Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a chapter from my memoir Between Worlds about the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and the unexpected emotions that came with it.While the world around me was shaken, something inside me shifted too. For the first time, I experienced relief from a life that had already felt heavy. Later, moving to the Dominican Republic gave me a glimpse of belonging, growth, and what it felt like to breathe again.This episode is about how environment shapes identity, how pain can hide beneath routine, and how sudden change can sometimes become the beginning of healing.Includes personal reflection, and prayer.

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a personal story about sibling comparison, childhood jealousy, and the healing that can come with time.Little Sister explores what happens when children are compared inside the family, when love feels uneven, and when resentment forms before we are old enough to understand our emotions.This is also a story of growth.As I look back now, I see more than childhood pain. I see two sisters carrying different wounds, trying to survive in different ways.This episode includes a story , personal reflection, prayer for anyone healing sibling dynamics, family comparison, or guilt from the past.Healing sometimes begins when we see the child we once were and the child they were too.

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a chapter from my memoir Between Worlds about a time in my life when silence became my way of surviving.As a teenager, I learned to stay quiet, to observe, and to hide my emotions in order to feel safe. What looked like disconnection on the outside was, in reality, a mind trying to protect itself.This episode is a reflection on what it means to grow up without emotional safety, and how silence can become both a shield and a limitation.I speak about the patterns I developed, the beliefs I carried, and the awareness that came from it.This episode includes a personal reflection, grounding, affirmations, and a closing prayer for anyone who has ever felt unseen, unheard, or disconnected from their own voice.You are allowed to take up space.You are allowed to be heard.

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a chapter from my memoir Between Worlds a story about growing up feeling like nothing I did was ever enough.From school to home, I learned to associate love with performance, and mistakes with pain. I speak about the pressure to be perfect, the fear of getting things wrong, and the quiet loneliness of being a child who felt unseen and misunderstood.This episode is not just about what I experienced,but about the beliefs I carried from itand what I am still learning to unlearn.This episode includes a personal reflection, grounding, and affirmations for anyone who has ever felt like they had to earn love.You are already enough.Even now.

In this episode of Soft Strength with Stephanie Juste, I share a deeply personal chapter from my memoir Between Worlds.This is the story of how I came into this world not through love, but through survival. A story shaped by rejection, silence, and the quiet strength of a mother who chose to carry me when everything around her told her not to.I speak about childhood memories that stayed in my body moments of loneliness, fear, and learning to find safety on my own.But this is not just a story about what I lacked.It is also a story about what remained.About being here… even when life tried to say otherwise.This episode includes a personal reflection, gentle breathing, and affirmations for anyone who has ever felt unseen, unsupported, or alone.You are not invisible.You are here.And that matters.

Today’s episode is different, I am reading it from my story “Between worlds” today I am sharing a poem I Called “Papa” it’s about seeing my father not only as a parent but as the young man he once was.

I wrote this poem when I began thinking about my mother not only as a parent, but as the young girl she once was.

There are days I am grateful and there are days I feel like I am behind, I compare, scroll social media, I want more and sometimes i call that feeling “Selfish “ but maybe it’s not selfish maybe it human.

A Haitian daughter learning to love herself,my podcast is a story of survival awakening and choosing clarity over chaos through memories of child hood migration,family wounds, not to seek sympathy but to reclaim my voice. I invite every listener who has ever carried pain in silence to finally step into freedom.