Podcast Episodes

Women especially drastically underestimate what we’re capable of achieving, having absorbed messages about knowing our own limitations, not wanting too much, or thinking too highly of ourselves. As a result, some of you don’t ever think about the future or have big dreams, while the rest of you identify as perfectionists who live in the future all the time. Either way, the concept of impossible goals can be incredibly powerful if applied correctly.

To talk all things having children, choosing to be child-free, and everything in between, I’m speaking to the hosts of the ShrinkChicks Podcast, Jennifer Chaiken and Emmalee Bierly. They’re both licensed marriage and family therapists who are dedicated to creating a unique therapeutic environment even skeptics would open up to, and they’re here to dive into the anxiety that can often come up around the choice of having or not having children.

Hear why we’ve lost perspective on whether or not we’re being dramatic, how a dramatic narrative is creating unnecessary mental anguish for you, and what to do the next time you notice your brain being dramatic.

This week, you’re hearing a special bonus episode with the hosts of the Girls Gotta Eat Podcast, Rayna Greenberg and Ashley Hesseltine. Girls Gotta Eat is a top comedy podcast about dating, sex, and relationships. From sexual fetishes to finances, Rayna and Ashley cover it all, often with amazing regular

Rae is a transgender, diversity, and inclusion educator, keynote speaker, and founder of Practical Audacity: a large queer-centered group based in Chicago. They recently wrote their first book, Gender Magic, and they’re here today to start a discussion around gender freedom and exploration as a part of self-growth and identity development for everyone.

Learn three ways we create unnecessary suffering in our lives, and a tool I call ABCD that will expand your capacity for compassion, empathy, and grief to support you in times of loss and rupture.