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The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Healing Reset is a transformative narrative podcast hosted by Harriet McKay, designed to guide listeners through the intricate journey of mental health recovery and personal empowerment. By blending empathetic storytelling with actionable self-improvement strategies, Harriet creates a safe, supportive space where vulnerability meets growth. This show offers an emotional experience that feels like a warm conversation with a trusted friend who truly understands the struggle for inner peace…
Episodes
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When You’re Overlooked Again: Processing the Quiet Rage of Career Invisibility | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay addresses the profound emotional toll of career invisibility and the quiet rage that follows being…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Letting Go of the Hope Your Ex Will Change | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the emotional exhaustion of holding onto hope that an ex-partner will change. This…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When Friends Have Babies: Navigating Quiet Grief & Envy | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay addresses the complex and often unspoken emotions surrounding friends having babies, specifically…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Stop Letting Envy Steal Your Spark: A Gentle Reset | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay guides listeners through a gentle but powerful exploration of envy, reframing it not as a moral…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When Family Tradition Clashes With Your Truth | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound emotional complexity of navigating family traditions that clash with your…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Guilt of Solo Travel: Why Your Joy Isn't Selfish | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the 'quiet guilt' that often accompanies solo travel and intentional solitude. If you…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Why You Don't Need All The Answers Right Now | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound relief and courage found in accepting that you do not need to have all the…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Grieving the Career You Didn't Choose: Finding Peace in Plan B | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay offers a compassionate guide to grieving the career you didn't choose. This is not just about job…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When a Platonic Soulmate Drifts Away: Navigating the Quiet Goodbye | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset, hosted by Harriet McKay, explores the unique and often unacknowledged grief of losing a platonic soulmate. Unlike romantic…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When Love Feels Like a Heavy Weight: Grief for the Unruly Pet | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the profound and often unspoken grief associated with caring for an unruly, ill, or aging pet. Host Harriet McKay…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Envy Toward an Estranged Sibling: Finding Peace When Their Joy Hurts | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the complex, painful emotion of envy toward an estranged sibling, offering a compassionate guide for those…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Fury of Systemic Barriers: Finding Peace in Professional Injustice | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the complex emotional landscape of facing systemic barriers in professional environments…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Why Saying No to Them Is Saying Yes to You: Letting Go of Social Guilt | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the deep-seated social guilt that compels us to say 'yes' when we desperately need to say…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Terror of Being Truly Known in Love | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound and often unspoken fear of being truly known in romantic relationships. This is…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Courage to Share Your Failures: Finding Beauty in Imperfection | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the transformative power of vulnerability and the courage required to share our failures with…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Why You’re Angry When You’re Actually Just Scared | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the psychological connection between anger and fear, revealing that what we often label as…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Finding Calm When the World Feels On Fire: A Gentle Guide to Presence | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay offers a gentle, grounding guide to finding calm when the world feels on fire. This conversation is…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Shame of Adult Financial Help: Breaking the Silence | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the quiet, often unspoken shame that accompanies adult financial help. Many of us grow up…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Ghosting of a Situation Ship: Finding Ground in the Ambiguity | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the unique emotional turbulence of ending a 'situation ship,' offering a compassionate guide for anyone navigating…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Terror of Returning to the Room: Finding Your Way Back to People | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the profound anxiety and quiet terror many people feel when returning to social situations after a period of…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When Your Body Keeps Score: Reclaiming Safety from Unresolved Trauma | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound connection between unresolved trauma and physical health, drawing on the…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When the Guide Betrays You: Healing from Mentorship Broken Trust | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the profound emotional impact of mentorship betrayal, offering a compassionate guide for anyone who has experienced…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Holding Two Worlds: Caring for Aging Parents While Working Full-Time | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset, hosted by Harriet McKay, addresses the profound emotional labor and exhaustion faced by individuals who are simultaneously…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When Nice Is a Shield: Recognizing Trauma-Based People Pleasing | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the complex intersection of people-pleasing and trauma responses. Many individuals who say…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Silence in the Open Office: Managing Sensory Overload | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the often-overlooked challenge of sensory overload in open-plan offices and shared…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Panic of Your First Apartment: Finding Calm in New Walls | The Healing Reset
