Healthy Illness

Healthy Illness

A weekly podcast to help you build healthy relationships while living with mental health conditions. Hosted by Kelly Marie, an advocate and peer who uses her own life experiences with anxiety, depression and borderline personality disorder to empower you to defy the limitations of your diagnosis and create the life you deserve. 🎙️ Hosted by Coach Kelly Marie, founder of Front Seat Life LLC 📲 Instagram @thefrontseatlife FB @thefrontseatlife 🎧 Produced & edited by JazzCast Pros 🔗 Click Here to rate & review on Apple Podcasts 🚀 Rate & Share this Podcast from Spotify 🔐 Add this show to your collection on Pandora. 💪 Support the Show with a one-time donation on PayPal

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How to Find Yourself After Divorce | Grief, Celebrating & Starting Over

August 2, 2026 • 17 mins
Ep. 161 Your story doesn't end because a relationship does. Sometimes the greatest relationship you'll ever build is the one you have with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Honor your journey. Celebrate your growth. Because healing isn't about forgetting who you were. It's about finally discovering who you've always been. Hi, I'm your host Kelly Marie and for years, I identified myself by the roles I filled: wife, mother, car...
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Can You Have PTSD Without Going to War?

July 20, 2026 • 18 mins
Ep. 160 When you hear "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder," who comes to mind? For many of us, the first image is a military veteran returning home from combat. But what if your war looked different? What if your battlefield was an abusive relationship... a traumatic childhood, a medical emergency, community violence or years spent living in survival mode? This week, Kelly Marie continues the conversation from "Feeling Triggered? How...
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Mindfulness + Medication: Choosing Prevention Over Crisis

July 6, 2026 • 18 mins
Ep. 159 Is it time to go back on antidepressants? Kelly Marie gets real about why she made the decision to restart medication after years without it and why choosing support is never a sign of failure. Key Takeaways: How to recognize when your mental health is beginning to slip. Why being proactive is easier than recovering from a crisis. The role medication can play alongside CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and boundaries. Why...
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Feeling Triggered? How to Pause, Process & Protect your Peace

June 29, 2026 • 20 mins
Ep. 158 Not every trigger leads to a panic attack. Sometimes it's the tone of someone's voice. Being ignored. A comment that hits a little too close to home. Or that familiar feeling that makes your heart race before your brain has time to catch up. In this episode of Healthy Illness, we're talking about what I call soft triggers—the everyday emotional reactions that can quietly damage our relationships, careers, and peace o...
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End of the Soft Girl Era

June 22, 2026 • 17 mins
Ep 257 The Soft Girl Era is over. Now what? Kelly Marie explores what comes after the trend of girlie aesthetics, luxury, or living a carefree life. For Kelly, the Soft Girl Era became a personal journey of learning how to extend grace to herself in the same way she extends it to everyone else. Embracing simple acts of self-care, she shares how keeping her nails done became a daily reminder to slow down, be intentional, and mov...
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What Keeps You Up at Night?

June 1, 2026 • 25 mins
Ep. 156 You have got to clock out, mentally as well as psychically so that you can get back to work the next day refreshed! Host Kelly Marie explores the power of rest and its critical role in mental health and wellness. She explains why nothing about her work keeps her up at night and discusses the importance of maintaining good sleep hygiene to enhance productivity and health. Kelly addresses themes of health equity, communi...
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Safely Share Your Story | 5 Step Framework

May 25, 2026 • 24 mins
Ep. 155 Learn how to share your personal story while maintaining mental well-being in this episode of the Healthy Wellness Podcast with Kelly Marie. Kelly shares a five-step framework, STORY, for crafting personal narratives: keep it Short, make it Trauma-free, ensure it's Ours to tell, keep it Relevant, and check if you're emotionally Ready to share. Discover techniques for building healthier relationships and the importance of ...
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Pause Before You Panic | 3 Quick Tips to Manage Anxiety

May 18, 2026 • 20 mins
Ep. 154 Not every problem is yours to solve! Step back, take a breath and let's get Mindful AF with 3 simple, effective techniques to manage stress anxiety and pressure. From her “Go Slow” breathing technique to a grounding exercise you can literally do in public without anyone noticing, this conversation is designed to help you regulate in real time — not three days after the breakdown. Because sometimes peace...
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Holding Grief & Gratitude at the Same Time

May 11, 2026 • 16 mins
Ep. 153 As Buffalo approaches the anniversary of the May 14th Tops shooting on the heels of Mother’s Day week, many are carrying grief, gratitude, trauma, and resilience all at once. In this heartfelt episode of Healthy Illness, Kelly Marie reflects on the emotional weight this season holds for the Black community while exploring mental health, racial trauma, motherhood, healing, and hope. Through honest conversation and m...
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In My Soft Girl Era | Cover Girl Edition

