“You’re too much.”

Too loud.

Too passionate.

Too emotional.

Too intense.

Too honest.

Many of us have heard it before. But what if the problem was never that you were too much—only that the spaces around you didn’t have the capacity to hold who you are?

In this episode of Everything Between, we explore what happens when your personality, passion, grief, faith, or voice exceeds the limits others try to place on you. Sometimes what people call “too much” is simply uncontained authenticity.

You’re not too much.

You may have just been placed in environments too small to hold you.

How often do we apologize for things that don’t actually require an apology?

“I’m sorry I feel this way.”

“Sorry for being emotional.”

“Sorry if that bothered you.”

Somewhere along the way, many of us learned to apologize for our humanity—for having feelings, for needing space, for grieving, for setting boundaries, for not always being okay.

In this episode, we explore why people feel the need to soften their emotions with apologies and what it means to stop performing emotional comfort for others. Faith, healing, and maturity require honesty. And sometimes honesty sounds like this: I’m not sorry for feeling what I feel.

This conversation sits at the intersection of faith, grief, mental health, and personal responsibility—where healing begins when we stop apologizing for being human.

Good Grief: How Something Good Can Feel Bad

Sometimes the promotion hurts.

Sometimes the answered prayer feels heavy.

Sometimes the blessing costs more than we expected.

In this episode, Tori Dixon explores the emotional paradox of growth, transition, and answered prayers. Why does something good still feel like grief? What happens in the nervous system when we outgrow old versions of ourselves? And how do faith and psychology make room for both gratitude and sadness?

This is a conversation about grief that doesn’t come from death — but from becoming.

Does grief mean your faith is weak?

In this episode of Everything Between, Tori Dixon challenges the idea that strong believers don’t struggle with sorrow. As a therapist, minister, and grief expert, she unpacks what it truly means that Jesus was “acquainted with grief” — and why performing faith can quietly suffocate healing.

If you’re navigating loss, transition, church hurt, or silent disappointment, this conversation reframes the tension between grief and faith — and reminds you that sorrow does not disqualify you from God.

Grief and faith aren’t opposites. And you don’t have to choose between them.

In this first episode of Everything Between, Tori Dixon tells a simple story about a ham that reveals something profound: many of us are still living by emotional rules we inherited—but no longer need.

Through storytelling, Scripture, and reflection, this episode explores emotional inheritance, survival patterns, and why God is far more comfortable with your tears than you’ve been taught.

It didn’t start with you.

But it can end with you.

In this first episode, I’m introducing myself—Tori Dixon, therapist, minister, and former mortician—and sharing why Everything Between exists. This podcast explores mental health, faith, grief, relationships, intimacy, emotional labor, and healing in the spaces we live in but rarely name—the overlap between faith and feelings, grief and gratitude, love and exhaustion, prayer and process.

This isn’t a sermon or a therapy session. It’s a porch conversation for people tired of compartmentalizing their lives to make others comfortable. Here, Christian mental health, emotional wellness, and spiritual growth meet honesty. Trusting God can exist alongside therapy and counseling. Strength doesn’t have to perform. Healing isn’t rushed.

In this episode, I set the tone, name the boundaries, and invite you into a space where grief recovery, emotional healing, relationships, and faith-based conversations are welcome.

Pull up a chair.

We’ll sit, tell the truth, and let it breathe.

Contending with the Middle is a mini-promo from Everything Between—a pause in the rush to arrive, and an honest reckoning with the space most of us actually live in.

This episode sits with the tension of not yet and no longer—when faith feels stretched, identity feels unsettled, and clarity hasn’t caught up to obedience. It’s a conversation for those navigating transitions, unresolved grief, unanswered prayers, and the quiet work of becoming.

No platitudes. No rushing the process. Just truth, reflection, and grounded insight for the in-between season—where growth is happening even when it doesn’t feel like it.

Press play if you’re learning how to stay present while life is still unfolding.

This is Everything Between with Tori Dixon