The Psychology Sisters

Welcome back psycho sista's and mista's!! It's our first episode of 2026 and our last episode for a little while. We’re pressing pause on a chapter that has meant more to us than words can capture. From vulnerable conversations and shared laughter, to deep reflections on healing, growth, and what it means to be human ....this podcast has been shaped by you.  Our listeners, our commu...

Our last poddy of 2025. As the year draws to a close, we’re slowing things down and reflecting, not with pressure, resolutions, or tidy endings, but with honesty, tenderness, and care. In this episode, we talk about what 2025 has asked of us, what we’re proud of, and what we’re gently leaving behind as we step into a new year. We share what this year has taught us about ourselves, the moments that...

Are we genuinely getting better at setting boundaries… or are we using the language of boundaries to avoid discomfort, depth, and accountability? In this episode, we dive into the cultural shift happening inside modern friendships where self-protection is celebrated, but sometimes at the cost of connection. We explore why “inconvenience is the cost of community,” how our capacity to tolerate disco...

Howdy psychology gang! Welcome back to a deep dive. Estrangement is one of the most painful and least understood experiences we can go through. It’s a loss without a funeral, a grief that doesn’t receive casseroles, community support, or cultural acknowledgement.  In this deep dive, we unpack the complex psychology of estrangement through an attachment, trauma and psychodynamic lens. We explore: W...

Welcome back to The Psychology Sisters!   In our October unfiltered episode, Kat recaps her trip of a lifetime swimming with humpback whales in Tonga and a humbling pit!  Aimee shares her half marathon run for DIPG raising money for children with rare cancer.  Our loves and leaves are as follows: Love: Pistachio spread from Coles, Haigs chocolate pistachio balls and Fat bear week. Kat also recomme...

Welcome back to The Psychology Mama’s Today, we’re diving into something that so many mothers quietly carry, the kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. The kind that seeps into your bones and makes you feel like you’re disappearing inside the love you’re giving. We’re talking about burnout in motherhood what happens when the endless giving, caring, and emotional holding start to empty you out....

Welcome back to The Psychology Sisters unfiltered, where we chat all things being human, with a mix of clinical insight, real talk, and a few chaotic tangents. We share our loves and leaves, pits and peeks and everything in between for the week that has been! Aimz is loving a lot lately with: A journal called "Dad, I want to hear your story" I got this from big W!! It’s 300 thought-provo...

Howdy friends! Welcome back for another deep dive. We will be discussing the lesser known attachment style today, around 5% of people have a disorganised attachment.  A disorganised attachment is an adaptation that stems from childhood trauma, it’s like having a compass that points north and south at the same time. Every step toward love feels like danger, and every step away feels like loss. This...

Welcome back to an unfiltered episode!! Research shows the absence of quality relationships kills us faster than obesity and lack of exercise and the single biggest predictor of teenage mental health is family breakdown...... Sooo we're coming in hot with our top 3 relationship teachings! BUT FIRST! Strap in for our pit and peeks, loves and leaves and an old school dog poo repartee.  Apologie...

Welcome back to a Psychology Mama's episode!! – What is Secure Attachment?  A securely attached child is free to explore the environment, confident that the caregiver will be available and responsive if needed. Secure attachment is not about being perfect; it’s about being present, attuned, and repairing when things go wrong Attachment is a basis for a child’s health. Nourishing close secure...

Hello and welcome back to The Psychology Sisters Unfiltered!! Love and leaves Love – Carmen’s black truffle popcorn Leaves Dyson vacuums  Aimee's peek: time with family and friends lately and pit: experiencing social awkwardness and anxiety, which is very new and uncharted waters to navigate. In a clunky stage of life at the moment!! Also, illness has plagued me! Kat's pit: slapped in th...

 Love me, but from over there - The Avoidant attachment style   I want to send out a hopeful message to everyone listening – you have secure attachment in your system biologically. It’s in your system and your system wants to be connected, that’s what it’s wired for. It’s that throughout development stuff get’s dumped on your system, which interrupts this. Wounds, attachment injuries, trauma disco...

