Getting Through the Week Podcast

We spend a lot of time talking about what happens when life doesn't go according to plan.
But what about when it does?
What happens when the thing you've been working toward, healing for, praying for, or dreaming about finally starts becoming real?
In this episode, Dr. KellyRae explores a side of personal growth that doesn't get talked about nearly enough—the emotional discomfort that often accompanies expansion.
From vision boards and big dreams to unexpected opportunities, meaningful connections, healing, travel, and personal growth, sometimes receiving what we've been asking for can feel just as unsettling as not getting it at all.
You'll learn:
• Why expansion often feels uncomfortable• How fear and growth can look surprisingly similar• Why your nervous system may interpret new opportunities as potential threats• How to recognize the difference between danger and unfamiliarity• What your inner critic may actually be trying to communicate• Why learning to receive can be just as important as learning to achieve
And of course, Trudy makes an appearance to help translate what many of us experience during seasons of growth:
"What if this doesn't work?"
"What if we're moving too fast?"
"What if this falls apart?"
If you've ever found yourself excited, grateful, terrified, hopeful, emotional, and confused all at the same time, this episode is for you.
Because sometimes the dream becoming real isn't a sign that something is wrong.
Sometimes it's a sign that your life is expanding.
Questions, comments, or interested in working together?
📧 drkellyrae@gmail.com
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For many of us, survival mode becomes so familiar that we stop asking ourselves one important question:
What do I actually want?
Not what everyone else needs.Not what's practical.Not what's expected.Not what's required.
What do you want?
In this episode, Dr. KellyRae explores why so many people struggle to answer that question after years of caretaking, people-pleasing, surviving, and carrying responsibilities. Through personal stories, client insights, and a visit from everyone's favorite head of emergency preparedness, Trudy, you'll discover why wanting something more isn't selfish—it's human.
We'll talk about:
🌻 Why survival mode leaves little room for desire🌻 The difference between feeling safe and truly living🌻 Why many people can identify their fears faster than their dreams🌻 How healing creates space for joy, adventure, connection, and possibility🌻 The powerful lesson a tree can teach us about growth, roots, and becoming
If you've been doing the work, healing, growing, and wondering what comes next, this conversation is for you.
Because maybe healing isn't only about growing roots.
Maybe it's also about allowing yourself to grow toward the light.
Questions, comments, or interested in working together?
📧 drkellyrae@gmail.com
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If these conversations have helped you navigate life, healing, growth, or change, and you'd like to support the show, you can do so here:
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In this episode of Getting Through the Week, Dr. KellyRae explores a challenge many people never expect to face:
What happens when life stops being about survival?
For years, many of us become experts at managing responsibilities, solving problems, carrying burdens, and getting through difficult seasons. We learn how to be strong. We learn how to endure. We learn how to survive.
But eventually life begins asking a different question:
Can you learn how to live?
Drawing from her own experiences, client work, and a few entertaining updates from Trudy and her trusty Rottweiler head of security, Dr. KellyRae explores why peace can feel unfamiliar, why some people unconsciously look for new problems to solve, and why thriving requires a different set of skills than surviving.
In this episode, you'll discover:
🌻 Why peace can feel uncomfortable after years of stress
🌻 How survival mode can become part of your identity
🌻 Why some people struggle when life becomes quieter
🌻 The difference between surviving and truly living
🌻 How to stop looking for emergencies that no longer exist
🌻 Why learning to receive joy, rest, and ease can feel surprisingly vulnerable
One of the things Dr. KellyRae often helps clients navigate is the transition from survival mode to a healthier season of life. Because while most people understand how to fight through difficult times, very few people are taught how to trust the good ones.
And sometimes healing isn't about overcoming another obstacle.
Sometimes healing is learning how to enjoy the life you've worked so hard to create.
Questions, comments, or interested in working together?
📧 drkellyrae@gmail.com
☕ Support the Podcast
If these conversations have helped you navigate life, healing, growth, or change, and you'd like to support the show, you can do so here:
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Your support helps keep Getting Through the Week free and available for listeners around the world.
Thank you for listening, sharing, and being part of this community.
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In this episode of Getting Through the Week, Dr. KellyRae explores something many people struggle with but rarely talk about openly: self-trust.
Have you ever asked multiple people for advice while quietly suspecting you already knew the answer?
Have you ever ignored your exhaustion, dismissed your intuition, overridden your boundaries, or second-guessed yourself into confusion?
If so, you're not alone.
Many of us learned to stop trusting ourselves long before we ever realized we were doing it. Life experiences, responsibilities, difficult relationships, old wounds, and survival strategies can teach us to look outside ourselves for answers while disconnecting from the wisdom we already carry within.
