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Becoming the Woman You Were Always Afraid to Be (featuring Lily Shepard)
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- Dec 16, 2025
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Episode 5: Becoming the Woman You Were Always Afraid to Be (featuring Lily Shepard) In this powerful conversation, Hannah sits down with somatic executive coach Lily Shepard to talk about identity, the body, divorce, desire, and what it really means to become the woman you were meant to be. Lily shares her own traumatic divorce experience, how identity collapses when the “wife” role disappears, and how reconnecting to the body creates space for safety, clarity, and authentic expansion. They unpack: why most women run from something, not toward something the collapse that happens when identity is built on roles how to rediscover pieces of yourself you abandoned in marriage practical somatic tools for grounding and self-safety why joy feels terrifying the radical truth: “I want more” is a complete sentence This episode will challenge you, comfort you, and offer a roadmap for the next version of yourself. Hannah and Lily talk about how women evolve, and why identity shouldn’t be pinned down for other people’s comfort. TIMESTAMPS & KEY MOMENTS 0:00 — Living Out Loud 2:07 — Identity Isn’t Fixed 3:55 — The Identity Collapse of Divorce 5:48 — Clinging to the Old Life 7:30 — Running From vs. Running Toward 9:44 — Bitter or Better 12:38 — Identity Built on Others 14:03 — Reclaiming What You Abandoned 19:11 — What Somatic Work Really Means 21:22 — Imagining the Woman You’re Becoming 24:08 — The Body as the Way Home 27:36 — Writing a Letter to Your Body 30:29 — Desire, Shame & “The Lion Inside” 34:01 — The Sentence Divorce Forces Out of You: “I Want More.” 39:23 — Practical Tools for Feeling Safe Again 42:58 — The Hardest Part: Letting Good Things In 47:55 — Best-Case-Scenario Thinking 51:48 — Divorce as a Superpower Work with Lily: Somatic Executive Coaching for high-ach…