The Beauty in The Mess

Some of the people who help us most are the ones who have walked through the darkest things themselves.   In this episode of The Beauty In The Mess , I sit down with Stacy Schaffer, MA, LPC , a children’s therapist with over 20 years of experience working with grief, trauma, and anxiety. St...

Courage doesn’t always look like heroics. Most of the time it looks like ordinary people choosing to do the right thing when it’s risky, uncomfortable, or unpopular.   In this episode, I sit down with John Graham, Executive Director of the Giraffe Heroes Project and known to many online as ...

Would you help your Ex if they needed support?   It’s a question that creates an immediate reaction in people,  discomfort, curiosity, or a quiet “I don’t know… maybe.” And yet almost no one talks about it publicly.   Today’s guest, Elizabeth Verwey , spent years researchi...

Most of us learned as kids what was “real” and what wasn’t. We were taught how to behave, how to fit in, and where the limits of possibility lived. But what if those limits were never real to begin with?   In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Deborah Ann Baker , a researcher, artist, and auth...

Most people imagine PTSD as something tied to combat or emergency work. What often gets overlooked are the quieter stories. The ones with the survivors who walk back into ordinary life with extraordinary wounds no one can see. In this episode, Christiane Scarpino , author of Missing Pieces, shares h...