At The Helm with Jessie and Karelin
At the Helm is a podcast about navigating life with greater self-compassion, awareness, and connection. Hosted by Karelin, a licensed therapist, and Jessie, a teacher and coach, this podcast is a space for honest conversations about the challenges of being human. Together, we explore how issues like anxiety, neurodivergence, parenting adult children, relationships, emotional overwhelm, and the stress of living in today's world show up in our own lives and what we're learning along the way. Drawing from both professional experience and personal stories, we talk openly about the many parts of ourselves that emerge during difficult moments, the role of nervous system regulation and self-compassion, and how we can respond to life's challenges with greater awareness and connection. We're highly inspired by Internal Family Systems or IFS, the idea that different parts of us often compete for the wheel. At the Helm is about learning to notice what's driving our reactions, understanding ourselves more deeply, and finding our way back to the helm when life gets rough. Helping you notice what or who is at the helm—so you can meet life with more awareness, compassion, and choice.
Episodes
What happens in a relationship when everything goes wrong at once?
In this episode of At The Helm, Jessie and Karelin share the story of a long-awaited vacation that completely fell apart after they encountered a wildfire, road closures, evacuation warnings, no cell service, and an eight-hour day in the car.
But the real story isn’t the ruined trip—it’s what happened between them while they were stressed, disappoi...
Most relationship conflict isn’t caused by a lack of love. Sometimes, it comes from expectations that were never actually communicated.
In this episode of At The Helm, Jessie and Karelin explore the idea of creating intentional “social contracts” in relationships. Inspired by Sheldon Cooper’s famous roommate agreement on The Big Bang Theory, they discuss how clear, collaborative agreements can help couples, ...
Have you ever spent time with someone and walked away feeling completely exhausted? Or wondered why certain conversations leave you energized while others seem to drain every ounce of your emotional battery?
In this episode of At The Helm, we explore the hidden ways our nervous systems exchange energy through a process called co-regulation. Drawing from psychology, nervous system science, and our own experiences as a therapist and ...
As our parents age, many of us find ourselves navigating an unexpected transition: the people who once cared for us begin needing care from us. In this episode of At The Helm, therapist Karelin Wadkins and educator/coach Jessie Wadkins reflect on a recent family visit that challenged our assumptions about independence, responsibility, and what it means to support the people we love.
Together, we explore the emotional reality of the...
What happens when your partner wakes up in a bad mood—and your anxiety immediately wants to fix it?
In this episode of At The Helm, therapist Karelin and educator/coach Jessie share a real-life example of how codependency, anxiety, emotional triggers, and protective parts can quietly take over a relationship.
What started as an ordinary Saturday mornin...
In the very first episode of At the Helm, we're diving into a recent experience that perfectly illustrates what this podcast is all about. What happens when anxiety shows up before a big trip? What happens when plans start going sideways, stress levels rise, and old patterns threaten to take over?
As we prepared to travel to Austin for our daughter's graduation, we found ourselves f...
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