Why Do I Think Something Is Wrong With Me?

Trigger Warning: This episode mentions death by suicide and death from alcohol use.

Something is wrong with me. Five words, but they can resonate in your brain over and over again for decades. That's the reality Lisa and Michelle have been living with day in and day out. To the point where drowning that voice out with wine was the only way to find peace. Or so they thought. Coaches Cole and Zoe offer a new perspective and a pathway to healing.

Lisa discusses:

The list of 15 friends who disappeared from her life, and what she'd decided it meant about her

The one letter her father ever wrote her, sent the year before he died of alcoholism

Why "people just lose touch" was the hardest reframe she'd ever been asked to try on

The difference between giving from love and giving to keep someone from leaving

Michelle discusses:

The exact age she started drinking, and what it gave her that nothing else did

Why "turn that frown upside down" became the rule that shaped her whole childhood

Becoming a people pleaser, and what it cost her to keep speaking up

Learning to re-parent the little girl who never got to just be herself