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77 - Feeling Helpless and Hopeless? How to deal with Learned Helplessness through somatic healing so you can feel optimistic again (yes, really).
Does your internal monologue ever sound like, "I'll never get better," "I'll never have the life I want," "I'll never fall in love"? Then this one's for you, baby! Learned helplessness is when we lea…
Published on 9 months ago
76 - Still Spiraling from a Sexual Assault? We're getting through this together by healing sexual trauma (so you start to feel like yourself again).
After a sexual assault, you often spiral into a hole you feel you'll never come out of. In this episode, Rima writes in to ask for help with the feeling that she will be never the person she was befo…
Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago
75 - Got Irrational Beliefs? Let's heal those self defeating beliefs stat with cognitive behavioral therapist Judith Belmont.
So much of what we think about ourselves and the world is A. not helpful, and B. operating on automatic without our even knowing about it. If we think we're not good enough, not worthy of love, alway…
Published on 10 months ago
74 - Toxic Gratitude - Is living in gratitude bumming you out? Toxic gratitude may be to blame.
People keep telling Maggie to write gratitude lists to help her while she's struggling emotionally. But every time she tries to do it, she feels worse and sometimes even cries, which makes her feel l…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
73 - The Abandonment Wound Unpacked: How to heal from the trauma of abandonment in relationships when no one had your back (but should've).
Anyone else feel like they're not good enough for people to stand up for them? Anyone else get a hit of unworthiness when people don't have your back? In this episode, LCSW Sydney Linden joins to tal…
Published on 11 months ago
72 - Daughters of Narcissistic Fathers - Gather round—we're walking away from a narcissistic parent (even when they're gaslighting you).
Chloe's father is a malignant narcissist, but now that he's dying, she's deeply wrestling with her decision to go no-contact. How can she truly be a loving, forgiving person if she refuses to be in c…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
71 - Overly Empathetic Much? - Buckle up, we're getting into how too much empathy is a toxic trait.
We think of empathy as always being a good thing, but like everything else, too much of a good thing can be toxic. I call "toxic empathy" (not a clinical term, BTW, just my term), the phenomenon that…
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
70 - Are You a Recovering Parentified Daughter? - It's a whole ass process to reclaim self-worth after a childhood of neglect (but it's time, bb).
Teal grew up being super parentified by her addicted mother. The house was dirty, there wasn't food, her mom was at the bars, and Teal was in charge of her siblings. In this episode, we dig into the …
Published on 1 year ago
69 - Emotionally Deprived as a Child? - Let's talk how to build resilience as an adult (even if your parents sucked).
A lack of encouragement in childhood leaves a deep mark on us—it can impact our sense of self-worth, of safety, of resiliance—you name it. Sometimes it's easy to see that we weren't encouraged, but f…
Published on 1 year ago
68 - The Attachment Wound That's Still Hurting You: How to heal the mother wound (and the father wound, too—bc he also messed up) with Toni Nagy.
There are so many ways to approach healing the mother wound, and what works for one person won't necessarily work for someone else. That's why I was SOOOO excited to have hilarious comedian, internet…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago