Anchor Moments

Krista Patrick
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Every person you pass has a story you don't know. The cashier who barely makes eye contact. The man on the corner you walk around. The refugee who lives down the street. The soccer mom who seems to have it all together. The advocate who won't stop fighting. Anchor Moments is a podcast about the experiences that made us who we are - the moments we can't stop being shaped by, whether we want to be or not. Each episode, one person shares their story. Not a celebrity. Not a politician. An everyday person, whose life you might have walked right past without knowing - and whose story, once you hear it, changes how you see them forever. Because I've come to believe one thing: it's impossible not to love someone once you know their story. Anchor Moments is trauma-informed, mental-health-aware, and built for the people who feel unseen, and for the people who want to see them.

  1. 3d ago

    Ep 33: I Feel so Healed, and Yet My Body Isn't There Yet

    At seventeen, Hana made a deal with herself. She was going to take her own life. She had decided that. What she negotiated was the timing - she would give herself until twenty five to do everything she wanted to do first. Make the music. Have the impact. Then go. She kept herself alive on a deadline. At twenty four and nine months, she had to admit she hadn't done any of it. That admission is what put her back in the hospital. There was no bed free, so they put her in an isolation room with a cot and a notebook, and she was furious. And then, with nothing else to do, she started writing. The question she wrote down changed the direction of her life. She still teaches it. What neither of us knew going in is that I did the same thing. Different decade, different reasons, same arithmetic - a list of everything I had to finish before I could die. You will hear me realise it in real time, on the recording, because we never spoke before we hit record. But the part of this conversation I think will find the most people is what comes after the healing. Hana has done the work. Years of it. Parts work, therapy, writing her whole story out in present tense so she could go back and be the age she was. And her body has not caught up. She still lives with chronic pain and fatigue, still unlearning a fight-or-flight her body was once completely right to build. When her therapist asked when she had last felt safe in her body, she had to say she never had. She is not talking to you from the far side of this. She says so plainly. We also get into parts work properly - what it actually is, why the intention behind even the parts you hate was good, and what changes when you stop asking a part why it's like this and start asking what it needs. In this episode: The deal at seventeen, and what "until twenty five" was actually buyingThe isolation room, the notebook, and the questionThe night a partner tried to kill her, and what she found out she wantedWhy she slept with a knife, and why her body still hasn't been told it's overParts work: intention versus effect, and talking to your body instead of fighting itA diagnosis she carried for nineteen years that she no longer carriesA heads up on content. This one is heavy. Childhood sexual abuse. Rape. A suicide attempt at fourteen. Psychiatric hospitalization. A partner who tried to kill her. Disordered eating. Chronic pain. She also talks about coming off medication after nineteen years - that was her decision with her own doctor, and it is not a suggestion for anyone else. Nothing in this episode is medical advice. Take what helps, and leave the rest. If you are struggling: 988 is the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US, by call or text. Hana's Mentions:Website: https://www.hanakahn.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanatalkspartsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hanatalkspartsSpotify (her music): https://open.spotify.com/artist/7w9MfGgDEg5V3L4Iw3vznPFrank Anderson: https://www.frankandersonmd.com/Internal Family Systems: https://ifs-institute.com/

  2. Oct 28

    Ep 32: They Said I Was Scaring the Other Women

    I’ve been pregnant six times, and I have four living children. This one is about the other two, Spencer and Bailey. The first time, nobody believed something was wrong until I was bleeding through towels in a waiting room full of pregnant women. Almost twenty years later, a doctor on his very first day trusted a feeling over his textbook, and that’s the only reason I’m here. Amber sat across from me for this one and listened. You’ll meet her on her own episode down the road. Take what helps, and leave the rest. Content notes: pregnancy loss, including a blunt description of a procedure; an ectopic pregnancy and a medical abortion; emergency surgery and nearly dying; suicidal thoughts and a mental health crisis. Also: doctors not believing me, hyperemesis, depression, a hysterectomy, military life, religion, and abortion law. If you’re struggling, you’re not alone: Postpartum Support International covers loss too, call or text 1-800-944-4773. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text 988. This week’s question: Who got it right when you were at your worst, and did you ever tell them? Tell me on Instagram at Anchor Moments Pod.

