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The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Healing Project, hosted by Justine Costa, invites listeners on an intimate journey through the complex landscape of mental health and personal growth. This narrative podcast offers a safe, compassionate space to explore the raw realities of emotional healing, providing comfort and understanding for those navigating life's toughest challenges. Justine’s warm storytelling creates an immersive experience that feels like a heartfelt conversation with a trusted friend, helping you feel seen…
Episodes
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Your Body Keeps the Score: Unpacking Long-Term Stress | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the profound connection between long-term stress and physical health, drawing on concepts from…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Stop Fixing It: The Radical Art of Just Letting Feelings Be | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the radical art of just letting feelings be, challenging the modern compulsion to…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Childhood Friends Fade: The Quiet Grief of Outgrowing Them | The Healing Project
This episode of The Healing Project explores the quiet, often unspoken grief of outgrowing childhood friends. Host Jade Naughton addresses the specific…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why You're Always the Therapist for Your Friends (And How to Stop) | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the exhausting phenomenon of becoming the 'therapist' for your friends. If you often feel…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet After the Fall: Finding Yourself After Career Loss | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the profound emotional landscape of career loss, offering a compassionate guide for anyone…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Loneliness of Divorcing Alone in Your Friend Group | The Healing Project
In this deeply empathetic episode of The Healing Project, host Dervla Meara explores the profound and often unspoken experience of being the only person in…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Heavy Weight of Saying No: Letting Go of Guilt | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the complex emotional landscape of saying no and overcoming the guilt associated with…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Social Anxiety Hits Hard After Isolation (And How to Breathe Through It) | The Healing Project
This episode of The Healing Project explores the intense social anxiety that often follows periods of isolation, offering a compassionate guide to rebuilding…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Freedom of Being Irrelevant to Others' Stories | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the profound psychological shift required to stop performing for others and embrace the quiet…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Navigating Modern Dating Ambiguity: Finding Clarity in the Quiet Chaos | The Healing Project
Navigating Modern Dating Ambiguity: Finding Clarity in the Quiet Chaos. This episode of The Healing Project addresses the psychological toll of modern dating…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Your Brain Lies: Taming Imposter Syndrome in Creativity | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Jade Naughton explores the pervasive and paralyzing nature of imposter syndrome in creative work. If you often…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Late Diagnosis Shame Spiral: Reclaiming Your Neurodivergent Story | The Healing Project
This episode of The Healing Project addresses the complex emotional aftermath of receiving a late neurodivergent diagnosis, specifically focusing on the 'late…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Family Scripts Clash With Your Truth: Navigating Cultural Expectations | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Dervla Meara explores the profound emotional tension that arises when individual authenticity clashes with…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Anger is Just Fear in a Disguise: Untangling Your Emotions | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the psychological concept that anger is often a secondary emotion masking deeper, more…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Finding Stillness in the Storm: The Quiet Power of Daily Rituals | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the concept of 'finding stillness in the storm' by establishing daily rituals as anchors…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Navigating the Silence After a Major Career Loss | The Healing Project
Navigating the Silence After a Major Career Loss is an episode of The Healing Project designed for anyone experiencing the profound shock of job loss, whether…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Resentment Feels Like Grief When Friends Leave You Behind | The Healing Project
Why does resentment feel like grief when friends leave you behind? In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the complex emotional…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Mourning the Death of Your Childhood Imaginary Friend | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Dervla Meara explores the profound and often overlooked grief associated with losing your childhood imaginary…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Family Traditions Never Feel Safe: A Gentle Guide to Boundaries | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa offers a compassionate and practical guide to setting boundaries with family members whose…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Stop Fixing It: How to Let Yourself Feel Without the Immediate Cure | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the exhausting reflex to immediately 'fix' difficult emotions. Many of us are wired for…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why You Feel Like a Stranger at Family Dinners (And How to Stay) | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the profound and often painful experience of feeling like a stranger at family dinners…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Surviving the Holidays: A Compassionate Toolkit for Severe Social Anxiety | The Healing Project
