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The Healing Nexus
by Lisa D. Daniels
*The Healing Nexus* is a podcast for Black women exploring how life shapes us over time and what it takes to stay connected to ourselves along the way. Through honest storytelling and thoughtful conversations, Lisa D. Daniels creates space for reflection, self-discovery, and living with greater intention.
Episodes
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The Conversation Continued - Edith Crigler
Edith Crigler came to this conversation after listening to The Little Girl in the Back Seat and recognizing the ways she had learned to measure her voice against the room she was in. She reflects on learning to pay attention to when it felt safe to speak, when it felt better to hold something…
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The Friendship Ended. The History Did Not.
Some friendships end with a clear rupture. Others change more quietly. In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa reflects on what it means to lose a friendship that once held history, intimacy, and a version of you that few other people knew. This is a conversation about what remains when a...
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The Conversation Continued - Dr. Shaniqua Jones
Dr. Shaniqua Jones came to this conversation after listening to Girl, Sit Down and noticing that something in the episode had made her angry with herself. That feeling opened the door to a larger conversation about helping, fixing, and the instinct to take responsibility for making things better...
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As The Seasons Change
Fall has a way of making change visible. In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa reflects on what it means to move through life with the same kind of attention we give the changing seasons. Not self-care as indulgence, but self-care as noticing: checking in with your body, being honest about...
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Going Back to Get Her.
Fourteen years after losing her son, Lisa looks back at the woman she was before everything changed. In the years since, she became an advocate, nonprofit founder, criminal justice reform leader, and the steward of a legacy built in her son’s name. But now she is asking a different question: what...
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The Harder Forgiveness - The Continued Conversation with Monique
What happens when the person you love is also the person whose choices have hurt, disappointed, or challenged you? In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa sits down with Monique Tula for a conversation that began somewhere different than the guest conversations that came before it. After…
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There’s Something About Being in a Room Filled with Black Women
There’s Something About Being in a Room Filled with Black Women In Episode 14, Lisa reflects on a recent gathering that reminded her just how much can be communicated between Black women without explanation—from a passing “Yep, that part” to an unfinished sentence everyone already knows how to...
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Episode 13: More Than the Strong One — A Conversation Continued with Tasheena
In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa continues the conversation from Episode 2, The Strong Woman Is Tired, with Tasheena Cunningham-Rimmer. Tasheena reflects on the question that stayed with her most: What do I need? Together, they talk about what happens when being “the strong one” becomes...
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But I Don't Want This Anymore
What happens when something you once wanted—or thought you wanted—is no longer what you want? In this episode, Lisa reflects on a TikTok conversation sparked by coach Siobhan J. Middleton and a simple statement: “I got married because I was asked.” That sentence opens a larger conversation about...
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The Choice to Belong to Yourself — A Guest Conversation with Kristi
In this first Conversations Continued episode, Lisa sits down with Kristi to reflect on Episode 5, Becoming the Woman I Needed. Their conversation moves through what it means to belong to yourself, the lifelong work of releasing the need for external approval, and the reminder that valuing…
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Your Life is the Occasion
Inspired by the Roku Original series Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross, Lisa reflects on what it means to stop waiting for the right person, the right body, the right invitation, or the right moment to enjoy your life. From wearing the beautiful clothes to taking yourself to dinner, visiting...
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Girl, Sit Down.
In this episode, Lisa reflects on the habit of stepping in, solving problems, and making ourselves useful before anyone has even asked. With humor and honesty, she explores the difference between helping and rescuing, the discomfort of watching people struggle, and what becomes possible when we...
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Both Things Can Be True
In this conversation, Lisa reflects on what happens when the thing we survived becomes part of how we are seen, valued, and known. With care and honesty, she explores the complicated relationship between pain, identity, recognition, and healing—especially for Black women who have often been…
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What Love Asked of Me
In this conversation from The Healing Nexus, Lisa reflects on what love can quietly teach us before we ever have language for it. Building from the previous reflection on voice and silence, she explores how love, responsibility, loyalty, and self-abandonment can become tangled over time.…
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The Little Girl in the Back Seat
In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa opens the next movement of the conversation by returning to a childhood memory that shaped her early relationship with silence, voice, and self-protection. After exploring what it means to stay connected to ourselves through change, this episode begins...
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Becoming The Woman I Needed
Who are you becoming? Not according to someone else's expectations, but according to what feels true for you now. In this episode of The Healing Nexus, we're exploring the quiet choices that shape our lives and what it means to become someone we can trust.
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Continuing The Conversation - Bonus Episode
Before we move into the next chapter, let's pause for a moment. In this bonus episode of The Healing Nexus, we're reflecting on what we've uncovered together and why healing isn't a destination--it's a conversation we continue with ourselves, again and again.
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Who Told You That?
Who told you that? Who taught you that your life had to look a certain way in order to be meaningful? In this episode of The Healing Nexus, we're exploring the stories we've inherited and the permission we have to question whether they still belong to us.
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What Has Changed?
What has changed? Not just around you, but within you? In Episode 3 of The Healing Nexus, we're exploring the grief that can accompany life's transitions and what it means to make peace with who we are becoming.
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Welcome to The Healing Nexus
The Healing Nexus is a gathering place for Black women navigating the ongoing process of living, evolving, and remaining connected to themselves along the way. Through thoughtful conversations and honest storytelling, this space makes room for the questions that often emerge as life changes us…
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The Strong Woman Is Tired
What happens when the very thing you've been praised for becomes the thing that's weighing you down? In this episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa Daniels explores the hidden costs of strength and the expectations many women carry to hold everything together, often at the expense of themselves....
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My Life Is Not My Own
In the inaugural episode of The Healing Nexus, Lisa Daniels reflects on the experiences that shaped her understanding of purpose, responsibility, loss, and connection. Through personal storytelling and honest reflection, she explores what it means to recognize that our lives are deeply connected…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
*The Healing Nexus* is a podcast for Black women exploring how life shapes us over time and what it takes to stay connected to ourselves along the way. Through honest storytelling and thoughtful conversations, Lisa D. Daniels creates space for reflection, self-discovery, and living with greater intention.
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Lisa D. Daniels
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*The Healing Nexus* is a podcast for Black women exploring how life shapes us over time and what it takes to stay connected to ourselves along the way. Through honest storytelling and thoughtful conversations, Lisa D. Daniels creates space for reflection, self-discovery, and living with greater...
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The Healing Nexus is created and hosted by Lisa D. Daniels.
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