Heather Holt Podcast Host | Storytelling on Healing, Resilience & Life After Change

Inspiring stories told weekly to help change your perspective — and maybe even leave you smiling.

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    There’s something about poetry that I’ve never quite been able to explain and maybe that’s the point. Poetry doesn’t ask you to understand it, It asks you to feel it, and I’ve always loved that. Even if I don’t read it as often as I wish I did. I don’t sit down every night with Read more

  • Grief has a way of changing shape over time. At first, it feels sharp and immediate—like something you can point to, something you can name. However, as the years pass, it becomes quieter, more woven into who you are. It doesn’t leave. Instead, it settles in beside you. That’s something I’ve come to understand in Read more

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    What happens when what you’re told is “right”… doesn’t feel right? That’s the question at the heart of this episode with Leah—and if I’m being honest, it’s one that brought me right back to a chapter of my own life. Because long before we had the language we have now—before terms like neurodivergent were part Read more

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    Why Self-Worth Can’t Be Measured Online For many of us, relationships today come with an unexpected complication: social media. Thirty years ago, connection looked very different. If you wanted to talk to someone, you called them. If there was tension in a relationship, you worked through it privately. And if you needed space from someone, Read more

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    When “Normal” isn’t normal One of the most striking things about recording this episode with Lisa wasn’t just what happened to her. It was how long she believed it was normal. When we talk about normalizing childhood abuse, we aren’t talking about excusing it. We’re talking about how the human brain adapts in order to Read more