Solitary Creature
I'm breaking down heartbreak, breakthroughs, healing, and self-discovery in real-time while enjoying the pleasure of my own company. Join me as I document my journey through the mess we call life while learning that being alone doesn't have to mean you're lonely and solitude can mean strength and pain can turn into power.
Episodes
It's a wrap on 2025, a year filled with unprecedented highs and lows. Sure, New Year's resolutions are a bit cringey, but we still love them, right? I look back on my 2025, the start of this podcast, and the start of this journey. What have I already learned? What am I looking forward to learning? And if this year was so bad, how could I possibly be looking forward to 2026?
I can't stop talking about my life audit. I went from emotionally burnt to a crisp to reinvigorated, positive, and ready to realign and reprioritize my focus and live more intentionally and mindfully. So...what is a life audit? What was my approach? And why is it feeling like a life raft right now?
It's the end of the year, so I'm getting super reflective and looking ahead to the new year. This week I'm gabbing about the big questions I'm asking myself in order to figure out what I really want from life (beyond just next year) so I can figure out the steps and changes I need to make to get there.
This week I'm gabbing about burnout. At 28, my career feels like a cage. I feel anchored to a job and a lifestyle that doesn't fuel me or fill my soul, yet I feel equally aimless and unsure what my next move could be. But I'm also too tired to push myself in a new direction. Welcome to my burnt to a crisp era.
Certain phrases spark unbridled anger. For me, that's "it could be worse." Instead of staying upset about it, I'm taking a deeper look at why this phrase gets under my skin and why I think it's time we take this phrase out of our vocabulary.
This week I'm gabbing about my long history with emotional eating, my relationship with food, struggles with eating disorders. How I'm making sense of all of that alongside my body image and weight loss journey and where acceptance, self-love, body positivity, and rejecting peer pressure fits in to the mix.
This week I'm gabbing about struggles with confidence and getting out of my own head, how movement improves my focus and energy, and why I think my hip pain might be linked to stress.
This week I'm gabbing about some of my codependency origins and how they're haunting me in the present. Where do I think some of these self-destructive habits came from? Why are they so hard to break away from? How do I keep moving forward when all my old patterns are trying to pull me backwards?
I'm gabbing about the struggles of listening to your body and finding work/life balance when the stress and chaos of the week doesn't really allow for it. And I talk more about boundaries and the power of saying no.
I'm gabbing about why I think I have such a hard time expressing gratitude and shifting my mindset around I do have vs. what I don't have. I also fangirl over the new season of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
This week I'm gabbing about me week of intense focus, ranting about Charlie Sheen - someone I never thought I would need to discuss in my life - and how accountability deserves recognition and grace.
What's tougher than setting boundaries? Sticking to them. This week, I pat myself on the back about finally saying "no" and gab about my struggles with focus and the goals I'm setting for the week.
Let's talk values & relationship dealbreakers! These are foundational when thinking about past relationships, trauma, and your expectations for selecting future partners. I also gab about the movie Materialists and how it depicts dating and dealbreakers.
Get to know me, your host and self-proclaimed Solitary Creature, in this first episode! I gab about the life changes that have prompted my healing journey and why I want to document my progress for you.
Get to know me, your host and self-proclaimed Solitary Creature, in this first episode! I gab about the life changes that have prompted my healing journey and why I want to document my progress for you.
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