Episode 52: Breaking Generational Trauma, Survivor’s Guilt & Emotional Healing with Julie Barth
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In this deeply moving episode of The FEEL Podcast, speaker and author Julie Barth shares her journey through grief, survivor’s guilt, and the long path toward emotional healing after losing her husband while raising young children. What began as survival mode eventually became a powerful exploration of generational trauma, self-worth, and reclaiming identity after loss.
Julie reflects on how grief and unresolved trauma can shape parenting, relationships, and the way we speak to ourselves. Through honest storytelling, she explores how emotional suppression, learned behaviors, and toxic relationship dynamics can quietly pass through generations until we choose to confront them. Her journey reveals the courage it takes to rebuild confidence, set healthy boundaries, and break cycles that no longer serve us.
We also discuss the hidden weight of survivor’s guilt and how grief recovery often requires redefining who you are beyond tragedy. Julie’s story is a reminder that healing generational cycles begins with awareness, compassion for our past selves, and the willingness to ask for support.
Her memoir, Notes From a Blackberry, explores this grief journey with raw honesty and poetic reflection, offering hope for anyone navigating trauma, loss, or self-doubt.
If you’ve experienced grief, emotional invalidation, toxic relationships, or the challenge of parenting while healing, this conversation offers validation, perspective, and encouragement to begin your own emotional healing journey.
You are allowed to heal out loud.
Reflection Questions/Ways To Engage:
• How do others describe you?
• What labels have you accepted that may not truly belong to you?
• How would you describe yourself without outside influence?
Write down what no longer serves you and release it. Your voice and your story belong to you.
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Timestamps:
Prioritizing Self Care - ( 2:29 )
Confidently Setting Boundaries - ( 6:35 )
Taking Care of Your Emotional Health as much as Your Physical Health - ( 19:37 )
Support self & other women unapologetically - ( 24:09 )
Coming Back to Your WHY and Your VALUES - ( 32:37 )
Living Out of Your Own Expectations - ( 37:46 )
Accepting the Layered Aspects of Yourself - ( 45:44 )
Living out FEEL, how does it affect your relationships - ( 51:17 )
5 Activities That Nourish You - ( 56:11 )
5 Words for How You Want to Feel in the Next Six Months - ( 57:05 )
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