In this episode, Kristen talks with Ben Eckstein, a therapist specializing in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, anxiety, and related disorders, about how worry and rumination work and how to manage them more effectively.

You will learn:

• How to recognize the difference between automatic worry and the choices you make in responding to it
• Why anxiety and rumination feel uncontrollable and how to start gaining a sense of control
• A practical method (SCAMP) to break down and understand your worry patterns
• How compulsions and avoidance behaviors keep anxiety cycles going
• Techniques like exposure and response prevention to retrain your brain
• How to build tolerance for uncertainty and live a fuller, less anxious life

Connect with Ben Eckstein HERE.

Check out these books using the Amazon affiliate links:

Ben's book:

Worrying Is Optional: Break the Cycle of Anxiety and Rumination That Keeps You Stuck

Book that inspired Ben:

The Happiness Trap (Second Edition): How to Stop Struggling and Start Living

When you purchase these books through these Amazon links, you're helping support the podcast at no extra cost.

Subscribe HERE and get a free 5-day journal to begin closing the chapter on what doesn't serve you and open the door to the real you.

• Get Kristen's newsletter, packed with tangible tools, resources, and inspiration
• Watch the episodes on YouTube
• Follow Kristen on Instagram
• Kristen's TikTok
• Have Kristen Speak at Your Event
• Disclaimer

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 psychotherapy/counseling in any form. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment.

For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this encore episode, Kristen sits down with Dr. Kristin Neff to explore how self-compassion can help you break free from shame, quiet self-criticism, and build a more authentic and grounded relationship with yourself.

You will learn:

• How to define self-compassion and the three core components that make it effective
• The difference between tender self-compassion and fierce self-compassion—and when to use each
• Why shame and self-criticism are so common (and how to break free from them)
• Practical tools and scripts to start speaking to yourself with kindness today
• How self-compassion impacts parenting, relationships, and your ability to set boundaries

self-compassion.org

If you'd like to buy any of Dr. Kristin Neff's books, please use the Amazon affiliate links below. Shopping through these links helps support the podcast at no extra cost to you!

1. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
2. Fierce Self-Compassion: How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive

Subscribe HERE and get a free 5-day journal to begin closing the chapter on what doesn't serve you and open the door to the real you.

• Get Kristen's newsletter, packed with tangible tools, resources, and inspiration
• Watch the episodes on YouTube
• Follow Kristen on Instagram
• Kristen's TikTok
• Have Kristen Speak at Your Event
• Disclaimer

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 psychotherapy/counseling in any form. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment.

For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen sits down with Dr. Alina Kastner, an expert in narcissistic relationships and author, to dive into how to recognize unhealthy relationship patterns, why they're so hard to leave, and what true healing actually looks like.

• How to recognize the signs of a narcissistic relationship

• Why you may feel unworthy, unlovable, or like something is wrong with you

• Why it's so hard to leave and the fear of being alone

• The steps to begin breaking free from unhealthy relationship patterns

• How to heal, rebuild your confidence, and reconnect with yourself

Connect with Dr. Alina Kastner's HERE.

Check out Dr. Alina Kastner's books through these Amazon affiliate links: By using these links to purchase, you're supporting the podcast without any extra cost to you.

1. Break Up with Narcissism: How to Break Free and Stay Free ― The 4-Step Plan for Surviving Narcissistic Abuse
2. My Toxic Breakup A Guided Journal

Dr. Alina Kastner's Book Recommendations:

1. Psychopath Free (Expanded Edition): Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People
2. A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity
3. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

Subscribe HERE and get a free 5-day journal to begin closing the chapter on what doesn't serve you and open the door to the real you.

• Get Kristen's newsletter, packed with tangible tools, resources, and inspiration
• Watch the episodes on YouTube
• Follow Kristen on Instagram
• Kristen's TikTok
• Have Kristen Speak at Your Event
• Disclaimer

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 psychotherapy/counseling in any form. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment.

For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

You'll Learn:

• What matrescence is and why motherhood is a major identity transition

• Why parenting often activates unresolved childhood wounds

• How Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps parents understand emotional triggers

• Why healing your own parts can help break generational cycles

• How self-awareness and vulnerability strengthen parent-child relationships

Connect with Dr. Angele Close HERE.

Subscribe HERE and get a free 5-day journal to begin closing the chapter on what doesn't serve you and open the door to the real you.

