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How Creative Writing Heals: Allie Michelle on Journaling, Archetypes & Emotional Strength Apr 02, 2026

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In this conversation with Allie Michelle, poet, spoken word performer, and author of four poetry collections, she and Karena cover the healing power of journaling and radical honesty on the page. They discuss how EMDR therapy rewired her nervous system in just eight sessions, the difference between the Lover and Seeker archetypes, and why fluid identity beats fixed personality systems. Youo’ll hear why storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have to expand empathy, and where she personally draws the line on AI in the creative process.

Can writing become a form of therapy?

Allie makes the case that it can. Whether you've never touched a journal or you've been writing for years, this conversation will change the way you think about creativity, honesty, and what it means to truly feel your feelings.

Highlights:

(00:52) From Library Kid to Poet: Finding Words That Held Her

Allie ditched school to hide in the poetry section and found writing before she found herself
Growing up shy, she used poetry to process emotions she couldn't speak out loud
Working the Teen Line crisis hotline at 14 gave her emotional tools way beyond her years
How slowing down in Hawaii finally made space for her voice

(05:31) Journaling as a Lifeline: How to Get Radically Honest on the Page

Why her journals are her favorite writing: stripped down, unperformed, completely true
"We don't have as much negative space to process our feelings like we once did. Journaling is that space of just, how am I really feeling today?"
For beginners: the prompted journal Becoming a Warrior as a diving board and the rule of big pen energy

(11:52) AI, Authenticity & Where Allie Draws the Line

"Integrity is not a line in the sand. It's a state of awareness." — the framework she uses to navigate AI ethics
How fiction bridges empathy gaps and why that matters more than ever right now
The difference between feedback from people you trust and the noise of the internet

(22:41) Healing the Self: EMDR, Somatic Work & Coming Back Into Your Body

Spending the first half of her life dissociated and what finally brought her back
EMDR as a game-changer: eight sessions that completely altered her nervous system
From craniosacral therapy to holotropic breathing- how she built a full toolkit for self-regulation
"It's not about being perfect. It's just learning to be this really wonderful container for myself."

(24:52) Archetypes, Identity & The Many Versions of You

Why she loves archetypes and how they allow for fluidity, not fixed identity
The Lover: tasting life fully, Eros, the sweetness of doing nothing, and its shadow of codependency
The Seeker: obsessed with growth, the itch to stretch your spirit
"Part of loving ourselves and also loving people really well is listening for which one is alive and present."

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ADHD, Dopamine & Brain Fog: What Your Brain Is Trying to Tell You | Dr. Steven Storage Mar 26, 2026

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Dr. Steven Storage is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at Amen Clinics, where brain SPECT imaging is used to diagnose and treat conditions like ADHD at the neurological level. In this episode, he and Karena cover the four pillars of brain health, how social media hijacks your dopamine, why ADHD is both genetic and environmental, the seven subtypes of ADHD, what low dopamine actually feels like, and a simple cognitive technique to stop negative thoughts from running your day.

What happens to your focus, your mood, and your sense of self when your brain isn't getting what it needs — and how do you even know?

Dr. Storage breaks down the neuroscience in a way that's impossible to unhear, from why one bad night of sleep costs you 30% of your executive function to how your social media habit may be draining the same brain chemical you need to feel motivated. This is the brain health conversation that has been missing from the wellness space.

(00:38) The Four Pillars of Brain Health

Sleep, exercise, nutrition, and avoiding toxins — the foundation for a functioning brain
20 minutes of higher-intensity cardio every other day shown to be as powerful as antidepressant medication for the brain
What the brain is actually doing while you sleep
Food is fuel or garbage — why refined sugar and processed foods are inflammatory for the brain

(07:07) Social Media, Dopamine & the Addiction Loop

Social media is engineered to produce a dopamine spike, and the crash after is real
Doom scrolling depletes the same chemical needed for focus, motivation, and productivity
Why students who decompress with video games before homework are setting themselves up to struggle

(11:59) ADHD Explained — Genetics, Perimenopause & What's Really Happening

ADHD is one of the most genetic conditions in psychiatry
ADHD as a supply-demand issue: blood flow to the prefrontal cortex vs. the demands placed on it
Why perimenopause triggers ADHD-like symptoms
The difference between brain fog from perimenopause and preexisting ADHD — and why one makes the other worse

