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The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Healing Room, hosted by Terri Raftery, invites you into a safe and compassionate space dedicated to mental health awareness, emotional healing, and profound personal growth. This narrative-driven podcast offers a sanctuary for listeners seeking clarity amidst life's complexities, providing a steady, grounding presence that helps navigate the often turbulent waters of the human psyche. Each episode is crafted to deliver an intimate experience, fostering a deep sense of connection and…
Episodes
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When the Expert Breaks Trust: Healing from Professional Betrayal | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room explores the profound psychological impact of professional betrayal, focusing on how trust violations by doctors, financial…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Room: Finding Belonging When You’re the Only Sober One | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the profound and often isolating experience of being the only sober person in a social…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Your Scars Will Never Fully Fade (And Why That’s Okay) | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Geraldine Smith explores the profound truth that healing is not about erasing our past or returning to a pristine…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Childhood Friends Become Strangers: The Quiet Grief of Growing Apart | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room explores the quiet, often unspoken grief of outgrowing childhood friends and drifting into strangerhood. Host Mikayla Thompson…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Finding Peace in Being Forgotten by Society | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Geraldine Smith explores the profound liberation found in accepting that we will eventually be forgotten by society…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Control Becomes a Cage: Letting Go of the Need to Manage Everything | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the psychological roots of control and why the need to manage every outcome often becomes a…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When The System Blocks You: Finding Power In Righteous Anger | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the complex intersection of systemic barriers, self-worth, and righteous anger. This guide is…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Exhaustion of Being Your Culture's Ambassador | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the profound and often invisible exhaustion of being your culture's ambassador. This…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Grocery Store Breakdown: Finding Grace in Public Tears | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the profound shame and vulnerability associated with having a public emotional breakdown…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Heavy Silence: Carrying Secrets of a Loved One's Crisis | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the profound psychological and physical toll of 'relational secrecy'—the experience of…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Watching Your Sibling Struggle With Addiction: The Heavy Love | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room, hosted by Kaylee Russell, offers a compassionate and deep dive into the complex emotional landscape of watching a sibling…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why You Feel Guilty for Saying No (And How to Stop) | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the heavy emotional burden of guilt that accompanies setting boundaries and saying no. This…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Friendship Breakups Hurt Just as Much as Divorce. Here’s Why. | The Healing Room
Friendship breakups are often dismissed as less significant than romantic divorces, yet the emotional devastation can be just as profound. This episode of The…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Finding Stillness When the World Feels Like It’s Falling Apart | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the profound challenge of maintaining emotional wellness and finding stillness when global…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Choosing Yourself: The Grief of Estranging from Family | The Healing Room
In this deeply compassionate episode of The Healing Room, host Terri Raftery explores the complex and often painful process of estranging from family members…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When the Dream Fades: Finding Peace After a Business Failure | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Terri Raftery guides listeners through the profound emotional landscape of business failure. This is not a tactical…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why You Pull Away When Life Gets Good: The Fear of Happiness | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the counterintuitive phenomenon of why we instinctively pull away when life gets good. Many…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Your Body Changes Suddenly: Grief, Loss & Finding Home Again | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Terri Raftery explores the profound and often unspoken grief that accompanies sudden physical changes, whether due to…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When They Say You're Crazy: Healing from Gaslighting | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the subtle and devastating effects of gaslighting in close relationships. Gaslighting is…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Panic of Turning Thirty Without a Plan | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room explores the profound anxiety many feel when approaching or turning thirty without a clear life plan. Host Terri Raftery…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When the Plan Falls Apart: Healing From Abandoned Adoption | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Geraldine Smith offers a compassionate and deeply validating space for individuals navigating the complex grief of an…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Guilt in the Good Times: How to Enjoy Life During Global Suffering | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Terri Raftery explores the complex and often isolating experience of feeling guilty for enjoying life while global…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Your Sibling Thrives: Finding Peace Amidst Envy & Estrangement | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room addresses the complex, often unspoken pain of sibling estrangement and the intense envy that arises when you see a brother or…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Humiliation of Needing Therapy Again | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room explores the profound and often unspoken shame associated with returning to therapy for a third time. Host Terri Raftery…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Terror of Being Truly Seen: A Letter from the Edge | The Healing Room
