She's Honestly Mental

Content note: This episode talks openly about mental health struggle, hospital admissions, thoughts of wanting to disappear or escape, childhood and sexual abuse, and drinking. If any of that is close to home right now, be gentle with yourself. You don't have to listen alone, and you don't have to listen today.

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I came off my medication and thought fitness and nutrition would pick up the slack.

Spoiler: it did not.

This week I'm recording from a little Airbnb in Scarborough, in the city for guest episodes, and somewhere between an ASIC strike on our company, nearly bailing on the whole trip, and two strangers stopping me in Woolies to say thank you, I had to sit with something I still don't know how to do.

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Exhausted. Pre-cycle. Jared barely home. Desk for three days straight. This is what heavy actually looks like.

And yet.

There are these tiny moments. A cuddle at 3am. A blanket my Nana made that's been with me through every hospital admission. A sunset. A rainbow. Moments so small you'd miss them if you weren't looking.

They're called glimmers. And they might be the most important thing nobody is talking about.

This week I'm sharing wh...

Six weeks off Lamotrigine. Antidepressant reduced. And suddenly the version of me I thought I'd dealt with is back in the kitchen losing it over the washing.

This isn't a breakdown. It's information.

This week I'm talking about what actually happens to your nervous system when the medication that was holding things together starts to change. The mum rage that comes with it. The overstimulation. The guilt of feeling li...

Triggered Or Victim. You Get To Choose.

What's actually the difference between being triggered and playing the victim? Because there is one. And it's everything.

This week I tried to record a podcast with Paw Patrol blaring, school holidays in full swing, and my nervous system absolutely not cooperating. And somewhere between the go-karts drama, a flip out on my best friend, and a ChatGPT therapy session at 10am, I figured ou...

Six years ago I was being discharged from hospital for the second time. This week I did a gym session, meal prepped, and recorded this podcast. Same person. Completely different life.

This episode is a real one. I'm talking about where I'm at with medication, what's actually been going on with my body and my weight, the community we're building, and why I have never once looked at anyone in this space as a competitor...

What happens when the week tries to break you and you show up anyway?

This week Corrina’s Whoop band was in the red, a friend hit crisis point, and she was riding out medication withdrawals. She recorded anyway, because that’s what She’s Honestly Mental is.

This episode is for women who are holding it together on the outside while their body is quietly screaming stop. No polish. No performance. Just the real week, out loud.

You’ll hea...

Your nervous system doesn't break from one big moment.

It breaks from a lifetime of smaller ones stacking up until one day, it just stops pretending. In this solo long-form episode, I go back to the week the world went into Covid and I went into a mental health ward for the second time.

Six years later, I'm recording from my living room, running businesses, raising two boys, and for the first time in my adult life I feel gen...

What happens when you stop doing it all for everyone else and finally choose you?

Season one is wrapping up and I’m letting you in on everything that led to this moment. From fireworks that flopped to a laser show that nearly broke the bank, go-kart crashes to school awards, business wins to personal spirals. This is the unfiltered, gloriously messy wrap of my year.

This episode is a chaotic ride through 2025: what worked, what didn’...

Ever snapped at your kids and then drowned in guilt? What if it's not about anger at all, but your nervous system waving a red flag?

In this episode, I talk about the messy middle of motherhood, rage, and real-life capacity. From the chaos of raising two kids under two, to sleep deprivation, sensory overload, and the guilt storms that follow rage episodes. This is a raw, honest look at what it means to parent when you're a...

Ever feel like you’re one bad decision away from everything falling apart financially?

In this episode, I’m recording on Christmas Eve, cacao in hand, exhausted and honest as hell. I’m sharing what it’s really been like hosting our first Christmas at home in a decade, trying to keep my brain regulated in the chaos, and why committing to this podcast weekly has forced me to finally take my own voice seriously.

I talk openly about ADHD...

What if medication isn’t a weakness, a shortcut, or a failure… but the scaffolding that holds you while you rebuild your life?

In this episode, I talk honestly about medication, ADHD, antidepressants, and the quiet shame that still sits around needing help. I share what medication did for me. It didn’t fix my life. It didn’t erase trauma. But it lowered the noise, slowed the spirals, and gave me enough capacity to start caring for m...

What if the hardest part of healing starts after hospital?

In this episode, I’m sharing what no one tells you about the messy, raw, and painfully real parts of life after a mental health hospital stay. It’s not a smooth re-entry, it’s a faceplant into life admin, school lunches, bills, and grief over everything you missed while surviving. I talk through the structure I lost, the guilt I carried, and the scaffolding I had to build ju...

What if chasing "ease" is the very thing making your life harder?

In this episode, I crack open the mental loops I've been stuck in lately. From overcomplicating everything in the name of productivity to questioning my worth in a room full of entrepreneurs.

It's raw, chaotic, and weirdly reassuring if your brain also has 40,000 tabs open. I share what led me to declare 2026 the "Year of Ease," how ADHD f...

What if the signs that you needed help were hiding in your camera roll?

This episode is the audio version of going back through the photos and finally seeing the truth.

This one’s raw. I open up about the lead-up to my first mental health admission in 2019. Not from a perfect, polished hindsight place, but straight from the heart, scrolling through the chaos on my phone.

You’ll hear about the photo that broke me, the letter from the n...

Have you ever built something that looked great on the outside, but didn’t feel right inside?

This episode is about the uncomfortable magic of accidentally pivoting, and finally doing business in a way that feels like you.

This one’s part confession, part clarity bomb. I recorded from a Surf Club storage room, sipping cacao, processing the chaos of scaling back my meds, and admitting something out loud, I’ve accidentally rebranded my...

What if the reason you're stuck… is because you're building something that isn’t even you?

This episode is a full-throttle brain dump from my bedroom floor. I talk through the mess of launching something that doesn’t feel aligned, and what happens when you stop forcing what’s not working. You’ll hear about my decision to open House of Collab, the flopped launch of my Permission to be Human program, and how using human desi...

Ever felt like life’s falling apart but somehow, you’re still the one holding everyone together?

This week, I take you inside the chaos of our busiest season yet. Business stress, basketball coaching, stomach dramas and a moment of real clarity. You’ll hear about the week I ended up in hospital, the unexpected lessons it brought me, and how slowing down didn’t derail me like it used to. We talk business, mental health, parentin...

What if putting yourself first didn’t mean letting everyone else down?

In this unfiltered 6am episode recorded from a surf club storage room (yes, really), I crack open the emotional weight of what it looks like to start choosing yourself after a lifetime of over functioning for everyone else. I talk about the tension between building something that’s “just yours” and the guilt that sneaks in when you do.

You'll hear how brand s...