A steady conversation about healing worthiness by learning to speak, be heard, and keep showing up.
The discussion centers on worthiness, voice, and the practical work of being heard, with therapy and coaching blended in a way that stays focused.

Kristen Burrus & Jen Anderson
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Boundaries, rest, and worth in practice.
Embrace Your Value centers women who are tired of overexplaining, overfunctioning, and measuring worth by output. The conversations connect nervous-system reactions, relationship shifts, burnout, rest, and success pressure to practical boundary work.
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Embrace Your Value is built around a problem many women recognize before they can name it: being relied on so consistently that responsibility starts to feel like identity. The show gives those patterns clearer edges. Chronic responsibility is not treated as simple busyness, and burnout is not treated as laziness. Success, too, gets examined as something that can feel pressured rather than peaceful when worth has been tied to performance for too long. Kristen and Jen bring a therapy-and-coaching rhythm to conversations about boundaries, self-trust, rest, and nervous-system responses. The language is accessible. The ideas are not vague. Episodes often begin with a familiar scenario: saying no and then spiraling, reaching a milestone and feeling pressure, growing personally and watching relationships shift, or resting in a way that creates more guilt than repair. From there, the show separates the decision from the body’s reaction. A woman may know her worth and still feel her chest tighten. She may set a boundary and still feel the urge to justify it. She may stop overfunctioning and find that other people become uncomfortable. The show returns to that gap between knowing and embodying, which gives it a useful specificity. It is especially attentive to the mental load carried in planning, organizing, anticipating needs, and keeping peace. Rest is framed as a right, not a reward. Relationship discomfort is framed as adjustment, not automatic proof that growth has gone wrong. The tone is steady, encouraging, and sometimes emphatic, with frequent reminders that self-worth has to move from belief into behavior. Guest conversation can widen the frame, as in the episode with Kim Parkinson on voice, healing, and podcast growth. Still, the core remains consistent: women learning to stop shrinking around other people’s expectations. Embrace Your Value works best for listeners who want personal growth language that stays close to daily life. It offers permission, but also a practice: notice the pattern, respect the body’s signal, and choose a response that does not abandon the self.
Made for: For women who overfunction, feel guilty resting, or panic after setting limits. It fits listeners looking for therapy-and-coaching-style reflection without abstract self-help jargon.
What sets it apart: The show connects self-worth to body-level reactions, not just mindset. Boundaries, burnout, success pressure, and relationship change are treated as nervous-system and capacity issues as much as belief issues.
Embrace Your Value is a personal growth podcast about self-worth, boundaries, and overcoming limiting beliefs. Hosted by trauma therapist Kristen Burrus and beliefs-and-boundaries coach Jen Anderson, the show blends therapeutic insights with practical coaching tools. Each episode helps women stop people pleasing, build confidence, and reclaim their voice. Through honest conversations and real strategies, you will learn how to set healthy boundaries, strengthen self-trust, and create a life that reflects your true value.
Resentment becomes a smoke alarm here: Kristen and Jen help you locate the boundary you crossed.
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A steady conversation about healing worthiness by learning to speak, be heard, and keep showing up.
The discussion centers on worthiness, voice, and the practical work of being heard, with therapy and coaching blended in a way that stays focused.
A warm, practical look at unresolved wounds, triggers, and the small tools that make healing manageable.
This conversation stays close to the practical side of old wounds and the way they can leak into everyday life. Kristen and Jen keep bringing it back to grounding, self-compassion, EFT tapping, journaling, and the simple question of what is needed when a trigger lands.
A warm conversation about self-worth, boundaries, and choosing not to play small.
This episode centers self-worth, boundaries, self-compassion, and the choice not to shrink. Shabana Knight brings in lived experience from Baltimore, Texas, Minnesota, and Washington, along with a parental separation, Bible-based teaching, and wellness coaching shaped by fitness…

Practice ownership without the performance mask.





Creative lives, community care, real talk.
Jen Anderson and trauma therapist Kristen Burris examine why immediate resentment can follow an automatic yes, describing it as a possible sign that someone crossed a personal boundary.
Jen Anderson presents "beliefs plus boundaries equals bliss" as a framework for changing limiting beliefs and protecting new values with healthy boundaries.
Kim Parkinson says her voice became a tool for working through childhood trauma, including a paper route that paid $1.80 per newspaper and a later family lawsuit that left her feeling unpaid and unseen.
This episode explores the concept of chronic responsibility, where women often feel burdened by always being the decision-maker and responsible party, and offers therapeutic and coaching insights to address this pattern.
This episode explores the unexpected pressure and lack of relief that can accompany achieving goals, particularly for women, using personal experiences like finishing a book to illustrate the concept of 'success without safety'.
This episode explores how personal growth work can unexpectedly challenge and change relationships, offering insights from a trauma therapist and support coach on navigating these shifts.
This episode challenges the misconception that burnout is laziness, reframing it as a capacity issue and offering therapeutic and coaching insights to help listeners overcome self-doubt and reclaim their power.
This episode explores why explaining your boundaries can trigger emotional dysregulation, particularly in women, and offers insights from trauma therapy and coaching perspectives.
This episode features an interview with Rachel Bentz, a plant-based personal trainer and wellness coach, discussing topics like wellness, nutrition, and personal growth.
Kristen Burris and Jen Anderson on Embrace Your Value focus on unresolved childhood wounds, emotional triggers, and the way old beliefs like "I'm not worthy" or "I have to be perfect" can keep running in the background.
This episode features an interview with Jen Eden, a certified holistic health coach and sugar addiction expert, discussing her Sugar Freedom Method to help listeners break free from sugar addiction.
["On Embrace Your Value, Kristen Burris and Jen Anderson interview Shabana Knight about being separated from a guardian at a train station in India, spending a year and a half in an orphanage, and being adopted with her brother by the same East Coast family.", "Shabana says the early abandonment left her feeling \"worthless\" and \"alone,\" while faith, church, and roughly 15 years of personal development helped her shift into a more \"victorious\" self-story.", "She describes returning to India in February after 36 years, visiting the orphanage, and crying through a full-circle moment that changed how she sees her past.", "The conversation also covers her 10 to 12 years in personal training, her coaching work around health, home, and heart, and her podcast Organized Chaos Stories with Shabana Knight."]
This episode features an interview with astrologer Kali Rose, who discusses using astrology to help heart-centered entrepreneurs discover and develop their soul purpose after her own mid-life spiritual awakening.
This episode features an interview with Dr.