Reality Check My Life | Shadow Snacks | E1–3: The Discernment Trio- A Reality Check on Ethics, Language, and Care in Therapy-Adjacent Spaces

This 30-minute Shadow Snack brings together the first three episodes in a new RCML sub-series focused on the logistics of healing — the quiet, often-unspoken realities beneath transformational language.

In these episodes, we explore a simple but uncomfortable truth:
results can happen even when practice is unethical.

Not because people are malicious — but because language carries power, authority can be implied without consent, and many healing spaces exist outside clear scopes of practice.

This Shadow Snack trio includes:

• Results Don’t Equal Ethics — why feeling better doesn’t always mean the container was safe
• The Quiet Checklist — a gentle guide for seekers navigating unregulated, therapy-adjacent spaces
• The Practitioner Mirror — an inward ethics reflection for helpers, guides, and healers

Shadow Snacks are short, grounded conversations within Reality Check My Life that focus on ethics, power, scope, nervous-system safety, and real-world discernment. They’re not hot takes. They’re lanterns.

Whether you’re seeking support, offering it, or simply trying to understand how healing actually works beneath the surface, this episode is an invitation to slow down, notice more, and protect what’s tender.

Take what nourishes.
Leave what doesn’t.
And remember — the shadows have snacks, but they also deserve safety.