Love From the Inside Out: Healing, Mindset and Confidence Tools for Women Navigating Anxiety and Midlife

Susan Kricun

Welcome to Love From the Inside Out, a podcast about healing, mindset, and confidence for women navigating anxiety, burnout, and midlife reinvention. Hosted by Susan Kricun — former sports and entertainment PR executive turned storyteller, writer, and wellness advocate — the show blends heart, humor, and neuroscience to help women calm their minds, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with who they really are. Each Thursday, Susan shares honest reflections and science-backed tools to help you move from survival mode to self-awareness. You’ll learn how to release stress, reframe your mindset, and rebuild inner confidence so you can live and love from the inside out. If you’ve ever felt anxious, stuck, or ready for your next chapter, this show will remind you that peace, purpose, and clarity are already within reach — and it’s never too late to feel at home in yourself. ✨ New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe now and start your journey toward healing, confidence, and calm.

  1. 1D AGO

    When Anger Is the Signal: Irritability, Resentment, and Self-Abandonment

    Join Return (private podcast feed) here. If you’ve been feeling more irritated or resentful lately, this episode will help. Even if anger isn’t your main signal, keep listening because self-abandonment can look like rushing, jaw tension, over-explaining, people-pleasing, doom-emailing, snapping, or feeling “behind.” In When Anger Is the Signal: Irritability, Resentment, and Self-Abandonment, I’m sharing how I’m learning to treat anger as information—not a character flaw—and how to come back without shame. This is a follow-up to last week’s episode, Stop Self-Abandonment: Nervous System Healing and Learning to Stay with Yourself. We’ll talk about how self-abandonment shows up for high-functioning women, why resentment can signal you’re overriding your needs, and what it looks like to return without a shame spiral. I also share a real-life story (hello, full production dinner mode) and one of my biggest patterns: over-explaining texts and emails. In this episode, we talk about: Why anger and resentment can be a nervous system signal, not a personality flawHow over-functioning and over-explaining are often attempts to feel safeCatching yourself midstream and coming back without shameWhy we return: when we don’t, we start making decisions from urgency instead of truthThe “over-explaining” pattern and how to practice sending one clean line insteadConsistency over intensity, and why it builds self-trust in real lifeA quick note on levity as a practical way to change the energy without bypassing what you feelReturn is my private podcast feed for real-time support in the moments you can feel yourself starting to slip into urgency, over-functioning, or self-abandonment. Inside Return, you’ll receive at least two private drops each month: Resets for overwhelm, rushing, spiraling, and “I can’t slow down” momentsScripts: clear, kind boundary language you can borrow (texts, work, family, dating, friendships)Audio letters (some months): supportive voice-note style reflections to help you stay orientedNo community. No calls. Nothing to keep up with. Just support you can press play on. Join Return here. Note: This content is educational and supportive and is not medical or therapy advice. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    17 min
  2. FEB 19

    Stop Self-Abandonment: Nervous System Healing and Learning to Stay With Yourself

    Return is live 🎧 Join here. 💛 Stop Self-Abandonment: Nervous System Healing and Learning to Stay With Yourself What does it actually mean to stop abandoning yourself — not in theory, but in real life? In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan names what she stands for. Not as a recap. Not as a how-to. But as a clear point of view rooted in lived experience. This conversation explores what changes after a quiet but decisive internal shift — and how nervous system healing, attention, and self-loyalty become the foundation for lasting change. In this episode, you’ll hear: Why discipline and mindset alone often aren’t enoughHow self-abandonment shows up through urgency, control, and over-functioningThe difference between self-improvement and self-loyaltyHow to care for your body without collapsing your identity into what’s strugglingWhat it looks like to “stay” with yourself as trust rebuilds over timeReady for the real-life version of this work? Join Return (Private Podcast) If you’ve been listening and thinking, “Yes… this is me,” — especially if you’re in that in-between season where you can’t go back, but you’re still learning how to live here — I created a private feed to support you. Return is where we take this out of the “insight” zone and into your actual day. Inside Return, you’ll receive at least two private drops each month, designed to help you come back to yourself in the exact moments you usually lose yourself, including: Resets — short audios for urgency, overwhelm, spiraling, or the pull to self-abandonBoundary Scripts — clear, kind language you can borrow (texts, work replies, family moments) without over-explainingAudio Letters — like a voice note from me when you’re in the middle of it, helping you re-ground and choose differentlyNo community. No calls. No pressure to “keep up.” Just steady support you can return to anytime — especially on the days you need it most. 👉 Join Return: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2369290/subscribe Questions or trouble subscribing? DM “RETURN” to @susan.kricun. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    11 min
  3. FEB 17

    Bonus Episode: Year of the Fire Horse 2026 — Momentum Without Self-Abandonment (Lunar New Year Reset)