  3. Oct 21

    Ep 31: "I Was Sitting at the Bottom of the Ocean" - Niky's Story

    Niky Hamilton used to be the fix-it version of herself - a physiotherapist and business leader who believed that if you pushed hard enough, nothing could really go wrong. Then in February 2014, she and her husband lost their son. She describes what came next as sitting at the bottom of the ocean, wondering if she'd ever find the surface to breathe again. What she found on the other side isn't a bounce-back story. It's a free trip she almost turned down, one sentence from a book that cracked something open at exactly the right moment, and a full rewrite of what she now believes resilience actually is. Niky is a women's resilience coach and speaker today - not the woman who went into that ocean. In this one: The two real reasons she almost said no to a free trip that ended up changing everythingHer own three-stage map of grief, starting with something she calls "whitewater rafting" - nothing like the five stages you've heard ofThe one sentence, from a book, that gave her permission to receive helpWhat her husband was doing the day before the funeral that she almost judged him forThe word she'd use for who she is now - it isn't "survivor"The buffet-plate metaphor for why building your capacity back up still isn't the whole answer A heads up: this one is about the death of a child, and it doesn't look away from what that felt like in the body. Take what you need, including skipping this one. Something to chew on this week: what's overloaded on your plate that you've been pretending you can still finish? Come tell me on Instagram. FIND NIKY Website: nikyhamilton.comBook: Selfish Leadership: How to Lead Without Losing YourselfFacebook: facebook.com/nikyhamilton MENTIONED Dr. John Demartini - the "worthy of love" quote she credits as a turning point IF YOU NEED SUPPORT The Compassionate Friends - compassionatefriends.org - support for parents and families after the death of a childGriefShare - griefshare.org - grief recovery support groups, US and international988 - Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text, US, 24/7findahelpline.com - free, confidential support in over 100 countriesThe stories and views shared on Anchor Moments belong to the people telling them. They aren't always mine, and that's the point. I'm not here to agree, correct, diagnose, or decide who's right. Take what helps, and leave the rest. This show is not medical advice. Anchor Moments is a show about the moments that split a life into a before and an after, and who we became on the other side. New episodes every Wednesday. This show grows by word of mouth. If this one moved something in you, send it to the person you thought about while you were listening. And if you're not following yet, follow so the next one finds you. Got a story? anchormomentspod.com Instagram + TikTok: @anchormomentspod

  4. Oct 14

    Ep 30: "Sometimes It's Fear That Drives Us" - Jessica's Story

    At seven, home sick from school and watching Perry Mason reruns, Jessica told her parents at dinner that she was going to be an attorney. She was not being cute. She spent the next fifteen years measuring every decision against that one, and she has been practicing law ever since. About a year later, her mother was on the phone. Jessica wanted her, and her mother pointed at the next room: sit there and wait quietly, and I'll come. Jessica did the math a child does. Be good, be quiet, get the attention. She was in her forties before she could look at that pride and ask what else was holding it up. Then her mother got sick, and the whole structure came apart. Content notes. A parent's cancer diagnosis, terminal illness and death. Caregiving for a dying parent, and the medical decisions that come with it. Grief years afterward. A grandparent's death. The early COVID-19 pandemic. And a woman losing her business and her financial independence without being asked. Take what you need, including skipping this one. Question for this week: what did you decide about yourself when you were small, that you've never gone back and checked? Come tell me on Instagram. FIND JESSICA - Still practicing law, and the founder of Swankey, the event planning software: swankey.com - Instagram: @getswankey IF YOU NEED SUPPORT - CancerCare - cancercare.org - free counseling and support groups for patients, caregivers, and the bereaved - Family Caregiver Alliance - caregiver.org - support for people caring for a seriously ill parent - GriefShare - griefshare.org - grief recovery support groups, US and international - 988 - Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text, US, 24/7 - findahelpline.com - free, confidential support in over 100 countries The stories and views shared on Anchor Moments belong to the people telling them. They aren't always mine, and that's the point. I'm not here to agree, correct, diagnose, or decide who's right. Take what helps, and leave the rest. This show is not medical advice. Anchor Moments is a show about the moments that split a life into a before and an after, and who we're still becoming. New episodes every Wednesday. If this one moved something in you, send it to the person you thought about while you were listening. And if you're not following yet, follow so the next one finds you.

