The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema

Episode #269: Self Betrayal and Abandonment with Candyss Love

The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema

Show Notes

Author and retreat facilitator, Candyss Love joins us to share her powerful testimony of healing from self abandonment and self betrayal. She shares honestly about her experience with addiction, people pleasing, and manipulation. Candyss shares the healing paths of selective abstinence, silence, solitude, time in nature, self reflection, faith, and eventually a loving relationship.

Candyss Love is an Army veteran, retired police officer, former criminal justice teacher, author, meditation teacher, emotional trauma retreat facilitator, podcast host, solo female van-life traveler, and wife of 7 years from Houston, Texas.

With 15+ years devoted to studying psychology, archetypal identities, esoteric wisdom, quantum theory, and spirituality. she is largely known for teaching licensed mental health professionals how to thoughtfully integrate spiritual, metaphysical, and mystical teachings into their work to support deeper healing.

After 8 years of sobriety and through her own deep healing journey, Candyss is dedicated to helping people remember their innate power and capacity to heal reminding them that God has already equipped them with what they need to become their own healer.

Yet beyond every title, role, and identity, she cherishes the freedom to return home, rest in the presence of God and become NOBODY, the great return to nothingness.

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