Life By Design With Angela Weiss

The people you spend the most time with influence far more than your daily schedule—they can shape your thoughts, emotions, stress levels, nervous system, and overall mental health. In this episode of Life by Design with Angela Weiss, Angela explores the powerful connection between relationships and emotional well-being. Together, we'll discuss emotional safety, co-regulation, loneliness, atta...

Fear has a way of making us question everything—our abilities, our purpose, and whether we're truly capable of pursuing the life we dream about. But what if fear isn't a stop sign? What if it's simply evidence that you're growing? In this episode of  Life by Design with Angela Weiss , Angela explores why fear is a normal part of growth, how your brain responds to uncertainty, and p...

We often think about therapy and medication when it comes to mental health, but how often do we think about what we're feeding our brains? In this episode of  Life by Design , Angela Weiss, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, explores the powerful connection between nutrition and mental wellness. Learn how the foods you eat influence your mood, focus, energy, sleep, and overall brain health. While nut...

What if confidence isn't something you find—but something you build? In this episode of  Life By Design , Angela shares why waiting until you feel "ready" may be the very thing keeping you from the life you want. Through personal stories, including her 5,000-mile solo road trip, she explores how confidence is created by taking action, keeping promises to yourself, and refusing to let...

Sometimes the biggest mountains in our lives aren't there to stop us—they're there to prepare us. In this Sunday episode of  Life By Design , Angela shares how a cross-country road trip through the mountains became a powerful reminder that God often calls us to trust Him before we can see where He's leading. The climb may be difficult, but what God has for us may be waiting on the othe...

In this episode of  Life By Design , Angela talks about the powerful connection between movement, nature, and mental wellbeing. This conversation is not about exercising as punishment, chasing a smaller body, or forcing yourself into an unrealistic routine. It is about learning to see movement as care — a way to support your mood, regulate your nervous system, reconnect with your body, and gently...

In this deeply personal episode, Angela shares about her daughter Emma — her beautiful life, her death, and the way Emma continues to shape who Angela is today. This episode is not only about grief. It is about love, memory, healing, motherhood, faith, and the sacred process of learning how to keep living after loss. Angela also talks about her book, The Letter , which began as a healing exercise...

Father’s Day can be beautiful, but it can also be complicated. For some, it is a day filled with celebration, gratitude, family, and sweet memories. For others, it brings grief, disappointment, absence, longing, or wounds that still feel tender. In this episode of  Life By Design , Angela reflects on the fathers we had, the fathers we needed, and the healing love of our Heavenly Father. This conve...

As June 16 approaches, Angela reflects on a simple Sunday spent at the river with her daughter Emma just three days before Emma's death. At the time, it seemed like an ordinary day. Five years later, it has become one of the most treasured memories of her life. In this deeply personal episode, Angela shares how grief has taught her to value the ordinary moments we often take for granted—the ph...

Sleep is not a luxury. It is healthcare. In this episode, Angela Weiss, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, explores the powerful connection between sleep and mental health. From anxiety and depression to trauma, brain fog, irritability, and burnout, poor sleep can affect nearly every aspect of emotional and physical wellbeing. If you've ever found yourself exhausted but unable to sleep, waking up fee...

How do you speak to yourself when you make a mistake… when confidence feels shaky… when you’re trying something new… when you’re scared… when you feel behind? The person who talks to you the most in your lifetime… is you. In this episode of  Life By Design with Angela Weiss , we’re talking about the relationship we often discuss the least: the relationship we have with ourselves. Because many of u...

What happens to faith when the prayer is still unanswered? When the mountain doesn’t move… the grief remains… the diagnosis stays… the loneliness lingers… the road is harder than you ever imagined? In this Sunday Faith Edition, Angela shares a deeper conversation about the kind of faith that develops when life doesn’t unfold the way we prayed it would. This episode explores: Trusting God in unansw...

Life by Design with Angela Weiss Podcast Episode 38 — Thursday Mini Mental Health Permission to Stand Down: When You Thought You Were Doing Better… and Then Life Happened Have you ever felt like you were doing better… and then life happened? The stress came back. The exhaustion came back. Your nervous system got loud again. And suddenly you found yourself wondering: Did I lose all my progress? In...

