The Rare Combination Every Great Therapist Needs
High sensitivity can become an extraordinary instrument, but only if you learn how to play it. I explore what actually makes a therapist eff...
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Emotional Badass: Where Moxie meets Mindful - Meditations, Self Care, Motivation Mindset, Holistic Recovery, & Life Coaching
Emotional Badasses are survivors, thrivers, seekers, and healers! Expand and awaken to your higher purpose, be more present and authentic, find strength in spirituality, quiet the monkey min...
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20 of 452 episodesWhat Does it Actually Take to be a Good Therapist?
Being highly sensitive and deeply empathetic feels like it should qualify you to help others heal, but wanting to help people as a therapist...
Toxic Relationships and Your Nervous System - Part 2
Toxic relationships train you to distrust the parts of you that already know something is wrong. This episode looks at how survivors confuse...
The Mother Wound Behind Hayden Panettiere's Public Unraveling
Hayden Panettiere was performing before she could speak, and the applause taught her something dangerous, that praise felt like being loved....
What Toxic Relationships Actually Do to Your Nervous System - Part 1
Toxic relationships don't just drain our energy or violate our boundaries. They change our relationship with ourselves. For those of us who...
Why Life Keeps Getting Easier the Older you Get
Turning 46 means listening back to the woman I was at 39, before she knew what was coming. I trace how the emotional muscles built through y...
The Health Crisis Hiding Inside Your Stress Habit
Stress has become so normalized we call it smart, even loving, when it is actually wearing down every organ in the body. Learn how stress ho...
The Toxic Load No One Warns People About
Waking up to the toxic load built into lives we were told are common, safe, and totally normal can feel frightening. Everyday microplastics,...
Your Nervous System Is a Passenger. It Doesn't Get to Drive.
Healing was never meant to mean I feel calm all the time. In part two, I take apart the misconceptions that keep sensitive people stuck, sta...
Fleeing Discomfort is Keeping you Stuck | PART 1
Nervous system advice has become mental health fast food, quick slogans that teach you to flee every uncomfortable feeling. But sometimes di...
Your Gut Health, Serotonin, and What Dr. Arwen Podesta Sees That Other Doctors Miss
Most people walk out of a psychiatrist's office with a prescription and not much else. Dr. Arwen Podesta works differently, looking under th...
You Shame Yourself First, So They Can't
Shame is the swampy, cracked foundation underneath every boundary that keeps crumbling on you, and most people have no idea it's there. Unde...
10 Ways Shame Sabotages HSPs
Shame rarely walks into the room and introduces itself. It hides as anxiety, hypervigilance, the survival mode that lingers no matter how mu...
5 Affirmations to Help HSPs with Overwhelm
Highly sensitive nervous systems take in far more than a fair share, and overwhelm slowly becomes a groove we practice until it feels like w...
10 Reasons Some HSPs Grow and Others Stay Stuck
Why do some highly sensitive people grow while others stay stuck for years? After two decades of holding space, I've come to see that readin...
I Entered a Burro Race as a Beginner and Outran My Fear
What if a stubborn, snack-loving donkey named Bonita could teach me more about my own anxiety than years of overthinking ever did? I entered...
A Cozy Fireside Guided Meditation for Highly Sensitive People
Come sit with me by the fire. After two recent retreats reawakened something in me that had gone dim, I'm offering you a guided meditation i...
How to Articulate Your Thoughts & Communicate More Effectively
Communication is an art form, and most adults were never given the education to treat it that way. How you communicate reflects your conditi...
How to Fix Your Cruel Inner Voice
The critical voice inside a highly sensitive person runs like a constant commentary, and understanding why it exists doesn't make it stop. W...
Let Go of What No Longer Serves You
Letting go sounds simple until life throws a wrench in your carefully laid plans. Intentions are sneaky little culprits that can quietly tur...