Send us a text Let's normalize that just because you CAN get married and have children does not mean that you need to! Your relationships and romantic connections need to be solid before adding the thought of permanency. Are you guilty of assuming they are The One just because they are "nicer" than your ex? If you are "dating to marry," do you habi…

Send us a text What if I told you that you can "people-please" your inner critic by allowing you to project onto others unresolved feelings about yourself? Did you know that we begin embracing our inner critic in childhood by compartmentalizing our pain and then learning to repeat this pattern as adults to avoid confronting ourselves? What if you c…

Send us a text This episode is for you if you have scars or wounds from childhood that have been hard to release and impact things or people in your daily routine. This episode is also for you if you feel people owe you obedience in romantic relationships, and not getting your way results in emotional tantrums. Are you doing a good job protecting y…

Send us a text Did you know that accountability and responsibility are not the same? One is a personal response to what happens, and the other is about task orientation. Because they are different, yet both equivalent to progress, avoiding or lacking either can cause devastating outcomes and create burnout. This episode is for you if it has been to…

Send us a text Receiving what we give is not the goal. This goal is positioning ourselves with people and things that can return what we provide equivalently. Every interaction has an opportunity to have your cup filled. Filling a void that is triggered by unmet needs and trauma is not the same as filling your cup. If you have started tolerating no…

Send us a text Do you feel safe in emotional connections? Have you been stuck at an age when you experienced the trauma of separation or abandonment? Are you codependent on familiarity? How do you prevent regret from turning into resentment without grieving what you cannot control? This episode is for you if you have ever identified with being code…

Send us a text This episode is for you if you are an overthinker. This episode is also for you if you allow scenarios outside of your control to live rent-free in your mind. The minute that wounds are identified, we have a responsibility to cleanse them and understand how to grieve without consistently compartmentalizing the hurt. If you are often …

Send us a text Have you ever understood love bombing to be a form of anxiety? We most commonly understand this definition in conversations about narcissistic behaviors, yet the more we learn about our own relationship expectations, upbringing, and inability to be emotionally available, we may start to learn that the capacity to love bomb others is …

Send us a text Have you ever noticed if you are more attracted to people who ignore you or blow hot and cold? Do you find yourself running to people, places, and things trying to get away from you, or avoiding love completely feeling that no one is trustworthy enough to receive your vulnerability? How do you respond when others put up boundaries ar…

Send us a text Did you know that dimming your light is a form of people-pleasing? What if I told you that playing small is a way of telling yourself that external validation holds more power than your own objectivity about what you have been through? Today's episode is for you if you convince yourself that you are fraudulent in your achievements or…

Send us a text What's your relationship with authority and structure? Do you gravitate toward chaos to maintain or regain a sense of control? Did you know that discipline is a form of rebellion and self-control? This episode is for you if you struggle with establishing discipline, maintaining motivation, or rebelling in scenarios where you do not g…

Send us a text Are you aware that you could be perpetuating your fear of failure or fear of success through Impostor Syndrome? What happens when you do not feel that you are enough and try that much harder to prove it to yourself just to stand in your way and prevent the best result? Are you picking specific people, places, and things that cannot e…

Send us a text Men resist temptation too. Men are tired of the games too. Men want to be faithfully married too. Men are great parents too. Men want to cry too. Men can make love and be in love too. However, how many of us have shamed men for their decision to explore vulnerability and safety? How many of us lead with outdated social norms that cre…

Send us a text Whether on your favorite social platforms, dating someone new, conversing with someone familiar, or during conversations with strangers in your daily life, we have all been exposed to oversharing. How can we not be when it's normalized? Some might call "telling all" a method of release to help others understand they are not alone. Ot…

Send us a text Whether it's increased sadness around the holidays, or a dip in your mood from the colder months that lack sunshine, we have all experienced seasonal depression. We may more commonly understand it as winter or holidays blues, and it is more clinically known as Seasonal Affective Disorder if it becomes a routine occurrence. Not only d…

Send us a text When you hear the word "breakup" does your brain typically associate romantic relationships? Friendship breakups happen so frequently and they can change your entire life. This episode is for you if you have ever ended a friendship, no matter how long you knew each other. It's also for you if you have trouble befriending new people, …

