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No Shrinking Violets Podcast for Women
No Shrinking Violets is all about what it truly means for women to take up their space in the world – mind, body and spirit. Mary Rothwell, licensed therapist and certified integrative mental health practitioner, has seen women “stay small” and fit into the space in life that they have been conditioned to believe they deserve. Drawing on 35 years in the mental health field and from her perspective as a woman who was often told to "stay in your lane," Mary discusses how early experiences…
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No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenTurning Tragedy and Loss into Purpose
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! She wore a crown for 730 days, including the gym, the grocery store, and international travel and it wasn’t a stunt. It…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenMobbing: Group Exclusion and Psychological Harassment
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! One quiet pattern can wreck a workplace or a school community without ever looking like “bullying” on the surface…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenOne Honest Conversation: Why Silence Costs Us More Than Speaking Up
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! You can be brilliant at work and still feel oddly powerless in your own relationship. Mary Rothwell starts with a candid…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenREPLAY: The Grief of Blindness and the Role of Grit and Gratitude
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! A nine-year-old hears the words “you will lose your sight,” but no one can tell her when. Laura Bratton lived in that…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenRewrite Your Story: Overcome Limiting Narratives through Self-Acceptance
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! If you’ve ever felt like you’re living by someone else’s script, this conversation will land hard in the best way. In…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenThe Power of Women: Witches, Mentors and Friends
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! A nor’easter traps me indoors on a solo beach trip in Delaware, and the quiet gives me space to notice something I never…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenSurvival Codes: Healing from a Narcissistic Parent
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! The coping skills that made you impressive might be the same ones keeping you lonely. We sit down with Ingeborg Mooiweer…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenLife Happens Through You: Finding Hope through Daily Choices
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Life can feel like a pile on: headlines you can’t control, stress that follows you home, and the constant sense that…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenREPLAY: The Road Back from Rock Bottom: Improv, Writing and Vulnerability
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Someone can look like they’re thriving and still be drowning. That’s the thread we keep pulling in this replay with Angie…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenREPLAY: The Cost of Silence: Self-Forgiveness through Honesty and Grace
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Secrets don’t just live in our past, they live in our nervous system, our self-talk, and sometimes even our symptoms. To…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenREPLAY: Expect the Expected: Managing Disappointment
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! You can love someone and still feel worn down by the same predictable disappointment. When a relationship keeps giving…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenContraception, Hormones and Women's Cycles: Understanding Whole Body Impacts
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Your body isn’t betraying you. A lot of what feels like “random” fatigue, heavy periods, mood swings, migraines, or…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenGetting Unstuck: Using Scaling to Create Change
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Stuck can look like a hundred different things, but it usually feels the same: spinning, second-guessing, and waiting for…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenSeeing The Pattern: Love Bombing and the Abuse Cycle
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Someone can tell you they love you while quietly teaching you to doubt your own mind. That is the part we wanted to name…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenBreaking the Negative Thought Loop: Find The Exception
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Your mind can turn one bad moment into a whole worldview, and it usually starts with two words: always and never. Today…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenPeople-Pleasing "Nice Girls": How High-Functioning Women Learn To Abandon Themselves
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! You can be confident, competent, and deeply self-aware and still find yourself saying yes when you mean no, smoothing…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenShake It Off: What Nature Teaches Us About Nervous System Reset
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Your body is carrying more than you think, and a puppy can prove it. After seven weeks of raising Alfie and trying to…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenEmotional Regulation Doesn't Mean "Calm": The Path through Burnout, Anxiety and Shame
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Emotional regulation isn’t “stay calm and never fall apart.” It’s being able to feel anger, grief, joy, fear, and…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenWhen We Stop Shrinking: Staying Strong through Vulnerability
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! One anonymous one-star rating on Amazon threw me off for days and the weird part is how fast it made me forget the real…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenBarriers to Promotion: Addressing the Articulation Gap at Work
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! If you’ve ever watched a less qualified coworker get promoted while you quietly held everything together, you’re not…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenZoom In: The Power of "Right Now" in Taming Anxiety and Building Success
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Your brain loves to leap ahead and ask the scariest question possible: “If I’m struggling right now, what does that mean…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenFired To Inspired: Rejection as Motivation
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Getting fired can feel like public failure, private grief, and a full-body identity crisis all at once. I know that kind…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenTough Love & Consequences: Raising Resilient Children
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We sit with the messy truth of tough love and why letting natural consequences happen can be the most loving path to…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenNotes From a Madwoman: Transforming Survival Adaptations to Healthy Coping
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Survival can make you brilliant at coping and it can also quietly steal your identity. We sit down with writer and trauma…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenEmotional Regulation through Nature
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! City life can be brutally loud, and sometimes the stress isn’t a personality flaw, it’s a nervous system response to an…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenCycle Syncing: Using Your Natural Rhythm to Bust Burnout and Optimize Energy
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Hustle culture has a nasty way of sounding like wisdom until you’re exhausted, snapping at everyone you love, and…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenBeing Resilient: Lessons from Puppy Parenting
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We bring home a new puppy and quickly realize our biggest problem is not Alfie, it is how much we are trying to manage…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenDiscernment: How to Make Life's Big Decisions
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! A pro and con list can’t tell you why a choice feels right in your bones. We start with a deceptively simple question…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenUsing Immediacy To Facilitate and Deepen Communication
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We’re running on puppy time and talking about why a new dog can upend your routine fast. Then we share a therapy tool…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenEmotional Restoration: Overcoming Fear through Rest and Reflection
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Fear can be quiet, rational-sounding, and incredibly persuasive. It tells us to stay small, keep the peace, hustle…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenFlashbulb Moments: How Memories Shape your Life
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! In this mini-episode, I talk about • defining flashbulb moments as memories that stand out in bold relief • noticing how…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenTransformation Through Action: Rebuilding Confidence in Midlife
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! You know that moment when you catch your reflection and realize you’ve been getting through life instead of really living…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenExpand Your Life: Ignoring the "Yeah, Buts"
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! The “yeah, but” voice can sound sensible, even caring, but it can quietly shrink your life. Today we’re pulling that…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenSingle Parenting With A Plan
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Single parenting can feel like you are carrying a whole household on your back and getting judged at the same time. We…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenWhat If Your Life Vision is Limiting What's Possible?