Drawing from both her personal experiences and the work she does with clients, Dr. KellyRae explores why self-trust often feels difficult, how we learn to override our own signals, and why rebuilding trust with ourselves happens one small decision at a time.
Along the way, you'll hear more from Trudy—the overly cautious inner protector who remains unconvinced that every decision doesn't require a committee meeting—and discover why healing isn't about silencing these protective parts but learning to understand what they've been trying to communicate all along.
In this episode, you'll learn:
🌻 Why many people lose trust in themselves
🌻 The difference between intuition and fear
🌻 How survival strategies can disconnect us from our own wisdom
🌻 Why self-trust is built through evidence, not perfection
🌻 Small ways to begin rebuilding your relationship with yourself
Because maybe self-trust isn't something you suddenly find.
Maybe it's something you slowly build—one boundary, one choice, and one honest moment at a time.
Questions, comments, or interested in working together?
📧 drkellyrae@gmail.com
☕ Support the Podcast
If these conversations have helped you navigate life, healing, growth, or change, and you'd like to support the show, you can do so here:
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Thank you for listening, sharing, and being part of this community.
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In this episode of Getting Through the Week, Dr. KellyRae explores a side of personal growth that doesn't get talked about nearly enough: grief.
Not grief after loss, but grief during transformation.
As we heal, grow, and become more self-aware, we often outgrow old identities, coping mechanisms, and survival strategies that once helped us make it through difficult seasons of life. While growth is often celebrated, the emotional experience of leaving behind familiar versions of ourselves can feel surprisingly sad.
Through personal reflections, practical insights, and a few appearances from Trudy—the overly cautious inner protector who remains convinced every life change requires a full security review—Dr. KellyRae explores why healing can sometimes feel like loss, why we miss versions of ourselves we've outgrown, and how honoring our past can help us move forward with greater compassion.
Drawing from both her own experiences and the work she does with clients, she shares why healing isn't about getting rid of parts of ourselves, but helping them step into new roles that better serve the life we're creating.
If you've ever felt emotional after making positive changes, questioned why growth feels harder than expected, or found yourself grieving a version of yourself you no longer want to be, this conversation is for you.
Because sometimes the sadness you're feeling isn't a sign you're moving backward.
It's a sign you've grown beyond the life you once needed to survive.
Questions, comments, or interested in working together?
📧 drkellyrae@gmail.com
☕ Support the Podcast
If these conversations have helped you navigate life, healing, growth, or change, and you'd like to support the show, you can do so here:
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Thank you for listening, sharing, and being part of this community.
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Who are you becoming?
Not who you used to be.Not who you've always been.Not even who you want to become.
Who are you becoming right now?
In this episode, Dr. KellyRae explores one of the most unexpected parts of personal growth: the moment when the old version of you no longer fits, but the new version isn't fully familiar yet.
Through personal stories and reflections, she shares what it looks like when long-standing survival patterns begin to lose their grip, old identities start feeling uncomfortable, and self-awareness arrives faster than it ever has before.
In this episode, you'll discover:
• Why growth doesn't always feel good• How healing changes what you're willing to tolerate• Why emotional exhaustion can sometimes be a sign of awareness, not weakness• The difference between hearing yourself and trusting yourself• How survival teaches us to override our own needs• What it means to become someone your younger self can trust
Dr. KellyRae also shares an important lesson from her work with clients: many of the patterns we struggle with aren't signs that something is wrong with us. They're often signs that parts of us learned how to survive long before they learned how to thrive.
Because healing isn't just about understanding your past.
It's about learning how to trust the person you're becoming.
If you've been feeling more emotional, more aware, more tired, or more sensitive than usual, this conversation may help you understand why.
To learn more about working with Dr. KellyRae, email:drkellyrae@gmail.com
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If these conversations have helped you navigate life, healing, growth, or change, and you'd like to support the show, you can do so here:
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Have you ever finally gotten the peace you've been longing for... only to discover that peace feels strangely uncomfortable?
For years, Dr. KellyRae believed she wanted less stress, fewer responsibilities, more balance, and more breathing room. But as life gradually became calmer, something unexpected happened.
The silence got loud.
In this deeply personal episode, Dr. KellyRae explores what happens when external chaos settles down and the internal voices we've been out-running finally have a chance to speak.
Together we'll explore:
• Why peace and quiet aren't always the same thing• How survival mode can make stillness feel uncomfortable• The hidden connection between responsibility and emotional exhaustion• Why other people's discomfort can sometimes interrupt our own peace• How our inner critic often mistakes vigilance for safety• What it means to learn how to trust peace instead of filling every moment with activity
Using real-life examples, including conversations with her father and insights from her own healing journey, Dr. KellyRae shares how peace isn't always about eliminating discomfort.
