Healing is the Best Revenge: the top 10 episodes

What is Healing is the Best Revenge?

Healing is the Best Revenge is a podcast for survivors & the folks who love us to discuss healing, life with C-PTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder), survivorship, self + community care, & more. Host Karina Hagelin (they/them) offers affirmations, pep talks, encouragement, support, & shares about being in the messy murky middle of healing from trauma.

Where should I start?

Hi, I’m Karina, your host & the artist, educator, & survivor behind Healing is the Best Revenge.

I’ve recorded & published 40+ episodes for you; if you don’t know where to start, that’s totally okay.

Here are the top 10 most popular podcast episodes; feel free to dive in wherever sounds good 💕

1: Affirmations for survivors (& why I write them)

Let's talk about affirmations! In this episode, Karina shares 30+ affirmations for survivors focused on healing & radical self-love, discusses the importance - & difficulty - of hearing those three simple words, "I believe you," & talk about why they write affirmations for survivors.

6: Unforgivable: You don't have to forgive to heal from trauma

Karina talks about forgiveness & healing. They share their personal experiences & offer affirmations for survivors on this topic.

4: Healing thru aesthetics & color magic for survivors

Karina talks about healing thru aesthetics, style, & color magic for survivors.

3: Let's talk about traumaversaries & why + how I celebrate mine

Karina challenges the narratives available to survivors about traumaversaries; they also share about what traumaversaries are & why + how they celebrate mine.

5: Community care plans

Healing happens in community, not isolation. In this episode, Karina talks about community care - & more specifically, community care plans as a tool for healing.

2: Create your own affirmation archive, a DIY radical self-love tool

Learn how to make your own affirmation archive, a DIY radical self-love tool Karina uses to cope with hard days.

8: Trauma survival toolkit #1: coping skills for CPTSD

In the trauma survival toolkit series, Karina shares some of their go-to coping skills for living with CPTSD. In part 1, they discuss grounding, dialing down, & doing a resources check-in.

7: Creating the Survivor Affirmation Deck (& 40 affirmations for healing + radical self-love)

Karina introduces ⁠the Survivor Affirmation Deck⁠, a deck of 40 affirmation cards for survivors healing from trauma that they've created & recently launched, & shares 40 affirmations for healing + radical self-love.

9: Trauma survival toolkit #2: coping skills for CPTSD

In the trauma survival toolkit series, Karina shares some of their go-to coping skills for living with CPTSD. In part 2, they discuss connection, journaling, and gratitude.

22: Trauma survival toolkit #4: coping skills for CPTSD

In the fourth installment of the trauma survival toolkit series, Karina talks about some more of their go-to coping skills for CPTSD: reaching out, visualization, & positive self-talk.

If there’s something you’d like to hear me talk about on the podcast, leave a comment & let me know!

I always love hearing from you, especially what you’d like to see me create for you.