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 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 my brain have available today? Laura Wood and Michaela Beaver dig into why mood swings and emotional intensity often track with nervous system capacity. We talk cortisol, poor sleep, heat, overstimulation, and the very unglamorous basics like hydratio...
12 Oct 2026
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 suddenly feel impossible, and why “I’ll do it when I feel motivated” often keeps you stuck. Instead of treating depression like a personal weakness, we talk about what’s happening in the brain’s reward circuitry, executive function, and stress response...
29 Sept 2026
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 from relationships and stress. We talk through what negativity bias looks like in real life: the mental replay at bedtime, the “I’m in danger” feeling in totally safe places, and the way one mistake can erase ten good things. Along the way, we tease apar...
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