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The Truth About Healing Podcast

Dana Carretta-Stein

The Truth About Healing is a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based podcast designed to cut through the overwhelming noise of modern wellness culture and explain what healing actually is and what it isn’t.In an era flooded with mental health misinformation, toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing, and oversimplified “coping strategies,” this podcast offers clarity, accuracy, and grounded nervous system education.Hosted by EMDR therapist and consultant Dana Carretta-Stein, the show reframes symptoms as

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Episode 19: You Can’t Rush Healing with Hannah Guy

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2026/10/07

What happens when you want to heal, you're doing the work, and therapy still feels stuck?In this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with Hannah Guy, LCSW, EMDR-certified trauma therapist, founder of Revive Therapy Services, and host of Trauma, Tea, and Tangents, for an honest conversation about what trauma healing actually looks like—and why it's usually much slower, messier, and less linear than we want it to be.Hannah shares her own experience receiving EMDR therapy, how

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💣 Truth Bomb: Control Is Fear in Disguise

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2026/10/05

Control can feel powerful. It can feel productive. Responsible. Prepared. But sometimes? Control is just fear wearing a better outfit. When your nervous system feels threatened, uncertain, or unsafe, it makes sense that you want to tighten your grip. You try to control the outcome. The conversation. The other person. The plan. What happens next. Because somewhere underneath all that control may be something much more vulnerable: Fear of losing something. Fear of not having enough. Fear of bei...

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Episode 18: Your Body Isn’t Broken with Jennifer Rozon

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2026/09/30

What happens when you're doing everything “right”—working out, eating less, pushing harder—and your body suddenly stops cooperating?You eat less.You exercise more.You add supplements.You Google your symptoms.You blame your hormones.And eventually, you start wondering:What the hell is wrong with me?In this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with Jennifer Rozon, midlife metabolic health coach and founder of Revibe Coaching, for a candid conversation about perimenopause,

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💣 Truth Bomb: Your Kids Need Safety

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2026/09/28

Your children don't need you to be a perfect parent.They need to feel safe with you.And sometimes, especially during conflict, separation, divorce, or co-parenting struggles, adults can become so focused on proving who's right that they lose sight of the person caught in the middle:The child.Kids aren't keeping score.They're not deciding who won the argument.They're paying attention to something much more fundamental:Am I safe here?Can I trust the adults around me?Can I have

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Episode 17: Your Relationship Isn’t the Problem with...

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2026/09/23

You keep having the same fight.Different day. Different topic.Same fucking fight.One person pushes harder to talk about it.The other shuts down, avoids, or walks away.And eventually both people become convinced:“If my partner would just change, we'd be fine.”But what if the argument you're having isn't actually the problem?In Episode 17 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with licensed marriage and family therapist Julie Hall for a conversation about relationships, attachment,

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💣 Truth Bomb: Burnout Isn’t Motherhood

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2026/09/21

Being exhausted is not proof that you're a good mom.But somewhere along the way, a lot of women learned that motherhood was supposed to look like self-sacrifice.Give everyone else what they need.Take care of the kids.Remember the appointments.Manage the schedules.Handle the invisible mental load.Keep everyone functioning.And if there's anything left over?Maybe then you can take care of yourself.The problem is, eventually your nervous system sends the bill.Burnout. Resentment. Anxiety

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Episode 16: Your Nervous System Is Talking

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2026/09/16

What if the symptom you're trying to get rid of isn't actually the problem?What if it's information?In Episode 16 of The Truth About Healing, Dana and Claudio go off-script for a deep dive into one of the biggest reasons therapy sometimes doesn't work:We're looking at the person through too small of a lens.Anxiety isn't just psychological.Burnout isn't just about work.Your physical symptoms aren't necessarily separate from your emotional health.And your

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💣 Truth Bomb: It’s Not Too Late

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2026/09/14

You’re not behind. You didn’t miss your chance. And you don’t need anyone’s permission to start again. So many of us carry an invisible timeline for when we were supposed to have figured everything out. The career. The relationship. The business. The family. The dream we keep saying we’ll get to “someday.” Then we look around, compare ourselves to everyone else, and wonder: “Am I too late?” In this Truth Bomb, Dana challenges the idea that there’s an expiration date on becoming who you want t...

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Episode 15: Building Without Burning Out with Eric...

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2026/09/09

Can you build a successful career, raise a family, maintain a marriage, take care of yourself—and somehow still have a sex life?Technically, yes.But you're probably going to need some help.In Episode 15 of The Truth About Healing, Dana is back with her husband, real estate entrepreneur Eric Stein, for Part 2 of their candid conversation about marriage, ambition, parenting, and what it actually takes to build businesses while building a family.This time, they're getting even more

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💣Truth Bomb: Anxiety and Overpreparing

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2026/09/07

What if your anxiety doesn't look like spiraling thoughts? What if it looks like being really, really prepared? Planning everything. Organizing everything. Thinking five steps ahead. Running through every possible scenario so nothing catches you off guard. It can look like you're incredibly responsible. But underneath all that preparation might be a nervous system trying desperately to create certainty. In this Truth Bomb, Dana breaks down why anxiety isn't always overthinking—sometimes it's ...

