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The Truth About Healing Podcast
The Truth About Healing is a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based podcast designed to cut through the overwhelming noise of modern wellness culture and explain what healing actually is and what it isn’t.
In an era flooded with mental health misinformation, toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing, and oversimplified “coping strategies,” this podcast offers clarity, accuracy, and grounded nervous system education.
Hosted by EMDR therapist and consultant Dana Carretta-Stein, the show reframes symptoms as intelligent survival responses and helps listeners understand why they feel stuck, burned out, anxious, or disconnected without shame or pathology.
This podcast bridges the gap between clinical knowledge and real life, translating complex concepts like EMDR, polyvagal theory, attachment trauma, and nervous system regulation into language that makes sense and actually helps.
Episodes
35 episodes
Episode 17: Your Relationship Isn’t the Problem with Julie Hall
You keep having the same fight.Different day. Different topic.Same fucking fight.One person pushes harder to talk about it.The other shuts down, avoids, or walks away.And eventually both people become convince...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Burnout Isn’t Motherhood
Being exhausted is not proof that you're a good mom.But somewhere along the way, a lot of women learned that motherhood was supposed to look like self-sacrifice.Give everyone else what they need.Take care of the kids...
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Episode 16: Your Nervous System Is Talking
What if the symptom you're trying to get rid of isn't actually the problem?What if it's information?In Episode 16 of The Truth About Healing, Dana and Claudio go off-script for a deep dive into one of the biggest reasons th...
💣 Truth Bomb: It’s Not Too Late
You’re not behind.You didn’t miss your chance.And you don’t need anyone’s permission to start again.So many of us carry an invisible timeline for when we were supposed to have figured everything out.The care...
Episode 15: Building Without Burning Out with Eric Stein (Part 2)
Can you build a successful career, raise a family, maintain a marriage, take care of yourself—and somehow still have a sex life?Technically, yes.But you're probably going to need some help.In Episode 15 of The Truth Abou...
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💣Truth Bomb: Anxiety and Overpreparing
What if your anxiety doesn't look like spiraling thoughts?What if it looks like being really, really prepared?Planning everything. Organizing everything. Thinking five steps ahead. Running through every possible scenario so...
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Episode 14: Marriage in the Hard Years with Eric Stein
What does it actually take to keep a marriage strong when you're raising young kids, running multiple businesses, exhausted, ambitious—and very different people?For this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana is joined by her mo...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Your Body Hasn’t Moved On
You understand what happened.You've talked about it. You've analyzed it. You know logically that it's in the past.So why does your body still react like it's happening right now?In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why ...
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Episode 13: Divorce, Trauma & Truth with Gus Dimopoulos
What if everything you think you know about “winning” a divorce is wrong?In Episode 13 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with leading New York family law attorney Gus Dimopoulos, managing partner of Dimopoulos Law ...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Grief Isn’t Trauma
Grief and trauma are not the same thing.Grief is the pain of what happened. Trauma is what your nervous system keeps reliving afterward.That's why something can have happened years ago—and your body can still respond as if ...
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Episode 12: Reinventing Yourself with Mary Belletieri
What if you don't have to have your life completely figured out before you start?And what if changing your mind isn't failure, it's growth?In Episode 12 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with author, entrepreneur, ...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Survival With Better Branding
People praise high-functioning trauma all the time.You're so strong.You're so resilient.You're so good under pressure.But sometimes what looks like strength from the outside is actually surviv...
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Episode 11: Healing After Loss with Dorothy Cascerceri Simone
What happens when life keeps handing you losses you never imagined you'd have to survive?In this deeply personal episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with Dorothy Cascerceri Simone, host and executive producer...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Functioning Isn’t Healing
💣 Truth Bomb: Functioning Isn’t HealingYou go to work. You pay your bills. You take care of your family. You show up for everyone who needs you.So you must be okay… right?Not necessarily.In this Truth Bomb, Da...
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Episode 10: Beyond the Badge with Nick Ricciotti (Part 2)
What keeps first responders healthy, not just on the job, but for life?In Part 2 of Dana's conversation with licensed associate counselor, former law enforcement officer, and Vice President of Reps For Responders, Nick Ricciott...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Addiction Needs Safety
Most people think addiction is a lack of willpower or discipline.The truth? Addiction often begins as your nervous system's attempt to survive.In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why addiction isn't simply about the substance—it's a...
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Episode 9: Rock Bottom to Recovery with Nick Ricciotti
What happens when the career you've built your identity around suddenly disappears?In this deeply honest episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with licensed associate counselor, former law enforcement officer, and Vic...
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Episode 8: Leadership Through Healing with Dave Reggina
What if the best leadership lesson isn't learned in a boardroom but in a therapist's office?In this powerful episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with leadership coach, bestselling author, podcast host, and founder o...
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💣 Truth Bomb: You Don't Need a Better Routine
Do you keep telling yourself, "If I could just find the perfect morning routine, planner, or schedule, I'd finally stop feeling burned out?"That's a myth.In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why burnout isn't a planning prob...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Burn-out is not a Time-Management Problem
Think burnout means you need a better planner, a more organized calendar, or stronger productivity habits?Think again.In this Truth Bomb, Dana busts one of the biggest myths about burnout: it's not a time management issue, it's a ...
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Episode 7: The Truth About Burnout, Play & Why Adults Forgot How to Have Fun
Can a tiny hamster teach us something about healing?Maybe.In this lighthearted but deeply meaningful episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana and Claudio are joined by a surprise guest - Hammy, Dana's son's pet hamster whic...
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Episode 6: Leadership, Resilience & the Power of Self-Reflection with Dan Singer (Part 2)
In Part 2 of Dana's conversation with EOS Implementer, leadership coach, Marine Corps instructor, and friend Dan Singer, the discussion moves beyond business and into something even deeper:How adversity shapes us.Through ho...
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Episode 5: The Truth About Leadership, Accountability & Difficult Conversations with Dan Singer
In this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with business coach, EOS Implementer, Marine Corps leader, and longtime friend Dan Singer for a powerful conversation about leadership, communication, accountability, and ...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Clarity Doesn't Come Before Action
If you've ever told yourself, "I just need to figure this out before I act," this episode is for you.In this Truth Bomb, Dana breaks down one of the biggest myths that keeps people stuck: the belief that clarity comes first....
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💣 Truth Bomb: Overthinking Doesn't Create Clarity
In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why overthinking isn't actually helping you solve the problem, it's helping your nervous system avoid uncertainty.The more your brain chases certainty, the more mental noise it creates. Before long, you'...
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