Denise Destin grew up on a small farm in rural Mississippi, where hard work was the answer to everything and feelings were something you buried. It was a strength that served her well, until the losses came. Over roughly a decade she lost her father, her brothers, her sister, and her aunt. Then, a year into breast cancer treatment, she lost her mother, her ride or die. The family table with twelve chairs had become impossible to fill.

In this conversation, Denise describes what came next: the weight, the severe anxiety, the years of anger, and the small, stubborn things that pulled her back, from friends who texted a scripture to a young trainer who wouldn't give up on her. She talks about balancing on one foot for fifteen seconds, a moment behind the gym when her trainer handed her a towel and sat with her while she cried, and a flash of clarity on a massage table that led her to leave insurance sales and open Reclaim Wellness in Hattiesburg. It is a story about surrender, faith, and the people who help us carry what we can't carry alone.

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Play therapist Ashlie West went into children's mental health because, in her words, kids are easier than adults. A graduate school mentor asked her one question that changed that: what happens after the session, when the child goes back to the same world?

In this conversation, Ashlie and Elizabeth talk about what that question taught her. They get into what constant screens are doing to children's attention and mood, why behavior change often gets worse before it gets better, and why a dysregulated parent cannot parent a dysregulated child into calm.

Ashlie explains how play works as a child's first language, what a single sand tray can reveal that a child cannot say out loud, and why she brings parents into the work from the second appointment. Along the way, both women admit how hard it is to put the phone down, to play without an agenda, and to apologize to a kid.

The takeaway is steady and hopeful: if parents can accidentally teach a child something unhelpful, they can intentionally teach something better.

Lee Anne is a fundraising consultant, a stand-up comic, and a woman who spent years believing she had to handle her hardest moment alone. In this conversation, she shares publicly for the first time the story of a miscarriage at six weeks, just after moving to North Carolina in 2014.

She describes telling her husband to stay at work, driving home alone through a KFC drive-through, and going back to the office on Thursday as if nothing had happened. She did not tell her mother until after her son was born. Looking back, she names what she was protecting: the belief that she was good at everything, and that this was a personal failure.

The conversation moves from grief to anger, including a very sincere apology to Carrie Underwood, and then to the difference between being private and being secretive. Lee Anne makes the case that the people who love us have earned the right to worry about us, and that shame cannot survive in community. If you are carrying something no one knows about, this episode is an invitation to let someone walk with you.