The Therapist Behind the Change Series: Faith, Intuition, and the Unknown
Release Date: 10/08/2025
Meeting of the Minds about Fear with Chris McDonald
The Fear of Change Podcast
What happens when something you once loved no longer fits your life? How often does fear keep you holding on instead of moving forward? Why does uniting your body and mind holistically help you to move through fear with more ease? In this episode, I sit down with Chris McDonald to talk about fear, transition, and what it really means to keep moving forward when something you once loved no longer fits your life. Chris shares her decision to step away from producing new episodes of her long-running podcast, Yoga in the Therapy Room. We talk honestly about the mix of grief, relief, and fear...
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The Cost of Staying the Same: What Women Realize at 45+
The Fear of Change Podcast
What sits at the core of women’s burnout, exhaustion, and emotional depletion? Are you stuck between the fear of changing and the fear of staying the same? What truly constitutes emotional labor - and how can women release themselves from suffering the cost? In this episode, I talk about what sits at the core of women’s burnout, exhaustion, and emotional depletion. I explore why so many women feel trapped between the fear of changing and the fear of staying the same, and what it truly costs to keep carrying everything. This is a conversation about emotional labor, why it becomes a...
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Letting Yourself Change: Permission Slips for Midlife Women
The Fear of Change Podcast
Do you know what you want to do, but you don’t feel like you’re allowed to do it? Have you been waiting for something or someone to give you permission? Well, here it is! Take that step, and for the first time in years, choose you. In this episode, I talk about something I see again and again with midlife women: it’s not that we don’t know what we want — it’s that we don’t feel allowed to want it. We’re waiting for permission to rest, to change, to say no, or to choose ourselves. So I’m offering it to you directly: this is your permission. From a young age, many of us were...
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The Midlife Identity Breakup: Who You Were vs. Who You’re Becoming
The Fear of Change Podcast
Are you a woman in your 40s, 50s, or 60s? Have you ever experienced - or are you perhaps experiencing - a midlife identity breakup? What is the first step that you can take to journey through this transition and fully step into yourself? In this episode, I talk about the midlife identity breakup—a transition many women experience in midlife as they move from who they’ve been into who they’re becoming. This isn’t a crisis, but a natural shift that happens when old roles, expectations, and ways of being no longer fit. I explore why this often emerges in midlife, the signs that an...
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The Midlife Identity Breakup: Who You Were vs. Who You’re Becoming
The Fear of Change Podcast
What happens when the roles and identities that once defined you no longer fit? How do you navigate the unsettling space between who you were and who you are becoming? What if midlife isn’t a crisis at all, but an invitation to evolve into your truest self? In this podcast I talk about the midlife identity breakup—the moment you realize the roles and patterns that once defined you no longer fit who you’re becoming. It’s not a crisis but a transition, and like any breakup it can bring grief, confusion, clarity, and a powerful sense of renewal. I describe the signs of this shift: letting...
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“Why Burnout Isn’t a Time Problem — It’s a Nervous System Problem”
The Fear of Change Podcast
Why does burnout even happen? How can you heal from burnout in ways that actually work and drop the quick-fixes? What would your life look like if you started listening to your body’s early warning signs instead of pushing past them? In this podcast I explain why burnout isn’t a time-management issue—it’s a nervous system issue. You can have a full calendar and feel energized when your system is regulated, or a quiet schedule and still feel depleted. Burnout happens when you’re emotionally overextended for too long without recovery. I outline the sequence of burnout: your system...
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“The Somatic Side of Reinvention: Healing Before You Transform”
The Fear of Change Podcast
What if your body isn’t ready for the change your mind wants? Are you trying to force transformation when your nervous system resists? What could positively shift if your body felt safe enough to evolve? In this podcast I talk about what happens when your mind wants change, but your body isn’t ready. I explore the somatic side of reinvention and why healing often needs to happen before transformation. I explain that a bottom-up approach—starting with the body, then moving to the mind—works because the body holds your lived experience. If your body doesn’t feel safe, your mind can’t...
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“When Your Body Says ‘I’m Not Fine’: Nervous System Clues You Can’t Ignore”
The Fear of Change Podcast
What if fear isn’t a stop sign, but the doorway you have been avoiding? How would your life change if you treated fear as information instead of a threat? What possibilities might open if discomfort became your compass rather than your warning light? In this podcast I talk about what happens when I finally listen to my body. I explore how often we mislabel dysregulation as “just tired” or “just stressed,” and why that discomfort is actually important information from the nervous system. I describe the signs of a system on edge—exhaustion, overwhelm, irritability, fogginess, or...
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Regulate to Liberate Series: Integrating Fear - From Threat to Teacher
The Fear of Change Podcast
What if fear isn’t a stop sign, but the doorway you have been avoiding? How would your life change if you treated fear as information instead of a threat? What possibilities might open if discomfort became your compass rather than your warning light? In this podcast I invite listeners to reframe fear—not as a stop sign but as a doorway I’ve been avoiding. I explain how treating fear as information instead of a threat helps discomfort become a compass pointing toward growth rather than a warning light pulling you back. I describe fear as a signal and a teacher: it often points to what we...
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Regulate to Liberate Series: Fear in the Body - Somatic Regulation
The Fear of Change Podcast
What if your body could tell you you’re afraid long before your mind catches up? How often do you mistake fear signals for something “wrong” instead of something informative? What might change if you learned to interpret fearful sensations as guidance rather than danger? In this podcast, I explore how fear lives in the body and how learning to read those sensations can shift my entire response. I break down the somatic signs of fear, share simple grounding tools like the 5-4-3-2-1 technique, and offer a case of performance fear to show how reconnecting with the senses can calm the...
info_outlineDo you practice using your intuition and faith in everyday life? How can bringing these two into the therapy room support you and your client better? What do you need to trust your inner self to make decisions from your most honest inner self?
In this podcast, I talk about how faith and intuition guide both my life and my work as a therapist. Intuition is that quiet inner knowing—something you can’t always see but deeply feel.
Faith, for me, is the trust that I don’t need to control every outcome to move forward. When I bring faith and intuition into therapy, I listen beyond words—to energy, silence, and my own felt sense.
Learning to trust these has helped me make decisions from my most honest inner self and support clients more deeply.
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