I Struggle Accepting That My Family Is Not Perfect

In this Episode of the Heal with Kat Show, We talk about why 2025 felt so intense for so many of us, how this show was born from a desire to be of deeper service, and what’s coming next as we move into a new chapter together. I also share some big personal updates, including my move back home to San Diego and the upcoming release of my book, From Black Sheep to Cycle Breaker—a guide for anyone who’s ever felt like the odd one out in their family system and knows they’re here to change something.We explore inner child work, family constellation therapy, nervous system healing, and the practice of acceptance as tolerance—not excusing harm, but learning how to stay grounded, resourced, and sovereign in relationship. Bring your questions and your curiosity, let’s dive in.Question 1 (5:27): I struggle accepting my family in their imperfections. I want a relationship with them because I can handle their stuff but then I find myself wanting or needing them to be perfect or meet my expectations Question 2 (15:28): What’s one cycle you think a lot of people should break?Question 3: (25:00) I'm newly divorced and I don't feel like I need to process anything. Am I blind?📥 Want to Ask Kat? Submit your question at https://www.katdaou.com/askConnect with Kat:🤍TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍Substack: https://kdaou.substack.com/🤍Website: https://www.katdaou.com📚PRE ORDER KAT’S UPCOMING BOOK “FROM BLACK SHEEP TO CYCLE BREAKER” HERE: https://www.katdaou.com/the-book Support Links: Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link: https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link: https://www.katdaou.com/agemap The Heal with Kat Show is for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing shared on this podcast constitutes professional psychological, therapeutic, medical, legal, or financial advice. I am not acting as a licensed mental health or medical professional, and no provider – client relationship is formed by listening. Everything I share reflects my personal opinions, experiences, and perspectives within Family Constellation Therapy and psycho-spiritual work. This content should not be used as a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Please seek guidance from qualified professionals regarding your mental, emotional, or medical needs. Using any information from this show is solely at your own risk.

In this weeks episode of the Heal With Kat Show, we dive into all things Grief, Death and Afterlife. Kat shares her own journey with understanding loss and guides her live caller through questions around soul contracts, life's purpose and how to move through grief with somatic practices. Question 1: Why does death comes in waves or a feel like dark cloud?Question 2: How do we find security in our body & life again when we no longer feel connected to our purpose or future? Connect with Kat:🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍  /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍  /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍  /https://www.katdaou.com Links: Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemap 

In this episode of the Heal With Kat Show, Kat welcomes the very first live caller to the show—an emotional and heart-opening conversation centered around business, self-trust, ancestral support, and the power of listening to the body’s intuition.The episode also includes a major announcement about Kat’s upcoming book From Black Sheep to Cycle Breaker and a deep dive into an anonymous listener’s question about sensing jealousy or inauthenticity from a parent.Question 1: How should I be growing my business right now? I feel stuck!Question 2: I feel like my Mom might be jealous of me and my life?Connect with Kat:🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍  /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍  /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍  /https://www.katdaou.com Links: The Book:https://www.katdaou.com/the-bookInsight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemap 

