it’s nothing. I’m fine.
Claim This Podcastby Amy Prieb
Podcast Overview
<p>Stories about navigating the messiness and magic of our bonds.</p> <div></div>
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3/31/2026
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Recent Episodes
June 23, 2026
It's Not Nothing: One Woman's Cancer Journey Through Chemo, Community, and Coming Out the Other Side
What happens when the person who holds everything together has to let herself be held? This week, Amy sits down with Jennifer Chipperfield, who, at 53, found herself in the middle of something she couldn’t manage, fix, or push through alone — a lymphoma diagnosis that interrupted life as she knew it and asked her to do the one thing that doesn’t come naturally to most of us: receive. Together, long-term friends Amy and Jenni talk about what it actually looks like to go through chemotherapy while still showing up for your kids, your work, and your relationships. About the particular loneliness that can live inside a crowded room full of people who love you. About the moment you stop saying ”I’m fine” — and what comes after. This conversation is about mortality without being morbid, about community without being sentimental, about friendship and how we show up for each other, and about the strange, tender territory on the other side of treatment — where the chemo is done but the uncertainty isn’t. ________________________________________ Keywords: cancer survivor podcast, lymphoma recovery, women and cancer, chemotherapy and daily life, asking for help, community and connection, facing mortality, cancer and parenting, life after cancer treatment, coping with uncertainty, women’s health podcast, friendship and illness, emotional support during cancer, it’s nothing I’m fine podcast, midlife health, vulnerability and strength, cancer diagnosis story, letting yourself be helped, cancer survivor interview, mental health and illness amyprieb.com insta: @amypriebtherapy facebook: amy prieb lmft
June 16, 2026
The Forever Mother: Caregiving, Community, and Learning to Let People In
Some people become caregivers gradually. For this week’s guest, it’s simply always been her life. Amy sits down with Sonia Nations-Gates who has spent decades as the unwavering center of her son’s world — a son with complex medical needs, a father who shows up inconsistently, and a community that shows up intermittently. She is a ”forever mother,” and once you hear her story, you’ll understand exactly why. This conversation goes to some tender places. They talk about what it costs to manage your child’s medical crisis and his father’s emotional needs at the same time. About the friendships that couldn’t hold the weight of what she carries and the ones that have sustained her. About the husband who said yes to all of it, and what it’s meant to finally lean on someone. And about the quiet, persistent question underneath all of it: outside of being a mother and a caregiver, who am I? This episode is for anyone who has ever loved someone in a way that reorganizes your whole life around them. In this conversation, they get into: • What the ”forever mother” identity really means — and what it asks of you • The particular isolation of caregiving that most people can’t see from the outside • How marriages and stepfamilies get built around complexity, and where they find their limits • What it looks like when community actually shows up — and what it feels like when it doesn’t • The future, and who you can talk to honestly about what it holds ________________________________________ Keywords: caregiving and mental health, special needs parenting, forever mother, complex medical caregiving, caregiver isolation, caregiver identity, caregiver burnout, marriage and caregiving, blended family and disability, stepfamily dynamics, chronic illness family, single mother caregiving, community and belonging, grief and friendship, caregiver support, disability community, emotional labor in relationships, love and sacrifice, parenting adult children with disabilities, caregiver self-identity, resilience and caregiving, mental health podcast, relationship podcast, Bellingham Washington podcast, Pacific Northwest wellness podcast, women and caregiving, invisible labor, caregiver community, support systems, unconditional love, life with a medically complex child amyprieb.com insta: @amypriebtherapy facebook: amy prieb lmft
June 9, 2026
Where I Am Now — A Survivor's Honest Follow-Up
In this follow-up to our two-part series on childhood sexual abuse and systemic failure, Amy gets real about the aftermath — what healing actually looks like, what it cost to get here, and what will never fully go away. She opens with something most survivors rarely name: the difference between reporting your story and actually feeling it. For years, Amy could say the words clearly — ”I was sexually abused by my father” — without ever going inside them. Recording those episodes cracked something open. This episode is about what came through that crack. What you’ll hear: the ordinary, specific shape of a life well-built. The therapy that went past the narrative and into the body. The relationships that made staying behind the glass impossible. The grief that had to be felt in pieces before it could be carried. And the honest truth that integration doesn’t mean resolution — some things stay with you until you die, and making peace with that is its own kind of freedom. Amy also speaks directly to why she believes women telling their stories — felt, inhabited, out loud — is not just personal healing. It is political resistance. We are at the beginning of a cultural reorientation, away from systems that center power and domination, toward something that actually protects children and vulnerable people. That shift is built, story by story, from exactly this. If you’ve been delivering your own story from a safe distance and wondering why it still doesn’t feel like enough — this episode is for you. It’s Nothing. I’m Fine. is hosted by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Amy Prieb, recorded in a yurt in Bellingham, Washington. ________________________________________ Keywords: childhood sexual abuse recovery, CSA survivor healing, trauma therapy podcast, emotionally focused therapy, attachment theory, women’s mental health, survivor stories, trauma and the body, patriarchy and systemic abuse, Epstein files, institutional silence, women telling their stories, LMFT podcast, couples and individual therapy, Bellingham Washington therapist, trauma integration, healing without resolution, somatic trauma, matriarchy and social change, blended family therapist, secure attachment, EFT therapy amyprieb.com insta: @amypriebtherapy facebook: amy prieb lmft
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