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Are you being empathetic or just people-pleasing? In Episode 22 of The Truth About Healing Podcast, Dana Carretta-Stein talks with clinical psychologist Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli about empathy vs people-pleasing, why empathy slows down while sympathy rushes in, and how to stop confusing feeling bad with truly understanding someone.

Taking responsibility in relationships doesn't mean blaming yourself for everything that goes wrong. In this Truth Bomb from The Truth About Healing Podcast, Dana Carretta-Stein explores how nervous system responses, rejection sensitivity, and past experiences influence the way we interpret conflict, and why understanding what's yours to own can change how you connect with others.

Is following an EMDR therapy protocol enough to support meaningful healing? In Episode 21 of The Truth About Healing Podcast, Dana Carretta-Stein talks with Bridger and Jen from Beyond Healing and Notice That Podcast about relational EMDR, case conceptualization, therapist self-awareness, and why the human connection matters as much as clinical technique.

How do you know if a relationship will last? In this Truth Bomb from The Truth About Healing Podcast, Dana Carretta-Stein explains why conflict isn't necessarily a warning sign. Learn how communication styles, emotional repair, and the ability to work through disagreements can reveal where a relationship is strong and where it needs attention.

Why Change Feels Unsafe explores why even positive life transitions can trigger anxiety, uncertainty, and old emotional patterns. In Episode 20 of The Truth About Healing, Dana Carretta-Stein and Claudio discuss childhood experiences, relationships, mindful communication, and how EMDR therapy may help people navigate change with greater confidence.

Love Isn't Enough. Dana explains why shared values, communication, and emotional safety matter for healthier relationships.

You Can't Rush Healing. Dana and Hannah Guy explore complex trauma, EMDR, nervous system capacity, uncertainty, and why slower can be safer.

Control Is Fear in Disguise. Dana explores how control can be driven by fear, uncertainty, and the nervous system’s search for safety.

Your Body Isn’t Broken. Dana and Jennifer Rozon discuss perimenopause, nutrition, under-fueling, stress, and learning to trust your body again.

Your Kids Need Safety. Dana explores why children need regulated adults, emotional safety, and freedom from being caught in parental conflict.

Your Relationship Isn’t the Problem. Dana and Julie Hall explore attachment, conflict patterns, nervous system safety, and healing in relationships.

Burnout Isn’t Motherhood. Dana explores why exhaustion is not proof of good parenting and why taking care of yourself matters, too.

Your Nervous System Is Talking explores how stress, relationships, biology, movement, recovery, and daily life can shape how your body responds.

It’s Not Too Late explores why there is no universal timeline for starting over, creating something meaningful, or choosing a new direction.

Building Without Burning Out with Dana and Eric Stein explores business, marriage, parenting, delegation, boundaries, and making room for what matters.

Anxiety and Overpreparing explores why planning can become an attempt to guarantee certainty, and how self-trust can offer another way forward.

Marriage in the Hard Years gets real in Episode 14 of The Truth About Healing. Dana sits down with her husband, Eric Stein, to talk about raising young kids, running demanding businesses, couples therapy, emotional growth, and staying connected when life feels very full.

Your Body Hasn’t Moved On explains why trauma reactions can continue after you logically know an experience is over, and how EMDR may help.

Divorce and healing go far beyond the courtroom. Dana and family law attorney Gus Dimopoulos discuss trauma, custody, conflict, and protecting kids.

Grief Isn't Trauma. Learn how grief differs from trauma, why the nervous system can keep reacting to the past, and what healing can mean.