In this powerful and heartfelt episode of The Resilient Rebel Show, Elian Haan sits down with author, speaker, and spiritual coach Heather Buzzard to talk about resilience, identity, forgiveness, and breaking free from shame.

Heather shares her extraordinary life story — growing up as a Black adopted child in a Caucasian family, navigating identity confusion, racial tension, rebellion, trauma, and ultimately finding healing through faith and forgiveness.

This is a conversation about:

✨ Adoption and finding your birth parents

✨ Breaking generational patterns

✨ Overcoming shame and conditional love

✨ The courage to forgive

✨ Radical personal responsibility

✨ Faith as a foundation for resilience

Heather also shares about her memoir Breaking Shame: Reclaiming My Identity and how writing her story helped her heal and empower others — especially adoptive children searching for belonging.

If you've ever felt different… unseen… misunderstood… or burdened by shame — this episode is for you. You are not broken. You are becoming.

📚 Connect with Heather Buzzard:

Website: https://buzzardskorner.com

Book: Breaking Shame: Reclaiming My Identity https://a.co/d/0gQA3fra

Topics Covered:

• The emotional & physical cost of people-pleasing
• How perfectionism often hides shame
• Why setting boundaries is an act of self-respect
• Practical breathwork & nervous system reset tools
• How to reframe self-compassion as strength
• Reclaiming visibility and speaking your truth

Mentioned in this episode:

• Grounding practices for anxious moments
• Real-time nervous system regulation techniques
• The power of “I” statements in tough conversations
• How to spot burnout and emotional exhaustion early
• Why celebrating your small wins builds true confidence

Want to work with Elian?

Visit: https://www.elianhaan.net

Instagram: @elianhaan

Email: elianhaan@gmail.com

Join my masterclass: https://masterclass.elianhaan.net/

Done waiting for your life to feel right?

In this raw and powerful episode of The Resilient Rebel Show, I'm going to share the moment everything cracked—and everything began.

From burnout and perfectionism to panic and awakening, I open up about the day I stopped performing, stopped pretending, and finally chose myself. This isn’t about waiting for the world to change. It’s about changing from within. 🎙

In this episode:

• The day I hit my breaking point

• Why courage isn’t born, it’s built

• How trauma, shame, and perfectionism keep us small

• What it really means to rebel from within

• The first steps to reclaiming your voice, power, and presence

This is your invitation to stop shrinking, stop apologizing, and start becoming the version of you that you cannot wait to wake up to.

👇 Let us know in the comments: What are you done waiting for? 🧠 Listen. Reflect. Rise. 🎧

Subscribe to join the rebel movement and never miss a weekly reset. — 🔗 Connect with me:

Website: https://www.elianhaan.net

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elianhaan/

Join my 5-week Masterclass 'The Freedom Formula': https://masterclass.elianhaan.net/