  5. Oct 7

    Ep 29: You Made a Choice, You Can't Sit With Us - Sabrina Fletcher on TFMR

    Everything went fine. It's what a doctor says when the procedure worked - no complications, nothing they didn't expect. It's meant kindly, and almost every time it's said in a hospital it's the best news in the building. For some people there's a second half. Sabrina Fletcher was almost thirteen weeks pregnant with a baby she and her husband had lit a candle for the night she was conceived. A scan found something the doctor spent an hour explaining, turning the screen around so she could see it herself. She had seven days to decide, in a state that wouldn't let her. She's a TFMR doula now - termination for medical reasons. If you've never heard the term, that's most of the problem, and we get into it. I tell you about my first loss in this one, and near the end, about my sixth pregnancy. That story in full is the solo episode later this month. A heads up: this episode is about losing a baby, and about ending a pregnancy that was wanted, after a diagnosis. There's a lot of medical trauma in it, including how she was treated during and after the procedure. There's postpartum with no baby. There's a death in the family. And near the end I talk about nearly dying in my sixth pregnancy. Take what you need, including skipping this one. Find Sabrina: she's on Instagram at @thetfmrdoula. Her podcast is Our TFMR Stories. Her grief circle, her decision-support calls and her membership are on her site at thetfmrdoula.com. Also mentioned: ARC - Antenatal Results and Choices (arc-uk.org), the UK organization Sabrina points people to. And Megan Devine's book, It's OK That You're Not OK. If you're struggling, you're not alone: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988). Postpartum Support International, 1-800-944-4773. If you're struggling, you're not alone: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988). Postpartum Support International, 1-800-944-4773. This week's question: When have you known something before you could explain it -and did you listen? Come tell me on Instagram @AnchorMomentsPod. Listen: pod.link/1884460039

  6. Sep 30

    Ep 28: Someone Snored At Me and I Stopped Talking-My Story

    Yes, I have a favorite type of road. Doesn't everyone? A few years ago I was at a dinner with my closest friends, talking about something I genuinely love, and one of my best friends threw her head back and made a snoring noise at me. Everybody laughed. I laughed too. And then I stopped talking about anything that mattered to me, for years. This episode is my life in this body - what it actually costs to live in one that doesn't cooperate, and what it costs more than that to live with everybody's reactions to it. In this one: - Chronic Illness; AuDHD, Tourette's, OCD, dysautonomia, MDD, chronic fatigue, Ehlers-Danlos, GAD, visual processing disorder, body dysmorphia, moral scrupulosity, sensory processing... If you have ever been called lazy by somebody who could not see what you were carrying, this one is for you. And if you have ever been the one doing the assuming, that's alright - I'd just like you to hold the conclusion a little longer next time. The stories and views shared on Anchor Moments belong to the people telling them. They aren't always mine, and that's the point. I'm not here to agree, correct, diagnose, or decide who's right. Take what helps, and leave the rest. Anchor Moments is a show about the moments that split a life into a before and an after, and who we became on the other side. New episodes every Wednesday. Got a story? anchormomentspod.com Instagram + TikTok: @anchormomentspod Take what helps, and leave the rest.

  7. Sep 23

    Ep 27: I Thought That Was My Personality. It Was a Food Allergy. - Mik's Story

    Mik was seventeen when a doctor finally explained why he could never keep up. A congenital heart defect. He was fit, he was trying, and he got tired faster than everyone around him, and now there was a reason. What he did with that reason is the story. He started asking what health actually is, and then followed the question for twenty years - out of New York City, onto a farm, into the soil, and eventually into the work he does now, where he argues that metabolic health and mental health are not two subjects. Somewhere in the middle of that, in his early twenties, he cut out gluten and then dairy and met a person he had never met before. Calmer. Easier to be around. The moody, cranky, hard-to-like kid he had always assumed he simply was turned out to be, in large part, a food allergy. And then, right after a burnout he did not see coming, he found out he needed open heart surgery. It was supposed to be open and shut. It was not. In this one: - The line that started this whole episode for me: "I wonder how many years I lost" - Why his cardiologist told a scared seventeen-year-old he was completely fine - and the very deliberate reason he said it that way - What magnesium has to do with fungus, rocks, and the way we farm - The 3am wake-up he tried to fix with chamomile, lavender, tart cherry, hot showers, cold showers, more exercise, less exercise - and what actually turned out to be causing it - The moment control stopped being available to him, and what he found underneath it A heads up: open heart surgery and a recovery that went badly wrong, burnout, my own mental health crisis and hospitalization, and chronic illness on both sides of the mic. There is also a brief mention of recreational drug use. Take what you need, including skipping this one. Not medical advice. Mik is not a clinician and neither am I, and this conversation gets specific about food, supplements and diets. Nothing here is a recommendation for your body. Talk to your own person before you change anything. FIND MIK - feelsila.com - the company he is building, for people navigating burnout or going on mental health leave. Currently early access, so there may be a wait list. - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mpozin - where he writes about metabolic psychiatry and burnout IF YOU NEED SUPPORT - 988 - Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text, US, 24/7 - findahelpline.com - free, confidential support in over 100 countries - Job Accommodation Network - askjan.org - free, confidential guidance on workplace accommodations and medical leave in the US - US Department of Labor - FMLA - dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla - what job-protected medical leave actually covers - NAMI HelpLine - 1-800-950-6264 - free peer support and navigation for mental health The stories and views shared on Anchor Moments belong to the people telling them. They aren't always mine, and that's the point. I'm not here to agree, correct, diagnose, or decide who's right. Take what helps, and leave the rest. Anchor Moments is a show about the moments that split a life into a before and an after, and who we became on the other side. New episodes every Wednesday. Got a story? anchormomentspod.com Instagram + TikTok: @anchormomentspod

