It's Sensitive

What are the flags we carry — and which ones are worth climbing for? A reflection on purpose, identity, and the people willing to risk everything to make themselves and others visible.

After a long day at a local Pride event, a conversation about community sparked a reflection on connection, leadership, and the people who keep showing up in our lives. In this episode, I explore the idea of "what we owe each other," the continuity that exists even as people, organizations, and relationships change, and why slowing down might be the key to appreciating the moments that matter most...

An arts-and-crafts-time spiral about sticky notes, overwhelm, nervous systems, and accidentally creating a real-life Victory Garden. In this Radio Dispatch, Alex reflects on psychological safety, ADHD, physical rituals, and why tiny visible acts of care can matter so much when life starts moving too fast. Maybe growth doesn’t always look dramatic. Maybe sometimes it looks like small signs that som...

A rearranged living room sparked a bigger realization: continuity and consistency are not the same thing. In this Radio Dispatch, Alex reflects on why change can feel so emotionally disorienting, how we build internal maps around people, places, and identity, and why consistency — not sameness — is often what helps us through transition. Maybe safety isn’t that nothing changes. Maybe safety is dis...

A reflection on memory, protest, and what it means to show up. From the Women’s March to today’s No Kings March—this is about not forgetting, and choosing your place in the moment.

When the world feels heavy, it’s easy to react, stay silent, or drift away from the things that matter most to us. In this Radio Dispatch, Alex explores what values really mean through personal stories about integrity, mistakes, and speaking up. Sometimes the goal isn’t changing the world overnight — it’s making sure the world doesn’t change you.

We’re living inside history — and it doesn’t feel smooth. Corporate timelines keep moving. LinkedIn sounds polished. Meanwhile, parts of the world are unstable in very real ways. When threat becomes ambient, overwhelm might not be weakness. It might be attunement. “Through” isn’t poetic. It’s heavy. But it’s still the way.

This dispatch sits in the space between rejecting AI outright and using it without reflection — tracing how curiosity, work, ADHD, therapy, and lived experience reshaped my relationship with it over time. It’s about structure instead of shortcuts, disagreement without apology, and using tools in ways that keep us grounded in ourselves and in real human connection. Not replacing. Not avoiding. Just...

This dispatch moves through a hard week without looking away — from political violence and information overload to snowstorms, neighbors, breath, and the body itself. It’s about staying present when the instinct is to disconnect, and about what it actually looks like to remain human in the middle of it all. Not fixing. Not fleeing. Just standing in it — together, in real time.

This radio dispatch touches on themes of steadiness, orientation, and choosing presence in moments of collective strain. It reflects on what it means to hold the line without hardening, stay engaged without overextending, and remain human when the systems we rely on feel unstable and loud.

Caring has a cost — especially in a world that never goes quiet. In this episode, I’m joined by Cass for a wide-ranging conversation about advocacy, overwhelm, and what it takes to stay human when everything feels urgent. We talk about burnout, why “enough” disappeared, and how the idea of a Victory Garden offers a way to keep showing up without burning out.

Radio Dispatch: In this first dispatch, Alex is returning after a long pause to share field notes from the present moment. Drawing on the idea of wartime radio broadcasts, this episode reflects on why connection, context, and small acts of resistance matter more than perfection during unstable times. This is a check-in, a signal, and a reminder that sensitivity isn’t weakness—it’s part of how we e...

🚨 Trigger Warning: This episode discusses rape and sexual assault, including institutional cover-ups. Listener discretion is strongly advised. In this gut-punch of an episode, we dive into the dark underbelly of the U.S. military—not combat zones, but the culture of silence around sexual assault within its ranks. Survivors speak out, and we follow the trail of systemic failure that turns brave se...

In this episode, Alex is back from a hiatus, and talks about the importance of mental health, boundary setting, and navigating and the holidays by prioritizing ourselves.

In this episode, Alex talks with Lesley Jones, a pelvic floor Physical Therapist with Southwest Florida Pelvic Health, and Lauren Samples, a former patient, about everything pelvic floor. From incontienence, to endometriosis, to penial dysfunction. The pelvic floor has everything to do with it! And we dive into what exactly a pelvic floor physical therapist does and how our pelvic floor is so inte...

June is Pride month which commerates years of struggle for civil rights and ongoing pursuit of equal justice for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities.  As one Ashland, KY community member asked, "You guys can get married now and you can have your Pride, so why are you pushing so hard? Why do you have to be so present and visible in our community?" In this episode...

Alex talks with Sean, who is running for Ashland, KY City Commissioner, bringing up a trove of sensitive topics. While also discussing the issues at hand for the City of Ashland and challenges for Appalachia as a whole. Not only do they discuss politics and why it's such a sensitive subject, but also religion and it's role in politics. As well as, several other issues that not only Ashland faces,...

Alex & Ellie discuss neurodivergence, what it is, common ways it shows up in everyday life, and the difficulties of adult ADHD. 

Alex & Cass discuss the process of greiving, the difficulty with losing both humans and pets in our lives, and how the process of grieving looks different for everyone. Grief never moves in the ways we expect and having discussions about the aging process is so important! This hard conversation talks about normalizing how processing, and decisions about death, is so important for our mental an...

Alex and Brian G talk about the struggles of addiction and how mental health directly impacts the various forms addiction can take on. Covering everything from eating, alcohol, and drugs to family trauma, PTSD, and LGBTQ & Racism topics when it comes to embracing the change necessary to face addicition.

In today's mini-episode, Alex covers some feedback we've recieved about the It's Sensitive podcast, ways to reach out to us, and a sneak peak of what's to come! 30-day Mortality after Bariatric Surgery: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249614/

Let's normalize the discussion concerning body image and weight loss! The Weight We Carry - this episode Alex and Cass, whom have struggled with their weight and body image their entire life, talk about the stigma & difficulties behind common weight loss practices. Everything from the number on the scale, to fitness, weight loss medication, and mental health is touched upon in this episode and...