(21:04) ADHD as a Superpower — And Why Medication Isn't the Enemy

Why traits coded as ADHD likely survived evolution
Creativity, hyper-focus, intuition, outside-the-box thinking — the real strengths of an ADHD brain
The mismatch between ADHD wiring and traditional classrooms: why Dr. Storage doesn't view ADHD as a disorder
Stimulants vs. non-stimulants — what Adderall actually does to the prefrontal cortex
The goal isn't to eliminate the superpower — it's to modulate the brain so you can access focus when you need it without losing creativity

(32:35) Brain Development, Early Diagnosis & Rewiring Negative Thoughts

The prefrontal cortex isn't fully developed until mid-to-late 20s — so how do you know when to treat?
New MRI data: kids treated for ADHD before age 12 showed accelerated prefrontal cortex development
Dr. Storage's three-step method for negative thought patterns
Why meditation builds metacognitive awareness and helps thoughts pass like luggage on a conveyor belt

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Author & Executive Coach Amina AlTai on Burnout, Core Wounds & Escaping the Ambition Trap Mar 19, 2026

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Executive coach and bestselling author Amina AlTai joins Karena to unpack the hidden psychology behind burnout, overachievement, and what she calls the "ambition trap" — the exhausting space between feeling too much and never enough. After her own health crisis brought on by relentless overworking and undiagnosed autoimmune disease, Amina went back to study coaching, nutrition, and mindfulness, and built a practice helping high-achieving women reconnect with purposeful ambition. In this episode, they explore the five core childhood wounds that quietly shape our careers, how invisible labor fuels resentment, and the concrete steps to set boundaries, stop tolerating what's costing you, and find work that's truly yours.

How do you stop building your ambition on a foundation of childhood wounds and start living from a place of purpose?

Recognizing the core wounds quietly driving your hustle is the first step toward breaking free from the ambition trap and reclaiming a life that's actually yours.

(00:16) The Burnout That Nearly Broke Her

Amina's origin story: marketing career, immigrant family pressure, and the relentless pursuit of achievement
How two autoimmune diseases became the catalyst for an entirely different life
Why burnout isn't just exhaustion; it's what happens when achievement becomes identity

(03:01) The Five Core Wounds Driving Your Ambition

Amina's framework: abandonment, rejection, humiliation, betrayal, and injustice, and the masks we wear for each
Why the control mask often leads directly to burnout
Awareness is the first and most powerful step to breaking the pattern

(10:44) How Core Wounds Show Up at Work

The withdrawal mask: avoiding opportunity out of fear of rejection
Masochism and martyrdom as the blueprint for burning out
Perfectionism (the rigidity mask) and why waiting for 110% keeps you stuck
The real cost of micromanagement and what it signals about the betrayal wound

(16:07) Boundaries, Burnout & Invisible Labor

The SBIS model (Situation, Behavior, Impact, Solution) for navigating hard workplace conversations
Invisible labor = the unpaid, unseen work women carry at home and at the office
How tolerations silently drain your energy and how to start raising the standard

(31:13) Reinvention, Purpose & the Passion Myth

Why the idea of one singular career no longer fits how long or how fully we live
The crucial difference between passion and purpose
Amina's five elements of purposeful work
Joy sparkers vs. fire starters: a practical tool for building more of what lights you up into daily life

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How Fitness Saved His Life & Why Community Is the Most Underrated Health Tool Mar 12, 2026

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In this conversation with Kenny Santucci — personal trainer, entrepreneur, and founder of Strong New York — Karena explores how growing up broke in New Jersey shaped his relentless work ethic, why he lost millions and kept going, and how fitness became his anchor through canceled deals, failed businesses, and a suicidal crisis. Kenny also shares his philosophy on building real community through fitness, what the industry gets wrong, and why he believes a healthier city starts one workout at a time.

How do you rebuild your life when every external win has been stripped away — and still choose to get up?

Resilience isn't a personality trait. It's a decision you make in the dark, over and over again.

(00:46) Jersey Roots, Zero Hand-Outs

Growing up broke in Newark and learning early that work was the only way out
Why Kenny's never taken investor money
How coming from nothing shapes your hunger as an entrepreneur

(03:15) The Fat Kid Who Became a Trainer

Kenny's upbringing and the gym that changed everything
How getting in shape shifted the way the world treated him — and what he actually thinks about that
"If you want people to add to your cup, you need to give them some sort of value."

