Celeste The Therapist

Daily Shift 179: Your worth was never something you had to earn

Most of us grew up believing — consciously or not — that our worth was conditional. That it had to be earned through performance, achievement, behavior, or how well we took care of everyone around us. In today's episode, Celeste opens up the self worth conversation by challenging that belief at its root. Because the truth is your worth was never something you had to earn. It was always already there. And everything we've been talking about for the last several weeks — the burnout, the grief, the anxiety, the people pleasing — has been living in the gap between who you are and who you believed you had to be to deserve love. If you've been working your whole life to prove you're enough, this one is where it starts to shift. Today's shift: Notice one moment today where you're performing for worth instead of simply living from it. Classes [https://stwyt.com/events] Store [https://stwyt.com/store] Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@celestethetherapist] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582556684611] and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celeste.the.therapist/] Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@stwyt8] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566337261784]and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/stwyt_/]

Daily Shift 178: Choosing yourself is not selfish — it's survival

This is the episode the whole people pleasing cluster has been building toward. Because after everything — understanding where it came from, seeing what it costs, learning to disappoint people, reclaiming your reactions — it all comes down to this. Choosing yourself is not selfish. It is the most necessary, most courageous, most life-giving thing a people pleaser can do. And it's available to you right now. If you've spent your whole life putting yourself last and calling it virtue, this one is going to reframe everything. Today's shift: Choose yourself in one specific way today — not instead of caring for others, but alongside it. Events [https://stwyt.com/events] Store [https://stwyt.com/store] Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@celestethetherapist] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582556684611] and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celeste.the.therapist/] Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@stwyt8] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566337261784]and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/stwyt_/]

Daily Shift 177: You are not responsible for other people's reactions

One of the deepest beliefs driving people pleasing is this — if someone reacts badly it must be because of something I did wrong. But other people's reactions belong to them. Their disappointment, their anger, their withdrawal — those are their emotions to manage, not yours to prevent. In today's episode, Celeste draws a clear line between what is yours to own and what was never yours to carry in the first place. Today's shift: Identify one reaction from someone in your life that you've been taking responsibility for — and practice giving it back to them today. Events [https://stwyt.com/events] Store [https://stwyt.com/store] Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@celestethetherapist] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582556684611] and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celeste.the.therapist/] Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@stwyt8] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566337261784]and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/stwyt_/]

EP 542 The Week My Body Broke Down: What Grief Actually Feels Like

In this episode, Celeste gets personal about the loss of her older brother and what happened in her body after the funeral was planned and the logistics were handled. She opens up about the physical reality of grief — the neck and head tension that hit her the moment she finally slowed down — and why so many of us don't recognize grief in our bodies until it forces us to stop. Celeste breaks down the somatic response to loss, what's happening neurologically when we go into caretaker/logistics mode during bereavement, and why the "strong one" in the family often grieves last. If you've ever felt like grief hit you out of nowhere — or felt it in your chest, your neck, your sleeplessness before you felt it in your tears — this episode is for you. Topics covered: * Why grief is delayed when we go into planning/survival mode * How the nervous system stores what we haven't processed * Physical symptoms of grief that often go unrecognized * Tools for somatic release and nervous system support * Why grief ambushes us — and how to work with it instead of against it Events [https://stwyt.com/events] Store [https://stwyt.com/store] Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@celestethetherapist] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582556684611] and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celeste.the.therapist/] Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@stwyt8] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566337261784]and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/stwyt_/]

Daily Shift 176: How to sit with the discomfort of disappointing someone

Knowing you should say no is one thing. Actually sitting with the discomfort of someone being disappointed in you is another. For people pleasers that discomfort doesn't just feel bad — it feels unbearable. Like something is wrong. Like you've done something terrible. In today's episode, Celeste talks about why disappointing people feels so physically and emotionally overwhelming — and how to stay in your decision without caving just to make the feeling stop. Today's shift: Let someone be disappointed today — and practice staying in your decision anyway. Events [https://stwyt.com/events] Store [https://stwyt.com/store] Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@celestethetherapist] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582556684611] and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celeste.the.therapist/] Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock [https://www.tiktok.com/@stwyt8] , facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61566337261784]and instagram [https://www.instagram.com/stwyt_/]