The Truth About Healing Podcast

Want to know if your relationship has what it takes to last? Pay attention to what happens when you disagree.

Everyone wants to know if they've found the right person.

Are we compatible? Is this relationship healthy? How do I know if this is someone I should build a future with?

Here's a better question:

How do we handle conflict?

In this Truth Bomb episode of The Truth About Healing, trauma therapist and EMDR expert Dana Carretta-Stein...

What if the change you're struggling with isn't actually the problem?

You can be excited about a new beginning and still feel completely overwhelmed by it.

A new job. A business move. A relationship shift. A new school year. A different chapter of life.

Everything can be moving in the right direction, and your nervous system can still be screaming, “What if something goes wrong?”

Because sometimes, it's not the change itsel...

You can love someone deeply and still have a relationship that feels like your biggest source of stress.

Because here's the truth:

Love isn't enough to create a healthy relationship.

You can love someone and still struggle to communicate.

You can love someone and constantly trigger each other's nervous systems.

You can love someone and have completely different expectations about what a relationship should look like.

Why?

Because we don't...

What happens when you want to heal, you're doing the work, and therapy still feels stuck?

In this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with Hannah Guy, LCSW, EMDR-certified trauma therapist, founder of Revive Therapy Services, and host of Trauma, Tea, and Tangents, for an honest conversation about what trauma healing actually looks like—and why it's usually much slower, messier, and less linear than we want it to...

Control can feel powerful.

It can feel productive. Responsible. Prepared.

But sometimes?

Control is just fear wearing a better outfit.

When your nervous system feels threatened, uncertain, or unsafe, it makes sense that you want to tighten your grip.

You try to control the outcome.

The conversation.

The other person.

The plan.

What happens next.

Because somewhere underneath all that control may be something much more vulnerable:

Fear of losin...

What happens when you're doing everything “right”—working out, eating less, pushing harder—and your body suddenly stops cooperating?

You eat less.

You exercise more.

You add supplements.

You Google your symptoms.

You blame your hormones.

And eventually, you start wondering:

What the hell is wrong with me?

In this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with Jennifer Rozon, midlife metabolic health coach a...

Your children don't need you to be a perfect parent.

They need to feel safe with you.

And sometimes, especially during conflict, separation, divorce, or co-parenting struggles, adults can become so focused on proving who's right that they lose sight of the person caught in the middle:

The child.

Kids aren't keeping score.

They're not deciding who won the argument.

They're paying attention to something much more fundamental:

Am I safe here...

You keep having the same fight.

Different day. Different topic.

Same fucking fight.

One person pushes harder to talk about it.

The other shuts down, avoids, or walks away.

And eventually both people become convinced:

“If my partner would just change, we'd be fine.”

But what if the argument you're having isn't actually the problem?

In Episode 17 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with licensed marriage and family therapi...

Being exhausted is not proof that you're a good mom.

But somewhere along the way, a lot of women learned that motherhood was supposed to look like self-sacrifice.

Give everyone else what they need.

Take care of the kids.

Remember the appointments.

Manage the schedules.

Handle the invisible mental load.

Keep everyone functioning.

And if there's anything left over?

Maybe then you can take care of yourself.

The problem is, eventually your nervo...

What if the symptom you're trying to get rid of isn't actually the problem?

What if it's information?

In Episode 16 of The Truth About Healing, Dana and Claudio go off-script for a deep dive into one of the biggest reasons therapy sometimes doesn't work:

We're looking at the person through too small of a lens.

Anxiety isn't just psychological.

Burnout isn't just about work.

Your physical symptoms aren't necessarily separate from your emo...

You’re not behind.

You didn’t miss your chance.

And you don’t need anyone’s permission to start again.

So many of us carry an invisible timeline for when we were supposed to have figured everything out.

The career. The relationship. The business. The family. The dream we keep saying we’ll get to “someday.”

Then we look around, compare ourselves to everyone else, and wonder:

“Am I too late?&...

Can you build a successful career, raise a family, maintain a marriage, take care of yourself—and somehow still have a sex life?

Technically, yes.

But you're probably going to need some help.

In Episode 15 of The Truth About Healing, Dana is back with her husband, real estate entrepreneur Eric Stein, for Part 2 of their candid conversation about marriage, ambition, parenting, and what it actually takes to build businesses while ...

What if your anxiety doesn't look like spiraling thoughts?

What if it looks like being really, really prepared?

Planning everything. Organizing everything. Thinking five steps ahead. Running through every possible scenario so nothing catches you off guard.

It can look like you're incredibly responsible.

But underneath all that preparation might be a nervous system trying desperately to create certainty.

In this Truth Bomb, Dana breaks d...

What does it actually take to keep a marriage strong when you're raising young kids, running multiple businesses, exhausted, ambitious—and very different people?

For this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana is joined by her most personal guest yet: her husband, Eric Stein.

And yes, putting your husband on your therapy podcast is apparently a perfectly reasonable marital decision.

Dana and Eric have been together for more th...

You understand what happened.

You've talked about it. You've analyzed it. You know logically that it's in the past.

So why does your body still react like it's happening right now?

In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why healing isn't about forcing yourself to “move on”—and why understanding your trauma intellectually doesn't always change the way your nervous system responds to it.

Trauma isn't just remembered as a sto...

What if everything you think you know about “winning” a divorce is wrong?

In Episode 13 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with leading New York family law attorney Gus Dimopoulos, managing partner of Dimopoulos Law Firm and host of Split: A Podcast on Modern Divorce, for a candid conversation about what actually happens when trauma, psychology, parenting, and the legal system collide.

And this conversation goes p...

Grief and trauma are not the same thing.

Grief is the pain of what happened. Trauma is what your nervous system keeps reliving afterward.

That's why something can have happened years ago—and your body can still respond as if it's happening right now.

Your heart races. Your chest tightens. You freeze. You shut down. You feel suddenly overwhelmed.

That reaction isn't weakness. It's survival physiology.

In this Truth Bomb, Dana expla...

What if you don't have to have your life completely figured out before you start?

And what if changing your mind isn't failure, it's growth?

In Episode 12 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with author, entrepreneur, corporate event and marketing professional, and working mom Mary Belletieri for a refreshingly honest conversation about motherhood, career, anxiety, perfectionism, reinvention, and learning to say yes before you...

People praise high-functioning trauma all the time.

You're so strong.
You're so resilient.
You're so good under pressure.

But sometimes what looks like strength from the outside is actually survival mode with better branding.

In this Truth Bomb, Dana breaks down why being productive, successful, dependable, and capable doesn't necessarily mean your nervous system is healthy.

When slowing down hasn't historically felt safe, your b...