(13:57) From the Docks to the Gym Floor

From the Port Newark shipping yard to New York City
What television taught him and why he walked away
Why everyday clients, not celebrities, are the ones who make lasting changes

(17:50) Getting Canceled and Going Broke

Losing two gyms to bad partners
Being canceled and the dark spiral that followed
How he climbed out by chalking up wins, leaning on family, and just going for a run

(32:57) What the Fitness Industry Gets Wrong

Selling aesthetics over community is the industry's biggest disservice
The "gateway drug" approach: try yoga, boxing, Pilates — and don't marry any of it
Why you push 30–40% harder alongside other people

(53:29) Strong New York, Plant Medicine & the Supplement Stack

The mission behind Strong New York's September 26th event
Kenny's take on psilocybin, microdosing, and the mental health case for plant medicine
His actual supplement priority list: creatine, protein, nootropics
Why a brain isn't a brain without other brains around — and what AI therapy is getting wrong

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How to Stop Repeating Your Parents' Patterns | Dr. Shefali Tsabary on Conscious Parenting Mar 05, 2026

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In this conversation with Dr. Shefali Tsabary, clinical psychologist and author of The Conscious Parent, Karena explores how unhealed childhood wounds get passed down through generations, why traditional discipline doesn't work, and how the three-step process of awareness, acceptance, and action can help you break toxic patterns — whether you're a parent or not.

How do we stop unconsciously passing our unhealed wounds onto the people we love most?

The path to conscious parenting begins not with your child — but with you.

(00:23) From Psychologist to Conscious Parent: The Origin Story

Why Dr. Shefali's work applies to anyone who has ever had a parent
Her journey from clinical psychology to meditation to motherhood
How unhealed childhood baggage gets projected onto the people we love most

(06:55) Triggers, Boundaries & Breaking the Cycle

Why nothing outside of you is truly the trigger, only the match
Why real boundaries are internal actions, not instructions to other people
The three-step path forward: awareness, acceptance, action

(11:12) Screens, Mental Health & the Disconnection Crisis

“Screens are the worst thing to happen to children."
Anxiety in girls has doubled; suicidality in boys is at an all-time high
The real culprit: Overstimulation and disconnection from the present moment
Connection is the antidote to all emotional disease

(15:10) Control, Happiness & the Wake-Up Call We're All Avoiding

Why the need to control comes from having been controlled in childhood
The numbing epidemic: Netflix, dead-end relationships
What it takes to honestly say "I don't like my life"
How compliance in children (and adults) leads to eventual breakdown

(23:11) Role Reversal, Self-Love & the Books That Can Change Your Life

A community question on growing up as the caretaker and what happens when you need care
Karena shares her painful experience as her mother's caretaker in her final five years
Dr. Shefali's truth: "No one can love us the way we need — that's everyone's ultimate lesson."

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Permission To Feel: Dr. Marc Brackett on Male Emotions, Grief & the Science of Regulation Feb 26, 2026

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Why Eating Disorders Kill & How to Heal: Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt Explains Feb 19, 2026

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In this conversation with Dr. Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in eating disorders and founder of Within Health and Galen Hope treatment centers, Karena explores the life-threatening reality of eating disorders as serious mental illnesses that claim one life every 52 minutes in America. Dr. Oliver-Pyatt explains the biopsychosocial foundations of eating disorders, shares her personal journey from ballerina to eating disorder specialist, and discusses the warning signs in athletes and high achievers. She reveals the controversial truth about GLP-1 medications and eating disorder risk, and provides actionable tools for reframing your relationship with your body through self-compassion and intentional self-care practices.

How do you stop fighting your body and start healing your relationship with food, weight, and self-worth?

Understanding that weight stigma is trauma opens the door to compassion—and real recovery.

