The Shadows We Cast

<p>In this episode of 'The Shadows We Cast', Jenn sits down with David Granirer — counselor, stand-up comic, and founder of Stand Up For Mental Health™ — to explore what it means to live for decades without language for...

<p>Misty Pratt, author of All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women’s Mental Health, joins Jennifer St John for a layered conversation about women’s mental health, systemic bias, emotional inheritance, and the...

<p>In this episode, Jenn St John sits down with psychotherapist and trauma expert <b>Jenifer Freedy </b>for a deeply grounding conversation about nervous systems, survival patterns, and what it really means to...

<p>In this episode, I sit down with Caitlin Morrison, Executive Director of the Matthew Perry House, to talk about the experience of loving someone through the illness of addiction — and what it means to carry that...

<p>In this episode of The Shadows We Cast, I sit down with Tychon Carter for a conversation about identity, self-trust, and what it really means to come back to yourself.</p><p>Tychon shares his experience of growing up...

<p><b>Amanda Patrick joins me for a conversation about inheritance—what we’re given, what we absorb, and what we eventually have to decide to do with it.</b></p><p>In this episode, Inheritance, Amanda shares the story...

<p>In this episode of The Shadows We Cast, I sit down with <b>Christina Orfanakos, MSW, RSW—Registered Social Worker and founder of Grace North Therapy</b>—for a conversation about attachment, survival patterns, and...

<p><b>Season 2 opens with a powerful conversation about connection, regulation, and breaking cycles.</b></p><p>In this episode of The Shadows We Cast, Jennifer St. John sits down with clinical psychologist, bestselling...

<p>Some endings arrive slowly. Ours did not.</p><p>In this final episode of Season 1, my sisters and I share the most personal part of our story—the goodbye. After years of surviving our mom’s untreated mental illness...

<p>This week on The Shadows We Cast, my sisters, Kate and Teresa, and I return for Part 3 of our story — the chapter where things began to change. After years of boundaries, heartbreak, and distance, our mom started to...

<p>In this final chapter of our second sister series, my sisters Kate, Teresa, and I reflect on the slow, complicated shift—the one that happened in our mother’s final years, and the one we had to make in ourselves to...

<p>In this powerful follow-up to last week’s episode, we continue our sister series exploring early adulthood after growing up with a parent facing untreated mental illness and addiction. This chapter focuses on the...

<p>This is the first of a three-part series exploring the messy, complicated years of early adulthood—when my sisters, Kate and Teresa, and I began to navigate the emotional weight of our mom’s mental illness and...

<p>Ever wonder what it’s like to grow up desperate to escape, but terrified to leave the ones you love behind?</p><p><br/>In this episode, we talk about those late-teen years—when our mom’s drinking and untreated mental...

<p><b>Survival: Sisterhood, Poverty, and the Moments That Shaped Us</b></p><p>In this second episode of The Shadows We Cast, I sit down again with my sisters, Kate and Teresa, to pick up where we left off—navigating the...