One Day You Finally Knew: For Folx Breaking Away

Psst. In this episode, Jessica lets you in on a little secret:

No one is f**king okay right now.

Okay? 

So let's just make it okay to not be okay.  For our own self-care and self-compassion, as well a…

After taking a break from the pod for the last month of 2021, Jessica is back with the first episode of 2022, just in time to attempt to spare us all the external/internal expectations around making …

This is the last episode of 2021 before some time away to clarify the next steps for the podcast and book writing. While all of these projects have been exciting, Jessica is coming clean about how wh…

The fall and winter holidays are upon us, which can be a mixed bag for many of us.  There might be much holly, jolly, and there might be a great deal of stress. Perhaps both.

In this episode, Jessica…

We're all so fatigued by living in this world in the current state of affairs. Yet, we still have our to-do lists, waiting and constantly beckoning, despite having little energy to complete the tasks…

Remembering that courage means to take one's heart in their hands and fearlessness means you might be afraid but are doing it anyway, we can stay true to ourselves, despite the potential consequences…

The word compassion means to "suffer with" another, but that is often not what we're doing when we think we're offering compassion to someone who is behaving badly. In this culture of enabling and co…

Earlier in the week, Jessica saw a post of Sheryl Sandberg's quote: "Done is better than perfect," and it got her thinking about how we risk getting stuck and even shutting down if we keep picking at…

Our families and our patriarchal society have taught us to have extremely high expectations of ourselves and others. And yet, both can lead to deep disappointment.

What if the expectations we set for …

I love the Rumi quote, "Try something different. Surrender." 

I'm applying it here to this week's non-episode. Instead, you're just getting a little announcement.

Mercury is retrograde.

Everything elec…

During the annual week away in the mountains with the doggos,  on retreat Jessica reflects on the need for rest, not just for proper digestion of physical food, but to digest new emotional, psycholog…

Thanks to the patriarchy, folx of all genders have been indoctrinated into the belief that women were put on this planet to nurture others. Moreover, when women choose to care for themselves, they're…

Research has shown the importance of cultivating  "sister of the heart" relationships and how they can improve our physical, emotional, and psychological health. But what happens when we realize a fr…

Negative thoughts about yourself come out of nowhere. You mind your own business, and before you know it, BAM! A giant, intrusive shitty thought about yourself has arrived. As soon as these thoughts …

When something terrible in the world happens that isn't directly happening to us, we have a choice. We can look away, deciding it's too much pain to take in and feel. Or, we can keep looking, decidin…

So many of us have a little girl that lives inside our hearts. A little girl who could not show the world who she was when we were young because she was misunderstood, told she was too sensitive, and…

The glorious monsoon Tucson is having this summer has Jessica thinking about hydration. After a good long soak, you can almost hear the desert flora and fauna sighing with relief.  What would happen …

As women, we've been indoctrinated into believing the misogynist demand that once we've consented to something, we don't have the right to change our minds. But, consent is not a constant. If we list…