Hot Takes on Healing with Jess Leone
Hot Takes on Healing with Jess Leone
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Join Jess Leone (Your No B.S. Bestie) for a fresh, unfiltered take that cuts through the noise to dive DEEP into the raw & real aspects of healing! 💥💣 Each episode will feature candid conversations, personal stories, & bold insights that ”challenge the norm” & change the conversation around your physical, emotional, & spiritual well-being.
A note to our listeners: this is a ✨community-driven podcast✨, where REAL conversations take center stage. Since not all contributors can record in person, audio quality *may* vary across episodes!
Head over to www.yournobsbestie.com to connect further!
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The podcast explores themes of emotional well-being, self-compassion, community support, and personal healing. Episodes delve into topics such as self-love, boundaries, mindfulness, and personal transformation, with specific discussions on celebrating one's journey, navigating midlife, and the realities of recovery from trauma.
Hot Takes on Healing with Jess Leone is a community-centered podcast where real stories spark real change. We unpack the sh*t we don’t talk about enough when we’re growing, like the messy middle and the “feeling good after the pain”, and challenge the mainstream narratives that keep us stuck. Each episode is packed with raw stories, honest & unfiltered conversations, and mic-drop moments that remind you what’s possible when you come home to yourself.
Head over to www.jessleone.com to connect further!
Every October, I gather with women for something that looks a little wild from the outside: “The Great Pumpkin Smash”.
We write down the things we’re done carrying — the guilt, the grief, the rage — and then we smash those damn pumpkins into the ground. And this ritual actually comes in two parts:
Part one: expressing anger in a safe way: through sound, movement, & symbolic release so the energy has somewhere to go instead of living inside you.
Part two: being witnessed in your anger: surrounded by others who don’t flinch, fix, or fear it so your body learns that expression doesn’t equal rejection. That you can be fully seen in your fire and still be loved.
Why? Because women are taught that anger is ugly, that expressing it makes us dramatic or ungrateful. For so many of us, anger directed at us was never safe. It came as yelling, silence, punishment, or withdrawal. So our bodies learned early that anger — any anger — meant danger.
So instead, we swallow it. It turns into headaches, anxiety, exhaustion, people-pleasing. We become experts at smoothing things over, shrinking our reactions, smiling through it. And every time we do, that unexpressed fire gets stored somewhere in the body — our chest, our throat, our gut — simmering quietly under the surface.
Rituals like this give that fire somewhere safe to go. They let you express anger in a way that doesn’t harm you or anyone else and be witnessed in it without judgment. Because that’s the other piece of healing: realizing that your power, your voice, your raw emotion don’t make you “too much.”
They make you whole.
Join us for this episode as I share the story of that night, guide you through a short somatic practice for safely expressing anger, and let you hear directly from a few of our Sacred Circle sisters about their experience in the ritual.
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We will see you next Wednesday for our next episode!
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