Transformative Journeys - to Growth and Resilience
Welcome to Transformative Journeys – the channel where growth meets grit, healing gets honest (sometimes the “I can’t believe she said that” kind), and resilience means practice-makes-progress.
If you’ve ever hit a breaking point, questioned everything, or felt like the old “you” doesn’t quite anymore-you’re not alone.
Hosted by Johanna, a resilience rebel with a wicked sense of humor and a heart for healing, this channel explores emotional wellness, self-compassion, and what it really means to bounce back (even if you're held together with duct tape and caffeine).
Here you’ll find:
Podcast episodes every other Monday
Shorts with bite-sized insights and tough-love pep talks
Tools rooted in neuroscience, story-telling, and lived experience.
No perfection. No toxic positivity. Just grounded support for navigating the messy middle of healing and growth.
Because transformation isn’t about “getting over it.”
It’s about growing through it.
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Transformative Journeys - to Growth and Resilience
Revisiting the Ashes: A September Reflection on Loss, Change, and Beginning Again
Some episodes crack you wide open.
This one did - and still does.
In this special revisit of one of her earliest and most personal episodes, Johanna shares the story of how she began to rebuild her life after the sudden loss of her son Michael. It’s a deeply human conversation about grief, identity, transformation, and what it means to take the first shaky steps toward healing - even when you don’t feel ready.
Whether you’re navigating your own grief, walking through a chapter you didn’t choose, or carrying an invisible loss you’ve never put words to… this episode is for you.
In this episode, Johanna explores:
- How traumatic loss can shatter - and reshape - our identity
- The early days of her own healing journey (and the messiness of it)
- The difference between letting life shape you… and choosing what you’ll build from it
- How meaning-making and purpose helped her begin again
It’s not just a story about loss.
It’s a story about the possibility of transformation.
💜 If this episode resonated with you, you might also like:
- Episode 4: From Surviving to Thriving – Post-Traumatic Growth
- Episode 10: Boundaries Without Guilt
- Episode16: What Is Loss - Invisible Losses and the Grief We Don’t Talk About
💬 Quote to remember:
“Each of us… has a choice. We can let our pain defeat us, destroy us, or define us - or we can let it refine us.”
🧰 Looking for support on your own grief journey?
Explore Johanna’s free collection of tools and reflections - including her Insights for Navigating Grief - at→ https://transformativejourneys.ca/johannas-toolboxes
📩 Want to share your story with Johanna? Find her on Instagram at @transformativejourneys.johanna or leave her a message at www.transformativejourneys.ca
🛑 Disclaimer: Johanna is not a therapist, just a human sharing lived experience.
✨ “I’m just Johanna – a fellow human being on my journey through this thing called life, and your guide on this transformative journey.”
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