True Crime & Anxiety: Lauren Owens Case and Mental Health Insights

About this episode

This episode explores the psychological impact of deception and betrayal, focusing on the case of Lauren Owens and providing recovery skills for managing anxiety and trust issues.

This true crime episode examines the Lauren Owens case through the lens of anxiety and stress management. Discover grounding exercises, cognitive reframing strategies, and emotional resilience techniques to help cope with betrayal and rebuild trust. This true crime psychology episode reviews new developments in the case of Lauren Owens, an Arizona woman accused of faking multiple pregnancies, forging ultrasound images and lab results, and committing perjury in court to keep men, including former Bachelor contestant Clayton Eckard, tied to her, culminating in 14 felony counts, a trial set for July 29, 2026, and a plea offer from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office extended in late February 2026 that expires April 24, 2026 (with a status hearing April 9). The host, a Licensed Professional Counselor, offers speculative, non-diagnostic clinical analysis based on public facts, discussing patterns such as pathological lying, anxious-preoccupied attachment and abandonment fear, fictitious-behavior dynamics, narcissistic traits, gaslighting, and relational trauma affecting victims. A comparable case (Kaitlyn Braun in Ontario) is cited to illustrate similar pregnancy-fabrication…

People in this episode

Host: John Cordray

Topics covered

• mental health
• true crime
• anxiety
• deception
• emotional resilience

Keywords

• fabricated pregnancies
• anxious attachment
• cognitive reframing
• nervous system regulation
• pathological lying
• gaslighting
• relational trauma

Mentioned in this episode

Products: MyndStill

Books & works: Bachelor, The Mental Freedom

Places: Arizona, Ontario

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