From the therapy room of a registered psychotherapist, dating coach and solopreneur who has tirelessly attempted a 'healthy' work-life balance for 25 years, it rarely existed for me and likely does not for most business owners, entrepreneurs and executives. The truth is relationships can really suffer. I will be interviewing expert guests who are doing things right so we can all learn to mix business with pleasure. Topics will range from building better relationships, connection, dating, and how to spread more kindness and compassion towards others while doing so. Listeners, you have the right to have passion surrounding your work while maintaining passionate relationships. You can have your cake and eat it too. New episodes premiere every Tuesday.
Publisher
Dr. Luella Jonk, PhD
Category
business · education · health & fitness · society & culture
Episode #112: What is Therapy Really Supposed To Do?
In this solo episode, I’m standing up for something I care about: therapy. Not because it’s perfect, and not because it works for everyone, but because I keep hearing it dismissed, oversold, or misunderstood by people who haven’t seen what can happen in the room.
We’ve gotten very comfortable with either/or thinking. Carnivore or plant-based. Liberal or conservative. And now therapy is either life-changing or a complete waste of time. Like most things, the truth is more complicated.
I’ll walk you through:
✅ Why therapy isn’t always good or always bad, and what binary thinking costs us
✅ What to actually expect in the room (hint: your therapist is not a guru)
✅ Why a therapist who talks too much, has all the answers, or agrees with everything you say isn’t helping you
✅ The client who told me three months in that he’d been drinking the whole time, and what it taught me about asking directly
✅ Why honesty, even the ugly kind, is what makes a session work
✅ How to tell if you’re stuck: the same conversation every week, or only talking about your spouse
✅ Why “just do something kind for someone” can’t fix everything, and why we’re not all born with the same nervous system
✅ How I run couples therapy, including why I meet with each partner individually after the first 90 minutes
✅ The questions to ask yourself after every session
✅ Why sacrificial love, accountability, and community matter as much as understanding yourself
This one is short on polish. No guest, no framework, just me saying a few things I’ve been wanting to say for a while.
🔔 Therapy won’t hand you the answers. But it might help you hear yourself say them out loud.
6 Oct 2026
Episode #111: Three Kids, One Business, Zero Family Nearby: How Erin & Dusty Stanczyk Are Still in Love
Erin and Dusty Stanczyk are back, and this time we went deep. If you don't know them yet, they're the couple behind Eat Move Rest: certified health and lifestyle coaches, authors, retreat hosts, homeschooling parents of three, and the people who will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about fruit and blood sugar.
We talked about all of it. The move from their dream home to a smaller house in the city. The way isolation was quietly straining their marriage without them even realizing it. What it actually looks like to run a business, homeschool your kids, and stay in love when you're all home, all the time, and someone always needs something.
I'll walk you through:
✅ Why they downsized from their dream home and what the Blue Zones had to do with it
✅ How community (or the lack of it) affects your marriage more than you think
✅ What happens to a couple's intimacy when the kids are young, the business is demanding, and you're running on empty
✅ Why they eat bowls of fruit for breakfast and why a diabetic client lost 15 pounds doing the same
✅ The truth about blood sugar spikes, intuitive eating, and why your microbiome might be the one calling the shots
✅ What HALT means and why it explains most of your arguments
✅ How faith, abstinence, and lifestyle design all tie together into one very holistic, very real way of living
✅ Why Dusty says discipline and self-love are actually the same thing
This one is warm, honest, and practical in the best way. No perfectly edited advice, but just two people figuring it out in real time, with kids climbing on the chairs in the background.
Find Dusty and Erin at
Website: https://www.eatmoverest.com/ (https://www.eatmoverest.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/EatMoveRest (https://www.youtube.com/EatMoveRest)
Erin’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ErinStanczyk/ (https://www.instagram.com/ErinStanczyk/)
Dusty’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dustystanczyk (https://www.instagram.com/dustystanczyk)
Move With Erin YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MoveWithErin (https://www.youtube.com/@MoveWithErin)
The Happy Healthy Plant-Based Cookbook: https://www.eatmoverest.com/book (https://www.eatmoverest.com/book)
EatMoveRest Club + App: https://www.eatmoverest.com/club (https://www.eatmoverest.com/club)
Thrive Elite Mastermind: https://bit.ly/EMR-Mastermind (https://bit.ly/EMR-Mastermind)
Pumpkin Muffins + Maple Cashew Frosting Recipe: https://bit.ly/4vyk5jA (https://bit.ly/4vyk5jA)
Vanilla Bean Muffins Recipe (Document): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh_-ikdqVk0THLXCVxNKvsNPrF_4_jRb/ (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jh_-ikdqVk0THLXCVxNKvsNPrF_4_jRb/)
Previous Episode #48: https://redcircle.com/shows/d547475c-6b2a-4940-b993-9c32b5347dab/episodes/d7857aa5-c551-4bb3-86ca-68fb6ee38b22 (https://redcircle.com/shows/d547475c-6b2a-4940-b993-9c32b5347dab/episodes/d7857aa5-c551-4bb3-86ca-68fb6ee38b22)
22 Sept 2026
Episode #110: I'm Back, And I Have Some Things to Say About Truth, Suffering, and Real Life
I'm back. It's the third week of September and honestly, it took a little longer than I planned to get here—but I'm glad I waited until I had something worth saying.
This episode is a bit of a ramble, a bit of a manifesto, and a lot of honesty. I spent the summer at the cabin, watched my brother get married for the first time in his 60s, took on some unexpected contract work, and quietly wrestled with whether I even wanted to come back to this podcast at all.
What brought me back? The truth. And the growing sense that not enough people are telling it.
I'll walk you through:
✅ Why I almost didn't come back—and what changed my mind
✅ Why "my truth" and "your truth" isn't a thing—and why one objective truth matters more than ever
✅ What's been deeply disturbing me about how younger couples are approaching children, family, and suffering
✅ Why suffering isn't something to be avoided, medicated away, or ended—and what it actually produces in us
✅ The MAID situation that genuinely shook me (a 17-year-old ski accident victim, offered assisted suicide without her parents knowing)
✅ Why children cancelling their parents is becoming a pattern I'm seeing more and more in my therapy room
✅ What I realized about productivity, purpose, and what it means to finally get paid by the hour
✅ What you can expect from the podcast this fall—more guests, more real conversations, more truth
This isn't a polished episode. There's no structure, no guest, and no water on the desk again. It's just me, getting back on here because some things need to be said out loud—and because Alison and Nancy told me they missed me.
🔔 Remember: We don't get to choose life or death—that's not in our job description as human beings. But we do get to choose how we move through suffering. And that choice changes everything.
#TheLuellaJonkShow #ImBack #FallSeason #TruthMatters #ObjectiveTruth #SufferingAndLove #CatholicFaith #MAIDControversy #RealConversations #MarriageAndTruth #FaithAndSuffering #WomensWellness #RelationshipTherapy #ParentingTruth #ProductivityAndPurpose
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