PODCAST · health
Untangling the Heart
by Elizabeth Gifford Maffei
Have you ever felt emotionally stuck, unsure how to move forward, or ready for change but not sure where to begin? Untangling the Heart is a space for honest conversations about healing, vulnerability, courage, and becoming your truest self. Hosted by Elizabeth Gifford Maffei, this weekly podcast blends solo insights with powerful guest stories to explore what it really means to grow. Here, we talk about the things that matter, emotional resilience, self-awareness, confidence, and reclaiming your voice. This is not surface-level inspiration. This is growth that moves you. New episodes every week.
Episodes
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Safety |Embrace Goodness Without Fear
Can you receive something good without wondering when it will end? When we've learned to expect disappointment or loss, even good experiences can feel vulnerable. We may question a compliment, feel guilty accepting help, or struggle to enjoy a moment without anticipating what could go wrong. As…
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Safety | Recognizing the Good Stuff
Are you so focused on recognizing what feels wrong that you overlook the moments when you actually feel safe? Emotional healing isn't just about understanding what triggers us. It's also about recognizing the quiet moments when our breathing feels easy, our minds slow down, and we can simply…
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Are You Safe, or Just Used to Surviving? - with Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 27
What does it actually feel like to be safe within yourself? And how do you know when your nervous system is beginning to feel regulated? In this episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Maffei invites you to look beyond the familiar signs of stress, anxiety, and emotional activation to…
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Decode Your Anger | Uncovering the Invisible Patterns of Life
Have you ever reacted to a situation before you fully understood what was happening? Our interpretations, assumptions, and long-held beliefs can influence how we experience everyday events. Dr. Mort Orman discovered that examining these hidden patterns could help him respond differently to...
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Decode Your Anger | Chronic Anger’s Impact on Health
Anger can affect more than a single moment. It can influence our relationships, our choices, and the stress we carry through everyday life. Dr. Mort Orman reflects on his years as a physician and the patterns he observed in people struggling with anger. He also shares why understanding the roots…
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Decode Your Anger | Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs
What if the beliefs you hold about yourself are contributing to the frustration and anger you experience? Dr. Mort Orman shares how examining his own assumptions helped him uncover the patterns behind his reactions. Sometimes, the beliefs we accept as truth are the very things keeping us stuck....
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Listening to Your Body's Emotional Language | Dr. Mort Orman & Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 26
What if the emotions that keep showing up in your life are connected to patterns and beliefs you haven’t yet recognized? In this episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei welcomes Dr. Mort Orman, a physician and anger and stress elimination expert, for a conversation about...
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Healing Safe | A Journey of Learning
Healing isn't about forcing old protective responses to disappear. It's about giving yourself new experiences and discovering that you have more choices now. Elizabeth explores how practicing boundaries, receiving support, experiencing discomfort, and allowing yourself to rest can help the body...
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Healing Safe | Mind vs Body
Sometimes you can understand something completely and still find yourself reacting to it. Your mind may know you're safe, but your body may still be responding to old patterns of protection. Elizabeth explores why emotional healing involves both the mind and the body....
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Healing Safe | Regulation vs Suppression: Balancing Emotions
Emotional regulation isn't about pushing your feelings away. It's being able to say, "I'm upset, and I can stay with myself while I'm upset." Elizabeth explores the difference between suppressing emotions and creating enough inner steadiness to feel them without being overwhelmed....
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Why the Body Must Feel Safe Before the Heart Can Heal with Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 25
We often approach emotional healing through the mind. We read, reflect, journal, analyze our patterns, and gain awareness—but sometimes we understand something completely and still find ourselves reacting the same way. ep 25 transcript In this solo episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth…
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Room for Peace | Juggling Life's Balls: Prioritize Self-Care
When you're juggling family, work, responsibilities, and everyone else's needs, it's easy to put yourself last. But constantly caring for everyone else can leave you emotionally and physically depleted. Sometimes self-care begins with recognizing that you need to be one of the things you make…
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Room for Peace | Replacing Negative Thoughts with Love
Room for Peace | Replacing Negative Thoughts with Love What are you giving your attention to? Negative thoughts can take up more emotional space than we realize. Learning to shift our focus toward gratitude, love, and what we can control can create more room for peace and emotional freedom....
