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Start With What Hurts Podcast
by craftyourwellness
Each week, Lisa Reidsema, a licensed mental health counselor, takes one pattern, the kind of thing you've felt but never quite had language for, and does what her Library of Care does: she names what's happening underneath, explains the mechanism instead of moralizing, and leaves you with one small practice you can try the same day. These are short, unhurried episodes, closer to a real conversation than a lecture. You'll hear why a feeling that makes no sense on paper can run so much of your life, the difference between the story you tell about a pattern and the mechanism actually driving it, and honest talk about what these tools can and can't do, from a clinician who won't oversell them. Nothing here is a sales pitch. The podcast is free, and it stays free. If it becomes your way in, every episode points to a resource built for exactly what it covers, a kit, a workbook, or an exercise from the same method. Start with what hurts, and let's understand it together.
Episodes
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People-Pleasing: Why the Yes Comes Out Before You've Felt the No
The yes before the no. Making yourself small is a strategy learned in rooms where taking up space had a cost, and it generalized until it got applied to every room. In this episode, Lisa explains why the shrinking happens before you can catch it, why advice to be more assertive misses the reflex...
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Depressed but Still Functioning: The Emptiness Behind Looking Fine
Standing up well is not the same as being well. Getting by is not the same as being okay. A low, flat depletion can run underneath a life that still looks capable, and the competence that holds the outside together is exactly what keeps the need invisible, so no rest and no help ever arrive. In...
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Why Betrayal Keeps Happening: It's a Pattern, Not Proof Something's Wrong With You
What the betrayals left behind. Repeated betrayal builds a pattern in the nervous system, a set of adaptations a body makes after being hurt in the same place more than once. In this episode, Lisa explains why the shame that says you're the constant is the available conclusion rather than the…
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Why Your Anxiety Won't Go Away, No Matter What You Try
Anxiety is a signal, not a malfunction. Anxiety that doesn't respond to coping skills usually isn't a malfunction. It's a signal from a nervous system trained by an earlier environment, firing whenever the present resembles the past. In this episode, Lisa explains why the usual tools work on the...
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Your Inner Critic: Why the Cruel Voice Feels Like the Truth, and How to Quiet It
The critic is an old protector. The inner critic is an old protector that learned to attack you first so nothing could catch you off guard, and it speaks in your own voice, which is why it feels like the truth. In this episode, Lisa explains why arguing with the critic and repeating affirmations...
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Irritability: Why You're Not Too Much, You're Too Full
You're not too much. You were too full. The snap is a discharge event, not a character flaw. A day's load fills your window of tolerance until the smallest trigger tips an already full system over, and the built-up charge releases as irritability. In this episode, Lisa explains why the size of…
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Anticipatory Anxiety: How to Stop Worrying About What Hasn't Happened
How do you stop worrying about something that hasn't happened yet? If you rehearse the hard conversation for days, lie awake at three in the morning bracing for a meeting that's still on Thursday, and feel lighter for about an hour after someone reassures you before the loop starts again, this...
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Imposter Syndrome: Why Your Wins Never Feel Like Yours
Imposter phenomenon isn't a lack of ability. It's an inability to internalize the ability you already have. In this episode, Lisa explains the attribution asymmetry that sends every win outward to luck and every failure inward to inadequacy, why over-preparation and self-handicapping keep the…
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You're Not Lazy, You're Afraid
Procrastination isn't laziness or poor planning. It's an emotion regulation strategy, the pull to avoid the uncomfortable feelings a task stirs up. In this episode, Lisa explains what the not-starting protects, why willpower keeps losing to a threat response, and how the two-minute door lowers…
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Welcome to Start With What Hurts
A 60-second welcome to Start With What Hurts, a weekly podcast with Lisa Reidsema, LMHC. Each episode takes one pattern you've felt but never quite had language for, names what's happening underneath it, and leaves you with one small practice you can use that day. It's short, unhurried, and free....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Each week, Lisa Reidsema, a licensed mental health counselor, takes one pattern, the kind of thing you've felt but never quite had language for, and does what her Library of Care does: she names what's happening underneath, explains the mechanism instead of moralizing, and leaves you with one small practice you can try the same day. These are short, unhurried episodes, closer to a real conversation than a lecture. You'll hear why a feeling that makes no sense on paper can run so much of your life, the difference between the story you tell about a pattern and the mechanism actually driving it, and honest talk about what these tools can and can't do, from a clinician who won't oversell them. Nothing here is a sales pitch. The podcast is free, and it stays free. If it becomes your way in, every episode points to a resource built for exactly what it covers, a kit, a workbook, or an exercise from the same method. Start with what hurts, and let's understand it together.
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Each week, Lisa Reidsema, a licensed mental health counselor, takes one pattern, the kind of thing you've felt but never quite had language for, and does what her Library of Care does: she names what's happening underneath, explains the mechanism instead of moralizing, and leaves you with one small...
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