All Episodes

Shame & Overcontrol: When Control Feels Like Safety with Dr. Samantha Turetsky (Part 1)

Why Being Your Kid's Best Friend Is a Mistake

Shame & Anxiety: Why We'd Rather Worry Than Feel with Chelsea Horton

Why Your Kids Can't Make You Happy (And Shouldn't)

Shame and Forbidden Curiosity: What It Really Means to Be Fully Seen with Mistress Mia

Scared of Growing Old Alone? Don't Put It on Your Kids

Shame and the Lost-Worth Story: Understanding Why We Deny Our Own Worth with Dawna Daigneault

Why Don't My Kids Call Me? (What's Really Going On)

Shame & AI: The Hidden Cost of Communicating Better with Salvatore Manzi

You Don't OWE Your Parents Access to Your Kids

Shame & Loss: What Grief Taught Julie Lucas About Receiving Love

When Your Parent Gives You the Silent Treatment (It's Not Your Fault)

Shame, Meltdowns and Tantrums: Managing Emotions in Our Children & Ourselves with Dr. Bethany Bilodeau

Shame & Being Single: The Stories We Inherit About Being Alone with Amanda Quinby

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E61: You Already Know What You Need. So Why Aren't You Doing It?

Shame, Failing & Regret: When Mistakes Feel Like Proof with Telana Simpson

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E60: The Perfectionism Nobody Warned You About (It Looks Nothing Like You Think)

Shame & Nervous System Healing: Why It Still Feels Hard (Part 2) with Elizabeth Kipp

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E59: The 2am Rehearsal (Why You Know Exactly What to Say and Still Can't Say It)

Shame & Masculinity: Learning Presence Instead of Performance with Alex

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E58: Having Needs Doesn't Make You Needy (And Why You Were Taught Otherwise)

Shame & Your Symptoms: Why Nothing Is Wrong with You with David Bedrick

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E57: Too Much and Not Enough at the Same Time (Understanding the Core Belief That's Been Running Your Life)

Shame & Developmental Trauma: How Childhood Wounds Shape Our Worth with Jane I-Chen Liu

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E56: Why You Can't Say No to Your Boss (And What Your Worth Has to Do With It)

Shame & the Inner Critic: Understanding the Triangle Driving Your Escape with Jessica Fern & David Cooley

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E55: Why Is It So Hard to Admit We’re Wrong?

Shame & Division: Finding Connection Across Difference with Marcia Earhart

Shame & OCPD: When Your Brain Never Stops and Society Calls It a Feature with Janice Russell

Shame & the Pill-Popping Culture: What Parents Don't Know and What That Silence Is Costing Our Kids with Michelle Kullman

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E54: How to Teach Your Kids to Sit with Discomfort When You Haven't Learned It Yourself

Shame & Boundaries: Reclaiming Hope, Choice, and the Courage to Stop Tolerating What Drains You with Elizabeth Webb

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E53: The Three Buckets That Will Change Every Relationship You Have (Needs, Wants, and What You've Been Quietly Accepting)

Shame & Lying: From People-Pleasing to Telling the Truth with Mary Beth Thomsen

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E52: When You've Both Changed (How to Renegotiate a Relationship Without Blowing It Up)

Shame & Childhood Trauma: How Early Wounds Become Core Beliefs in Adulthood with Sabrina Trobek

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E51: When Family Calls You Selfish for Choosing Yourself (And How to Hold Your Ground Without Losing Yourself)

Shame & Attraction: Why Your Brain Falls for the Wrong People with Leah Mitchell

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E50: Why You Keep Snapping (And What Your Reactions Are Actually Trying to Tell You)

Shame, Power, and Desire: A Trauma-Informed Look at Dominance & Submission

Ask Me Anything – E49: I Don't Know Who I Am Anymore (How to Find Your Way Back When Burnout Took Everything)

Shame & Silence: Lessons on Listening and Love from a Child of Deaf Adults with Maria Gallucci

Ask Me Anything – E48: Why Choosing Yourself Feels Like Losing Everyone (And What to Do When It Does)

Shame & Abandonment: Rescuing Your Inner Child with Bronwyn Schweigerdt

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E47: Why Rest Isn't Restoring You (And What an Energy Audit Actually Reveals)

Shame & Conditioning: When Silence Was the Price of Belonging — Part 2 with Ingrid Hu Dahl

Shame & Nervous System Regulation with Elizabeth Kipp

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E46: When They Change After You Leave (And Why It Hurts More)

Shame & Bully Culture: The Silence That Protects Toxic Leaders with Andy Regal

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E45: Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Actually Fix Me?

