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The Truth About Healing Podcast
The Truth About Healing is a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based podcast designed to cut through the overwhelming noise of modern wellness culture and explain what healing actually is and what it isn’t.
In an era flooded with mental health misinformation, toxic positivity, spiritual bypassing, and oversimplified “coping strategies,” this podcast offers clarity, accuracy, and grounded nervous system education.
Hosted by EMDR therapist and consultant Dana Carretta-Stein, the show reframes symptoms as intelligent survival responses and helps listeners understand why they feel stuck, burned out, anxious, or disconnected without shame or pathology.
This podcast bridges the gap between clinical knowledge and real life, translating complex concepts like EMDR, polyvagal theory, attachment trauma, and nervous system regulation into language that makes sense and actually helps.
Episodes
29 episodes
Episode 14: Marriage in the Hard Years with Eric Stein
What does it actually take to keep a marriage strong when you're raising young kids, running multiple businesses, exhausted, ambitious—and very different people?For this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana is joined by her mo...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Your Body Hasn’t Moved On
You understand what happened.You've talked about it. You've analyzed it. You know logically that it's in the past.So why does your body still react like it's happening right now?In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why ...
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Episode 13: Divorce, Trauma & Truth with Gus Dimopoulos
What if everything you think you know about “winning” a divorce is wrong?In Episode 13 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with leading New York family law attorney Gus Dimopoulos, managing partner of Dimopoulos Law ...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Grief Isn’t Trauma
Grief and trauma are not the same thing.Grief is the pain of what happened. Trauma is what your nervous system keeps reliving afterward.That's why something can have happened years ago—and your body can still respond as if ...
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Episode 12: Reinventing Yourself with Mary Belletieri
What if you don't have to have your life completely figured out before you start?And what if changing your mind isn't failure, it's growth?In Episode 12 of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with author, entrepreneur, ...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Survival With Better Branding
People praise high-functioning trauma all the time.You're so strong.You're so resilient.You're so good under pressure.But sometimes what looks like strength from the outside is actually surviv...
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Episode 11: Healing After Loss with Dorothy Cascerceri Simone
What happens when life keeps handing you losses you never imagined you'd have to survive?In this deeply personal episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with Dorothy Cascerceri Simone, host and executive producer...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Functioning Isn’t Healing
💣 Truth Bomb: Functioning Isn’t HealingYou go to work. You pay your bills. You take care of your family. You show up for everyone who needs you.So you must be okay… right?Not necessarily.In this Truth Bomb, Da...
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Episode 10: Beyond the Badge with Nick Ricciotti (Part 2)
What keeps first responders healthy, not just on the job, but for life?In Part 2 of Dana's conversation with licensed associate counselor, former law enforcement officer, and Vice President of Reps For Responders, Nick Ricciott...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Addiction Needs Safety
Most people think addiction is a lack of willpower or discipline.The truth? Addiction often begins as your nervous system's attempt to survive.In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why addiction isn't simply about the substance—it's a...
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Episode 9: Rock Bottom to Recovery with Nick Ricciotti
What happens when the career you've built your identity around suddenly disappears?In this deeply honest episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with licensed associate counselor, former law enforcement officer, and Vic...
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Episode 8: Leadership Through Healing with Dave Reggina
What if the best leadership lesson isn't learned in a boardroom but in a therapist's office?In this powerful episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with leadership coach, bestselling author, podcast host, and founder o...
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💣 Truth Bomb: You Don't Need a Better Routine
Do you keep telling yourself, "If I could just find the perfect morning routine, planner, or schedule, I'd finally stop feeling burned out?"That's a myth.In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why burnout isn't a planning prob...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Burn-out is not a Time-Management Problem
Think burnout means you need a better planner, a more organized calendar, or stronger productivity habits?Think again.In this Truth Bomb, Dana busts one of the biggest myths about burnout: it's not a time management issue, it's a ...
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Episode 7: The Truth About Burnout, Play & Why Adults Forgot How to Have Fun
Can a tiny hamster teach us something about healing?Maybe.In this lighthearted but deeply meaningful episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana and Claudio are joined by a surprise guest - Hammy, Dana's son's pet hamster whic...
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Episode 6: Leadership, Resilience & the Power of Self-Reflection with Dan Singer (Part 2)
In Part 2 of Dana's conversation with EOS Implementer, leadership coach, Marine Corps instructor, and friend Dan Singer, the discussion moves beyond business and into something even deeper:How adversity shapes us.Through ho...
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Episode 5: The Truth About Leadership, Accountability & Difficult Conversations with Dan Singer
In this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana sits down with business coach, EOS Implementer, Marine Corps leader, and longtime friend Dan Singer for a powerful conversation about leadership, communication, accountability, and ...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Clarity Doesn't Come Before Action
If you've ever told yourself, "I just need to figure this out before I act," this episode is for you.In this Truth Bomb, Dana breaks down one of the biggest myths that keeps people stuck: the belief that clarity comes first....
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💣 Truth Bomb: Overthinking Doesn't Create Clarity
In this Truth Bomb, Dana explains why overthinking isn't actually helping you solve the problem, it's helping your nervous system avoid uncertainty.The more your brain chases certainty, the more mental noise it creates. Before long, you'...
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Episode 4: Overthinking Isn’t the Problem, Your Nervous System Is.
Do you constantly replay conversations, analyze every possible outcome, or feel trapped in an endless loop of "what if" thinking?In this episode of The Truth About Healing, Dana Carretta-Stein and Claudio unpack the real reason ov...
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💣Truth Bomb: Stop Winging Your EMDR Treatment Plans
EMDR isn't just about learning the protocol, it's about knowing where you're going and why.In this Truth Bomb, Dana challenges EMDR therapists to take an honest look at their treatment planning process. Could another therapist seamlessly...
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💣 Truth Bomb: Stop Explaining Yourself
Why do you keep explaining yourself?Why do you feel the need to overexplain, justify your decisions, or soften your needs before you say them out loud?Here's the truth: that's not communication.That's self-protection.
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Episode 3: A Therapist's Journey From Panic Attacks to Healing (ft. Frank Sarrapochiello)
Most people hear about EMDR and think it's just moving your eyes back and forth.It's not.In this deeply honest conversation, Dana sits down with Peaceful Living therapist Frank Voce, who brings a rare perspective: he's experienced...
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💣 Truth Bomb: They Didn't Trigger You
Let me say something that might annoy a few people:Nobody "triggered" you.You got triggered by something.That may sound like semantics, but it's actually one of the most important shifts you can make in your healing journey...
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💣Truth Bomb: You're Not Broken. You're Adapted.
What if there's nothing wrong with you?Most people spend years criticizing themselves for anxiety, overthinking, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, or feeling constantly on edge. But what if those behaviors aren't signs that you're bro...
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