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On this week's confession episode, I tell you about my years long evolution into a mental rut, how that came to be, what made me realize it, and what I'm doing to start working towards getting out of it. Then I touch on habits I have been implementing to create upward spirals and dial in my internal locus of control in an effort to close my knowledge to skill gap and start taking action on all of...

On today's episode I am talking about the research backed and widely discussed and debated definition of the term wellness, how to create an upward spiral toward becoming well and developing a strong locus of control. I discuss how we mistakenly discuss health and wellness interchangeably and why you don't have to be in a complete state of health in order to experience wellness. Then we discuss ho...

On this episode I am introducing some new segments into our causal Friday episodes. I start the episode talking about my Wellish confession of the week that I have a god complex when it comes to being a good friend and unpack it right there with you guys to discover tendencies stemming from my good enough wound and self-protection. Then we discuss the real-life application from the week for Monday...

If you want to develop any sort of wellness habit let it be physical, mental, emotional etc. you are going to be faced with procrastination, ESPECIALLY if you struggle with perfectionism and/or being hard on yourself. There is so much shame surrounding procrastination, so on today's episode I want to separate you from the shame that you've built up around your procrastination habits that have led...

I thought the goal was getting rid of the negative overwhelming thoughts, but I've recently learned I've been working my a** off to fix the wrong thing. The real goal is making yourself capable of protecting yourself in the midst of the inevitable thoughts and feelings. On this episode I giving you five of the best ways I have found we can protect ourselves in the face of an emotional storm no mat...

If you have ever tried to engage in basic wellness habits like exercise, drink water, getting better sleep or rest, eating whole foods, putting yourself in spaces to learn new things then you know that the more you engage in these habits the better mentally you feel. And if you don't know this yet, it possible you haven't engaged in the wellness habits consistently enough to recognize the differen...

The tools we're given to stop anxiety, rumination, anger, sadness insert any negative emotion is causing us to suppress our feelings. When we protect ourselves in that way to stay safe or avoid conflict it keeps our emotions in preventing us from healing which leads to unwanted tension. In this episode we are discussing how you have to let yourself sit in the uncomfortable feelings and simultaneou...

I took a week away from Wellish and realized I’d been trying so hard to get the podcast “right” that it stopped feeling like a place to hang out. In this episode, I’m talking about what changes in Season 5: more honest, less edited conversations about self improvement, without turning every conversation into another list of things you should be doing. I also get into being called “aggressive,” the...

Five years ago, I started Wellish because I believed the right advice could help us become better versions of ourselves. Hundreds of conversations and several identity crises later, I’ve realized that many of us aren’t using self-improvement because we believe in ourselves—we’re using it to finally feel good enough. In this anniversary episode, I’m sharing the real story behind Wellish: the wound...

What if your “healthy” routine is actually spending more energy than it gives you? In this episode of Wellish, Sarah sits down with naturopathic doctor and The Cortisol Cure author Dr. Erin Kinney to rethink what we’ve been taught about cortisol, chronic stress, and burnout. Dr. Kinney introduces her Cortisol Bank Account framework: every demand on your body—from work and emotional stress to exerc...

Do you genuinely want the goal or do you want what achieving it would prove about you? In this episode of Wellish, Sarah breaks down how approval-seeking can quietly shape your goals, especially when you’re a naturally Type B person holding yourself to Type A standards. You’ll learn how to recognize when a goal has become proof that you’re disciplined, desirable, successful, healed, or finally goo...

What happens when self-awareness stops helping you understand yourself and starts giving you more reasons to think you should be doing better? In this confession episode, I’m talking about the period of my life when I knew so much about self-improvement, attachment styles, boundaries, nervous system regulation, confidence, habits, and emotional intelligence that I couldn’t have a normal human reac...

If you love self-improvement but somehow every new piece of advice becomes another thing you feel like you should already be doing, this episode is for you. Wake up earlier. Journal. Meditate. Exercise. Read more. Meal prep. Regulate your nervous system. Set better boundaries. Be more confident. Keep every promise you make to yourself. None of that advice is necessarily bad. But when every good id...

