In this episode, Kristen shares a previous conversation from Mental Health Monday with Noblesville Mayor Chris Jensen, where they discuss how understanding and regulating the nervous system can help reduce stress, improve relationships, and build emotional resilience.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How your nervous system influences your thoughts, emotions, and reactions to stress.
• The differences between fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and flop responses, and how to recognize them.
• Simple, science-backed techniques like breathwork, movement, and bilateral music to regulate your nervous system.
• Why self-awareness is the first step toward responding with calm instead of reacting impulsively.
• Practical ways to build emotional resilience and strengthen your relationships through daily regulation practices.

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen explores how the roles we adopt in our families can shape our relationships, self-worth, and emotional well-being, and shares how understanding these patterns can support healing and personal growth.

You will learn:

• How family roles develop and influence your behavior.
• Why childhood patterns often carry into adult relationships.
• The hidden emotional impact of the roles we take on in our families.
• How family dynamics can shape your self-worth and identity.
• Ways to recognize and break free from unhealthy patterns for lasting healing.

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen sits down with therapist and anger specialist Bronwyn to explore the hidden role anger plays in emotional healing, self-advocacy, and personal freedom.

You will learn:

• How anger is a universal emotion and can serve as a healthy guide that helps identify unmet needs, boundaries, and personal values.
• The difference between healthy anger and reactive anger .
• How suppressed or dissociated anger can contribute to depression, anxiety, physical symptoms, and self-betrayal.
• Why many people fear anger because it is connected to rejection, abandonment, and childhood experiences, and how to work through those fears.
• How shame can distort reality, prevent healing, and keep people stuck, while releasing shame can lead to greater self-trust and emotional freedom.
• Practical ways to integrate your inner child and adult self, develop healthy boundaries, and express

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen sits down with Deb Dana, a clinician, author, and international lecturer, to explore how understanding your nervous system can help you move from anxiety, overwhelm, and shutdown into greater regulation, connection, and healing.

You will learn:

• How to recognize when your nervous system is in fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown mode
• What "neuroception" is and how your body constantly scans for safety or danger
• Simple ways to regulate your nervous system when feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or numb
• Why co-regulation and repair are essential in parenting, relationships, and therapy
• How small "glimmers" of safety and joy can help build resilience and healing over time

Connect with Deb Dana here: rhythmofregulation.com

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen is joined by Matthew and Joanna Raabsmith, trained relationship specialists, speakers, and authors, to discuss betrayal trauma, sexual addiction, and the healing journey of rebuilding trust, emotional safety, and true intimacy after betrayal.

You will learn:

• How betrayal trauma affects the brain, body, and sense of safety
• Why secrecy and dishonesty often create deeper wounds than the betrayal itself
• The steps couples can take to rebuild honesty, trust, and intimacy
• How addiction, shame, and unresolved childhood wounds impact relationships
• Why healing requires consistency, vulnerability, accountability, and long-term emotional growth

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When you purchase these books through these Amazon affiliate links, you're helping support the podcast at no extra cost: Matthew and Joanna Raabsmith's book and book recommendations: 1. Building True Intimacy: Creating a Connection That Stands the Test of Time 2. Your Sexually Addicted Spouse: How Partners Can Cope and Heal 3. Finding the Way Through: A Workbook for Sex and Pornography Addiction - Sobriety, Recovery, & Partner Betrayal Sensitivity

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen explores what emotionally intelligent families do differently and how those patterns help shape emotionally safe adults and healthier relationships.

You will learn:

• How family communication shapes emotionally safe adults and future relationships

• The signs of emotionally healthy vs. emotionally unhealthy family systems

• Why emotional safety, vulnerability, and repair are essential for connection

• How childhood emotional patterns impact adult relationships and attachment

• Practical questions to help create deeper emotional connection within families

• Ways to break generational patterns and build healthier emotional habits together

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen shares a powerful conversation with Rachel Hall, LMHC, about working through fear and shame, especially during uncertain and emotionally overwhelming seasons. In this episode, you will learn:

• How fear and shame impact your thoughts, emotions, and relationships
• Why self-compassion is essential for emotional healing and growth
• How to recognize the "shame stories" and patterns that keep you stuck
• Practical tools to regulate your nervous system and work through difficult emotions
• How empathy, boundaries, and emotional awareness create healthier connections

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen sits down with trauma therapist and author Yolanda Renteria to explore the deep connection between attachment and attunement, and how they shape every relationship in your life.

You will learn:

• What attachment and attunement really mean, and why they matter in everyday relationships
• The four attachment styles and how they shape your patterns
• Why you repeat relationship dynamics from childhood, and how to break them
• How disconnection from your body impacts connection with others
• The anxious and avoidant cycle, and how to build emotional capacity to shift it

Connect with Yolanda Renteria HERE.

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Yolanda Renteria's Book:

1. Attuned and Attached: Heal Your Relationship with Yourself and Others to Create Lasting Connections

Yolnada Renteria's Book Recommendations:

1. Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships

2. The Awakened Family: How to Raise Empowered, Resilient, and Conscious Children

3. The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen dives into how to help your teen or adult child through a breakup and what parents might be missing when it comes to understanding their child's pain, reactions, and healing.

You will learn:

• How breakups impact teens and young adults differently and why no two experiences are the same
• Why it's important for parents to notice their own emotional triggers during their child's breakup
• How to "hold space" so your child feels safe to open up and process their emotions
• The different types of breakups and the wide range of emotions that can come with them
• Why rushing healing or trying to "fix" the pain can actually make things harder
• Healthy ways teens can process a breakup so they don't repeat the same relationship patterns

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.

In this episode, Kristen talks with Ben Eckstein, a therapist specializing in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, anxiety, and related disorders, about how worry and rumination work and how to manage them more effectively.

You will learn:

• How to recognize the difference between automatic worry and the choices you make in responding to it
• Why anxiety and rumination feel uncontrollable and how to start gaining a sense of control
• A practical method (SCAMP) to break down and understand your worry patterns
• How compulsions and avoidance behaviors keep anxiety cycles going
• Techniques like exposure and response prevention to retrain your brain
• How to build tolerance for uncertainty and live a fuller, less anxious life

Connect with Ben Eckstein HERE.

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Ben's book:

Worrying Is Optional: Break the Cycle of Anxiety and Rumination That Keeps You Stuck

Book that inspired Ben:

The Happiness Trap (Second Edition): How to Stop Struggling and Start Living

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Subscribe HERE and get a free 5-day journal to begin closing the chapter on what doesn't serve you and open the door to the real you.

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For counseling services near Indianapolis, IN, visit www.pathwaystohealingcounseling.com. Pathways to Healing Counseling's vision is to provide warm, caring, compassionate and life-changing counseling services and educational programs to individuals, couples and families in order to create learning, healing and growth.