The Shame That Lives in Your Body
We close out May with the deepest layer of shame work yet. In this final episode of our shame and self-worth series, Jessica reframes shame not as a character flaw or a belief system — but as a trauma...
25 Touko 14min
Building a Self-Worth That Isn't Conditional
Welcome to the Healing Lab — the episode where we stop talking about the work and actually start doing it. This month’s theme is shame and self-worth, and these experiments are rooted in something dee...
18 Touko 16min
When You're Ashamed of Your Own Feelings
This is the Therapy Is My Cardio episode for May — which means we're not just talking about emotional shame today, we're doing the reps. If last week's episode gave you the clinical foundation (what s...
11 Touko 13min
What Shame Actually Is (And Why It's Not Your Fault)
May Shame & Self-Worth Series, Episode 1Shame is one of the most common — and most misunderstood — experiences in the healing journey. It's not embarrassment. It's not guilt. It's the quiet, persisten...
4 Touko 13min
Identity Grief: Losing a Version of Yourself
In this final episode of the April grief series, Jessica explores identity grief — the grief that comes not from death, but from losing a version of yourself. Whether it's a milestone birthday, a care...
20 Huhti 14min
Ambiguous Loss: When You're Grieving a Person Who's Still Alive
We're three weeks into grief month, and this episode goes somewhere that doesn't get nearly enough airtime — grieving someone who is still alive. Whether you've had to create distance from a relations...
20 Huhti 8min
The Grief Nobody Validates
Episode SummaryIn this week's This Might Be a Trauma Response segment, Jessica takes the conversation about grief a layer deeper — moving beyond last week's broad definition of loss into a specific an...
13 Huhti 7min
Grief Doesn't Always Look Like Crying
In this month's opening episode, Jessica introduces April's theme: grief — and challenges the widely-held belief that grief only belongs to death. Drawing on clinical definitions and her own therapeut...
6 Huhti 6min
