This Is Healing

https://sarahlheringer.substack.com/ Wife. Witness. Writer. Survivor. Reluctant activist. Relentless truth-teller .I did not ask for this. But I will not look away. On June 4, 2025, my husband Patrick was murdered in our home while protecting me from a man who should never have been free. A man with a violent record, with open warrants, with a past the city ignored—and a blade in his hand. Patrick died in my arms.There are no metaphors for that. Only blood, memory, and silence.What followed was the unraveling of everything I thought was safe.What I write here is not for spectacle. It is not curated grief. It is not a campaign. It is a reckoning. With systems. With silence. With myself. I write because I need somewhere to put it.The grief. The fury. The facts. The failures.I write about public safety because no one else will say

This Is Healing is a religion podcast hosted by Josef Strecker, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Josef Strecker hosts This Is Healing, a religion show with 47 episodes published.

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  This is Healing — Heka

  Aug 17, 202655 min

  I coach two CrossFit classes and cry after both — not because anything goes wrong, but because I keep comparing myself to a dead man who was the best coach I’ve ever known. This episode moves through the parts of myself I’m only beginning to know, a dinner-party confession, an MDMA session I entered intentionally looking for the parts I usually avoid, and Isis traveling with seven venomous scorpions. None of it gets fixed. A part can be powerful without being sovereign. You can name what is moving through you without giving it the whole kingdom. That is Heka.

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  This is Healing — A New Forest

  Aug 6, 202625 min

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  This is Healing — Keep Your Heart Open

  May 27, 20261h 45mS0

  What does it actually mean to keep your heart open after the worst thing? Not as a platitude. As a survival strategy. This episode goes there.<br /><br /><br /><br />I just got back from a writer's retreat in the mountains of Colorado. I went to write. I came back with something I didn't expect — a realization I could no longer avoid. This episode covers what I learned about grief, wavelengths, the nervous system, why you don't need more discipline, why you need connection, and what it actually means to keep your heart open when every instinct you have is te...

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  This is Healing — The Backlash of Feeling Alive Again

  May 8, 20261h 6mS0

  I finally felt something good again—and then it hit me.<br /><br />In this episode, I talk about the emotional backlash that follows moments of feeling alive, how my relationships are changing, and what Patrick’s birthday actually felt like.<br /><br />This is an honest look at grief, the body, and continuing to live after everything changes.

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  This is Healing — How Do You Cope?

  Apr 8, 20261h 4mS0

  How do you cope with a timeline you want no part of? It's the question everyone asks and nobody answers with any honesty. In this episode of This Is Healing, I go deep into what grief actually is — not a problem to be solved, not a stage to move through, but an ocean you learn to live beside. I talk about the difference between coping and building capacity, why the five stages of grief fail the moments that matter most, what the nervous system is still reaching for when the person is gone, and what it means to continue moving th...

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