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In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes
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In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThree Words For When An Emotion Takes Over
Somebody says something to you, and within about two seconds you've lost control of how you're going to respond. The heat comes up, and part of you is already…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Seeing People Leaves You So Tired
You had a good time. Nothing anybody said upset you. And then you came home and you were completely flattened by it. I can tell you exactly where that energy…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy You Haven't Made A New Friend In Years
Think about the last person who became a close friend of yours. For most people, that friendship started a very long time ago. You haven't lost the skill of…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhat Your Phone Does To The People You Love
You're at dinner, someone's telling you something, and you pick up your phone for just a second. They stop talking, and when they start again, they tell you a…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Everybody Else's Life Looks Better Than Yours
You're lying in bed scrolling through your phone, you see a photo of someone you went to school with, and suddenly you feel worse about your own life. That…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhat To Do Instead Of Picking Up Your Phone
You sit down after dinner, the phone is in your hand before you've decided anything, and an hour later you get up feeling worse. That isn't a willpower…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy The Same Problem Follows You Everywhere
You left the job, or the friendship, because of how you were treated, and now the same thing is starting again somewhere new. That isn't fate and it isn't…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhat To Do When You Can't Stand Not Knowing
You're waiting to hear about something important, and not knowing how it'll turn out is keeping you awake at night. Nothing's wrong with you for finding this…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesHow To Recover From Burnout When You Can't Take Time Off
Everything written about burnout assumes you can stop. Take a sabbatical, book the trip, step back for a while. And you're reading it at ten at night with…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesHow To Stop People Pleasing Without Feeling Guilty
You said yes again to someone, and you didn't want to say yes. You knew it while you were saying it. This one is about what happens on the rare occasions you…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhat Watching Short Videos Does To Your Brain
You sat down with a book last night, got through about three pages, and then your hand went to your phone. You weren't bored. You just couldn't stay. A lot of…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhat's Actually Happening When You Go Cold On Someone
Somebody says something and you feel yourself close. Your face goes still, something in your chest shuts, and what comes out afterwards is polite and about ten…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy You Can't Relax Even When Nothing's Wrong
The children are settled, nobody's ill, you've got the weekend free, and there's still something in your chest that won't settle down. Most people treat that…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Your Worst Thoughts Arrive In The First 30 Minutes
You're awake before you've decided to be, and the thinking has already started, and it isn't kind. Sometimes it's about today. Often it's much older. A student…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy You Judge People You Don't Even Know
You're in the supermarket queue and a woman speaks sharply to her little boy, and the verdict is there before you've finished looking at her. You didn't decide…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy The Same Thought Turns Up Every Time It's Hard
You have one. The move to the coast, the leaving of the job, the if I could just get the weight off. Whatever goes wrong this week, that same thought arrives…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy You're Not Your Own Best Friend (And How To Fix It)
You dropped something this morning, and you heard what you said to yourself. It was quick and flat and it barely registered, and you've been saying versions of…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy You Don't Need to Forgive to Find Peace
There's a person. You didn't have to think about it, they just arrived. And somebody once told you to forgive them, and you wanted to put a chair through a…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesBefore the Story Starts
You've never actually felt most of your feelings. You've had positions about them instead. If you can be in real distress at a dinner party and still get up…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhen the Ground Disappears
There's a kind of terror that isn't about the bad news. It's about not knowing yet. If you're standing in your own life waiting for somebody to walk in and…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesYou Say You're Fine. Then You Resent Them For Believing You
Somebody asked how you were this week and you said fine, and you said it beautifully, because you've had a lot of practice. Then later something hot and…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesSnapping At People You Love? You're Not A Bad Person
You heard your own voice come out sharper than the situation deserved, and you've been quietly worried ever since that this is who you're becoming. It isn't…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesHow Dolly Parton Made People Feel Bigger, Not Smaller
You know the people who walk into a room and everyone in it sits up a little straighter, and somewhere along the way you decided you're just not one of them…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesYour Mother Has Never Said I Love You. Try This
There is a woman who has never once said "I love you." Not to her daughter, not to her granddaughter. If you have someone like that, you've almost certainly…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesArguing With Someone In Your Head? How To Stop
You've had the same argument with your sister forty times and never once out loud. This usually gets filed under overthinking, and you've probably concluded…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesAwake at 3am Every Night? Deep Breathing Won't Fix It
You wake at three in the morning and your mind is already mid-sentence. Not a crisis. A conversation. You've probably decided this is insomnia, or that…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Nothing You've Tried For Anxiety Has Worked Yet
You've tried the apps. The breathing. Probably the medication. And you're still here. "I've tried everything and nothing works" usually gets treated as a mood…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesI Teach Meditation. Here's When It Makes Anxiety Worse
There are moments when meditation will make your anxiety worse, and almost nobody in my field will say that out loud. If you've ever sat down to meditate while…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Your Mind Speeds Up The Second You Lie Down
Your mind was fine all day. Then you lie down, the light goes off, and it starts. If that's your eleven o'clock, this isn't a sleep problem and it isn't a…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesSelf-Care Isn't Selfish. Here's What It Actually Is.
