Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 325-How to Break 7 Harmful Family Patterns You Might Be Repeating
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
Release Date: 07/09/2025
Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 344-How to Nourish, Create Resilience and Safety with Nutrition with Meg Bowman
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
In this episode, Kristen welcomes Meg Bowman, a licensed nutritionist and author, to explore the deep and often-overlooked connection between nutrition, trauma recovery, and nervous system regulation. When you purchase these books through these Amazon affiliate links, you're helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you: Meg Bowman's Book: 1. This Is Your Body on Trauma: How to Nourish Safety, Resilience, and Connection with Polyvagal-Informed Nutrition: Meg Bowman's Book Recommendations: 1. Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using...
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Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 343-Breaking up with Relationship and Motherhood Myths with Vanessa Benett, LMFT
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In this episode, Kristen Boice welcomes licensed depth psychotherapist and author Vanessa Bennett to dive deep into the myths surrounding motherhood, sex, and relationships, and to explore how shame and codependency keep us from living authentically. When you purchase these books through these Amazon affiliate links, you're helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you: Leah Marone's book: Vanessa Benett's Books: The Motherhood Myth: A Depth Therapist’s Guide to Redefine Parenting, Reimagine Intimacy, and Reclaim the Self It's Not Me, It's You: Break the Blame Cycle....
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Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 342-How to Heal From Trauma and Abuse with Alreen Haeggquist
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
In this episode, Kristen welcomes Alreen Haeggquist, a seasoned lawyer, author, and advocate, who shares how unprocessed trauma resurfaced in her body, marriage, and early motherhood. They explore breaking generational silence, setting boundaries with family, and finding the courage to speak out. When you purchase these books through these Amazon affiliate links, you're helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you: 1. Alreen Haeggquist's Book: Fired Up: Fueling Triumph from Trauma: 2. Alreen Haeggquist's book recommendation: Becoming Supernatural:...
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Close the Chapter Episode 341 - Are You A Serial Fixer? with Leah Marone, LCSW
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
In this episode, Kristen is joined by psychotherapist, clinical instructor, and author Leah Marone to explore the hidden patterns behind the urge to fix others’ problems and how shifting from solving to supporting builds stronger relationships, healthier boundaries, and greater emotional balance. When you purchase these books through these Amazon affiliate links, you’re helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you: Leah Marone's book: Serial Fixer: Break Free from the Habit of Solving Other People's Problems: Leah Marone's book...
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Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 340-The Power of Emotional Check-Ins: Why Asking 'How are you really?' Matters
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
In this episode, Kristen explores how daily emotional check-ins can help you reconnect with yourself and strengthen relationships through practical tools and reflective questions that foster deeper emotional intimacy. Subscribe and get a free 5-day journal at www.kristendboice.com to begin closing the chapter on what doesn’t serve you and open the door to the real you. This information is being provided to you for educational and informational purposes only. It is being provided to you to educate you about ideas on stress management and as a self-help tool for your own use. It is not...
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Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 339-Authenticity: The Key to Emotional Freedom and Getting Unstuck with Yudit Maros, LMFT
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
In this episode, Kristen is joined by Yudit Maros, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Hypnotherapist, to explore how fear of judgment and shame disconnect us from our true selves, and how Yudit’s unique approach helps cultivate self-love, inner guidance, and positive self-parenting. When you purchase these books through these Amazon links, you’re helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you. Yudit Maros' book: 1. Apple of My I: The Four Practices of Self-Love: Tools for authentic living in a chaotic world Yudit Maros's Book...
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Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 338-How to Stop Emotional Outsourcing and People Pleasing with Beatriz Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
In this episode, Kristen welcomes returning guest Beatriz Victoria Albina, master certified somatic life coach and author, to discuss emotional outsourcing, how it fuels codependency, perfectionism, and people-pleasing, and how her BRAVE protocol offers tools to reclaim your authentic self. When you purchase these books through these Amazon affiliate links, you’re helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you: Beatriz Victoria Albina’s Book 1. End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, and People-Pleasing Habits: Book Recommendation: 1....
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Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 337 - How to Heal From Your Past Through Facing Pain with Amber Trejo, LMFT
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
In this episode, Kristen sits down with Amber Trejo, LMFT, who specializes in complex trauma and attachment, to explore how trauma weaves into relationships, parenting, and identity, and what real healing actually looks like. When you purchase Amber Trejo's recommended books through these Amazon affiliate links, you’re helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you: 1. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma: 2. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma: 3. The...
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Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 336 - How and Why Healing Your Nervous System Changes Everything with Lynn Fraser
Close the Chapter Podcast with Kristen Boice
In this episode, Kristen sits down with somatic mindfulness teacher Lynn Fraser to explore how trauma is stored in the body and practical ways to tend the nervous system. When you purchase these books through these Amazon affiliate links, you’re helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you: Lynn Fraser's Book: Friends With Your Mind: How to Stop Torturing Yourself With Your Thoughts (Breathe, Relax, Heal): Lynn Fraser's Recommended Reads: 1. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture: ...
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Close the Chapter Podcast Episode 335-How Holding and Physical Touch Can Heal the Nervous System with Michelle Renee
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In this episode, Kristen welcomes Michelle Renee, co-owner of Cuddlist, to explore the power of healthy, consensual touch and how cuddle therapy can support trauma recovery and emotional well-being. When you purchase Michelle Renee's recommended books through these Amazon affiliate links, you’re helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you: Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents: Subscribe...
info_outlineIn this encore episode, Kristen unpacks seven generational patterns that keep us stuck and offers guidance on how to break the cycle and build deeper, healthier connections.
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