MindSpa – The Podcast
MindSpa - The Podcast
Podcast Description
MindSpa is your go-to podcast for insightful conversations on mental health. Hosted by Michelle, Tina, the owners of MindSpa, each episode features roundtable discussions on key mental health topics, along with guest interviews. From stress management to relationships and personal growth, MindTalk brings professional insights in an engaging and accessible way. Tune in weekly for valuable discussions that support your well-being and help you navigate life’s challenges.
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Content Themes
The podcast addresses a variety of mental health topics including stress management, relationships, and personal growth. Episodes like 'When TikTok Becomes Your Therapist' explore the psychological impacts of social media, while 'Rewiring Your Thoughts Without Saying a Word' introduces neurofeedback as a transformative approach to mental health, revealing practical insights and community resources.
The MindSpa Podcast is your go-to space for meaningful conversations around mental health, healing, and personal growth. Hosted by Michelle Massunken RSW and Tina Wilston RP, co-founders of MindSpa Mental Health Centre, each episode explores key mental health topics through expert interviews and thoughtful roundtable discussions.
From managing stress and building stronger relationships to navigating invisible challenges, the MindSpa Podcast offers grounded, professional insights in a warm and accessible way. Tune in weekly for supportive, real-world conversations to help you feel seen, supported, and empowered on your wellness journey.
In this episode of The MindSpa Podcast, Tina Wilston explores what happens when personal growth shifts the balance in a relationship that once relied on one person smoothing every edge.
Beginning with a listener story about therapy, emotional labour, and a partner who preferred the “easy” version of love, Tina examines the quiet costs of people pleasing. She unpacks why setting boundaries for the first time can feel destabilizing, how accountability is sometimes experienced as criticism, and why ending a relationship may reflect integrity rather than failure. When someone becomes healthier, the relationship must adapt, and not every dynamic can make that shift.
The episode then turns to a second scenario: cancelling a family dinner due to emotional exhaustion. Tina challenges the myth that resilience means pushing through at any cost and offers a more sustainable model — one that includes rest, renegotiation, and shared responsibility. Strong families, she suggests, adapt to capacity rather than moralizing it.
Throughout the episode, Tina shares practical language for redrawing lines without escalating conflict: naming patterns clearly, stating limits directly, offering alternatives when appropriate, and accepting that not everyone will celebrate change. She also discusses how guilt can be used to discourage growth, and how “selfish” is often a mislabel for self-respect.
For anyone who has been told they are “colder,” “too sensitive,” or “harder to love” after becoming more self-aware, this episode offers grounded perspective and tools for navigating the discomfort that can follow personal change.
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The MindSpa Podcast
Thoughtful conversations about mental health, relationships, identity, healing, grounded in clinical expertise and steady human insight.
Hosts
Tina Wilston, M.Ed., Registered Psychotherapist
Co-Owner, MindSpa Mental Health Centre
Michelle Massunken, MSW, RSW
Co-Owner, MindSpa Mental Health Centre
MindSpa Mental Health Centre
Ottawa – Kanata & Gloucester
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