The Self Investment Project with Kathy Washburn | Emotional Wellness, Midlife Reinvention & Reclaiming Your Authentic Self

The Self Investment Project is a transformative podcast dedicated to those grappling with Type C traits—people-pleasing, emotional suppression, and conflict avoidance. Join us as we explore unique strategies to cultivate emotional well-being, empowering you to reclaim authenticity and resilience. Tune in to discover how prioritizing your emotional health can lead to a more fulfilling, joyful life, positively impacting your relationships and overall well-being. You are worth investing in! This podcast may be helpful if you have ever asked: What are Type C personality traits? How to stop being a people pleaser? What is emotional suppression and how does it affect me? What are the benefits of emotional intelligence in daily life? How to express my true feelings without fear? What are less talked about ways to boost immunity? To learn more about Kathy and her coaching services, head over to: h

The Self Investment Project with Kathy Washburn | Emotional Wellness, Midlife Reinvention & Reclaiming Your Authentic Self is a education podcast hosted by Kathy Washburn, with 81 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Kathy Washburn hosts The Self Investment Project with Kathy Washburn | Emotional Wellness, Midlife Reinvention & Reclaiming Your Authentic Self, a education show with 81 episodes published.

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  Episode #80

  Ep. 80 - Reclaiming Your Story: How Writing the Truth Can Heal Your Body with Cristina Simmons

  Aug 29, 202653 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail What if the story you have never told is the very thing standing between you and your own healing? In this episode, Kathy sits down with Cristina Simmons, an occupational therapist turned publisher, author, and founder of a company that helps everyday people write and self-publish their own books. Cristina shares how twenty years of emotional suppression, a marriage tested by grief and betrayal, and a rare femur tumor eventually became the very material that set her free. Cristina and Kathy trace the thread from disconnection to embodiment: the difference between a "ground crew" and a "co-pilot" in your life, what it means to finally become pregnant with yourself, and why writing your story down, even if no one else ever reads it, is one of the most healing acts available to you. This conversation touches on adoption, infertility, forgiveness, and the surprising link between self-devaluation and physical illness. It closes the loop on why reclaiming your story is not an indulgence. It is how you build your new normal. You will hear about: Why Cristina describes twenty years of her life as living "underwater," disconnected from her own body The moment she realized her femur tumor may have been connected to decades of stuffing down her own needs How her husband’s infidelity became the wake-up call that turned her inward instead of destroying her marriage The "ground crew vs. co-pilot" distinction for understanding who really knows your backstory Why she believes ninety-nine percent of people who could write a book never do, and what changes when they finally start The ripple effect of one woman finding her courage, and how it moved through an entire community view extended shownotes here Subscribe to Sense of Peace (Kathy's Substack) today! RECEIVE the attention you need to reconnect with your purpose. Click here to learn more about individual coaching with Kathy! If this resonated, the most generous thing you can do is share it with one woman who needs to hear it. One share grows this community more than any algorithm. Follow the show on your favorite platform, and come find me on Substack at senseofpeace.substack.com — that’s where the deeper conversation lives. And if you’re ready to stop just listening and start doing this work — visit kathywashburn.net . I’d love to talk with you. Until next time — keep investing in yourself. It is always, always worth it. #SpreadMadLove

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  Episode #79

  Ep 79 - Capacity vs. Capability: The Equation That Changes Everything with Emily Forbes

  Aug 14, 202656 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail Emily Forbes spent nine years as a CEO, winning awards and passing every performance review, while her body was quietly falling apart. In this conversation, Emily shares the equation she developed after ill-health retirement forced her to separate two things most of us have never been taught to tell apart: capability and capacity. We talk about the moment capability stopped being enough to override what her body was saying, the crash protocol she now uses on low-capacity days, and why interoception and simple breathing techniques matter more than willpower ever did. Emily is the author of Too Hard to Swallow and founder of Wylde Wellbeing, where she coaches high-achieving women rebuilding their lives after a diagnosis, illness, or major transition. This episode speaks directly to the Type C pattern of pushing through, staying capable on the outside while running on empty underneath, and offers a gentler, more honest way forward. Key Topics Covered ● The capacity equation: resource + recovery + regulation + support, minus demands and stress load ● Why capability isn't in the equation at all, and what that reveals about how we're praised ● Emily's crash protocol and the language of noticing versus labeling ● Interoception, body scans, and the parasympathetic sigh breathing technique ● Awareness before agency, and reclaiming choice after years of "capability override" ● Too Hard to Swallow: part memoir, part self-help, and the wellness plan template inside it View extended shownotes here Subscribe to Sense of Peace (Kathy's Substack) today! RECEIVE the attention you need to reconnect with your purpose. Click here to learn more about individual coaching with Kathy! If this resonated, the most generous thing you can do is share it with one woman who needs to hear it. One share grows this community more than any algorithm. Follow the show on your favorite platform, and come find me on Substack at senseofpeace.substack.com — that’s where the deeper conversation lives. And if you’re ready to stop just listening and start doing this work — visit kathywashburn.net . I’d love to talk with you. Until next time — keep investing in yourself. It is always, always worth it. #SpreadMadLove

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  Episode #78

  Ep. 78 - Type C to Type D: A Therapist’s Honest Look at Building Your New Normal with Leonore Tjia

