The Awaken Podcast
80 | Aundi Kolber: Living in the Direction of Healing
November 10, 2026
Show Notes
In the counseling/mental health space , there are occasionally voices and messages with whom most everyone seems to connect. Voices that are addressing common experiences of pain, trauma, confusion, etc.
Aundi Kolber is one of those important voices. Since 2020, when her first book Try Softer was released (just weeks before COVID lockdown), people have felt seen, heard, and encouraged through her gentle, compassionate ways of helping people understand how their experiences affect their well-being. Another of her books, Strong Like Water, has helped people better see how finding real safety will support living the lives we desire.
Aundi has become a trusted expert and trailblazer in her specializations of trauma, attachment, body-centered therapy, and the integration of faith and psychology. She is known for pairing a compassionate, faith-sensitive approach, with practical, trauma-informed insights has been unafraid to engage with, and share, her personal stories of pain and trauma, and how those have helped her learn how to love and value herself and others.
In March 2027 Aundi’s new book Stay With Yourself: A Soft and Fierce Invitation to Unlearn Pleasing, Performing, and Keeping the Peace—and Live from Your Truest, God-Given Center will be available. And while many people have come to understand the self-protective strategies of fight, flight, or freeze, this new book addresses what it looks like when we fawn. So many people leave themselves behind in an attempt to placate people and stressors around them, and the relational, emotional & spiritual results are seriously harmful.
Aundi lives in Michigan with her husband and two children.
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