The Self-Trust Podcast

By Emily Romero

Welcome to The Self-Trust Podcast! Your guide to turning down the external noise and turning up your inner knowing. Join Emily, long time trauma therapist turned bestselling author and creator of The ... more

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April 17, 2026 92. She Sold Her Home and Bought a One-Way Ticket to Bali | Bianca Hughes
Episode Notes:
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What happens when the life you built starts to feel too small for who you’re becoming?
In this guest episode, Emily talks with Bianca about compassion fatigue, self-trust, and the bold decision to sell her townhouse, step away from her therapy practice, and take a three-month sabbatical that began with a one-way ticket to Bali. What started as a desire for change became a deeper journey of rest, renewal, and reconnecting with herself.
Bianca shares how years of holding space for others led her to a breaking point, why Bali had been on her heart since she was 19, and how travel opened the door to a different kind of freedom. Along the way, she reflects on the power of writing things down, the unexpected healing of a silent meditation retreat in Thailand, and the realization that success might look less like performing and more like actually liking yourself.
This episode is for anyone craving a reset, dreaming about a leap they can’t quite explain, or wondering what might happen if they finally trusted themselves enough to go.
Connect with Bianca:
www.authenticallybeyou.com
www.soulfulcliniciancollective.com
https://www.instagram.com/authenticallybeyou/
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Related Episodes from the past season:
Solo Travel & Self-Trust
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April 10, 2026 91. Digital Nomad | "I'm finally living my life for me" | Laurie Shelton
Episode Notes:
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What happens when you stop living for everyone else and finally start living for you?
In this guest episode, Emily sits down with Laurie Shelton for a conversation about grief, people pleasing, Self-Trust, and the courage it takes to build a life that feels genuinely your own. Laurie shares the story of leaving behind the life she had built in Arizona, making a bold leap into a new chapter, and discovering unexpected freedom, healing, and possibility in Portland, Maine.
Together, they explore how travel can reconnect us to who we really are, what it means to trust the unknown, and how doing “the thing” often asks us to release timelines, approval, and the need to have everything figured out.
This episode is for anyone navigating loss, longing, reinvention, or the quiet pull toward a life that feels more true.
Connect with Laurie
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Related Episodes from the past season:
Solo Travel & Self-Trust
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April 03, 2026 90. Solo Travel | The Gift I Didn’t Know I Was Giving My Future Self
Episode Notes
In this special birthday episode, Emily shares the story of her first solo international trip — a trip she took to Portugal for her 30th birthday.
What started as something on her bucket list quickly became much more than a vacation. Traveling solo became a powerful pathway to building Self-Trust, reconnecting with her intuition, and discovering parts of herself that hadn’t yet had space to emerge.
In this episode, Emily shares stories from her time exploring Lisbon and the Azores Islands — from tea farms and black sand beaches to swimming with wild dolphins and cliff jumping — along with the deeper personal growth that unfolded along the way.
If solo travel has been on your heart, or if you’re learning to listen more closely to your intuition, this episode is for you.
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Related Episodes from the past season:
Solo Travel & Self-Trust
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March 27, 2026 89. Nomadic Life | "The Thing" on My Bucket List for a Decade
Episode Description
Some versions of The Thing don’t happen quickly... they take years of listening, waiting, and building.
In this episode, I share how nomadic life lived on my bucket list for a full decade before it finally became possible. I knew I wanted it long before I knew how it could work, and long before the timing made sense.
This conversation explores what it looks like to play the long game: navigating inner and logistical blocks, trusting intuition when clarity doesn’t come as a plan, and honoring the desires that refuse to disappear, even when they take years to unfold.
I also share the unexpected moment when clarity finally arrived, not as a checklist or strategy, but as a single image that set everything in motion.
In this episode, we explore:
Why some dreams take years to come to life
The difference between inner blocks and logistical constraints
How nomadic living emerged slowly, not impulsively
Trusting intuition when the path doesn’t make sense yet
What it really took to finally do "The Thing"
If there’s something you’ve wanted for a long time, and you’re not sure why it hasn’t happened yet, this episode offers a different way to understand the timing.
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Get your copy of You Can Trust Yourself
🌳 Portland, OR Travel Guide
Related Past Episodes:
Solo Travel + Self-Trust
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March 20, 2026 88. How to Set the “Right” Goals + A Spring Equinox Tarot Pull
Episode Description
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In this Spring Equinox solo episode of The Self-Trust Podcast, Emily explores how to set the right promises to yourself—and why you don’t have to wait until January to begin doing The Thing.
Using the energy of the spring equinox as a backdrop, this episode invites you out of winter hibernation and into intentional, aligned action. Emily shares how intention-setting looks through The Self-Trust Model™, why promises rooted in “shoulds” often fail, and how listening to your wise, competent adult creates real follow-through.
You’ll also be guided through a tarot card pull for the Spring Equinox, offering reflection and insight into what’s ready to grow this season—and what may need structure, care, or balance.
Here's the deck I pulled from: Tarot for the Great Outdoors
If 2026 is the year you finally do “The Thing”, this episode helps you to choose intentions you can actually trust yourself to keep.
I’d love to hear which card you chose and what’s beginning to stir for you this Spring.
Episodes mentioned:
* Episode 52 - Part 1 How to use Tarot & Oracle Cards to build Self-Trust
* Episode 53 - Part 2 A guided Self-Trust practice using IFS & somatic therapy principles
If this episode resonated, Emily would love to hear which card you chose and what you’re planting this season.
2026 is the year to finally do The Thing—and you’re allowed to start now.
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Resources:
Reflect & Set Booklet
Related Past Episodes:
Spring Equinox 2025
Keeping Promises to build Self-Trust
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March 13, 2026 87. Luxury 1-1 Immersions | Make this the year to finally do "The Thing"
Inspired but Still Stuck? | You’re Probably Not Just Lazy
In the first episode of Season 2 of The Self-Trust Podcast, Emily introduces the theme for the year ahead: 2026 is the year to finally do "The Thing".
This episode is for anyone who feels deeply inspired—but isn’t taking action yet. Instead of blaming motivation or discipline, Emily explores what’s actually happening beneath the surface and why being “stuck” is often a sign of something wiser at work.
Using a nervous system and parts-based lens, this episode reframes stuckness, highlights the importance of safety and pacing, and sets the foundation for a season focused on grounded, aligned action—not force.
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Related Episodes from the past season:
What is The Self-Trust Model?
"Parts Work"
What is Somatic Work?
Solo Travel & Self-Trust
CONNECT WITH EMILY: Have questions or topics you'd like to hear about? Reach out and connect!
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Luxury Immersions: @finallydothething
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January 20, 2026 Is 2026 the year to finally do "The Thing"? | Season 2 Drops March 13th
Season 2 of The Self-Trust Podcast is coming soon...
And it's all about inspiring you to finally do "The Thing".
The thing that’s been sitting on your vision board…
on your bucket list…
in the quiet corners of your knowing… for years.
This season is for the woman who knows what that thing is and also knows how easy it is to stay stuck.
In season two, I’ll be sharing solo reflections from my own years of doing the thing, and I’ll also be sitting down with guests who tell real stories of the years that they finally did their thing.
Leaving the job…
Publishing the book…
Moving across the country…
Becoming a mother…
Launching the business…
Booking the flight…
Taking the risk…
Choosing themselves.
If you’re standing at the edge, this season is for you.
I’m so glad you’re here.
Episode one drops March 13th. 🎙️
See you then. ✌🏼
If you're ready to get started now - book a session with Emily
Leverage parts work and nervous system healing to finally allow yourself to do "The Thing".
Music on trailer by: https://pixabay.com/users/nastelbom-48128234/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=436860

