160: The Missing Piece in Healing: What to Do When You Feel Emotionally Stuck
What if the reason you still feel stuck… isn’t because you haven’t tried hard enough?
What if it’s because you’ve been trying to heal in a way your body was never designed to?
In this powerful and honest episode, Megan Babcock opens up about the years she spent in counseling feeling like she was doing everything “right” but still not experiencing the freedom she longed for. Week after week, she showed up, talked through the same patterns, and walked away feeling more emotionally activated instead of less.
Not because counseling is wrong.
Not because support doesn’t matter.
But because something deeper was missing.
This conversation gently challenges the idea that talking alone is enough to heal trauma and introduces a deeper, more integrated understanding of how the brain, body, and nervous system actually work together in the healing process.
Megan shares how trauma is not just something we think about, but something we carry in the body. When the nervous system is activated, the brain shifts into survival mode, making it difficult to process, integrate, or move forward. Instead of resolving experiences, we can unintentionally relive them, which keeps us stuck in the same cycles.
Through her own story, Megan invites you into a different approach—one rooted in curiosity instead of judgment, and presence instead of pressure.
You’ll learn how slowing down and turning toward your internal experience, rather than avoiding it, can begin to unlock understanding and create real change. Megan walks through the moment everything shifted for her when she stopped trying to push through and instead became willing to look deeper.
This episode introduces the concept of Sacred Presence, a way of showing up for yourself and others that creates safety in the body and allows the nervous system to regulate. When safety is present, clarity becomes available. And when clarity is available, you can begin to make aligned decisions that move your life forward.
You’ll also be introduced to the power of co-regulation, the science-backed reality that we are wired for connection and that healing often happens in the presence of someone who feels safe, grounded, and calm. This kind of presence does not fix or force change, but instead creates the conditions where healing can naturally unfold.
Megan also shares simple but powerful tools you can begin using right away, including three questions designed to help you move through moments of activation with greater awareness and intention. These questions help you move beyond surface-level reactions and into deeper understanding so you can respond instead of react.
This episode is an invitation to stop asking “What is wrong with me?” and begin asking better questions that lead to clarity, healing, and forward movement. If you have ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated in your healing journey, this conversation will help you understand why—and more importantly, what you can do next.
About the Host:
Megan Babcock is the founder of It’s Your Story to Tell. She is an award-winning coach, bestselling author, speaker, and podcast host whose work sits at the intersection of faith and neuroscience. She equips leaders to regulate their nervous systems, heal from trauma, and rise with purpose.
After more than twenty years in healthcare and her own journey through trauma, surrender, and spiritual renewal, Megan launched It’s Your Story to Tell in 2023. What once felt disqualifying became the foundation of her calling. She now helps others transform pain into legacy and live aligned, resilient, Spirit-led lives.
Connect with Megan:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meganbakerbabcock
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itscoachmeganbabcock
Website: https://bit.ly/ItsYourStorytoTell
Resources:
Sacred Presence and Sacred Pathways: https://www.itsyourstorytotell.com/Sacred-presence-&-pathways
Unstuck Book: https://a.co/d/7CrzzZA
Free Transformation Resource Center: https://www.itsyourstorytotell.com/freeresourcecenter
