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Echoes & Edges

Echoes & Edges

By: Patria Rector
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 Echoes and Edges: The Broken and Beautiful Podcast is a storytelling and healing podcast hosted by Patria Rector — coach, mentor, and founder of The Broken and Beautiful. Through trauma-informed storywork, the Enneagram, and real-life relationship insights, Patria explores what it means to grow, grieve, and live with authenticity.

Listeners will hear personal narratives, practical tools for emotional health, and gentle practices for self-awareness. Each episode invites you to discover beauty in the middle of life’s messiness — and to embrace your story with kindness.

Perfect for anyone interested in emotional healing, self-discovery, relationships, or the Enneagram, Echoes and Edges is your companion for the journey toward hope and wholeness.

You are not too much. You are not too late. You’re right on time — and you’re welcome here.Patria Rector/Stephen R Sanders Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Social Sciences
Episodes
  • How Inner Work Changes the Way We Love with Laurie Proctor

    How Inner Work Changes the Way We Love with Laurie Proctor
    Mar 5 2026
    In this episode, host Patria Rector sits down with coach, IFS practitioner, and Enneagram instructor Laurie Proctor for a thoughtful conversation about how inner work reshapes the way we experience love.

    Love is often talked about as a feeling, a virtue, or an ideal. But in real life, love is shaped by the stories we carry, the wounds we’ve endured, and the nervous systems we inhabit. When those stories remain unexamined, love often operates through survival patterns—control, withdrawal, reactivity, or collapse. Together, Patria and Laurie explore a different possibility: love that grows from integration.

    Drawing from Internal Family Systems, the Enneagram, and decades of personal and professional experience, they discuss how healing our inner world changes the way we show up in relationships. Instead of trying to perfect ourselves, the invitation is to become more aware, more compassionate toward our own parts, and more grounded in what IFS calls self-energy—the calm, curious, compassionate center within us. This conversation opens a space for listeners to consider how their own history, patterns, and nervous system responses influence the way they give and receive love.

    In this episode, we explore
    • Why love often becomes distorted by survival patterns
    • How trauma and nervous system responses shape relationships
    • The role of Internal Family Systems and “parts” language
    • What self-energy looks like in everyday life
    • Why integration—not perfection—leads to healthier connection
    • How untended pain eventually seeks expression
    A question to reflect on
    When relationships feel tense or unsafe, what response tends to take the lead for you—control, withdrawal, reactivity, or collapse? Sometimes the first step toward healing is simply noticing.

    About the Guest
    Laurie Proctor is a professionally certified coach, Internal Family Systems practitioner, Human Design coach, and certified Enneagram instructor who partners with individuals, teams, and organizations seeking healing and transformation. She is the founder of Sow That (Self Others World), where her work centers on the belief that healing begins within and ripples outward to others and the world. Laurie holds multiple certificates in narrative-focused trauma care from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and is passionate about helping people discover the treasures within that can change their lives—and the world.

    Learn more about her work at sowthat.com.

    If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.

    Connect With Patria
    Facebook
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    The Broken & Beautiful Website

    Credits:
    Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders
    Music Promoted by Envato
    Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
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    31 mins
  • The Arc of Integration (Part 2 of 2) with Adam Young

    The Arc of Integration (Part 2 of 2) with Adam Young
    Feb 26 2026
    This is Part 2 of a 2-part conversation with Adam Young — and it goes deeper into the places most of us were taught to avoid.

    In this episode, Patria and Adam turn toward sexuality, shame, anger, kindness, and integration — not as abstract ideas, but as lived, embodied experiences shaped by story, attachment, and the nervous system.

    If Part 1 laid the foundation, Part 2 enters the terrain.🔎

    This Episode Is For You If:
    1. You want to understand your sexual story without shame
    2. You’ve felt violated without being touched and didn’t know why
    3. You struggle with anger, sadness, or shame and don’t know where to start
    4. You want healing that includes the body, not just insight
    5. You’re ready for kindness that tells the truth
    📚 Resources Mentioned
    1. The Wounded Heart by Dan Allender
    2. Allender Center
    3. Adam Young Counseling
    4. The Place We Find Ourselves – Adam Young's Podcast
    5. Make Sense of Your Story – Adam Young's Book
    If this episode stirred something tender, that’s not an accident.
    Stay with it.
    Healing doesn’t rush — it integrates.

    If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, start there.

    And if this conversation mattered to you, share it with someone who needs a safe invitation into their story.

    If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.

    Connect With Patria
    Facebook
    Instagram
    The Broken & Beautiful Website

    Credits:
    Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. Sanders
    Music Promoted by Envato
    Echoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
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    28 mins
  • The Arc of Integration (Part 1 of 2) with Adam Young

    The Arc of Integration (Part 1 of 2) with Adam Young
    Feb 19 2026
    In this episode, Patria sits down with Adam Young — licensed clinical social worker, teacher at the Allender Center, host of The Place We Find Ourselves, and author of Make Sense of Your Story — to unpack the beginning of what Patria calls "The Arc of Integration."This is Part 1 of a 2-part conversation exploring what it really takes to move from brokenheartedness to integration.This first conversation lays the foundation:Why we avoid our wounds.Why honesty feels terrifying.And why healing cannot happen alone.Part 2 will move further into attachment, relational repair, and what freedom actually looks like in lived experience.🧠 In Part 1, We Explore:✦ Brokenheartedness & CaptivityWhen something shatters inside us, we build ways of living that promise we’ll never feel that pain again. Those strategies protect us. They also enslave us. “Far more than repentance, we need the healing of the broken heart.”✦ The Mystery of HonestyWhy do some people pursue truth about their past… and others double down on denial? Quoting Eric Hoffer: “Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.” The question beneath everything: What do you want? How free do you actually want to be?✦ Why You Can’t Heal AloneTrying to make sense of your childhood by yourself doesn’t work — even if you’re intelligent, self-aware, and spiritually committed. What was “normal” to you may not have been normal at all. Healing requires reflection. Questions. Story shared in relationship.✦ “I Never Knew You.”A deeper look at Matthew 7 reframes spiritual disconnection. The issue isn’t religious performance. It’s relational exposure. If we never bring our deep desires and disappointments into relationship — with God or others — we remain unknown. And you cannot heal what you won’t reveal.🔎 This Episode Is For You If:You’ve done years of faith-based work but still feel disconnected from your heartYou’re beginning to suspect your coping strategies are also your captivityYou’re curious about story work but unsure where to startYou sense there’s more to your story than you’ve let yourself see📚 Resources MentionedThe Place We Find Ourselves - The Theory of Healing (Parts 1-3)Episode 24Episode 25Episode 26Make Sense of Your Story – Adam Young's BookAllender CenterAdam Young CounselingIf Part 1 resonates, sit with it. Don’t rush past it. Part 2 goes deeper. Follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges so you don’t miss what comes next.If this episode resonates with you, follow or subscribe to Echoes and Edges on your favorite podcast platform, leave a five-star review, and share with a friend who might need a gentle invitation to self-understanding.Connect With PatriaFacebookInstagramThe Broken & Beautiful WebsiteCredits:Echoes and Edges is Produced and Edited by: Stephen R. SandersMusic Promoted by EnvatoEchoes and Edges is a part of VividLivid Podcast Network - Where bruises speak and healing finds its voice.
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    27 mins
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