HeyJaredThe Reclaimed Life Podcast
The Reclaimed Life is a podcast about recognizing manipulation, reclaiming your voice, and rebuilding a life that truly feels like your own.Hosted by author, ordained chaplain, and certified mental health coach Rachel Paxton, this show explores the patterns and dynamics that…
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When Someone Else Is Telling Your Story (opens the original)
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What do you do when you realize there is a story about you being told that you don't get to control? Maybe you don't know exactly what was said. You just notice that people are treating you differently, and you begin to wonder what they may have heard or what they have decided about you. In this episode, I’m talking about the helplessness of being misunderstood, the temptation to defend yourself, and the difficult realization that you can't make everyone understand your side of the story. Someti
Learning to Live After Everything Fell Apart (opens the original)
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What do you do when the life you knew is no longer the life you’re living? Sometimes we spend so much time hoping to get back what we lost that we don’t know how to move forward without it. We wait for relationships to be restored, for things to make sense, or for God to replace what was taken from us. But what if restoration doesn’t always mean getting the old life back? In this episode, I’m talking about learning to live after everything fell apart—not because everything is okay, but because l
When You Realize You No Longer Belong in the Room (opens the original)
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Sometimes you don't leave a place because something terrible happened. Sometimes you simply realize that you are no longer looking for your place there. In this episode of The Reclaimed Life Podcast , I explore what it feels like when a community, relationship, or place that once felt like home no longer does—and when you can't quite explain why. For years, I struggled to understand why I repeatedly found myself walking away from places that had once mattered deeply to me. I thought I needed a r
When the Person You Knew Wasn't the Person They Were (opens the original)
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There is a particular kind of grief that comes when you realize the person you knew may not have been the person they were. This isn't the same as accepting that someone won't change. It's the unsettling realization that someone may have carefully shown you a version of themselves that they wanted you to believe, and that the mask only became visible after you were no longer there to see it. In this episode, we explore the cognitive dissonance that follows—the questions about what was real, what
Why Moving On Is So Hard (opens the original)
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Why is it so hard to just move on? Sometimes moving on isn't about leaving something you no longer want. Sometimes you're moving on from something you loved, something you were committed to, something you were loyal to, or even a future you genuinely wanted. In this episode, I explore the grief of losing a dream, the identity shifts that can happen when the life you expected is no longer your life, and why moving forward can feel more like abandonment than freedom for a while. Moving on can mean
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