The Camisha Blackburn Podcast

Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of stillbirth, grief, depression, and generational trauma. Please listen with care. What if you are not failing at your purpose? What if you are just carrying blocks that were never yours to begin with? I sit down with Kanika Vasudeva, energy expansion coach and Akashic Records reader, for a conversation that bridges the spiritual and the pract...

Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of childhood religious abuse, physical and emotional abuse, addiction, exorcism, spiritual trauma, generational patterns, and toxic relationships. Please listen with care. What if the pain in your body was not just physical? What if your relationship patterns were not just bad luck? What if the trauma you carried was not even entirely yours? I...

Have you ever felt like someone mirrored you so perfectly it felt like fate? Like you finally found your other half? That feeling might be worth paying closer attention to. I sit down with Kasia Dodd, a clinical psychologist and author of The Chameleon's Game, who spent over a decade in a relationship with a covert narcissist. Even with her background in psychology, she found herself asking th...

What does it actually take to walk away from a successful career when it is slowly killing your spirit? I sit down with my dear friend Darla Reed, who spent seven years as a mechanical insulator in a male-dominated construction union, eventually earning a seat on the executive board and becoming a foreman, general foreman, trustee, and instructor. And then she walked away from all of it. We talk a...

Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of cannabis use and withdrawal, menstrual health, and adult mental health. Please listen with care. This week, we are slowing down for a life update, and I have a lot to catch you up on. I am walking you through my current 5 AM morning routine, sharing the spearmint tea discovery that gave me my very first pain free period, getting real about h...

Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of domestic violence, drug use, toxic relationships, mental health, and trauma. Please listen with care. Most love stories skip the messy middle. This one is the messy middle. In Episode 6 of The Camisha Blackburn Podcast, I am joined by my wife, Riley Blackburn, to share the full story of us. We met in 2018 at a dive bar in Columbus, both deep...

Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of body image, bullying, drug use, birth control, and disordered relationships with food and exercise. Please listen with care. For years, I chased a number on the scale. I did the Pilates, I started cycle syncing, I tried to eat better — and I saw almost no results. Because I was still asking the wrong question. In Episode 5 of The Camisha Bla...

Content note: This episode contains discussion of diet culture, body image, family conflict, and the true history of Thanksgiving, including violence against indigenous people. Please listen with care. The holidays are supposed to feel like joy and gratitude. But for a lot of us they come with guilt around food, uncomfortable family dynamics, and boundaries that feel impossible to hold. In this ep...

Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of toxic relationships, emotional abuse, codependency, and mental health. Please listen with care. Welcome back! If Episode 2, "Unpacking the Root," helped you finally understand  why  you struggle with low self-worth, this episode provides the radical, actionable Action Plan for the HOW. We move past pain and into the trenches of sel...

Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of childhood trauma, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and addiction. Please listen with care and reach out for support if you need it. Last episode we talked about the what. This episode we go deeper into the why. In Episode 2, we are unpacking the root — tracing the childhood wounds, the father wound, the mother wound, and the deep persistent...

Content note: This episode contains honest discussion of childhood trauma, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and addiction. Please listen with care and reach out for support if you need it. Every healing journey has a beginning. Mine started long before I ever picked up a supplement or changed my diet. It started in childhood, in the homes I grew up in, in the relationships I watched, in the pain I...