This season has been heavy for so many of us navigating grief, layoffs, breakups, public humiliations, and quiet endings no one really sees. In this tender, truth-telling episode, Dr. Leonie H. Mattison invites you to see rejection through a different lens: not as proof that you weren’t enough, but as a fierce kind of protection over your soul, your destiny, and your design.

Drawing on her research in textiles and tapestry weaving, Dr. Lee reframes rejection as what happens when the Master Weaver refuses to force your life into patterns that cannot hold your truth. From that ground, she gently walks you through five soul practices that are helping her heal in real time:

Humming – an ancestral sound of survival and soothing

Coloring – bringing life and meaning back into gray seasons

Crying – letting grief move through you instead of harden in you

Stillness – sitting under the “tree” of your own life long enough to hear wisdom

Self-Inquiry – asking better questions so you can retrieve the wisdom in your “no”

You’ll hear a new script for your life:

“My life rejected what could not hold my truth.

My destiny refused a system that would have fed on my soul.

My future will not allow me to bind myself to a story that is too small.

My life loves me too much to let me stay where my soul could not live.”

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