You'd drive across a city at ten at night for someone you love, without a second's deliberation. Now try asking yourself for twenty minutes and watch how long…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy You Hide How Burnt Out You Actually Are
You've gotten so good at looking fine that people don't just believe you any more. They've stopped checking. This episode is about the exhausting second job of…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhat To Do When Therapy Isn't An Option
You finally looked up therapists. Then you saw the price, did the maths against everyone else's needs, and quietly closed the laptop. This episode is about…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhat To Do When You're Too Anxious To Meditate
You sit down to meditate and you can't do it. Your mind won't slow, and sometimes you feel worse afterwards than you did before, so you quietly decide…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesMy Life Is Good and I Still Can't Feel Happy
Your life looks fine on paper. You can list everything you're lucky to have, usually while lying awake at three in the morning. And you still feel flat, and…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Nothing You've Tried Has Worked
If you've ever said "I've tried everything and nothing works," this one is for you. There's a reason the supplements, the apps, the journals and the early…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Fear of Finally Getting What You Want
This episode is about the strange anxiety that arrives not when life is hard, but when it starts to get genuinely good. If you've ever found yourself bracing…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhen Did I Stop Knowing What I Want?
This episode is for anyone who has noticed a strange blankness where their own desires used to be — not depression, not burnout, just a quiet difficulty…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Kindness to Everyone Else Comes Easily — But Not to Yourself
You'd never speak to a friend the way you speak to yourself. This episode is about that gap — the double standard most of us carry without examining it — and…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Slow Grief of a Life That Didn't Go as Planned
This episode is for anyone quietly mourning a version of their life that didn't happen — the relationship, the path, the self they thought they'd be by now…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Anger You Were Never Allowed to Have
This one goes somewhere most wellness conversations won't. If you grew up learning that anger wasn't safe — and you've been carrying it as anxiety, exhaustion…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Invisible Load of Always Being the Responsible One
If you're the person everyone else leans on — the one who tracks, anticipates, and holds it all together — this episode is for you. We're talking about the…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy You Can't Stop Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop
When things are good, do you find yourself bracing for what's coming? That low hum of vigilance underneath the happiness — scanning, waiting, not quite letting…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Everyone Else Seems To Have It Figured Out
That quiet voice that says everyone else has it sorted and you're the only one winging it? It has a name — and it's not the truth about you. In this episode…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhat A Panic Attack Actually Is (And How To Get Through One)
If you've ever been in the middle of a panic attack and didn't know what was happening to your body, this episode is for you. Monique breaks down what a panic…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy You Feel Everything More Than Everyone Else
If you've spent your life being told you're too sensitive, this episode is for you. Monique explores the research behind high sensitivity — why roughly one in…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy The People You Love Most Trigger You The Most
You love them. You'd do anything for them. So why does an hour with certain family members leave you more drained than a twelve-hour work day? In this episode…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Real Reason You Can't Forgive Yourself
There's something you did — maybe years ago, maybe more recently — and no matter how much time passes, you can't seem to put it down. In this episode, Monique…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Lie of "I Should Be Over This By Now"
It's been years, and something can still catch you off guard and knock the wind out of you. This episode is for the part of you that's been quietly ashamed of…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesHigh-Functioning Anxiety — You Look Fine. You're Not.
On the outside, you have it together. The deadlines are met, the people are looked after, the difficult situations are handled with grace. On the inside, you…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesWhy Your Nervous System Is Stuck In Survival Mode
You've tried the breathing. You've tried the apps. And yet that low-grade hum of tension in your body never really goes away. This episode isn't about another…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Real Reason You're So Hard On Yourself
You already know you're too hard on yourself. You've known it for years. But knowing it hasn't made it stop — because the real reason behind that relentless…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesIntrusive Thoughts? Here's What They Actually Mean
A dark or disturbing thought arrived out of nowhere and now you can't stop wondering what it says about you. This episode is the conversation most people never…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesStop Caring What People Think
You've told yourself a hundred times to stop caring what people think. You know, logically, that you can't control what anyone thinks of you. And yet — the…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Comfort of Staying Stuck
You say you want things to change. And you mean it. So why does part of you keep pulling the brakes just when things start to move? This episode names the…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Stories That Run Your Life
There's a version of you that got decided a long time ago — and it's been running the show ever since. This episode looks at the gap between what's actually…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesSmaller Than You Think
You've tried to change before. You went big, you started strong, and then life happened and the whole thing fell apart — again. This episode is about why that…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesStop Trying To Be Understood
Most of us spend a huge amount of our lives trying to make people understand us. The long explanation. The third re-phrase. The 3am perfect sentence. The…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe Anger Underneath Your Calm
There are two kinds of calm. Only one of them is actually calm. If you have always been the steady one, the soft-voiced one, the one everyone goes to in a…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesThe One Word Missing From Your Gratitude Practice
If you've been writing a gratitude list every morning and nothing in your life feels any different, this episode is for you. Most gratitude practice is…
In Your Right Mind with Monique RhodesYou're Not Bored. You're Terrified Of Being Alone With Yourself.
We keep blaming our phones. We keep blaming dopamine. I want to tell you something true that nobody seems willing to say out loud. Your phone is not the…