  8. Sep 16

    Ep 26: Performing Normal: The Therapist Who Quit Being Good - Amy Watkins' Story

    Amy grew up in a house that ran on fear. Hellfire, rapture-any-minute, and a God who was mostly a punishment schedule. Being good meant being invisible. Wanting things was a sin - she circled the Sears catalog in her head, because circling with a pen got you in trouble. So she got good. Good at reading every room, good at being whoever the person in front of her needed her to be. Good enough to build a whole adult life on it: a marriage, a career as a therapist, a flawless performance of a woman who was fine. Then it came apart - the marriage, the family, and finally the performance itself. What's left is who you'll meet here: a trauma therapist who calls herself God's favorite problem, and the author of a book that leaves nothing out. In this one: Why a little girl crawled down the hallway at night to check that her parents were still in their bedsThe difference between estrangement and parental alienation - and why Amy is careful about which word she usesWhat setting a boundary feels like in your body when you've never set one (she has a very specific answer)Longing versus love, and how she finally learned to tell them apartWhy she says she even healed as a good girlThe sunset skydive, and what jumping out of a plane had to do with posting her first videoAmy is a licensed professional counselor and trauma therapist in Philadelphia. A hundred thousand people follow her at gods.favorite.problem. Her book, Performing Normal, is out now - and she didn't leave anything out. Warning - it's a heavy one: childhood sexual abuse (talked about honestly, not graphically), high-control religion, an affair, and estrangement and parental alienation - on both sides of the mic. Take what you need, including skipping this one. It'll be here when you're ready. FIND AMY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gods.favorite.problem/Performing Normal, her book - out now: https://www.amywatkinsstudio.com/bookEverything else: https://linktr.ee/gods.favorite.problemIF YOU NEED SUPPORT RAINN - National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673, or chat at online.rainn.org. Free, confidential, 24/7Recovering from Religion - recoveringfromreligion.org - free peer support for people questioning or leaving high-control religionNational Domestic Violence Hotline - thehotline.org, 1-800-799-7233 - includes coercive control, not just physical abuse988 - Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, call or text, US, 24/7findahelpline.com - free, confidential support in over 100 countriesThe stories and views shared on Anchor Moments belong to the people telling them. They aren't always mine, and that's the point. I'm not here to agree, correct, diagnose, or decide who's right. Take what helps, and leave the rest. Got a story? anchormomentspod.com Instagram + TikTok: @anchormomentspod

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Every person you pass has a story you don't know. The cashier who barely makes eye contact. The man on the corner you walk around. The refugee who lives down the street. The soccer mom who seems to have it all together. The advocate who won't stop fighting. Anchor Moments is a podcast about the experiences that made us who we are - the moments we can't stop being shaped by, whether we want to be or not. Each episode, one person shares their story. Not a celebrity. Not a politician. An everyday person, whose life you might have walked right past without knowing - and whose story, once you hear it, changes how you see them forever. Because I've come to believe one thing: it's impossible not to love someone once you know their story. Anchor Moments is trauma-informed, mental-health-aware, and built for the people who feel unseen, and for the people who want to see them.

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  • Creator
    Krista Patrick
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Krista Patrick
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