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KCAA: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa (Mon, 2 Mar, 2026)

March 2, 2026·1 hr·5 clips

Dr. Marissa explains why her show avoids all headlines to prevent listeners from feeling angry, anxious, afraid, and aggravated.

Monday starts with a reset. Dr. Marissa comes in with full morning-radio momentum, points listeners toward balanced living, thanks the IE audience, and sends her hope-and-happiness splatter zone across every platform she can name. The headlines get shown the door. She says they stir up the five A's: angry, aggravated, annoyed, afraid, and anxious, so the show swerves into mental health. Self-love gets the main seat. The practical move is plain: hear the inner critic, trace where its words came from, and stop treating that voice as your whole identity. Her example is her mom. From there, the critic sounds like a chorus of old criticism, louder with time and easier to mistake for truth. Then she drops the moose, her Canadian way of naming the obvious thing in the room: the critic is not who you are. She does not toss it out. The odd, warmer move is to embrace the other side of it and thank it for trying to protect you when you were young. Some messages may have meant well or helped for a while. That distinction lets the listener keep the survival instinct without letting the criticizing voice keep enlarging old criticism. Recognition comes first. Acknowledge the critic, embrace the part that tried to help, and remember that one part of you is still only one part. The next piece waits until after news, weather, and traffic, when she promises to get into how to speak to that critic and where it belongs. Around the edges, the radio package stays noisy: KCAA app promos, station IDs, other show plugs. The emotional thread stays on self-love. Messy, busy, awake. The lesson feels like morning radio holding up a mirror, quick, personal, funny in spots, and trying to make the listener less scared of their own mind.

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A buoyant reset that turns the inner critic into something you can notice, thank, and outgrow.

Dr. Marissa uses the morning slot to slow things down and reset the tone around self-talk. The critic in your head is not treated as the final word. Instead, she traces where that voice comes from and pushes back against the habit of letting old criticism run the day.

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When your inner critic is running the morning show, this gives you a softer station to tune to.

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