• Get Kristen's newsletter, packed with tangible tools, resources, and inspiration
• Watch the episodes on YouTube
• Follow Kristen on Instagram
• Kristen's TikTok
• Have Kristen Speak at Your Event
• Disclaimer

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 psychotherapy/counseling in any form. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment.

For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this encore episode, Kristen is joined by Dr. Sherrie Campbell, a licensed clinical psychologist and bestselling author, to discuss the lasting impact of emotionally abusive parents and the journey toward healing.

You will learn:

• How emotionally abusive parents can affect your sense of self and relationships later in life.

• Dr. Sherrie's personal journey of cutting ties with her family and the impact it had on her life.

• How to identify and manage emotional triggers that stem from past trauma.

• The challenges of healing and the importance of no-contact strategies.

• Practical tools for speaking your truth and standing firm in your personal boundaries.

Connect with Dr. Campbell's HERE.

If you'd like to buy Dr. Sherrie Campbell's books, please use the Amazon affiliate links below:

1. Adult Survivors of Emotionally Abusive Parents
2. But It's Your Family…:Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members and Loving Yourself in the Aftermath
3. Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members: Tools to Maintain Boundaries, Deal with Criticism, and Heal from Shame After Ties Have Been Cut
4. Loving Yourself: The Mastery of Being Your Own Person
5. Your Pocket Therapist: Quick Hacks for Dealing with Toxic People While Empowering Yourself

Dr. Sherrie's book recommendations based on the most impact on her life:

1. Women Who Run with the Wolves
2. People of the Lie:The Hope for Healing Human Evil

Subscribe HERE and get a free 5-day journal to begin closing the chapter on what doesn't serve you and open the door to the real you.

• Get Kristen's newsletter, packed with tangible tools, resources, and inspiration
• Watch the episodes on YouTube
• Follow Kristen on Instagram
• Kristen's TikTok
• Have Kristen Speak at Your Event
• Disclaimer

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 psychotherapy/counseling in any form. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment.

For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen sits down with transition and relationship Coach and author Charu Seth to explore what really happens when you wake up one day and realize you've lost yourself in marriage and motherhood, and how it's possible to begin reclaiming your identity.

• How losing yourself in marriage and motherhood can slowly erode your identity and self-worth

• Why people-pleasing and constant caretaking lead to resentment, burnout, and emotional depletion

• How fear (of being alone, not enough, or failing) keeps you stuck in unhealthy patterns

• The impact of emotional abandonment and rationalizing toxic dynamics

• What does it actually take to begin reclaiming your voice and identity after years of self-abandonment

Connect with Charu Seth HERE.

When you purchase Charu's book recommendations through these Amazon affiliate links, you're helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you:

1. Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
2. The CBT Toolbox, Second Edition: 185 Tools To Manage Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Behaviors & Stress

Subscribe HERE and get a free 5-day journal to begin closing the chapter on what doesn't serve you and open the door to the real you.

• Get Kristen's newsletter, packed with tangible tools, resources, and inspiration
• Watch the episodes on YouTube
• Follow Kristen on Instagram
• Kristen's TikTok
• Have Kristen Speak at Your Event
• Disclaimer

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 psychotherapy/counseling in any form. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment.

For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

• How to move through profound grief without letting it define your life
• Why honesty is the foundation of healing after loss
• The importance of building the right support system during hard seasons
• Practical daily practices that help you keep going when everything changes
• How to hold space for anger, faith, and doubt at the same time
• What it means to stay possibility-focused, even when life doesn't go as planned

Connect with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli HERE.

When you purchase Rebecca's books through these Amazon affiliate links, you're helping support the podcast at no extra cost to you:

1. Morning Fuel: Daily Inspirations to Stretch Your Mind Before Starting Your Day

2. Rethinking Possible: A Memoir of Resilience

Rebecca's Book Recommendations:

1. The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (20th Anniversary Edition)

2. When Bad Things Happen to Good People

3. Sit Down, God...I'm Angry

Subscribe HERE and get a free 5-day journal to begin closing the chapter on what doesn't serve you and open the door to the real you.

• Get Kristen's newsletter, packed with tangible tools, resources, and inspiration
• Watch the episodes on YouTube
• Follow Kristen on Instagram
• Kristen's TikTok
• Have Kristen Speak at Your Event
• Disclaimer

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 psychotherapy/counseling in any form. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment.

For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.