Our last poddy of 2025. As the year draws to a close, we’re slowing things down and reflecting, not with pressure, resolutions, or tidy endings, but with honesty, tenderness, and care. In this episode, we talk about what 2025 has asked of us, what we’re proud of, and what we’re gently leaving behind as we step into a new year. We share what this year has taught us about ourselves, the moments that shaped us, and the quiet wins that no one else saw. We also speak directly to anyone feeli...
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Our last poddy of 2025. As the year draws to a close, we’re slowing things down and reflecting, not with pressure, resolutions, or tidy endings, but with honesty, tenderness, and care. In this episode, we talk about what 2025 has asked of us, what we’re proud of, and what we’re gently leaving behind as we step into a new year. We share what this year has taught us about ourselves, the moments that shaped us, and the quiet wins that no one else saw. We also speak directly to anyone feeli...
Our last poddy of 2025. As the year draws to a close, we’re slowing things down and reflecting, not with pressure, resolutions, or tidy endings, but with honesty, tenderness, and care. In this episode, we talk about what 2025 has asked of us, what we’re proud of, and what we’re gently leaving behind as we step into a new year. We share what this year has taught us about ourselves, the moments that shaped us, and the quiet wins that no one else saw. We also speak directly to anyone feeli...
Are we genuinely getting better at setting boundaries… or are we using the language of boundaries to avoid discomfort, depth, and accountability? In this episode, we dive into the cultural shift happening inside modern friendships where self-protection is celebrated, but sometimes at the cost of connection. We explore why “inconvenience is the cost of community,” how our capacity to tolerate discomfort shapes intimacy, and the subtle ways avoidance can disguise itself as empowerment. From a...
Howdy psychology gang! Welcome back to a deep dive. Estrangement is one of the most painful and least understood experiences we can go through. It’s a loss without a funeral, a grief that doesn’t receive casseroles, community support, or cultural acknowledgement. In this deep dive, we unpack the complex psychology of estrangement through an attachment, trauma and psychodynamic lens. We explore: What ambiguous grief really feels likeParent–child estrangement The shame, silence an...
Welcome back to The Psychology Sisters! In our October unfiltered episode, Kat recaps her trip of a lifetime swimming with humpback whales in Tonga and a humbling pit! Aimee shares her half marathon run for DIPG raising money for children with rare cancer. Our loves and leaves are as follows: Love: Pistachio spread from Coles, Haigs chocolate pistachio balls and Fat bear week. Kat also recommends line dancing!! Leave: The summer I turned pretty and feeling cringe/ embarras...
Welcome back to The Psychology Mama’s Today, we’re diving into something that so many mothers quietly carry, the kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. The kind that seeps into your bones and makes you feel like you’re disappearing inside the love you’re giving. We’re talking about burnout in motherhood what happens when the endless giving, caring, and emotional holding start to empty you out. And here’s the truth: it’s not because you’re not resilient enough, or grateful enough, or or...
Welcome back to The Psychology Sisters unfiltered, where we chat all things being human, with a mix of clinical insight, real talk, and a few chaotic tangents. We share our loves and leaves, pits and peeks and everything in between for the week that has been! Aimz is loving a lot lately with: A journal called "Dad, I want to hear your story" I got this from big W!! It’s 300 thought-provoking questions and prompts designed to draw out your father's stories to encourage your dad to share and pr...
Howdy friends! Welcome back for another deep dive. We will be discussing the lesser known attachment style today, around 5% of people have a disorganised attachment. A disorganised attachment is an adaptation that stems from childhood trauma, it’s like having a compass that points north and south at the same time. Every step toward love feels like danger, and every step away feels like loss. This attachment style begins in childhood, where love and fear are tangled together, when the ca...
Welcome back to an unfiltered episode!! Research shows the absence of quality relationships kills us faster than obesity and lack of exercise and the single biggest predictor of teenage mental health is family breakdown...... Sooo we're coming in hot with our top 3 relationship teachings! BUT FIRST! Strap in for our pit and peeks, loves and leaves and an old school dog poo repartee. Apologies and you're welcome. Aimee + Kat You can find more of us here: Our Online Psycholog...
Welcome back to a Psychology Mama's episode!! – What is Secure Attachment? A securely attached child is free to explore the environment, confident that the caregiver will be available and responsive if needed. Secure attachment is not about being perfect; it’s about being present, attuned, and repairing when things go wrong Attachment is a basis for a child’s health. Nourishing close secure attachment with adults is a protective factor for our child’s health and well-being and a devel...
