The Healing Pod: Navigating Anxiety and Mental Health Together

Episode 51 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Sorry for the skipped episode drop! I was going to rush and put it out later that week and then I realized no…just take a breath and get back to it. And here we are! This week we’re talking about building some compassion for the version of ourselves that stayed in bad situations too long. Be it a toxic work environment, that relationship we just can’t seem t...

Episode 50 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Today we talk about that impact when someone else is trying to make their panic and stress into something that you have to solve OR ELSE. Not my monkeys, not my circus. I’m more than happy to attend but I cannot take over in order to let you avoid your own anxious feelings. As a therapist, as a friend, as a family member or spouse or child or any relationshi...

Episode 49 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Apologize for Jess being dark/having off audio. It is what it is.  Today we are talking about the window of tolerance. This is the optimal space that we function in, where we are energized enough to engage and not so overwhelmed as to fly off the handle at anything that is in our path. Avoiding the zombie phase and the rage phase is a struggle we all face. ...

Episode 48 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Today we are touch on the difference between hiding in coping skills and opening up to potential healing and growth.  Coping skills are for regulation. They get us through the tough moments. If we keep running from discomfort though and never use new skills to challenge that which we could not do before, there is no growth.  We need closure, we need autonomy...

Episode 47 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Today we are joined by Zico Alame from Journey Together PC! Zico wanted to talk about the importance and impact of a healthy therapeutic alliance on progress in therapy.  Having a healthy relationship lets you work on the hard things, learn how to navigate ruptures and identify actual read flags and harmful behavior, and practice the skills that you want to...

Episode 46 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  “This guy is a whole ass train wreck” Today we found an anonymous post on one of my Therapy Support boards and we react. There is no username to attach this to but if you recognize the story, give us a shout. Unrequited love, red flags, projection, manic-pixie-dream-girl, profound questions along the lines of “You still play guitar…” the never ending search...

Episode 45 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  First off an apology for this one, Jess’ internet was not cooperating and it nerfed her vocals very badly on all copies of her recording. So rather than being sensible people and rescheduling everything with our guest we pushed through anyway.  Today we’re talking with Miki! The wonderful person who created our intro and outro music who is out about her poly...

Episode 44 Welcome to the Healing Pod! It was really a struggle behind the scenes for us to actually get this one together. So we just literally picked a reddit story and decided to talk off of that. It’s getting us back into the flow at least, promise for next one we will be a little more present! The story is simple. A girl falls for guys she doesn’t like hoping for the fairy tale to just be han...

Episode 43 Welcome to the Healing Pod! Here’s a more clarified start for season two, right before we debate changing it!!  Trues story yo, meeting with people now to see about plans and ideas for more interviews and fun things for this season. In the meanwhile, here we are again, talking about making a trauma dump chaotic life period a little more therapeutically healthy  We’re looking at getting...

Episode 42 Welcome to the Healing Pod! Sorry, this one is less organized and more us trying to find our feet again. Also it was recorded right before Christmas.  But regardless! Have an episode finally! A second more organized re-start one shall be following soon.  I am very very sorry for the long ass delay in posting. This episode does not have much point other than us reconnecting and talking a...

Episode 41 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Jess is back! And audio…seems to be changing volume in the video and be a bit…odd. Maybe it’s my imagination. Probably not. But…it happens! The more I catch tiny errors in well established podcasts the more I realize it’s ok for our little fun here not to be perfect.  We are answering a question from Allie about the natural nature of fears, responding to the...

Episode 40 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Jessica is busy fighting with her still leaking roof, so I am joined once again by Kasie! Today is the end of a long week with a lot of heartache. So we decided to talk about a lighter topic and explore our decision to run a half-marathon! 8 years after the only other one we ran…and then deciding a week ago to run one a month and a half before the planned Di...

Episode 39 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  A few sorries to get out of the way first. This will be a slightly longer episode.  I didn’t realize how much the cricket noises came through my open window, which I find relaxing but others may be irritated by so sorry guys! Also the video is too long for my sound clean up on video so….until we get monetized you’ll have to deal! Also the random sheep……she a...

