Trauma & Stress Explained by a Therapist
Listen to real stories of those who were brave enough to be raw and vulnerable about the things your parents told you to sweep under the table.
No matter your race, age, gender, or religion, life’s ups and downs connect us all.
Explore culture, trauma, family dynamics, stigmas, and mental health. Hear real stories and gain insights in real-time about how these situations impact stress & mental health.
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Family Drama & Generational Healing: How Family Patterns Shape Who We Become
What happens in the house stays in the house - until it doesn’t. Explore stories that uncover how family conflict, toxic dynamics, and generational trauma impact your connections and relationships.
Check Out the Episodes:
Can We Heal Toxic Mother Daughter Relationships?
Is Your Childhood Hispanic Experience SHAPING Your Parenting Style?
The Scars of An Absent Father: How My Father Ruined my Dating Life
The Pain of Being a Child of an Alcoholic Parent
Signs Gender Norms Are Sabotaging Your Family & Parenting (Coming Soon)
Tune in or take the quiz to explore how your upbringing shaped your stress response.
Culture, Identity & Stigma: Healing from the Stories We’re Told to Hide
Culture can be both a source of pride and pain. These conversations uncover how race, upbringing, and cultural expectations shape how we cope, connect, and heal.
Check Out the Episodes:
What Is It Like Growing Up Being a Colored Asian American?
Too Black to be Hispanic, too Hispanic to be Black
Being Black and Gay: The Battle of Identities
The Downside of Being Beautiful in Business : Pretty girl privilege
What Trauma & Homelessness Did to Parenting & Mental Health (Coming Soon)
Tune in or take the quiz to explore how your culture & identity shaped your stress response.
Faith, Religion & Spiritual Healing: When Belief and Mental Health Collide
How can something meant to bring peace create so much pain in our healing process? For many, faith and spirituality are sources of comfort…until they collide with mental health, shame, or trauma. Explore how belief systems shape identity, guilt, and belonging, and what it means to find spiritual safety again on your healing journey.
Check Out the Episodes:
How a Woman Pastor Survived Divorce in a Religious Community
Religion & Mental Health: Can the 2 Exist in the Same Space?
Ways Dismissive Pastors Sabotage Mental Health (Coming Soon)
How Religion Dismisses the Healing of Native Traditions on Mental Health (Coming Soon)
Tune in or take the quiz to explore how your your spiritual background influences your stress responses.
Mental Health Labels & Lived Experience: Redefining What It Means to Heal
Behind every diagnosis is a story. We unpack how mental health and neurodiversity show up in real life, and how healing creates change beyond the label.
Check Out the Episodes:
Black & Autistic: What is High Functioning Autism?
Diagnosed With Autism at 39: The Signs & Impacts on Marriage?
Hidden Ways ADHD Sabotages Mom Brain Every Day (Coming Soon)
Can Plant Medicine Hijack Your Brain & Mental Health? (Coming Soon)
Can Masculine and Feminine Energy Be Tied to Mental Health? (Coming Soon)
What if Hobbies Are the Key to Healing Trauma From Bullying? (Coming Soon)
Tune in or take the quiz to discover how stress and diagnosis affect your patterns.
Love, Attachment & Emotional Safety: The Cost of Relationships
Dating, marriage, and connection all activate your nervous system. Learn how attachment, conflict, and communication impact love, safety, and authenticity. How do intimacy and choices impact how we see ourselves and the way we connect with others?
Check Out the Episodes:
The Real Struggles Single Moms Face Every Day: Does that Make Her Bitter?
Are You Single & Satisfied or Are You The Problem?
Is it Real Love or Toxic Lust? | How Love Led to Abuse
Dating After 50 - Finding the Balance Between Love & Expectations
How Divorce, Adoption & Trauma Made Me a Better Lawyer (Coming Soon)
Why Choosing Yourself Is the Ultimate Act of Self‑Compassion (Coming Soon)
Tune in or take the quiz to discover how stress and diagnosis affect your patterns.
Whole-Body Wellness: Where Science Meets the Human Experience
Healing isn’t always mental…it’s physical, biological, emotional, and spiritual. Sometimes, what feels like “mental health” is your body responding to stress, hormones, nutrition, or exhaustion. Discover what whole health really means by exploring the things you can, and sometimes can’t, control.
Check Out the Episodes:
How Stress Led to Autoimmune Diseases Doctors Couldn't Solve
Can Food Make You Happier? The Difference Between Mental Health and Nutrition
Living With a Silent Disease: Kallman Syndrome
What Led Me to Surviving the Pain of a Miscarriage
Why Skipping Rest Is Destroying Your Healing Journey (Coming Soon)
Tune in or take the quiz to discover how stress and diagnosis affect your patterns.