What if Being Stuck is Actually an Invitation?
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
Release Date: 04/17/2025
How to Practice Gratitude without the Toxic Positivity
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
Every year near Thanksgiving, Joree gets practical about gratitude - beyond seasonal clichés and without bypassing what’s hard. You’ll learn how to work with your brain’s negativity bias, use neuroplasticity to “take in the good,” and practice gratitude that deepens presence, resilience, and connection, especially in relationships. Joree also shares favorite tools from her book A Year of Gratitude (365 daily prompts and practices), the “one thing, five reasons” exercise, and a simple guided practice for receiving appreciation so it actually lands. If you’ve worried that...
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Stop the Spiral: Real-Time Tools for Self-Compassion and Boundaries
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
This episode goes deeper into two pillars of healing: quieting your inner critic and practicing genuine self-compassion. Joree breaks down how harsh self-talk can sometimes masquerade as “motivation,” how to spot whose voice you’re actually hearing inside your mind whenever your inner critic gets loud, and what to do in the exact moment you start spiraling. You’ll learn a simple real-time interrupt-and-reframe method, a three-times-daily self check-in that builds awareness with compassion (not judgment), and how boundaries, nervous-system regulation, and reframing shame open the door...
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Boundaries as Self-Love: The Missing Pillar of Self-Compassion
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
Self-compassion isn’t just “being nice to yourself” - it’s a trainable skill that rewires how you relate to pain, shame, and stress. In this episode, Joree breaks down Kristin Neff’s three pillars - mindfulness, common humanity, and kindness - and expands them with two game-changers: values-based boundaries and letting go of what no longer serves you. You’ll learn how to combat the fear of emotional “backdraft,” the power of shifting how you name things to yourself, such as saying “I’m experiencing anxiety right now,” vs “I am anxious” and how embodying...
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The Power of Befriending Your Inner Critic
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
We’re kicking off October with a truth bomb: your inner critic isn’t the enemy—it’s a clumsy protector with terrible delivery. In this episode, Joree unpacks how that harsh voice keeps you stuck in perfectionism, comparison, fear, and shame, and shows you how to pause, get curious, and rewire it into a compassionate ally. Drawing on mindfulness, research-informed practices (hat tip to Kristin Neff), and real-life examples, you’ll learn how to turn down the volume on self-criticism so you can turn up authenticity, boundaries, and embodied joy. Connect with Joree Rose: •...
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Living True, Living Fully: The Path to Authenticity and Abundance
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
In the final episode of a 3-part series delving into a powerful, transformative framework, Joree will walk you through the final 2 steps: authenticity and abundance. After awakening to possibility, building awareness, and stepping into alignment, you’re now ready to live from your truest self and step fully into a mindset of enoughness. We explore how authenticity frees us from people-pleasing, empowers us to set healthy boundaries, and allows us to live from the inside out rather than by others’ expectations. Finally, it's Joree’s assertion that the inevitable outcome of doing the work...
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Awareness and Alignment: Your Next Steps Toward Abundance
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
In this week’s episode of Journey Forward with Joree Rose, Joree continues to reveal her five-step framework for transformation, a process born from her own healing journey and years of guiding women toward living fully and freely. She explores the first three steps of the framework - Awakening, Awareness, and Alignment - showing how awakening to contrast, cultivating mindful awareness, and courageously stepping into alignment are the foundations of lasting change. Through personal stories, mindfulness tools, and compassionate guidance, Joree invites you to release self-doubt, trust your...
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Awakening: The First Brave Step Toward Transformation
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
Are you living the life you consciously chose - or the one you fell into? In this powerful follow-up to the August series on what it means to Journey Forward, Joree explores the process of awakening to your own life. From identifying the inner voice of self-doubt to breaking free from inherited “shoulds,” this episode is a call to come home to yourself. You'll learn how to uncover your core values, tune into your self-worth, and live with intention instead of autopilot. If you’ve felt the contrast between where you are and where you want to be, this episode is your invitation to trust...
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From Tight in a Bud to Blossoming
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
Inspired by the quote from Anaïs Nin, “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom,” this episode invites you into the heart of what it truly means to Journey Forward. Joree shares the emotional, spiritual, and psychological process of creating lasting change - not by needing to necessary overhaul your entire life, but by beginning to reclaim your truth, rewrite old outdated stories you’ve been in a habit of living by, and taking aligned, intentional steps forward. In addition to learning some practical tools, along with her...
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Untangling the Past to Build a Secure Future
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
In this powerful crossover episode, we (Joree & John) open up about the real work it took to heal the attachment wounds we each brought into our relationship. Like so many couples, we found ourselves caught in the anxious/avoidant cycle—pursuing, withdrawing, misunderstanding—and it took conscious effort, deep reflection, and lots of compassion to shift out of those patterns. Together, we share how doing our individual and relational healing helped us build a foundation of safety and security. We talk about what it actually looks like to move from reactivity to intentional connection,...
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Healing Anxious & Avoidant Attachment Styles
Journey Forward with Joree Rose
This week on Journey Forward with Joree Rose, we continue the powerful conversation on attachment styles—and this time, we’re going deep into the patterns of anxious and avoidant dynamics that so many couples unknowingly get stuck in. Through both clinical insight and personal reflection, Joree explores: How early emotional experiences shape adult attachment patterns What anxious and avoidant behaviors actually look like in real relationships Why conflict often triggers old wounds instead of connection How emotional safety, validation, and repair lead to lasting intimacy Tools to...
info_outlineIn this episode of Journey Forward with Joree Rose, Joree shares a deeply personal reflection on what it means to come back to ourselves—again and again—through the practice of mindfulness. After noticing how easy it is to slip into autopilot and feel disconnected, she made a conscious decision to slow down and return to my foundational tools for presence, awareness, and healing.
A central theme in this episode is the cycle of reactivity—those familiar patterns we find ourselves caught in when we’re triggered, overwhelmed, or emotionally hijacked. Joree talks about how mindfulness becomes the bridge out of that reactive loop, offering us the pause we need to respond rather than react.
You’ll hear:
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What it looks like to unintentionally drift from presence—and how to gently find your way back.
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How the body holds cues that tell us when we’re caught in reactivity, and how to listen.
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The difference between reacting from old patterns vs. responding from conscious awareness.
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Practical ways to interrupt the cycle of reactivity through breath, self-compassion, and intentionality.
This episode is an invitation to remember: you are not your reactions. You are the awareness behind them. And every moment is a new opportunity to choose a different path—one that leads to more peace, alignment, and freedom.
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or just yearning to feel more connected to yourself and your life, this conversation will meet you where you are and guide you gently forward.
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Connect with Joree Rose:
• Website: www.joreerose.com
• Instagram: @joreerose
• Subscribe to her podcast: Journey Forward with Joree Rose
• Join the Podcast Membership: https://joreerose.com/journeyforwardpodcast/
Connect with Joree & John for relationship work:
• Website: www.loveisntenough.net
• Instagram: @loveisntenough33
• Subscribe to their podcast: Love Isn’t Enough
• Join our relationship Master Class series: https://loveisntenough.net/masterclass/