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Room for Peace | Forgiveness: The Bridge to Letting Go
Room for Peace | Forgiveness: The Bridge to Letting Go Forgiveness doesn't mean what happened didn't matter. Sometimes forgiveness is about deciding that you no longer want to keep carrying the emotional weight of what happened. Elizabeth explores how releasing resentment can create room for…
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Living with More Emotional Space | Bill Walters & Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 24
What happens when years of responsibility, caregiving, stress, and emotional heaviness begin to affect not only your mind, but your body? In this episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei welcomes Bill Walters for an honest conversation about moving from overwhelm toward greater...
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Embracing Emotional Freedom
What if emotional freedom isn't about never experiencing difficult emotions, but about trusting yourself to move through them? Elizabeth explores the quiet signs of healing—from accepting uncertainty to releasing emotional weight and making more room for peace, connection, and joy....
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Emotional Freedom | Separating Events from Self-Worth
What happens to us isn't always a reflection of who we are. A relationship ending doesn't mean you're unlovable. Being overlooked doesn't mean you're not good enough. Elizabeth explores the importance of separating life's events from the conclusions we make about our own worth....
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Emotional Freedom | Not Becoming Your Feelings
Emotional freedom doesn't mean you stop feeling. It means you can experience an emotion without allowing it to become who you are. Elizabeth explores how noticing what you're feeling can create space between the emotion and your response—and help you stay connected to yourself....
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Recognizing the Subtle Signs of Emotional Freedom with Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 23
Healing doesn't always arrive as a dramatic breakthrough. Sometimes, the deepest signs of emotional freedom are quiet shifts happening inside us—how we experience emotions, respond to uncertainty, and relate to ourselves. In this solo episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei...
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Life Pivot | Pivoting Through Life's Changes
Life Pivot | Pivoting Through Life's Changes When life changes unexpectedly, we can either become emotionally tangled in what was supposed to happen—or step back, reassess, and pivot. Dawn shares how she has learned to apply this lesson not only in business, but in her personal life as well....
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Life Pivot | The Power of Believing in Others
Life Pivot | The Power of Believing in Others Sometimes someone else sees potential in us long before we can see it ourselves. Dawn Tellinghuisen shares how the encouragement and belief of a mentor helped her move beyond resistance and begin seeing herself as an entrepreneur and leader. The right...
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Life Pivot | Embracing Life's Challenges
Life Pivot | Embracing Life's Challenges Life doesn’t always unfold the way we planned. Dawn Tellinghuisen shares how unexpected challenges, disappointment, and seasons of uncertainty ultimately helped her grow and discover a new direction. Sometimes the obstacle isn’t taking you off your…
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What Changed When My Heart Began to Untangle | Dawn Tellinghuisen & Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 22
What Changed When My Heart Began to Untangle | Dawn Tellinghuisen What happens when the challenges and expectations of life begin to reveal a path you never expected to take? In this episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei welcomes Dawn Tellinghuisen for a heartfelt conversation...
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Healing | Remembering Who You Are
Healing isn't about becoming someone completely new. Sometimes it's about releasing enough of what you've been carrying to reconnect with the person you were underneath it all. The more you heal, the more you may notice your joy, curiosity, confidence, and sense of self returning. Healing can be...
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Healing | Choosing Your Response
Healthy boundaries don't mean you love someone less. Healing teaches us that we can care deeply about someone while still saying no, protecting our peace, and honoring what we need. Boundaries aren't punishment. They're information—and love doesn't require us to abandon ourselves....
