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Standing Alone After You Heal: How survivors handle family pushback, guilt and lost relationships when they break the pattern first

Leanne Sheargold broke her family's pattern in her early 50s, when repressed memories of childhood abuse surfaced and her 33-year marriage ended, and she learned fast that the person who heals first is rarely thanked for it. She is an intuitive trauma healer and quantum healing practitioner in Australia who works with women she calls chain breakers: the ones who stop carrying the family story and then get treated as the problem for putting it down. She had a stroke at 28 while raising three sons under five, so she talks about survival from the inside rather than the clinic. In her healing circles she works through the pressure that follows: the phone calls that stop, the relatives who close ranks, the guilt that arrives dressed up as loyalty. Listeners get her practical read on which relationships can be kept, which need distance, and how to hold a boundary without spending years defending it.

About Leanne Sheargold

Leanne Sheargold, podcast guest

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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