Michelle on Grief

Shame doesn’t just live in our thoughts — it lives in our bodies, our choices, and the parts of ourselves we learned to hide in order to belong. In this episode, I share an overview of David Bedrick’s Unshaming Way — a radical and compassionate approach that defines shame in a way that our body and mind can understand.

Alongside this framework, I reflect on my own lived experiences of shame — the quiet, internalized moments that shaped how I learned to relate, perform, stay silent, or stay small. Not as confession, but as context. As a way of naming how shame subtly organizes our lives long after the original moment has passed.

Show Notes:

The Unshaming Way

Song of the Week: Halsey - Graveyard

In Jungian language, every temperament corresponds to an archetype. For some of us, the archetype is the working dog — hyper-intelligent, attuned, driven by purpose, and mildly feral when under-utilized. In this episode, I explore what it means to carry that archetype as a human, not after it’s found its calling, but while it’s still looking for one. This is an episode about the gifts and the grief of being built for meaningful work you haven’t located yet, and the restless search for a “real job” for the psyche.

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Song of the Week: Keane Everybodys Changing

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In this episode, I explore a quiet but powerful ethical tension that doesn’t get talked about enough in healing spaces:

The tension between staying in a relationship to “work through it” and choosing aloneness because it’s where your life force actually returns.

So much mainstream psychology and relational advice assumes that healing must happen inside romantic partnership — that leaving is avoidance, fear, or unhealed attachment. But what if that framework doesn’t fit everyone? What if, for some of us, relationships don’t regulate — they deplete?

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Song of the Week: Amber Run - I Found

In this week’s episode, I reflect on isolation and how it can become both a refuge and a defense, and the quiet ways it shapes how we relate to ourselves and others. From there, I share my process of working through and healing another survival pattern that developed to keep me safe. This episode offers an honest, real-time look at healing as it unfolds: layered, imperfect, and deeply human.

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Song of the Week: Anna Graves In the Wild

In this EDGY and Spicy episode, we explore what it’s actually like to encounter emotionally immature people and why those dynamics can feel so confusing, activating, or painful over time.

Rather than framing emotional immaturity as something to diagnose or fix, this conversation looks at how we tend to expose ourselves in three distinct stages when connection begins. Each stage reveals different information, different risks, and different truths about whether someone has the capacity to meet us.

**A few f***s were dropped**

Show Notes:

Song of the Week

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In this episode, I explore a survival pattern rooted in growing up around people who were emotionally unavailable or inconsistent. We look at how early family dynamics can train the nervous system to equate love with waiting, effort, and responsiveness that never quite arrives.

This pattern often shows up later as chasing connection with people who are not responsive, not because we want to suffer, but because our bodies recognize the familiar rhythm of absence. Together, we unpack how this conditioning forms, the grief that comes with seeing it clearly, and what it means to stop trying to earn presence from those who cannot offer it.

Healing here isn’t about cutting people off or hardening the heart. It’s about breaking loyalty to old survival strategies, reclaiming self-trust, and learning to orient toward relationships where presence is mutual, steady, and real.

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Song of the Week: "Nah" by Khalid

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In this week’s episode, I explore existential hopelessness, the idea of hope as an action rather than a feeling, and what it means to be a hope merchant in a world that often asks us to bypass reality. I examine why hopelessness can be a rational, even healthy response to systemic pressure and disillusionment, and how reclaiming agency doesn’t stem from forced optimism, but from small, intentional choices rooted in integrity and truth. This episode is an invitation to stop performing hope and start practicing it through presence, discernment, and actions that protect your aliveness.

Show Notes:

IFS

Song of the Week: Tell Me What You Dream About by Hazlett

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In this episode, I explore the different shapes of loneliness, the impact of PTSD, the role of trauma-recovery modalities, and how we slowly rebuild capacity after trauma.

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Book Suggestions:

Anxiety RX - Dr. Russ Kennedy

Concepts:

Window of Tolerance

Brainspotting

EMDR

Capacity

Podcasts:

Luis Mojica

Music:

Song of the week

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In this episode, I talk about my dog Kay — the relationship that shaped me, held me, and revealed more about my nervous system than any human ever has. Through her story, I explore dissociation, the patterns we develop to survive, and how grief becomes a teacher long after the loss itself.

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Book references:

Mother Hunger

The Unshaming Way

Song of the Week: Hunter Metts Paper Moon

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A look at the emotional wreckage we carry after divorce or heartbreak, and why so many of us invite others into lives still torn apart by the storm. This episode explores the debris, the nervous-system fallout, and what it really takes to rebuild your inner home. Featuring my Song of the Week.

Show Notes:

Song of the Week: https://open.spotify.com/track/6JWYMfs0pJdNrf3b6aP5Xu?si=AdCcgycDQ6O56wQ-hr-Ykw

Podcast Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3BPVIr9CEwErAG54dJ5JIj?si=NMYbyh2MSsekM2vjmJNs4Q&pi=9en-mPdoQpesc

Website: www.mcsomatics.com