Insights with Us
A podcast geared towards creating insight through conversations about the human experience. Get curious with us as we dive deep and get a little uncomfortable. New episodes every other Thursday. Instagram: @insightswithuspodcast
Episodes
Join us for a cozy, acceptance-focused podcast episode featuring author Adison Black, author of Deathly Flowers and Lotus’s Revenge. Adison shares how a discouraging teacher derailed her childhood writing dream, her attempt to find a job that led to burnout and trauma, and how she found her love of writing again. She talks about the inspiration behind her story, the lore and magic laws of her world, and how she healed through...
Adriana Lapusniak, a radical self-acceptance coach and wellness educator shares her journey with late-diagnosed autism, building acceptance, reducing shame, and creating community. Adriana describes being highly sensitive and feeling unsupported by a productivity-driven world, then “failing forward” into mindfulness teaching, coaching, and community-building on Insight Timer and through Adriana Alternative.
Conne...
Navigating chronic illness with nurse and fitness coach Amanda Kunzinger. Amanda shares her journey with Crohn’s disease and realizing her identity is more than being “the sick girl.” She explains how fitness, self-reflection, and learning to listen to her body transformed her physical and mental health, leading her to start a coaching business to help others. Join us as we talk about tracking patterns, flexibilit...
Fan questions, relationship edition! We explore inevitable change, how to stay curious in relationships, navigating recurring conflict (and research from the Gottman Institute to back it up), and how to strengthen the benefit of the doubt.
What to expect in this episode:
00:45 Partner Changing
03:42 Staying Connected
09:41 Same Fight Loop
10:15 Perpetual Problems
13:36 Chores and Mental Load
19:49 Five to One Ratio
Spells for Surviving a Haunted Childhood by Barbara Latinka
Host Anastasia interviews author Barbara about her three-book series, Spells for Surviving a Haunted Childhood, written during trauma therapy to process childhood abuse, neglect, and feelings of worthlessness. We explore themes of healing work, magic in the world, neglect, boundaries, and the reality of being hurt and human.
Instagram: @hauntedchildhoodspells
How do I not freak out when things don't go as planned? How do I become more spontaneous? How are you dealing with everything in the world? How do I achieve my dreams? These are the questions explored in today's episode of Insights with Us. Join us, and let's see if we can build insight together on this journey of life.
What to expect in this episode?
00:00 Welcome and Mission
01:28 Q1: How do I not freak out when things don...
Dr. Damijey is here to remind us that we are not alone. As board-certified endocrinologist, Dr. Damijey is on a mission to explain endocrinology and help us understand our options and how to advocate for ourselves. Dr. Dami emphasizes women’s health topics including PCOS (note: it has been renamed PMOS since our recording), menopause, osteoporosis, thyroid, and metabolic issues. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing sy...
Our guest today is Sophia McGovern: a mother writer, editor, and founder of Little Somethings Press, a Tempe-based handmade press that has produced about 1,000 books over seven years and published about 200 contributors worldwide. She shares fears about losing her creative identity during pregnancy, her postpartum experience, and how creating and writing helped her process her experience and reconnect with herself. Sophia discusses...
AMA: Boundaries,, Depth, and Self-Love in Relationships
Another AMA, and I love it! Today, Anastasia answers fan-questions about effort and healing in relationships, boundaries, and love. We use metaphors, talk philosophy, and get messy and complicated as we explore the human experience. These answers are contextual and not a substitute for therapy.
What to expect in this episode:
00:00 Welcome
02:19 Q1: Now that I’m ...
Find Nicole:
https://nicolebreit.com/
On Instagram and Substack: @the.nicole.breit
What to expect in this episode:
01:39 Meet Nicole
03:50 Writing as Transformation
08:18 Distance Through Story
12:01 Teen Trauma and Grief
22:53 Therapy as Witnessing
25:06 Pillow Talk: Tuning Guitars and Wet Kisses
33:59 Revolution Story Lab
38:18 Nicole’s Latest Memoir
45:20 Heartbreak and Snake Season
51:39 Sharing Li...
Today’s episode features Hannah Davis, a fellow Pillow Talk contributor and author of an upcoming memoir, Sugar Hit. Hannah shares how she decided to face her internal pain, accepted her true self, and did a complete 180 in her life. Hannah opens up about her drug use, building inner safety, and how to navigate feeling stuck. Together, we explore the collective courage in sharing vulnerable stories.
What you’ll find in...
Insights with Us has its first AMA! The theme of this AMA: regulation and interpersonal dynamics. We talk about the window of tolerance, the emotional backpack, and attachment styles if they were buckets waiting for love.
If you have any questions you’d like answered in a future AMA, send questions to:
OR
@insightswithuspodcast
01:15 Q1: Do therapists care about their clients?
04:44 Q2:...
Stephanie Sonntag, chief therapist and co-founder of NextTherapist joins Insights with Us! NextTherapist is a platform created to address the challenge of getting therapeutic support when you need it, instead of waiting weeks for a potential fit. Stephanie shares her journey of uncertainty and trying several different paths including journalism, non-profit work, mental health work and advocacy, before settling into EMDR and being a...
How can you follow your dreams while honoring your limits? I want to share with you my journey of learning about my body, my chronic pain, and the decades it took to start understanding my rhythm.
I had to grieve the life I thought I would have, shifting from “pushing through” to listening to my body, setting boundaries, and experimenting with new ways of showing up including: cycle-based tracking, flexibility with my ...
This episode of Insights with Us features Ginny MacColl, Guinness World Record holder as the oldest female ninja competitor, former Broadway dancer in Pippin (1974–76), commercial actor, and mother of two incredible children, including Ninja Warrior Jesse Graff. In this episode, Ginny shares what it’s like performing under pressure and the mental strategies she uses on American Ninja Warrior. Ginny advocates for strengt...
Listen to the journey of four contributors to the bestselling anthology Pillow Talk, noted as a CBC 2026 books-to-read pick. We explore their stories, writing processes, and what’s next for each of them.
Author 1: Simarbir.
@simar.bookish.dreamer
Author 2: Kate.
@heskett.kate
Author 3: Andrea.
@the_world_of_caracopia
https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheWorldofCaraCopia
Renee, a feminist leadership and cycle syncing coach, joins Insights with Us to discuss her book, Cycle Sync your Business, on how menstrual cycles and hormones affect women’s energy, emotions, productivity, and well-being throughout the month, and how understanding these rhythms can reduce burnout and increase self-permission.
We discuss aligning exercise and work with cycle phases, using awareness and the process of a...
Let’s talk about long-term goals: how to identify them, start them, and endure the frustration of slow progress without giving up. Long-term goals require flexible cycles of progress and rest, and today we talk about what that might look like. This episode ends with a guided thought experiment about what future you are working towards.
02:34 Pick Your Goal
04:25 When Motivation Fades
10:09 Rest Without Guilt
15:09 Avoid Shor...
Pillow Talk: Real People. Real Stories. Real Awkward. (an awfully hilarious anthology) is available now! The audiobook is available on February 18th (on sale), get your copy and let’s heal together.
In this episode, we explore themes of sex, intimacy, and empowerment while celebrating our shared journey of writing and community building. Heather shares insights into the collaborative process of creating the book, the i...
Welcome back to the ‘Insights with Us’ podcast! My mission is to build a community rooted in acceptance and authenticity. In this episode, I want to reflect on the podcast’s journey over the past two years and share exciting plans for 2026 before we dive into the idea of shadow work, which involves confronting and understanding the parts of ourselves that we typically avoid so we can break old patterns and heal. L...
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