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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 6min
Why Am I Like This? The High-Functioning Trauma Edition
This Might Be a Trauma Response: High-Functioning Trauma Healing Is My Hobby | This Might Be a Trauma Response SeriesWhat if the most common sign of trauma isn't falling apart — it's having it all tog...
30 Mars 15min
What Is Trauma, Really? Big T, Little t, and Two Experiments to Try Today
Your nervous system isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do.But when the danger has passed and the responses stay — the numbness, the sleeplessness, the reactions that feel way too...
23 Mars 20min
Master Your Nervous System: 4 Steps to Calm Mild Triggers
What if your triggers weren't signs of weakness, but proof your nervous system is working exactly as designed? In this Therapy Is My Cardio workout, Jessica walks you through a four-step real-time reg...
16 Mars 9min
