Adjusting Podcast

Justin G. Nelson
  • 4.9 (12)
  • Mental Health
  • Updated Weekly

This podcast is all about the journey of healing, growth and self-discovery. It's called Adjusting, and it's going to be a space for candid conversations and inspiring affirmations to help navigate life's inevitable changes and transitions. Whether you're recovering from trauma, redefining your purpose, managing mental health, or simply craving more authenticity - this show is for you. We'll get raw and real about confronting struggles, while motivating you to adjust your mindset every step of the way. I'll be bringing on amazing guests to share their own stories of resilience and reinvention. You'll hear practical tools for adjusting to your most empowered self through self-love, vulnerability and courage. This is about tuning into what your soul has been calling you towards. It's your weekly reminder that adjusting your life is possible with an open heart and mindset.

  1. Jul 27

    S3E24 — Adjusting to Your Own Voice: Finally Trusting the Loudest Voice in the Room

    This is it, the final episode of Adjusting to Center. We've spent this season reclaiming your timeline, surviving the discomfort of disappointing people, guarding your access, and letting yourself be loved without earning it. But none of that holds up if you don't trust the voice that has to actually carry it forward. Yours. In this episode, we address why your own voice became the one you learned to override first: childhood dismissal, gaslighting, cultural conditioning, systems that only recognize credentials, and the religious teaching that your own heart can't be trusted. We adjust the difference between fear and intuition so you can actually tell them apart, and we get into owning the power of what you bring into every room, your gifting, your leadership, your journey. And we apply real, tangible ways to start trusting yourself again. Loud doesn't always mean powerful. Soft doesn't mean weak. Your voice was never the problem. 🎧 Season 3, Part 3: Adjusting to Center, Building a Life Around What Matters Most. And friend, Season 4 is coming. It's called Adjusting In the Field, and I'm finally sitting down with experts and real people to walk through all of this together. Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it. Let’s Connect!  Website: www.adjustingpod.com Social Media: @adjustingpod on Instagram | Facebook | Youtube | TikTok Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adjusting-podcast/id1748188929 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Lyu594jw5luH1rujNcTZZ?si=386a7e7728f5461b Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7863b34c-b85c-4f67-8044-10dd08cfb660/adjusting-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdjustingPodcast Substack Channel: https://justingnelson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Guest/Topic submissions: adjustingpod@gmail.com Disclaimer: Adjusting Podcast is NOT a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

    S3E24 — Adjusting to Your Own Voice: Finally Trusting the Loudest Voice in the Room

  2. Jul 20

    Adjusting Your Love: You Can Be Loved With Empty Hands

    You've spent years believing your hands have to be full before you're allowed to be loved — full of gifts, effort, fixing, performing. This week, we're taking that belief apart. Inspired by a street interview where a woman describes the first time someone showed up for her with nothing to offer but her presence, this episode addresses where the belief that love has to be earned actually comes from (childhood conditioning, religious performance culture, hustle culture), adjusts the difference between giving from fear and giving from desire, and applies five practical ways to start letting yourself receive love without earning it. We bring in bell hooks' All About Love and Dr. Thema Bryant's Homecoming to ground this in both a spiritual and psychological lens — because coming home to yourself might be the whole point. This one's tender. Come sit with me. 🎧 Season 3, Part 3: Adjusting to Center — Building a Life Around What Matters Most Referenced in this episode: All About Love by bell hooksHomecoming: Healing Trauma to Reclaim Your Authentic Self by Dr. Thema BryantLet’s Connect!  Website: www.adjustingpod.com Social Media: @adjustingpod on Instagram | Facebook | Youtube | TikTok Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adjusting-podcast/id1748188929 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Lyu594jw5luH1rujNcTZZ?si=386a7e7728f5461b Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7863b34c-b85c-4f67-8044-10dd08cfb660/adjusting-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdjustingPodcast Substack Channel: https://justingnelson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Guest/Topic submissions: adjustingpod@gmail.com Disclaimer: Adjusting Podcast is NOT a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

