Join Valerie and guest Jill Dickey, therapist-in-training and community member of Generation Xhausted Online Community, as they dig into a fellow GenX community member’s personal question about her own intimate sexual relationship with her partner that complex, overwhelming, and, yes, exhausting her. Learn about sex in a way that is likely totally new to you.

Why is making and keeping boundaries so hard? Because these struggles are wired into our brains at a very young age. In this episode, Val and Nathan share many of their own boundary ‘aha’ moments in their marriage an how they have grown in realizing that good boundaries make good relationships in every area of […]

Join Valerie and Nathan in this two part series about boundaries and how life is sucked from us when we don’t make them with ourselves and others. In these episodes, Val and Nathan talk about boundaries and how we are vulnerable to certain boundary weaknesses due to childhood. They also talk about why making boundaries […]

Join Valerie and her fellow online community manager Jillian as they talk about how online support, education, and interest communities are a few clicks away from help, friendship, healing, and growth. Valerie runs an online mental health and burnout recovery space and Jillian runs space to support and connect entrepreneurs world wide. They both are […]

Join Valerie as she hears the larger story of Generation Xhausted Community Member Andee, who shares how this community has been the ideal experience for her as it has helped her feel the connection, camaraderie, and support that has validated just how far she has come in her own healing journey. In this episode Val […]

Join Valerie as she shares some pretty amazing stories about how a few people came in with pervasive stressors (generalized anxiety and hypervigilence, intimate relationship issues, and issues of boundaries and self respect at work) and how together we learned how to tackle their chronic burnout with trauma therapy. These first hand accounts can be […]

Join Valerie and her lovely assistant Nathan as they talk about the how feeling chronically burned out (overwhelmed, perpetually exhausted) might be connected to a history of unresolved childhood trauma. In this and the previous episode, Valerie puts on her trauma therapist hat and walks you through all things childhood trauma and why those with […]

Join Valerie and her lovely assistant Nathan as they talk about the how feeling chronically burned out (overwhelmed, perpetually exhausted) might be connected to a history of unresolved childhood trauma. In this and the following episodes, Valerie puts on her trauma therapist hat and walks you through all things childhood trauma. Join her and Nathan […]

Join Valerie as she spends a few minutes in conversation with Lark, a member of her burnout recovery community who has jumped into her own growth journey “with both feet”. What motivated her to finally take this step? Compassion fatigue at work, the need to better understand the wounds she had received as a woman […]

Join Val and Nathan as they share stories about how relationships with intimate partners, friends, and authority figures can teach us volumes about our shadow selves. They walk through 3 final questions that we can ask ourselves about our most important relationships to learn about our shadow selves and potentially become healthier and more fulfilled […]