Why Am I Like This?!
We are a therapist and a psychiatric nurse practitioner and we want to share a simplified view of these complex concepts that are often misunderstood, avoided, and even feared.
This is a podcast about being human, adapting to life, and learning from our unique experience.
We try to provide the answers to question: Why am I like this?
Why Am I Like This?!
Latest Episodes
Why Can't I Let Things Go?!
A memory from years ago should not be able to hijack your whole day, and yet it does. We sit with that frustration and get curious about what is actually happening under the surface when an old scene replays on a loop, complete with heat in you...
Why Do I Feel Like A Different Person Week To Week?!
One week you shrug things off. The next week the same tiny stressor makes you feel raw, reactive, and completely out of character. We’ve both been there, and we want to replace “What’s wrong with me?” with a better question: What resources does...
Why Do I Feel So Depressed?
Depression can make you feel like you’re failing at life when you’re actually fighting a brain and nervous system state that steals energy, pleasure, and momentum. We unpack why the simplest tasks like showering, cooking, replying to a text can...
Why Am I So Negative?!
Your brain can find a single awkward moment and treat it like the headline of your entire day. That’s negativity bias, and it’s not a character flaw, it’s a survival strategy that can get turned up by anxiety, perfectionism, and old learning fr...
Why Was I Always the Good Kid?!
Your body flinches, fawns, or freezes before you can even name the feeling and then your brain shows up late asking, “What just happened?” We’re digging into that “good kid” pattern: the one where you become the peacemaker, the helper, the easy...
