The Ones who Overgive

The Ones who Overgive

From The Spiritual Shitshow Podcast by Julie Nguyen

May 18, 2026 · 14 min · Season 5 · Episode 26

About this episode

The episode explores the pitfalls of healing becoming an identity and the importance of reframing beliefs about being broken.

Send us Fan Mail Healing can save your life and still become a trap. We’ve both seen how easy it is to swap one kind of survival for another: scanning for what’s wrong, chasing the next supplement, the next diagnosis, the next nervous system technique, the next piece of trauma to uncover. When the “work” becomes your identity, it starts to quietly reinforce the belief that you’re broken. We dig into that uncomfortable turning point and the reframe that changes everything. We also talk about ...

People in this episode

Host: Julie Nguyen

Topics covered

  • healing
  • identity
  • trauma
  • self-discovery
  • overgiving

Keywords

  • healing
  • survival
  • trauma
  • nervous system
  • self-improvement

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