We Are the Compassionate Revolution

It’s not uncommon for compassionate people to feel confused or guilty for not trusting a partner or loved one… even after years of lies and hurtful behavior. In this episode, Molly answers a question from someone being told her lack of trust signifies that she has control issues or a spiritual deficit.   Listener Question: “After 8 years of my partner’s repeated lies, he’s recently had a religious...

Content Warning: The following episode references an incident of sexual trauma. Listener discretion advised.   In this episode, Molly responds to a courageous question from a listener confused about a "transactional" power dynamic from childhood that has left her wondering: If I participated or "agreed" to my abuse, is it still abuse?   Question: "I’ve been doing childhood trauma work for the last...

In this deep-diving episode, Molly addresses an important question from a listener who has done a ton of personal growth but still struggles with intellectualizing and stuffing feelings.   Listener Question: "I collect mental health tips and self-help books, but I’m realizing it’s just a fancy way of avoiding my feelings. Now that I'm caregiving for my elderly parents, all the feelings I've 'stuff...

This week, Molly dives into two tender, complex listener questions: one involving the pressure of outside opinions and another on setting boundaries with an adult child with complex needs.   Question 1: "I’ve never really known myself and find it difficult to set boundaries. I feel pressured to join a community because others say I 'should,' but my gut and even my dreams are screaming 'no.' How ca...

Listener Question: "How can I help the world when I feel like nothing I do is enough? It just feels like the problems are too big and I'm just one person. Burying my head in the sand isn't the answer, but I want to." — Feeling Overwhelmed on the East Coast   In this episode, Molly answers a listener question about how to stay compassionate without drowning in hopelessness from all the terrible thi...

NOTE: Beginning next week, episodes will be published on Thursdays (instead of Wednesdays). See you back here on Thursday, March 5, 2026!   This week on the podcast, Molly shares two exciting announcements!   First, Molly’s new book, The Great All: A Parable of Hope, New Beginnings, and You , is now officially available and pre-orders have been shipped out. Molly offers curious listeners insight i...

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed as a compassionate person in the world right now. We care so deeply, and seeing all the pain and injustice unfolding around us hurts our precious hearts.   But when we carry all that pain around inside us – rather than feeling, honoring, and releasing it – we don’t help the world become any better. We just collect more and more pain until we’re dysregulated and at ris...

What happens when your life changes in a single phone call?   What are the boundaries of your role as a compassionate parent when your child experiences a sudden, life-altering injury?   In this deeply moving episode, Molly sits down with Stacy Crawford — a mind-body practitioner with an M.S. in education, a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, and the founder of Klear Water Coaching & Wellness —...

What does a love-based movement look like in practice?   This week, Molly interviews Minnesotan and narrative specialist Amy K. Thompson to talk about what she’s witnessing on the ground in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Amy holds a doctorate in physical therapy and a master’s degree in community and public health; she’s also a talented musician, artist, and poet. (We are also proud...

Molly was interviewed by Rachel Strong Smith on The Betrayal Trauma Recovery Bookshelf Podcast , and this week we’re bringing listeners part two of that interview! ( Part one is available here. )   In this episode, Molly and Rachel continue to explore boundaries through a wider, more spacious lens – one that moves beyond rules, ultimatums, or control and into meaning, symbolism, and self-honoring...

Molly was interviewed by Rachel Strong Smith on The Betrayal Trauma Recovery Bookshelf Podcast , and this week we’re bringing listeners part one of that interview – with part two arriving next week!   In this episode, Molly and Rachel explore boundaries through a wider, more spacious lens – one that moves beyond rules, ultimatums, or control and into meaning, symbolism, and self-honoring truth.  ...

What does it look like to lead… without losing yourself in the process? And what if real “leadership” isn’t about proving yourself, productivity, or power — but about awareness, wholeness, and self-trust?   In this episode, Molly sits down with Valeyne Grotrian, a former corporate leader, executive coach, and the founder of Agora Coaching, to talk about inner leadership — the kind of leadership th...

What happens after you survive the unimaginable at a young age? How do you begin to face what happened and find a way toward healing?   In this episode, Molly sits down with her dear friend Jennifer Evridge, a survivor and truth-teller whose story is living proof that healing is possible — even after years of long-term abuse.   Jennifer shares her experience navigating repeated abuse by people in...