Hello and welcome back to The Psychology Sisters Unfiltered!! Love and leaves Love – Carmen’s black truffle popcorn Leaves Dyson vacuums Aimee's peek: time with family and friends lately and pit: experiencing social awkwardness and anxiety, which is very new and uncharted waters to navigate. In a clunky stage of life at the moment!! Also, illness has plagued me! Kat's pit: slapped in the face with sneaky burn out that crept up. Struggling with motivation, exhaustion, struggling to sho...
Love me, but from over there - The Avoidant attachment style I want to send out a hopeful message to everyone listening – you have secure attachment in your system biologically. It’s in your system and your system wants to be connected, that’s what it’s wired for. It’s that throughout development stuff get’s dumped on your system, which interrupts this. Wounds, attachment injuries, trauma disconnects us and our system wants us to return to security. People use different l...
Welcome back to The Psychology Mama’s — the podcast that holds space for your full emotional spectrum and cheers you on when you finally drink a coffee while it’s still hot. Today, we’re diving into one of the most universal yet wildly under-discussed parts of early parenthood: sleep deprivation — or more accurately, the full-blown nervous system crisis that comes from being woken up every 90 minutes by a tiny dictator in a Bonds onesie. We’re talking about how a lack of sleep messes with y...
Welcome back to The Psychology Sisters unfiltered, where we chat all things being human, with a mix of clinical insight, real talk, and a few chaotic tangents. In today’s episode, we’re exploring something that feels especially needed right now: softness. What does it mean to go soft in a world that’s constantly asking us to toughen up, keep going, and stay informed, even when it all feels like a lot? We start with what it means to feel alive, not just functioning, but actually alive in you...
In today’s episode we are diving deep into the ambivalent attachment style, where it comes from, how it shows up in your relationships and how you can start rewiring it. If you often feel like you’re too much and not enough or constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop in relationships, this one is for you. Understanding Attachment: o Attachment is a biological system, its innate. o Attachment is developed within relationships o People with adverse childhood experiences, experience ...
hello psychology sistas and mistas!! Welcome back to another unfiltered episode! Kat's pit was forgetting to press record on the first episode we recorded!! Her Peek is taking herself out on dates and having treats with herself, savouring being in her own company and loving time with herself. Aimee's pit was also being a tech tragic! Aimee share's her LOVE for the week is Siren's on Netflix and organising her phone notifications so she is less interrupted and more focused. Is it OK to t...
hello lovely listeners!! Welcome back to another unhinged/ unfiltered episode! Loves and leaves: Kat's love this week is a fun, easy, watch on Netflix - Ransom Canyon. Aimee has been loving going back to comfort consumption in Grey's anatomy on Disney+. No leaves this week, just love!! Pit and Peak of the week: Aimee discusses being in the tension of trade offs of getting the things you choose. Being in a transition stage can be tricky because it requires re-prioritising things. Th...
Hellooooooooooo and welcome back to a psychology mama's episode! If you grew up in the ’90s or early 2000s, you probably remember it well — low-rise jeans, calorie-counting, and the constant message that thinness equaled beauty, success, and self-worth. Many of us internalised those messages before we even understood them. We learned to shrink ourselves — literally and figuratively — to fit into a version of ‘enough’ that was never really about health or happiness. Now, as adults — a...
Hello lovely listeners! Join us for a very unfiltered chat discussing some concerning trends we are seeing making the rounds on social media. Why are we going back to trends that we know have been so damaging? Before we get into today's episode, Kat shares her pit of struggling with a loud inner critic and her peak of exciting business ventures, feeling aligned with work and enjoying the ride. Aimee shares an embarrassing couch blunder as her pit and a peak enjoying some wholesome time ...
Hello lovely listeners!! Strap in for a goodie this morning as we have the incredible producer Keeshia joining us to lift the cloud on ADHD! Keeshia may be best known as producer Keeshia on the "Life Uncut" podcast. Recently she has started her own podcast called "Cloud" which she created to discuss ADHD and late age diagnosis; a conversation that was sparked after Keeshia’s own diagnosis. The name Cloud is inspired by the experiences of many late-diagnosed women who describe finally feeling ...
Hello lovely listeners!! Welcome back for a deep dive into Hyper-independence. Independence is praised a lot in our society and often described as a strength, so can you be too independent? Here's a little summary of what we dive into: Signs of hyper-independence, how would you know if you were too independent?Hyper-independence is often a solution to instability and inconsistency e.g. if family is unstable the solution is my own rules for security and certainty. Rules and ...
Our last poddy of 2025. As the year draws to a close, we’re slowing things down and reflecting, not with pressure, resolutions, or tidy endings, but with honesty, tenderness, and care. In this episode, we talk about what 2025 has asked of us, what we’re proud of, and what we’re gently leaving behind as we step into a new year. We share what this year has taught us about ourselves, the moments that shaped us, and the quiet wins that no one else saw. We also speak directly to anyone feeli...