it’s nothing. I’m fine.

Katie went speed dating. The men were older than advertised. One of them slipped her his number anyway — against the actual rules. And somehow, this became the perfect jumping-off point for everything. Michelle and Katie — two women in their 40s navigating the wildly weird world of midlife dating — are back for round two, and this episode goes deep. They talk about what it actually means to love y...

What happens when a panic attack at the happiest place on earth becomes the beginning of a beautiful friendship? Mary and Kelsey tell the story of the moment that fast-tracked their bond — a full-on meltdown in the middle of Disneyland, and a friend who didn't flinch. Kelsey's calm, steady presence in that moment said everything: you are not too much, and I am not going anywhere. In this episode,...

When your partner does something that bothers you, what's your first instinct? To ask what they meant — or to assume you already know? Most of us interpret our partner's behavior through the lens of our own personality, our own wiring, our own history. It feels like logic. If I did that, it would mean this — so that must be what it means when they do it. The problem is you are not in a relationshi...

What happens when the person who holds everything together has to let herself be held? This week, Amy sits down with Jennifer Chipperfield, who, at 53, found herself in the middle of something she couldn't manage, fix, or push through alone — a lymphoma diagnosis that interrupted life as she knew it and asked her to do the one thing that doesn't come naturally to most of us: receive. Together, lon...

Some people become caregivers gradually. For this week's guest, it's simply always been her life. Amy sits down with Sonia Nations-Gates who has spent decades as the unwavering center of her son's world — a son with complex medical needs, a father who shows up inconsistently, and a community that shows up intermittently. She is a "forever mother," and once you hear her story, you'll understand exa...

In this follow-up to our two-part series on childhood sexual abuse and systemic failure, Amy gets real about the aftermath — what healing actually looks like, what it cost to get here, and what will never fully go away. She opens with something most survivors rarely name: the difference between reporting your story and actually feeling it. For years, Amy could say the words clearly — "I was sexual...

If he really loved me, he would just know. It's one of the most common — and most quietly damaging — beliefs Amy encounters in relationship therapy. The rom-com fantasy that a truly loving partner should be able to read your mind, anticipate your needs, and show up exactly right without being told. It sounds romantic. In practice, it sets your partner up to fail and you up to feel perpetually disa...

What if the sideline is actually a relationship battlefield — and nobody gave you the playbook? This week, Amy sits down with Tessa Mcilraith, Youth Sports Mindset & Culture Coach and founder of Beyond the Grind, to talk about something that hits way closer to home than you might expect: the relationships hiding inside youth sports. We're talking about the ones between athletes and their self-...

In Part 1, Amy and Josh got honest — painfully honest — about the mistakes they made trying to blend their families. The culture clashes, the unrealistic expectations, the slow and humbling process of learning that combining families doesn't work the way you think it will. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, start there. This time, they're turning the corner. Part 2 is about what actually...

What does it really look like to break generational cycles when you're still healing from them yourself? Nikki and Aric sit down for an honest conversation about raising daughters after leaving high-control religion — and what it takes to parent intentionally when the old scripts are still running in the background. They talk about unpacking patriarchy in the small, everyday moments (not just the...

It's the little things — done consistently — that hold relationships together. Rituals and traditions might sound like holidays and big gestures, but in healthy relationships they're often much simpler than that. A morning check-in. A weekly date night. The way you always say goodbye before leaving the house. These small, repeated moments create something relationships and families deeply need: pr...

What happens when two people fall in love — and completely underestimate what comes next? In this first of a two-part series, Amy and Josh get personal. They sit down together to talk about their own step-family journey, including the part they weren't prepared for at all: how hard it actually was. They unpack the unrealistic expectations they carried into blending a family — the fantasy that ever...

This is Part 2. If you haven't listened to Part 1, start there — though this episode can also stand on its own. In the first episode, Amy Prieb walked through four moments of disclosure that were met with silence, redirection, and institutional failure. In this episode, she continues — and the stakes get higher, because the people failing her are no longer just family friends and boyfriends. They...

What do you do when you tell the truth — and the adults around you believe you, and still do nothing? In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Amy Prieb— licensed marriage and family therapist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse — tells the stories of every time she tried to get help as a child and was silenced. Not because people didn't believe her. They did. But believing a child and...

The world outside can be a lot. Your relationship doesn't have to be. When work is overwhelming, family is complicated, and the news feels like too much — a securely attached relationship can be one of the most powerful stabilizing forces in your life. Not because it solves the external chaos, but because it gives you somewhere solid to stand while you face it. In this episode, Amy explores one of...

What happens when one woman looks around at all the fragmented, expensive, exhausting ways women are supposed to "fix" themselves — one course, one coach, one four-figure program at a time — and decides there's a better way? Mari Wuellner built it. She's an entrepreneur and insurance sales professional navigating one of the most male-dominated industries around — and that experience of being in a...

What does it really take to grow up — and grow together? In this deeply personal episode, a mother and adult daughter sit down for an honest, unfiltered conversation about one of the most powerful relationships in a woman's life. From the turbulent teenage years to the surprising shift into adulthood, they unpack the arguments that were never really about what they seemed, the moments that changed...

What does it actually take to build nourishing, lasting relationships in midlife — and how do you stop dating someone's potential and start seeing who they really are? Join Michelle Foy (entrepreneur, mom of three, adventure lover, and Enneagram 7) and Katie Silver (realtor, business owner, soccer-playing mom of two, and born connector) as they have the honest, laugh-out-loud, sometimes-uncomforta...

Some truths about relationships don't need a whole hour to land — they just need the right words. Yurtisms are bite-sized insights drawn from years of sitting with real people in real relationships, inside an actual yurt. Each episode distills one near-universal truth that keeps showing up in couples and individual therapy — the kind of thing that makes people pause mid-session and say, "I've neve...

Your partner isn't wrong. They're just different. One of the most consistent patterns in happy, lasting relationships is that partners stop trying to change each other and start learning to work with each other. They accept that differences aren't defects — and instead of relitigating the same frustrations over and over, they find ways to compromise, negotiate, and meet in the middle. In this epis...

Real talk about the messy, beautiful, complicated work of connecting with other people- because "I'm fine" is rarely the whole story.

We've all said it — "It's nothing. I'm fine." — usually when something is definitely not nothing and we are definitely not fine. This podcast is for everyone who has ever said those words and meant something else entirely. Hosted by Amy Prieb, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 17 years of clinical experience specializing in couples and relationships, It's Nothing. I'm Fine. is built on...

What happens when the life you've built no longer feels like home? In this episode, Amy sits down with Elise and Kim — a couple in the middle of one of the boldest decisions two people can make together. They're not just changing addresses. They're reimagining their entire lives in pursuit of something that felt increasingly out of reach where they were: safety, freedom, and a community where they...