This week, Molly is joined by Melinda Lloyd, PhD — a Native Hawaiian researcher, clinical social worker, author, and coach for the Becoming Boundaried Bootcamp — for conversation on Makahiki – a season of rest, renewal, and right relationship that begins with the Hawaiian New Year.   This cultural framework centers on slowing down, reflection, and the intentional pausing of conflict — a radical co...

This week, Molly is joined by Samuel Ohana — a social worker and compassionate human who embodies love. Together, they explore what it means to love people in a world where people also hurt people… and how we can hold a “both/and”: naming harmful behavior clearly while still recognizing the untouched humanity underneath. At the heart of this conversation is attachment. Sam breaks down attachment s...

This week, Molly shares a special episode recorded from Maui just after the fourth and final live retreat of 2025 — with the retreat magic still swirling in her. Molly takes you behind the scenes to the intuitive calling that led her to begin offering live retreats in the first place and offers a glimpse into what becomes possible when compassionate people gather in real time and space to do high-...

Molly sits down with Christi Byerly, MCC , founder and CEO of Awaken Coach Institute, to explore how religious trauma, fear-based theology, and high-control faith systems shape a child’s identity, sense of worth, and ability to trust. Christi shares her personal story of growing up in a strict fundamentalist Christian environment where obedience, hierarchy, and punishment were normalized – and how...

This week, Molly is joined by Brenda Knight , award-winning publisher, author, intuition-led trailblazer, and founder of Books That Save Lives (a mission-driven publishing house devoted to changing minds, healing hearts, and creating a more compassionate world). Brenda is the publisher of Molly's new book,  The Great All , and a deep force in today’s world of writing and media. Her story is one of...

This week, Molly sits down with poet, minister, and Abstract Voices founder  Taikeya J to explore how poetry – and the stillness beneath it – can reconnect compassionate people to their truth, emotions, and deepest dreams.   Taikeya shares how poetry became her sanctuary, how a high school poem about slavery was deemed “too strong” to publish, and how anger, healing, ancestry, and creativity can i...

This week, Molly is joined by Dr. Melanie Griffiths – an academic, lecturer, and migration scholar whose work reveals what most of us never learned: how borders function, why human movement is not something new, and what’s really shaping the stories we’re told about “the other.”   Together, Molly and Melanie pull back from the news cycle and ask some big, tender questions: What is migration, reall...

This week, Molly and clinical psychologist Dr. Molly Tucker – co-author of Saying the Wrong Thing – explore how compassionate people can speak up in emotionally charged moments. You’ll learn about psychological flexibility vs. rigidity, how to assess situational safety, what to try in the moment, and how to repair relationships when you’ve said (or not said) the “wrong” thing.   They also introduc...

Dr. Ingrid Clayton – clinical psychologist, author, and complex trauma survivor – joins Molly to explore what it really means to heal from the fawn response (a trauma pattern that teaches compassionate people to abandon themselves to stay safe). Ingrid opens up about her new book, Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves and How to Find Our Way Back, offering insights into how the n...

In this powerful conversation, Molly sits down with Neha Bhat (ABT, ATR-P) , a licensed arts-based sexual trauma psychotherapist, visual artist, entrepreneurial coach, and bestselling author of Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist. Neha is also the creator of India’s first Global Sexual Trauma Healer’s Collective.   Together, Molly and Neha explore how sexual trauma, shame, spiritual...

When loyalty becomes unboundaried, we lose sight of love and begin justifying anti-relational behavior. Group identification shapes perception, loyalty, and morality – and this phenomenon is playing out on the world stage. Unboundaried over-identification with a group – political, religious, social, or otherwise – can pull us away from our values. When loyalty becomes the highest law, love gets sa...

So many compassionate people are incredible at caring for everyone else yet struggle to turn that same care inward.     Today, Molly offers a 16-minute guided meditation that invites you to pause, reconnect with yourself, and remember that your needs matter, too.   Let this be your reminder that self-care is not selfish: It’s love in action.   Check out therapist and author Molly Davis Moon’s webs...