Moving into your first independent apartment often brings a surprising wave of anxiety, known here as the 'quiet panic' of new walls. This episode explores why…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Armor: When Independence Hides Your Fear of Intimacy | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the hidden emotional cost of hyper-independence and how it often masks a deep-seated fear of…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Why You Don't Need to Be Fully Understood to Be Loved | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound relief and freedom found in releasing the exhausting demand to be fully…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Gaslighting by the People You Love: How to Trust Your Own Mind Again | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the subtle and damaging effects of gaslighting by loved ones, offering a compassionate guide…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Guilt of Choosing Yourself: Prioritizing Mental Health Over Social Obligations | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the heavy, often invisible weight of guilt that accompanies prioritizing mental health over…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When You’re Always the Strong One: The Weight of Being the Rock | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the profound emotional exhaustion experienced by individuals who have become the 'strong one' or the 'rock' in their…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When Their Stability Feels Like Your Failure: Navigating Envy with Grace | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the complex and often shameful emotion of envy when it arises from seeing a former rival…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Courage of Showing Up: Reentering Social Life After Isolation | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the profound courage required to re-enter social life after a period of isolation, burnout, or grief. Host Harriet…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Guilt-Free Boundaries: Navigating Demanding Colleagues With Grace | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the psychology of setting guilt-free boundaries with demanding colleagues, offering practical scripts and emotional…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Fear of Intimacy Disguised as Independence | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the deep psychological roots of why many high-functioning individuals confuse independence…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Goodbye: Grieving Friends Who No Longer Fit | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the nuanced and often painful experience of grieving friendships that have naturally faded, a phenomenon known as…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When Perfectionism is Just Fear in Disguise: A Gentle Reset | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the hidden truth behind perfectionism: it is often fear in disguise rather than a pursuit of…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
How to Set Limits With Demanding Colleagues Without Losing Sleep | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay offers a compassionate and practical guide to setting limits with demanding colleagues without…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Healing Without Blame: Letting Go of the Need for an Apology | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound journey of healing from childhood emotional neglect without waiting for an…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
When 'Nice' Hurts: Unmasking Trauma-Based People Pleasing | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the deep psychological roots of trauma-based people-pleasing, helping listeners understand…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Navigating Medical Bureaucracy Alone: Finding Your Voice in the System | The Healing Reset
Navigating medical bureaucracy alone is an exhausting, often invisible labor that requires you to be your own advocate, researcher, and shield. This episode of…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Heavy Silence: Carrying Secrets for Someone You Love | The Healing Reset
This episode of The Healing Reset explores the profound emotional exhaustion and isolation that comes from carrying a heavy secret for someone you love. Host…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Accepting Scars: Finding Peace in Imperfect Healing | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound practice of accepting scars—both physical and emotional—as essential markers of…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Why You’re Not Broken: The Quiet Humiliation of Therapy Round Three | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay addresses the quiet humiliation many people feel when returning to therapy for a third time or after a…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Finding Stillness When the World Feels Like It’s Shaking | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound challenge of finding stillness and maintaining mental equilibrium when global…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
Reconnecting with Old Mentors: The Awkwardness & Grace | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the emotional landscape of reconnecting with former mentors after long periods of silence…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Paradox of Crowded Loneliness: Finding Depth in a Superficial World | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the paradox of crowded loneliness—the profound sense of isolation that persists even when you…
- The Healing Reset: Confidence, habits & self-improvement
The Quiet Courage of Being Fully Seen | The Healing Reset
In this episode of The Healing Reset, host Harriet McKay explores the profound and often terrifying concept of 'The Quiet Courage of Being Fully Seen.' This…