Bounce Back, Black Woman! | Healing, Personal Growth, & Resilience

Episodes

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  146. How our Heavenly Father Can Heal Our Father Wounds 20.10.2026 36m

  What does it take to heal from the wounds left by a father? In this special episode of *Bounce Back, Black Woman!*, Coach Del shares a deeply personal conversation with fellow podcaster Marselle Cook-Morrison about her own journey with father wounds, the role of faith, and how God can bring healing to places we’ve carried hurt for years. A heartfelt conversation about healing, hope, and resilience.
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  145. The Joy of Connection: Can We Just Have Some FUN? 16.10.2026 18m

  When was the last time you just had some FUN? In this lighthearted episode of *Bounce Back, Black Woman!*, Coach Del celebrates the joy of friendship, laughter, and connection—from girlfriend group chats and Karaoke Wednesdays to canceled outings and unexpected new friendships. Plus, she shares her recent experience connecting with Melissa Clay of *Me in the Making Podcast*. Because Black women’s shared experiences aren’t only about navigating life’s challenges. They’re about celebrating the GOOD times, too! **It’s not just you… it’s US. And that includes the JOY!**
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  144. How to Respond Instead of React: You Always Have a Choice 13.10.2026 22m

  You can’t always choose what happens to you. But you may have more choice about what happens next than you realize. In the final installment of the Thoughts, Feelings, and Choice series, Coach Del explores how our thoughts and emotions can influence our decisions without having to determine them. Revisiting a personal experience involving her siblings, she shares how choosing curiosity over accusation, vulnerability over resentment, and understanding over assumptions changed the way she approached a difficult conversation. Drawing on Romans 12:2 and James 1:19, this episode is a reminder that we don’t have to deny our feelings to make intentional choices about what we do with them. Because an impulse isn’t an instruction—and one choice doesn’t have to become the end of the story.
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  143. What's Feeding That Feeling? How Your Thoughts Influence Your Feelings 09.10.2026 17m

  Your feelings are real—but what are they based on? In Part 2 of the Thoughts, Feelings, and Choice series, Coach Del explores how the thoughts we have about an experience can shape the way we feel about it—and why a very real emotion can sometimes be rooted in an assumption that hasn’t actually been proven. Through examples involving family, work, and dating, you’ll learn to distinguish between what happened and what you’ve decided happened to you, examine the thoughts underneath strong emotions, and notice how those feelings may be influencing what you want to do next. Because the intensity of a feeling doesn’t necessarily prove the accuracy of the thought behind it.
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  142. Your First Thought Isn't Your Only Thought 06.10.2026 15m

  Your first thought isn’t necessarily a fact—and it isn’t the only thought available to you. In the first episode of a three-part series exploring Thoughts, Feelings, and Choice, Coach Del examines how easily we confuse what we’re thinking with what we’re feeling—and how quickly a thought can become “fact” in our own minds. Using a personal experience of feeling excluded by her siblings, Coach Del explores the difference between what actually happened and the thoughts we attach to it, why changing your thoughts doesn’t mean forcing yourself to “think positive,” and one simple question that can create room for another possibility: What’s a different thought that I could have? Because sometimes the most truthful alternative thought is simply: I don’t know yet.
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  141. What Do You Make it MEAN? 02.10.2026 16m

  Something happens—but what did you make it mean? In this episode, Coach Del shares a personal experience of discovering that her siblings had gotten together without her—and how quickly being left out became *“They intentionally excluded me.”* That experience opens a larger conversation about the stories and interpretations we attach to other people’s words, choices, and behavior. Coach Del explores what can happen when those interpretations quietly become facts in our own minds, how the meaning we assign can sometimes become the real bottleneck, and three questions that can help us separate what we actually know from what we’ve decided something means. Sometimes the situation needs your attention. Sometimes the other person’s behavior does. And sometimes, it’s the story you’ve attached to it.
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  140. What Are Your "Overs & Unders" Trying to Tell You? 29.09.2026 18m

  Sometimes stress, overwhelm, loneliness, uncertainty, or change doesn’t announce itself clearly—it shows up in what we’re doing too much of or not doing enough of. In this episode, Coach Del explores our “overs and unders”—from overspending, overeating, overworking, and overscrolling to undersleeping, underperforming, disconnecting, and losing focus. Instead of immediately trying to fix the behavior, what might happen if we got curious about what it’s doing for us? Your ”Overs and Unders” may not be the real problem. They may be clues pointing you toward the bottleneck underneath.
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  139. What if the Change You're Waiting For Isn't Yours to Make? 25.09.2026 16m

  Are you making decisions based on what a situation is—or what you continue hoping it will become? Drawing from a past relationship in which her intuition repeatedly told her something wasn’t right, Del explores what happens when we postpone our choices while waiting for another person to change. This episode asks a difficult but clarifying question: If nothing ever changes, can you accept the situation exactly as it is? You’ll consider the difference between hope and avoidance, reality and potential, and what becomes possible when you focus on the choices that are actually yours to make.
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  138. What if "I'm Not Ready" isn't the REAL Problem? 22.09.2026 18m

  How long have you been telling yourself you aren’t ready? After spending a year searching for traditional employment, Del began noticing women earning meaningful income using skills similar to hers—as home bakers, coaches, authors, and speakers. Their success didn’t give her new abilities, but it challenged what she believed was possible. In this episode, Del explores the difference between being genuinely unprepared and doubting your ability to begin. You’ll consider the evidence you already possess, the requirements you keep adding, and whether “I’m not ready” is the real reason you haven’t moved forward.
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  137. When Staying Feels Safer than Leaving 18.09.2026 18m

