The Joyful Rebel Podcast
Real stories and real scripts, every other week. For the good woman who's been ghosting herself — quietly disappearing from her own life.
Rachel Harris — the woman who named Good Girl Ghosting™ — sits down with the scripts, strategies, and pinkie-toe steps to stop disappearing, remember who you are, and actually like the woman you discover.
If either has crossed your mind,
you're in the right place.
"I don't know who I am anymore." "I miss being happy."
Maybe you disappeared slowly: you dimmed your light to fit, made yourself easy, said yes a few times too many, until one day you looked up and felt 93.8% unrecognizable. Or a hard season did it in one blow: a divorce, a diagnosis, a house gone quiet, a body that aged you before you were ready.
That disappearing has a name: Good Girl Ghosting™. It's painful being left on read. It's devastating realizing you've ghosted yourself.
I'm Rachel Harris, the JOY Coach. A New York Times & USA Today bestselling author and Life Story Strategist who helps women stop ghosting themselves and re-author their second act. Every other week, I hand you the why and the how: real words, pinkie-toe steps, and joy-first tools like the Goldilocks Line, the Holy No, and the Alignment Drop, so you can unbecome who you built and reveal the woman you were created to be.
Jesus-loving, wine-sipping, whimsy-chasing. Joy first, always, because play is what brings you back. No pretending. No pearl-clutching. No highlight reels.
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Scripts, stories, and the occasional joyful dance
Real Scripts
The exact words for the moment you go blank — when someone needs you and you want to say no without starting a war in yourself.
Real Stories
Conversations with women who stopped dimming their light to make everyone else comfortable — and what happened when they did.
Pinkie-Toe Steps
Tiny, doable moves that compound. Because you don't hustle and grind your way back to the woman you've always been. You reveal her through play.
The Enneagram
Parts-informed, pattern-level work — because the people-pleasing isn't your personality. It's your survival story, wearing your face.
Faith Centered
Heavy on Jesus, light on legalities. Love that comes out of fullness and grace — not martyrdom or hiding the gifts God gave you.
Joy as Courage
Joy isn't a personality trait. It's a posture — one rooted in truth, trust, and deep permission to be fully yourself.
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