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Your biggest goals can quietly turn into blinders and you might not even notice until you feel stuck. We’re sharing a…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenForest Bathing: The Health Benefits in Your Own Backyard
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Your body already knows how to relax, it just might be waiting for you to step outside. We sit down with Kim Little…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenCommunication: Clarity and Self-Awareness are Key
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! A question: why does communication break down so easily when we have so many ways to connect? We talk through how…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenSomatic Therapy: Does the Body Keep the Score?
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Your body reacts before your brain can explain it. A glance from the wrong person, a headline on your phone, a tense…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenA Garden Story About Self Trust
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We use a struggling shade plant as a mirror for the moments we stop trusting our own eyes and instincts. We connect…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenWhat If Midlife Is Where You Begin: Boundaries, Burnout & Reinvention
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! If you’ve been the competent one for decades, you can get so good at holding everything together that you stop noticing…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenTrigger Warnings, Trauma, And The Skills To Tolerate Life
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We explore why trigger warnings and the word trigger can feel both helpful and limiting, especially when avoidance starts…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenComedy As Power: Gender and Trauma through the Lens of Humor
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! When a woman makes people laugh, she is doing more than entertaining the room. She is taking up space, steering…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenNature Holds the Key to What You Need
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Nature isn’t something you “get to” after you finally have a free weekend, the right gear, or the energy for a long hike…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenThe Trauma of Betrayal: How to Recover and Thrive
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Betrayal has a special kind of aftermath: you’re not only grieving what happened, you’re questioning your judgment, your…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenThe Hidden Agenda in Conflict and How It Keeps You Stuck
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! A tough truth about relationship conflict is that we often walk into “the talk” with a hidden agenda: we want the other…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenFinding Healing from Childhood Trauma in Sobriety and Grace
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Anger can feel like protection until you notice what it’s doing to your body. That’s where we start, with a hard truth…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenIs Empathy Getting in the Way of Healthy Boundaries?
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Chasing the reason someone hurt you can feel productive, but it often turns into a maze that drains your energy and…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenHow to be "Bad": Finding Your Authentic Voice Through Nature And Sass
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Being “too much” is often just another way the world tells women to be smaller. Mary Rothwell sits down with author and…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenThe Simple Shift that Increases Emotional Regulation
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Your mind can spin a thousand explanations in seconds, but your body just wants one clear answer: what are you feeling…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenSurviving Tragedy: How a Near Death Experience Changed Her Priorities
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We talk with Pam Warren about how a single catastrophic day reshapes identity, priorities, and the meaning of a life well…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenAre You Loving Well?
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! The easiest reaction to a stressful world is to pull back, close the shutters, and decide you’re done with people. We’ve…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenTiny Reframes For Positivity And Self-Acceptance
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! A lot of “positive quotes” sound good and vanish two hours later. We wanted something different: real stories that earn…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenAre Your Habits Shrinking Your Brain?
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We share a quick invitation to our May 12 book launch party in Lancaster, then dig into neuroplasticity and why the brain…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenGetting Lost, Finding Belonging, and Living Authentically
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Tracy Smith and I trace how a one-way ticket to Iceland opened a lifelong practice of choosing ourselves, building…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenSetting Boundaries: Are You a Walnut Tree or an Orchid?
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We share why boundaries keep surfacing in our lives and why guilt is often the biggest barrier to setting them. Using…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenCalm Power in The Workplace: Strategy vs. Emotion
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! What if the strongest move in a heated meeting isn’t a sharper argument, but a calmer nervous system? We unpack how to…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenDo You Have Hidden Beliefs that Impact Your Thoughts and Feelings? - Part 2
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We finish our series on Albert Ellis’s irrational ideas and the hidden beliefs they create in daily life. We focus on…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenMidlife Desire: How Honest Conversations Revive Intimacy And Rewrite Sexual Scripts
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! Sex shouldn’t feel like a performance review you’re destined to fail. We pull back the curtain on the quiet pressures…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenDo You Have Hidden Beliefs that Impact Your Thoughts and Feelings? - Part 1
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! We unpack six classic irrational beliefs from CBT and rational emotive therapy and show how they fuel anxiety…
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenMidlife, Menopause, And The Power of Gathering
Thoughts or comments? Send us a text! What if midlife isn’t a slow fade but a bright second spring? We sit down with life coach and community builder Cheryl…