In this powerful episode, Keana W. Mitchell—trauma-informed relationship coach, songwriter, and emotional strategist—dives deep into how childhood experiences shape our adult relationships. From attachment styles to emotional reflexes, Keana unpacks the invisible scripts we carry and offers a healing roadmap to rewrite them.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:

• How Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact emotional and relational health
• The connection between childhood trauma and adult relationship patterns
• Examples of unhealthy vs. healthy relationship dynamics
• How parental relationship models become our emotional blueprint
• Five healing exercises to shift from conflict to connection
• A journaling-based homework assignment to help you respond with compassion instead of reaction

🎶 Plus, this week’s featured song by Emory Rose, “He’s A Playa,” explores the emotional realization of repeating generational patterns—and how awareness can spark transformation.

🧘‍♀️ Healing Tools Included:

• Inner child check-ins
• Boundary rehearsal scripts
• Conflict pause strategies
• Attachment journaling prompts
• Music reflection exercises

📥 Download the free PDF guide with this week’s exercises and journal prompts via the episode description or Keana’s website.

📺 Watch the lyric video for “He’s A Playa” on the Music and Therapy Podcast YouTube channel a visual reflection of emotional safety and the longing to be seen.

💡 If you’ve ever asked, “Why do I keep attracting the same kind of relationship?”—this episode offers clarity, compassion, and a path forward.

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Connect with Keana: 💌 Website: Emory Rose (keanawmitchell.com)

📸 Instagram: Music and Therapy (@musicandtherapykwm) • Instagram photos and videos

📘 Facebook: Music and Therapy with Relationship Coach Keana W. Mitchell | Facebook

📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmml1kGinhHSMOXOQ8zdIEQ

🎧 Listen to Last Week's Episode:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Gl5Bl4vjm61lGHkmgQygj?si=7a12c099600a4c54

Link to Song “He’s A Playa” by Emory Rose on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UiGTw9-tZ6Q

🧠 Episode Overview

In this week’s episode, Keana W. Mitchell explores the transformative path from codependence to healthy emotional attachment. Drawing from her trauma-informed coaching practice and personal insights, Keana breaks down the subtle signs of codependent behavior, how it often stems from unresolved childhood wounds, and what it takes to build secure, spiritually grounded relationships.

Whether you’ve struggled with people-pleasing, emotional enmeshment, or fear of abandonment, this episode offers clarity, compassion, and practical steps toward healing.

💬 What You’ll Learn

• The difference between codependency and healthy interdependence
• How attachment styles shape our relationship dynamics
• Why spiritual and emotional safety are key to healing
• Steps to begin detaching with love and building secure bonds
• How music and storytelling can support emotional growth

🎶 Featured Segment

Keana shares a reflective song that captures the emotional tension of codependence and the hope of transformation reminding listeners that healing is possible, and connection doesn’t have to cost your identity.

🛠️ Resources & Support

• Link for the 5 Healing Exercises: PDF Journey.pdf
• Join the conversation on Instagram: (2) Instagram

Connect with Keana: 💌 Website: Emory Rose (keanawmitchell.com)

📸 Instagram: Music and Therapy (@musicandtherapykwm) • Instagram photos and videos

📘 Facebook: Music and Therapy with Relationship Coach Keana W. Mitchell | Facebook

📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmml1kGinhHSMOXOQ8zdIEQ

🎧 Listen to Last Week's Episode:

https://open.spotify.com/show/6T8cC9MhmpBiB9mKvRuBoS?si=10944edd3d7a42db

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📝 Episode Summary:

In this powerful episode of the Music and Therapy Podcast, Relationship Coach Keana W. Mitchell explores the hidden wounds of emotional abuse, what it looks like, why it’s so hard to recognize, and how to begin healing. If you’ve ever felt silenced, manipulated, or emotionally unsafe in a relationship, this episode offers clarity, compassion, and practical tools for recovery.

Keana shares real-life examples and five healing exercises to help you reconnect with your voice, set boundaries, and build emotional safety. She also revisits last week’s episode on letting go of resentment and introduces a weekly homework assignment to help you stop conflict and start connecting.

💡 Key Takeaways:

• Emotional abuse often begins subtly and is rooted in control, manipulation, and gaslighting.
• Gaslighting erodes your ability to trust yourself and can lead to anxiety, depression, and chronic stress.
• Many people stay in emotionally abusive relationships due to fear, trauma bonding, or cultural pressure.
• You are allowed to change your mind when a relationship becomes emotionally unsafe.
• Healing begins with truth, boundaries, and connection.

🛠️ Resources Mentioned:

• 📄 When Love Hurts 5 healing excercises pdf.docx
• 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/show/6T8cC9MhmpBiB9mKvRuBoS?si=b6ae9443eb9c4b92
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• 📖 Snyder, H. (2019). Gaslighting: Recognizing manipulative behavior and its impact on mental health.

Connect with Keana: 💌 Website: Emory Rose (keanawmitchell.com)

📸 Instagram: Music and Therapy (@musicandtherapykwm) • Instagram photos and videos

📘 Facebook: Music and Therapy with Relationship Coach Keana W. Mitchell | Facebook

📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmml1kGinhHSMOXOQ8zdIEQ

🎧 Listen to Last Week's Episode:

https://open.spotify.com/show/6T8cC9MhmpBiB9mKvRuBoS?si=10944edd3d7a42db