it’s nothing. I’m fine.

What does it really look like to break generational cycles when you're still healing from them yourself? Nikki and Aric sit down for an honest conversation about raising daughters after leaving high-control religion — and what it takes to parent intentionally when the old scripts are still running in the background. They talk about unpacking patriarchy in the small, everyday moments (not just the big philosophical conversations), what it means to let their girls feel the full range of emotions when they were raised to dismiss or suppress their own, and how they navigate real-time parenting disagreements as a couple — especially when their daughters are watching. This episode goes deep on: what repair actually looks like after losing it as a parent, how they're building community and belonging outside of religion, the beliefs that have been surprisingly hard to let go of even when they know they want something different, and the moments that have stopped them in their tracks and reminded them that something is working. If you're deconstructing, healing generational trauma, or trying to raise kids differently than you were raised — this one is for you. Topics covered: Conscious parenting after religious deconstruction Healing from high-control religion and patriarchy Raising emotionally healthy daughters Breaking generational cycles Parenting triggers and self-awareness Emotional validation and co-regulation Building community outside of church Repair and rupture in parenting Navigating differences as a parenting team

It's the little things — done consistently — that hold relationships together. Rituals and traditions might sound like holidays and big gestures, but in healthy relationships they're often much simpler than that. A morning check-in. A weekly date night. The way you always say goodbye before leaving the house. These small, repeated moments create something relationships and families deeply need: predictability, security, and the feeling that we do this together. In this episode, Amy explores why intentional rituals are one of the most underrated tools in a healthy relationship — and why our busy, overscheduled lives make them so easy to let slip. When we stop being deliberate about the habits that connect us, we often don't notice the drift until it's been a while. In this Yurtism, you'll explore: Why rituals create the sense of safety and assurance that relationships thrive on How busy lives quietly erode the habits that keep couples and families connected Simple ways to be more intentional about building traditions that you can count on You don't have to do something grand. You just have to do something — reliably.

What happens when two people fall in love — and completely underestimate what comes next? In this first of a two-part series, Amy and Josh get personal. They sit down together to talk about their own step-family journey, including the part they weren't prepared for at all: how hard it actually was. They unpack the unrealistic expectations they carried into blending a family — the fantasy that everyone would just click — and what it really looked like when they didn't. They talk about the culture clash neither of them saw coming: two families, two sets of unspoken rules, two completely different ways of doing everything. And how building something new out of all of that wasn't a moment. It was years. They also get honest about what was happening for their kids while they were deep in the honeymoon phase — because while Amy and Josh were riding a dopamine high, their children were quietly grieving the families they'd lost. That mismatch? It cost them. And they talk openly about the toll it took on their relationship. This episode is full of the things they wish someone had told them sooner — and what they would do differently if they could go back. If you're in a blended family, thinking about becoming one, or just trying to make sense of why it's been harder than you expected — this one's for you.

This is Part 2. If you haven't listened to Part 1, start there — though this episode can also stand on its own. In the first episode, Amy Prieb walked through four moments of disclosure that were met with silence, redirection, and institutional failure. In this episode, she continues — and the stakes get higher, because the people failing her are no longer just family friends and boyfriends. They are licensed professionals, academic institutions, and the systems explicitly designed to help. She describes a family therapy session in which her therapist — a credentialed professional from her own church community — instructed her to narrate every sexual act her father had ever committed against her body, in a room that contained her abuser. When she refused, the therapist offered the only alternative he could think of: her father would narrate it instead. She walked out. She was the only person in that room who understood what was actually happening. She describes arriving in graduate school in her mid-thirties — training to become a therapist herself, in a Christian seminary — answering a direct question honestly in a human sexuality class, and being pulled aside afterward by a beloved mentor who told her the setting was inappropriate. And then she asks the question that sits at the center of this entire conversation: Then where the hell is the setting? Not at eleven. Not at fifteen. Not at sixteen. Not with CPS. Not in the therapy room. Not in graduate school. The cumulative answer to "not here, not now, not like this" is, and always was, never. This episode connects every one of those moments to the Jeffrey Epstein files — to the DOJ releasing survivors' names while redacting perpetrators', to the millions of documents still withheld, to the survivors who have been fighting for decades to be heard by systems that were never built for them. And it ends with Amy speaking directly — to the children still in those houses, to the adults who are right now deciding whose side they're on, and to every institution that has ever dressed up self-protection as procedural caution. This is not a sad story. This is an angry one. The anger is the point. And the anger is what healing actually looks like.   Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of childhood sexual abuse, therapeutic malpractice, institutional betrayal, religious coercion, and the Epstein investigation. It does not contain graphic descriptions of abuse. If you or someone you know has experienced sexual abuse, RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline is available 24/7: 1-800-656-4673 or rainn.org

