No, Not Crazy

No, Not Crazy

We’ve all experienced invalidation that makes us question ourselves and sometimes, even feel a little crazy. From relationships to healthcare, from workplaces to spiritual communities, from media influence to societal bias and more, No, Not Crazy will explore the messages we internalize, their effects on our lives, and the ways we can free ourselves from them. Sharing stories and speaking with experts, we’ll dig into the experiences that dismiss our truths and undermine our knowing. Join educator and coach, Jessica Hornstein, as we learn how to better validate ourselves and others so, together, we can all feel a little less crazy.

Episodes

December 10, 2024 39 mins
  • Find out what to look for in a therapist. 
  • Recognize how language shapes your perceptions and beliefs in hidden ways. 
  • Let’s understand the validity of all feelings without judgment! 

Juliet Kuehnle is a National Board-Certified Counselor and mental health therapist who founded and owns Sun Counseling & Wellness, a group private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina that provides telehealth throughout NC, SC, FL, VA, and ...

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  • How to treat yourself with kindness and encouragement, acting as the supportive parent you may not have had. 
  • How to soften your inner critic and replace self-criticism with compassion. 
  • Understand the distinction between anxiety grounded in reality and neurosis characterized by imagined threats turning into overwhelming fears.

Laura Rhodes-Levin, author of The Missing Peace: Rewire Your Brain, Reduce Anxiety, and Recreate Yo...

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  • Using somatic awareness to self-regulate and mindfully react in moments of emotional intensity. 
  • How addressing your younger parts can unburden past traumas that are affecting your relationships.  
  • Gain strategies for communicating with partners, fostering intimacy, and managing differences in attachment styles. 

Jennifer Nurick specializes in healing anxious attachment, attachment injuries, and childhood trauma. She is a lic...

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  • How we can quiet the ego’s loud, judgmental voice and listen to our gentler voice of intuition and spirit for guidance.
  • Find out the three most important questions you can ask yourself and how to get to meaningful answers.
  • Why we may be resistant to discovering our true selves and how to move past the fears into more authentic lives.
  • Understand the concept of surrender as a pathway to growth, not a sign of weakness or defeat.

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  • Why sometimes “How can I not make this worse?” is the best question to ask.
  • Understand that stress should not be viewed as a failure, but as valuable information from our bodies.
  • How we can build and strengthen resilience, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges.

Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a bestselling author, an award-winning scholar, and a mother of three teenagers. Professionally, she has focused on resili...

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  • Why your healing can't be reliant on others, even if they are part of the original harm.  
  • What helping your children looks like and why it may not be what you think. 
  • Why courage is sometimes necessary for compassion toward yourself and others. 
  • Realize that everyone can reconnect with their inherent creativity to process emotions and explore self-expression.  

Tracey Yokas creates stuff. When she isn't writing abou...

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  • Recognize that domestic violence includes physical, emotional, financial, sexual, verbal, and even spiritual forms of abuse.  
  • Why staying together for the children generally does not protect them physically or emotionally. 
  • Explore how men and women typically experience abuse in different ways. 
  • Learn how abusers systematically use gaslighting and other means of control from the beginning of relationships. 
  • How to best support som...
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  • Explore how imposter syndrome manifests in both our personal and professional lives. 
  • Understand the relationship between imposter syndrome and anxiety and depression. 
  • Find out what tools will help you challenge your false beliefs about yourself. 
  • Why imposter syndrome affects creatives and entrepreneurs in very specific ways. 
  • Understand the possible internal and external causes of imposter syndrome. 

Bre Clark is a seasoned ...

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  • What do you think—are humans inherently aggressive or inherently altruistic? 
  • Think about how to facilitate cooperative teams and communities which make all members feel heard and valued.  
  • What can we do to activate a capacity for altruism and course-correct humanity? 
  • Discover one simple question that can instantly build connection and shift power dynamics. 
  • Understand how leaders significantly undermine their goals and their org...
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  • Examine the belief that reaching for your deepest desires is riskier than staying in your familiar, stuck place.  
  • The important distinction we must make which illuminates our obstacles to longing.  
  • Hear about the personal experience I’ve been having lately of opening to deeper longing and what it feels like.  
  • Explore the potentially soul-crushing consequences of choosing to deny your longing and, conversely, the potentially lif...
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  • The transformative force of letting go: making space to embody a more expansive and fulfilled version of yourself. 
  • How to step into your power and start aligning your choices with the belief that you deserve the life you desire. 
  • Using the question “why?” to get honest with yourself and get to the bottom of what you want to change in your life. 
  • How to build the confidence to know that you can navigate big changes, even when they...
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  • How it’s possible, within a faith-based context, to validate and connect with others who have different beliefs and heal divisions. 
  • Why asking questions should be an integral part of faith systems and why that scares the patriarchy. 
  • Hear about the shocking realization that illuminated the misogynistic and abusive behavior of the pastors Meghan grew up with. 
  • Ways we can become aware of what oppressive systems we may be unknowing...
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  • Identifying signs that you are not embodying the fullest expression of yourself. 
  • Why you can move forward when you stop fearing your fear. 
  • How to begin naming an undefined feeling that your life is out of alignment with your core. 
  • Discovering hidden pieces of yourself at any age that are crucial to living the life you’re meant to live. 
  • What you can do to free yourself from invalidation and self-doubt when society diminishes, di...
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  • Finding your Yeses and Nos: What questions you’ll want to ask yourself to learn more about your sexuality. 
  • Why sexuality is the final frontier of human development and essential to the full expression of who you are. 
  • How to distinguish between making a compromise for a relationship and making a compromise of your soul. 
  • Appreciate the ways that your intimacy with yourself and others is about so much more than sex. 
  • The importance...
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  • Learn about Andrew's devastating experience within a spiritual community and the growth that arose from it. 
  • Discovering the love, joy, power, stamina, passion, and beauty within yourself that connects you directly to your divinity. 
  • How we can move through this time of global peril to become a world with extraordinary new powers of love, compassion, and justice.  
  • The ways your individual dark night of the soul can lead to a...
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  • What is the role of finding our sacred purpose in validating ourselves? And how do we find it? 
  • Understand the way in which our survivalist society perpetuates a culture of shame and self-hatred.
  • How showing ourselves that we matter brings us closer to self-love and healing. 
  • Why the journey to reshape our inner world is a beautiful and challenging warrior’s path. 
  • The small question of…where does humanity go from here? Why we must...
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January 5, 2023 17 mins
  • What is invalidation? Why does it matter to your life? Is it always intentional and malicious?
  • The Invalidation Wound: Find out how it affects us when we internalize invalidating messages from family, friends, partners, institutions, corporations, narcissists, and more.
  • Explore how this conditioning could be running the narrative of your life in ways you may not realize but which deeply undermine your agency and self-concept.
  • Why ...
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October 19, 2022 2 mins

We’ve all experienced invalidation that makes us question ourselves, and sometimes, even feel a little crazy. From relationships to healthcare, from workplaces to spiritual communities, from media influence to societal bias and more, No, Not Crazy will explore the messages we internalize, their effects on our lives, and the ways we can free ourselves from them. 

Sharing stories and speaking with experts, we’ll dig into the...

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