(01:13) The Deadliest Mental Illness You've Never Heard Of

Eating disorders kill one person every 52 minutes in America
Why they aren't classified with "serious" mental illnesses despite being more lethal than many
The confusion between societal pressure and actual mental illness diagnosis
Understanding the biopsychosocial foundation: biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors

(04:47) From Ballerina to Eating Disorder Psychiatrist

Growing up as the child of a Holocaust survivor with a mildly autistic mother
How ballet and puberty collided to create impossible body standards
The danger of narrow frameworks about what's "acceptable" in our bodies

(18:32) Athletes, Perfectionism & the "Healthy" Eating Trap

Why high-achieving athletes and fitness enthusiasts face elevated eating disorder risk
The difference between disordered eating behaviors and diagnosable eating disorders
How orthorexia disguises itself as "clean eating" or "wellness"
Warning signs to watch for in competitive sports and fitness culture

(32:47) What Real Treatment Looks Like

The biopsychosocial-spiritual treatment model that addresses all aspects
How nutritional rehabilitation and medical stabilization work together
Family-based treatment approaches for adolescents and young adults

(47:36) The GLP-1 Controversy: Ozempic, Wegovy & Eating Disorders

"It's asinine there's no eating disorder warning"
How rapid weight loss medications trigger and worsen eating disorders, especially in teens
The danger

Your Brain Is Lying to You — Bizzie Gold on Childhood Trauma, Self-Deception & Brain Patterns Feb 12, 2026

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In this conversation with Bizzie Gold, founder of Break Method and creator of brain pattern mapping technology, Karena explores how childhood experiences create predictable patterns that shape your relationships, career, and mental health—and how understanding your source belief pattern can help you break free from self-deception and build a healthier life.

How do you rewire the brain patterns formed in childhood that still control your life today?

Understanding your source belief pattern is the first step toward breaking free from self-deception and building the life you actually want.

(02:05) Brain Pattern Mapping & Bypassing Your Story

How Bizzie created a predictive algorithm with 98.3% accuracy
Understanding childhood experiences as a "distortion filter"
Helping people see their own blind spots

(06:16) The Sweet Spot of Trauma That Makes Great Entrepreneurs

Why childhood instability creates self-trust and self-efficacy
Developing situational awareness to stay safe and how it translates to business
Being able to "think five rings down" when others can't see what's coming
Attracting chaotic people because you have too much empathy
Why workaholism is easier than intimate relationships for abandonment patterns

(13:47) Enmeshment Patterns & The Right Side of the Spectrum

The struggle with self-trust and decision-making
Why enmeshed patterns need to learn to disappoint people
Understanding why some people can't say no

(27:18) Self-Deception & Why Your Brain Lies to You

How childhood patterns create self-deception mechanisms
Why Bizzie keeps giving chances to people with bad intentions
The lesson: don't let empathy destroy your business from the inside

(40:33) Growing Up with Psychiatric Illness & Finding Your Drive

Bizzie's experience with an unstable, abusive childhood
Activities and achievement as a distraction from chaos at home
Why self-preservation instincts don't come naturally for some patterns

(49:08) Self-Care for Workaholics & Pattern Opposition

Why self-care is actually mental health work for go-go-go people
Doing things that make you feel accomplished in self-care
For avoidant patterns: the opposition is to just...

The Power of Gratitude: A Guided Meditation to Create More of What You're Thankful For Jan 25, 2026

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What if gratitude isn't just something you feel, but something you create more of every time you practice it?In this grounding Mental Wellness Month meditation, Karena guides you through an 8-minute practice designed to help you reconnect with gratitude for your body, your breath, and your journey. Using breathwork, visualization, and mantras, this meditation invites you to pause and give thanks for all that has carried you to this moment. Perfect for finding beauty in the everyday, shifting your perspective, or simply celebrating all that you have and all that you are.<h3>How do you cultivate gratitude as a way of living, not just a fleeting feeling?</h3>Gratitude is a practice. And every time you acknowledge it, you create more of it. (00:00) Finding Your Peaceful Place & Connecting to Beauty<ol><li data-list="bullet">Settling into a quiet space, either indoors or in nature </li><li data-list="bullet">Recognizing that you are surrounded by beauty</li><li data-list="bullet">Pausing to give thanks for all that you are and all that has carried you here</li></ol> (03:30) Bringing Gratitude to Mind & Holding It in Your Heart<ol><li data-list="bullet">One thing you're grateful for today</li><li data-list="bullet">Gratitude for your body, your breath, a loved one, a lesson you've learned</li><li data-list="bullet">Understanding gratitude as a practice, a perspective, a way of living</li></ol> (06:00) Mantras & Radiating Gratitude Outward<ol><li data-list="bullet">"I am grateful for my body. I am grateful for this breath. I am grateful for my journey."</li><li data-list="bullet">Letting your gratitude radiate outward into your life and everyday</li><li data-list="bullet">Celebrating all that you have </li></ol> If this episode moved you, please consider supporting The Big Silence Foundation and exploring our resources:Connect with The Big Silence Community<ol><li data-list="bullet"><a href="https://thebigsilence.com/pages/audiobook" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Order: The Big Silence Memoir audiobook</a></li><li data-list="bullet"><a href="https://thebigsilence.com/collections/shop-all" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shop The Big Silence Self Love Collection</a></li><li data-list="bullet"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaL3RrbvDLuTTGFN4VYzEpw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Subscribe on YouTube</a></li><li data-list="bullet"><a href="https://thebigsilence.com/donate" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Donate to The Big Silence Foundation</a></li><li data-list="bullet">Find exclusive offers from our supporters: <a href="https://thebigsilence.com/pages/our-podcast-partners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thebigsilence.com/pages/our-podcast-partners</a></li></ol> Show Resources:<ol><li data-list="bullet"><a href="https://my.toneitup.com/pages/new-year-new-tiyou-challenge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">VISIT THE CHALLENGE...</a></li></ol>

