Wellish

Do you ever feel guilty for relaxing? Like every hobby needs to be productive, every weekend needs to be optimized, and every moment of your life should be spent becoming a “better” version of yourself? If you’ve forgotten how to have fun without feeling like you’re wasting time, this episode is for you. In today’s episode, we’re challenging one of the biggest myths in self-improvement culture: th...

If you’ve been feeling guilty every time you slow down, rest, choose fun, or do something that doesn’t make you more productive, this episode is for you. This month’s Wellish theme is play, adventure, and creativity and I’m challenging one of the biggest messages we’ve absorbed from self-improvement culture: that growth only counts when it’s difficult. In this Confessions of a Wellish Listener epi...

This week, I’m reading your anonymous confessions, and somehow they all point to the same question: When do we finally get to stop trying to earn our lives? We talk about perfectionism disguised as self-improvement, feeling like you need permission to share your inner world, why healing can become another full-time job, romanticizing people and patterns that hurt us, the difference between chemist...

You can be kind, loyal, self-aware, and deeply caring and still lose yourself. In this conversation with therapist, author, and trauma specialist Cynthia Schwartzberg, we explore the subtle ways self-abandonment disguises itself as love, compassion, self-improvement, and being a “good person.” We talk about why so many people repeat the same relationship patterns, struggle to trust themselves, ove...

What if the problem isn't that you're too sensitive? What if you've spent so much of you life anticipating other people's needs, managing their emotions, and abandoning yourself in the process that you've mistaken self sacrifice for love? When you're highly sensitive, it's easy to assume that caring means doing for others what you wish they would do for you. You notice everything. You accomodate....

Have you ever looked back at a relationship, friendship, or season of your life and thought, “That wasn’t really me”? Not because someone forced you to change, but because somewhere along the way you started making decisions around someone else instead of around yourself. In this episode, we’re talking about one of the most overlooked forms of self-abandonment: giving someone so much influence tha...

On this episode I am talking to you guys about the reasons I have been out of my mental fog and feeling good this last week. Not in an ádrenla line performative way, but in a very genuine way. I did several things in the last week that contributed to getting more aligned with the version of myself I picture in my head like creating a more real life morning routine, making my kitchen less chaotic a...

If you’ve ever found yourself saying “it’s fine” when it isn’t, ignoring your own needs to keep the peace, or constantly prioritizing someone else’s comfort over your own, this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, we’re talking about self-abandonment in relationships: what it is, why so many of us do it, and how to stop losing ourselves in the pursuit of connection. We’ll explore the subtl...

On this weeks episode of Confessions of a Wellish Girly I thought we would just have a causal hang out sesh. I walk you guys through where my head has been at this past week from a total crash out to something happening that through me into victim mode and the realizations that my negative feelings gave me to try to create a better life for myself. I walk you guys through my manifestation practice...

In this episode of Wellish, Sarah sits down with Ashley Banek, founder and CEO of Samara Health, for a conversation about self-trust, boundaries, medical gaslighting, and what happens when you stop waiting for permission to believe your own experience. Ashley shares how years of misdiagnosis and being dismissed in her endometriosis journey forced her to rebuild trust with herself, advocate for her...

We’ve been taught to chase chemistry. The butterflies. The obsession. The excitement. The feeling that someone can completely consume our thoughts. But what if that’s not actually what creates healthy relationships? In this episode, we’re talking about the difference between chemistry and emotional safety and why so many of us mistake anxiety, uncertainty, and inconsistency for connection. You’ll...

May felt like a month of contradictions. I spent part of it dealing with mental health ruts, anxiety about being hard to love, panic spirals around abandonment, and the uncomfortable realization that I might be the common denominator in some of my struggles. I also found myself confronting something deeper: the idea that I don’t have to be happy all the time to be worthy of love, belonging, or a g...

This month’s confessions revealed something interesting: a lot of us are learning that just because something feels true doesn’t mean it is. Feeling burnt out doesn’t mean you have a bad attitude. Feeling guilty doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong. Feeling afraid doesn’t mean something bad is about to happen. And feeling unfinished doesn’t mean you’re broken. In this episode of Confessions of...

