Michelle Jeovanny: How Trauma Shapes Your Identity and Life Purpose

Manifesting & Mindset

dominican woman discusses identity loss on The Lost & Found Podcast

December 15, 2025

From Survival to Sacred: Michelle Jeovanny on Identity Loss, Healing, and True Abundance

In a deeply moving episode of The Lost & Found Podcast, I sat down with Michelle Jeovanny for a conversation that explores identity loss, resilience, ancestral healing, and what it truly means to create abundance from the inside out.

Michelle’s story is not one of overnight success or spiritual bypassing. It is a story of survival, faith, and the slow, courageous work of becoming the person you were always meant to be.

Identity Loss After Trauma: When Survival Becomes Your Only Identity

Michelle grew up in an environment marked by extreme domestic violence in the Dominican Republic. From a young age, her nervous system learned survival before safety. As a teenager, she made the impossible decision to leave everything behind and run toward the unknown.

Arriving in the United States with no money, no belongings, and nowhere to sleep, Michelle experienced homelessness on the streets of New York City. Survival mode shaped every decision—how to stay warm, how to eat, how to keep going.

In the interview, Michelle explains how prolonged survival creates identity loss. When your entire life revolves around staying alive, there is little space to ask deeper questions like Who am I? or What do I want?

This episode names something many people feel but can’t articulate: success does not automatically heal survival patterns. Identity loss often follows trauma—even long after the danger has passed.

From Homelessness to College Graduate: Rebuilding a Life One Decision at a Time

A pivotal moment came when Michelle realized she was not forgotten. With support from people who saw her potential, she found her way into a homeless shelter, then into college (what she describes as her first true place of safety).

College did not erase the past, but it gave Michelle a foundation to begin healing. In the episode, she reflects on how safety can feel unfamiliar after chaos, and how self-sabotage often shows up when peace finally arrives.

This part of the conversation resonates deeply with listeners navigating reinvention, career pivots, or life after trauma. Healing, Michelle reminds us, is not linear—and it often begins when we allow ourselves to receive help.

Ancestral Healing: Breaking The Patterns You Didn’t Choose

One of the most powerful themes in Michelle’s interview is ancestral healing. She explains how many of our struggles with money, visibility, relationships, and self-worth are not just personal—they are inherited.

Michelle shares how fertility grief and repeated life patterns led her to recognize generational wounds passed through her family line. Rather than seeing these patterns as failures, she reframes them as invitations to heal what previous generations could not.

This episode offers listeners language for something they may have sensed but never named: not everything you carry belongs to you and healing yourself can change the trajectory of generations to come.

Redefining Abundance: Why Wealth Is an Internal Job

Michelle challenges one of the most common misconceptions about abundance: that it is something you chase.

In the interview, she explains that money is not the goal—it is a byproduct. Abundance, she says, reflects who you are being, not how hard you are hustling. When someone cannot hold abundance, it is often because survival patterns, fear, or unhealed wounds are still running the show.

This conversation reframes wealth as:

an expression of self-trust
a result of integrity and embodiment
a relationship with worthiness, not effort

For listeners who have “done everything right” but still feel stuck, this perspective offers both relief and responsibility.

MAGICK vs. Magic: Why Conscious Creation Matters

Michelle makes an important distinction between magic and MAGICK—a concept that deeply resonated with listeners.

Magic, as it’s often sold, implies shortcuts and spectacle. MAGICK, as Michelle defines it, is conscious transformation. It is the act of taking responsibility for your inner world so your outer world can change with integrity.

This section of the interview speaks directly to listeners disillusioned by surface-level manifestation culture. True change, Michelle explains, requires presence, awareness, and embodiment—not avoidance.

What Success Really Means: Loving Your Life and Yourself

When asked how she defines success, Michelle’s answer is simple and profound: success is loving your life and loving the person you see in the mirror.

Rather than chasing external validation, success becomes alignment—living in a way that feels meaningful, grounded, and true. This definition aligns seamlessly with my mission: helping people bridge the gap between who they are and who they want to become.

Why This Episode Matters

Michelle Jeovanny’s interview is not about fixing yourself. It’s about remembering who you were before survival taught you to forget. For anyone navigating identity loss, healing trauma, redefining success, or searching for purpose, this episode offers language, perspective, and permission—to slow down, to trust yourself, and to believe that your story is still unfolding.

If you’ve been doing “everything right” but still feel stuck, disconnected, or afraid to receive… this conversation might change how you see wealth and success forever.

Connect with Michelle:

Website – https://michellejeovanny.com/

Instagram – @michellejeovanny

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellejeovanny

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