Heartbreak doesn’t clock out when the relationship ends; sometimes it lingers as a low-level alarm shaping every new choice. We give that feeling a name—post-traumatic relationship syndrome (PTRS)—and explore how trauma can learn your language, speak for you, and quietly turn protection into paralysis. Then we map a compassionate way forward that lets you trust again without abandoning yourself.

We also shine a light on postsexual denial syndrome (PSDS), a lived reality where intimacy is withheld or weaponized. When touch becomes transactional, the body forgets tenderness and the heart absorbs three U’s: unseen, undesirable, unworthy. Together we reframe intimacy as being known, not just being touched, and offer gentle steps to restore connection: attunement, clear boundaries, and pressure-free presence that invites desire back at its own pace.

Grounding all of this is a spiritual lens that refuses to abandon you in pain. Instead of erasing what happened, we talk about repurposing wounds into wisdom—shifting from anticipatory loss to practiced receiving. Using the SALT model—service, affirmation, love, and transformation—we outline practical tools: therapy, prayer, community, journaling, and restorative solitude as acts of service to your soul. You’ll hear affirmations to steady your nervous system, a declaration that real love never competes with your peace, and a reminder that transformation is about remembering who you were before the hurt hardened you.

We close with breathwork and three focusing questions to help you release stories that no longer belong to you and step toward love—not perfectly, but presently. If your heart has been on pause, consider this your permission to press play. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs these words, and leave a review telling us which practice you’re trying this week.

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When life slows down but pressure doesn’t, the great wait can feel unbearable—seasons when promises seem distant and demands keep rising.

In this episode, Jermine Alberty names that tension with compassion and clarity, reframing waiting as working time and guiding listeners from passive endurance to purposeful growth.

Through honest stories, he explores the difference between endurance and exhaustion, shows how pressure often comes before platform and inner work before influence, and offers five anchors for heavy seasons: clarify your assignment, protect your energy with boundaries, build support through mentors and peers, stay grounded in prayer and reflection, and practice honest self-care.

With practical tools for naming limits and choosing the right yes, he closes with reflective questions to reset your pace and posture. If you’re tired but faithful, this conversation offers relief and direction—share it, subscribe, and help others find The Salt Talk with Jermine Alberty

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What if the life you planned isn’t the life that makes you strong? Jermine opens up about broken plans, brave choices, and the quiet power of getting better one day at a time. Instead of chasing a perfect timeline—or a Marvel-style multiverse where every decision went right—we dig into the honest work of course correction, the kind that turns weak moments into strong links and regret into wisdom.

We talk about the difference between control and agency, and why perfection is a trap that breeds anxiety while presence builds resilience. Jermaine reframes grace from a scoreboard to an anchor: something that doesn’t calm the sea but steadies you through the waves. That shift frees us from overinterpreting every setback as fate or punishment and invites a kinder, truer read of our stories. The lost job, the ended friendship, the missed chance—these weak links reveal where we stretched too far or held on too long, yet they also prove we’re still here and still learning.

From there, we map out the choices that forge strong links: loving again after heartbreak, forgiving when it hurts, and rebuilding confidence after failure. We explore how to stop living in the “what if” universe and invest in the only one that matters—the life in your hands. Expect practical takeaways on course correcting without shame, embracing progress over perfection, and honoring the people and lessons that keep your chain connected. If you’re tired of reliving alternate timelines and ready to make small, steady moves that change your real one, this conversation is your invitation to start stronger, not over.

Listen, share with someone stuck between what ifs and what’s next, and leave a review to help others find the show. Subscribe for more grounded, grace-filled conversations that help you keep serving, affirming, loving, and transforming.

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What if your dream isn’t just a private hope but a public blueprint for change? We open with a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tracing how a moment on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial turned vision into history, then pivot to the dreams that visit us at night and the ones that find us in daylight. Along the way, we explore how imagination, faith, and disciplined action can move a life—and a community—forward.

We break down the language of nighttime dreams: images that carry emotion, symbols that surface truths we avoid, and scenes that linger because they know more than we admit. From science to psychology to faith, we unpack why certain dreams race our pulse, draw tears, or repeat like a chorus. Then we turn to waking dreams—the calling, purpose, and impact that demand courage. These aren’t distractions from real life; they’re invitations to align heart, mind, and behavior. Fear, fatigue, disappointment, practicality, and imposter syndrome all argue for silence. Destiny whispers back: don’t quit your daydream.

