Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle is a podcast that explores how your upbringing and generational patterns have shaped your life, including your relationships, sense of self, and worldview. It helps you recognize where those patterns originated and what it takes to start changing them.
Episodes
Episode 26: Attachment Styles and Trauma Bonds. Interview with Holistic Counselor Sasha Blo
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episode 25: Podcast update
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Episode 24: Interview with family therapist Ashley from @the_modern_parent
What happens when you feel like you’re never doing enough for your children, your aging parents, or the family you grew up in?In this episode, I sit down with family therapist Ashley from @the_modern_parent for a wide-ranging conversation about the complicated dynamics that can come with being both a parent and a daughter. We talk about parent guilt and the pressure to get everything “right,” navi
Episode 23: Healing from a narcissistic mother. Interview with Claudia Noriega-Bernstein
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Episode 22: The lies we inherited. Interview with author Katie Delimon
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Episode 21: The personality you built to survive your childhood.
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Episode 20: Interview with Psychologist Dr. Deniz- The body- the bridge to remembering
My first interview on Breaking the Cycle with @drdenizpsyd We talk about growing up in a dysfunctional family. How our bodies remember what our mind forgot, childhood sexual abuse, and medicine work Her website: www.drdeniz.com
Episode 19: Why I reconnected with my mother after going no contact for almost 13 years
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Episode 18: "I turned out just fine." Did you though?
You turned out fine. Or did you?There is a difference between adapting to your childhood and not being affected by it. In this episode we walk through seven ways your upbringing might still be running your adult life, even when everything looks fine on the surface.
Episode 17: When your mom didn't actually like you
Have you ever felt like your mother loved you. but didn’t actually like you? Like your presence annoyed her. Like you were a bother just by being in the room. In this episode we talk about what it does to a person to grow up feeling like an inconvenience to the one person who was supposed to want you most. The survival strategies you developed without realizing it — apologizing for existing, over
Episode 16: Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgot
In this episode we talk about why the nervous system holds onto experiences from childhood, especially when you grew up in a chaotic, unpredictable, or emotionally unsafe home, and how those stored responses show up in your everyday life decades later. We also get into what rewiring actually looks like in real time. Learn more about my membership:https://www.vevianvoz.com/membership
Episode 15: "I lost my mind trying to figure out yours."
In this episode we talk about why we repeat the relationship patterns we do. Not because something is wrong with us, but because the nervous system moves toward what it recognizes. We get into what a trauma bond actually is, why the cycle of tension and intermittent warmth is so difficult to break, and why leaving felt impossible even when staying was costing everything.Join my waitlist for the mo
Episode 14: Stop trying to forgive your mother. Do this instead.
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Episode 13: The Mother Wound
In this episode we get into what the mother wound actually is — not just a difficult relationship with mom, but an emotional injury formed when our earliest and most foundational relationship could not fully meet us. We talk about why it goes so deep, how it shapes the critical voice in your head, your relationships, your self worth, and the roles you learned to play long before you were old enoug
Episode 12: “Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
Episode 11: The "good childhood" myth
You checked all the boxes. Not abused. Not neglected. Parents loved you. Good childhood: CHECK✅So why do you still feel like this?In this episode of Breaking the Cycle we talk about why the good childhood checklist is completely wrong, and what Dr. Gabor Maté says a genuinely healthy childhood actually requires. Because you don’t need a bad childhood to have wounds worth healing. You just need to
Episode 10: People Pleasing: The Survival Strategy That Stopped Serving You
In this episode we unpack what people pleasing actually means, where it comes from, and why it has nothing to do with other people and everything to do with your own fear of sitting with someone else's discomfort and you having the need to control the outcome. We explore the difference between genuine helping, and people pleasing. This episode is for anyone ready to slow down this survival pa
Episode 9: The belief of not being good enough
I hope you got something out of this unedited, unscripted episode. Id love your feedback on my podcast:reach me at vevian@vozmediano.com
Episode 8: The Many Faces of Anger
Anger is one of the most misunderstood emotions we carry. In this episode we explore all of its sides.Contact me: vevian@vozmediano.com
Episode 7: How fear based religions keep you disconnected from yourself
Have you ever felt like your own intuition was a "danger" to your faith? If you grew up in a environment where doubt was a sin and fear was a motivator, you might find yourself fundamentally disconnected from your own voice. In this episode, we explore the psychological and spiritual impact of fear-based religious conditioning. We dive into why these systems often require you to abandon
Episode 6: Sexual abuse, shame, and what the body never forgets
This episode goes somewhere most podcasts won’t. We are talking about sexual abuse, not just as something that happens to individuals, but as something that moves through families, through generations, and through the body in ways that science is only now beginning to fully understand.We explore how sexual trauma lives in the body long after the event is over, through dissociation, addiction, chro
Episode 5: What your physical health is trying to tell you
What if the the chronic pain, the exhaustion, the IBS, wasn’t random? What if your body has been keeping a record of everything you were never allowed to feel?In this episode, we explore one of the most important conversations in trauma research, the undeniable link between your unhealed emotional history and your physical health. Drawing on the work of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Gabor Maté, an
Episode 4: Attachment vs. Authenticity: The Tradeoff That Shaped Everything
This episode explores one of the most defining dynamics of your early life: the tension between attachment and authenticity.As a child, attachment wasn’t optional. It was survival. We are biologically wired to need connection with our caregivers, and without it, we cannot survive. Because of that, your system learned very quickly what it needed to do to maintain that connection. But when the envir
Episode 3: Emotional patterns you inherited without words
So much of what shaped you was never spoken out loud. It was handed down through silence, through tension, through the emotional climate of the home you grew up in — and through experiences your parents and grandparents never fully healed from.In this episode of Breaking the Cycle, we go deep into four of the most powerful sources of inherited emotional patterns: loss, war, sexual abuse, and addic
Episode 2: The conditioning you were born into
In this episode, we go deeper into the conditioning you were born into—and how it shaped far more than you may realize.The way you think, react, relate, and move through the world didn’t just come from who you are. It was influenced by your upbringing, your environment, your family dynamics, and the patterns that existed long before you.We explore how conditioning is formed—not just through what y
Welcome to Breaking the Cycle
Breaking the Cycle is a podcast about understanding how your upbringing and generational patterns have shaped your life—your relationships, your sense of self, and the way you see the world. It helps you recognize where those patterns came from, and what it actually takes to start changing them. Im SO glad you're here!Find me in on instagram or Facebook: @vevianvoz contact: vevian@vozmediano.
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