What if the real problem is that you’ve become so self-aware, self-critical, and growth-focused that you’ve forgotten how to stay on your own side? In this episode, we’re talking about what self-compassion actually looks like when you’re someone who values accountability, emotional intelligence, and personal growth. If you’ve ever struggled with feeling like being kind to yourself is lazy, delusio...

Everyone wants to be emotionally intelligent until they realize it doesn’t mean becoming perfectly calm, healed, or unbothered all the time. In this episode of Confessions of a Wellish Girly, Sarah talks about the difference between hyper self-awareness and actual emotional regulation, including a very real moment this week where she reacted unfairly toward her boyfriend while trying to stop herse...

If you’ve been trying to become better for years but still secretly feel like you’re not enough this episode is going to hit hard. In today’s conversation, I’m sits down with trauma-informed coach and intuitive healer Tori Jenae to unpack the hidden wound behind perfectionism, overachievement, people pleasing, hyper-independence, and the constant need to “fix” yourself. Together, we explore why ch...

What if the habits you call “self-improvement” are actually destroying your self worth? In this episode, we’re talking about 3 extremely normalized behaviors that look like growth in self improvement culture but quietly teach you that who you are right now is never enough. From turning yourself into a constant self-improvement project, to using productivity to earn your self-respect, to confusing...

This week’s episode is for the people who are exhausted from abandoning themselves in the name of being “good,” loyal, understanding, forgiving, or easy to love. This wasn’t a normal rut. It wasn’t “if I fixed my routine” or “if my life looked different.” It was deeper than that. It was the kind of spiral that makes you question your entire existence and whether you’re even lovable as a person. In...

If you’ve ever thought “why am I like this?” “why can’t I just get it together?” or felt like no matter what you do, it’s never enough this episode is going to hit. Because what if you don't actually hate yourself? What if you’ve just been grading yourself your entire life , scoring your body, your productivity, your emotions, your progress, against standards you didn’t even consciously choose? In...

In this episode, we’re getting real about what your daily life actually says about you because your habits, routines, and patterns aren’t random!!!! They’re a reflection of what you believe you deserve, what you prioritize, and where you might be a little out of alignment. If you’ve been feeling like you’re “failing” your routine or lifestyle, constantly starting over, or trying to keep up with ha...

This is your reminder that self-improvement doesn’t look like having it all together, it looks like paying attention and getting to know yourself on a deeper level. In this week’s Confessions of a Wellish Girly , I’m breaking down what actually worked for me in April and what didn’t. From the small habits that quietly kept my mental health afloat, to the patterns that still trip me up (hi reassura...

Somewhere along the way, we started believing that for our lives to be good enough they have to be full. Full schedules. Full calendars. Full routines. Full potential. So we keep adding more. More goals, more habits, more plans, thinking eventually it will feel like enough. But what if the problem isn’t that you’re not doing enough, it’s that your life is overpacked? In this episode, I sit down wi...

If you’re trying to reset your life right now and instead of feeling better you feel uncomfortable, disconnected, or like something is off, this episode is for you. Because the truth no one tells you is that starting over doesn’t feel empowering at first. It feels unfamiliar. It feels like: being misunderstood when you stop people pleasing questioning yourself when things finally get calm missing...

Today’s episode is for anyone who feels like they’re doing life “wrong” even though they’re trying. In this Confessions of a Wellish Listener episode, I’m reading your real, unfiltered thoughts from judging your life based on other people’s expectations, to assuming the worst in every situation, to feeling happy for the first time in a while and immediately waiting for it to fall apart. We’re talk...

If you’ve been trying to build a better life but keep getting stuck in perfectionism, pressure, or routines that feel more forced than fulfilling, this episode is for you. This week, I’m joined by Terri Hanson Mead, reinvention advocate, helicopter pilot, and author of Piloting Your Life, for a conversation about what it actually looks like to change your life in a real way through the choices you...