Back Porch Confessions

What if the peace you’ve been searching for isn’t found in finally getting everything under control…but in realizing some things were never yours to control in the first place? In this episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara talks about letting go of control, overthinking, anxiety, people pleasing, emotional exhaustion, abandonment fears, relationships, boundaries, and the exhausting need to fi...

Ever wake up determined to choose peace, extend grace, and be the bigger person… only for somebody to test every ounce of patience you have before your morning coffee? Honey, the bigger person has LEFT THE BUILDING! 😂 In this episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara McCormick brings her signature Southern sass, humor, and heartfelt mental health conversations to the exhausting reality of always...

🎙️ HOW LONG CAN YOU GO ON BEING CONSIDERATE WITHOUT BEING CONSIDERED? ❤️ How long can you keep thinking about everyone else’s feelings while nobody seems to think about yours? In this episode of Back Porch Confessions , we’re talking about the exhaustion of always being the understanding one, the flexible one, the forgiving one, the one who checks in, shows up, adjusts, and says, “It’s okay, I und...

🎙️ THE FIVE-SECOND PAUSE: Delaying Your Reaction, Breaking Emotional Traps & Choosing Your Response | Back Porch Confessions ❤️ What if five seconds could change the entire direction of a conversation? In this episode of Back Porch Confessions , we’re talking about the power of pausing before reacting from anger, hurt, fear, rejection, defensiveness, or frustration. Because the feeling is real...

“How are you?” Fine. But are we? In this deep-dive episode of Back Porch Confessions , we unpack the 47 different things we may really mean when we say the word fine — because sometimes “fine” means okay… and sometimes it means overwhelmed, angry, grieving, exhausted, lonely, scared, disappointed, emotionally numb, people pleasing, avoiding conflict, or simply trying not to fall apart. We talk abo...

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What happens after the funeral, the flowers stop arriving, the phone stops ringing, and everyone else seems to return to normal… but you can’t? That’s The Limbo State . It’s the strange, empty space after losing someone you love where you’re no longer living in the initial shock of death, but you don’t quite know how to live this new life without them either. In this deeply personal episode of Bac...

You know the feeling… “I shouldn’t have to tell them. They should KNOW.” And for those of us who have been internally maintaining an emotional spreadsheet of every offense, disappointment, side-eye, forgotten anniversary, unanswered text, and questionable comment since approximately 1977 … this episode is for YOU. 😂 In this deep-dive episode of Back Porch Confessions , we’re unpacking the psychol...

SENESITIVE SUBJECTS, VIEWER DISCRESSION IS ADVISED! 🎙️ Back Porch Confessions – The Interviews | Real People. Real Stories. Real Conversations. Everybody has a story—and sometimes, all they need is someone willing to listen. Welcome to Back Porch Confessions – The Interviews , hosted by Barbara McCormick , a podcast series built around honest conversations with real people whose experiences deserv...

The Next Fifty Years Are Mine! What if healing wasn't about forgetting your past... What if it was about refusing to let your past write the rest of your story? After years of carrying childhood trauma, rejection, emotional neglect, abandonment, and believing I wasn't enough, I finally realized something life-changing: The next fifty years are mine. In this deeply personal episode of Back...

Releasing the Weight Without Rewriting the Truth The Weight We Were Never Meant to Carry Truth Without Hatred What Forgiveness Is...and What It Isn'tFreedom Doesn't Require Their PermissionThe Day I Stopped Arguing With RealityA Letter to the Child Inside

Mourning the Mother I Needed Some grief doesn't begin at a funeral. Some grief begins when you realize you've spent your entire life waiting for someone to become the person you needed them to be. In Hour Three of the Giving the Anger Back series, we explore one of the deepest and often most misunderstood wounds of childhood, mourning the love, emotional safety, and unconditional acceptanc...

What if your anger was never the problem? What if it was the part of you that protected a little child who never felt safe, seen, or unconditionally loved? In Hour Two of the Giving the Anger Back series, we take a deeper look at anger through a trauma-informed lens. Together, we'll explore the difference between healthy anger and unhealed rage , why emotional suppression keeps us stuck, and h...