This episode of The Healing Project, hosted by Jade Naughton, offers a compassionate and practical toolkit for individuals managing severe social anxiety…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Weight of Your Own History: Learning to Forgive Yourself | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Dervla Meara guides listeners through the profound and often difficult journey of learning to forgive yourself…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Heavy Weight of Silence: Carrying a Diagnosis Alone | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Jade Naughton explores the profound emotional toll of hiding a medical or mental health diagnosis. Many…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Control Becomes a Cage: Letting Go of the Need to Manage Everything | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the psychological roots of control and how the relentless need to manage every aspect of life…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why You Pull Away When Life Gets Good: The Fear of Happiness | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the counterintuitive phenomenon of why you might feel a sudden urge to pull away or…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Gaslighting by Friends: When Your Reality Gets Erased | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the subtle and damaging phenomenon of gaslighting by friends, a form of emotional abuse that…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Invisible Weight: Finding Solidarity in Chronic Illness | The Healing Project
In this deeply empathetic episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the profound isolation and invisible weight carried by those living with…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Scars Are Proof You Survived, Not Signs of Damage | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the profound shift in perspective required to view emotional scars not as signs of damage or…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgets: Somatic Stress | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the concept of somatic stress and how the body retains trauma long after the mind has moved…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Their Peace Feels Like Your Failure: Navigating Envy Toward a Former Rival | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the complex and often painful emotion of envy directed toward a former rival who has achieved…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Friends Ghost You: Processing the Quiet Resentment | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Jade Naughton guides listeners through the complex emotional landscape of being ghosted by a friend. This guide…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When the One Who Hurt You Thrives: Navigating Envy & Healing | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Dervla Meara explores the complex and often painful emotions that arise when you see the person who hurt you…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Weight of Silence: Carrying Cultural Expectations Alone | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the profound and often invisible burden of carrying cultural expectations alone. This…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why You Feel Guilty for Saying No to Work (And How to Stop It) | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Dervla Meara explores the deep-seated psychological and physiological reasons why saying no to work triggers…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Guilt-Free Self-Care: Why Saying No to Others Means Yes to You | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the psychological roots of guilt associated with setting boundaries and practicing self-care…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Why Explaining Your Boundaries Drains You (And How to Stop) | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the exhausting habit of over-explaining your boundaries and why it drains your energy. Many…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Volunteering Without the Applause: Finding Purpose in Quiet Service | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the psychological burden of performing kindness for validation and offers a path toward…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Late-Diagnosed ND Shame: Unraveling the 'Why Didn't I Know Sooner' Spiral | The Healing Project
This episode of The Healing Project addresses the complex emotional aftermath of receiving a late diagnosis of neurodivergence (ND), specifically focusing on…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
Finding Beauty in the Messy Middle of Healing | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the often-overlooked 'messy middle' of personal growth and mental health recovery. This…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Freedom of Being Forgotten: Finding Peace in the In-Between | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the profound psychological shift that occurs when we release our attachment to visibility and…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Power of Small Daily Acts of Care | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the quiet power of small daily acts of care as a foundation for mental health and personal…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When the Dream Job Vanishes: Grieving the Career You Didn't Live | The Healing Project
This episode of The Healing Project explores the profound and often overlooked grief associated with losing a dream career before it ever truly begins. Host…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Your Body Keeps Score of Unresolved Trauma: A Gentle Guide | The Healing Project
This episode of The Healing Project, hosted by Justine Costa, offers a gentle and compassionate guide to understanding how unresolved trauma is physically…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Healing Becomes a Performance: Escaping Toxic Positivity in Therapy | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Justine Costa explores the subtle but damaging phenomenon of toxic positivity in therapy and personal healing…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Guilt of Saying No: Why Your Mental Health Isn't Negotiable | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Jade Naughton explores the heavy emotional burden of saying 'no' and why protecting your mental health must always…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
The Quiet Goodbye: Processing Grief When a Pet Outlives Its Role | The Healing Project
This episode of The Healing Project, hosted by Dervla Meara, offers a compassionate and deeply personal exploration of the complex emotions surrounding pet…
- The Healing Project: Mental health, healing & personal growth
When Your Bullies Win: Navigating Envy Without Losing Yourself | The Healing Project
In this episode of The Healing Project, host Meg Barron explores the complex and often painful emotion of envy when you see a former bully succeed. If you have…