May 4, 2026 • 17 mins
One year ago, I made the decision to get my nails done and today, I'm proud to say they are still manicured and I am still in my soft girl era! And as of today, I'm officially a Cover Girl! Check out the May 2026 Issue of Buffalo Healthy Living Magazine available at Wegmans! In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month and Mother’s Day, I'm re-releasing an episode that explains how a simple beauty treatment sparked my deepe...
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Mindfulness Through Sound

April 27, 2026 • 13 mins
Ep. 152 In a world of constant stimulation and ceaseless noise, the pursuit of mindfulness can seem like an elusive goal. Kelly Marie guides you through a mindfulness practice centered on sound from a retreat in Great Valley, New York. This episode of the Healthy Illness Podcast encourages exploring sound as a form of meditation, emphasizing that life is rarely silent. Kelly invites you to notice sounds in your environment, focu...
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Black Maternal Mortality & Mental Health Disparities

April 20, 2026 • 26 mins
“Mental health conditions are the leading cause of maternal mortality…” Ep. 151 In this episode of Healthy Illness, I’m continuing the conversation on Black maternal health because this isn’t just about statistics, it’s about lives. As a birth and postpartum doula, I share how mental health, systemic bias, and gaps in care are impacting Black mothers at higher rates and what we can do about ...
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Eucalyptus | Smell, Breathe, Release

March 30, 2026 • 24 mins
Ep. 150 This one plant might help you breathe again. I’ve been leaning deeper into my mindfulness practice lately, and one thing that has truly supported me—mentally, physically, and emotionally—is eucalyptus. Not in a trendy way… in a real-life, I need relief right now kind of way. This isn’t just about smelling good. This is about creating space in your body to breathe, regulate, and come back t...
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Mindfulness in Real Life

March 16, 2026 • 20 mins
Ep. 149 Your thoughts are racing and you need a moment of peace. In this week’s episode of Healthy Illness, Kelly Marie invites you to pause the noise and reconnect with yourself through a simple, guided mindfulness practice designed for real life—not perfect conditions. If you’re living with anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or the everyday stress of trying to hold it all together, this episode offers a gentle res...
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Go Slow

March 9, 2026 • 20 mins
Ep. 148 Lately, the world feels heavy. The news, the stress, the constant pressure to keep going, it can take a real toll on your nervous system. In this episode of Healthy Illness, I’m sharing a mindfulness and breathing practice that I personally rely on when everything starts to feel like too much. I call it the Go-Slow Framework — a simple way to slow your breath, calm your body, and bring your nervous system back...
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Motherhood, Mental Health + Penance Work

March 2, 2026 • 20 mins
Ep. 147 Have you ever wondered if the work you feel called to do is connected to the parts of your story that still ache? In this unfiltered episode, I reflect on motherhood, mental illness, and a realization that brought me to tears. “The desire to help moms advocate for themselves and to learn about themselves so that they could be a better parent, has me wondering if my doula work is more of penance work.” - Kel...
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Mindfulness Practice: Checking In, Checking On

February 16, 2026 • 23 mins
Ep. 146 I didn’t even realize I was depressed… until a friend said it out loud. In this episode of Healthy Illness, I share how one honest check-in and a moment of validation helped me see what I was going through At the end of the episode, I guide you through a mindfulness meditation to help you pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself. Want to go deeper? Join the next live experience at frontseatlife.com. Ke...
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Adding It Back Without Burning Out

January 26, 2026 • 27 mins
Ep. 145 If you’ve done the work to protect your peace, the real question becomes: what do you let back in? I’m Kelly Marie, and in this episode of Healthy Illness, I’m sharing what it looks like to intentionally add Front Seat Life LLC back onto my plate—after burnout, boundaries, and learning my limits. Front Seat Life is my community-based mental health and mindfulness work. It’s how I show up in ...
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Guided Body Scan: Mindfulness Practice

January 19, 2026 • 22 mins
Ep. 144 Your body has been speaking to you. This is your moment to listen. In this 15-minute body scan on, Kelly Marie guides you through a grounding mindfulness practice designed to help you slow down, soften your breath, and reconnect with yourself—right where you are. This episode of the Healthy Illness podcast is for the moments when your mind feels busy, your body feels tense, or you just need a pause that feels safe a...
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Doing My Part After Weight Gain

January 12, 2026 • 19 mins
Ep. 143 This episode isn’t about weight loss. It’s about doing your part. Kelly Marie continues last week's conversation and shares what changed after the realization of weight gain on Ozempic—and why the reset had to start with the basics, not another fix. Instead of chasing results, she focused on foundations: • consistent sleep • drinking water • eating simply and intentionally • taking medication as prescrib...
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