Feeling and Healing

Episode 41: Rebuild and Restore: A Soulful Talk About Liver Health and Recovering from Burnout with Victoria Rusk

In this soulful episode, Danielle sits down with Victoria Rusk, a Criminal Defense Professional, Author, and Astrologer, to talk about what it means to restore yourself when burnout hits hard. Together Victoria and Danielle explore the mind-body connection through liver health, the mind-body connection, and gentle spiritual insight. With touches of astrology and compassion, this conversation offers simple ways to rejuvenate your body, reset your nervous system, and remember that you truly are doing the best you can.

Episode 40: From Stigma to Strength: Michelle Steiner's Journey to Purpose

In this episode, Danielle sits down with Michelle Steiner, Writer, Photographer, and Author of Michellesmission.com, to dive into the often unspoken stigma surrounding learning disabilities – especially the belief that struggling to learn means you’re “not good enough.” Michelle shares her personal journey of discovering her purpose, redefining what learning looks like, and embracing her identity as a creative problem-solver. Together, they explore how learning differences can become powerful strengths, how shame and comparison hold people back, and why self-worth should never be measured by traditional learning styles. This conversation is raw, uplifting, and deeply validating for anyone who has ever felt “behind,” “not smart enough,” or misunderstood.

SPECIAL EPISODE: A Photo of Your Eye Can Reveal Your Trauma in Seconds: Mark of Encompass Life Explains EyeTalk™

What if a photograph of your eye could reveal your unhealed trauma, resentment and emotional blocks – in seconds? In this episode of the Feeling and Healing Podcast, Danielle sits down with Mark, Founder of Encompass Life and Creator of the Quantum Leap Technique, to explore iridology, consciousness, and a diagnostic eye-reading tool he has spent 17 years developing that can identify emotional blocks, resentment, adrenal fatigue and childhood trauma faster than any personality test ever could. This episode covers: - EyeTalk™ explained, How every organ and emotion is mapped in the eye - What the eye fibers reveal about alignment, manifestation and your emotional state - Resentment as a self-inflicted prison and how it appears visually in the eye - Negative self-talk in the eye and why people who carry it cannot receive compliments, money or love - OCD patterns, living life backwards by looking outside for something you can only feel inside - Adrenal fatigue and overwhelm and what a dilated pupil reveals - Burnout in entrepreneurs - The forgiveness story - Spontaneous physical healing and the emotional root cause behind physical symptoms - Left eye vs. right eye: Mom's lineage vs dad's, receiving vs giving - Why Myers-Briggs gives you a label but not a path to change

Episode 39: Food for Thought: Nutritional Strategies for a Healthier Brain with Lisza Crisalle

In this episode, Danielle sits down with Liza Crisalle, Health, Nutrition, and Mental Wellness Advocate and Educator, to talk about how nutrition influences your mental wellbeing, practical tips for shopping when you're at the grocery store, the gut-brain axis, and more!

SPECIAL EPSIODE: Resentment, Accountability, and The Relationship Skills Nobody Taught You with Karyn Spetz

If you feel like you are carrying the weight of every relationship in your life... Always giving, always adjusting, always making it work, then this one's for you! In this episode of the Feeling and Healing Podcast, Danielle sits down with Karyn Spetz, Relationship Coach and Social Worker, to explore Relational Life Therapy (RLT), people pleasing, nervous system patterns, resentment, accountability, and why the relationship with yourself is the foundation for every other relationship in your life. This episode covers: - What relational life therapy (RLT) is and how Terry Real’s approach differs from traditional couples therapy - People pleasing: Where it starts in childhood, how it shows up in adult relationships, and how to shift it - Why healthy relationships can feel uncomfortable and why your nervous system prefers familiar even when familiar is toxic - Neuroplasticity and building new relationship pathways: The brain analogy that finally makes it click - How to communicate your needs in a relationship even when speaking up never felt safe - Accountability in relationships and why the absence of it is a direct pipeline to resentment - Resentment as the silent relationship killer and Gottman’s Four Horsemen - Why one person cannot fill every cup and what realistic healthy expectations actually look like - Conflict is not the enemy: Harmony disharmony and repair is the real rhythm of healthy relationships