Essential Mental Healing
Essential Mental Healing
Latest Episodes
Sex, Shame, And Self-Respect *Trigger Warning
It's Therapy Thursday!Sex can be joyful, grounding, spiritual, and deeply connecting and it can also be wrapped in pressure, shame, secrecy, and survival. We go there with honesty, starting from everyday body image and self-talk, then op...
What If Your “Different” Is The Whole Point
IT's Therapy Thursday!You ever catch yourself studying someone else’s life like it’s a map, then feeling behind when your path doesn’t match theirs? We go straight at that pressure and tell the truth: you can learn from other people with...
What If Parenting Is More About Company Than Control
That moment when you realize you forgot to hit record turns out to be a gift, because it means we start raw and honest. My mom (Janet) and I talk through a real communication slip where stress turned into projection, and we show what repair loo...
Please Do Not Cancel Us Today... Oops
It's Therapy Thursday!!Grief doesn’t always sound like crying. Sometimes it sounds like family showing up, a party continuing, and a teenager feeling joy while the adults carry the weight. Janet and I start with birthdays and end up in t...
What If Justification Is The Trap
it's Therapy Thursday!A locked door at an apartment gym shouldn’t turn into a whole emotional spiral but it can, fast. When a staff member snaps “can you not knock,” Candace feels that familiar heat: the need to be right, the need to be ...
