The Chapter After Podcast

Have you ever looked back at an old version of yourself and thought, I miss her?

In Chapter Eight of The Chapter After, I’m talking about the version of myself I sometimes wish I could get back—not because I want my old life back, but because I miss the woman I was before I knew what was coming.

The woman who had already survived so much, rebuilt her life, found love again, and...

You can forgive someone and still decide they no longer get the same access to you.

For a long time, I thought forgiveness meant reconciliation. That if I truly forgave someone, I had to let it go, move forward, rebuild the relationship, and stop allowing what happened in the past to affect how I interacted with them in the present.

I'm learning that forgiveness can look very different.

In this episode, we're talking about forgivin...

What if breaking the cycle isn’t about making sure our kids never experience pain—but making sure they don’t lose themselves when they do?

In Part 2 of our conversation about boundaries, I’m looking at them through a completely different lens: motherhood.

One of my biggest fears as a mom is watching my children grow up with the same things I’ve spent my adulthood trying to unlearn—people-pleasing...

Boundaries sound simple until you actually have to set one with someone you love.

In this episode, I’m talking about what boundaries have looked like for me in real life—not from the perspective of someone who has mastered them, but as someone who is still actively learning how to set them, communicate them, and actually follow through.

I talk about my history of avoiding conflict and keeping my feelings to myself, the ...

Sometimes the hardest part of healing isn’t forgiving.

It’s realizing that the environment you’ve been trying to heal in is the very one keeping your nervous system stuck in survival.

In this episode, I share the patterns that followed me through different relationships, the family dynamics that shaped me, why I kept recreating familiar environments, and the painful lessons that taught me boundaries weren’t ...

For years, I thought survival was just who I was.

Always busy.

Always fixing.

Always anticipating everyone else’s needs.

Always one step away from burning out.

In this episode, we unpack what survival mode really looks like, why so many of us stay there longer than we realize, and how trauma quietly teaches our nervous systems to expect chaos.

I also share one wedding day story that completely changed the way I understood my ...

Every chapter leaves something behind.

Some leave beautiful memories.

Others leave beliefs we never realized we were carrying.

In this episode, I share some of the most defining moments of my life—from losing my brother, to becoming a young mom, surviving an unhealthy marriage, and navigating seasons that completely changed who I believed I was.

We’ll talk about how pain can quietly become our identity, why survival oft...

Before we can turn the page, we have to understand how we got here. In this very first episode, I’m sharing the story behind The Chapter After—why this podcast exists, what nearly stopped me from creating it, and how a dream that started from a place of hurt slowly transformed into something rooted in healing. We’ll talk about people-pleasing, learning to let go of carrying everyone else’s opinions, rediscov...

There is always a chapter after.

Welcome to The Chapter After.

I’m Taylor, and this podcast was created for anyone who has ever wondered what comes after survival.

Together we’ll talk about healing, trauma, motherhood, marriage, boundaries, faith, rebuilding your life, and learning to find peace after the chapters that changed you.

This isn’t about having all the answers.

It’s about having honest conversatio...