What if self-improvement isn’t actually making you feel better about yourself? In this confession episode, I’m talking about the years I spent reading the books, learning the habits, becoming more self-aware, trying to be more disciplined, and chasing the “best version” of myself because I thought eventually I’d feel good enough. But the more I learned, the more I found new ways to judge myself. W...

What if your self-improvement isn’t actually helping you feel better, it’s just giving you more reasons to feel like you’re not good enough yet? In this episode, we’re talking about the difference between healthy personal growth and self-rejection disguised as self-improvement. Especially if you’re naturally more relaxed, flexible, or Type B but keep trying to force yourself into the perfectly dis...

What if confidence isn’t finally becoming someone you can’t find fault with? In this episode, we’re talking about what happens when you’re naturally easygoing, but you still put an insane amount of pressure on yourself to become more productive, disciplined, secure, successful, interesting, or “put together” so you can finally feel good enough. For years, I thought confidence would make me feel so...

If you’re naturally easygoing but constantly worried that you’re too lazy, too inconsistent, or not disciplined enough, you might have spent years trying to turn yourself into a completely different person. You consume self improvement because you want to feel better about yourself. But somehow every new routine, habit, productivity rule, or “best version of yourself” checklist just gives you anot...

If you’ve ever tried to become prettier, more disciplined, more successful, more emotionally mature, more confident or just more like that girl because you thought you’d finally feel good enough once you got there, this episode is for you. For years, I thought becoming my ideal self would make me impossible to criticize, reject, or abandon. So I hyperanalyzed myself, tried to fix every flaw, and t...

What if becoming more magnetic has less to do with being prettier, cooler, more confident, or more interesting and more to do with finally giving yourself permission to take up space? In this episode of Wellish, we’re talking about the subtle ways we abandon ourselves to stay likable: over-explaining, people-pleasing, being the “good girl,” hiding our preferences, monitoring how we’re being percei...

What if becoming more confident and magnetic has less to do with improving yourself—and more to do with thinking about yourself less? In this episode of Confessions of a Wellish Girly , I’m talking about how I confused being impressive with being magnetic. I thought confidence would come from becoming attractive enough, successful enough, interesting enough, healed enough, or accomplished enough t...

In this episode, Brian Pultro is back on Wellish for a conversation about ambition, success, failure, identity, and the pressure to constantly become a better version of yourself. We talk about why so many of us treat happiness like something waiting on the other side of the next goal, why the definition of success keeps changing as we move through life, and what happens when ambition stops being...

What if confidence isn’t believing everything will work out, but trusting yourself even when it doesn’t? In this episode of Wellish, we’re talking about identity-based confidence: the kind that doesn’t disappear when someone rejects you, criticizes you, doesn’t choose you, or life simply doesn’t go according to plan. We’ll unpack the difference between confidence and self-trust, why compliments an...

This month on Wellish, we’re talking about magnetism and confidence, but not the kind that requires becoming hotter, cooler, more mysterious, or completely unbothered. In this very casual Confessions of a Wellish Girly episode, I’m yapping about why I chose this theme, the ways I’ve caught myself chasing validation, people, opportunities, and proof that I’m doing enough, and what I actually want c...

What happens when wanting to be chosen turns into trying to prove that you deserve to be? In this episode of Wellish, we’re talking about the difference between healthy pursuit and anxious chasing and why the harder you work to earn validation, love, friendship, opportunity, or success, the less like yourself you can begin to feel. You’ll learn how to recognize when you’re auditioning for approval...

This month, your Wellish confessions all pointed to the same question: What if life isn’t supposed to feel like one long self-improvement project? In this episode, we’re talking about doing things just because they bring you joy, how to add more adventure without changing your entire life, and why you don’t need to become a “better version of yourself” before you’re allowed to enjoy being the pers...