Have you ever overreacted and wondered why your reaction felt so strong?

In this episode, Tania shares a real parenting moment and explores what’s really happening beneath emotional triggers and overreactions.

If you’ve ever asked yourself “why do I overreact?” or noticed that certain situations bring out a stronger response than expected, this conversation will help you understand why.

You’ll explore how past experiences and early patterns can shape present-day reactions, and how to approach those moments with more self-awareness and compassion.

Whether your triggers show up in parenting, relationships, or at work, this episode offers a thoughtful place to start making sense of them.

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Anxiety often shows up as a stream of questions:
What if this goes badly? What will people think? What if I mess up?

In this Monday Moment, Tania shares a simple shift that can interrupt the anxiety loop. Instead of trying to force positive thinking, try asking a curiosity question. Engaging the creative part of the brain can shift attention away from threat and toward possibility.

Sometimes one small question can change the direction your mind starts looking.

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Have you ever believed you needed to be fully healed before you were allowed to help anyone else?

In this deeply moving conversation, Tania sits down with somatic healing practitioner and former professional dancer Dawn Christensen to explore the belief that we must be fully healed, fully polished, fully “there” before we are worthy of showing up.

Dawn shares her journey from ballet and performance to surviving a near-fatal car accident at 19 and navigating decades of complex chronic illness, including Ehlers-Danlos and POTS. Through profound stillness, spiritual awakening, and creative expression, she came to understand something radical and freeing: the body is not broken, but wise.

Together, they explore the exhaustion of the performer identity, the pressure to perfect even our spirituality, and the quiet ways we try to earn a seat at the table that was never ours to earn.

This conversation is a gentle return to embodied safety. To slowing down. To remembering that worth is inherent, not achieved.

You do not have to arrive polished.
You are allowed to serve, create, and belong as you are.

About Dawn Christensen
Dawn Christensen is a former professional actress and dancer, a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the William Esper Conservatory. After surviving a near-fatal car accident at 19 and navigating decades of complex chronic illness including Ehlers-Danlos, POTS, and Long COVID, she devoted her life to somatic healing and embodied safety.

She is a certified somatic healing and core centering practitioner and created the GRACE program for individuals facing chronic illness at Beth Israel Medical Center and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s in New York City.

Today, she works one-to-one with clients experiencing overwhelm and offers digital healing programs designed to help people remember that the body is not broken, but wise.

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What if meaningful change didn’t come from fixing yourself, but from being just 5% kinder to yourself today?

In this Monday Moment, Tania reflects on how small shifts in self-compassion can soften the voice of the inner critic and change the tone of your day.

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Have you ever said something vulnerable… and then immediately started questioning it?

Was that too much?
Did I sound preachy?
Did I overstep?

In this episode, Tania shares a real moment that revealed what she now calls the strange addiction of self-criticism.

Why does the mind instantly start tearing us down after we say something honest or vulnerable? And why does that spiral of analysis feel so compelling, even when it doesn’t actually help?

If you’ve ever replayed a conversation in your head hours later, wondering how you might have been perceived, this episode will feel very familiar.

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In this Monday Moment, Tania explores the habit of mentally scanning for flaws, even after showing up with presence and care. A reflection on self-doubt, high standards, and the quiet shift from disqualifying your value to recognizing what actually works. 

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Ever catch yourself in an old pattern and think, how did I end up back here?

In this episode of Banish the Lies, Tania shares a moment from a few years ago that caught her completely off guard. The night before speaking at a conference, she found herself slipping into a binge eating pattern she thought she had left behind nearly twenty years earlier.

At the time, it felt like proof that something was wrong.

Looking back, she sees that moment differently.

In this conversation, Tania talks about what can sit underneath moments like these, the fear, pressure, or life transitions that sometimes trigger behaviors we thought were long behind us. Instead of rushing to judge or fix the behavior, she explores what can happen when we slow down and listen to what the moment might be trying to tell us.

If you’ve ever found yourself overeating, scrolling, overworking, shutting down, or slipping into something you thought you had already dealt with, this episode offers a different way to look at it.

Sometimes the moment that feels like regression is actually information.

Journal Prompts from the Episode

1. When I slip into an old pattern, what feeling am I trying not to feel?
2. What part of me might be asking for attention or compassion?
3. What need did I ignore or minimize right before the behavior happened?
4. What is the kindest possible interpretation of that moment?
5. What might this moment be inviting me to see or admit about my life or about myself?

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What if being the steady one doesn’t mean you have to be unshakable? In this Monday Moment, I share a shaky morning, the imposter voice that followed, and a gentle reminder that even the anchors need support. 

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In this deeply personal episode, Tania shares an emotional hospital visit with a teenager struggling with an eating disorder and reflects on how her own recovery shaped the conversation. On a day marked by anxiety and insomnia, showing up in service shifted everything. This episode explores eating disorder recovery, mental health, healing, and how our hardest seasons can become the very thing that equips us to support others. 

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In this Monday Moment, Tania explores how the real pain often comes not from what happens, but from the story we tell about it. After a small misstep triggered a spiral of self-criticism, she began questioning the narrative that followed.

From job loss to critical feedback to everyday frustrations, the story we layer on top can shape our stress response and our next move. What if there’s another interpretation available, one that’s honest but less punishing?

A brief reflection on self-talk, emotional resilience, and choosing a healthier narrative.

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