Samrœður – Conversations

1. Edge of Burnout (Lived Experience)

This episode is for people who have lived at the edge of burnout, over-sacrifice, or endless “optimization”—in service, caregiving, ministry, leadership, activism, or survival mode. You can speak honestly about what it did to your body, spirit, relationships, and how you began to step back from the cliff into something more sustainable (even if you’re still in progress).

2. Sustainable Discipline (Coach/Practitioner)

For coaches, trainers, chaplains, therapists, or mentors who work with discipline, performance, or spiritual practice. You can clearly name where “grind” becomes self-harm, and offer grounded alternatives: sustainable discipline, compassionate structure, and real tools for people who only know how to push too hard.

3. Losing Myself in Love (Lived)

For those who have shrunk, shape-shifted, or abandoned themselves to keep love, friendship, family, or community. You can talk about the cost of that, what finally woke you up, and how you began reclaiming your own skin without turning cold or cruel.

4. Boundaries in Love (Therapist/Guide)

For professionals who help people navigate attachment, codependency, trauma bonds, or people-pleasing. You can offer practical, trauma-aware insight into how real boundaries work in love—supporting devotion without self-erasure or manipulation.

5. Making Peace with Anger (Lived)

For those taught to fear or suppress their anger (cultural, religious, gendered, family reasons) who’ve since learned to see anger as information and protection, not just danger. You can speak from experience about finding a healthy edge instead of exploding or imploding.

6. Healthy Anger & Boundaries (Practitioner)

For therapists, somatic workers, clergy, or conflict practitioners who help people work with anger and say “no” without abuse. You can bring body-based, ethical, or spiritual frameworks for anger that protect rather than destroy.

7. Masking to Survive (Lived)

For ND, queer, spiritual, racial, or otherwise “othered” folks who’ve had to mask to stay safe—at home, work, church, school—and have slowly experimented with authenticity. You can speak concretely about why the mask was needed, and what safer, more honest living looks like.

8. Deprogramming ‘Good Child’ Scripts (Guide)

For those who support people leaving high-control families, religions, or roles. You can map how “be good, be quiet, don’t make trouble” becomes a cage, and how people can deprogram without burning their whole life down.

9. Unfinished Grief (Lived)

For people carrying grief that never got space or permission—death, estrangement, lost faith, lost identity, miscarriages, invisible losses. You can talk about long-haul grief, and what has (and hasn’t) helped you live with it.

10. Grief & Ancestors Work (Practitioner)

For grief workers, death doulas, chaplains, or ancestral practitioners who approach grief and lineage ethically. You can help listeners face loss and complicated ancestors without clichés, cultural theft, or spiritual bypass.

11. Body Shame & Visibility (Lived)

For those who’ve wrestled with body shame, gender expression, disability, aging, fatphobia, racialized bodies, or being visibly “other.” You can share how you’ve moved (even a little) from hatred or hiding toward neutrality, care, or proud presence.

12. Embodiment & Dignity (Practitioner)

For professionals working with body image, sexuality, gender, movement, or somatics in a trauma-aware, non-puritanical way. You can offer listeners language and practices for inhabiting their bodies with more dignity and less war.

13. Lifelong Outsider / In-Between (Lived)

For people who’ve never cleanly belonged—mixed heritage, 3rd culture, spiritual misfits, ND, queer, adopted, etc.—and have built a life in the in-between. You can speak to loneliness, creativity, and the slow building of real belonging.

14. Building Third Spaces (Community Builder)

For those actively creating or stewarding communities where misfits and edge-walkers can belong (online or offline). You can share what works, what fails, and how to build spaces that are safer, not culty.

15. Life After Identity-Job (Lived)

For ex-military, ex-LEO, ex-clergy, ex-activists, ex-any-role-where-“the job was my identity.” You can talk about losing that armor, the crash that followed, and the messy work of rebuilding a self.

16. Vocation Without Hustle (Coach)

For coaches, mentors, or organizers helping people create sustainable work and recognize unseen labor. You can speak to vocation that honors limits, care work, and community needs without grind worship.

17. Numbing & Coming Back (Lived)

For those who’ve used substances, sex, work, religion, food, fantasy, or scrolling to escape—and have some experience finding different ways to cope. You can talk honestly about what pulled you under and what helped you surface.

18. Coping vs Addiction (Clinician/Worker)

For addiction counselors, harm reduction workers, peers, or clinicians who understand nuance. You can help differentiate coping from addiction, speak to shame-free support, and offer realistic steps for people who are scared of their own habits.

19. Dark Thoughts, Still Decent (Lived)

For people who’ve had intrusive thoughts, violent fantasies, self-hatred, or heavy shame—and learned that having thoughts is not the same as being irredeemable. You can model radical honesty + responsibility without self-annihilation.

20. Ethical Shadow Work (Practitioner)

For therapists, spiritual directors, or mythworkers who do “shadow work” without glamorizing harm or selling edgy personas. You can talk about confession, accountability, curiosity, and safely meeting the parts we’d rather hide.

21. Leaving Harmful Communities (Lived)

For those who’ve left cults, extremist spaces, abusive churches, toxic units, or destructive families. You can share what leaving really cost, what helped you survive the fallout, and how you’re rebuilding.

22. Guiding Exits & New Community (Guide)

For practitioners supporting people through spiritual abuse recovery, deconstruction, or community transitions. You can offer frameworks for leaving well (or as well as possible) and forming healthier bonds.

23. Integrating a Hard Life (Lived)

For people who’ve walked through several of these terrains—trauma, faith shifts, loss, addiction, service—and are actively weaving them into a coherent, honest life. You don’t have it all figured out, but you’re integrating instead of disowning.

24. Story, Ritual & Integration (Practitioner)

For storyworkers, ritualists, chaplains, therapists, or culture keepers who help others make meaning without bullshit. You can share how narrative, small ritual, and blessing can anchor people after hard years.