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Healing | When Love and Boundaries Coexist
Healing doesn't mean you'll never be triggered again. It means you begin creating space between what happens and how you respond. That space gives you a choice. Instead of automatically reacting from an old pattern, you can pause, become aware, and decide how you want to move forward. Your…
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How You Know the Heart Is Beginning to Untangle with Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 21
How do you know you're actually healing? Healing doesn't always arrive with a dramatic breakthrough. Sometimes the clearest signs are the quiet changes you almost overlook—responding differently to a familiar trigger, setting a boundary without guilt, accepting help, or simply feeling more at…
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Change | Find Joy in Challenges
Sometimes you know something in your heart before you can explain it to anyone else. In this clip from Untangling the Heart, Paula Washington talks about trusting your instincts and having the courage to walk in your own authority—even when the people around you don't understand or agree with…
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Change | Trust Your Instincts, Walk in Your Authority
"Life doesn't happen in one neat chapter. There are seasons of loss, growth, uncertainty, healing, and unexpected opportunity—and sometimes several of them are happening at the same time. In this clip from Untangling the Heart, Paula Washington reflects on embracing life's different layers and...
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Change | Embracing Life's Layers
Life doesn't happen in one neat chapter. There are seasons of loss, growth, uncertainty, healing, and unexpected opportunity—and sometimes several of them are happening at the same time. In this clip from Untangling the Heart, Paula Washington reflects on embracing life's different layers and...
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How Awareness Became Real Change | Paula Washington & Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 20
How Awareness Became Real Change (When Awareness Finally Led to Change) | Untangling the Heart | Episode 20 What happens when awareness finally becomes action? In this episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei welcomes Paula Washington for a powerful conversation about resilience,...
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Beyond the Surface | Embrace Curiosity, Not Judgment
When an old emotional reaction shows up, it's easy to judge yourself. "I thought I was past this." "Why am I still reacting this way?" But Elizabeth offers another approach: curiosity. Instead of criticizing yourself, ask: What is this emotion trying to show me? Curiosity creates space for deeper...
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Beyond the Surface | Unmet Needs Behind Behaviors
What if the behavior you're trying to change isn't actually the root of the problem? Elizabeth explains how behaviors such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, overworking, and constantly helping others can be expressions of something deeper—an unmet need, old belief, or emotional imprint. Instead…
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Beyond the Surface | Choose Your Response, Not Your Reaction
A trigger can feel automatic—but it doesn't have to control what happens next. In this clip from Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei explores the powerful pause between a trigger and a reaction. Once we become aware of the emotional pattern underneath our response, we create an...
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Recognizing the Pattern Beneath the Pattern with Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 19
Why do certain behaviors keep repeating, even when we know we want to change? In Episode 19 of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei goes one layer deeper into emotional patterns. Recognizing a behavior is important, but lasting change begins when we understand the emotion beneath the...
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Breaking the Cycle | Unexpected Support in Crisis
Sometimes the people who carry us through life's hardest moments are the ones we least expect. In this clip, Lynn Lionhood reflects on how complete strangers became sources of incredible strength during one of the darkest seasons of her life—and why community is such an important part of healing....
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Breaking the Cycle | Children Learn from Parents' Resilience
Children are always watching. In this inspiring clip, Lynn Lionhood shares how one of the greatest lessons she taught her children wasn't through words—but through the way she faced adversity with courage, honesty, and faith. 🌐 Learn more: https://www.elizabethgiffordmaffei.com/
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Breaking the Cycle | Crying Uncontrollably After a Year
Sometimes healing doesn't happen when the crisis begins—it happens when your body finally feels safe enough to release what it's been carrying. In this powerful clip, Lynn Lionhood shares how, more than a year after her husband's devastating accident, emotions she had held together for everyone...
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Breaking the Cycle in Relationships and Self-Worth | Lynn Lionhood & Elizabeth Maffei | Ep 18
What happens when life changes in an instant? How do you find the strength to move forward when everything you depended on is suddenly gone? In this heartfelt episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei sits down with Lynn Lionhood to explore an extraordinary story of resilience,...
