In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes

You heard your own voice come out sharper than the situation deserved, and you've been quietly worried ever since that this is who you're becoming. It isn't. Irritability is the first thing to go when there's no space left in your life, and in this episode we look at what your temper is actually telling you, why it always lands on the people closest to you, and the one minute...

You know the people who walk into a room and everyone in it sits up a little straighter, and somewhere along the way you decided you're just not one of them. This episode takes that decision apart. Dolly Parton spent sixty years making people feel bigger rather than smaller, and when you look closely at how she actually did it, it isn't a personality at all. It's a handful of...

There is a woman who has never once said "I love you." Not to her daughter, not to her granddaughter.

If you have someone like that, you've almost certainly stopped expecting the words, and you've probably landed on one of two conclusions. Either they don't feel it, or you're the reason. Neither is usually true. People who can't say it are rarely withholding it. They ...

You've had the same argument with your sister forty times and never once out loud.

This usually gets filed under overthinking, and you've probably concluded you're anxious, or dramatic, or that you can't let things go. You're none of those. You're doing something extremely reasonable and completely impossible, and nobody has ever named it for you.

You're looki...

You wake at three in the morning and your mind is already mid-sentence. Not a crisis. A conversation.

You've probably decided this is insomnia, or that something is wrong with your sleep, or that you're bad at switching off. None of those are what's happening. You surfaced the way everyone surfaces several times a night. The difference is that something was waiting th...