Dr. Will Cole on The Body-Brain Connection | Your Gut is Why You’re Anxious Jan 22, 2026

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What If Your Gut Could Heal Your Mind? In this deeply personal episode of The Big Silence, Karena sits down with functional medicine pioneer and bestselling author Dr. Will Cole. From growing up with a bodybuilding dad in the '80s to building the first functional medicine telehealth clinic, Dr. Cole shares his unconventional path to becoming one of the most trusted voices in holistic health. He opens up about the gut-brain connection, why psychiatry still ignores the organ it's treating, and how he practices what he preaches. If you've ever felt dismissed by traditional medicine, struggled with anxiety, or wondered why your mental health and digestive issues seem connected, this conversation will validate everything you've suspected and give you the tools to finally heal.<h3>Can you heal your mind by healing your gut? </h3><h3>True healing requires looking at root causes, not just symptoms. Mental and physical health aren't separate—they're the same conversation.</h3> (00:00) From Bodybuilding to Functional Medicine Pioneer<ol><li data-list="bullet">Growing up in the '80s with a Gold's Gym-owning bodybuilder dad</li><li data-list="bullet">How his childhood of "crunchy granola" health became his life's work</li><li data-list="bullet">Starting the first functional medicine telehealth clinic 16 years ago</li></ol> (08:00) Why Doctors Told Karena They "Don't Deal With Mental Health"<ol><li data-list="bullet">The devastating disconnect between mental and physical health in conventional medicine</li><li data-list="bullet">Why psychiatry is the only field that doesn't test the organ it's treating</li><li data-list="bullet">The gut-brain connection: how inflammation, microbiome imbalance, and stress show up as anxiety and depression</li><li data-list="bullet">Breaking down the stigma and siloed approach to healthcare</li></ol> (15:00) The Shame-Inflammation-Trauma Loop No One's Talking About<ol><li data-list="bullet">How toxic shame inflames your body and destroys gut health</li><li data-list="bullet">The science behind stress, trauma, and autoimmunity</li><li data-list="bullet">Why unresolved emotional pain manifests as physical symptoms</li><li data-list="bullet">Dr. Cole's personal struggle with anxiety and overthinking</li><li data-list="bullet">The tools that work: vagus nerve stimulation, peptides, nature, and movement</li></ol> (25:00) When Everything Hit at Once<ol><li data-list="bullet">His father's sudden death </li><li data-list="bullet">The "Gwyneth bone broth" controversy </li><li data-list="bullet">Navigating professional chaos while grieving</li></ol> (33:00) The Real Tools for Anxiety, Stress & Staying Grounded<ol><li data-list="bullet">Transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation: what it is and why Dr. Cole wears it daily</li><li data-list="bullet">The role of peptides in healing and stress management</li><li data-list="bullet"></li></ol>

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What happens to your focus, your mood, and your sense of self when your brain isn't getting what it needs — and how do you even know?

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How do you stop building your ambition on a foundation of childhood wounds and start living from a place of purpose?

How do you rebuild your life when every external win has been stripped away — and still choose to get up?

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How do you stop fighting your body and start healing your relationship with food, weight, and self-worth?

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