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Healing Conversations with Carla

Healing Conversations with Carla

By: Carla Lawrence
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Healing Conversations with Carla (formerly Woman Heal) is a healing-centered podcast created to foster honest dialogue around emotional wellness, personal growth, and transformation. Hosted by Carla R. Cannon-Lawrence, the show explores topics such as trauma recovery, relationships, identity, faith, and purpose. Listeners can expect grounded conversations, therapeutic insight, and practical tools that support self-awareness, healing, and empowered living.Carla Lawrence Personal Development Personal Success
Episodes
  • EP 142 | How Childhood Messages Shape Your Life (Special Edition)
    Mar 30 2026

    I did something a little different in this episode. I slowed down, I showed up fully as myself, and I allowed this to feel less like a structured lesson and more like a real, honest conversation.

    I’m sharing some personal updates, what’s been on my mind, and reflections from my week; from culture to identity, to emotional awareness, and everything in between.

    This episode felt like being back on the radio, just talking, laughing, thinking out loud, and letting it flow in a way that felt natural and freeing.

    I also want your feedback. I’d truly love to know how this landed for you.

    Did you enjoy this style?

    Do you want more of this?

    Be sure to comment on the episode and share your thoughts with me.

    As we move through the conversation, we transition to a deeper, more intentional discussion of how childhood messages shape your life.

    We unpack how the beliefs, experiences, and patterns we absorbed early on continue to influence our standards, our boundaries, and our self-worth today.

    This is a layered and honest conversation, not just about healing, but about understanding why we are the way we are and what it takes to evolve beyond it.

    Grab your favorite beverage and let's talk.

    #HealingConversations #InnerHealingJourney #EmotionalAwareness #RewritingYourStory

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • EP 141: 7 SIGNS THAT YOU'RE IN A CODEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP
    Mar 23 2026

    You thought it was love, but it might be survival.
    If your peace disappears when they pull away…
    If you feel responsible for how they feel…
    If setting a boundary makes you feel guilty...

    That’s not a connection, that's codependency.

    And I’m not saying that to shame you, I’m saying it to wake you up. Because I’ve seen it too many times (I've also been there myself), where we lose ourselves trying to keep someone else.

    In this episode, I break down the signs, the root, and the truth about what’s really happening beneath the surface.

    This is the kind of conversation that will make you pause, reflect, and assess your relationship through clear lenses, not judgment.
    And be honest about what you’ve been calling love.

    ✨ WANT TO WORK WITH ME?

    Head over to CarlaCannonLawrence.com to schedule your Breakthrough session today!

    #HealingJourney #CodependencyRecovery #RelationshipHealing #EmotionalWellness

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    15 mins
  • EP 140: ARE YOU CODEPENDENT?
    Mar 17 2026

    In this episode, I’m inviting you into a deeper, more honest conversation that may feel uncomfortable, but is necessary for your healing.

    Let’s go straight into it.

    Have you ever found yourself feeling responsible for someone else’s emotions?

    Not just caring about them, but feeling like it was your job to manage them?

    Have you ever overextended yourself to keep the peace, stayed silent to avoid conflict, or felt anxious when someone pulled away?

    In this episode, I’m not just asking surface-level questions. I’m guiding you inward.

    I’m asking you to pause and reflect: Are you truly loving, or are you operating from codependency?

    Because on the outside, those two can look the same. But internally, they feel completely different.

    Together, we unpack what codependency really is beyond the clichés. I walk you through how it forms, often rooted in childhood experiences where love felt unpredictable, unsafe, or conditional.

    I help you understand how your nervous system may have adapted for survival, and how those patterns can follow you into your adult relationships, your parenting, and even your relationship with yourself.

    We explore the subtle signs of codependency, including:

    • Over-functioning and always being the strong one

    • Struggling to set boundaries without guilt

    • Feeling responsible for fixing others

    • Confusing chaos with connection

    • Losing yourself in relationships

    I also take you deeper into how codependency shows up in romantic relationships and motherhood, places where love can easily become entangled with identity, fear, and emotional survival.

    But this conversation doesn’t stop at awareness. I guide you into understanding the nervous system component of codependency; why distance can feel like danger, why silence can trigger anxiety, and why healing isn’t just behavioral, it’s internal.

    And then, I ask you two of the most important questions of this episode:

    Who are you when no one needs you?Are you loving from wholeness… or from fear?

    That answer will guide your next level of healing.

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    26 mins
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