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Conversations from the Heart

A weekly, soul-nourishing podcast offering psychologically grounded, heart-centered reflections on human relationships, inner healing, and compassion-based communication. Focused on live mini-coaching moments to help callers shift from reactive, domination-based communication to collaborative, heart-centered connection. Listen for new scripts for stuck situations, new ways of responding to old relationship dynamics and guidance on how to approach these situations with empathy, self-awareness, and

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#138 - The Relational Leadership Field Guide

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/03/23

Relational leadership isn’t people-pleasing and it isn’t weakness. In this episode, we explore how to lead with empathy and clarity in high-stakes professional settings. Through two real leadership scenarios involving negotiation and supervision, we unpack how to stay relational without over-giving, avoid power struggles, and focus conversations on impact, responsibility, and shared outcomes. This is a grounded, practical look at empathy as a leadership skill, not a personality trait. In this...

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#137 - Loving Someone in Crisis Without Losing Yourself

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/03/16

What do you do when caring for someone in crisis starts to cost you your health, your sleep, and your sense of self? Today we explore one of the most painful and complex relational dilemmas: how to stay loving and connected with a family member who is suffering, without becoming the container for their pain or sacrificing our own wellbeing. A listener brings a raw and deeply human question about boundaries with a grieving, traumatized family member who refuses professional help. Together, we ...

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27:45

#136 - How to Stay Grounded When Someone Criticizes You

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2026/03/09

Does your body tighter when someone criticizes you? Do you start apologizing or over-explaining before you’ve even thought it through? In this insightful episode, Jaya brings two powerful stories that reveal how early experiences of contempt and correction still live in her nervous system today. Together, we unpack what happens inside when criticism feels dangerous, and how to work with the shame, fear, and self-blame that so often follow. We explore the difference between criticism and...

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39:43

#135 - Caretaking vs. Compassion

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2026/03/02

What’s the line between loving someone and losing yourself in the process? This week, we explore the subtle differences between caretaking and compassion. Khanyilanga wrestles with how to set loving boundaries with a friend struggling with addiction, while Kate faces the fear of hurting others when she speaks her truth. Together, their stories reveal how easily our empathy can become entanglement, and how to reclaim grounded compassion rooted in honesty, respect, and self-trust. ...

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41:11

#134 - How to Let Go When You Still Love Them

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/02/23

In this episode of Conversations from the Heart, we explore one of the most bewildering dynamics in adult relationships: when we find ourselves deeply attached to someone who simply cannot meet us where we are. Even when our minds know the relationship isn’t mutual or nourishing, parts of us keep circling back: longing, hoping, checking the “well” for water that isn’t there. Through a heartfelt exchange with Judith, we trace how these patterns often have their roots in early attachment ...

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40:27

#133 - How to Help Kids (And Ourselves) Do Hard Things

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2026/02/16

This conversation invites us to explore one of the deepest lessons in emotional maturity: learning to be in relationship with our feelings without being ruled by them. Through a heartfelt dialogue about parenting, school anxiety, and our own patterns of overwhelm, we discover that the path to growing up isn’t about avoiding what’s hard, but about developing a loving and steady relationship with the “vehicle” we live in: our body, our emotions, and our lived experience. We walk through t...

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39:55

#132 - Reconnecting After Years of Conflict,...

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/02/09

When life has hurt us enough times, our hearts learn to protect themselves. We grow cautious. Controlled. We tell ourselves we’re being “realistic,” when really, we’re just afraid to be hurt again. In this week’s episode, I talk with Cody, a woman learning how to reconnect with her husband after years of criticism, conflict, and silence. Together, we explore what it truly takes to soften the walls that once kept them each safe, but now keep love out. Listen to learn: •How self-protectio...

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38:35

#131 - When Anger Drives

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/02/03

What if anger didn’t have to be a threat to love, and vulnerability didn’t mean weakness? This week we begin with a moment many of us recognize: a flash of road rage, a surge of intensity, a body flooded with energy. Beneath moments like these, something deeper is often asking for care and understanding. Colleen joins me to explore her concern for her husband, whose driving behavior has become frightening amid health stress and unspoken emotional strain. Together, we slow the moment down and...

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61:09

#130 - Understanding Stigma: How Judgment Replaces...

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/01/26

We all carry invisible stories about what it means to be a “good person,” a “hard worker,” or someone who has truly earned what they have. But what happens when we meet someone who doesn’t fit those stories? Someone living on disability income, or needing more support than we think they should? This week, we explore the quiet judgments and discomfort that can arise when we encounter difference. We look at how domination culture trains us to equate worth with productivity, independence w...

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37:01

#129 - How to Stay Grounded When Someone’s Coming in Hot

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/01/19

What happens in you when someone comes at you with intensity? Do you freeze, go blank, lose your words, or start doubting yourself? We explore what it means to stay grounded when another person’s energy feels too hot to handle by talking with Kate, who finds herself going into freeze mode when someone else’s intensity rises and tone sharpens. Together, we explore how to meet our shutdown responses with awareness instead of judgment, seeing them as wisdom, not weakness. Afterwards, Josie bring...

