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Heal The Hurt

Heal The Hurt

Kenny Weiss 541 Episodes Oct 13, 2026

Heal the Hurt is a podcast hosted by Kenny Weiss, an ICF Certified Life Coach and creator of the Worst Day Cycle, Authentic Self Cycle, and Emotional Authenticity Method. Each episode focuses on decoding the childhood emotional blueprint that drives triggers, shutdowns, and relationship cycles, offering root-cause tools for rewiring them. The show targets listeners who have tried other approaches like therapy, CBT, DBT, and self-help without lasting results, emphasizing that they are not broken but programmed. It offers a direct, no-fluff approach that avoids toxic positivity.

Episodes

How to Make Friends as an Adult: The Gas Pedal Rule
How to Make Friends as an Adult: The Gas Pedal Rule Oct 13, 2026 00:18:50 If making friends as an adult feels impossible, or every friendship turns into you doing all the giving, this is the one rule nobody taught you.How to make friends as an adult starts with pacing how fast you open up, and reading what the other person does with it.In this video I walk through a real client session: a woman who had cut off every friend she had, because every friendship became a one-
Emotionally Immature Parents: The Wound You Can't Point To
Emotionally Immature Parents: The Wound You Can't Point To Oct 6, 2026 00:28:06 Adult children of emotionally immature parents often say their childhood was fine, and still feel responsible for everyone's emotions as adults. This video explains why: an emotionally unavailable parent enmeshes a child just as surely as an overbearing one.A client of mine cried for twenty minutes after an ordinary phone call with his ex-wife. His earliest memory of that feeling was age five,
How to Stop Obsessing Over Someone: The Love Addict Trap
How to Stop Obsessing Over Someone: The Love Addict Trap Sep 29, 2026 00:22:34 If you can't stop obsessing over someone who barely shows up for you, this video explains why, and it isn't what attachment labels tell you.How to stop obsessing over someone starts with seeing what the obsession actually protects you from.In this video I walk through a real client session: two months fixated on a man she'd met a few weeks earlier, unable to remember anything he actual
Hyper-Independence Isn't Strength, It's a Trauma Response
Hyper-Independence Isn't Strength, It's a Trauma Response Sep 22, 2026 00:23:17 If you can't ask anyone for help, and "I've got this, I don't need it" runs your life, this is what it actually is.Hyper independence is not strength. It is a trauma response, and the one survival persona our culture rewards most.In this video: the day I described the person who drives themselves to the emergency room bleeding and says "I'm fine," and realized I
Coddling Isn't Love - It Says “I Don't Think You Can”
Coddling Isn't Love - It Says “I Don't Think You Can” Sep 15, 2026 00:28:51 Your parents paid for it, fixed it, called ahead and smoothed it over, and you grew up quietly enraged at people who were supposedly so good to you. Coddling is not love. Underneath it is an unspoken message: I don't think you're capable.In this video I show you why being rescued as a child arrests your development, why it leaves more rage behind than being yelled at, and what to do about
Trauma Dumping - How to Stop Being Everyone's Emotional Dumping Ground
Trauma Dumping - How to Stop Being Everyone's Emotional Dumping Ground Sep 8, 2026 00:29:26 You get off the phone drained again, and somewhere in that hour you realized they never once asked about you. Trauma dumping is what that is, and being everybody's emotional dumping ground is not a personality trait.In this video I give you the exact word for word response I use to decline being someone's emotional dumping ground without being unkind, plus the emotional absorption diagnosi
Fear of Rejection — Why No One Has Ever Actually Rejected You
Fear of Rejection — Why No One Has Ever Actually Rejected You Sep 1, 2026 00:29:19 You are not actually afraid of rejection. You are afraid of not being wanted, and those are two different wounds.In this video on the fear of rejection, I show you why no one has ever actually rejected you, and what was really happening instead.Most content on the fear of rejection teaches you how to soothe it. This one dismantles the premise. Nobody ever rejects us. All anyone is ever doing is pu
Why You’re So Hard on Yourself — The Federer 54% Rule
Why You’re So Hard on Yourself — The Federer 54% Rule Aug 25, 2026 00:27:13 Why am I so hard on myself? Because your self-criticism was installed in childhood, and Roger Federer's own career numbers prove the standard you're beating yourself with is a lie.In this video, trauma recovery and relationship coach Kenny Weiss explains where self-criticism really comes from, how to stop being a perfectionist by replacing the inner attack with a clean correction, and the
Passive Aggression — Why “Keeping the Peace” Is Quietly Destroying You
Passive Aggression — Why “Keeping the Peace” Is Quietly Destroying You Aug 18, 2026 00:16:53 Passive aggressive behavior is not a communication problem. It is self-abandonment, and every fake yes you say to keep the peace builds the quiet resentment that is slowly destroying you and your relationship.In this video, trauma recovery and relationship coach Kenny Weiss breaks down why you can't say no, why people-pleasing always ends in resentment, and why the "nice" partner is
Radical Acceptance - How to Stop Waiting for Them to Change
Radical Acceptance - How to Stop Waiting for Them to Change Aug 11, 2026 00:20:32 Radical acceptance means you stop expecting them to change, ever. It is not approval and it is not surrender, it is how you stop waiting and finally get your peace back.In this video, trauma recovery and relationship coach Kenny Weiss explains how to practice radical acceptance with a partner, parent, or difficult family member who will never change, why the arguments you keep losing are reality a
Self Deception - Why You Lie to Yourself Before Anyone Else
Self Deception - Why You Lie to Yourself Before Anyone Else Aug 4, 2026 00:25:18 Self-deception is the lie you sell yourself before you ever sell it to anyone else. This is why you can be sincere and manipulative at the very same time, and how to finally catch it.In this video, relationship and trauma recovery specialist Kenny Weiss breaks down self-deception, the quiet form of lying to yourself that keeps high-functioning, emotionally exhausted adults stuck for decades. Throu
Why You Rage at Your Kids - It’s Not About Them
Why You Rage at Your Kids - It’s Not About Them Jul 28, 2026 00:22:26 Mom rage and dad rage are almost never about your kids. If you keep asking why am I so angry at my kids, the answer is unhealed pain from your own childhood coming out sideways, and it can be rewired at the root.In this video, trauma recovery and relationship coach Kenny Weiss explains why you rage at your children, how to control your temper with your child by healing the real source instead of s

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