From Sad Pick Me Girl to Alchemist
Jul 16, 2026 · 59 min · 10 segments
**You may not want to hear this, but understanding your trauma won't necessarily heal it.** You can know every childhood wound, every attachment style, and every relationship pattern... and still…
Melissa ArmstrongGuestDeniseHostOkay.
And when you say immediacy of a transformation, do you mean just... feeling the difference right away? Or what is it exactly? Can you elaborate on that?

If you can also elaborate after me about how your session went when all of a sudden you knew, I call it, I'm on the other side.

And then the next thing you know, it's like, I call it, waving a magic wand and then poof, you're on the other side.

So the immediacy and transformation is the opposite for me, where I was in counseling as young as eight years old, you know, diagnosed with ADHD, severe depression, lots of other things.

And the therapy that I had to go into, we know this could go very low and very dark very quickly with what I'm about to say.

But going through domestic violence and sexual assault, sexual abuse counseling, when I felt like I was becoming healed instantly.

So I knew eventually, if I keep going back there and what we think about expands, I'm not going to be able to fully heal.

And I realized that their intention for me was not for me to be free of it, but to keep me going back.
amenal CO

transformation for me and what I guide through is we do have to go back, but we have to go back with your trauma.

your highest intention attached and then you get to see it through a new perspective and then you realize I don't have to keep this from the original perspective anymore.
Right.
And we spoke about that.
I think there are certain steps, of course, to healing.
And that's not to say counseling and therapy is completely ineffective.
But as I mentioned to you, I had spoke about everything that I'd gone through, even the more recent things.
Okay.
And when you say immediacy of a transformation, do you mean just... feeling the difference right away? Or what is it exactly? Can you elaborate on that?

If you can also elaborate after me about how your session went when all of a sudden you knew, I call it, I'm on the other side.

And then the next thing you know, it's like, I call it, waving a magic wand and then poof, you're on the other side.

So the immediacy and transformation is the opposite for me, where I was in counseling as young as eight years old, you know, diagnosed with ADHD, severe depression, lots of other things.

And the therapy that I had to go into, we know this could go very low and very dark very quickly with what I'm about to say.

But going through domestic violence and sexual assault, sexual abuse counseling, when I felt like I was becoming healed instantly.

So I knew eventually, if I keep going back there and what we think about expands, I'm not going to be able to fully heal.

And I realized that their intention for me was not for me to be free of it, but to keep me going back.
amenal CO

transformation for me and what I guide through is we do have to go back, but we have to go back with your trauma.

your highest intention attached and then you get to see it through a new perspective and then you realize I don't have to keep this from the original perspective anymore.
Right.
And we spoke about that.
I think there are certain steps, of course, to healing.
And that's not to say counseling and therapy is completely ineffective.
But as I mentioned to you, I had spoke about everything that I'd gone through, even the more recent things.
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