For years I believed I was the problem! I thought if I were prettier... quieter... smarter... more lovable... maybe my own mother would have loved me differently. But healing taught me something life-changing. The anger wasn't the enemy. It was the voice of a little girl who spent decades trying to survive without the unconditional love every child deserves. In this deeply personal episode, we...

In this heartfelt episode, we talk about why so many of us interrupt tenderness with, “Stop, you’re going to make me cry,” instead of allowing ourselves to feel the beauty of the moment. Sometimes the tears we fight are not weakness. They are release. They are healing. They are the rainbow after the storm. This episode explores why receiving love, kindness, compliments, and emotional truth can fee...

What happens when life teaches you that the people you love can disappear? How do you learn to trust again when your heart has been conditioned to expect loss? In this deeply emotional and transformative episode of Back Porch Confessions , Barbara takes a powerful deep dive into the abandonment wound and the core belief many trauma survivors carry: "People leave." Together, we'll exp...

What happens when a child learns that the people they need aren't always available? In this powerful 6-hour deep dive, Barbara explores the abandonment wound, childhood emotional neglect, parental absence, hyper-independence, trust issues, abandonment anxiety, relationship struggles, and the lifelong belief that "people leave." Learn how these early experiences shape adult relationsh...

What happens when the person you trusted the most becomes the source of your deepest pain? In this powerful episode of Back Porch Confessions , Barbara takes a deep dive into Betrayal Trauma —the emotional, psychological, and physical impact that occurs when trust is shattered by someone you love. Whether it's infidelity, deception, emotional affairs, broken promises, addiction, secrecy, or re...

Why do trauma survivors often pull away from the very people they love? Why does isolation feel safer than connection? And why do so many people crave support while simultaneously avoiding it? In this deeply personal and eye-opening episode of Back Porch Confessions , Barbara takes a deep dive into the hidden reasons trauma survivors isolate. Together, we'll explore how childhood wounds, betra...

Why do we say “I’m fine” when we’re secretly falling apart inside? In this raw and emotional episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara dives deep into emotional masking, trauma responses, people pleasing, functioning depression, and why vulnerability feels unsafe for so many people. This conversation explores childhood emotional neglect, survival mode, the “strong friend” struggle, and the hidden...

Feeling like you don’t belong anywhere can become one of the loneliest battles a person fights silently. In this deeply emotional episode of Back Porch Confessions , we unpack the pain of never feeling chosen, the exhaustion of people pleasing, childhood wounds, abandonment trauma, emotional loneliness, and the desperate desire to finally fit in somewhere. This conversation dives into why so many...

Why Survival Is Worth Celebrating & Why More People Are Struggling Than We Realize You didn’t just “get through the day”… you survived something most people never saw. In this powerful episode of Back Porch Confessions, Barbara dives deep into the hidden struggles people carry, the emotional weight behind “I’m fine,” and why making it through the day is something worth celebrating. This episod...

In this deeply raw and soul-stirring episode of Back Porch Confessions , Barbara McCormick invites you to sit with a question that may change everything you thought you knew about love, sacrifice, and self-worth. Somewhere along the way, many of us learned that choosing ourselves meant losing love, disappointing others, or being labeled selfish. So we stayed quiet. We over-gave. We abandoned ourse...

This episode of Back Porch Confessions dives deep into healing, generational trauma, motherhood wounds, forgiveness, and emotional understanding. What happens when you realize your mother was human, learning, breaking, surviving... while still trying to love you the best she could? We unpack the pain, the silence, the sacrifices, and the truth: she was carrying things she never said out loud. If y...

Grief Is Love With Nowhere Obvious to Go Grief is real, sacred, and necessary. But sometimes healing begins when we shift from only focusing on the pain of their absence to also honoring the beauty of their presence, their impact, their love, and the life they lived. What if healing doesn’t mean forgetting them… but learning how to celebrate them while still grieving them? What if one of the healt...