    Adjusting Your Love: You Can Be Loved With Empty Hands

  3. Jul 13

    Adjusting to Disappointing Others: The Cost of Living Centered

    If you've been doing the work to build a life that's actually yours, you've probably run into this truth already: someone is going to be disappointed by it. This week, we're sitting with that discomfort head-on — why disappointing someone can feel like the scariest thing in the world, where that fear actually comes from, and how to stop treating other people's disappointment as your emergency. In this episode, we talk about: Why people-pleasing is a survival strategy, not a personality traitHow childhood conditioning, trauma, and cultural or religious messaging teach us that love is conditionalThe fawn response, rejection sensitivity, and the fear of abandonment hiding underneath "I'm just easygoing"The cognitive distortions keeping you stuck in the performance (mind reading, fortune telling, should statements)A historical lesson on leadership, sacrifice, and why some people have to keep moving forward even when it disappoints the people behind themFive original, non-clinical ways to disappoint people without losing yourselfThis one is validating, a little uncomfortable, and exactly what you need to hear if you're tired of managing everyone else's feelings at the expense of your own life. 🎧 New episodes every week. Follow Adjusting so you never miss one. Let’s Connect!  Website: www.adjustingpod.com Social Media: @adjustingpod on Instagram | Facebook | Youtube | TikTok Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adjusting-podcast/id1748188929 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Lyu594jw5luH1rujNcTZZ?si=386a7e7728f5461b Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7863b34c-b85c-4f67-8044-10dd08cfb660/adjusting-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdjustingPodcast Substack Channel: https://justingnelson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Guest/Topic submissions: adjustingpod@gmail.com Disclaimer: Adjusting Podcast is NOT a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

    Adjusting to Disappointing Others: The Cost of Living Centered

  4. Jul 6

    Adjusting Your Access: Not Everyone Gets All of You

    In this episode, we're talking about access: the difference between who has a right to your time, your energy, and your inner world, and who's simply been given it out of habit, guilt, or fear. You'll learn what access actually means and how it's different from love, where your unrestricted access habits come from (family conditioning, the fawn response, people-pleasing, social media oversharing), and how to build discernment, the muscle that lets you pause and actually choose what you give people instead of handing it over on autopilot. We get into how misaligned access shows up in your body: the dread before a phone call, the exhaustion after time with certain people, the relief when you finally set a limit, and what it looks like to grieve the "open door" version of yourself while extending yourself grace for giving access you didn't know you were allowed to take back. We close with five practical ways to start deciding, on purpose, who gets to touch the life you're building, plus a spiritual layer on discernment as an act of stewardship rather than selfishness. This episode is for anyone who's ever felt drained by people who technically "love" them, anyone still giving full access out of guilt or history, and anyone ready to start protecting the centered life they're building. Subscribe to Adjusting for weekly episodes on healing, boundaries, and building a life that's actually yours. Let’s Connect!  Website: www.adjustingpod.com Social Media: @adjustingpod on Instagram | Facebook | Youtube | TikTok Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adjusting-podcast/id1748188929 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Lyu594jw5luH1rujNcTZZ?si=386a7e7728f5461b Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7863b34c-b85c-4f67-8044-10dd08cfb660/adjusting-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdjustingPodcast Substack Channel: https://justingnelson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Guest/Topic submissions: adjustingpod@gmail.com Disclaimer: Adjusting Podcast is NOT a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

