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