From Wounds to Wisdom (Previously the Mental-Hell Podcast)
Welcome to From Wounds to Wisdom—the podcast where we turn life’s toughest lessons into our greatest strengths. Here, we dive deep into mental health, personal growth, and the messy, beautiful journey of healing. Whether you’re seeking a fresh perspective, a little humor, or just a safe space to feel seen, you’re in the right place. Let’s navigate the hard stuff together and uncover the wisdom waiting on the other side. Ready to get started? Let’s dive in.
Episodes
If you’ve spent thousands on meds, therapy, and “miracle” modalities and still feel depressed, this conversation will feel like a deep exhale.
In this episode, Alisha Kapani shares how years of debilitating depression, failed antidepressants, and endless treatments led her to mind–body medicine and Theta healing. She breaks down why suppressed emotions, unprocessed trauma, and misaligned beliefs can keep you stuck, and how learning ...
🚨 TRIGGER WARNING: Abuse, trauma, custody battles
How does a mother survive 16 years of hidden domestic violence, betrayal by her own family, and the unthinkable choice to place her children in foster care for their safety?
Elizabeth "Miss Liz" Gagnon shares with Barbie Moreno her raw journey from childhood abuse → paralyzed by trauma → building Miss Liz's Tea Time, a global platform serving 450+ ...
What happens when your body has been screaming at you for years — and you keep pushing through anyway? In this episode of From Wounds to Wisdom, Barbie Moreno sits down with wellness coach and aneurysm survivor Beatriz Fritschler to talk about what it really costs women to be “strong,” “successful,” and “high‑achieving” at the expense of their health.
We get into how trauma, people‑pleasing, and perfectionism show up as weight ...
Mi Vida Loca Curse: How Tara Goebel Escaped | From Wounds to Wisdom
Police dispatcher by day. Teen mom at 19. Author of Mi Vida Loca: The Diary of a Teen Mom. Tara Goebel survived a brutal cycle of generational alcoholism, emotional and physical abuse, plus childhood sexual trauma—and chose to cut toxic family ties completely. Her raw, unfiltered story reveals how she built an unbreakable family bond while breaking free from chaos. ...
Yvette Walker—award-winning journalist & Positively Joy podcast host—shares her raw journey with Barbie Moreno: 13 years married to a diagnosed bipolar, divorce guilt, faith breakthrough via one song, and ministry empowering women post-divorce.
⏰ Chapters:
Intro & Bipolar Marriage Struggles
Manic Episodes & Divorce Decision
Shame, Guilt & Faith Pivot
Healing Through Joy (Her Secret)
Mini...
🚨 STEM women: Tired of juggling it all? PhD Lexi Reid went from pandemic ventilator crunch + kid chaos to creative wellness coach. Discover her 5-minute doodle trick that ended burnout – now helping high-achievers thrive. Listen to her talk with Barbie Moreno here at From Wounds to Wisdom.
⏰Chapters:
Intro: From Labs to Liberation
Lexi's Wild STEM Journey (PhD to Ventilators)
Why Women Self-Select Out (Th...
🔮 How a shaman turns heartbreak into superpower—and why your sensitivity might be your greatest gift.
Maria Teresa Pratico (Emotional Musings) shares with Barbie Moreno her raw breakup story, shaman tools for healing, clairs (psychic senses), ditching meds for intuition, and a channeled poem that’ll give you chills. Perfect if you’ve ever felt "too much" or ready to awaken your empath powers.
⏰ Timestam...
High achiever secretly binging at midnight? Natalia Fomichenko reveals why corporate success led her to eating disorder hell—and how she escaped. This raw episode of From Wounds to Wisdom uncovers the hidden triggers behind stress eating, external validation traps, and why action alone fails without identity change. Whether you're a top performer burning out or seeking true joy, Natalia's story delivers the 3-part formula...
🚀When your world shatters, what rises from the ashes? Author and healer Sarah May shares how an abusive marriage, helicopter crash trauma, and depression led her to plant medicine (ayahuasca, mushrooms, MDMA), Reiki, and van life freedom. Her memoir She Journeys captures this raw transformation.
From ceremony highs to real-world integration struggles, Sarah and Barbie unpack somatic healing, mother guilt, and the daily q...