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Episode 14: Marriage in the Hard Years with Eric Stein

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2026/09/02

What does it actually take to keep a marriage strong when you're raising young kids, running multiple businesses, exhausted, ambitious—and very different people?For this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana is joined by her most personal guest yet: her husband, Eric Stein.And yes, putting your husband on your therapy podcast is apparently a perfectly reasonable marital decision.Dana and Eric have been together for more than a decade, built businesses side by side, become parents to two

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💣 Truth Bomb: Your Body Hasn’t Moved On

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2026/08/31

You understand what happened.You've talked about it. You've analyzed it. You know logically that it's in the past.So why does your body still react like it's happening right now?In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why healing isn't about forcing yourself to “move on”—and why understanding your trauma intellectually doesn't always change the way your nervous system responds to it.Trauma isn't just remembered as a story.It's remembered as an experience.That's

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Episode 13: Divorce, Trauma & Truth with Gus Dimopoulos

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2026/08/26

What if everything you think you know about “winning” a divorce is wrong?In Episode 13 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with leading New York family law attorney Gus Dimopoulos, managing partner of Dimopoulos Law Firm and host of Split: A Podcast on Modern Divorce, for a candid conversation about what actually happens when trauma, psychology, parenting, and the legal system collide.And this conversation goes places.Dana and Gus unpack the overuse of words like trauma and narcissist, the

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💣 Truth Bomb: Grief Isn’t Trauma

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2026/08/24

Grief and trauma are not the same thing.Grief is the pain of what happened. Trauma is what your nervous system keeps reliving afterward.That's why something can have happened years ago—and your body can still respond as if it's happening right now.Your heart races. Your chest tightens. You freeze. You shut down. You feel suddenly overwhelmed.That reaction isn't weakness. It's survival physiology.In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains the important difference between grieving something

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Episode 12: Reinventing Yourself with Mary Belletieri

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2026/08/19

What if you don't have to have your life completely figured out before you start?And what if changing your mind isn't failure, it's growth?In Episode 12 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with author, entrepreneur, corporate event and marketing professional, and working mom Mary Belletieri for a refreshingly honest conversation about motherhood, career, anxiety, perfectionism, reinvention, and learning to say yes before you know exactly how everything will work out.Mary's

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💣 Truth Bomb: Survival With Better Branding

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2026/08/17

People praise high-functioning trauma all the time.You're so strong.You're so resilient.You're so good under pressure.But sometimes what looks like strength from the outside is actually survival mode with better branding.In this Truth Bomb, Dana breaks down why being productive, successful, dependable, and capable doesn't necessarily mean your nervous system is healthy.When slowing down hasn't historically felt safe, your body learns a different strategy:Keep going. Keep

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Episode 11: Healing After Loss with Dorothy...

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2026/08/12

What happens when life keeps handing you losses you never imagined you'd have to survive?In this deeply personal episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with Dorothy Cascerceri Simone, host and executive producer of That Greenwich Life, to talk about pregnancy loss, infertility, IVF, PTSD, EMDR therapy, and what it actually took to find herself again after years of trauma.Dorothy shares the heartbreaking experience of learning at her 20-week anatomy scan that her baby had a severe

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💣 Truth Bomb: Functioning Isn’t Healing

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2026/08/10

💣 Truth Bomb: Functioning Isn’t Healing You go to work. You pay your bills. You take care of your family. You show up for everyone who needs you. So you must be okay… right? Not necessarily. In this Truth Bomb, Dana breaks down the difference between functioning and actually healing. Your nervous system can stay stuck in survival mode for years while you continue to look completely capable on the outside. You can be productive, successful, responsible, and dependable—and still be living with

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Episode 10: Beyond the Badge with Nick Ricciotti...

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2026/08/05

What keeps first responders healthy, not just on the job, but for life?In Part 2 of Dana's conversation with licensed associate counselor, former law enforcement officer, and Vice President of Reps For Responders, Nick Ricciotti, the focus shifts from recovery to resilience.Nick shares how Reps For Responders is changing the conversation around first responder mental health by creating a community built on connection, fitness, education, and accountability. Together, Dana and Nick explore why

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💣 Truth Bomb: Addiction Needs Safety

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2026/08/03

Most people think addiction is a lack of willpower or discipline.The truth? Addiction often begins as your nervous system's attempt to survive.In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why addiction isn't simply about the substance—it's about what the substance does for your body. Whether it's alcohol, drugs, work, food, shopping, or social media, addictive behaviors often develop because they provide temporary relief from chronic stress, emotional pain, or a nervous system that's

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