E58. Stop Self-Abandonment: Healing Identity, Releasing Trauma, and Reclaiming Your Power with Tara Wiskow

About this episode

What happens when the identity you’ve been performing no longer fits, but you’re afraid to let it go? In this powerful episode of Internally Guided Life, I sit down with intuitive energy healer and life reinvention expert Tara Wiskow to explore identity healing, self-worth, and returning to your authentic self.

Tara shares her deeply personal transformation, including surviving suicidal ideation, healing trauma, and losing 220 pounds. Despite dramatic external change and becoming a bodybuilder, she realized that weight loss, success, and achievement do not create lasting worthiness. True healing comes from reconnecting with who you are beneath conditioning, trauma, and outdated identities.

Together, we explore identity shifts, self-belief, emotional regulation, and the ways women self-abandon to belong. We discuss people-pleasing, numbing behaviors, societal expectations, and the fear of being fully seen. Tara offers grounded insight into fragmentation, shadow work, and reintegration, blending intuitive healing, depth psychology, and practical tools for real transformation.

Tara also shares her signature Unravel, Upgrade, Uplevel process, guiding women to release subconscious blocks, rebuild self-trust, and step into lives rooted in authenticity instead of performance.

This episode is for anyone feeling disconnected, uncertain, or exhausted from trying to be who they think they should be. It is an invitation to stop self-abandoning and start listening inward.

In this episode, we explore:

• Identity shifts and authentic self-expression
• The cost of self-abandonment and people-pleasing
• Why weight loss and success don’t heal worthiness wounds
• Trauma, emotional numbing, and loss of self
• Shadow work, fragmentation, and reintegration
• The Unravel, Upgrade, Uplevel process
• Tools for emotional regulation and self-discovery
• Reclaiming self-trust, boundaries, and inner authority

This conversation is honest, expansive, and compassionate, designed to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom.

Meet the Guest: Tara WiskowTara Wiskow is an intuitive energy healer, life reinvention expert, and founder of Be The Change You Need. She helps women break free from self-sabotage, limiting beliefs, and outdated identities to reclaim their power and self-worth.

After losing 220 pounds and navigating trauma and identity loss, Tara stepped into her work as a healer and guide. She integrates NLP, Integrated Energy Therapy, Theta Healing, and intuitive coaching to support deep emotional, energetic, and identity-level transformation.

Through her Unravel, Upgrade, Uplevel process, Tara helps women release shame, reconnect with their truth, and embody who they are becoming.

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Meet the Host:

Kayla Sweet is the host of Internally Guided Life and an expert in burnout prevention, transformational leadership, self-care, and personal growth. As a life coach, she specializes in helping people reclaim their worthiness and purpose, guiding them to create fulfilling lives with balance and ease. With a background in psychology, mindfulness, and transformational leadership, Kayla empowers her community to align with their authentic selves, develop their strengths, and embrace intentional growth.

Kayla's debut poetry collection, Alchemy of Life, is available now at ⁠internallyguidedleadership.com⁠, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Walmart. This is a reflective collection of poems on transformation, healing, and becoming.

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Intro & Outro Music: By artist Goat On The River, produced by Christian Michael Smith at ⁠https://www.microdotstudioproductions.com/⁠ 

Podcast recorded by Christian Michael Smith at ⁠https://www.microdotstudioproductions.com/⁠