What happens when you lose Monday… your podcast episode doesn’t upload… your rhythms change… your plans don’t go exactly right… and life gets a little messy? Apparently… you record your Tuesday podcast after 8 PM and talk about it. In this episode, Angela gets honest about real life, changing seasons, shifting rhythms, letting go of what no longer fits, and learning that showing up matters more th...

After years of functioning in survival mode, what happens when your mind and body finally say “enough”? In this deeply personal episode, Angela Weiss shares her experiences with burnout, caregiving, grief, healthcare exhaustion, trauma, and learning how to slow down after years of constantly carrying the weight of everyone and everything around her. From working overnight hospital call, to caring...

In this Tuesday episode, Angela Weiss explores one of the hardest parts of healing and relationships: What happens when awareness finally arrives… after patterns have already played out? This episode dives into: anxious, avoidant, and fearful attachment dynamics emotional flooding and shutdown patterns why repair is different from chasing or overexplaining how fear often drives relationship reacti...

Today I’m just talking from the heart about worry, anxiety, faith, and remembering that God already holds tomorrow in His hands. Sometimes we don’t need a perfectly planned message. Sometimes we just need the reminder that we are not carrying life alone. Happy Sunday, friends. Life by Design with Angela Weiss Podcast Available on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. That said — your original version is st...

Permission to Stand Down: Learning to Stand Down Without Losing Yourself In this episode of the Life by Design with Angela Weiss Podcast, Angela explores what happens when survival mode becomes part of your identity. Many people spend years being “the strong one” — the dependable one, the helper, the fixer, the person everyone leans on. Over time, constantly carrying responsibility, pressure, and...

Why do we keep repeating patterns we already recognize? Why do some people overthink, chase reassurance, pull away, shut down, or panic in relationships—even when they understand what they’re doing? In today’s episode, Angela Weiss explores what it actually means to move toward secure attachment and healthier emotional connection. This conversation goes beyond simply identifying anxious, avoidant,...

Mother’s Day can bring joy, grief, gratitude, longing, exhaustion, healing, and complicated emotions all at once. In today’s Sunday Faith Edition, Angela Weiss speaks to the many different women carrying something in their hearts today—the new moms trying to find themselves again, the exhausted moms overwhelmed by the mental load of motherhood, the women longing for children, grieving mothers, ste...

Sometimes the moment you finally slow down is the moment everything you’ve been carrying starts rising to the surface. In today’s Thursday Mini Mental Health episode, Angela Weiss talks about what happens when you begin feeling again after living in survival mode for a long time. This episode is for the person who has kept functioning, showing up, helping everyone else, pushing through exhaustion,...

Have you ever been in a relationship that felt deeply meaningful… but also confusing, inconsistent, and emotionally exhausting? In this episode, we bring together everything discussed in the attachment series and explore what actually happens when different attachment styles interact in real relationships. Because understanding your attachment style is one thing. Understanding the pattern between...

Episode Description There is a version of Mother’s Day that isn’t always acknowledged out loud. The one where you are still a mother, but your arms may be empty. The one where love remains, but so does grief. In this deeply personal episode, Angela Weiss shares not only as a nurse practitioner, but as a mother who has experienced miscarriage and the loss of her daughter, Emma, in 2021 at 17 years...

There are days when everything feels a little heavier… …but you’re still showing up. Still functioning. Still getting things done. And when someone asks how you’re doing— you say, “I’m fine.” ⸻ In this Mini Mental Health episode, Angela Weiss, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, speaks from a very real place—about what it looks like to carry something quietly while still moving through your day. This epis...

What if the problem isn’t that you love too much… but that you’ve been loving in a way that costs you yourself? In this episode, we’re talking about what it actually means to become secure in relationships—beyond surface-level definitions. This isn’t about becoming someone who doesn’t feel. It’s about learning how to stay connected without losing yourself in the process. If you’ve ever found yours...