What Healing Really Feels Like (Hint: It's Not Dramatic)

What if the strongest sign of emotional and energetic healing is that you feel ... nothing? No drama, no spike of emotion, no old charge. Just calm.

In this episode Jill Marshall explores the quiet, surprising truth of real transformation. She unpacks why we cling to wounds, how triggers show us where energy is still trapped, and what shifts when the emotional charge finally dissolves. Expect grounded psychology, soulful insight and a fresh look at who you become once old patterns stop running the show.

If you're wondering whether you're actually healing or just coping, this episode will help you recognise the subtle signs that you're further along than you think.

Tune in for a calm, clear, powerful download on what healing feels like from the inside out.

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome to The Download with Jill Marshall
00:36 The unexpected feeling of healing
02:21 A personal healing milestone
04:43 Understanding triggers and the energetic charge
11:13 Wounds, archetypes and old identities
14:53 Why true healing feels subtle
17:31 Reflecting on your own healing
18:40 An invitation to explore your own feeling of healing
19:47 Closing reflections and next steps

Mentioned episodes:

Imprint, Wound, Archetype: three layers we carry and can heal

The Shadow Knows: when downloads reveal what we've hidden

“The wound releases you the moment you choose peace over the familiar pain.”

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December is a month of thresholds, reflection and new beginnings. In this episode, Jill Marshall announces her six-month Creative Residency and shares how she is dedicating serious, focused time to her own creative work.

Drawing inspiration from Brendon Burchard’s Progress Mode podcast, Jill reflects not only on his storytelling but also on his insight that if we devoted six months entirely to our own purposeful creative work, rather than everyone else’s priorities, we could achieve real change.

Jill explores the power of authentic storytelling, the difference between buzzword ‘storytelling’ and real narrative, and the transformative potential of structured creative residencies. She shares her experience hosting residencies for children’s writers, the ways residencies have nurtured major works, and how even a self-directed residency — without funding or a dedicated space — can provide focus, clarity and freedom.

She also outlines her plans for the next six months: writing a psychological, women-focussed novel, recording audiobooks, adapting novels for screen, launching new projects, reshaping her podcast, and honouring her own creative ‘downloads’.

Whether you are a writer, artist or simply seeking time to focus on your most important work, this episode is a call to step fully into your creativity and commit to what matters.

Key Takeaways:

• Why December is the perfect month to start anew
• How Brendon Burchard’s six-month focus insight inspired a personal residency
• The difference between buzzword ‘storytelling’ and authentic narrative
• The power and importance of residencies in fostering creativity
• Examples of residencies that have nurtured major works
• Strategies for creating your own self-directed, structured creative space
• A roadmap for Jill’s six-month creative goals and projects
• A heartfelt invitation to honour your own creative downloads

Timestamps:
00:00 - Welcome to The Download
00:26 - The Magic of December
01:16 - Announcing My Creative Residency
02:20 - Inspiration from Brendon Burchard’s Progress Mode
04:35 - The Power of True Storytelling and Six-Month Focus
09:34 - Why Creative Residencies Matter
12:13 - My Creative Goals for the Next Six Months
14:24 - Final Thoughts & Invitation

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Season of Friends — Old Friends, Gold Friends

If you want to understand the friendships that shape a lifetime, listen to this.
In this finale of the Season of Friends, Jill explores the two kinds of friends: the ones who are old in age, and the ones who are old in time. Both offer something essential. Both anchor a life in different but equally powerful ways.

The episode opens with the line from Robert Fisher:
“True friendship is not about being inseparable; it is about being separated and nothing changes.”
A perfect lens for the season’s closing theme: not proximity, but constancy.

Jill reflects on the friends who arrive later in life with humour, vitality and a refreshing take on ageing. These older-in-years friendships show us that new connections can be just as rich as lifelong ones.

She then turns to the friend who has known her the longest. A relationship built across decades of shared history, deep roots and the rare ability to witness every version of who we have been.

What makes this episode different is its focus on longevity.
Old in years, teaching us how to live expansively at any stage.
Old in time, reminding us who we have always been.

Old friends.
Gold friends.
Each one proof that friendship shapes our past, enriches our present and expands our future.

A new season of The Download is coming soon.

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