Episode 38 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  I swore a lot in this episode. It’s been rough. I do apologize, but also…nah.  We are joined by Keith Christie again this week to explore out emotional baggage and how to maybe lesson it’s impact on us. Emotional baggage is the stuff that we keep carrying with us, and cover up and lock away to pretend that it does not affect us even though it clearly is leak...

Episode 37 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  This week we have technical issues of Jess’ mic dying in the middle of the episode, but it’s held together with duct tape and super glue so we’re all good! Except for how I realize it cut off the end of her recording so where suddenly what she says may not match what she’s saying in the video…just ignore that. You’re lucky I didn’t try to splice something in...

Episode 36 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  This week we talk about deciding to do a Do Over. This can be a simple thing such as scrapping a small project or recipe, or a major decision such as completely changing a career or ending a relationship. It’s incredibly scary to make that choice sometimes, especially as we know we will mourn that which we leave behind, no matter how much it was time to leav...

Episode 35 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Spirited away was the movie I could not remember! Anyway, here we are talking about the mental junk drawer! All the half done tasks, worries, things we’re trying to actively process or hold onto in case they get forgotten, people who we need to reply to and make sure they’re being taken care of, everything.  And just like with regular junk drawers, or intern...

Episode 34 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Jess’ amazing line of the day” I’m not broken, I’m building. Take it one tiny messy step at a time, every step forward is movement.”  Reparenting is a hard process of paying attention to what lessons we didn’t learn, what lessons we learned that don’t work for us anymore, and what we need now that we may be pretending we don’t because no one else specificall...

Episode 33 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  I want to go to pirate pride week…Happy pride everyone! Pride was a riot and no one can make me ashamed of myself no matter how hard they try, I’ve way too much practice doing that myself to fall for it. But anyway, this episode is actually about the trap of comparing ourselves. To others, to ideals, to shoulds, to anything that leaves a winner and a loser....

Episode 32 Rest is not the absence of productivity.  Welcome to the Healing Pod!  As we head into (or when this posts head out of) the holiday weekend, we are talking about rest! Not just zoning out and dissociating, actual rest.  True rest means connecting to ourselves and addressing what we actually need, rather than just separating from the things that are taking energy.  It may be active, it m...

Episode 31 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Thank’s for putting up with us skipping last week, it was a lot of back and forth and we wanted the time we had to be ours and not just podcasting.  So Jess is back this week! And we are talking about the need to be the main character in your own story. Not in anyone else’s story. But in your own story.  So when you notice that you’re pulling back from takin...

Yeah..I went on vacation with the best of intentions of meeting up with Jess and recording some in person episodes and instead, we just hung out. Said hi to her kid. She helped her other kid prepare for prom. It was awesome and way too short and absolutely gorgeous but the end result is a week with no episode. So we will be back on track in a couple weeks and I hope you are all enjoying your life...

Episode 30 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Featuring the amazing KC again! My official gal pal, (not to be confused with those false gal pals who really are just pals).  Today we are talking about dating and managing relationships when dealing with anxiety. Kc and I go over own own experiences (we have improved! And have so far to go) and talk about some ways to approach communication and support whe...

Episode 29 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  “We deserve more than a preprogrammed version of love” Objectophilia, parasocial relationships, unrequited love, falling for fictional characters…this week we have Jess back (yaaaay!!!!!) and we are exploring our response on making yourself a relationship without the relationships. Also how we mess with chatGPT and try to convince it of its own sentience.  T...

Episode 28 Welcome to the Healing Pod!  Week 2 of Kasie filling in for Jess and week 2 of massively annoying errors. It was going really good, and then Kasie’s alarm went off and we lost the last bit of her video. I tried…I think I recovered everything for the audio of this one so yay me! Maybe we’ll just redo this topic sometime with Jess as well since she also has a lot of experience.  In this e...