HeyJaredThe Self Investment Project with Kathy Washburn | Emotional Wellness, Midlife Reinvention & Reclaiming Your Authentic Self
The Self Investment Project is a transformative podcast dedicated to those grappling with Type C traits—people-pleasing, emotional suppression, and conflict avoidance.
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Ep. 81 - The Golden Spiral Path: Why Healing Isn't a Straight Line with Dr. Leslie B. Newman (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail You'll also love… Ep. 01 - Type C Defined with Dr. Lydia TemoshokEp. 04 - Radical Self-Care with Leonore TjiaEp. 05 - Tapping Into Body IntelligenceOn this episode, Kathy sits down with Dr. Leslie B. Newman — psychologist, positive psychology educator, and author of A Daily Dose of Happiness — for a conversation about what happens when healing stops being a straight line. Dr. Leslie introduces her Magic Closet practice, a way of meeting a triggered emotional reaction with cur...
Ep. 80 - Reclaiming Your Story: How Writing the Truth Can Heal Your Body with Cristina Simmons (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail What if the story you have never told is the very thing standing between you and your own healing? In this episode, Kathy sits down with Cristina Simmons, an occupational therapist turned publisher, author, and founder of a company that helps everyday people write and self-publish their own books. Cristina shares how twenty years of emotional suppression, a marriage tested by grief and betrayal, and a rare femur tumor eventually became the very material that set her free. Cri...
Ep 79 - Capacity vs. Capability: The Equation That Changes Everything with Emily Forbes (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail Emily Forbes spent nine years as a CEO, winning awards and passing every performance review, while her body was quietly falling apart. In this conversation, Emily shares the equation she developed after ill-health retirement forced her to separate two things most of us have never been taught to tell apart: capability and capacity. We talk about the moment capability stopped being enough to override what her body was saying, the crash protocol she now uses on low-capacity days...
Ep. 78 - Type C to Type D: A Therapist’s Honest Look at Building Your New Normal with Leonore Tjia (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail This week I'm bringing back a conversation that has stayed with me since we first recorded it, and repositioning it inside our Building Your New Normal arc, because it's the piece that unlocks what this quarter is really about. My guest is Leonore Tjia, a field guide to the inner world who helps people transform their emotional and relational patterns. Full disclosure: Leonore has also been my therapist for the last seven years. We talk about Type C patterns, the conflict avo...
Ep. 77 - Learning to Say No: The First Brave Act of Building Your New Normal with Kathy Washburn (opens the original)
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Send us Fan Mail A people-pleaser's guide to saying no without guilt. Three practical scripts, one story about a boss who wouldn't take no, and why no is information, not rejection. If you've ever said yes when every part of you wanted to say no, this episode is for you. Kathy opens Part 1 of the Building Your New Normal series with a personal story about a former boss who kept overriding her boundaries during one of the hardest seasons of her life, and what she learned a...
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