What do you do when you tell the truth — and the adults around you believe you, and still do nothing? In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Amy Prieb— licensed marriage and family therapist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse — tells the stories of every time she tried to get help as a child and was silenced. Not because people didn't believe her. They did. But believing a child and protecting a child turned out to be two very different things. Facilitated by Nikki Braaten, this conversation is honest, unflinching, and deeply informed by both lived experience and clinical understanding. Amy has done the work. She's not here to perform grief. She's here to name a system. In this episode, she walks through four specific moments: A boarding school disclosure at age 11, where her father minimized ongoing sexual abuse as "a few butt slaps" — and the adults accepted his version without question. A conversation at 15 with a trusted family friend who named mandatory reporting and then immediately steered her away from it, asking her instead to one day forgive her father at her wedding altar. A boyfriend at 16 who, upon hearing her disclosure, was overheard asking his friends how he could ever see her as a virgin now. And a CPS investigation that ended with a social worker slamming her notebook shut and citing the statute of limitations — while her abuser came home and began monitoring her every movement. Each of these moments is connected to what is happening right now with the Jeffrey Epstein files — the largest release of child sexual abuse investigation documents in American history. Because the playbook is identical whether the abuser is a missionary father in Thailand or a billionaire in Manhattan. Minimize. Redirect. Invoke forgiveness. Cite jurisdiction. Protect the men. Part 2 continues next week.   Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of childhood sexual abuse, institutional betrayal, religious coercion, purity culture, and the Epstein investigation. It does not contain graphic descriptions of abuse. If you or someone you know has experienced sexual abuse, RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline is available 24/7: 1-800-656-4673 or rainn.org

The world outside can be a lot. Your relationship doesn't have to be. When work is overwhelming, family is complicated, and the news feels like too much — a securely attached relationship can be one of the most powerful stabilizing forces in your life. Not because it solves the external chaos, but because it gives you somewhere solid to stand while you face it. In this episode, Amy explores one of the most quietly powerful truths she sees in her therapy practice: that a healthy, secure relationship functions like armor. When you can look at your partner and know — you are there for me, we are in this together, I am not alone — the hard stuff outside becomes genuinely more manageable. In this Yurtism, you'll explore: What secure attachment actually feels like in everyday relationship moments Why a stable partnership buffers stress from work, family, and the wider world How the simple reassurance of "we're in this together" changes everything You don't need a perfect life. You need one person in your corner. 5-10 minutes. One truth. Come sit in the yurt.

What happens when one woman looks around at all the fragmented, expensive, exhausting ways women are supposed to "fix" themselves — one course, one coach, one four-figure program at a time — and decides there's a better way? Mari Wuellner built it. She's an entrepreneur and insurance sales professional navigating one of the most male-dominated industries around — and that experience of being in a room where the model wasn't designed for you? It turns out, it's excellent fuel for building something entirely new. The Crew is a coaching collective unlike anything I've seen: six professional coaches covering relationship health, physical wellness, business, mindset, organization, and systems — all under one roof, for a monthly membership fee that is frankly almost suspicious in how accessible it is. And the community she's built around it? These are not women who are playing small or waiting for permission. In this conversation, Mari and I talk about what real community looks like versus the watered-down version every brand is selling right now, why women keep falling through the gaps when they only fix one area of their lives at a time, how she built a culture of genuine trust and collaboration in a world that still low-key pits women against each other — and which coaching area women think they need least when they join, and which one ends up rocking their world the most. This one is about relationships, connection, and community. But it's really about what it looks and feels like when women stop trying to fit into systems that were never designed for them — and build better ones instead. Instagram: @thecrewcc www.mariwuellnercoaching.com https://the-crew-100.circle.so/checkout/the-crew?affiliate_code=35784f  

What does it really take to grow up — and grow together? In this deeply personal episode, a mother and adult daughter sit down for an honest, unfiltered conversation about one of the most powerful relationships in a woman's life. From the turbulent teenage years to the surprising shift into adulthood, they unpack the arguments that were never really about what they seemed, the moments that changed everything, and the things that — no matter how much time passes — never change at all. They explore: How mothers and daughters navigate the transition from childhood to independence The unspoken expectations that create tension between mothers and daughters How a daughter's view of her mother transforms as she becomes a woman herself The generational patterns we inherit — and the ones we choose to break What it looks like to finally say the things that are hardest to say out loud This episode is for every daughter who has ever felt misunderstood by her mom. For every mother watching her child become someone new. For anyone who has ever loved someone so deeply that it made things complicated. Real. Raw. Relatable.

