NO. 227 Kyley’s Adoption Story - With Kyley and Eva
In this episode Kyley opens up about a story she never tells — a family revelation that sent her identity, her business, and her nervous system into total free fall.
What unfolded wasn’t just shock and grief. It was an initiation. An invitation to surrender to the messy, wordless well of sadness, and to witness the shame tangled up in her love.
Together, Kyley and Eva trace the way grief can be medicine, shame can be teacher, and collapse can be doorway. They talk tower moments, the witch wound, and the exquisite freedom that comes when old coping mechanisms stop working.
This isn’t a story about punishment. It’s a story about liberation — about the sovereignty that comes from letting ourselves fall apart, rest, and then choose joy again.
And because we’re us, we end with laughter, book recs, and the reminder that joy is always waiting on the other side of grief.
In this episode, we explore:
The identity-shattering family secret that opened the floodgates of grief
What it looks like to take a week off just to be sad — and why that’s powerful medicine
The difference between feeling grief vs. intellectualizing it
How shame whispers “your truth is dangerous” — and what happens when we stop believing it
Business collapse as detox from overfunctioning, validation, and hustle
Grief as love, shame as initiation, and the tower card as spiritual metaphor
Sovereignty, nervous system reordering, and permission to rest
Joy as a practice: knitting, kids learning to read, and getting lost in stories