https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vickie-menendez-author--7442786enBooksCopyright April Mahoneyhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/0806818732457bfdb51aeee630d98814.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vickie-menendez-author--7442786Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:41:09 +0000April MahoneyApril Mahoneyfeeds@spreaker.comfalse220c9d65-7be0-5a51-b812-f0187720df16episodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/vickie-menendez-author-crystal-s-butterfly-effect-sd-480p--75623834https://youtu.be/j6-JlegNaq4
https://vickiemenendez.com I have walked through profound loss more than once in my life: the loss of a full-term stillborn daughter in 1980, my son Wesley in 2017, my father in 2018, and then the unimaginable loss of two more children just twelve days apart in 2023. Each loss met a different version of me. Different levels of awareness. Different emotional capacity. Different understanding of grief, trauma, and healing. What I didn’t expect was that every major loss would also bring old pain to the surface. Childhood wounds, years of silence around trauma, and patterns I hadn’t realized were still shaping me began asking for attention. I came to understand something I speak about often now: Present pain has a way of introducing us to older pain that has been waiting to be acknowledged. Not to punish us. To ask for our attention. The tools I once studied became the things I returned to when breathing felt difficult. When my nervous system no longer felt safe. When life changed in ways I could never undo. I earned certifications, deepened my studies, and continued learning while grieving, because life wasn’t waiting for me to catch up. Every practice I share has been tested against real life. Not in theory. In loss. Over time, I stopped seeing healing as something to achieve. I began seeing it as a relationship. With the body. With grief. With old stories. With the version of ourselves life may be asking us to become. Today my work brings together breathwork, nervous system regulation, intentional practices, reflection, and sacred spaces that support people through profound transitions. This became the foundation for Learning to Live Again, Flow by Design, The Art of Living Beautifully, The Holistic Life Review™, and The Chrysalis Library, spaces created for those standing between what happened and what comes next. I do not believe healing means returning to who you once were. Sometimes it means meeting yourself for the first time. That space in-between… is often where my work begins. Where you begin, matters less than beginning.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75623834Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:40:02 +0000April Mahoneyhttps://youtu.be/j6-JlegNaq4 https://vickiemenendez.com I have walked through profound loss more than once in my life: the loss of a full-term stillborn daughter in 1980, my son Wesley in 2017, my father in 2018, and then the unimaginable loss of two...https://youtu.be/j6-JlegNaq4
https://vickiemenendez.com I have walked through profound loss more than once in my life: the loss of a full-term stillborn daughter in 1980, my son Wesley in 2017, my father in 2018, and then the unimaginable loss of two more children just twelve days apart in 2023. Each loss met a different version of me. Different levels of awareness. Different emotional capacity. Different understanding of grief, trauma, and healing. What I didn’t expect was that every major loss would also bring old pain to the surface. Childhood wounds, years of silence around trauma, and patterns I hadn’t realized were still shaping me began asking for attention. I came to understand something I speak about often now: Present pain has a way of introducing us to older pain that has been waiting to be acknowledged. Not to punish us. To ask for our attention. The tools I once studied became the things I returned to when breathing felt difficult. When my nervous system no longer felt safe. When life changed in ways I could never undo. I earned certifications, deepened my studies, and continued learning while grieving, because life wasn’t waiting for me to catch up. Every practice I share has been tested against real life. Not in theory. In loss. Over time, I stopped seeing healing as something to achieve. I began seeing it as a relationship. With the body. With grief. With old stories. With the version of ourselves life may be asking us to become. Today my work brings together breathwork, nervous system regulation, intentional practices, reflection, and sacred spaces that support people through profound transitions. This became the foundation for Learning to Live Again, Flow by Design, The Art of Living Beautifully, The Holistic Life Review™, and The Chrysalis Library, spaces created for those standing between what happened and what comes next. I do not believe healing means returning to who you once were. Sometimes it means meeting yourself for the first time. That space in-between… is often where my work begins. Where you begin, matters less than beginning.]]>2132author,brains,griefrecovery,hellobrains,lossofachild,mothers,ontheedgewithaprilmahoney,resilience,vickiemenendezfalse20full