  Jul 29, 202659 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail This week I'm bringing back a conversation that has stayed with me since we first recorded it, and repositioning it inside our Building Your New Normal arc, because it's the piece that unlocks what this quarter is really about. My guest is Leonore Tjia, a field guide to the inner world who helps people transform their emotional and relational patterns. Full disclosure: Leonore has also been my therapist for the last seven years. We talk about Type C patterns, the conflict avoidance, people pleasing, and emotional suppression many high achievers live inside without naming it. And we talk about the shift Leonore and I call moving from Type C to Type D: learning to differentiate instead of merge, to hold a boundary without losing the relationship, and to let your own needs matter as much as everyone else's. If you've ever wondered what a real transformation journey looks like from the inside, not the highlight reel version, this is it. In This Episode Where empathy and high sensitivity come from, and why they can be both a gift and a liability The difference between merging with someone and truly meeting them Four ways Type C patterns show up specifically in relationships What it actually feels like to move from Type C to Type D View extended shownotes here Subscribe to Sense of Peace (Kathy's Substack) today! RECEIVE the attention you need to reconnect with your purpose. Click here to learn more about individual coaching with Kathy! If this resonated, the most generous thing you can do is share it with one woman who needs to hear it. One share grows this community more than any algorithm. Follow the show on your favorite platform, and come find me on Substack at senseofpeace.substack.com — that’s where the deeper conversation lives. And if you’re ready to stop just listening and start doing this work — visit kathywashburn.net . I’d love to talk with you. Until next time — keep investing in yourself. It is always, always worth it. #SpreadMadLove

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  Episode #77

  Ep. 77 - Learning to Say No: The First Brave Act of Building Your New Normal with Kathy Washburn

  Jul 14, 202620 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail A people-pleaser's guide to saying no without guilt. Three practical scripts, one story about a boss who wouldn't take no, and why no is information, not rejection. If you've ever said yes when every part of you wanted to say no, this episode is for you. Kathy opens Part 1 of the Building Your New Normal series with a personal story about a former boss who kept overriding her boundaries during one of the hardest seasons of her life, and what she learned about the difference between a reflexive yes and a real one. Drawing on Kasia Urbaniak's concept of "the Smoosh" from her book Unbound, Kathy unpacks why saying no feels so loaded for high-achieving women who've spent a lifetime being agreeable enough to be liked and independent enough to be respected. She offers three practical "flavors" of no — the delay no, the clean no, and the relational no — that listeners can practice this week, plus this episode's twenty-seconds-of-insane-courage challenge. T opics Discussed: How to say no without feeling guilty People-pleasing recovery Building healthy boundaries Why high-achieving women struggle to say no How small habits create lasting life change Nervous system regulation and boundaries Self-worth and self-leadership Building your new normal Emotional resilience after divorce How to trust yourself again View extended shownotes here RECEIVE the attention you need to reconnect with your purpose. Click here to learn more about individual coaching with Kathy! If this resonated, the most generous thing you can do is share it with one woman who needs to hear it. One share grows this community more than any algorithm. Follow the show on your favorite platform, and come find me on Substack at senseofpeace.substack.com — that’s where the deeper conversation lives. And if you’re ready to stop just listening and start doing this work — visit kathywashburn.net . I’d love to talk with you. Until next time — keep investing in yourself. It is always, always worth it. #SpreadMadLove

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  Episode #76

  Ep. 76 - The Art of Listening to Yourself: Collage, Creativity and Coming Home to Your Body with Molly Meng

  Jun 29, 20261h 5m

  Send us Fan Mail You’ll also love… Ep. 7 — Writing Your Way to Authenticity with Lisa Weinert Ep. 5 — Tapping Into Body Intelligence with Miranda Holder Ep. 31 — Finding Connection and Belonging by Building Self Trust with Elise Bish What if the most honest thing you could do today involved scissors, glue, and a pile of old magazines? In this episode of The Self-Investment Project, Kathy sits down with artist, teacher, and self-described "walking show and tell" Molly Meng, whose collage workshops have a way of cracking people open, gently, joyfully, and sometimes unexpectedly. Molly's work is rooted in a simple but profound truth: we are all layered beings. And when we sit down with scissors and images that call to us, something quiet inside us begins to speak. In this conversation, you'll explore: Why collage is one of the most accessible forms of somatic self-expression How layering in art mirrors the layers we carry as human beings The healing power of making something with your hands without a plan or a grade What it means to work so slowly you can hear yourself living (yes, Elizabeth Gilbert makes an appearance) Molly's Traveling Postal Club, where strangers make collage postcards and mail them to people they love How procrastination might actually be a process, not a flaw View extended shownotes here Subscribe to Sense of Peace (Kathy's Substack) today! RECEIVE the attention you need to reconnect with your purpose. Click here to learn more about individual coaching with Kathy! If this resonated, the most generous thing you can do is share it with one woman who needs to hear it. One share grows this community more than any algorithm. Follow the show on your favorite platform, and come find me on Substack at senseofpeace.substack.com — that’s where the deeper conversation lives. And if you’re ready to stop just listening and start doing this work — visit kathywashburn.net . I’d love to talk with you. Until next time — keep investing in yourself. It is always, always worth it. #SpreadMadLove

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