Dear Dr. Charryse

About Dear Dr. Charryse

Dr. Charryse Johnson is a nationally recognized expert in women’s mental health, nervous system regulation, and mind-body resilience. She is the creator and host of Dear Dr. Charryse, where she explores how women experience emotional and physical change across the lifespan. Known for translating neuroscience into relatable insight, she helps women decode anxiety, burnout, and hormonal shifts. Her message: your body isn’t failing you — it’s speaking to you.

Publisher

Dr. Charryse Johnson

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Mar 2026

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Episode 32 - Keith Crossley: Beyond Emotional Resistance — Healing, Anxiety & Inner Freedom

   On this insightful episode of Dear Dr. Charryse, host Dr. Charryse Johnson sits down with Keith Crossley, a speaker, author, coach, and spiritual teacher whose work explores the psychology of suffering, emotional healing, relationships, and human transformation. After building and losing a multimillion-dollar business, Keith began a deeply personal search to understand the roots of suffering. His journey led him through years of intensive meditation and psychological exploration and ultimately transformed the way he understood the mind, emotions, and the patterns that shape our lives. Keith explains how emotions exist on a broad spectrum, from love and joy to fear and heartbreak. When people try to suppress or numb difficult emotions, they may unintentionally reduce their ability to fully experience positive emotions as well. Rather than eliminating painful feelings, true healing involves increasing our capacity to experience them without resistance or accumulating additional emotional baggage. The conversation introduces a practical two-step approach to processing emotions: first, identify and accurately label what you are feeling, then become curious about how that emotion feels in the body without judgment or resistance. Keith also discusses the commonly referenced 90-second emotional response and explains why emotional experiences can feel much longer. While an unresisted neurochemical response may move through the body relatively quickly, the mind can repeatedly recreate emotional distress by cycling through memories, thoughts, and interpretations. Major experiences such as grief may also unfold through longer emotional waves. The discussion explores anxiety, OCD, depression, and other protective patterns from a different perspective. Keith describes how the mind can develop sophisticated strategies designed to protect us from deeper fears such as rejection, abandonment, inadequacy, or loss of control. Dr. Charryse and Keith also examine avoidance, acceptance, breathwork, and the importance of expanding our capacity to tolerate emotional discomfort. Instead of running from difficult feelings, learning to stay present with them can help create greater resilience, self-awareness, and inner freedom. Coaching Session Highlights: • Understanding Emotional Numbing: Keith explains how suppressing painful emotions can also limit access to positive emotions and narrow our overall emotional range. • The Two Steps to Process Emotions: Learn to identify the exact emotion you are experiencing and explore its physical sensations with curiosity rather than judgment or resistance. • Expanding Emotional Capacity: Healing is not about changing the past but developing a greater capacity to experience difficult emotions without becoming overwhelmed or running away from them. • Reframing Protective Patterns: Anxiety, avoidance, perfectionism, hyper-independence, and emotional distancing can develop as protective strategies that may eventually interfere with healthy relationships and emotional freedom. • The Resistance Check: A practical reflection tool for identifying what you are feeling, recognizing how you attempt to escape or suppress it, and choosing your next step without allowing the emotion to control the entire response. This episode offers a powerful perspective on emotional healing and the ways our minds attempt to protect us from pain. Keith and Dr. Charryse invite viewers to become more curious about their emotions, recognize the protective patterns behind their reactions, and develop the capacity to experience difficult feelings without letting them dictate their lives.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Episode 31 - Mini Rattu: Beyond Burnout — Nervous System Regulation, Sustainable Success & Self-Worth

