In this episode of Deep, Funny, Dirty, we sit down with Jesse Rose West for an honest, grounded conversation about trauma, healing, and what it actually looks like to move through life when everything you’ve built starts to fall apart.

Jesse shares how a major rupture in midlife forced her to slow down, listen, and confront patterns of self-abandonment, control, and survival. We talk about nervous system regulation, grief, anger, movement as medicine, and the long process of learning to sit with discomfort instead of outrunning it. Through embodiment, breath, and deep self-inquiry, Jesse found a new way forward—one rooted in presence rather than performance.

Along the way, animals—especially horses—appear as mirrors, reflecting the beliefs, fears, and truths we often avoid seeing in ourselves. Not as something to control or fix, but as teachers that respond when we get honest and grounded.

This episode explores what happens when healing becomes less about achievement and more about listening—letting life meet you where you actually are.

It’s deep. It’s funny. It gets a little dirty.
And it’s a conversation about learning how to stay.

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