In this deeply reflective episode of The Healing Room, host Terri Raftery explores the profound anxiety and quiet terror associated with being truly seen by…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When a Friend Fades: Navigating Friendship Breakups With Gravity | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room addresses the profound and often overlooked grief of friendship breakups, offering a compassionate guide for anyone navigating…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Your Rival Finds Peace: Navigating Envy Without Shame | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Geraldine Smith explores the complex and often shameful emotion of envy when a former rival finds peace and…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When The System Breaks You: Processing Career Anger With Grace | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the profound exhaustion and righteous anger that arise when individuals face systemic…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Your Masterpiece Might Never Exist (And Why That’s Okay) | The Healing Room
In this profound episode of The Healing Room, host Geraldine Smith invites listeners to confront a difficult but liberating truth: your greatest creative dream…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Control Becomes a Cage: Letting Go of the Need to Manage Everything | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the exhausting paradox of control: how our desperate need to manage every outcome transforms…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Weight of Pretending: Why Masking Exhausts Your Soul | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room explores the profound exhaustion caused by 'masking'—the act of hiding one's true neurodivergent self to fit into societal…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Validation Feels Like a Drug & How to Detox | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the psychological and biological mechanisms behind why external validation feels like a drug…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Finding Beauty in the Messy Middle of Healing | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room explores the concept of the 'messy middle' in personal growth and mental health, offering a compassionate perspective for…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Your Body Betrays You: Recovering from Panic in Public | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Terri Raftery explores the intense and isolating experience of having a panic attack in public spaces. This guide is…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Friends Fade: Processing Resentment Without Shame | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the complex emotional landscape of friendship breakups and the quiet pain of being left…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Validation Feels Like a Drug and How to Detox | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Terri Raftery explores the psychological phenomenon of validation addiction and provides a compassionate roadmap for…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The 3-Day Text Silence: Why Your Brain Screams Danger | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the intense psychological experience of waiting for a text message reply after three days of…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When God’s House Hurts: Healing from Religious Betrayal | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room, hosted by Geraldine Smith, addresses the profound grief and existential vertigo experienced when leaving a religious…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Empty Space Left by a Pet Who Knew You Best | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room offers a compassionate exploration of pet loss, specifically addressing the profound silence and grief that follows the death…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Terror of Being Seen: Why Vulnerability Feels Like Danger | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Kaylee Russell explores the profound psychological tension between the human desire for connection and the…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Silence After They Leave: Grieving the Pet Who Knew You | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room, hosted by Mikayla Thompson, offers a compassionate and deep exploration of pet loss grief, specifically addressing the…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Letting Go of the Version of You That Didn't Make It | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Geraldine Smith explores the profound emotional work of letting go of the version of yourself that no longer serves…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When the Expert Fails You: Healing from Professional Betrayal | The Healing Room
This episode of The Healing Room addresses the profound and often overlooked pain of professional betrayal, specifically when therapists, coaches, or advisors…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Your Heart Races in a New Bed: The Science of Sleeping Strange | The Healing Room
Why does your heart race when you sleep in a new bed? This episode of The Healing Room explores the 'first-night effect,' a fascinating psychological…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Thief: How to Spot Imposter Syndrome Before It Steals Your Joy | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Geraldine Smith explores the insidious nature of imposter syndrome, reframing it not as a badge of honor but as a…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When the Masterpiece Never Comes: Embracing Unfinished Potential | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the profound emotional landscape of 'unfinished potential'—the quiet grief and anxiety that…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Letting Go of the Need to Be Understood Completely | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Geraldine Smith explores the exhausting cycle of trying to be fully understood by others and offers a path toward…
- The Healing Room: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Awkward Art of Reconnecting with Old Mentors | The Healing Room
In this episode of The Healing Room, host Mikayla Thompson explores the emotional landscape of reconnecting with old mentors, addressing the common anxiety and…