What happens when you spend so much of your life taking care of everyone else that somewhere along the way, you lose connection with yourself?
On Tuesday, September 22 at 8 PM EST, The People’s Podcast sits down with Mary Armendarez, author, speaker, and emotional healing guide, for a conversation about what it means to come back to yourself after years of people-pleasing, emotional exhaustion, and survival mode.
Mary’s work centers on helping women regulate their nervous systems, rebuild self-trust, reconnect with their bodies, and rediscover who they are beyond the roles they have learned to carry. Her own story includes reaching a point where she describes herself as exhausted, anxious, disconnected, and continually putting everyone else first. Her work grew from learning to slow down, pay attention to what she needed, and rebuild that relationship with herself.
Her book, The Return to Your Soul: A Journey of Healing, Remembrance, and Coming Home to Your True Self, extends that conversation into healing, remembrance, and reconnecting with the authentic self.
When Survival Becomes an Identity
Survival can teach us how to keep moving.
How to function when we're exhausted.
How to show up for everybody else.
How to silence what we're feeling because something—or someone—needs us more.
And eventually, surviving can become so familiar that we may not recognize how disconnected we've become from ourselves.
That is where this conversation begins.
Mary's work explores emotional healing, nervous-system regulation, self-trust and self-worth, people-pleasing and self-abandonment, feminine embodiment, and returning to your soul.
Her current work emphasizes reconnecting with the heart, calming the nervous system, and remembering who you are beneath everything you've been carrying.
Can You Trust Yourself Again?
There is another layer to healing that doesn't always receive enough attention: self-trust.
When you've spent years looking outside yourself for validation, putting other people's needs ahead of your own, or questioning what you feel, how do you begin trusting your own voice again?
How do you recognize when your nervous system is dysregulated?
How do you distinguish between what you truly want and what you've learned you are supposed to want?
And what does it actually mean to return to yourself?
These are among the questions at the center of Mary's work and the conversation we'll explore together. Her media kit identifies rebuilding self-trust, recognizing dysregulation, quieting self-doubt, moving away from outside validation, and reconnecting with the authentic self as central themes.
This Conversation Is About More Than Healing
It's about remembering.
It's about the person underneath the responsibilities, expectations, survival responses, and roles.
It's about asking:
Who were you before survival became your identity—and who are you choosing to become now?
Join Universe Badger, Golden Eagle, and the Twisted Team as they sit down with Mary Armendarez for an open conversation about emotional healing, nervous system regulation, self-trust, people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and what it can mean to finally come home to yourself.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
8:00 PM EST
The People’s Podcast
Streaming on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and LinkedIn.
Connect with Mary Armendarez
Mary Armendarez — Official Website
Contact: mar@maryarmendarez.com
The People’s Podcast
Unseen Twisted Truths LLC — Media Publishing Company
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