    Adjusting Your Access: Not Everyone Gets All of You

  5. Jun 29

    Adjusting Your Timeline: Stop Racing a Clock That Was Never Yours

    There's an invisible schedule most of us have been running without ever questioning it — married by this age, career figured out by that one, house, kids, stability, all in the right order. Nobody handed it to us directly. We absorbed it. From tradition, from capitalism, from a culture that celebrates certain milestones loudly and lets others go quietly unremarked. In this episode, we're naming the borrowed timeline — where it came from, what it costs us, and what it actually looks and feels like to start building one that's yours. We talk about the difference between a goal you genuinely want and a milestone you're chasing just to stop feeling behind. We get into what it looks like to grieve the life you thought you'd have by now — without making that grief mean something is wrong with you. And we talk about the body: the restlessness, the low-grade urgency, the nervous system that doesn't know the difference between a real threat and the feeling of being behind on your own life. This episode is for the person who has been quietly measuring their chapter three against someone else's chapter eight. It's permission to put the borrowed timeline down — and start building something that actually fits. Topics: timeline pressure, comparison culture, should-statements, somatic awareness, disenfranchised grief, values-based living Let’s Connect!  Website: www.adjustingpod.com Social Media: @adjustingpod on Instagram | Facebook | Youtube | TikTok Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adjusting-podcast/id1748188929 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Lyu594jw5luH1rujNcTZZ?si=386a7e7728f5461b Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7863b34c-b85c-4f67-8044-10dd08cfb660/adjusting-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdjustingPodcast Substack Channel: https://justingnelson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Guest/Topic submissions: adjustingpod@gmail.com Disclaimer: Adjusting Podcast is NOT a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

    Adjusting Your Timeline: Stop Racing a Clock That Was Never Yours

  6. Jun 22

    Adjusting Your Center: Uprooting Yourself from Societal Norms

    Welcome to Part 3, bestie. We made it. We spent Part 1 learning to name the lies — the cognitive distortions, the "should" statements, the thought patterns that kept us shrinking. In Part 2, we walked through the fear and started choosing freedom anyway. And now we're here. Adjusting to Center. The part where we stop surviving and start building a life that's actually ours. This episode opens Part 3 with the question that makes everything else possible: What are you actually building your life around — and is it even yours? Because here's the thing nobody really says out loud: most of us have been living off-center for a long time. Not because we're weak. But because we were handed a map — by our families, our cultures, our religions, social media, capitalism — before we ever had a chance to learn the territory. And somewhere along the way, we started mistaking that map for the truth. In this episode, we're talking about what it really means to uproot yourself from the timelines, expectations, and "shoulds" that were never actually yours — and what it looks like to slowly, honestly return to your own center. In this episode: → What it means to live "off-center" — and why it doesn't always look like chaos → Where societal norms come from: family, culture, religion, capitalism, and the algorithm → How living off-center shows up in your relationships, career, creative work, and daily life → The grief that comes with realizing how long you've been performing someone else's life → How to tell the difference between your actual values and the ones you inherited → What being out of alignment feels like in your body and nervous system → What it looks like to start returning to yourself — even in the smallest ways → 5 things to sit with as you begin uprooting and rebuilding from the inside out → A spiritual layer for those in deconstruction or doing faith-adjacent healing work You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to be willing to ask what is actually mine? That question is the beginning of everything. 🎧 New episodes every Monday. Follow and leave a review. It helps more people find the show. Let’s Connect!  Website: www.adjustingpod.com Social Media: @adjustingpod on Instagram | Facebook | Youtube | TikTok Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adjusting-podcast/id1748188929 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Lyu594jw5luH1rujNcTZZ?si=386a7e7728f5461b Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7863b34c-b85c-4f67-8044-10dd08cfb660/adjusting-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdjustingPodcast Substack Channel: https://justingnelson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Guest/Topic submissions: adjustingpod@gmail.com Disclaimer: Adjusting Podcast is NOT a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

