Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
In this soul-nourishing episode of the Deeply Well Podcast, Devi sits down with the radiant Nicole Russell-Wharton — a certified trauma-informed healing instructor whose work has been rooted in compassion, advocacy, and generational restoration. Together, we explore the sacred work of healing family legacies — the kind of healing that requires us to face the silences we've inherited and honor the stories that were never told. Nicole shares her powerful journey supporting children in foster care and reminds us how deeply transformative it can be when we create space for young people to feel seen, heard, and whole. We talk about the importance of tracing our lineage — not just to understand where we come from, but to reconnect with the wisdom, the pain, and the resilience our ancestors carried.
This conversation moves gently through the layers of forgiveness, chronic illness, and health awareness — all parts of the healing process. We reflect on the beauty of documenting our stories and reclaiming our narratives so future generations can move forward with clarity and wholeness.
If you've ever felt the weight of unspoken truths in your family or wondered how to begin the process of breaking generational cycles, this episode is a soft and powerful invitation. An invitation to lean into community, deepen your self-discovery, and allow healing to ripple through every branch of your family tree.
The Deeply Well Podcast is available on:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3n5hEIV...
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Moments to Consider:
0:00 Welcome to Deeply Well, with our guest Nicole Russell, advocate and author of Breaking Generational Silence.
5:50 Nicole reflects on not only helping young people heal, but adults as well.
7:40 How to approach the work when being disconnected from your lineage? Piecing it together.
12:25 Endometriosis, chronic pain and neurodivergence, normalizing conversation about pain as a way for connection and prevention.
16:54 Purpose, privilege and protecting the work, how Nicole came to serve children. The importance of self care skills for children.
22:44 The Mandela Effect, the power of documenting to combat forgetting history and trauma.
26:30 How did you bring this work into your family in real time with your motherhood journey?
29:50 Doing the deeper work of forgiveness. Expanding your capacity for compassion through the layers of your healing.
33:19 How has everyone in your life felt about the book? Doing the hard and beautiful work.
36:20 What has your husband's journey been like?
38:48 Defining generational silence, coping mechanisms, and breaking the patterns.
44:02 Continuing the conversation with family, in the right spaces, alleviating distraction and difficulty.
46:12 I have a confession to make. Bring in curiosity and creativity with your child.
48:24 How can people begin to identify the way generational silence, or inherited trauma has affected them?
53:24 Nicole’s Soul Work to integrate this episode.
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Connect with Nicole Russell:
Website: shop.nicolerussell.com
Book, Breaking Generational Silence: https://a.co/d/7xm3RMx
Instagram: instagram.com/nicolerussell/?hl=en
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Connect with Devi:
Website: devibrownwellbeing.com
Living In Wisdom Book: devibrown.com/book
Instagram: instagram.com/devibrown
Instagram: instagram.com/deeplywellpod
Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=...
Merch: devibrown.myshopify.com
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Devi Brown is a Master Well-Being Educator & Healer, Advisor, Storyteller and Founder of Devi Brown Well-Being. The celebrated voice of daily meditation on the Chopra App and host of the iHeart media podcast, Deeply Well, Brown’s teachings have reached millions of seekers globally and counting. She serves as a well-being advisor for private, high-impact clientele and for Fortune 500 companies, including Chase, Microsoft, Chopra Global, and Overtime. With teachings rooted in spiritual psychology, advanced meditation, metaphysics, energy healing and trauma-informed facilitation, Brown’s mission is centered in the process of individual liberation that leads to community impact and an elevation of consciousness for all beings.
#DeviBrown #DeeplyWell #WellBeing #BreakingGenerationalSilence #Healing #TraumaInformedCare
In this soul-nourishing episode of the Deeply Well Podcast, Devi sits down with the radiant Nicole Russell-Wharton — a certified trauma-informed healing instructor whose work has been rooted in compassion, advocacy, and generational restoration. Together, we explore the sacred work of healing family legacies — the kind of healing that requires us to face the silences we've inherited and honor the stories that were never told. Nicole shares her powerful journey supporting children in foster care and reminds us how deeply transformative it can be when we create space for young people to feel seen, heard, and whole. We talk about the importance of tracing our lineage — not just to understand where we come from, but to reconnect with the wisdom, the pain, and the resilience our ancestors carried.
This conversation moves gently through the layers of forgiveness, chronic illness, and health awareness — all parts of the healing process. We reflect on the beauty of documenting our stories and reclaiming our narratives so future generations can move forward with clarity and wholeness.
If you've ever felt the weight of unspoken truths in your family or wondered how to begin the process of breaking generational cycles, this episode is a soft and powerful invitation. An invitation to lean into community, deepen your self-discovery, and allow healing to ripple through every branch of your family tree.
The Deeply Well Podcast is available on:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3n5hEIV...
✺
Moments to Consider:
0:00 Welcome to Deeply Well, with our guest Nicole Russell, advocate and author of Breaking Generational Silence.
5:50 Nicole reflects on not only helping young people heal, but adults as well.
7:40 How to approach the work when being disconnected from your lineage? Piecing it together.
12:25 Endometriosis, chronic pain and neurodivergence, normalizing conversation about pain as a way for connection and prevention.
16:54 Purpose, privilege and protecting the work, how Nicole came to serve children. The importance of self care skills for children.
22:44 The Mandela Effect, the power of documenting to combat forgetting history and trauma.
26:30 How did you bring this work into your family in real time with your motherhood journey?
29:50 Doing the deeper work of forgiveness. Expanding your capacity for compassion through the layers of your healing.
33:19 How has everyone in your life felt about the book? Doing the hard and beautiful work.
36:20 What has your husband's journey been like?
38:48 Defining generational silence, coping mechanisms, and breaking the patterns.
44:02 Continuing the conversation with family, in the right spaces, alleviating distraction and difficulty.
46:12 I have a confession to make. Bring in curiosity and creativity with your child.
48:24 How can people begin to identify the way generational silence, or inherited trauma has affected them?
53:24 Nicole’s Soul Work to integrate this episode.
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Connect with Nicole Russell:
Website: shop.nicolerussell.com
Book, Breaking Generational Silence: https://a.co/d/7xm3RMx
Instagram: instagram.com/nicolerussell/?hl=en
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Connect with Devi:
Website: devibrownwellbeing.com
Living In Wisdom Book: devibrown.com/book
Instagram: instagram.com/devibrown
Instagram: instagram.com/deeplywellpod
Twitter: https://twitter.com/devibrown?s=21&t=...
Merch: devibrown.myshopify.com
✺
Devi Brown is a Master Well-Being Educator & Healer, Advisor, Storyteller and Founder of Devi Brown Well-Being. The celebrated voice of daily meditation on the Chopra App and host of the iHeart media podcast, Deeply Well, Brown’s teachings have reached millions of seekers globally and counting. She serves as a well-being advisor for private, high-impact clientele and for Fortune 500 companies, including Chase, Microsoft, Chopra Global, and Overtime. With teachings rooted in spiritual psychology, advanced meditation, metaphysics, energy healing and trauma-informed facilitation, Brown’s mission is centered in the process of individual liberation that leads to community impact and an elevation of consciousness for all beings.
#DeviBrown #DeeplyWell #WellBeing #BreakingGenerationalSilence #Healing #TraumaInformedCare