Send us a text This episode is for you if you are still seeking closure about your ex or if you have yet to accept that things might not resume. Do you still want an apology or secretly want their next relationship to fail? Are you going back and forth with constantly repairing things without identifying changed behavior about what broke you up or …

Send us a text Turn on any social media platform or television show and it is filled with people discussing their frustrations with dating. Whether already in a romantic relationship or aiming for one, dating is a necessity throughout the entire commitment. This episode is for you if you are currently struggling to understand what dating is, how to…

Send us a text How often do you silence your opinions to be accepted or avoid conflict? How often do you misunderstand assertiveness as aggression? How frequently have you been told you're "too sensitive," so you hesitate to speak about your feelings? Have you ever feared conflict so much that you ghosted people, chose serious conversations via tex…

Send us a text What is a baseline behavior? We all have a starting point...a baseline of how we respond. It makes up the core of who we are: our true colors. We often love the representative because we often lead this way; we also fall in love with the potential of others and make them emotional projects. As is, we present what we want to be, but n…

Send us a text What happens when you date someone who hasn't healed from the hurt in their previous romantic relationship? What happens if your current relationship only exists because your partner's first choice isn't available? What do you do when you find out you are currently the rebound?... Even if it evolved into an exclusive relationship? Th…

Send us a text Are you navigating your life more aligned with your wants versus what you need? Have you had trouble understanding how anxiety and depression are connected to unmet needs? Are you familiar with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? If any of these questions sound like you then today's episode will help to address the void we fill with meeting…

Send us a text Even when you think you're attracting positive things because of the current positivity you sow, energy isn't linear. What you attract operates on a timeline you have no real-time control over. So, for any negative seeds ever sown by you, they can pop up at any time. For any seeds sown by those in proximity of you, the consequences o…

Send us a text This episode is dedicated to listeners feeling "stuck" in life. This episode is for those struggling to find their purpose or believe they have one. This episode is for you if you want more out of life but you're in your own way.द्वारा Dr. Cherlisa Jackson

Send us a text Do you often feel that you're a good listener? Most people do. If you're attempting to be a better lover, a better communicator, and even someone who resolves conflict more peacefully, then this episode is for you!द्वारा Dr. Cherlisa Jackson

Send us a text We often learn how to navigate empathy and relate to the feelings of others. Not only is empathy different than sympathy, but it's also not automatically compassion. Did you know there are types of empathy? Tune into this episode to learn more!द्वारा Dr. Cherlisa Jackson

Send us a text If it's hard for you to admit error or sometimes feel uncomfortable when your thoughts don't match your actions, this episode is for you! If you have heard the term "Cognitive Dissonance" but need more clarity or are unsure what "Cognitive Distortion" is, you're in the right place at the right time! Join me for today's discussion.…

Send us a text This episode is for you if you keep outliving everyone around you and feel internal pressure to speed up your accomplishments because of it. This episode is also for you if you feel guilty for being spared during traumatic events while claiming that your life could be so much more.द्वारा Dr. Cherlisa Jackson

Send us a text You lack nothing; however, you may have been conditioned to believe you need more of everything. This episode is for you if you perpetually enforce habits and thoughts that persuade you that you are not enough.द्वारा Dr. Cherlisa Jackson

Send us a text This episode will help you unlearn that commitment means exclusivity and that a relationship title removes the possibility of still being in a situationship. This episode is for you if you have ever been involved with someone who has produced doubt and uncertainty about the direction of your involvement.…

Send us a text We all have an attachment style. One that starts in childhood and is either perpetuated or adjusted throughout our lives. Habits, viewpoints, emotional connections, and self-esteem correlate with our attachment style. Depending on how you address your external world determines who and what you continue to attach to. If you have been …

Send us a text If you have ever experienced a break-up but didn't feel done or thought you could somehow save this person from themselves if you stayed, this episode is for you. In today's episode, I will explore the unhealthy relationship that led to writing my book, Empowering the Broken. It will also be explored how to look for warning signs tha…

Send us a text This episode is for you if social media often has you comparing your life and accomplishments to others. This episode is also for you if you are oversharing your life with people you barely know. What if I told you there's a successful formula for social media to place the entire country under a social experiment for capitalistic gai…

Send us a text In today's episode, you will discover how feminine and masculine energy originate in every human being and have little to do with gender. You will also learn the consistent misinformation about femininity and masculinity or how either can become toxic.द्वारा Dr. Cherlisa Jackson

