Episode 31 -The FEEL Podcast Celebrates 5 Years of Healing, Self-Care & Women's Empowerment
By Jessica Garrison
We’ve reached an incredible milestone for The FEEL Podcast: our five year anniversary! The FEEL Podcast first premiered on July 12, 2021 with Emotional Health & Physical Health Connection to our Overall Wellbeing with Melissa Crook. Since then, we have published 10 seasons with 266 episodes, a book, a radio show, an online course (celebrating its one year anniversary), and more incredible ways to connect to our content. It gives me goosebumps thinking about everything we have accomplished and the lives we have changed in the last five years, and it gives me excitement to think of what’s to come next.
Melissa shares in detail the health journey that led her to creating The FEEL Podcast in our book and in that very first episode, but a huge motivator was that she didn’t want anyone else to have to go through what she did. With the talking points of self care, boundaries, all aspects of health, supporting women in living unapologetically, values, expectations, layers, and living out FEEL, Melissa had set up a great resource for women like herself.
Our platform is for anyone, but we realized the specific need for this content in women’s spaces. As a culture and society, we expect women to put everyone else first and give themselves the scraps, if there are even any left to have. We want women to fill up their own cups first, then pour excess into others. Everyone is deserving of love, respect, and kindness. Above all else, you should be showing these things to yourself, not just others. It is never too late to start over and begin a new journey, healing to the point of rediscovering your healthiest, most authentic self.
We are celebrating with this blog and a live episode tomorrow (7/14/26) on YouTube! Melissa will be bringing back past guests to share their FEEL experiences, as well as releasing a recording with Leslie Draffin. Leslie is the guest of our most popular episode so far, Unmasking the Layers: Eating Disorders, Sexual Shame & the Journey to Self-Healing. The live celebration will begin at 12 PM EST/9 AM PST and Leslie’s segment will drop 15 minutes before. We can’t wait to reminisce with everyone on the impactful stories we’ve heard over the past five years as we continue to share resources for all to begin their journey of FEEL.
Ways To Engage: Join us live on YouTube at 12 PM EST/9 AM PST for our anniversary celebration! Ask questions, share your favorite episodes, and tell us the quotes you live by. Discover everything The Embracing Layers Network has to offer. Listen to past episodes, read our book, complete the coursework, or schedule private time with Melissa to work on one on one. Start prioritizing yourself today and inspire others to do the same.
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