Are you excited about getting older? Ordering a drink when you turn 21 is exciting, and renting a car at 25 is sort of cool…but how many of us truly embrace aging? For a lot of us, the idea of getting older is something we either avoid thinking about or maybe even downright fear. And society isn’t helping. Today I’m talking with Lee Zavorskas about: What she’s noticed as a Holistic Esthetician about the collective opinion on aging.How society is pressuring people, and most often women...

When was the last time you felt like everything in your life is totally manageable. The pace of your life feeling both relaxed and interesting, having enough space for everything with time to spare. Chances are… you can’t remember a time like that. Many of us are consistently pushed beyond our limits - at work, at home, in parenthood, everywhere. This week, I’m talking with Lisa Robbin Young about: How to define our actual capacity, rather than what the world demands from us.Enoughness...

Have you ever been arguing with someone, and the misunderstanding is so deep that it feels like you’re practically speaking different languages? Well, maybe you are. This week I’m talking with Lena Morgan about: What the five Fight Languages are, and how we end up defaulting to our own language preference without even realizing it.Why we seem to have the same fights over and over again with our partners.The resolutions that we’re subconsciously seeking out during every conflict.What your part...

Most of us have a really hard time setting boundaries. If you’re like me, you might have trouble knowing how to set them, actually holding them, and feeling okay during the whole process.This week I’m talking with Morenike Olorunnisomo about: What a real boundary is vs common misconceptions about them.Why we need them.How to know the difference between a need and a preference.The first step to creating a respectful boundary.How to deal with the aftermath of setting a boundary.Examples of heal...

This week, we’ve got a big announcement about the future of Unforgetting. We talk about: What’s changing about the show.My personal journey with accepting the faster AND slower parts of myself.How the ways I’ve been relaxing have actually been stressing me out.What the attention economy is and how we fit as consumers.How the noise of constant information overwhelms our brains.The ways Unforgetting will be creating more space for stillness, reflection, and rest within our community.Mentioned i...

When you’re in relationship, do you find yourself so worried that something will go wrong that you want to badger the other person for reassurance? Maybe you have the opposite feeling and in relationship often feel yourself shutting down or running away when things get vulnerable? Or maybe you’re go back and forth between both of those feelings and never feel secure when you’re getting close to someone. This week I’m talking with Nicole Walker about: What attachment theory is, and how it re...

Either you are a single parent, or you know someone who is. Nearly a quarter of US children under the age of 18 live in a household with one parent. That’s a lot of families navigating this dynamic. Although I have several single mothers in my life, I really haven’t sat down and talked with them in depth about what it’s actually like. So today, that’s what we’re doing. This week I’m talking with one of my very best friends, Erin McNulty about: What you don’t know about being a single pa...

Toxic positivity is bullshit. When we experience something painful in your life, the last thing we need is to be told that it’s all for the best. Because honestly, it kinda seems like the “best” outcome wouldn’t have involved that much pain. This week, I’m talking about: Why toxic positivity sucks.Reasons why your trauma doesn’t make you a better person. Why rushing ourselves through healing doesn’t actually work.How we can integrate our pain, grief, and trauma into our lives without be...

Astrology is more than just funny, relatable memes. It can teach us a lot about ourselves, but most of us don’t know much beyond the sun sign related to our own birthday, and anything beyond that feels confusing. This week on Unforgetting, I’m talking with Gwen Yi about: What astrology is.How an astrologer reads your natal chart.The 12 houses of astrology, and what the heck they mean. The difference between your sun sign, moon sign, and ascendant (or rising) sign.Examples of how k...

If you're often praised for never giving up and always making things happen, it's also possible that you don't know when to quit and when to give up, and you run yourself into the ground no matter what to make something happen. In this solo episode, I'm talking about: Why quitting is really hard for some of us. Internalized capitalism and why some of us are more comfortable with productivity than we are with rest.How society and biology both play a part the learned behavior of pushing b...

I think that being in relationship is one of the most amazing things about being a human... And it’s also one of the hardest. This week, I’m talking with Nicole Walker about: What makes a healthy relationship.Why zero conflict is not the goal we should be striving for.Why some people want to talk it out immediately and others want to run at the first hint of an argument.How to work through conflict in a way that works for everyone involved.How to support yourself during an argument with your ...

We see their content all the time, but have you ever wondered what it’s like to be an influencer? Well today we’re gonna find out because I am talking to Cameron Phillips, about: His days in the world of content creation.What it really means to be a content creator or an influencer.What’s involved in social media being your full-time job.The mental health implications of having your life visible online.The highs and lows of being a full-time content creator.How all of us can bett...

If you grew up going to church, then you were likely conditioned by purity culture. And purity culture’s pressure to deny and villainize really normal sexual development and curiosity has lasting negative consequences. This week, I’m talking with Hannah Brents about: How purity culture impacts the people within it, even if they aren’t in a religious community.What happens to our relationships with ourselves and with others when we experience trauma from purity culture.Really normal things t...

How do you know if you’re a good listener? Listening isn’t necessarily a skill that we automatically get better at as we get older. This week, I’m talking with my guest Orly Israel about: What makes a good listener.What a Listening Table is and the unique way that Orly tackled his goal of becoming a better listener.Why a lot of us don’t share more with the people in our lives.How different conversation styles might be making your relationships a lot harder.How to have more fulfilling c...

Whether you’re someone who loves taking quizzes to find out which 90s song you are, or you’re completely skeptical of anything that tries to put a label on you…this episode is going to be really, really helpful. Our personality is a mix of our conditioning and our nature. And today, we’re talking about the nature side. This week, I’m talking with Carly Toomey about: What Personality Type is.The four sets of preferences we each have and what they mean about us.How we can use type to bet...

Even if you did receive sex ed in middle school, that education probably did not include information on how to actually relate to your sexuality in a healthy way. This week, I’m talking with Patricia Rich about: What Self-Led sexuality is and why it’s important.Why authentically expressing ourselves sexually is often really difficult.Internal consent and the importance of checking in with ourselves before connecting sexually with another person.The relationship between shame and sexuali...

If you’ve ever spent a weekend feeling completely burnt out while simultaneously crushed by the guilt and shame of not being productive…welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism. When this happens, we often end turning to wellness spaces to help us feel better, but are we really escaping the effects of capitalism through the wellness industry…or are they just two sides of the same coin? This week, I’m talking with Rachael Kay Albers about: What capitalism is and how it all started....

How comfortable are you with being really bad at something? Whether it's going to a new gym or an art class or at work, what happens inside of you when everyone else is way better at it than you are? This week, we chat about: Why being bad at things is really good for youWhy being a beginner is extremely triggering for a lot of us.How American culture conditions us into thinking we have to be great at things.My own experience being bad at things and how it made my life a lot more fun.Tips on ...

We’re talking about one of my favorite, favorite things: Internal Family Systems, or IFS. And even if you think you don’t know what that is, you probably do and just didn’t know that’s what it’s called. If you’ve ever heard of your inner child, that’s IFS. Our personality isn’t one fixed thing. It’s complicated and nuanced and sometimes even contradicts itself. This week, I’m talking with Alice Mills Mai about: What Internal Family Systems is.What the different parts of us are, a...

Rituals have been passed down for generations…but what if we don’t know the cultural practices of our own ancestry? Too often, people who want to feel connected to wisdom of the past end up reaching out and grabbing onto the nearest ritual from a culture that doesn’t even belong to them. This week, I’m talking with my guest Freia Serafina about: What rituals and cultural practices are.Why humans love ritual so much.What happens to us when we aren’t connected to our ancestral roots.How to rec...