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Healing After 40: Trauma, Boundaries & People-Pleasing with Leanne Sheargold

Leanne Sheargold · October 20, 2026

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October 20, 2026 · 28 min

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Key topicsHow Trauma Survivors Learn to Trust Their Own Body AgainLeanne Sheargold had a stroke at 28 while raising three sons under five, and she has spent the years since working out, then teaching, how a body that once failed someone can be trusted again. She works with women who came through trauma disconnected from their body and their instincts, women who describe reading themselves the way they would read a stranger. Her first step is never insight, it is safety: small repeatable practices that make it bearable to notice a signal before deciding what it means. She runs that body-based work alongside therapy rather than in place of it, adding energy and ancestral practice where clients want it, and a book on the approach is due out with Baloa Press. Listeners leave with one practice they can run the same day, and a clearer sense of why self-trust has to be rebuilt rather than waited for.Breaking the chain means rebuilding the version of yourself your past never allowed you to becomeFor many women, the hardest part of healing is not naming what happened to them; it is recognising the old family stories, labels, fears, and beliefs they are still living inside. Leanne speaks directly to women who are trying to break generational patterns, because she understands that change cannot stay as an idea, it has to become boundaries, action, resilience, and a new way of moving through the world. Her work is about helping women deconstruct the old narrative of who they were told to be, so they can rebuild the version of themselves they actually want to live as. For podcasts focused on trauma, women’s empowerment, spiritual healing, family patterns, and emotional resilience, this creates a deeply human conversation about becoming the chain breaker without pretending it is easy. Hand-Me-Downs — The Family Pain Nobody Chose to WearLeanne Sheargold has spent years helping women separate their own pain from the pain they inherited, work that began when repressed memories of childhood abuse surfaced in her early 50s and her 33-year marriage ended. She argues that the hardest part of recovery is not naming what happened but spotting the family stories, labels and fears a woman is still living inside, most of them handed over before she was old enough to refuse them. In sessions she works through the signs that someone is carrying what was never theirs: guilt with no source, loyalty to a rule nobody remembers making, tiredness that no amount of rest touches. She calls the outcome becoming a chain breaker, and she is blunt that it takes boundaries and action rather than insight alone. Listeners leave able to tell which patterns they built and which they were dressed in, and what to put down first.View all topics →

About Leanne Sheargold

Trauma Recovery & Spiritual Healing Practitioner | Quantum Energy Healer

2023 Pure Gold Holistic & Wellbeing began3 Certified massage modalities28 Age when she survived a stroke while parenting 3 sons under 5Co-runs Australian healing shop

Leanne Sheargold is an intuitive trauma healer and quantum healing practitioner who supports women and men recovering from childhood abuse, domestic violence, complex trauma, and life-shattering health events.

Her pathway into healing began with a personal health crisis and decades of life upheaval. She had a stroke at 28 while parenting three sons under five, and later, in her early 50s, began recovering repressed memories of childhood abuse while her marriage collapsed. Seeking intensive treatment overseas led to a period of focused recovery and community support that redirected her life toward running healing circles and offering energy work.

Today, Leanne uses her lived experience and spiritual healing work to help women reconnect with themselves, release old patterns, and move beyond trauma. She co-runs a healing shop in Australia, where she supports clients through quantum healing, energy work, spiritual practices, aromatherapy products, meditation, both in person and remotely. Her work often focuses on women dealing with trauma, chronic fatigue, emotional heaviness, family narratives, old belief systems, and the process of becoming what she calls a “chain breaker.”

On a practical level she combines intuitive and multidimensional practices with body-based awareness, ancestral healing, and energetic support to help clients clear trauma, inherited patterns, and energetic imprints.

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About this episode

Have you spent years putting everyone else first—and lost touch with what you need?

In this episode of Mature Allure, host Sherri O. speaks withLeanne Sheargoldabout her personal experiences with childhood trauma, people-pleasing, and rebuilding her life in midlife. After surviving a stroke at 28 while raising three young boys, Leanne later faced painful memories and the end of a 33-year marriage. She shares how professional mental health treatment, including EMDR therapy, and her personal spiritual practices shaped her journey.

Together, they explore:• Setting boundaries and learning to say no without guilt.• Rediscovering your identity beyond caregiving and family roles.• Becoming a “chain breaker” by questioning family patterns.• Finding independence, peace, and purpose after 40.• Making space for your own needs and seeking support.

Leanne also describes the energy and “quantum healing” practices she offers, sharing her personal beliefs and approach.Connect with Leanne Sheargold: Pure Gold Holistic Wellbeing | Instagram: @leanne_sheargold

If you’re navigating midlife change, reconsidering old patterns, or learning to put your well-being first, this conversation offers a personal perspective on starting a new chapter.

Content note: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse, trauma, depression, and anxiety.

Disclaimer: This conversation is for informational purposes only and is not medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The guest’s experiences and spiritual beliefs are her own. Energy and quantum healing practices should not replace professional care. If this episode brings up distress or questions about trauma, consider speaking with a licensed mental health professional trained in trauma treatment.

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