Shame & Grief: The Hidden Cost of Self-Blame with Chris Mamone

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E44: How the F*ck Are We Supposed to Be Mentally Well in a World Like This?

Shame & Strength: Reclaiming Power Beyond Diet Culture with Clarissa Gannon

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E43: Gentle Parenting, Boundaries, and Parental Guilt

Shame & Recovery: Naming the Space Between Sick and Well with Mallary Tenore Tarpley

Shame & Success: Why So Many High Performers are Exhausted, Lonely, and Quietly Falling Apart with Garrett Wood

Shame, Screens, and the Nervous System: Why Willpower Isn’t the Problem with Abby Payne

Shame & Loss: Holding Space for What Can’t Be Fixed with Chris Mamone

Shame & Money: Rewriting the Rules of Wealth with Mel Dorman

Shame & Narcissistic Abuse: When Love Slowly Turns Into Self-Abandonment with Kathy Wisniewski

Ask Me Anything – E41: Radical Acceptance of Imperfection

Shame & Body Confidence: How the Binge-Restrict Cycle Transfers to Work, Life, and Hustle Culture with Jemma Haythorne

Ask Me Anything – E40: You’re Not Behind — Letting Go of the Myth of Enough Time

Shame & Parts Work: Understanding the Inner Voices Behind Binge Eating with Jane Pilger

Ask Me Anything – E39: Trauma Bonding Isn’t What the Internet Says It Is

Shame & Getting Scammed: How Scammers Hijack Your Nervous System with Michele Ilich-Daubas. Part 2

🎙️ Ask Me Anything – E38: “When Helping Others Triggers Your Own Imposter Syndrome”

Shame & Scams: The Psychology of Deception with Michele Ilich-Daubas. Part 1.

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E37: When You Feel Guilty Saying No

Shame & The Inner Critic: Befriending the Bully and Awakening the Coach

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E36: How Do I Trust Myself After Picking the Wrong People So Many Times?

Shame & Perimenopause: Breaking the Silence and Embracing the Evolution

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E35: Why Do I Lose Interest When Someone Is Nice to Me?

Shame & Speaking Up: Why We Stay Silent and How to Reclaim Our Voice with Salvatore Manzi

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E34: The Fine Line Between Boundaries and Control

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E33: When Social Media Becomes a Measure of Self-Worth

Shame & Money: What Money Fights Are Really About with Jordan Pendleton

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E32: Navigating Santa, Tight Budgets & Childhood Comparison

Shame & Belonging: Growing Up Between Worlds and Coming Home to Yourself with Ingrid Hu Dahl

🎙️Ask Me Anything - E31: When My Mom Keeps Crossing My Boundaries

Shame & Conditional Love: How Childhood Scripts Shape Adult Relationships with Cassandra Johnson

🎙️Ask Me Anything - E30: How Do I Stay Grounded When the World Feels Uncertain?

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E29: When You Feel Invisible in Your Relationship

Shame & Online Dating: From Self-Erasure to Self-Worth with Amanda Quinby, PhD

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E28: When Your Brain Won’t Shut Off (Ruminating at Bedtime)

Shame & Emotional Repression: The Hidden Cost of “Holding It Together” with Bronwyn Schweigerdt

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E27: When You Can’t Be There (Shame & Caregiving from Afar)

Shame & The Healing Backslide: Why It’s Normal to Revisit Old Patterns with Sabrina Trobak

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E26: When Planning Steals the Present

Shame & Money: Rewriting the “I’m Bad with Money” Story with Michelle Waymire

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E25: When It’s Not About You (But It Still Hurts)

Shame & Being Dangerous: The Revolutionary Act of Loving Yourself with The Tracy Piper

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E24: Why Can’t I Keep It All Together Without Crashing?

Shame & the Shoulds: Unlearning Who You Were Told to Be with Mikkel Leslie

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E23: Am I Wrong for Limiting My Parents’ Access to My Kids?

Shame & Creative Inhibition: Unlearning the Fear of Making with Shannon MacFarlane

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E22: Why Do I Feel Like the Villain Every Time I Set a Boundary with My Mom?

Shame, Food & All-or-Nothing Thinking with Renae Saager

🎙️Ask Me Anything – E21: Am I Ungrateful If I Don’t Want to Pay for My Parents?

Shame & Self-Trust: Choosing Yourself Even When It’s Hard with Renee Nelson