Welcome to Season 5 of Unspoken, a spoken word poetry podcast by Kate Earley.

This season is called The Space Between Us, and it explores the complex emotional landscape of therapy, transference, and clinical boundaries.

In this introduction to Season 5, Kate reflects on what it’s like to be in therapy as a trauma survivor—especially when you’re autistic, and when the systems designed to help often push away the people who need care the most. These spoken word poems dive deep into the quiet pain of clinical distance, the heartbreak of reaching for someone who cannot—or will not—reach back, and the grief of connection that’s carefully measured and withheld.

If you’ve ever felt the ache of wanting more from your therapist than the boundaries allow…

If you’ve been labeled “too much” or “too complex” for trauma treatment…

If you’ve been turned away from care because you didn’t fit into a system’s idea of who deserves help…

This season is for you.

The Space Between Us examines the one-sided intimacy of therapeutic relationships, the emotional toll of transference and counter-transference, and the heartbreak of healing in systems that pride themselves on being “trauma-informed” until trauma gets too close.

Listen to Season 5 of Unspoken and explore the truths we carry quietly—the ones we’re told not to speak.