   On this transformative episode of Dear Dr. Charryse, host Dr. Charryse Johnson sits down with Dr. Mini Rattu, a licensed clinical psychologist, executive wellness coach, and nervous system and leadership expert, for a powerful conversation about burnout, achievement, self-worth, and what it truly takes to create sustainable success. As the founder of UNSTUCK™, Dr. Mini helps high-achieving professionals move beyond burnout, over-functioning, and survival-driven success. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, somatic regulation, and contemplative wisdom, she explains how patterns such as perfectionism, people-pleasing, hyper-independence, and overfunctioning can develop as protective responses early in life. The conversation explores how family expectations, culture, and workplace environments can shape the way people respond to stress and achievement. While these patterns may contribute to professional success, they can also make rest feel unsafe, create an identity around being indispensable, and ultimately lead to self-abandonment and burnout. Dr. Mini introduces the PAUSE practice, a simple somatic tool designed to interrupt autopilot and help regulate the nervous system. Through pausing, arriving in the body, unwinding physical tension, seeing the environment, and exhaling, individuals can create space between a trigger and their next response. The episode also examines the difference between exhaustion and burnout. While exhaustion may improve with adequate rest, burnout is cumulative and often requires deeper changes involving workload, boundaries, roles, delegation, and the way success is defined. Dr. Mini and Dr. Charryse also explore the powerful connection between achievement and self-worth. High achievers may unconsciously believe that slowing down, making mistakes, receiving help, or disappointing others threatens their value. Learning to cultivate self-compassion and separate personal worth from productivity can create a healthier foundation for success. Coaching Session Highlights: • Understanding Nervous System Patterns: Dr. Mini explains how perfectionism, people-pleasing, hyper-independence, and overfunctioning can function as protective responses rather than simply personality traits. • The PAUSE Practice: A practical somatic exercise for interrupting autopilot, grounding in the present moment, releasing tension, and signaling safety to the nervous system. • Burnout vs. Exhaustion: Understanding why temporary fatigue can improve with rest while chronic burnout may require systemic changes, delegation, boundaries, and a shift in responsibilities. • Uncoupling Worth from Productivity: Exploring how to separate personal value from performance and create space for rest, receiving help, and making mistakes without losing a sense of self-worth. • Achievement or Protection Check: Reflecting on whether high achievement is driven by genuine purpose or by fear, protection, approval, or the need to remain indispensable. This episode offers an insightful look at the hidden patterns behind high achievement and the cost of constantly operating in survival mode. Dr. Mini reminds us that sustainable success is not simply about doing more, but about building the capacity to rest, receive support, stay connected, and succeed without abandoning ourselves.

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   Episode 30 - Beyond “Normal” — Understanding Hormones, Root Causes & Women’s Health with Lindsay Simone

   On this empowering episode of Dear Dr. Charryse, host Dr. Charryse Johnson sits down with Lindsay Simone, FNP-C, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and founder of Simone Medical, for a revealing conversation about perimenopause, women's healthcare, hormone optimization, and why “normal” lab results do not always mean a patient is truly healthy. Lindsay brings a root-cause, patient-centered approach to functional and integrative medicine. As a provider specializing in hormone health, she explains why conventional healthcare can sometimes miss the deeper reasons behind symptoms when standard laboratory testing falls within general reference ranges. The conversation explores the difference between basic and comprehensive lab testing. Lindsay explains how deeper evaluations, including markers such as ferritin and iron levels, can help healthcare providers investigate potential contributors to symptoms like extreme fatigue, anxiety, and other changes that patients may experience during perimenopause and beyond. Lindsay also shares why functional medicine often takes more time with patients. Rather than rushing through a short appointment, comprehensive care can involve longer consultations, detailed health histories, advanced diagnostics, lifestyle assessment, and personalized wellness strategies designed to address multiple factors at once. The discussion goes beyond hormones to explore the connection between gut health, nutrition, stress, sleep, metabolic health, and mental well-being. Lindsay emphasizes that hormone health does not exist in isolation and that addressing foundational health factors can be an important part of a personalized approach. Coaching Session Highlights: • Beyond “Normal” Labs: Lindsay explains why being within a standard laboratory reference range does not always explain how a patient feels and why additional evaluation may sometimes be appropriate. • The Root Cause Approach: The conversation explores how providers can look beyond individual symptoms and consider nutrition, gut health, stress, sleep, metabolic health, and hormones as interconnected factors. • Understanding Comprehensive Testing: Lindsay discusses how more detailed testing can provide additional information for licensed healthcare providers when investigating persistent symptoms. • Whole Body Hormone Health: Rather than treating hormones as an isolated issue, Lindsay highlights the importance of understanding how hormones interact with other systems throughout the body. • Becoming an Informed Patient: Dr. Charryse encourages viewers to pay attention to changes in their bodies, communicate their concerns clearly, and work with qualified, licensed medical professionals who can help them understand their individual health needs. This episode is an important conversation for women navigating perimenopause, hormonal changes, unexplained symptoms, or frustrating “normal” test results. Lindsay and Dr. Charryse invite viewers to ask deeper questions, understand their bodies, and become more informed participants in their healthcare journey.

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