When someone asks “How are you?” most of us answer some version of “Fine.”
But underneath the surface, it is usually more complicated.
You Good? is a podcast hosted by two therapists, Sarah, a somatic therapist and chronic yes girl working and parenting in Massachusetts, and Lissy, a therapist and parent striving for that elusive work life balance in Colorado.
Each episode, they sit down with guests to talk honestly about what caring for yourself actually looks like in real life. Not the highlight reel version of self care, but the messy reality of how people care for themselves on busy days, hard days, and seasons with little time or energy.
They talk about burnout, boundaries, guilt, rest, movement, friendship, and parenting, and the things people have had to unlearn along the way.
If you have ever wondered whether you are doing enough or felt tired of acting like you are fine, you are in the right place.
Welcome to You Good?
Crying in the Car Over a Burrito: Sarah's Brother on Grief, Piano, and Letting Yourself Feel It
Carrying something heavy right now? The Full Cup Collective is the community and resource we built for showing up for yourself through it. Join the waitlist now at embodiedep.com/waitlist Ben is Sarah's brother, a New Yorker getting ready to get married at the time of recording, and one of this season's most generous guests. This season we wanted to bring more men into the conversation, and Ben showed up fully, sharing his experience navigating grief after losing his dad. He talks about what ...
12 Oct 2026
PRN Parenting and the Year of No: A Therapist on Teenagers, Reclaiming Mornings, and Why No Is a Full Sentence
Ready to reclaim a little time for yourself? The Full Cup Collective is the community and resource we built for exactly this. Join the waitlist now at embodiedep.com/waitlist Janine is a therapist who works with both kids and adults, a mom of two teenagers, and someone who genuinely loves this stage of parenting. If you're in the little kid years and can't imagine that being true, this episode is a hopeful peek down the road. She shares her year of no, the Shonda Rhimes year of yes, but the o...
5 Oct 2026
Good Enough Was Always the Goal: Lissy's Sister on Postpartum Isolation, Permission, and the Wisdom That Comes With Time
In the thick of it and trying to give yourself permission to do less? The Full Cup Collective is the community and resource we built for exactly this. Join the waitlist now at embodiedep.com/waitlist Mal is Lissy's sister, a Milwaukee mom of two with a fifteen-year-old and a three-year-old, and someone who became a parent at twenty-five before most of her friends were anywhere near that chapter. This episode is about what happens when you stop trying to prove you can do it all alone, and what...
28 Sept 2026
Boring Is Good Right Now: A Time Management Coach on Making the Mental Load Visible and Redefining Friendship
Feeling stretched too thin? The Full Cup Collective is the community and resource Sarah built for exactly this moment. Join the waitlist now at embodiedep.com/waitlist. Kelly is a former patent litigator who now helps women manage their time and mental load through something she calls the Bright Method, and she came to it the way most of us come to the things that help us most, by desperately needing it herself. She's a mom of two little kids, her partner does shift work, and her whole system...
28 Sept 2026
Welcome Back to You Good: What's New, Who We Talked To, and Why Season 2 Goes Deeper
Season two is here, and in this first episode it's just the two of us catching you up. Sarah and Lissy talk about where the show has been since season one wrapped in May, what they set out to do differently this time, and the personal and professional shifts that have happened for both of them along the way. You listened to season one, and you asked for more, so this season goes wider. More men (and an honest conversation about how hard it was to find men willing to talk about caring for thei...
28 Sept 2026
When the Person You Were Doesn't Line Up Yet: A New Dad on Recovery, Creativity, and Identity
In the thick of a big life shift? The Full Cup Collective is the community Sarah built for exactly this. Join the waitlist now at embodiedep.com/waitlist. Mark is a dad of two young kids, is currently on paternity leave and right in the thick of the stretch where the person you were and the person you are now don't quite line up yet. He runs on structure and routine, and two tiny kids have taken a lot of that away. This conversation goes deep into what it means to care for yourself when your ...
18 May 2026
We Made a Thing: Season One Reflections, Recurring Themes, and What's Coming Next
This video is about Wrap up episodeIt's the season one finale and it's just the two of us. Sarah and Lissy sit down to reflect on what it was actually like to make this podcast -- the panicked voice note Sarah sent right before launch, the ragtag process that got them here, and the feedback that's meant the most. They dig into the themes that kept surfacing across every conversation: the longing for aimless, unstructured time, the universal signs that you've stopped tending to yourself, and w...