Welcome back to The Psychology Mama’s — the podcast that holds space for your full emotional spectrum and cheers you on when you finally drink a coffee while it’s still hot. Today, we’re diving into one of the most universal yet wildly under-discussed parts of early parenthood: sleep deprivation — or more accurately, the full-blown nervous system crisis that comes from being woken up every 90 minu...

Welcome back to The Psychology Sisters unfiltered, where we chat all things being human, with a mix of clinical insight, real talk, and a few chaotic tangents. In today’s episode, we’re exploring something that feels especially needed right now: softness. What does it mean to go soft in a world that’s constantly asking us to toughen up, keep going, and stay informed, even when it all feels like a...

In today’s episode we are diving deep into the ambivalent attachment style, where it comes from, how it shows up in your relationships and how you can start rewiring it. If you often feel like you’re too much and not enough or constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop in relationships, this one is for you.  Understanding Attachment: o Attachment is a biological system, its innate. o Attachment...

hello psychology sistas and mistas!! Welcome back to another unfiltered episode! Kat's pit was forgetting to press record on the first episode we recorded!! Her Peek is taking herself out on dates and having treats with herself, savouring being in her own company and loving time with herself.  Aimee's pit was also being a tech tragic! Aimee share's her LOVE for the week is Siren&apo...

hello lovely listeners!! Welcome back to another unhinged/ unfiltered episode!  Loves and leaves:  Kat's love this week is a fun, easy, watch on Netflix - Ransom Canyon. Aimee has been loving going back to comfort consumption in Grey's anatomy on Disney+. No leaves this week, just love!! Pit and Peak of the week: Aimee discusses being in the tension of trade offs of getting the things yo...

Hellooooooooooo and welcome back to a psychology mama's episode! If you grew up in the ’90s or early 2000s, you probably remember it well — low-rise jeans, calorie-counting, and the constant message that thinness equaled beauty, success, and self-worth.  Many of us internalised those messages before we even understood them. We learned to shrink ourselves — literally and figuratively — to fit...

Hello lovely listeners! Join us for a very unfiltered chat discussing some concerning trends we are seeing making the rounds on social media. Why are we going back to trends that we know have been so damaging? Before we get into today's episode, Kat shares her pit of struggling with a loud inner critic and her peak of exciting business ventures, feeling aligned with work and enjoying the ride...

Hello lovely listeners!! Strap in for a goodie this morning as we have the incredible producer Keeshia joining us to lift the cloud on ADHD! Keeshia may be best known as producer Keeshia on the "Life Uncut" podcast. Recently she has started her own podcast called "Cloud" which she created to discuss ADHD and late age diagnosis; a conversation that was sparked after Keeshia’s ow...

Hello hello! Welcome back for a deep dive into hyper-independence.  Independence is praised a lot in our society and often described as a strength, so can you be too independent? Here's a little summary of what we dive into: Signs of hyper-independence, how would you know if you were too independent? Hyper-independence is often a solution to instability and inconsistency e.g. if family is uns...

Welcome back psycho sistas and mistas, we have another unfiltered episode for you! First up we discuss Kat's influential powers over raisin toast, we share our Pit and Peak and  “loves and leaves” of the week.  Then, we share our thoughts on Let them theory:  1.Radical acceptance  2.Focus on letting go of what you can’t control  3.Cons – avoiding hard important conversations and not trauma in...

Hey Mamas- welcome back to the first episode of The Psychology Mama's for the year! What is Matrescence and WHY did nobody teach us about it?! Well join us as we unpack the language around the fourth trimester and why one word in particular matters sooooo much! We discuss:  •Transition to motherhood is forever •The motherhood mask •Anger and rage  •Perfectionism and the shift  •Expectations V...

Welcome back psycho sista's and mista's!! It's our first episode of 2025 and we are shakin' it up! The Psychology Sisters Unfiltered episodes are al about chit chatting the high and the lows with a psychological lens. These episodes are dedicated to the catchups, the laughs, discussing what's happening in the world and sharing a little vulnerability along the way. First up...

Please take care while listening to this episode. Especially if you have experienced pregnancy loss, infertility or if you are currently experiencing a high-risk pregnancy, as the content in this episode may be triggering. To our Psychology sista's and mista's, welcome to episode 3 “Birth, baby and becoming - understanding the psychological side of birth”, we want to acknowledge that it...