Sometimes peace simply reveals what has been waiting beneath the surface all along.
She also discusses a core principle from her work with clients: healing isn't about getting rid of uncomfortable thoughts, emotions, or protective patterns. It's about learning to understand what they're trying to communicate.
Because when silence gets loud, the question isn't always:
"How do I make this stop?"
Sometimes the better question is:
"What is this trying to teach me?"
If you've ever struggled to slow down, rest without guilt, or find yourself uncomfortable when life finally becomes peaceful, this conversation is for you.
To learn more about working with Dr. KellyRae, email:drkellyrae@gmail.com
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If these conversations have helped you navigate life, healing, growth, or change, and you'd like to support the show, you can do so here:
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What if part of you is afraid of being supported?
Not because you don't want help.Not because you don't want love.Not because you don't want partnership.
But because somewhere along the way, you learned that support wasn't something you received—it was something you provided.
In this episode, Dr. KellyRae explores a surprising realization from her own healing journey: she wasn't afraid of being alone. She was afraid of carrying even more.
Through the story of "Trudy"—a protective inner part that believed it was her job to hold everything together—Dr. KellyRae unpacks why so many strong, capable people struggle to trust support, receive help, and believe that someone else can truly share the load.
In this episode you'll discover:
• Why support can feel uncomfortable even when you desperately want it• How past experiences shape what we believe is possible in relationships• The difference between healthy support and dependency• Why strong people often struggle to receive what they freely give others• How understanding your inner protective patterns can create lasting change
Dr. KellyRae also shares an important perspective from her work with clients: healing isn't about silencing the parts of yourself that seem difficult, critical, fearful, or protective. It's about learning to understand what they've been trying to communicate all along.
If you've ever felt exhausted from carrying everything yourself, this conversation may help you see your patterns—and yourself—with greater compassion.
To learn more about working with Dr. KellyRae, email:drkellyrae@gmail.com
☕ Support the Podcast
If these conversations have helped you navigate life, healing, growth, or change, and you'd like to support the show, you can do so here:
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For years, many of us have walked around believing we were a problem to be fixed.
Too emotional.Too sensitive.Too much.Not enough.
We spend years trying to change ourselves, heal ourselves, improve ourselves, and become someone different, all while carrying the belief that something is fundamentally wrong with us.
But what if that's not true?
What if the behaviors, fears, coping mechanisms, and patterns you've developed throughout your life aren't evidence that you're broken, but evidence that you've been doing the best you could with the tools, experiences, and circumstances you were given?
In this deeply personal episode, I explore the possibility that the parts of ourselves we often judge the harshest may actually be the parts that have been working overtime to protect us.
We'll talk about self-acceptance, healing, inner conflict, and the journey of learning to view ourselves with compassion instead of criticism.
Because sometimes healing isn't about becoming someone new.
Sometimes it's about understanding who you've been all along.
If you've ever felt like you're not enough, too much, or somehow falling short of who you're supposed to be, this episode is for you.
Join me as we explore a simple but powerful question:
What if nothing is wrong with you?
If this episode resonates with you, I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences.
You can reach me at: drkellyrae@gmail.com
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Have you ever found yourself wanting more for your life—better health, stronger relationships, greater financial freedom, more confidence, or more peace—yet somehow still finding yourself repeating the same patterns?
In this episode, we explore one of the most challenging truths about personal growth:
The life you want often requires a different version of you than the one that created your current circumstances.
That doesn't mean you're broken.It doesn't mean you've failed.And it certainly doesn't mean you need to become someone else entirely.
What it does mean is that growth asks us to examine our habits, beliefs, fears, and the stories we've been carrying for years.
We'll discuss:• Why change feels so uncomfortable• How familiar patterns can keep us stuck• The difference between knowing what to do and becoming the person who actually does it• Why self-awareness is the first step toward transformation• How small shifts in identity create lasting results
Whether you're working on your health, finances, relationships, or mindset, this episode will encourage you to look beyond goals and begin exploring the version of yourself that those goals require.
Because the future you're hoping for isn't built by wishing for different circumstances.
It's built by becoming the person capable of creating them.
The life you want isn't waiting for a perfect moment.
It's waiting for the version of you who's willing to become it.
If this episode resonates with you, I'd love to hear your thoughts. You can connect with me at drkellyrae@gmail.com.
☕ Support the Podcast
If these conversations have helped you navigate life, healing, growth, or change, and you'd like to support the show, you can do so here:
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