Trauma—the emotional, psychological, and physical impact that occurs when trust is shattered by someone you love....
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Why Trauma Survivors Isolate
Why do trauma survivors often pull away from the very people they love? Why does isolation feel safer than connection? And why do so many people crave support while simultaneously avoiding it? In this deeply personal and eye-opening episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara takes a deep dive…
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I’m Fine - The Lie We Learned to Survive With!
Why do we say “I’m fine” when we’re secretly falling apart inside? In this raw and emotional episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara dives deep into emotional masking, trauma responses, people pleasing, functioning depression, and why vulnerability feels unsafe for so many people. This...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Back Porch Confessions is your go-to spot for real talk, big laughs, and honest conversations with a splash of sass and soul. Hosted by Barbara and friends, we dive into life’s mess, miracles, and moments that matter... right from the porch where nothing’s off-limits and everything’s from the heart. Pull up a chair, grab your tea, and let’s get real.
✨ Coming soon in July: Back Porch Confessions – The Interviews… deeper conversations, powerful stories, and guests you won’t forget.
HOSTED BY
Gravesb41 - Barbara McCormick
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Back Porch Confessions is your go-to spot for real talk, big laughs, and honest conversations with a splash of sass and soul. Hosted by Barbara and friends, we dive into life’s mess, miracles, and moments that matter... right from the porch where nothing’s off-limits and everything’s from the...
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Back Porch Confessions is created and hosted by Gravesb41 - Barbara McCormick.
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