What does it actually take to build nourishing, lasting relationships in midlife — and how do you stop dating someone's potential and start seeing who they really are? Join Michelle Foy (entrepreneur, mom of three, adventure lover, and Enneagram 7) and Katie Silver (realtor, business owner, soccer-playing mom of two, and born connector) as they have the honest, laugh-out-loud, sometimes-uncomfortable conversations that midlife women are hungry for. Michelle and Katie bring their real-world experience as small business owners in Washington, single mothers, and women navigating midlife dating to explore what healthy relationships actually look like — and what they don't. No filters, no performance, just two women figuring it out together. Each episode tackles the questions you've been asking yourself at 2am: What are your true non-negotiables in love? How do you spot green flags and red flags early — before you're already attached? What does it mean to want a relationship vs. need one? How do you ask for help in a culture that prizes independence? And how do you unlearn the toxic relationship habits that weren't even yours to begin with? Whether you're newly single after divorce, dating after 40, re-entering the dating world in your 50s, healing from a difficult relationship, or just trying to understand your own attachment style and emotional needs — this podcast meets you exactly where you are. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe, leave a review, and share with the woman in your life who needs this conversation.   Michelle Foy owns Marathon Cleaners https://usemarathon.com/   Katie Silver, Salute Homes https://salutehomesnw.com/  

Your partner isn't wrong. They're just different. One of the most consistent patterns in happy, lasting relationships is that partners stop trying to change each other and start learning to work with each other. They accept that differences aren't defects — and instead of relitigating the same frustrations over and over, they find ways to compromise, negotiate, and meet in the middle. In this episode, Amy  gets personal — sharing how someone who can't stand waiting ended up in a relationship with someone who arrives everywhere early. Not a dealbreaker. Not a character flaw. Just a difference that needed a system. In this Yurtism, you'll explore: Why happy couples manage differences rather than judge them repeatedly How compromise works when both people genuinely want ease and peace What it looks like to think the best of your partner even when their habits drive you a little crazy If you and your partner keep having the same argument about the same difference, this one's for you. 5–10 minutes. One truth. Come sit in the yurt.

Some truths about relationships don't need a whole hour to land — they just need the right words. Yurtisms are bite-sized insights drawn from years of sitting with real people in real relationships, inside an actual yurt. Each episode distills one near-universal truth that keeps showing up in couples and individual therapy — the kind of thing that makes people pause mid-session and say, "I've never heard it put that way before." No long-winded theory. No homework. Just 5 to 10 minutes of grounded, honest perspective on the patterns that shape how we love, fight, connect, and grow. Pull up a chair — or a cushion — and come sit in the yurt for a minute.

What happens when the life you've built no longer feels like home? In this episode, Amy sits down with Elise and Kim — a couple in the middle of one of the boldest decisions two people can make together. They're not just changing addresses. They're reimagining their entire lives in pursuit of something that felt increasingly out of reach where they were: safety, freedom, and a community where they truly belong. Elise and Kim share how they met, how their relationship has grown, and what it has looked like to navigate a massive life transition as a couple — including the moments where they weren't on the same page, and how they found their way back to each other through the hard conversations. This episode gets honest about what it costs to choose yourself. The grief of leaving behind friendships, family closeness, and the familiar. The way a big decision can simultaneously bring a couple closer and push them to their edges. And what it actually looks like to work through fear, uncertainty, and love all at once. If you've ever felt like the place you're from couldn't quite hold who you're becoming — this one is for you.

We've all said it — "It's nothing. I'm fine." — usually when something is definitely not nothing and we are definitely not fine. This podcast is for everyone who has ever said those words and meant something else entirely. Hosted by Amy Prieb, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 17 years of clinical experience specializing in couples and relationships, It's Nothing. I'm Fine. is built on a simple but powerful truth: you were not built to do life alone. The quality of your relationships is one of the strongest predictors of your health, your happiness, and how long you live. Loneliness isn't just uncomfortable — it's genuinely dangerous. And yet, most of us never got a map for how to do connection well. This podcast is that map. Grounded in attachment theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy, each episode explores the patterns we learned early, the cycles we get stuck in, and the moments that pull us apart — and what it actually takes to find our way back to each other. Whether you tend to reach hard for closeness or go quiet when things get intense, whether you're in a relationship, rebuilding one, or trying to understand why the same dynamics keep showing up — there is something here for you. Through honest conversations with guests from all walks of life, Amy digs into all things relationship: the science, the struggle, the breakthroughs, and the everyday moments that matter more than we realize. Wanting closeness isn't weakness. It's the most human thing there is. Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and come back. This is the relationship we're building together.

Real talk about the messy, beautiful, complicated work of connecting with other people- because "I'm fine" is rarely the whole story.