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#128 - How to Interrupt When They Talk Too Much

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/01/12

Ever find yourself trapped in a conversation that feels endless, feeling your energy draining as someone keeps talking and talking? Today we explore how to stay kind, connected, and honest while trying to interrupt. We unpack the hidden fears that keep us quiet (fear of rejection, fear of being rude) and the old “be a good person” conditioning that often silences our truth. You’ll learn how to interrupt without guilt, speak from authenticity instead of irritation, and transform dr...

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#127 - What to Say When Fear is Reading Rejection...

Conversations from the Heart ·

2026/01/05

Fear loves to make up stories, especially about rejection. In this episode, Jodi and Jen bring us into real moments of reaching out, risking love, and meeting old anxieties with new courage. We explore how fear distorts reality, how feedback loops restore truth, and how connection deepens when we stop believing every story our mind tells. If you’ve ever hesitated to reach out because you were afraid of being unwanted, this episode will help you pause, soften, and see with clearer eyes. ...

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50:31

#126 - Want Someone to Be More Emotionally Available...

Conversations from the Heart ·

2025/12/29

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing your partner would just open up, this conversation will speak directly to your heart. In this intimate episode, Nina brings forward a question many of us quietly wrestle with: What do I do when I crave emotional connection and my partner keeps pulling away? Together, we explore the anxious–avoidant cycle: that painful push-and-pull dynamic where one nervous system reaches for closeness while the other needs distance to feel safe. I will unpack why t...

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#125 - When Saying "No" Brings Up Old Fears

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2025/12/22

Why does saying no make your heart race? Why can honesty feel like risk? This episode explores what happens when boundaries stir up the old fear of losing love. Paul learns how a simple process check can bring kindness to endings, while Jereme discovers how early lessons about punishment and approval still shape her adult relationships. If self-advocacy makes you anxious, this conversation will help you find truth and tenderness in the same breath. For ongoing practice and deeper learning, jo...

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47:42

#124 - When You’re Doing All The Emotional Labor

Conversations from the Heart ·

2025/12/15

In this week's conversation, Vanessa brings forward the pain of a friendship that feels increasingly one-sided. Together, we explore the difference between situational limits and structural limits in relationships, how to trust the “data” we receive when others shut down, and the grief that comes with realizing we may be doing too much emotional labor. We explore how to discern when to keep engaging, when to step back, and how to communicate desires for mutuality without blame. We also look a...

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#123 - They Took Out the Line About Me

Conversations from the Heart ·

2025/12/08

When Nancy learned that her niece had removed a single sentence from a family speech, one that acknowledged Nancy’s marriage and presence, it triggered a wave of old pain. What may seem like a small omission unearthed decades of erasure, advocacy, and exhaustion. In this deeply moving conversation, we explore how one personal moment of being edited out becomes a microcosm of much larger cultural shifts. As stories of marginalized people are quietly removed from government websites, training p...

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#122 - When Correction Feels Like Criticism

Conversations from the Heart ·

2025/12/01

What do you do when someone corrects you publicly, and their tone stings more than their words? In this episode, Tarjia brings a deeply relatable dilemma: how to respond in the moment when someone interrupts, “clarifies,” or subtly shames you, especially when it’s someone in a leadership role. Together, we explore real-time language tools, nervous system regulation strategies, and relational repair practices. This isn’t just about one group dynamic or one conversation: it’s about how to recla...

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33:05

#121- How to love a parent who rejects your help

Conversations from the Heart ·

2025/11/24

What do we do when the person who raised us is now emotionally volatile, resistant to help, and unintentionally casting us as the villain when we try to care for them? In this heartfelt conversation, Diana brings forward the tender, painful challenge of loving her aging mother, who struggles with emotional regulation, trauma, and shame, and the deep inner conflict between wanting to offer support and needing to protect her own nervous system. Together, we unpack: •The emotional cost of parent...

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47:35

#120 - It’s Not About the Chocolate: How to Stay...

Conversations from the Heart ·

2025/11/17

In this episode, Sarah brings a heartfelt and tender question: How do I talk to a friend who shifts from playful connection to subtle moralizing which often causes me to feel infantilized and shut down? What follows is a rich, layered exploration of how covert control and unconscious superiority can sneak into even our most well-meaning relationships. We unpack the difference between tone-setting and mutual consent, how to reclaim subjectivity without blame, and the deep emotional wound that ...

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#119 - How to Talk to Your Emotionally Unsafe Parent

Conversations from the Heart ·

2025/11/10

What do you do when every conversation with a parent leaves you feeling erased, criticized, or shut down, but walking away feels like betrayal? In this raw and tender coaching session, we meet Suzanne, who’s struggling to navigate contact with her mother: a woman who routinely gaslights her, shuts down difficult topics, and prioritizes her own emotional comfort over honest connection. Suzanne wants to be seen. She also wants to stay safe. And in her family, those two things feel mutually excl...

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