Unforgetting

Are you excited about getting older? Ordering a drink when you turn 21 is exciting, and renting a car at 25 is sort of cool…but how many of us truly embrace aging? For a lot of us, the idea of getting older is something we either avoid thinking about or maybe even downright fear.  And society isn’t helping. Today I’m talking with Lee Zavorskas about: What she’s noticed as a Holistic Esthetician ab...

When was the last time you felt like everything in your life is totally manageable. The pace of your life feeling both relaxed and interesting, having enough space for everything with time to spare.  Chances are… you can’t remember a time like that. Many of us are consistently pushed beyond our limits - at work, at home, in parenthood, everywhere. This week, I’m talking with Lisa Robbin Young abou...

Have you ever been arguing with someone, and the misunderstanding is so deep that it feels like you’re practically speaking different languages? Well, maybe you are. This week I’m talking with Lena Morgan about: What the five Fight Languages are, and how we end up defaulting to our own language preference without even realizing it. Why we seem to have the same fights over and over again with our p...

Most of us have a really hard time setting boundaries. If you’re like me, you might have trouble knowing how to set them, actually holding them, and feeling okay during the whole process. This week I’m talking with Morenike Olorunnisomo about: What a real boundary is vs common misconceptions about them. Why we need them. How to know the difference between a need and a preference. The first step to...

This week, we’ve got a big announcement about the future of Unforgetting. We talk about: What’s changing about the show. My personal journey with accepting the faster AND slower parts of myself. How the ways I’ve been relaxing have actually been stressing me out. What the attention economy is and how we fit as consumers. How the noise of constant information overwhelms our brains. The ways Unforge...

When you’re in relationship, do you find yourself so worried that something will go wrong that you want to badger the other person for reassurance? Maybe you have the opposite feeling and in relationship often feel yourself shutting down or running away when things get vulnerable? Or maybe you’re go back and forth between both of those feelings and never feel secure when you’re getting close to so...

Either you are a single parent, or you know someone who is. Nearly a quarter of US children under the age of 18 live in a household with one parent. That’s a lot of families navigating this dynamic. Although I have several single mothers in my life, I really haven’t sat down and talked with them in depth about what it’s actually like. So today, that’s what we’re doing.  This week I’m talking with...

Toxic positivity is bullshit. When we experience something painful in your life, the last thing we need is to be told that it’s all for the best. Because honestly, it kinda seems like the “best” outcome wouldn’t have involved that much pain. This week, I’m talking about: Why toxic positivity sucks. Reasons why your trauma doesn’t make you a better person.   Why rushing ourselves through healing do...

Astrology is more than just funny, relatable memes. It can teach us a lot about ourselves, but most of us don’t know much beyond the sun sign related to our own birthday, and anything beyond that feels confusing.  This week on Unforgetting, I’m talking with Gwen Yi about: What astrology is. How an astrologer reads your natal chart. The 12 houses of astrology, and what the heck they mean.  The diff...

If you're often praised for never giving up and always making things happen, it's also possible that you don't know when to quit and when to give up, and you run yourself into the ground no matter what to make something happen. In this solo episode, I'm talking about: Why quitting is really hard for some of us.  Internalized capitalism and why some of us are more comfortable wi...

I think that being in relationship is one of the most amazing things about being a human... And it’s also one of the hardest. This week, I’m talking with Nicole Walker about: What makes a healthy relationship. Why zero conflict is not the goal we should be striving for. Why some people want to talk it out immediately and others want to run at the first hint of an argument. How to work through conf...

We see their content all the time, but have you ever wondered what it’s like to be an influencer?    Well today we’re gonna find out because I am talking to Cameron Phillips, about: His days in the world of content creation. What it really means to be a content creator or an influencer. What’s involved in social media being your full-time job. The mental health implications of having your life vis...

If you grew up going to church, then you were likely conditioned by purity culture. And purity culture’s pressure to deny and villainize really normal sexual development and curiosity has lasting negative consequences. This week, I’m talking with Hannah Brents about: How purity culture impacts the people within it, even if they aren’t in a religious community. What happens to our relationships wit...