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Patterns | Letting Go, Not Fixing
Healing isn't about fixing yourself—because you were never broken. In this clip from Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth explains why emotional healing is about gently releasing old emotional imprints, creating safety within the body, and allowing new possibilities to emerge. 🌐 Learn more:...
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Patterns | Unconditional Love: Breaking the Cycle
What if the love you learned growing up wasn't the love you were created to receive? In this clip, Elizabeth explores the difference between conditional love and unconditional love, explaining how our earliest experiences can shape the relationships we choose—and how healing allows us to break...
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Patterns | Unresolved Emotions: The Tuning Fork Effect
Why do certain people or situations seem to trigger the same emotions over and over again? In this clip from Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei uses the powerful analogy of a tuning fork to explain how unresolved emotions can continue to resonate within us until they're acknowledged…
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Why Emotional Patterns Repeat Until They’re Released with Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 17
Why do the same emotional patterns keep showing up—even when you've done the work to understand them? If you've ever found yourself asking, "Why does this keep happening to me?" this episode is for you. In this solo episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei explores why awareness...
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Beyond Survival | Discovering Inner Strength After Stroke
Sometimes life's greatest challenges reveal strengths we never knew we had. In this clip, Diana Ashworth shares how surviving a life-changing stroke became the beginning of a journey toward self-discovery, healing, and purpose. Through faith, journaling, and personal exploration, she learned that...
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Beyond Survival | Overcoming 'I'll Never Walk Again
After a rare spinal stroke, Diana Ashworth was told she would never walk again. But while others focused on her limitations, Diana chose to focus on what remained untouched—her determination, her faith, and her spirit. This powerful clip is a reminder that circumstances may change your path, but...
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Beyond Survival | Love vs Judgment: Two Ways to See
Every situation can be viewed through one of two lenses: judgment or love. In this inspiring clip, Elizabeth and Diana explore how choosing love, grace, and possibility over limitation can completely transform the way we experience life's greatest challenges. Their conversation reminds us that...
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What Helped Me Move Beyond Survival Mode | Diana Ashworth & Elizabeth Gifford Maffei | Ep 16
What happens when life changes in an instant? In this powerful episode of Untangling the Heart, Elizabeth Gifford Maffei welcomes Diana Ashworth, whose life was forever changed after surgery for a Chiari malformation resulted in a rare spinal stroke that left her paralyzed from the chest down....
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High Functioning | What Have I been Carrying
Have you become so good at functioning that you've stopped noticing how heavy life feels? Sometimes emotional fatigue doesn't show up as burnout—it shows up as simply getting through another day. In this short, Elizabeth invites you to pause and ask one powerful question: "What have I been...
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High Functioning | Healing : The Art of Letting Go
What are you still carrying that no longer belongs to you? Healing isn't always about doing more. Sometimes it's about finding the courage to set something down. In this short, Elizabeth shares a simple but life-changing reminder: Not everything is yours to carry forward. 💜 Watch the full…
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High Functioning | Ask for Help, Give a Gift
Asking for help isn't a burden—it's a gift. Many of us believe we have to carry everything ourselves. But when we allow someone to help, we're giving them the opportunity to love, support, and encourage us in return. Healing begins when we remember we don't have to do it all alone. 💜 Watch the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Have you ever felt emotionally stuck, unsure how to move forward, or ready for change but not sure where to begin?
Untangling the Heart is a space for honest conversations about healing, vulnerability, courage, and becoming your truest self. Hosted by Elizabeth Gifford Maffei, this weekly podcast blends solo insights with powerful guest stories to explore what it really means to grow.
Here, we talk about the things that matter, emotional resilience, self-awareness, confidence, and reclaiming your voice. This is not surface-level inspiration.
This is growth that moves you.
New episodes every week.
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Elizabeth Gifford Maffei
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