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January 12, 2026 86. Did I make a HUGE mistake? | Early Postpartum Reflections
Did I Make a HUGE Mistake? | Reflections on One Year of Podcasting & Postpartum Sleep Deprivation
In this final episode of season one, I’m reflecting on a full year of The Self-Trust Podcast—what surprised me, what resonated most, and how this podcast quietly changed my relationship to my voice and my work.
I share what listeners connected with most, how motherhood and postpartum sleep deprivation reshaped my priorities, and why I found myself asking a very real late-night question: Did I make a huge mistake when I shut down my therapy practice?
This episode is about trusting yourself through major transitions, letting clarity arrive in its own time, and choosing work that fits the season of life you’re actually in.
Work with me 1-1:
If you know that 2026 is the year you'll finally do "the thing", I’d be honored to support you.
Therapeutic Coaching (1:1)📆 Book here
Self-Trust Model™ Mentoring (for practitioners)👉 Book here
Interested in The Self-Trust Model™ training?
The group training program will begin Fall 2026.
Learn more or get on the waitlist.
Resources mentioned:
You Can Trust Yourself
The Year Compass (reflection tool)👉 https://yearcompass.com
The Self-Trust Marketplace
Thank you for being here—for listening, reflecting, and trusting yourself alongside me this season. I’m so grateful you’ve been part of this journey, and I can’t wait to share what’s next.
🖤

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December 16, 2025 85. I'M BACK!! (sort of) | On the Other Side of the Birth Portal
Episode Links:
Free Reflect & Set Booklet to end 2025
Free Future Self Reflection

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December 04, 2025 84. Future Self Visualization | Guided Reflection to Build Self-Trust
Today’s episode is a guided visualization… just in time for the end of 2025.
And it comes from the book: YOU CAN TRUST YOURSELF
Get your own copy for more guided meditations, visualizations, and somatic practices. ✨
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DEEPEN YOUR SELF-TRUST WORK:
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Buy Can People Really Change
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1-1 Session with Emily
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