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Ep. 59 Finding Lightness While Healing Trauma: Season One Finale

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In this deeply personal and powerful season finale, host Angie Berrett reflects on the most impactful insights shared throughout Season One of Healing Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy. Drawing from her lived experience as a survivor of childhood abuse, a registered nurse, a trauma-informed coach, and a movement and play expert, Angie revisits the guidance that resonated most with listeners navigating trauma and emotional overwhelm.

This episode weaves together key moments and advice from across the season, offering practical, compassionate tools for finding lightness, safety, and hope while healing. Angie shares how play and movement became central to her own healing, how the nervous system responds to trauma, and why healing does not have to feel punishing or endlessly heavy.

Listeners will hear clips and teachings focused on reconnecting with the body in ways that feel safe and empowering, releasing anger without harm, letting go of perfectionism, and learning how to move gently in and out of discomfort. Angie also explains why dissociation, rest, and small rhythmic movements are not failures but intelligent survival strategies, and how to build trust with yourself as you heal.

This finale is both a reflection and an invitation: to protect your energy, to seek moments of joy, and to remember that even in a complicated and overwhelming world, healing can, and should, include play, movement, and hope.


Listen to the full Episodes:

Ep. 1 Angie Berrett

Ep. 45 Breaking the Silence: Empowerment Through Shared Healing Journeys with Christella Ilunga

Ep. 53 Holding Space for Survivors During the Epstein Files

Ep. 56  When "Perfect" Falls Apart.  Learning to Heal through Mistakes



Connect with me:

Website:  https://angieberrettmovement.com/

Instagram:  https://Instagram.com/angieberrettmovement 

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/angie.berrett/ 

YouTube:    https://www.youtube.com/@angieberrettmovement 

LinkedIn:    https://www.linkedin.com/in/angieberrettmovement/ 

TikTok:       https://www.tiktok.com/@angieberrettmovement?_t=8qP9poCboWA&_r=1


🎁Grab your Free 5 Minute Playful Move for Instant Calm: https://angieberrettmovement.ac-page.com/free-short-movement-sequence-for-when-you-are-overwhelmed



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Ep. 59 Finding Lightness While Healing Trauma: Season One Finale

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