🌿 Episode Summary:

Hello my friend—welcome back to the Resource Yourself podcast. Today, we’re exploring a powerful and often overlooked truth: healing isn’t just about feeling the hard stuff. Healing gets to feel good.

In this episode, I share why goodness—love, safety, beauty, joy—isn’t just a side effect of healing, it’s a requirement. We talk about how nervous system regulation, gratitude, and moments of peace actually lay the foundation for deep transformation.

Whether you’re healing your attachment style, working through grief, navigating injustice, or simply trying to stay grounded in a chaotic world—this episode is your invitation to come back to center. To reconnect with what you love. To soften. To receive. To allow goodness in.

And from that place? You’ll not only feel better—you’ll become more powerful, more effective, and more connected.

🧠 In this episode, you’ll learn:

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  Why feeling good isn’t a distraction from healing—it’s a prerequisite

  
  


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  The connection between love and nervous system regulation

  
  


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  How to recognize the love behind your anger, grief, and heartbreak

  
  


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  What Joanna Macy taught me about gratitude as activism

  
  


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  The wisdom of Quaker silence, Buddhist stillness, and earth-based listening

  
  


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  How to ask for support (from people, spirit, or the earth) and actually receive it

  
  


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  Practical ways to anchor into love, joy, and support—even when things are hard

  
  

🔗 Resources & Links Mentioned:

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  🌸 Follow me on Instagram for daily reminders, reels, and resourcing tools:
  @seforaray

  
  


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  🎧 Listen to other episodes of the podcast:
  Resource Yourself on Apple Podcasts
  Resource Yourself on Spotify

  
  


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  💗 Want to work with me?
  Explore my transformational program:
  From Anxious to Secure

  
  


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  📚 Learn more about Joanna Macy and her work on “The Work That Reconnects”:
  https://workthatreconnects.org

  
  


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  🕊️ Curious about Quaker spiritual practice?
  https://www.fgcquaker.org

  
  

💬 Let’s Stay Connected:

If this episode stirred something in you, please share it with someone you love.
Tag me on Instagram @seforaray and let me know your biggest takeaway.
And if you want more support, or you’re ready to feel grounded, seen, and secure in love—DM me the word "SECURE" and I’ll send you a resource that helps ground you in secure, happy relationships.

🌹 Closing Thought:

You don’t have to be in pain to be growing.
You don’t have to be endlessly struggling to be evolving.
Your healing gets to feel good.

And you are so, so worthy of that goodness.