In today's expansive and deeply personal conversation of the Heal with Kat Podcast, we explore what it really means to heal across timelines — past, present, and future. From future-self visioning to the science of suggestibility, EMDR, hypnotherapy, subconscious blocks, and the ways our lineage shapes who we become… this episode is a full-spectrum journey.Lynnsey Robinson, a clinical hypnotherapist and subconscious healing expert and Kat dive into how the brain, body, and soul work together to create transformation — and why certain healing modalities only “land” when the subconscious is ready.If you love conversations about timelines, trauma, identity shifts, spiritual awakening, subconscious work, brain science, relationships, and money stories… this episode will feel like home. 🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍  / https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍  / https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍  / https://www.katdaou.com Connect with: 🩶 / https://www.instagram.com/lynnseyrobinson/ 🩶 / https://www.lynnseyrobinson.com/freebies 🩶 / https://lynnseyrobinson.mykajabi.com/high-vibin-it 🩶 / https://www.lynnseyrobinson.com/  ✨ Want to win a FREE Ancestral Intuitive Reading with Kat?All you need to do is SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW this episode.Screenshot that and send it to Kat on Instagram (link above) to enter your name in to win!Winners announced on the last day of each month on instagram stories. Links: Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/katdaou Cycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemapGuest Bio: Lynnsey is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Intuitive Guide, and co-host of the "High Vibin' It' Podcast who specializes in helping women unlock the power of their subconscious mind and reconnect to their soul. Through her 1:1 client work and her membership, Align Your Mind, she's guided hundreds of women to elevate their mindset, release limiting beliefs, and manifest their dream lives with ease. Lynnsey blends powerful mindset work with spiritual connection, helping her clients strengthen their intuitive gifts and embrace a life of alignment and flow.

In this week of the Heal With Kat Show, we’re diving into a conversation so many of us deeply need right now: time, energy, burnout, and what it actually looks like to manage all of that in a way that honors your nervous system, your identity, and your season of life.I’m joined by the incredible Jill, time-management educator, mother of four, entrepreneur, and creator of the Time Archetype Quiz. I’ve been on her podcast in the past, and I was so excited to bring her here because we’ve never had an episode focused on time, productivity, and energy through such a compassionate, human lens.This conversation is a full permission slip. A reminder that productivity is not a personality. And an invitation to reconnect with your values, your body, and your inner pace.Timestamps: 0:00 – Welcome & Introduction6:50 – Why Time Management is a Life Practice10:20 – Human Design & Energy Archetypes22:10 – Burnout: Causes and Solutions30:00 – Values-Based Time Management34:15 – Self-Care & Daily Rituals42:00 – Time Productivity Archetypes Quiz46:30 – Archetype Insights & Reflections49:15 – Resources & Ways to Dive DeeperConnect with Kat:🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍  /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍  /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍  /https://www.katdaou.comConnect with Jill: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/grow-like-a-mother/id1601675882http://jillwright.ca/quizhttps://www.jillwright.ca/ Links: Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemap Guest Bio: Jill Wright is a Time Management Expert who helps busy professionals, parents, and students reduce burnout, increase productivity, and build more intentional lives. Her holistic approach to time management considers both rest and productivity, guiding individuals to align their energy with their values. Through engaging workshops and talks, Jill inspires audiences to create systems for success, integrate meaningful self-care, and reclaim their time with confidence.

In This week’s episode of the Heal With Kat SHow we dive deep into the emotional aftershocks of big cosmic and personal shifts. We start by reflecting on how the eclipse has left us feeling — cracked open, renewed, or somewhere in between. Then, we move into the heart of family dynamics: how to love the people who shaped you while still protecting your peace and healing old wounds that still sting. Finally, we explore what it means to feel like two different versions of yourself — and how to integrate all your identities without feeling like a fraud. This is an episode about honesty, boundaries, and becoming whole.Question 1: How Are You Feeling After the Eclipse?Question 2: How Do You Love Your Family While Still Protecting Yourself From Those Old Wounds That Make You Feel Small?Question 3: I Feel Like Two Different People How Do You Integrate Different Identities Without Feeling Like A FraudConnect with Kat:🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍  /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍  /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍  /https://www.katdaou.com Links: Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemap 

