Rabbit Hole Reflections with Lisa
Rabbit Hole Reflections with Lisa Van Slyke shares soulful, unfiltered conversations where pain, power, and purpose intersect. Each week, Lisa (@TheLisaV) — author, speaker, and witness to transformation — invites a guest to share their real, lived story of reckoning, unraveling, and return. These are the moments most people hide — but here, we speak them out loud. Together, we follow each guest down the rabbit hole of experience to honor the wisdom in every voice, and remember that when we speak our truth, we help heal ourselves and each other. 🎧 New episodes release every Thursday at 7 PM Central (US) 📺 Watch full video episodes on YouTube: YouTube.com/@RabbitHoleReflectionsPodcast 📱 Follow on Instagram & Facebook: @RabbitHoleReflections 🔗 All links: linktr.ee/RabbitHoleReflectionsPodcast 🎙 Want to launch your own podcast? Check out the free workshop linked above. 📖 Lisa’s book Quieted Flames & Silent Sparks is coming soon — the story behind the stories. Follow the show and join us — into the descent, the reckoning, and the return.
Episodes
Could your healing journey be another mask you’re wearing?
What if the rituals, meditations, and sacred affirmations were just a spiritual costume—hiding the very wounds they claim to heal?
This week on Rabbit Hole Reflections, Lisa sits down with Dani Murrell for a piercing, powerful dialogue on spiritual bypassing, emotional addiction, and the high cost of performative healing. Together, they unravel what it means to perform healin...
⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of childhood abuse, bullying, chronic illness, and suicidal ideation. Listener discretion is advised.
How do you reclaim your voice when life has silenced you at every turn?
Born with a rare genetic disorder and subjected to 30+ surgeries, Sophia Soul spent her early years trapped in cycles of chronic pain, bullying, and emotional abuse. From suicidal lows to feeling invisible in ...
⚠️ This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse, suicidal ideation, and medical trauma. Listener discretion is advised.
Four decades of buried trauma.
Three dismissive therapists.
One miracle phone call that changed everything.
What happens when traditional therapy fails—and your own mind whispers you're “too broken to be helped”?
For trauma coach Cari Rickabaugh, it meant being 24 hours from ending her lif...
It started as a kidney stone—but turned into a reckoning with repressed anger, grief, and emotional bypassing.
From caregiving burnout to friendship grief to buried rage — this is the story of how unprocessed emotion can quite literally become pain in the body.
Your body will always tell the truth—even when your mind is trying to “stay positive.” Sometimes the breakdown comes when you’re trying to hold it all together. And sometimes ...
She was dismissed, misdiagnosed, and told the pain was in her head—until she reclaimed her body, her voice, and her power.
From chronic pain and medical gaslighting to healing and embodiment—this is Olivia Caggiano’s trauma‑informed recovery story.
Your body remembers everything—even the things your mind tries to forget. Trauma lingers long after the event, and real healing starts when we stop trying to fix and start learning to feel...
From Healthcare Professional to Holistic Healer: A Journey of Radical Authenticity
In this deeply moving and raw episode, multi-passionate entrepreneur and author Kimberly Rush courageously shares her extraordinary journey of transformation—from registered nurse and birth worker to energy healer and empowerment author. With unprecedented vulnerability, Kimberly opens up about her current reality: living in her car for over two years...
Welcome Back - "What Happens After"
Season 2 opens with Lisa V sharing what happened in the space between. With raw vulnerability, Lisa reveals her journey through ending a relationship that wasn't aligned - one that was soft, familiar, and safe until it stopped being honest.
In the ashes of burning through who she thought she was supposed to be, Lisa discovered her Soul Contract - a compass for what we no longer shri...
A Raw Reflection on Transformation
As Season 1 comes to an end, host Lisa V gets vulnerable about her own rabbit hole journey. In this intimate finale, she shares how literally eating fire became the moment everything shifted - from playing small to reclaiming her voice, from a loving relationship that needed to end to meeting herself again after years of hiding.
