Rooted and Rising

By Carmela Maxell, PsyD, MA, MBA, LMHC, SUDP-T

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Episodes: 48

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R&R is where mental health, storytelling, and real life collide. Hosted by Dr. Carmela Maxell—author, licensed clinician, professor, and mental health advocate—each episode is an honest, unfiltered conversation with yourself and the world. Expect clinical insight delivered without jargon, personal stories that don't ask permission, and the kind of truth that healers, creatives, survivors, and seekers have been waiting to hear out loud. For those carrying too much. For the therapists who need therapy. For the writers who bleed on the page. For anyone rooted in something real and still rising.


Episode Date
It's Kinda Chic to Be... Vulnerable
Oct 27, 2026
Sunday Seeds of Thought: Your Life Is Not in the Waiting Room
Oct 25, 2026
The Life You Learned to Live: When Being Okay Becomes a Substitute for Being Happy
Oct 20, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: You Are Allowed to Have an Uneventful Life
Oct 18, 2026
Silence Is a Complete Sentence: Why You Don't Owe Everyone a Response
Oct 13, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: Overnight Oats, Not Overnight Overboard
Oct 11, 2026
Loneliness Is Not a Curse: When Empty Space Starts to Feel Like Rejection
Oct 06, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: You Don’t Get a Gold Star for Running on Empty
Oct 04, 2026
Your Trigger is NOT a Fortune Teller
Sep 29, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHTS: Being Needed Is Not the Same as Being Valued
Sep 27, 2026
“I Don’t Need Another Life Lesson”: When Life Be Lifein’ and Throws Curveballs
Sep 22, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: Solving For X When You Don't Know WHY
Sep 20, 2026
Nobody Knows What They’re Doing: The Myth of the Fully Functioning Adult
Sep 15, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: You Don’t Have to Earn Your Bed
Sep 13, 2026
What Love Never Looks Like: Domestic Violence, Interpersonal Violence, and the Courage to Heal
Sep 08, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: Don’t Forget Your Lunch… or Your Limits
Sep 06, 2026
MIDNIGHT REFLECTION: I Miss When the Future Felt Far Away
Sep 04, 2026
Aging With Dignity: Mental Health, Autonomy & the People Our Systems Overlook
Sep 01, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: The World Doesn’t Stop When Yours Does
Aug 30, 2026
Looking in the Mirror: Self-Reflection, Accountability, and the Systems That Shape Us
Aug 25, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: Sunday Sleep Is NOT Your Rest
Aug 23, 2026
You’re Just Not Likeable: The Difference Between Being Authentic and Being Insufferable
Aug 18, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: Nothing Extraordinary Happened Today
Aug 16, 2026
Healing After Survival: Street Violence, Recovery, and Learning to Live Again
Aug 11, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: Stop Auditioning for Your Own Life
Aug 09, 2026
The Body REMEMBERS: The Physical & Physiological Effects of Trauma
Aug 04, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: Protect Your Peace Before You Protect Your Productivity
Aug 02, 2026
The Debt Always Comes Due: What Happens When We Ignore Our Mental Health
Jul 28, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: The Karen Syndrome: When Confidence Outruns Competence
Jul 26, 2026
"The Tests Were Normal" — Medical Gaslighting and What It Does to a Mind
Jul 23, 2026
The Cost of Compromise: Moral Injury and the Hidden Wounds of People of Color
Jul 21, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: The Post-It Note Effect: Why Planning Isn't Progress
Jul 19, 2026
MIDNIGHT REFLECTION: Ghosted: Why Unfinished Conversations Hurt So Much
Jul 17, 2026
The Price of Being Pleasant
Jul 14, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: A Case of the Mondays... Or a Case of Your Mindset?
Jul 12, 2026
MIDNIGHT REFLECTION: You Have the Right to Remain Silent: Moving Quietly Through Your Successes
Jul 10, 2026
Creating Your Own Seat At the Table: Entrepeneurship, Purpose, And the Power of Representation
Jul 07, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT: Dear Leader... The People You Lead Are Watching How You Rest
Jul 05, 2026
MIDNIGHT REFLECTION: The Cost of the Comment: Why We Troll and Why It Hurts
Jul 03, 2026
Shedding Skin: Why Becoming Yourself Often Feels Like Loss
Jul 01, 2026
SUNDAY SEEDS OF THOUGHT Don't Put It in Your Cart: Weekend Impulse Buys And Avoiding Monday
Jun 28, 2026
MIDNIGHT REFLECTION: It's Okay to Break Down: The Invisible Weight of Modern Parenting
Jun 25, 2026
MIDNIGHT REFLECTION: Doomscrolling Your Dreams: When Social Media Halts Your Life Activation
Jun 24, 2026
Surviving Narcissistic Abuse
Jun 23, 2026
When The Ladder is Leaning Against the Wrong Wall: When Success and Fulfillment Become Strangers
Jun 16, 2026
Daft and Devoted: When Loyalty Becomes Self-Abandonment
Jun 09, 2026
The Weight We Were Never Meant to Carry
Jun 03, 2026
Who I Am and Why I'm Here
Jun 03, 2026