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S5: Episode 63 - The Wart on my Nose
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- Mindfully Disruptive
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- Mar 9, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 836
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Summary
What does a 4am dream have to do with a 17-year-old pattern you never knew you were carrying? Everything. As it turns out. In this episode of Mindfully Disruptive, Patricia shares one of the most unexpectedly honest conversations she has ever had — with herself, on a morning walk, after a dream cracked open something she had been carrying since long before she had words for it. This is not a tidy episode about healing. It is a real-time excavation of a pattern that was hiding in plain sight. On her nose. Like a wart she somehow never noticed. If you have ever done significant personal work and still felt like something was running quietly underneath all of it — this episode is for you. What You'll Hear in This Episode: Patricia walks through a vivid early morning dream — the kind that comes during deep REM sleep between 3 and 5am when the unconscious is doing its heaviest processing. Expanding circles of blue and green. A mall. Her oldest son watching his father from a distance. And then — her ex-boyfriend, the one who broke her heart deeply, showing up to offer comfort while she stood with a completely puzzled expression on her face. She breaks down what each dream image was doing. Patricia traces the thread and names the pattern underneath all of it for the first time out loud. She explores how this belief quietly shaped her relationships, her nervous system, and the way she received — or didn't receive — comfort, love, and support across decades of her life. Who This Episode Is For: This episode is for the woman who has done the work. Who has been to therapy, read the books, done the journaling — and still feels something running quietly underneath that she cannot quite name. It is for the woman who grew up holding everything together and learned somewhere along the…