How do you know if you’re a good listener? Listening isn’t necessarily a skill that we automatically get better at as we get older.  This week, I’m talking with my guest Orly Israel about: What makes a good listener. What a Listening Table is and the unique way that Orly tackled his goal of becoming a better listener. Why a lot of us don’t share more with the people in our lives. How different con...

Whether you’re someone who loves taking quizzes to find out which 90s song you are, or you’re completely skeptical of anything that tries to put a label on you…this episode is going to be really, really helpful.  Our personality is a mix of our conditioning and our nature. And today, we’re talking about the nature side. This week, I’m talking with Carly Toomey about: What Personality Type is. The...

Even if you did receive sex ed in middle school, that education probably did not include information on how to actually relate to your sexuality in a healthy way.  This week, I’m talking with Patricia Rich about: What Self-Led sexuality is and why it’s important. Why authentically expressing ourselves sexually is often really difficult. Internal consent and the importance of checking in with ourse...

If you’ve ever spent a weekend feeling completely burnt out while simultaneously crushed by the guilt and shame of not being productive…welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism. When this happens, we often end turning to wellness spaces to help us feel better, but are we really escaping the effects of capitalism through the wellness industry…or are they just two sides of the same coin?  This w...

How comfortable are you with being really bad at something? Whether it's going to a new gym or an art class or at work, what happens inside of you when everyone else is way better at it than you are? This week, we chat about: Why being bad at things is really good for you Why being a beginner is extremely triggering for a lot of us. How American culture conditions us into thinking we have to...

We’re talking about one of my favorite, favorite things: Internal Family Systems, or IFS. And even if you think you don’t know what that is, you probably do and just didn’t know that’s what it’s called. If you’ve ever heard of your inner child, that’s IFS.  Our personality isn’t one fixed thing. It’s complicated and nuanced and sometimes even contradicts itself.  This week, I’m talking with Alice...

Rituals have been passed down for generations…but what if we don’t know the cultural practices of our own ancestry? Too often, people who want to feel connected to wisdom of the past end up reaching out and grabbing onto the nearest ritual from a culture that doesn’t even belong to them. This week, I’m talking with my guest Freia Serafina about: What rituals and cultural practices are. Why humans...

How do you know if you were raised in an unhealthy family system, or if the issues your family faces are just normal problems that arise when a bunch of people try to combine their lives? This week, I’m talking with my guest Lauren Penner about: What makes a family dynamic healthy vs unhealthy. Why we care so much about what our families think of us. What happens when we don’t get the love we need...

Manifestation is the fastest, easiest way to get every single thing you want in your life. Except…is it?    If attracting things with my mind is the best way to get things, why does it seem like every spiritual influencer is manifesting abundance by charging shit tons of money for the secrets of how easy manifestation is?    In this episode, we talk about: What manifestation is, and if it’s actual...

When you hear the word “cult,” what do you think of? Maybe it’s people drinking koolaid or building a commune back in the 70s. But high control groups exist now, they are everywhere, they are extremely damaging, and no one thinks they are signing up for a cult when they first get involved. This week, I’m talking with my guest Dr. Quincee about: What a high control group is. Our own personal experi...

Are you a hippie or do you believe in science? That question has got it all wrong, because today I talk with plant scientist Rebecca Lazarou about the intersection of plants and science. Because you don’t have to pick one. This week, Rebecca and I talk about: What kind of work a plant scientist does. Common misconceptions and myths about herbalism. Why our connection to nature matters so much, and...

I wish I somehow had a highlight reel of all the facial expressions people have had when I say I like ecstatic dance. I mean I get it, the label “ecstatic dance” sounds totally out there, and wild and maybe like something that people who take a lot of drugs enjoy. We’re going to demystify ecstatic dance and maybe open up the possibility of your new favorite way to move.  This week I’m talking with...