  Sometimes we remain in an unhappy job, relationship, or life situation because staying feels safer than confronting an uncertain future. But are you intentionally choosing to stay—or has fear made every other possibility appear impossible? Drawing from her experiences in her first marriage and a deeply misaligned workplace, Del explores what can happen when fear, financial concerns, judgment, and isolation complicate our choices. This episode will help you consider what staying is costing you, what alternatives you may have overlooked, and whether the reason you believe you cannot leave tells the entire story.
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  136. Why More Information Isn't Helping You Decide 15.09.2026 16m

  When an important decision has you researching, reconsidering, and second-guessing every option, it may seem as though you simply need more information. But what if information is no longer the issue? Using her real-life situation, Del explores the difference between responsible research and using analysis to seek a guarantee that doesn’t exist. You’ll consider what you may be asking information to protect you from—and whether something deeper is making it difficult to move forward.
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  135. Are Your Boundaries the REAL Problem? 5 Areas Where They Might Be... 11.09.2026 25m

  Boundaries affect far more than romantic relationships. In this episode, Coach Del explores five areas where missing, unclear, or inconsistently enforced boundaries may be creating exhaustion, resentment, financial strain, and emotional overload—and shares a practical four-step process for creating boundaries you can actually maintain.
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  134. Are You Thinking it Through — or Just Going in Circles? 08.09.2026 17m

  How do you know when thoughtful consideration has turned into going in circles? In this episode, Coach Del explains how repeated thinking can create the illusion of progress, why complete clarity may not arrive before action, and four questions to help you choose one intentional next step.
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  133. Coffee, Chemistry, and All the Things We Overthink in Dating 04.09.2026 20m

  Dating can turn one cup of coffee into a twelve-part strategic forecast. What should you wear? Will there be chemistry? What if you like him? What if he doesn’t like you—or you don’t like him? In Episode 133, Del shares the funny story behind an upcoming coffee date—and the surprising calm that helped her recognize her own growth. This episode explores how to date without performing, future-casting, or abandoning yourself in the hope of being chosen. You’ll learn why chemistry is not compatibility, how to distinguish discernment from fear, and why the goal of a first date is simply to decide whether you would enjoy a second conversation. And if you aren’t dating, you’ll hear how to support the friends who are—without turning one promising coffee date into either a threat assessment or a bridal consultation.
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  132. Stuck or Still: How Do You Know the Difference? 01.09.2026 14m

  STUCK or STILL: How Do You Know the Difference? You can be handling your responsibilities, showing up for everyone, and moving through life while still feeling stuck in one important area. In Episode 132 of Bounce Back, Black Woman!, Coach Del shares a personal story from her marriage to explore what being stuck can actually look like—and why not moving isn’t always the same as being stuck. Through coaching-style questions and honest reflection, this conversation invites you to consider what’s happening inside your own waiting and what may be keeping you from where you want to be. Plus, Coach Del introduces her new free assessment, What’s REALLY Holding You Back?
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  131. Why We Eat, Shop, and Scroll When We're Stressed 28.08.2026 26m

  What do you reach for when you’re stressed, lonely, sad, bored, angry, or overwhelmed? Food? Shopping? Social media? Netflix? Work? A glass of wine? Or maybe that person you know you have absolutely no business texting? In Episode 131, Del explores why we instinctively reach for comfort when uncomfortable emotions show up—and the important difference between comforting ourselves and escaping ourselves. Rather than judging the behavior, this episode invites you to get curious about the need underneath it. Because sometimes the thing we’re reaching for isn’t really what we want at all—we want the feeling we believe it can give us. The goal isn’t perfection. It’s awareness. Because awareness creates choice.
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  130. What Breaks in You When Life is at Its Hardest 25.08.2026 26m

  When your heart gets broken, the obvious loss isn’t always the only thing that needs healing. In Episode 130, Del explores what can break beneath the surface when we experience death, betrayal, divorce, rejection, friendship loss, estrangement, job loss, or another painful ending. Beyond the immediate loss, we may find ourselves struggling with trust, safety, identity, belonging, faith, confidence, or even our ability to imagine the future. Different experiences create different levels and kinds of pain—but your pain doesn’t have to be the worst pain in the room to deserve your attention. This episode invites you to stop asking, ”Why am I not over this?” and begin asking a different question: What did this experience actually wound in me—and what would rebuilding that part of me look like?
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  129. The Strong Black Woman: What Does Carrying it ALL Cost You? 21.08.2026 12m

  What happens when being “the strong one” becomes part of your identity? In Episode 129, Del explores the hidden cost of being the Strong Black Woman who can handle everything—from confusing competence with capacity to carrying the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and relational weight of always being the one who figures it out. This episode challenges the idea that strength means doing everything alone and explores the difference between independence and healthy interdependence. Because you’ve already proven you’re strong. You don’t have to keep exhausting yourself to maintain the evidence.
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  128. Too Busy? Why It's Time to Rediscover What You Enjoy 18.08.2026 18m

  When was the last time you did something simply because you enjoyed it—not because it was productive, profitable, or useful to anyone else? In Episode 128, Del explores how the things that bring us joy can quietly disappear as life becomes busy, painful, demanding—or even wonderfully full. From rediscovering old hobbies to trying something completely new, this episode is a reminder that you don’t have to be good at everything you enjoy, and you don’t have to make money from everything you’re good at. Sometimes enjoyment is reason enough.
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  127. The 5 Real Reasons You Can't 'FIX' Someone You Love 14.08.2026 20m

  Have you ever watched someone you love make choices you don’t understand—or found yourself repeatedly trying to help, advise, protect, or change them? In Episode 127, Del explores five real reasons you can’t ”fix” someone you love—and why the problem may not be what you think. From recognizing the difference between different and broken, to understanding whether someone actually wants your help, this conversation ultimately turns the focus toward the one person whose choices you can control: you. Because loving someone doesn’t mean becoming the author of their life.