One Degree to Victory
Welcome to One Degree to Victory, the podcast where we help navigate life's toughest challenges while building the emotional security and freedom to live their best year yet. Each episode provides practical tools, heartfelt stories, and expert insights to guide you through day-to-day experiences and chart a path toward new possibilities.
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One Degree to Victory
Laundry, Trauma & Freedom: The Connection I Never Saw Coming
Have you ever started a simple household task only to discover profound life lessons hidden within? That's exactly what happened when I set out to tackle my children's laundry for what I thought would be a quick 15-minute organization session.
What began as folding clothes evolved into a full room transformation that perfectly mirrors our healing journeys. As I sorted through forgotten items and rearranged furniture, I realized how this physical decluttering parallels the emotional baggage we carry after trauma. The unnecessary items I discarded—just a single grocery bag full—represented the bitterness and pain I once unknowingly harbored in my heart. Sometimes we don't even recognize what we're carrying until a conversation or moment of clarity reveals it.
What emotional clutter might you release today? What weight could you shift to make room for inspiration? Your next act of courage, joy, and creation awaits. Remember, one degree to victory isn't about perfection—it's about progression, taking one small step forward in this season of your life.
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I pray that the roots of setbacks, storms, satanic attacks, and even self-sabotage erode, crumble, and wither away, to be replaced by the incorruptible strength, peace, and joy that only heaven can give that will neither change nor fade.
You're listening to One Degree to Victory, the space where stories, strategies and soul connect Together. We take one small step each week toward the life you know you're called to live. I'm your hostess, nalita Hollis, and today's story and conversation just might change your life. Constant listener, I want to take you somewhere with me today, somewhere ordinary, but through it you'll see extraordinary lessons for your healing journey. Yesterday I set out to tackle the kids' laundry. All week I'd reminded them to fold and put away their clothes, but between after-school rushes, band practice and squeezing in dinner there was little time. So I decided I'd help Just fold and organize 15 minutes Tops. But as I started moving through the piles of t-shirts and mismatched socks, an opportunity knocked Loudly.
Speaker 1:What began as a simple chore quickly became a two-hour marathon. I found myself rearranging furniture, purging forgotten items and deciding what to keep and what to throw out. A task I thought would be quick became a full-scale transformation of the space. Now I didn't buy new furniture, I didn't remove everything, but the room felt lighter, freer and full of possibilities after the transformation. Same contents, different relationships with the space. Do you know? The same principle applies to the weight we carry from trauma as I sorted through the pile of laundry and rearranged the furniture, I realized some items the kids had been holding on to and the forgotten items I'd found while moving the furniture around were things we didn't need anymore.
Speaker 1:And just like physical clutter, we often carry emotional baggage we didn't even know we had. Old pain, bitterness, blame, shame. They sit in our hearts and minds until we notice them, and when we do, we get a choice Keep it, hoping we'll use it again someday, or toss what is no longer serving us. That day I'd thrown out only about a grocery bag full of items I didn't need and I realized that when we identify the unnecessary emotional weight in our lives we can release it in the same way. Now I realize that's harder said than done, because you have to recognize when the emotion becomes harmful. At one point I had bitterness in my heart and didn't even know it. I had been trying to forgive and forget, but I was only pushing away thoughts, not confronting my pain. Now I realized I was holding bitterness after speaking with a dear friend of mine who wasn't necessarily coaching me. We were just having a conversation. But that conversation led me to identify and release, thankfully, the bitterness, the root that had formed in my heart. This was the grocery bag of stuff, the emotional baggage that had served me in my healing, and I needed to throw it out to create breathing room, space for growth and space for joy.
Speaker 1:Trauma makes us feel like we've lost everything all at once Family, home, jobs, memories, even ourselves. But don't let pain become your focus. We can't fixate on irreparable rubble when a world of opportunities awaits. After my husband died, I rejected the idea of pursuing our plans alone, and then my niche joined me on a road trip in a truck to Philadelphia, where my husband and I had once danced and celebrated my birthday. Walking those same streets and seeing glimpses of the memories of us together, I realized that the trauma hadn't taken everything. I just needed to make those memories my focal point.
Speaker 1:Sister girl, change your relationship with the memories. Look for lessons, look for love, not the losses. Shift the weight in a way that empowers you. When I rearranged the room, inspiration came not from adding anything new, but from changing how I interacted with what I already had. Similarly, in life, trauma and hardship can become the raw material for creativity, courage and joy if we shift our perspective.
Speaker 1:Look closely at the emotional baggage you didn't even know you were carrying, name it, release it and, in the space that opens up, notice where inspiration is waiting. Pay attention to the memories, the lessons, the love, the moments that spark hope and courage. They are your guideposts, constant listener. The weight can shift. You don't have to carry everything and you don't have to move through life under the crushing weight of your past. Some pieces will stay, they are treasures. Others you can release, they are the unnecessary clutter.
Speaker 1:Today, I encourage you to ask yourself where can I shift the weight I'm carrying? What emotional clutter can I release to make room for inspiration, and what possibilities might appear if I give myself that space? The choice is yours, sister, girl, the weight can shift Until next time. This is Nelida Hollis, reminding you to look for inspiration as you journey toward your complete healing. Your next act of courage, joy and creation awaits. One degree to victory is about progression, not perfection, and that involves choosing a life that works for you now, in this season, and building from there. And, sister girl, it's going to take more than loving yourself. It's going to take vision for where you're going, hope to believe it's possible, action to make it real and love for your family to fuel every step. Take one degree forward this week and I'll see you in the next episode.