Divorce is never easy but for female entrepreneurs, it can feel especially overwhelming. When your business is something you’ve built from the ground up, the thought of protecting it during a divorce can bring up fear, uncertainty, and a lot of unanswered questions.

In this episode of Thoughts from the Couch, I’m joined by divorce attorney, author, and podcast host Katherine Miller. Together, we explored what it really means to divorce with dignity, especially when you’re balancing the emotional weight of a separation alongside the financial realities of running a business.

Katherine breaks down the different pathways to divorce, from mediation to collaborative processes to litigation, and explains how choosing how you divorce can significantly impact your outcome. We also dive into the unique challenges female business owners face, including how businesses are valued, common financial blind spots, and the biggest mistakes to avoid when trying to “protect” what you’ve built.

This conversation is both grounding and empowering, helping you approach divorce with clarity, intention, and a deeper understanding of your options.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, stuck in your head, or disconnected from yourself while trying to build something meaningful, this conversation brings you back to what actually creates lasting confidence.

In this episode, Justine sits down with wellness and embodiment practitioner Yvonne Dellos to talk about what it really takes to break cycles of overthinking, burnout, and self-doubt. Yvonne shares her journey from growing up on food stamps and being on her own at 14 to becoming a nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and transformational speaker helping women rewrite their stories.

Together, they explore how confidence isn’t just something you think about. It’s something you practice through self-awareness, emotional regulation, and learning how to trust yourself again.

This conversation covers embodiment work, inner child healing, releasing limiting beliefs, and how small daily practices can help ambitious women feel more grounded while continuing to grow.

In this episode of Thoughts From the Couch, I sit down with healthcare innovator, researcher, and entrepreneur Lisa Marceau to talk about a topic that deserves far more attention: postpartum mental health for self-employed moms.

As a business owner preparing for maternity leave myself, this conversation felt deeply personal. We explored the emotional and practical realities that come with postpartum recovery when your income is tied to your ability to keep working.

We also talked about the wide range of postpartum mental health challenges women can face, including baby blues, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum OCD, postpartum PTSD, and postpartum psychosis. Lisa shares how her own experiences and research led her to create Joyuus, an evidence-based digital health platform designed to help moms identify symptoms early, feel more informed, and connect to support sooner.

This episode is both validating and practical. It’s for the mother trying to recover while keeping a business afloat, and for anyone who wants a better understanding of the support postpartum women actually need.

Episode 104: How to Lead Our Relationships with Love with Irene Greaves

We don't often stop to ask ourselves where we first learned what love looks like but the answer shapes almost everything about how we show up in our relationships today.

In this episode, I sit down with TEDx speaker and Lovescaping founder Irene Greaves to explore how family of origin, culture, and early experiences quietly build our blueprint for connection. We talk about why love is so often misunderstood as a feeling rather than a skill, and how mismatched definitions of love can create real conflict not just in romantic relationships, but in friendships and even at work.

Irene shares her 15 pillars of lovescaping, including humility, empathy, communication, trust, and boundaries, and I connect them to the patterns I see in my therapy room every day. We dig into how a lack of self-awareness, difficulty identifying needs, and struggles with boundaries often come from early conditioning not personal failure.

If you've ever wondered why certain relationship dynamics keep repeating, or you're looking for a more intentional approach to how you love, this one's for you.

In Episode 103 of the Thoughts from the Couch podcast, host Justine Carino shares a powerful solo conversation on the concept of emotional inheritance and how it quietly fuels anxiety and burnout in high-achieving women.

This episode explores why success doesn’t automatically create a sense of calm and why so many driven, capable women still feel on edge despite building thriving careers and families. Justine explains how the beliefs absorbed in childhood about achievement, safety, money, rest, and worth shape the nervous system and continue to influence leadership, relationships, and decision-making in adulthood.

Through personal stories and client examples, she breaks down how inherited patterns such as perfectionism, over-responsibility, and scarcity thinking show up in modern work life. Listeners are introduced to a three-phase framework for healing: identifying the family blueprint, regulating the nervous system in real-time, and intentionally creating a new definition of success that feels sustainable.

In Episode 102 of the Thoughts from the Couch podcast, host Justine Carino welcomes therapist and meditation teacher Layne Burkette for a practical conversation about nervous system regulation in everyday life.

This episode focuses on what to do when stress reactions take over, even when you’re doing everything “right.” Justine and Layne break down why insight and mindset tools aren’t always accessible in moments of overwhelm and how small, body-based resets help bring the nervous system back to safety so you can respond with more clarity and intention.

Listeners are guided through several short somatic practices designed for real-life use, including calming resets for stressful moments, transitions between work or parenting tasks, regulating before reacting with others, and winding down at night when the body feels exhausted but wired. Each practice is simple, quick, and easy to integrate into a busy day.