Send us a text This episode is for you if you have ever asked, "How can I tell if they are the one?" Today, you will learn how cognitive distortions and defense mechanisms make it easy to suppress red flags and inflate our feelings as objective truth.द्वारा Dr. Cherlisa Jackson

Send us a text Maybe you have heard about love languages and how they work for expressions of love and reciprocity in feeling seen. Have you ever considered why you have the love languages that you do and where they come from? Several things can contribute to it, and one large common denominator for many of us is connected to our childhood. Listen …

Send us a text This episode is for you if you have ever identified as a people-pleaser or guilt-tripped someone! There is one common origin for us all, and it starts with what and how you have been taught from the selection of resources hand-selected for your learning and conditioning. Gaslighting doesn't just belong to those with narcissism; thoug…

Send us a text Ever heard of Destination Addiction? Most people haven't but fall into the category of chasing the future. It blindsides us for a lack of appreciation in existing accomplishments and triggers us to believe that because we still have improvements we would like to make that we are not doing enough. Those who become preoccupied with mov…

Send us a text Yes, that's Impostor with an I...not an E. If you are among the many people who struggle with perfectionism, love being an expert and despise being wrong, frequently have burnout, feel like your efforts are rarely ever enough, and feel that you're a failure if you don't get things right the first try...then this episode is for you!…

Send us a text If you repeat toxic cycles that perpetuate your own pain from being a fixer, a healer, or an overachiever, then this episode is for you! Much of what we know about self-harm ties into intentional bodily injury, however in reframing how we harm ourselves with mental and emotional patterns, this happens on a daily level subconsciously,…

Send us a text If you have ever struggled with believing that flirtation automatically leads to pursuing someone, or if you have an ongoing belief that everyone you encounter absolutely has an unfaithful past, then this episode is for you! Come join the conversation of two licensed therapists providing insight on the internal contribution of infide…

Send us a text We are all familiar with the concept of "trust issues" yet many of us struggle to resolve them. We often set the pattern for selecting people, places, and things that increase our susceptibility to a lack of trust which then encourages us to build a cycle of blaming others for why we don't know how to trust. If this sounds like you o…

Send us a text Have you ever wondered how you started taking on a majority of the relationship responsibilities? Or why it seems that you're typically saving people from themselves while they allow you to do it? We have all been taught the idea of "becoming one" in a relationship and that consistent sacrifice is required and thinking alike is manda…

Send us a text We keep hearing this question, "What do you bring to the table?" I challenge us all to unlearn that there's only one table. If you're trying to figure out if you're an asset, it's much deeper than an overall subjective assessment; it's what you offer in parts. We would benefit most from recognizing that we either offer assets of ours…

Send us a text Yup, you read that right! It is quite possible to live with similarities that are not positive and not even notice them until far after connecting with someone. We commonly attach negatively when we have unresolved trauma, unaddressed habits, or certain attachment styles. It frequently leads to trauma bonding to convince people to fi…

Send us a text Do you struggle to say no or feel like you disappoint others when you do? Is it hard to learn how to let people into your world without having them jump through hoops? Is it easier to please others than it is to show up for yourself? Then this episode is for you! Not only are setting boundaries essential, and defining what they are t…

Send us a text How you spend time with yourself largely determines your capacity to take accountability. It's in the spaces where we sit in our thoughts and sort through the narratives that live rent-free in our heads that guide us toward making sense of the emotions that surface. I-statements are a powerful way to learn how to take ownership of yo…

Send us a text If you have ever asked this question, this episode is for you! "Good" is subjective and based on experiences, outlooks, and preferences. When we evaluate if "good" men exist, we must examine whether we are asking if they are good TO us, good FOR us, or both. That combination also encompasses morality and value systems that usually me…

Send us a text Have you ever heard of Stockholm Syndrome? You might be unaware that forgiving certain people is attached to it. You could also be unaware that various traumas might be unforgivable, even when there is pressure to forgive everyone for everything. Most notably, especially during Black History Month, the Black population is often requi…

Send us a text Ever attended a PWI? Been told that you "talk White?" Assimilated beyond the point of codeswitching that your own racial identity has ever been unfamiliar? Then tune in to this episode! Honoring Black History Month as a Black female for others that look like me, sound like me, and serve as allies FOR me...the self-esteem of all invol…