If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, stuck in your head, or disconnected from yourself while trying to build something meaningful, this conversation brings you back to what actually creates lasting confidence.

In this episode, Justine sits down with wellness and embodiment practitioner Yvonne Dellos to talk about what it really takes to break cycles of overthinking, burnout, and self-doubt. Yvonne shares her journey from growing up on food stamps and being on her own at 14 to becoming a nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and transformational speaker helping women rewrite their stories.

Together, they explore how confidence isn’t just something you think about. It’s something you practice through self-awareness, emotional regulation, and learning how to trust yourself again.

This conversation covers embodiment work, inner child healing, releasing limiting beliefs, and how small daily practices can help ambitious women feel more grounded while continuing to grow.

Connect with Yvonne:

Instagram: @thebestofyvonne

Website: www.thebestofyvonne.com

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In this episode of Thoughts From the Couch, I sit down with healthcare innovator, researcher, and entrepreneur Lisa Marceau to talk about a topic that deserves far more attention: postpartum mental health for self-employed moms.

As a business owner preparing for maternity leave myself, this conversation felt deeply personal. We explored the emotional and practical realities that come with postpartum recovery when your income is tied to your ability to keep working.

We also talked about the wide range of postpartum mental health challenges women can face, including baby blues, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum OCD, postpartum PTSD, and postpartum psychosis. Lisa shares how her own experiences and research led her to create Joyuus, an evidence-based digital health platform designed to help moms identify symptoms early, feel more informed, and connect to support sooner.

This episode is both validating and practical. It’s for the mother trying to recover while keeping a business afloat, and for anyone who wants a better understanding of the support postpartum women actually need.

Website: www.alphamhealth.comJoyuus: www.joyuus.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisamarceau/

Promotion:

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Connect with Lisa Marceau:
If you’re successful on the outside but constantly holding everything together on the inside, The Balanced Boss is private coaching designed to help things feel calmer, steadier, and more sustainable without giving up your ambition.Learn more here: https://www.justinecarino.com/the-balanced-boss

In Episode 104 of the Thoughts From the Couch podcast, host Justine Carino sits down with TEDx speaker and lovescaping founder Irene Greaves for a grounded and practical conversation about where we first learn how to love, and how those early lessons shape our adult relationships.

This episode explores the powerful question, “Where did you learn to love?” and unpacks how family of origin, culture, and early experiences quietly form our blueprint for connection. Justine and Irene discuss how love is often misunderstood as a feeling rather than a skill, and how mismatched definitions of love can create conflict in romantic relationships, friendships, and even workplace dynamics.

Through clinical insight and real-life examples, Justine connects Irene’s 15 pillars of lovescaping, including humility, empathy, communication, trust, and boundaries, to the patterns she sees in therapy every day. The conversation highlights how a lack of self-awareness, difficulty identifying needs, and struggles with boundaries often stem from early conditioning, not personal failure.

Listeners will walk away with a fresh perspective on love as an intentional practice rather than a passive experience. The episode offers tangible tools for building self-respect, strengthening communication, leading with empathy, and creating healthier dynamics at home and at work.

Connect with Irene Greaves:

Instagram: @lovescaping

Website: www.lovescaping.org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lovescaping/

Promotion:

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