Unseen Needs is a safe space for honest conversations about healing, self-worth, relationships, boundaries, and the struggles we often carry quietly. Through sincerity, reflection, and real-life lessons, your hosts explore the needs we sometimes struggle to name. This podcast is to help listeners feel seen, understood, and empowered.
Janie opens up about growing up between two parents, being caught in the middle of custody conflict, and trying to understand a childhood shaped by fear, instability, and things she was too young to fully comprehend. She reflects on the love she had for her dad, the things she has discovered through records as an adult, and the lasting impact of growing up in an environment that often did not feel safe.
Content Warning:
This episode discusses parental separation, custody conflict, childhood sexual abuse, verbal and physical abuse, domestic violence, alcohol misuse by adults, manipulation, and childhood trauma.
3 Oct 2026
What They Said Became What I Saw
Janie opens up about growing up feeling ashamed of her appearance, how bullying and comparison shaped her relationship with food and her body, and how PCOS has added another layer to those insecurities. She reflects on eating-disorder recovery, grief, and learning to see parts of herself with more compassion.
Content Warning:
This episode discusses body image, bullying, childhood trauma, eating disorders, purging, suicidal thoughts and a past suicide attempt, and PCOS-related appearance changes.
25 Sept 2026
On the Days I’m Not Okay
Janie opens up about the bad days that still happen while healing, when depression feels heavier, grief resurfaces, and emotions from childhood begin catching up after years spent surviving. She reflects on missing her dad, grieving the little girl she was, learning painful new details about her childhood, and the exhaustion that can come with finally allowing herself to feel what she once had to bury.
Content Warning:
This episode discusses depression, grief, childhood trauma, abuse, eating-disorder recovery, family-related trauma, and difficult experiences involving the justice system.
23 Sept 2026
When Choosing Yourself Means Letting People Go
Janie opens up about the painful process of walking away from friendships, relationships, and family members when repeated disrespect, broken boundaries, and unhealthy patterns begin affecting her mental health. She reflects on fawning, people-pleasing, growing up around toxicity, and what it has meant to finally choose herself.
Content Warning:
This episode discusses toxic relationships, family conflict, emotional manipulation, trauma responses, boundary violations, and estrangement.
10 Sept 2026
Trying to Find Myself Again
Janie opens up about living with depression from her teenage years into adulthood, how grief deepened it, and how therapy is helping her reconnect with herself after years of survival mode.
Content warning:
This episode discusses depression, PTSD, grief, eating-disorder relapse, self-neglect, hospitalization, and emotional exhaustion.
9 Sept 2026
The Cost of Being the One Who Always Cared
Janie opens up about feeling left out, becoming the person everyone could rely on, and how fear of losing people shaped her friendships, relationships, boundaries, and sense of self.
Content warning:
This episode discusses loneliness, abandonment fears, emotional abuse, toxic relationships, trauma bonding, and people-pleasing.
3 Sept 2026
Learning to Be on My Own Side
Janie opens up about her mental health journey, people-pleasing, fawning, forgiveness, boundaries, and what she has learned through nearly a year of intentionally working on herself. She reflects on learning to care for herself with the same compassion she has always given others, while becoming more comfortable with who she truly is.
Content Warning:
This episode discusses trauma, anxiety, depression, CPTSD, people-pleasing, fawning, difficult family and relationship dynamics, emotional hurt, and being taken advantage of. Please listen with care and take care of yourselves.
31 Aug 2026
Growing Up After the Unthinkable
Janie shares the lasting impact of childhood sexual assault and how it shaped her sense of safety, family, mental health, body image, and teenage years. This episode focuses on the aftermath of trauma, the ways it followed her as she grew, and what healing has looked like in adulthood.
Content Warning:
This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual assault, trauma, PTSD, depression, eating-disorder behaviors, bullying, suicidal thoughts, and a suicide attempt. No graphic details are shared. Please listen with care.
26 Aug 2026
When Goodbye Became Permanent
Janie opens up about losing her dad at 25, the morning she got the call, the shock and denial that followed, and what it felt like to lose the person she considered her anchor. she also talks about grieving the time she missed with him growing up, the future moments he will not physically be here for, and how losing a parent can change the way you see love, time, milestones, and yourself.
Content Warning: This episode discusses death, grief, loss of a parent, trauma, complicated family dynamics, anxiety, depression, CPTSD, and intense emotional reactions to loss. Please listen with care and take a break if you need to.
23 Aug 2026
The Things We Don't Say Out Loud
In the first episode of Unseen Needs, Janie opens up about the experiences that shaped her, including trauma, grief, abuse, mental health struggles, feeling like an outsider, and learning how to heal after years of living in survival mode. She shares why she created this podcast, what healing has looked like for her, and why honest conversations about the things we carry quietly matter.
Content Warning: This episode discusses sexual assault, physical and emotional abuse, bullying, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, CPTSD, grief, loss, and references to suicidal statements. Please listen with care and take space if you need it.
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