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Breaking the Cycle

Breaking the Cycle

Vevian 17 Episodes Jun 30, 2026

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 17: When your mom didn't actually like you Jun 30, 2026 423 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 Jun 23, 2026 772 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." Jun 18, 2026 626 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. Jun 16, 2026 883 Join the waitlist for my membership: https://www.vevianvoz.com/waitlist
Episode 13: The Mother Wound Jun 5, 2026 1207 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.” May 27, 2026 2350
Episode 11: The "good childhood" myth May 16, 2026 970 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 May 7, 2026 697 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 Apr 30, 2026 708 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 Apr 24, 2026 677 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 Apr 16, 2026 1242 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 Apr 9, 2026 1052 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

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