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From Survival to Sovereignty… Healing Trauma Without Getting Lost in the Overwhelm
This episode includes discussion of childhood abuse, generational trauma, religious trauma, emotional and physical abuse, and healing from toxic relationships. Please listen with care and honour what feels right for you.
In this profoundly moving episode of Embody Your Empress, Sarah is joined by Canadian author Tina Djuretic for a raw, expansive, and deeply human conversation about trauma, healing, forgiveness, and reclaiming personal sovereignty.
Tina shares her lived journey through childhood abuse, a strict and fanatical religious upbringing, generational trauma, and repeating toxic relationship patterns… and how a spiritual awakening became the doorway back to herself. This is not a polished or bypassed healing story. It is honest, embodied, and real.
Together, Sarah and Tina explore what happens when we stop asking "what's wrong with everyone else" and instead gently turn inward. They speak openly about how unhealed trauma shows up in romantic relationships, the role of the nervous system and safety, ancestral and root chakra healing, boundaries with family, and why forgiveness is not about excusing behaviour… but about freeing yourself.
Tina also shares the soul led journey behind her books Finding My Sovereignty and her second release Lost In The Overwhelm… a practical, hands on workbook designed to support women through their own healing without drowning in it. This episode speaks to the woman who has done some of the work, but still feels heavy. The woman who is tired of spiritual pressure and wants peace, clarity, and truth instead.
This conversation is a reminder that healing is messy, sacred, cyclical, and absolutely worth it. That surrender does not mean weakness. And that sovereignty begins the moment you choose yourself.
About Our GuestTina Djuretic
Tina Djuretic is a Canadian author whose work centres on healing trauma, reclaiming sovereignty, and understanding generational patterns. Her debut memoir Finding My Sovereignty explores her journey from childhood abuse, religious conditioning, and toxic relationship cycles into deep self awareness, forgiveness, and embodied healing.
Her second book, Lost In The Overwhelm, is a practical workbook designed to support readers in navigating trauma in a grounded, accessible way. Tina's mission is to share her story with those facing similar experiences and to offer real tools for finding inner peace through personal transformation.
Connect with Tina:
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-My-Sovereignty-Memoirs-Empath/dp/1068956402
Website
https://www.sovereignandsage.com
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/tinadjuretic/
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556884707274
Sarah King
Sarah King is the founder of Empress Nation and the host of Embody Your Empress. She is an intuitive healer, speaker, and guide for high achieving, spiritually curious women who appear to have it all together but feel emotionally heavy, disconnected, or burnt out.
Through energetic healing, intuitive guidance, and grounded conversations, Sarah supports women to feel calm, clear, and confident again… bringing them back home to themselves so they can rule their nation with peace, power, and presence.
Connect with Sarah and Empress Nation:
Website
https://empressnation.au
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/empress_nation_/
TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@empress_nation_
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/EmpressNationSarahKing
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/empressnation/
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@empress_nation-SarahKing
Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/6hUQy0jpS5T22fdhw6PgDO
Linktree
https://linktr.ee/Empress_Nation_