Freak on a Leash: Recent Episodes
Caitlin McNally Olsen
Hi Freaks!
Listen up to understand why service is so good for your mental health and to hear from a SAHM-turned-volunteer-turned-nonprofit-executive-director. Lots of resources listed below:
Mayo article: Three Health Benefits of Volunteering
The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer
The History of Volunteering at a Glance
Volunteering
Rewarding Work: Cross-National Differences in Benefits, Volunteering During Unemployment, Well-Being and Mental Health
Volunteering and Trajectories of Depression
Volunteering as Leisure
NAMI article: How Volunteering Improves Mental Health
More links for you!
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The Sisterhood, my group mastermind for Mormon women experiencing a faith expansion, now has a waitlist. Round 2 is coming - likely in early 2023. 👯♀️
Thank you again to this week's sponsor! The Mental Health Check-Up is an innovative, three-part process that provides a comprehensive view of your mental health past, present, and future.
Find me on Instagram @caitlinolsenco for peeks behind the scenes of COCo and snaps
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Hi Freaks!
Listen up to learn my tried-and-true approach to boundary setting and to hear a real-life, juicy example of when I hit the block button (more than once) on an aggressive, dissatisfied follower.
This episode really dives deep into my thought process and my mistakes throughout this specific boundary-setting process. It's also an excellent example of self-compassion in action.
Some links for you:
To be the first to hear about each month's free live webinar, get on my email list!
The Sisterhood, my group mastermind for Mormon women experiencing a faith expansion, now has a waitlist. Round 2 is coming - likely in early 2023. 👯♀️
Thank you again to this week's sponsor! The Mental Health Check-Up is an innovative, three-part process that provides a comprehensive view of your mental health past, present, and future.
Find me on Instagram @caitlinolsenco for peeks behind the scenes of COCo and snaps
Subscribe, rate, review, and share Freak on a Leash to help support the podcast.
Hi freaks! Did you notice my new intro?! Things are changing a little bit around here in Freak on a Leash land... let’s catch up! In this episode, you will hear...
First: Podcast changes 💥
Second: Caitlin Olsen Co highlights 🖤
Then: How to work with me 🤩
Next: Personal mental health updates 🧘🏻♀️
Last: New podcast segment 📚
Links for you:
To be the first to hear about each month's free live webinar, get on my email list!
The Sisterhood, my group mastermind for Mormon women experiencing a faith expansion, now has a waitlist. Round 2 is coming - likely in early 2023. 👯♀️
Thank you again to this week's sponsor! The Mental Health Check-Up is an innovative, three-part process that provides a comprehensive view of your mental health past, present, and future.
Find me on Instagram @caitlinolsenco for peeks behind the scenes of COCo and snaps
Subscribe, rate, review, and share Freak on a Leash to help support the podcast.
Listen up to hear me explore how the drama triangle plays out in Mormonism at a macro level. Enjoy cameos from Eve, Satan, Javert of Les Mis, and Danielle from @ourmotherinheaven on Instagram. As always, I ask a lot of questions and provide very few concrete answers. 🤗
∆ Take a look at and learn more about the drama triangle.
🖤 Join me for June's free webinar: The Three Components of Healthy Boundaries.
♡ A new course from me to you: My Mental Health.
❤️🔥 I'd love to be your mental health coach! Start here to get on my client list.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood, the mastermind where Mormon women come together in the spirit of mental health, collaboration, and radical acceptance.
😎 Subscribe, rate, review, and share Freak on a Leash to help support the podcast.
Listen up to hear me talk through what the Mormon mother wound is and why it makes sense from a mental health perspective.
💥 Register for my free webinar, Peaceful Parenting Through the Summer.
💫 Check out My Mental Health, a new course from me to you.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood, where Mormon women come together in the spirit of mental health, radical acceptance, and collaboration.
🤩 If you're enjoying Freak on a Leash, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
🥳 I'd love to be your mental health coach.
Listen up to hear what we Mormon women want for Mother's Day and how benevolent sexism and texts with my bishop factor in.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood, where Mormon women come together in the spirit of mental health, radical acceptance, and collaboration.
🤩 If you're enjoying Freak on a Leash, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
🥳 I'd love to be your mental health coach.
👏🏻 Mormon Women in Second-Wave Feminism
👏🏻 Essential Texts in Mormon Feminism
👏🏻 The Faithful Feminists
A quick update on my group coaching program for Mormon women who are trying to get comfortable on that fence.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood.
🤩 If you're enjoying Freak on a Leash, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
🥳 I'd love to be your mental health coach.
Any tips for getting to Fowler's stage 5 or 6 faster?
Are you going to the Heavenly Mother fireside in Provo?
How did ____ respond when you called him out?
Listen to hear my answers to these questions and more. 💥
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👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood.
🤗 I'd love to be your mental health coach!
You, lucky listener, get to hear my lovely sister Mairead McNally share her experiences as a born-and-raised Mormon who started to move away from the church as a teenager. We process through our parents' three-year separation and how that impacted her religious path in conjunction with Mairead's transformational college experience. I love her so much and know you will, too.
🤩 If you're enjoying Freak on a Leash, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood.
🤗 I'd love to be your mental health coach!
Listen to hear my response to three recent troll comments on my Instagram account. Each is different levels of offensive and annoying, but they all have this in common: They are not acting like there is a human behind either account.
