This episode explores why it’s not you… it’s the way we approach mental health.

So much of the support available comes after the struggle has already begun. After the anxiety, the overwhelm, the burnout.

But what if we focused on prevention instead?

I share my perspective on why this “afterwards” approach isn’t working, and how trauma-informed support, in both parenting and the workplace, can change the way we understand and support mental wellbeing.

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Loneliness isn’t always about being alone.

Sometimes it’s about growing up in a house full of people but feeling like no one truly understood your inner world.

In this episode of It’s Not You, Liz explores the quiet, often invisible loneliness many people carry from childhood. The kind that forms when feelings are dismissed, emotions are judged, or vulnerability is met with “stop being dramatic” instead of understanding.

Liz unpacks how emotional loneliness can become a form of trauma, why emotionally unintelligent environments leave children feeling unseen, and how judgement deepens isolation.

She also explores a confusing experience many adults recognise: being in relationships that look good on the outside, yet still feeling emotionally alone when difficult feelings appear.

This episode is about the difference between physical presence and emotional presence, and why being emotionally met is one of the most powerful antidotes to loneliness.

If you’ve ever felt like you were “too sensitive,” misunderstood, or like you’ve had to carry your emotional world on your own, this conversation will help make sense of why.

Because loneliness isn’t always about having no one around you.

Sometimes it’s about being the only person in the room who is emotionally present.

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What if the parts of your life that feel stuck aren’t a reflection of who you are… but what your nervous system learned to call normal?

In this episode, Liz explores how our sense of “reality” is shaped by early conditioning, emotional patterns, and the baseline our body memorised for safety. Many of the habits, relationships, and stress cycles we repeat aren’t character flaws. They’re familiar settings we’ve never questioned.

You’ll hear why humans protect what feels normal, even when it hurts, how outdated emotional templates keep us looping, and why growth isn’t becoming someone new. It’s teaching your body a new version of safe.

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