In this deeply vulnerable episode of Heal With Kat, Kat invites trauma specialist and EMDR therapist Jenny Gennaro into an honest, soul-level conversation about the healing power of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), trauma integration, and the reclamation of the body after years of spiritual and emotional disconnection.Kat shares her personal journey of returning to her body after years of living in survival mode, exploring how childhood emotional neglect, abandonment wounds, and sexual trauma shaped her intuitive abilities and coping mechanisms. Together, she and Jenny unpack how trauma fragments the nervous system — and how healing can bring us home to our true, embodied selves.Themes:What EMDR actually is — and how it helps rewire the brain to release the emotional charge of traumatic memoriesHow childhood emotional neglect and attachment wounds can create disconnection from the body and fuel hypervigilance mistaken for intuitionWhy many intuitives and empaths develop their “gifts” as tools of survival, and how to evolve them into tools of serviceThe connection between trauma, autoimmune conditions, and chronic body symptomsKat’s personal EMDR journey — including what resurfaced, how she processed it, and the profound identity shift that followedHow psilocybin (mushrooms) can be used intentionally and safely within a therapeutic EMDR container to lower defenses and deepen emotional accessThe difference between complex trauma and single-event trauma, and why integration can feel like an identity crisisWhat it means to re-stitch your head back to your body and reclaim the right to feel safe, grounded, and presentHow reclaiming your nervous system is a radical act of social justice and spiritual resistanceConnect with Kat:🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍  /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍  /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍  /https://www.katdaou.com Connect with Jenny: 🩶 / https://www.gennarocounseling.com/🩶 / https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-gennaro-prokopchik-msw-lcsw-acs-emdr-c-b0b31872/ Links: Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemap Guest Bio:I’m Jenny I work with people who are done skimming the surface. You’ve done the therapy. You’ve read the books. You’re self-aware, insightful, maybe even the one everyone else turns to—but something’s still stuck. You’re tired of circling the same patterns, managing symptoms, or just getting by. You want real movement. Depth. Relief. And you’re ready to do the work.  That’s where I come in.  I’m a certified EMDR therapist and trauma specialist with a style that’s relational, grounded, and honest. I won’t push you faster than you’re ready—but I also won’t tiptoe around what needs to be named. I bring a deep understanding of the nervous system, attachment, and somatic work to help people heal from the things that talk therapy alone couldn’t reach.  I offer EMDR intensives for those who want to dive in and create lasting change without dragging things out for months or years. These are focused, immersive sessions designed for people who are ready to go deep and need therapy that fits their life—not the other way around.  If you’re someone who holds space for others—whether in healthcare, education, leadership, the arts, or the healing professions—this is your space to let go, reconnect, and shift from surviving to fully living.  Healing doesn’t have to take forever. But it does take intention.  Let’s begin.

In this week’s episode of the Heal with Kat Podcast we are joined by author & leadership coach Jessica Boots, whose new book “It’s All Connected” reveals how the seven chakras — our body’s energetic centers — can guide us toward purposeful, confident, and heart-centered leadership. Jessica’s story of transformation — from educator to author to healer — reminds us that true leadership is an energetic practice. It’s not about power over others, but about alignment within ourselves.Together, we move through each chakra from root to crown, exploring how energy, embodiment, and awareness influence how we lead, love, and live. In this episode: Root Chakra — Grounding into purpose & stability in uncertain times Sacral Chakra — Inviting creativity, flow & emotional connection into leadership Solar Plexus — Building confidence, courage & self-worth as a leader Heart Chakra — Leading with compassion while setting healthy boundaries Throat Chakra — Speaking your truth with integrity & presence Third Eye — Honoring intuition & inner wisdom in decision-making Crown Chakra — Seeing leadership as a sacred practice of connection.00:00 — Introduction 07:00 — How the Chakra System Became a Map for Leadership 10:30 — Root Chakra: Grounding in Purpose & Stability 16:00 — Sacral Chakra: Creativity, Play & Emotional Flow 22:10 — Solar Plexus: Confidence, Worth & Empowerment 28:45 — Heart Chakra: Compassion, Love & Boundaries 36:00 — Throat Chakra: Speaking Truth in Leadership 44:00 — Third Eye: Intuition as a Leadership Tool 51:30 — Crown Chakra: Connection, Spirituality & Sacred Leadership 58:00 — Integrating the Chakras into Everyday LeadershipConnect with Kat:🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍  /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍 /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍  /https://www.katdaou.com Connect with Jessica: 🩶 / @leadandbewell🩶 / http://www.leadandbewell.com/ Links: Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemap Bio:Jessica is a writer, transformational leadership coach, yoga teacher (RYT 500, RPYT) and mama who supports introspective, heart-led humans in evolving their leadership from the inside out. As the founder of Lead and Be Well, she blends mindfulness, wellness, and professional growth to help others show up with authenticity and purpose. A lifelong question-asker, Jess brings her background in education, yoga, and personal transformation to create work that’s both reflective and deeply practical.

