Unseen Needs
By Janie
Categories: education, self improvement, health, fitness, mental
Unseen Needs is a safe space for honest conversations about healing, self-worth, relationships, boundaries, and the struggles we often carry quietly. Through sincerity, reflection, and real-life lessons, your hosts explore the needs we sometimes struggle to name. This podcast is to help listeners feel seen, understood, and empowered.
10 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- What I Learned Between Two Homes
Janie opens up about growing up between two parents, being caught in the middle of custody conflict, and trying to understand a childhood shaped by fear, instability, and things she was too young to fully comprehend. She reflects on the love she had for her dad, the things she has discovered…
- What They Said Became What I Saw
Janie opens up about growing up feeling ashamed of her appearance, how bullying and comparison shaped her relationship with food and her body, and how PCOS has added another layer to those insecurities. She reflects on eating-disorder recovery, grief, and learning to see parts of herself with more…
- On the Days I’m Not Okay
Janie opens up about the bad days that still happen while healing, when depression feels heavier, grief resurfaces, and emotions from childhood begin catching up after years spent surviving. She reflects on missing her dad, grieving the little girl she was, learning painful new details about her…
- When Choosing Yourself Means Letting People Go
Janie opens up about the painful process of walking away from friendships, relationships, and family members when repeated disrespect, broken boundaries, and unhealthy patterns begin affecting her mental health. She reflects on fawning, people-pleasing, growing up around toxicity, and what it has…
- Trying to Find Myself Again
Janie opens up about living with depression from her teenage years into adulthood, how grief deepened it, and how therapy is helping her reconnect with herself after years of survival mode.Content warning:This episode discusses depression, PTSD, grief, eating-disorder relapse, self-neglect…
- The Cost of Being the One Who Always Cared
Janie opens up about feeling left out, becoming the person everyone could rely on, and how fear of losing people shaped her friendships, relationships, boundaries, and sense of self.Content warning:This episode discusses loneliness, abandonment fears, emotional abuse, toxic relationships, trauma…
- Learning to Be on My Own Side
Janie opens up about her mental health journey, people-pleasing, fawning, forgiveness, boundaries, and what she has learned through nearly a year of intentionally working on herself. She reflects on learning to care for herself with the same compassion she has always given others, while becoming…
- Growing Up After the Unthinkable
Janie shares the lasting impact of childhood sexual assault and how it shaped her sense of safety, family, mental health, body image, and teenage years. This episode focuses on the aftermath of trauma, the ways it followed her as she grew, and what healing has looked like in adulthood.Content…
- When Goodbye Became Permanent
Janie opens up about losing her dad at 25, the morning she got the call, the shock and denial that followed, and what it felt like to lose the person she considered her anchor. she also talks about grieving the time she missed with him growing up, the future moments he will not physically be here…
- The Things We Don't Say Out Loud
In the first episode of Unseen Needs, Janie opens up about the experiences that shaped her, including trauma, grief, abuse, mental health struggles, feeling like an outsider, and learning how to heal after years of living in survival mode. She shares why she created this podcast, what healing has…
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