    As the Lunar New Year begins and we enter the Year of the Fire Horse, I’m sharing a grounded reset you can use anytime you feel that “new chapter” energy building. This isn’t a predictions episode. It’s a practical, nervous-system-friendly guide to working with momentum without burning out, overcommitting, or self-abandoning. Think of this as a steadying reset for your nervous system, your mindset, and your next season. In this bonus mini episode, we move through the 7 Love Lenses with one simple, doable anchor for each: Live, Think, Nourish, Move, Create, Connect, and Heal — plus a two-minute ritual to clarify what you’re ready to be bolder about this year and what you’re releasing so you can move forward with more alignment, self-trust, and ease. If you’re in the Phoenix area, I’m gathering with a small group in person this weekend. We have a few spaces left and I’d love to have you join us. PHOENIX IN-PERSON EXPERIENCE (Limited Spaces Available) A Return to Center | Half-Day Retreat (Sun, Feb 22, 1–4:30 pm | Central Phoenix) Click here to sign up. A guided self-love immersion weaving meditation + sound bath, gentle breathwork, expressive art, oracle guidance, and earth wisdom to help you reconnect with your inner source and release patterns of self-abandonment. You’ll leave with fresh clarity for the year ahead and a Fire Horse ritual box (tea blend, grounding crystal, palo santo, mushroom chocolates, mini bronze bell) plus a handcrafted journal you’ll create and personalize during the retreat. Intimate group, all materials included. Wherever you are, you can create your own moment of beginning. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    9 min
  4. FEB 12

    Learning to Trust Yourself Without Certainty

    Learning to Trust Yourself Without Certainty Living Without the Old Map After an internal threshold is crossed, there’s often an expectation that certainty will follow — that clarity will arrive and confidence will lock in. In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan closes the limited series by exploring what actually comes next: learning how to live forward without certainty, guided not by a fixed plan, but by orientation, awareness, and trust in the body’s signals. Rather than arrival or resolution, this episode stays with the lived experience of navigating uncertainty — noticing when fear tightens, when the mind reaches for control, and when familiar patterns try to reassert themselves — and choosing to return instead of override. Susan reflects on: What it means to live without the old map — and without a new oneWhy certainty was never the thing that actually kept us safeHow curiosity softens fear and loosens the grip of familiar patternsThe difference between pushing through and staying presentLearning to come back to yourself when fear, doubt, or old habits surfaceWhy trust isn’t loud or dramatic — but grounded and livedAs this episode is released during a season often associated with love and connection, Susan also reflects on what becomes clear after this series: that the most important relationship we will ever have is the one we have with ourselves — and that everything else flows from how we show up there. This episode is not about fixing fear or eliminating uncertainty. It’s about learning how to stay with yourself when the future hasn’t revealed itself yet. If you’ve crossed a line you can’t uncross — If you’re no longer who you were, but not entirely sure who you’re becoming — This episode offers language, reassurance, and recognition for living in that space with honesty and trust. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    7 min
  5. FEB 10

    Bonus Episode: For My Mom — Her 80th Birthday Tribute | Love, Grief & Legacy

    In this special bonus episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan shares a heartfelt tribute to her mom, Margie, on what would have been her 80th birthday. Ten years after her mother’s passing, Susan reflects on love, grief, resilience, and the ways the people we lose continue to live on inside us — through the memories we carry, the lessons we inherit, and the strength we find along the way. This episode includes excerpts from what Susan read at her mother’s funeral, along with reflections on how healing and self-understanding unfold over time. Margie always believed: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” And this tribute is a reminder that love doesn’t disappear — it changes form, and it stays. If you’ve ever missed someone you love, this episode is for you. In This Episode, You’ll Hear A personal birthday tribute to Susan’s mom, ten years after her passingFuneral excerpts and memories that still resonate todayReflections on grief, growth, and emotional healing over timeThe legacy of resilience: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”How love continues, even after lossSupport the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    10 min
  6. FEB 6

    Bonus Mini-Sode: Phoenix “Return to Center” Retreat (Feb 22) — Early Bird Ends Feb 6

    Hey friends—quick bonus mini-sode, especially for anyone listening here in the Metro Phoenix area. I’m popping in with an invitation to join me in person for Return to Center, a half-day retreat in Central Phoenix on Sunday, Feb. 22 (1:00–4:00 PM). Early bird pricing ends Friday, Feb. 6, but that doesn’t mean registration closes—you can still sign up after Feb. 6 as long as space is available. We’re keeping this group intentionally small. This is a grounded, supportive afternoon to slow down, reset, and reconnect with yourself—especially if you’ve been feeling stretched thin, or like you’ve been showing up for everyone except you. It’s held at a private residence in Central Phoenix (exact location shared after you register). All materials are included. I’m co-hosting alongside three incredible local women: • Cathleen Mitchell (Kaya Holistic) – earth-centered practices + herbal wisdom • Kristen Fagan – an intuitive, tactile art experience (you’ll decorate your journal cover) • Marney Henze – meditation, gentle breathwork, and immersive sound with crystal bowls, chimes, drums, and vocals to help you land, regulate your nervous system, and integrate what you’ve received before heading back into real life I’ll also guide a self-love conversation about what it really means to stay with yourself and how to recognize those subtle moments of self-abandonment, even in small ways, and come back. You’ll leave with fresh clarity for the year ahead and a Fire Horse ritual box that includes a handcrafted journal (customized by you), a grounding crystal, palo santo, a mini bronze bell with ribbon, Alice functional mushroom chocolates, plus Kaya Holistic’s Rhodiola tincture and Fire Horse herbal tea blend. If you’re in Phoenix / Scottsdale / Tempe / Mesa / Chandler / Gilbert / Glendale and this is speaking to you, I’d love to see you there. Click here to register and for details. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    5 min
  7. FEB 5

