Echoes & Edges

Listener note: This episode includes discussion of grooming and spiritual abuse. Content is non-graphic but may be activating. Please listen with care. In this episode of Echoes and Edges, Patria Rector is joined by...

The Enneagram and the Way Back to Ourselves Enneagram Series, Part 1 What if the thing you’ve spent your life searching for was never actually missing? Before we had language for personality, before we learned how to...

In this rerelease of Echoes and Edges, host Patria Rector continues the conversation with Kate Petersen and Stephanie Rose, exploring the dynamics of toxic power, exploitation, and manipulation within spiritual and...

In this rerelease of Echoes and Edges, host Patria Rector joins Kate Petersen and Stephanie Rose to explore spiritual harm, heartache, and the ways religious systems can shape our identity. Together, they unpack...

What if understanding why you feel unsafe isn't enough to actually feel safe? In Part 2 of this conversation, Patria and Janet Friesen explore what happens when we're not simply feeling stuck, but are dealing with...

What happens when chaos becomes so familiar that peace no longer feels safe? In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Patria sits down with Janet Friesen to explore what happens when we become accustomed to emotionally...

Many trauma survivors become experts at giving—but struggle deeply to receive. In the final installment of this conversation, Patria and Lindsay explore how healing begins to deepen when we allow ourselves to receive...

What if healing isn't something we accomplish—but something we participate in? Lindsay Morris shares how ordinary practices like baking sourdough, tending plants, and watching the sunrise became unexpected teachers of...

Healing often begins with understanding our stories—but eventually it asks something more of us. It invites us to live differently. In this conversation, Patria Rector welcomes story guide Lindsay to explore what it...

How do we tell the difference between who we truly are and who we had to become to survive? In Part 2 of this conversation, Patria and trauma therapist Aundi Kolber explore one of the most important—and often most...

In this conversation, Patria sits down with trauma therapist and author Aundi Kolber to explore how trauma fragments our experience, why healing is less about striving and more about integration, and how faith can...

What if the very things you believe disqualify you are actually the places where your deepest wisdom is being formed? In this final conversation, Sher and Patria explore belonging, mothering, connection, creativity...

Most of us already know we are supposed to be loved, valued, and worthy. The challenge is that knowing something intellectually and experiencing it emotionally are often two very different things. In this powerful...

What if the deepest wound isn't what happened to you—but what you came to believe about yourself because of it? In this conversation, Sher Nyquist shares her journey through shame, loneliness, and the relentless feeling...

What if fear isn’t meant to control you… but inform you? In this episode of Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast, Patria Rector and Ro Elliott explore the Enneagram Head Triad (Types 5, 6, and 7) and the...