    Adjusting Your Center: Uprooting Yourself from Societal Norms

  7. Jun 15

    Adjusting to the In-Between: Permission to Be in Progress

    You're not who you were. And you're not yet who you're becoming. So who are you right now? You're in the in-between — and in this series finale, we're giving that space the love letter it deserves. We close out Season 3: From Fear to Freedom by exploring what it actually means to be a work in progress, and why our culture has convinced us that "unfinished" is the same thing as "broken." In this episode, we talk about why we rush to feel healed, done, and arrived and what that rushing costs us in our relationships, our creative work, our healing, and our daily lives. We sit with the grief that comes with identity in transition, connect it to the nervous system and childhood roots, and explore what it might feel like to stop apologizing for still becoming. We cover: Why "in progress" feels shameful and where that belief comes fromThe nervous system's role in our need for certaintyHow this shows up in healing, faith deconstruction, creative work, and relationshipsWhat self-compassion actually sounds like in real time (not the vague, inspirational kind)What safety feels like in your body when you stop rushing your own becoming5 things to carry with you as you give yourself permission to still be figuring it outThis episode ties together everything from this season, cognitive distortions, fear vs. intuition, living in the grey, curiosity, small steps, and the question we've been sitting with all season: what if it all works out? Spoiler: it already might be. This is the season finale, and it's meant to feel like a full-circle moment; warm, reflective, and a little like a love letter to every version of you that showed up this season, even the unfinished ones. Episode Mantra: "I am not who I was, and I don't have to be who I'll become, not yet. I am allowed to be in progress, and that is enough." Next week, we're going back to our regular programming — and we're starting with Adjusting Your Center. Subscribe so you don't miss it. Let’s Connect!  Website: www.adjustingpod.com Social Media: @adjustingpod on Instagram | Facebook | Youtube | TikTok Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adjusting-podcast/id1748188929 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Lyu594jw5luH1rujNcTZZ?si=386a7e7728f5461b Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7863b34c-b85c-4f67-8044-10dd08cfb660/adjusting-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdjustingPodcast Substack Channel: https://justingnelson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Guest/Topic submissions: adjustingpod@gmail.com Disclaimer: Adjusting Podcast is NOT a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

    Adjusting to the In-Between: Permission to Be in Progress

  8. Jun 8

    Adjusting Your Expectations: What If It All Works Out?

    This is the one everything has been building toward, bestie. All season we've been sitting with fear — where it lives in the body, where it started, how it shapes the way we love, create, and heal. Today we're asking the question that started it all: what if it all works out? Not as a cute affirmation. Not as toxic positivity. As a real, deliberate, daily practice of choosing possibility even when fear is still in the room. In this episode we're talking about why your brain is wired to expect the worst — and how some of that isn't just personal, it's generational. We're pulling from Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer and Dr. Mariel Buqué's Break the Cycle to talk about inherited narratives, ancestral hypervigilance, and what it actually means to heal not just for yourself — but for everyone who came before you and everyone who comes after. We're also getting into what possibility thinking feels like in the body, how to hold fear and hope at the same time without dismissing either, and five things to sit with as you start living like it could all work out. This episode is warm. It's expansive. And it's yours. If this episode found you at the right time, follow the show and leave a review — it means more than you know and it helps this conversation find the people who need it most. Let’s Connect!  Website: www.adjustingpod.com Social Media: @adjustingpod on Instagram | Facebook | Youtube | TikTok Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adjusting-podcast/id1748188929 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Lyu594jw5luH1rujNcTZZ?si=386a7e7728f5461b Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7863b34c-b85c-4f67-8044-10dd08cfb660/adjusting-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AdjustingPodcast Substack Channel: https://justingnelson.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips Guest/Topic submissions: adjustingpod@gmail.com Disclaimer: Adjusting Podcast is NOT a substitute for professional diagnosis or treatment.

    Adjusting Your Expectations: What If It All Works Out?
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This podcast is all about the journey of healing, growth and self-discovery. It's called Adjusting, and it's going to be a space for candid conversations and inspiring affirmations to help navigate life's inevitable changes and transitions. Whether you're recovering from trauma, redefining your purpose, managing mental health, or simply craving more authenticity - this show is for you. We'll get raw and real about confronting struggles, while motivating you to adjust your mindset every step of the way. I'll be bringing on amazing guests to share their own stories of resilience and reinvention. You'll hear practical tools for adjusting to your most empowered self through self-love, vulnerability and courage. This is about tuning into what your soul has been calling you towards. It's your weekly reminder that adjusting your life is possible with an open heart and mindset.

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  • Creator
    Justin G. Nelson
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    59
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Adjusting Podcast
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