Lisa reflects on the "quiet detonation" of the first half of ...
In this deeply moving episode of Rabbit Hole Reflections, spiritual seeker and author Suzanne Marambio shares her profound journey of awakening that began with the sudden loss of her mother to cancer in 2012.
With raw honesty and gentle wisdom, Suzanne reveals how devastating grief became the catalyst for complete spiritual transformation. Living in Melbourne with her husband and two children, she has spent the past decade undergoin...
**From Cultural Constraints to Authentic Self: A Journey of Spiritual Transformation**
In this powerful episode, spiritual business coach Yuliana Francie shares her remarkable journey from suppressing her truth in a traditional Chinese-Indonesian household to becoming a best-selling author and transformational mentor. With refreshing honesty, Yuliana reveals how she overcame cultural stigmas around divorce, navigated family rejecti...
Breaking Free From Polished Pain: A Journey From Performance to Authentic Healing
In this powerful episode, Lynda Carmouche shares her transformative journey from polishing pain to embracing authentic healing. With remarkable vulnerability, Lynda reveals how her experience with divorce and betrayal led her to a breaking point—and the closet where she cried when no one was watching. As a psychotherapist expected to have al...
** TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussion of childhood sexual abuse and related sensitive topics. **
**Finding Purpose Through Personal Healing: A Survivor's Journey to Empowering Others**
In this powerful episode, Tina Meyer shares her profound journey from victim to advocate as she discusses founding The Blue Butterfly Institute, an organization dedicated to supporting survivors of sexual trauma. With rem...
**From College Weight Gain to Coaching Success: A Journey of Transformation** In this eye-opening episode, nutrition coach Zack Busch shares his powerful journey from fitness to fatigue and back again. Once naturally lean and athletic, Zack experienced the all-too-common college weight gain that left him feeling sluggish, unhappy, and disconnected from his former vibrant self. Through determination and strategic lifestyle changes, ...
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussion of childhood sexual abuse, porn addiction, and related sensitive topics.
🔄 BREAKING THE CYCLE | Joshua Jones on Overcoming Addiction & Finding Purpose | Rabbit Hole Reflections #5
In this open conversation, Joshua discusses how experiencing sexual abuse at a young age led to years battling pornography addiction, working in the adult entertainment industry, and struggling wi...
BREAKING FREE FROM SHAME | Jocelyn Firth on Money, Spirituality & Self-Discovery | Rabbit Hole Reflections #4
In this illuminating conversation, Tarot reader and wellness guide Jocelyn Firth shares her journey from emptying her cup for others to rediscovering her authentic self through spiritual practice. With honesty and wisdom, Jocelyn explores the often unspoken shame surrounding money and spirituality, offering insights on ...
🚀 FROM LAYOFF TO FREEDOM-BASED EMPIRE | Sarah Labrecque, Business Coach | Rabbit Hole Reflections #3
In this inspiring conversation, business growth coach Sarah Labrecque shares her remarkable journey from being laid off during maternity leave to building multiple six-figure businesses. With candor and practical wisdom, Sarah reveals how she transformed a devastating setback into the catalyst for creating a freedom-based entreprene...
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussion of Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and suicidal thoughts.
🎖️ HEALING AFTER MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA | Tanya Lakins, Marine Veteran | Rabbit Hole Reflections #2
In this powerful and honest discussion, Marine Veteran Tanya Lakins shares her journey through the aftermath of Military Sexual Trauma and the invisible wounds of PTSD. With the same courage that defined her ...
🌟 SPECIAL RE-LAUNCH EPISODE: Near-Death Experience & Coming Back with Author Kellie Fitzgerald | Rabbit Hole Reflections #1
Welcome to our first Rabbit Hole Reflection! Lisa returns after a hiatus to interview author Kellie Fitzgerald, our very first guest from the original podcast run.
In this powerful conversation, Kellie shares her profound Near-Death Experience (NDE) and the life-changing insights she gai...
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