😎 Stacey Harkey's fabulous response to trolls.
🤩 If you're enjoying Freak on a Leash, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood.
🤗 I'd love to be your mental health coach!
Sarah Hill Olsen is an Air Force Academy graduate, Hurricane Hunter in training, and convert to the LDS church. I love having a front-row seat to her incredible career, but even more so, I love having her in my life as a sister-in-law. Those Olsen boys picked very well 🤗
Listen to this episode to hear Sarah describe her conversion process and share her experiences with the social and cultural pressures she faces now as a child-free, geographically-separated-from-her-spouse Mormon woman.
🤩 If you're enjoying Freak on a Leash, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood
🖤 I'd love to be your mental health coach!
Erin is sweet and grounded and a grounding presence for everyone she meets. I'm so glad our husbands are brothers and we get to be sisters-in-law and in life. Listen to this episode to hear about her experiences as a Mormon woman navigating losing her dad at age 9, marrying then divorcing her high school sweetheart, and finding her way through military life and motherhood.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for The Sisterhood
🖤 I'd love to be your mental health coach
💥 Enjoy my Free Body Scan Meditation
Let's review what a cult actually is, why the church fits the bill, and how it's not a bad thing.
Resources I pulled from for this episode include:
- Rick Ross's 2009 Guardian article
- The BITE Model
- Lifton's Eight Criteria for Thought Reform
💥 Come hang out on Instagram! @CaitlinOlsenCo
👯♀️ Join The Sisterhood (it's not a cult 🤗)
😎 Try out The True Self-Care Toolbox
“I think what has been so refreshing for me is throwing away that checklist. The checklist we all know; the checklist we all hate, but love to follow.”
Listen to this week’s episode of Freak on a Leash to hear Kira and I discuss Utah Mormonism, parenting from the fence, and how the discomfort of the gray area feels so worth it.
👯♀️ The Sisterhood is now accepting applications!
Listen in to hear my mom, the brilliant Cass Linebaugh McNally, and I discuss Mormon womanhood, fence-sitting, and the ever-tricky mother wound.
✍️ My mom's latest short story, and her Medium page.
💥 Want to work with me?
Listen up for all the details on Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood and information on how to enroll. (Hint: You definitely want to get on the waitlist! Scroll to the bottom of the page linked below.)
👯♀️ The Sisterhood
Listen to this episode to hear how I'm doing now, how clear-eyed I am, and how excited I feel about The Sisterhood. And don't miss the end when I respond to my latest IG troll 👋
👯♀️ Get on the Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood waitlist
😍 Find me on Instagram
Tune into this episode for a deeper introduction to yours truly. Hear about my upbringing, my career history, and my Mormon journey, including the hardest time in my life. I hope this episode helps you feel safe and connected as you listen to Freak on a Leash.
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood
I've been blown away by the response to Freak on a Leash; thank you so much for listening and sharing! Keep reviewing and rating and sharing and listening.
I'm also very excited to bring you this episode full of listener stories. Special thanks to those of you who contributed and let me share your words. Listen up to feel less alone, less crazy, and more connected as you navigate Mormon womanhood.
👯♀️ The waitlist for Freak on the Leash: The Sisterhood is ready for you!
🖤 Listen to First Name Basis + read Darius Gray
🗣 Contribute your submissions for future episodes of Freak on a Leash
Listen to hear what place mental health has in the official church curriculum and what I've observed as a lifelong member and trained therapist.
✝️ Read more on mental health from the church's perspective
🐸 Did you notice the pond frogs ribbiting outside my office window?
💥 Get on the waitlist for Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood
Tune in to understand what I mean when I refer to the LDS church, traditional Mormonism, and Progressive Mormonism.
✝️ Read the Eight Tenets of Progressive Christianity
🔗 Read more about my own Progressive Mormonism
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist for Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood
Radical Acceptance and Collaboration are the two guiding values for Freak on the Leash. I cannot WAIT to see what we build together 🖤
💥 Get on the waitlist for Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood
🧘♀️ Explore Tara Brach's work
Listen to this episode to learn why your faith crisis is actually a healthy stage of human development, a maturation of your faith, a deepening of your spirituality.
🤔 Learn about the stages of change
🤓 Review Fowler's stages of faith
👯♀️ Get on the waitlist Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood
Listen to hear how I integrate the emphasis on family history work, the fifth commandment, and the second article of faith with modern science and research. Spoiler: Your ancestors are cheering for you.
✝️ Read the church's framing of genealogy
🗣 Find the talks I reference here, here, and here
🧬 Epigeneticist and researcher Rachel Yehuda's interview
👨👩👧👧 Mark Wolynn's work on inherited family trauma
💥 Get on the waitlist for Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood
Hi, freaks!
Listen up to hear why I'm starting this podcast, why it's called Freak on a Leash, and what my hopes are for this new endeavor.
👯♀️ Find me on Instagram @caitlinolsen.co
👩🏻💻 Read my blog posts at Behiving.com
💥 Get on the waitlist for Freak on a Leash: The Sisterhood
You are not alone and you're not crazy. There are so many women like you out there, and we need each other. Join me, Caitlin McNally Olsen, as I explore Mormon womanhood through the lenses of mental health, radical acceptance, and collaborative sisterhood.
💥 Get on the waitlist for the Freak on a Leash coaching program.