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 healing, why softness matters in the middle of shame storms, and how motherhood, loss, and truth-telling exposed the truths she was never taught to name.
This isn’t curated spirituality—it’s the part no one talks about: the messy middle, the unfiltered truth beneath the ‘healed’ facade.
INSIDE THIS EPISODE:
- The emotional addiction of looking healed while falling apart
- Spiritual bypassing disguised as personal growth
- Releasing the pressure to “perform” your transformation
- Why raw truth trumps curated progress
- How grief, surrender, and divine connection cracked Dani wide open
- What authentic awakening actually requires
KEY QUOTE:
"My struggle wasn’t with healing itself. It was with being authentic without the facade." — Dani Murrell
ABOUT DANI MURRELL:
Dani Murrell is the author of Truthbunny: A Guide to Loving Yourself One Honest Conversation at a Time and founder of the Truthbunny™ movement—a practice and philosophy rooted in emotional clarity, self-compassion, and breaking generational cycles through radical truth. A former teacher turned speaker and emotional wellness educator, Dani helps women reconnect with their intuition, rewrite their internal scripts, and reclaim their truth—one soft, honest moment at a time.
CONNECT WITH DANI MURRELL:
Instagram: @truthbunny_guide
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Email: rabbitholereflectionspodcast@gmail.com
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This is Episode #18 of Rabbit Hole Reflections
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