There’s a word that gets thrown around casually… but when it lands on someone with a mental illness, it can be devastating: “attention-seeking.”

In this episode, I share my own story — struggling with my mental health since I was 13 and hiding it for 16 years — and explore why calling someone attention-seeking can turn an already isolating, lonely experience into something even more painful.

We unpack why seeking attention isn’t negative: it’s often a cry for connection, a sign that someone cannot carry their pain alone. And when we label it as a flaw, it stops people from opening up, breaks trust, and can even prevent lives from being saved.

This episode is a reminder of why empathy, compassion, and listening matter more than judgment — and why we must never make someone regret reaching out.

So many of us learn to be loved by giving — our time, our energy, our care, our strength — until there’s nothing left for ourselves.

In this episode, I talk about what happens when you reach the point of emotional exhaustion and can no longer be everything for everyone. We explore the fear, guilt, and grief that come with stepping back, and the painful clarity that shows you who stayed because they cared — and who stayed because you carried them.

This is an episode about burnout, boundaries, conditional relationships, and learning that your worth is not measured by how much you give, but by who you are when you finally choose yourself.

Sometimes we spend so much of our lives performing — for attention, for approval, for validation — that we forget how to be okay without it.

In this episode, I explore what it means to let go of the need to be liked, chosen, or praised. We talk about:

• The difference between being liked and being truly known

• Letting go of the version of yourself built to please others

• Finding peace and self-worth without external validation

• Learning to sit with silence, stillness, and your own presence

This episode is for anyone learning that your value isn’t measured by applause — it’s measured by how safely and fully you can stand in your own truth.