In this episode of the Heal With Kat Show, we’re diving into three very real, very human questions. We talk about how to navigate the chaos of today’s politics — and why, if you think it’s Democrats vs. Republicans, you might be missing the deeper truth. One listener opens up about feeling like a bad mom because she’s 40 and still doesn’t drive, and another brings up the struggle of making real friends as an adult. Kat shares intuitive insights, honest reflections, and the deeper spiritual threads that connect it all.Question 1:  How Do You Make Sense of Everything Going On In The World Right Now?Question 2: Should I Say Goodbye To My Goal Of Learning To Drive at 40? Question 3:  How Do Adults Build Real Friendships Again? Connect with Kat:🤍  /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍  /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍 /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍  /https://www.katdaou.com Links: Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemap 

In this episode of Heal with Kat, Kat sits down with Elise to explore what it truly means to heal the abandonment wound. From discovering breathwork at 19 to her decade-long career as a school counselor, Elise shares how her personal and professional experiences shaped her path as a trauma healer.Together, they dive into how emotional neglect can leave lasting imprints, why so many of us internalize blame for the love we didn’t receive, and how breaking generational cycles begins with compassion, not perfection. Elise also shares her five-step Inner Child Healing Process, guiding listeners toward safety, self-trust, and true emotional repair.00:00 - Introduction12:00 - How emotional disconnection and lack of acknowledgment can be just as damaging as overt trauma. 20:00 - What Abandonment Really Looks Like28:00 - Healing as a Parent & The Ripple Effect35:00 - Breaking Cycles & Finding Neutrality45:00 - Why We Blame Ourselves for Abandonment 52:00 - Pathways to Healing the Abandonment WoundConnect with Kat:🤍 /https://www.instagram.com/kat_daou/🤍 /https://www.tiktok.com/@healwithkatpod🤍 /https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCix2tpYqYdRcMNNAqKfYJew🤍 /https://www.katdaou.comConnect with Alyse: 🩶 /https://www.instagram.com/alyse_breathes/🩶 /https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reclaiming-consciousness/id1595666639🩶 /https://www.alysebreathes.com/the-core-wound-solution-private-podcast-signup-page🩶 /https://www.alysebreathes.com/ Links: Insight Timer:https://insighttimer.com/katdaouCycle Breaker Quiz Link:https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/665bc191d9650a00154a4a22Age Mapping Mini Course Link:https://www.katdaou.com/agemap Alyse Bacine is a pioneering force in trauma healing and transformational breathwork. With 24 years of expertise and a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, she bridges the worlds of clinical mental health and somatic healing through her revolutionary methodology, The Metamorphosis Method™. After a decade serving as a school counselor and implementing groundbreaking meditation programs, Alyse developed a unique approach combining cutting-edge trauma tools with advanced breathwork and energy healing. This methodology creates predictable, permanent transformation by addressing mind, body, and energy field simultaneously - something missing from both traditional therapy and somatic practices. Featured in Oprah Magazine, Well and Good, and Nylon, her work has generated over seven figures in revenue and transformed hundreds of women's lives. The Metamorphosis Method™ stands apart as the only system effectively closing the gap between clinical expertise and somatic healing. With certifications in Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Practices, plus extensive experience in both therapeutic and somatic modalities, Alyse has created a comprehensive approach that revolutionizes how women heal and grow.