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Many high achieving women look confident and successful on the outside while secretly relying on validation to feel worthy, safe, and enough.

In this episode, Robina explores the hidden ways validation seeking shapes decision making, productivity, relationships, and identity. She unpacks how achievement can become tied to people pleasing, external approval, and self worth, and why that cycle often leads to burnout, pressure, and nervous system dysregulation.

This conversation highlights the difference between building a life from self trust versus constantly searching for validation outside yourself. Robina shares how these patterns develop, why they can feel difficult to break, and what it looks like to create success from a place that feels grounded, regulated, and internally secure.

In this episode, she discusses:

• How validation seeking can hide beneath achievement and productivity
• Why external approval often becomes tied to self worth
• The connection between people pleasing, performance, and nervous system patterns
• How to recognize when your decisions are being driven by validation
• What it looks like to build confidence and success from self trust instead of external praise

Connect with Robina:

• Website: https://routeofhealing.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/routeofhealing/
• Personalized Hormone Balance Reset Quiz: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/698b478d8ecf7e3441a4c914

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Sometimes the signs show up long before the breaking point. The challenge is whether we're willing to listen.

In this episode, Robina is joined by Debbi Sluys, founder of Dare to Declare, who shares her journey from leading a large childcare organization to building a business aligned with her purpose. For years, Debbi felt an inner nudge that she was meant for something more, but fear, responsibility, and the security of a steady career kept her from taking the leap.

Everything changed when her body delivered a wake up call she could no longer ignore. Debbi opens up about the physical signs, the questions that challenged her perspective, and the pivotal moments that helped her trust herself enough to choose a different path. This conversation explores the connection between intuition, nervous system awareness, and the courage it takes to create a life that feels aligned from the inside out.

In this episode, they share:

• How to recognize the inner nudges we often dismiss or explain away
• The physical signs that can appear when we are living out of alignment
• Why high achievers often stay in situations long after they know something needs to change
• The powerful question that helped Debbi make a life changing decision
• What becomes possible when you trust yourself and follow your deeper calling

Connect with Debbi:

• Website: debbisluys.com
• Instagram: @debbisluys

Connect with Robina:

• Website: https://routeofhealing.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/routeofhealing/
• Personalized Hormone Balance Reset Quiz: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/698b478d8ecf7e3441a4c914

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Many high achieving women spend years trying to fix symptoms without realizing the root of what they are carrying began much earlier in life.

In this episode, Robina is joined by Josie Fares, integrative health coach and founder of Beyond Wellness and Beauty, for a conversation about the connection between childhood wounds, nervous system dysregulation, emotional health, and physical well being. Together, they explore how unresolved experiences from childhood can shape the way we move through relationships, stress, success, and even our health as adults.

Josie shares parts of her own healing journey and explains how the body often holds onto emotional pain long after the mind has learned to push through it. This conversation highlights the importance of safety, self awareness, and emotional healing in creating a more grounded, connected, and healthy life.

In this episode, they share:

• How childhood wounds can influence adult health and nervous system patterns
• Why emotional pain often shows up physically in the body
• The connection between survival mode, stress, and chronic symptoms
• What it looks like to begin healing from a place of safety and self compassion
• How deeper self awareness can change the way you live, lead, and relate to others

Connect with Josie:

• Instagram: @beyondwellnessandbeauty
• Website: beyondwellnessandbeauty.com

Connect with Robina:

• Website: https://routeofhealing.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/routeofhealing/
• Personalized Hormone Balance Reset Quiz: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/698b478d8ecf7e3441a4c914