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 82 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Kathy Washburn hosts The Self Investment Project with Kathy Washburn | Emotional Wellness, Midlife Reinvention & Reclaiming Your Authentic Self, a education show with 82 episodes published.

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  Episode #82

  Ep. 82 - Same Badge, New Scars: Returning to Work After Cancer with Christine Anastos

  Sep 29, 20261h 10mS4

  Send us Fan Mail You'll also love… Ep. 01 - Type C Defined with Dr. Lydia Temoshok Ep. 04 - Radical Self-Care with Leonore Tjia Ep. 05 - Tapping Into Body Intelligence Christine G. Anastos spent seventeen years as her mother's caregiver before becoming a patient herself. She built Connect and Thrive, known as CAT, to close a gap she lived through firsthand: conventional medicine can get you to remission, but almost nothing addresses the underlying conditions, physical, emotional, and financial, that got you there in the first place. At the center of CAT is the Kitty Fund. Friends and family contribute, and one hundred percent of the money goes directly to the patient to spend inside a vetted marketplace of coaching, energy medicine, nutrition, and other integrative practitioners. There is also a lower-lift version, a CAT e-gift card, for people who want to give without asking a patient to publicly tell her story. Kathy and Christine talk about the split between Christine's professional and personal selves, fierce and unyielding at work, giving until there was nothing left everywhere else, and what she now recognizes as her own Type C personality. They talk about her blog post on returning to work after cancer, same badge, new scars underneath the blazer, and why the kindest response to someone in that transition is a question, not an assumption. And they talk about Christine's realization, watching both of her parents move through illness, that caregivers left unchecked can become the next patients. Topics Discussed returning to work after cancer Type C coping patterns caregiving and boundaries integrative cancer support asking for and receiving help identity after treatment 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 #81

  Ep. 81 - The Golden Spiral Path: Why Healing Isn't a Straight Line with Dr. Leslie B. Newman

  Sep 14, 20261h 3mS4

  Send us Fan Mail You'll also love… Ep. 01 - Type C Defined with Dr. Lydia Temoshok Ep. 04 - Radical Self-Care with Leonore Tjia Ep. 05 - Tapping Into Body Intelligence On this episode, Kathy sits down with Dr. Leslie B. Newman — psychologist, positive psychology educator, and author of A Daily Dose of Happiness — for a conversation about what happens when healing stops being a straight line. Dr. Leslie introduces her Magic Closet practice, a way of meeting a triggered emotional reaction with curiosity instead of judgment, and unpacks the difference between mindset and what she calls mood set — the emotional baseline we return to underneath our thoughts. The two of them trace her golden spiral path framework, a Wizard of Oz–inspired map for growth that circles back around rather than marching forward in a straight line, revisiting the same lessons with more capacity each time. The conversation lands on a single word: deserve. Dr. Leslie shares how reclaiming that word after a narcissistic relationship became the title of her book, and what it means to receive good things without having to perform for them first. This episode speaks directly to anyone who recognizes Type C coping mechanisms in themselves — people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, emotional suppression — and is ready to find their way back to feeling. Topics Discussed emotional healing people pleasing emotional regulation self compassion positive psychology mind body connection 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 #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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