11 May 2026
I'd Almost Do This Job for Free: A Costuming Teacher on Art as Self-Care, Late Bloomers, and the Ripples You Don't Expect
Steph spent decades working jobs that paid the bills but never quite fit who she was, iincluding a painful stint in the music industry where the pressure to be someone she wasn't eventually pushed her out entirely. Now, turning 50, she's a costuming and makeup teacher at a Los Angeles high school with a performing arts program, making foam wigs for Seussical, teaching kids to embroider their denim, and fielding a hundred students who call her Miss A like she's the person they've been waiting ...
5 May 2026
Slow Down to Go Fast: A Working Mom on Urgency, Spontaneity, and Reclaiming an Hour for Yourself
Lainey lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two toddlers, and Morty the dog who commutes to the office with her and works the subway car for pets from strangers. She's an extrovert who can hold a lot, until she can't and she came into this conversation ready to admit that her Oura ring has never once changed her behavior. This one is for anyone who feels like they're running a well-oiled machine that is also one small thing away from falling apart. Lainey talks about what it actually looks lik...
27 Apr 2026
Move With Ease: An Artist and Pilates Teacher on Creative Self-Care, Motherhood, and the Yes No Manifesto
Elana Jacobs is the artistic director of a performance company, a Pilates studio owner, and someone who has spent her whole life figuring out how to keep creativity alive through every season of life, including the ones that make it feel nearly impossible. This conversation is for anyone who has ever felt like the version of themselves that made art, moved freely, or had time to think is still in there somewhere, just waiting for an opening. Elana talks about her practice of moving with ease,...
20 Apr 2026
Boundaries Are Self-Care: A Therapist on Chronic Illness, Sandwich Generation Grief, and Letting People Down
Lacy is a mental health professional supporting clinicians on the streets of Los Angeles, a mom of an 18-month-old, pregnant with her second, and navigating the particular grief of watching a parent decline from dementia while her dad recovers from cancer treatment. She came into this conversation saying she focuses her clinical work on boundaries -- and then spent the next 30 minutes showing us exactly why that work is so personal. Lacy talks about living with Type 1 diabetes and how her chr...
13 Apr 2026
Write It Down and Burn It: A Massage Therapist on Nervous System Care, Sandwich Generation Life, and Finding Joy in the Mess
Heather is a massage therapist, somatic practitioner, foster youth volunteer, mom of two kids six years apart, and the person quietly holding together a caregiving landscape that includes aging parents 2,000 miles away, an 86-year-old mother-in-law, and a high-needs dog -- all while living next door to co-host Lissy (yes, really). This is one of the most grounded, honest conversations we've had about what it actually looks and feels like to be in the thick of the sandwich generation while sti...
6 Apr 2026
The Mama Minute: A Social Worker on Micro Self-Care, News Boundaries, and Wandering Without a Plan
Julie-Anne is a social worker supporting families separated at the border, a mom of two in San Francisco, and someone who started this conversation by saying she's definitely not the girl with weekly Pilates on her schedule. Spoiler: she is absolutely taking care of herself, just not in the ways we're told it has to look. Jules talks about building tiny transition rituals into her day, the five-minute weed-pulling practice that's become her moving meditation, and how she decides when to take ...
30 Mar 2026
What Self-Care Actually Looks Like: A Somatic Therapist Gets Honest
In our very first episode, co-host and somatic therapist Sarah Levy turns the mic on herself. Sarah gets real about burnout recovery, what it means to listen to your body, and how self-care evolves through different seasons of life, from early parenthood exhaustion to finding energy again through work, movement, and connection. She talks about the dance of knowing when you need solitude versus co-regulation, how she thinks about movement as nervous system regulation (not punishment), and why ...
30 Mar 2026
Plan the Fun First: A Financial Planner on Anxiety, ACL Recovery, and Building Trust With Yourself
Leah is a financial planner, mom of two, adventure-seeker, and four months out from ACL surgery and she has some of the most practical self-care wisdom we've heard. She shares how she front-loads personal commitments in her calendar before work ever gets a look in, why she keeps color-coded notes to herself that say "you are safe, don't forget to have fun," and how a nine-month injury recovery taught her to find meaning in slowing down. She also gets honest about anxiety, perfectionism, and t...
30 Mar 2026
Good Enough Is a Life Philosophy: One Therapist's Honest Take on Rest, Creativity, and Letting Go
Co-host Lissy McConnell gets interviewed and delivers one of the most quietly radical takes on self-care we've heard: good enough is not settling, it's surviving with your sanity intact. Lissy talks about working with the sandwich generation, scaling back her hours to protect her nervous system, and why her self-care looks less like a wellness routine and more like a dog on her lap and a really cool stick in her garage. She opens up about her spotty meditation practice, her love of making thi...
13 Mar 2026
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