    When Your Body Sets the Boundary

    When Your Body Sets the Boundary Non-Negotiable After an internal threshold is crossed, something subtle begins to take shape. Certain things stop being optional — not because of discipline or willpower, but because the body knows what it can no longer tolerate. In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan continues the limited series by exploring what happens when inner change moves from insight into lived reality — when returning to the old way of living simply isn’t available anymore. This episode isn’t about rigid routines or self-improvement strategies. It’s about the quiet settling of non-negotiables — the practices, rhythms, and choices that no longer require debate. Susan reflects on: What it feels like when the body sets the boundary before the mind doesWhy balance isn’t something you achieve once — but something you return toHow meditation becomes a place of orientation rather than effortThe disorientation of organizing life around what actually supports youLearning to come back to yourself without shame, urgency, or pressureRather than mastery or arrival, this episode stays with the lived experience of being in the middle — noticing when old patterns resurface, catching them sooner, and choosing to return again and again. This episode is not about doing more or getting it right. It’s about staying with yourself when the old way no longer fits — and allowing something quieter and more honest to take its place. If you’re learning how to live from a new internal baseline — If your body is asking for something different than it used to — This episode offers language and recognition for that return. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    7 min
  8. JAN 29

    When Urgency Is the Problem (Not the Solution)

    When Urgency Is the Problem (Not the Solution) The Anger That Arrives After After an internal threshold is crossed, the most unexpected thing isn’t relief or clarity — it’s resistance. In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan continues the limited series by exploring what often surfaces after a quiet but non-negotiable inner shift: a steady, protective anger that arises when the old way of living is no longer available. This isn’t explosive anger or reactivity. It’s the kind that shows up as a refusal to keep pushing — a signal from the body that urgency, productivity, and constant responsiveness are no longer sustainable. Rather than offering solutions or strategies, this episode stays with the lived experience of being pulled back into familiar rhythms — email, deadlines, caffeine, productivity — and noticing how quickly those patterns drain energy and lead to self-abandonment. Susan reflects on: The quiet anger that emerges when the body resists chronic urgencyWhy productivity and adrenaline can feel rewarding — and still be harmfulHow stress and over-functioning quietly erode well-beingThe tension between the old operating system and a new way of livingLearning to listen when the body says “no” — without judgment or forceThis episode is not about slowing down for the sake of balance. It’s about recognizing when urgency itself has become the problem. If you’ve ever felt caught between staying productive and staying well — If your body has begun pushing back against the pace you once relied on — This episode offers language and recognition for that moment of reckoning. Support the show 🎧 Connect & Get More: • Instagram: @susan.kricun • Drop in my DMs and share your story or ask a question. • Sign up for my newsletter for free resources and updates. 🎶 Music Credit: “Seize the Day” by Andrey Rossi, via #Uppbeat (uppbeat.io/t/andrey-rossi/seize-the-day) ✨ Support the Show: • Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you listen • Share this episode with a friend who could use a little more love—right where it matters most. 📚 Susan’s Favorite Books + Tools • This link leads you to a curated list of books and tools I genuinely love and use. • Some links are Amazon affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 🎙️ Be a Guest on the Show. Fill out this form. © 2025–present Susan Kricun. Love From the Inside Out™ is a trademark of Susan Kricun. All rights reserved. All opinions are my own. This podcast is educational, not medical or legal advice.

    8 min

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Welcome to Love From the Inside Out, a podcast about healing, mindset, and confidence for women navigating anxiety, burnout, and midlife reinvention. Hosted by Susan Kricun — former sports and entertainment PR executive turned storyteller, writer, and wellness advocate — the show blends heart, humor, and neuroscience to help women calm their minds, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with who they really are. Each Thursday, Susan shares honest reflections and science-backed tools to help you move from survival mode to self-awareness. You’ll learn how to release stress, reframe your mindset, and rebuild inner confidence so you can live and love from the inside out. If you’ve ever felt anxious, stuck, or ready for your next chapter, this show will remind you that peace, purpose, and clarity are already within reach — and it’s never too late to feel at home in yourself. ✨ New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe now and start your journey toward healing, confidence, and calm.