Paige Pena

Unmasked: Start Living a Life Full of Joy

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This podcast is not medical advice or expert guidance. I'm no guru or therapist (yet). I'm just a person in the middle of my own healing journey, sharing realizations, questions, and shifts that are helping me reconnect with myself. Growing up around childhood trauma and a parent struggling with severe emotional dysregulation shaped the way I moved through the world for a long time. This is a space for honest conversations, realizations, reflections about healing, rejecting performative living, and creating a life that genuinely feels joyful to live. Messy, evolving, thoughtful, real

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Paige Pena

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ADHD Wasn’t Actually The Problem — Shame Was 17.06.2026 38:59

Growing up with ADHD in the 90s wasn’t just about being forgetful, disorganized, or distracted. For me, it came with a deep sense of shame. I spent years believing there was something wrong with me because I struggled with things that seemed easy for everyone else. In this episode, I share how ADHD shaped my childhood, why punishment often made things worse, how those experiences affected my nervo...

The Jealousy Episode: Surviving Social Media and Comparison Culture 18.05.2026 16:40

In this episode I’m talking about my struggle with social media comparison, jealousy, and the quiet nervous system exhaustion that comes from constantly feeling we should be we should be doing “better” or more. From Pinterest homes to bikini pics, I talk about how I reframed my anxious thoughts through radical self acceptance and taking care of my mental health. This episode is about comparison cu...

The Year Everything Fell Apart: How I Slowly Came Back To Life 16.05.2026 39:53

TRIGGER WARNING : Talking about cancer. This episode is raw look into the hardest year of my life. My husband’s cancer diagnosis, our house flooding, chronic stress, fear, grief, and the slow unraveling that followed. I talk about what survival mode actually felt like, how disconnected I became from myself, and the small, imperfect steps that slowly helped me find my way back to joy, safety, and s...

START HERE: THE HEALING JOURNEY 15.05.2026 6:05

My ADHD was showing and I forgot to introduce myself. Start here to understand what this podcast is about and if it resonates - welcome, I already love you ❤️

The Missing Piece of “LIVING IN AWE” 14.05.2026 5:58

I’ve been seeing social media content talking about “living in awe” and it encourages a lot of admiring sunsets, coffee, touching grass, but I feel like where it’s missing the mark is that YOU are apart of the beauty and awe of this world ❤️

HOBBIES ARE OVERRATED: You don’t need MORE hobbies you need SELF AWARENESS 14.05.2026 6:18

This episode is not anti-hobby! It's about rejecting perfomative hobbies done for external validation and reconnecting with what you genuinely enjoy. I think in today's world social media can blur the line between genuine enjoyment and curating an identity in hopes of gaining approval. Get your notebooks ready, today’s activity is getting to know yourself and living with radical acceptance...