FWTW S4E07 How Toxic Dentistry Nearly Destroyed Martin Pytela's Health What Saved Him? Barbie Moreno
How do you heal when the very system designed to “help” you is making you sicker? In this episode, I sit down with Martin Pytela, founder of Life Enthusiast, who went from thriving young professional to completely broken after a mouth full of mercury fillings triggered years of pain, allergies, brain fog, and even suicidal thoughts.
Instead of accepting “There’s nothing wrong with you,” Martin became his own case study—div...
FWTW S4E06 How Rare Melanoma Forged An Ex-Swat Negotiator's Resilience - Terry Tucker, Barbie Moreno
What happens when tactical empathy from high-stakes hostage crises becomes your secret weapon against terminal cancer? Former SWAT hostage negotiator Terry Tucker talks to Barbie Moreno and reveals how negotiation skills saved his life through rare melanoma diagnosis, amputation, and 13+ years as a cancer warrior. From de-escalating suicide standoffs at 3 AM to embracing his own "death sentence," Terry shares raw wisdom t...
New mom. Postpartum spiraling. Meds making it worse. Divorce shattering the picture-perfect life. Yet somehow, Chou Hallegra transforms it all into a mission to help thousands heal and belong. In this powerful conversation with host Barbie Moreno, the “Be Well Lady” shares how suicidal thoughts, childhood trauma, and a painful marriage became the very fuel for her work as a mental health specialist, DEI trainer, and founder of Grac...
Writer and survivor Patty Cabot spent decades in a brutal binge–diet–regain cycle before one confronting therapy session connected her weight struggles to unresolved childhood sexual abuse. In this powerful conversation, we explore how trauma hides in eating disorders, why food becomes both comfort and punishment, and what it really takes to reclaim your body, your story, and your life.
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Surviving daily beatings, humiliation, nightmares, and intense anxiety, Dr. Robert Bleck grew up in a home filled with rage and generational trauma — and somehow turned that pain into a life’s work of helping others heal. In this episode, we talk about childhood abuse, buried emotions, and his 3-phase Source Completion Therapy that helps people “give back the pain” and finally find peace.
Dr Robert talks with Barbie Moreno...
On this episode of From Wounds to Wisdom, host Barbie Moreno sits down with holistic healer Eva Vennari, founder of The Elevate Institute, to explore what really causes burnout, why the body breaks down when you abandon your authentic self, and how the quantum field, energy, and mineral science all work together in healing. After healing her own chronic fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, fibromyalgia, and burnout, Eva now helps high achie...
Explore Septemics—a revolutionary system that breaks down human phenomena into 7-level scales, offering profound insights into behavior, relationships, and personal growth. In this episode, Jim Marshall, the discoverer of Septemics, explains to Barbie Moreno how these 35 unique scales can help anyone analyze and transform their life, relationships, and understanding of themselves. Whether you're struggling with recurring theme...
In this Season 3 ender of the From Wounds to Wisdom Podcast, host Barbie Moreno sits down with Jalisa Hardy, “the golden child”, a licensed minister, author, mother, and advocate whose story shows what healing actually looks like behind the scenes — the messy moments, the breakthroughs, the grief, and the courage.
Jalisa opens up to Barbie Moreno about emotional abandonment, childhood wounds, postpartum struggles, and the ...
On Barbie Moreno’s From Wounds to Wisdom podcast, Dr. Luissa Kiprono—physician, author, and survivor of abuse—shares her extraordinary journey from captivity and trauma to becoming a specialist in high-risk pregnancy. This episode highlights resilience, courage, and healing, showing how Dr. Kiprono transformed her darkest moments into a mission to heal others. Join Barbie Moreno as she explores powerful stories of transformation an...
In this episode of From Wounds to Wisdom, we explore the deep intersection of creativity, trauma, and spiritual rebirth with author, artist, and former entertainment executive Gina Cavalier.
Gina shares her journey from a high-pressure career at Disney, Warner Bros., and Netflix to the moment her unhealed childhood wounds resurfaced and brought her to a breaking point.
We talk about sacred exhaustion, nervous syst...
In this episode of From Wounds to Wisdom, host Barbie Moreno sits down with Dr. John DeGarmo—TEDx speaker, educator, foster-and-adoptive father, and founder of the Foster Care Institute. He shares how the tragic loss of his first child became the catalyst for a life of profound service, welcoming over 60 children into his home and reshaping the conversation around foster care, trauma, and healing.
CHAPTERS:
Introductio...
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