Archived Episodes

173. The Discomfort Quotient

Your comfort zone is not comfort. It’s a cage with familiar wallpaper. And every time you choose it, your world gets…

March 20, 2026

Host: Leah Roling

168: Indifference Isn’t Neutral

Indifference is often framed as maturity. As strength. As “protecting our peace.” But what if indifference isn’t neutral at all? In…

February 13, 2026

Host: Leah Roling

167: The Real Source of Our Exhaustion

Most of our stress, frustration, and emotional exhaustion isn’t coming from what’s happening in our lives. It’s coming from our fight…

February 6, 2026

Host: Leah Roling

The Ones Who Look Away: Assuming Everything is Fine

In this episode of Without Fear: Life, Death, and Everything In Between, we explore a hard truth: sometimes the greatest harm…

January 19, 2026

Host: Alexis Hughes-Bakjian MBA

159: The Emotional Gym: Why Discomfort Builds Strength (and Avoidance Builds Suffering)

We’ve built entire industries around physical pain — gyms, trainers, Crossfit boxes, protocols, recovery routines. We understand the formula: rip →…

December 12, 2025

Host: Leah Roling

The Power of Embracing Discomfort for Growth with Greg Bernt

What if discomfort isn’t a problem to solve but a message to listen to? This episode explores how stepping outside our…

November 12, 2025

Host: Ellen Stewart

Guest: Greg Bernt

Feeling How it Feels

In this episode Jacqueline and Chris will explore what it means to just “Feel How You Feel” as opposed to the…

June 9, 2025

Hosts: Jacqueline Wener-Kalbfleisch, Chris Kalbfleisch

Jacqueline’s Journey

In this episode, inspired by a blog that Jacqueline recently wrote for The Way Healing (https://www.theway-healing.com/blog), Jacqueline and Chris explore her most recent…

January 27, 2025

Hosts: Jacqueline Wener-Kalbfleisch, Chris Kalbfleisch

Addiction: Problem, the Solution, and how to work the Solution.

The Super Bowl is one of the most exciting events of the year in our country. Unfortunately, many lives will be…

January 21, 2025

Host: Tom Gagliano MSW

How to Set & Maintain Boundaries

Do you know what your boundaries are? Do you have a hard time communicating what your boundaries are to others? How…

October 17, 2024

Host: April Yee

How Do You Deliver Bad News?

Telling anyone bad news is uncomfortable at best, but learning to do it in a way people can hear it is…

April 4, 2024

Host: Hal Runkel MS

65. The Price of any goal

Join me today as I share with you the reason we don’t do what we know. Think about what you want…

April 14, 2023

Host: Leah Roling

What does it mean to you to Explore, Elevate, and Expand your Life?

Do you tend to push away the exploring of your doubts, discontents, discomforts? Do you just want them to go away?What…

August 22, 2022

Host: Beth Wolfe

The High Price of Comfort Zones: From Chaos to Clarity

What happens when your comfort zone becomes REALLY uncomfortable and you just keep pretending everything wil be okay? What happens when…

September 23, 2021

Hosts: Leone Dyer, Susan Dolci

SUPPRESSION - Nuggets of Wizdom from The Queen of Shift!

Often people will be amazed when they become neutral and realize that the cause of their discomfort and pain is far…

January 29, 2020

Host: Colette Marie Stefan

When Food Is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating with guest Julie M. Simon

Current brain science shows that a lack of consistent emotional nurturance in infancy and childhood, when the brain is being formed,…

July 13, 2018

Host: Christine Upchurch

Guest: Julie M. Simon