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What if the thing you start to help other women ends up giving you your own voice back? After divorce, loss, and years of emotional abuse, Hella Rader sat by her bird feeder for three months, then started a podcast she could barely speak on, and drove across the country recording women's stories.
Content note: this episode includes discussion of domestic violence and emotional abuse. If you need support, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.
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IN THIS EPISODE
- Recognizing emotional abuse two years after a 20-year marriage ended
- Writing a memoir as the first step in telling her story
- Letting yourself not be okay: three months of just sitting with it
- Starting a podcast when she couldn't finish her sentences
- A 30-day road trip from Virginia to Denver to record 18 women's stories, no Sprinter van required
- Letting go of what it's "supposed" to look like
- How the body holds what the mind hasn't processed yet, and how somatic work helped
- Moving from hypervigilance to trusting herself
- Why stories about menopause, shame, and grief still need to be told
ABOUT HELLA
Hella Rader hosts Stories That Sparkle, long-form conversations with women navigating grief, starting over, reclaiming their voices, and building community. As a somatic coach at Embody & Create, she helps women build lives they love from the inside out. Her studio is fully mobile by design: she goes where the story is.
CONNECT WITH HELLA
Website: https://www.hellarader.com
Somatic coaching: https://www.embodyandcreate.com
Substack: https://hellarader.substack.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/hellarader
All links: https://linktr.ee/hellarader
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hellarader
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