Why Healing Doesn’t Mean You’re Broken - Sherisse Alexander

We often talk about healing as if it’s proof that something is wrong with us. As if needing healing means we failed to cope, failed to grow, or failed to be strong enough.


In this solo episode, I explore a deeper and more honest truth: healing doesn’t mean you’re broken—it means your nervous system adapted to survive, and now you’re learning how to live.


Through a grounded, embodied lens, I unpack common coping patterns like hypervigilance, people-pleasing, emotional numbing, overworking, avoidance, and control—not as flaws to fix, but as intelligent responses to lived experience. I talk about the difference between being wounded and being broken, why wholeness can coexist with pain, and how real healing is less about transformation and more about capacity.


This conversation is for anyone who has done “the work” and still finds themselves hurting, triggered, or tender—and wonders if that means they’re failing at healing. It’s a reminder that healing is not a repair job. It’s a remembering. A return to self. And a commitment to stay present with reality without abandoning yourself in the process.


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Sherisse Alexander is an intuitive business coach, a business owner and entrepreneur and podcast host that is motivated by helping others to find meaning, purpose and fulfillment as leaders in their own lives. Be it a leader in your business, your family or ultimately simply a leader in your own life, the objective is the same…Sacred Leadership.


Sherisse has been a teacher, mentor and guide for many people offering sage wisdom, a voice of reason, compassion and understanding coupled with the keen intellect and strategy needed to navigate challenges that arise in both business and life.


Over the years, Sherisse has worked to refine and develop her skills as an intuitive and is a champion of anyone else who is open and willing to lean into the guidance that is offered to each and every one of us on a daily basis.


Sherisse’s goal is to create a sacred container that allows business owners and individuals the opportunity to meet her in that space with openness, vulnerability and a willingness to lean into and blend the journey of a spiritual being having a human experience into practical guidance that will yield results both personally and professionally.


https://www.pavitraleadership.com


sherisse@pavitraleadership.com


To get more of Sacred Leadership with Sherisse, be sure to visit the podcast page for replays of all her shows here: https://www.inspiredchoicesnetwork.com/podcast/sacred-leadership-with-sherisse/