Through the lens of MLK’s legacy, we treat dreaming as both imagination and resistance. Dreams stretch across past, present, and future: they revisit childhood passion, interrupt comfort, awaken stagnation, and accompany grief. We offer clear reflection prompts to help you move from vision to action—naming what visits you at night, what chases you by day, what you’re afraid to say, and what you’re finally ready to live into. If you’ve been carrying a quiet dream, this is your nudge to bring it into the light.

Subscribe for more conversations on purpose, healing, and courageous imagination. If today’s episode stirred something in you, share it with a friend and leave a review to help others find the show. Which dream are you ready to name out loud?

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Ever notice how certain invites feel shiny at night but heavy the next day? We pull apart the familiar idea of a “booty call” and rebuild it as any low-intent request that extracts your time, talent, compassion, or peace without offering respect, reciprocity, or responsibility. From emotional check-ins that vanish when you need support to “opportunities” that siphon focus from your mission, we name the patterns that turn your purpose into a vending machine for other people’s needs.

I share why smart, caring people still say yes: attachment wounds that crave inconsistent affection, emotional hunger that mistakes attention for care, boredom that softens standards, trauma bonds that reopen old doors, and identity erosion that trades worth for momentary warmth. Then we count the bill most folks ignore—the cost of impulsive yeses. Peace, clarity, emotional regulation, and momentum leak away, and alignment takes the biggest hit. You can’t stride into your future while you sneak back into patterns from your past.

The second half moves into practice. We set standards in silence so they hold under pressure. We learn to read patterns over personalities, to pause before replying, and to bless and block with grace. We ask our future self what tomorrow will feel like if we say yes today. And we replace temptation with purpose: real connection for loneliness, goals for boredom, healing for pain. The throughline is simple and freeing: your no is not rejection; it’s direction. It routes energy from harm back to healing and turns your boundaries into a declaration of value.

If you’re ready to protect your treasure—your peace, purpose, and emotional capacity—press play. Then share your favorite boundary script, subscribe for more conversations that build clarity, and leave a review to help others find the show. Your energy deserves partners, not predators.

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When the world calls it a midlife crisis, what if it’s actually a midlife realignment? We open the door to a different narrative—one where your wake-up isn’t a breakdown, it’s a spiritual audit that says what got you here won’t carry you where you’re going. With honest, grounded guidance, we explore why people who benefited from your overfunctioning often label your healing as chaos, and how to stop carrying expectations that were never yours.

We trace the hidden teachers in life’s potholes—emotional strain, relational wear, spiritual dryness, physical fatigue, and generational burdens—and show how slowing down to reassess, repair, and redirect turns pain into wisdom. Context matters, so we talk about life expectancy and its impact on urgency, purpose, and timing. If your community’s average lifespan is shorter, the midlife wake-up can come earlier, often with more grief and responsibility—and also with more resilience and clarity.

From there, we move into practice. We offer the four movements of realignment—reassess your landscape without shame, release expired assignments and inherited burdens, re-root in faith and community, and re-match actions with calling instead of coping. To ground it, we refresh the SALT model: serve without self-sacrifice, affirm without approval-seeking, love without losing yourself, and transform without erasing your identity. On the other side, the gains are real: peace, clarity, courage, honest boundaries, and the insight to see who loved your presence versus your usefulness.

If your clarity has been called a crisis, this conversation gives you language, tools, and hope. Subscribe for more grounded talks on purpose, faith, and personal growth, share with someone who’s rebuilding their life, and leave a review to tell us what you’re releasing next.

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Some stories don’t need a spotlight—they need a steady hand.

In Part II of this two-part series, Jermine Alberty sits down with his brother Jimmie Marks for an unfiltered conversation about childhood trauma, family fragmentation, and the slow, daily work of rebuilding love, trust, and identity. This episode builds on Part I’s interview with their father, Jimmie Jones, moving the story forward through a sibling lens shaped by shared wounds and different paths.

Together, they wrestle with nature versus nurture in real time—what was carried in their bones, what was poured into them, and what they chose to become. They reflect on a grandmother’s quiet rituals that modeled resilience, the inner war between rage and restraint, the challenges of reentry after incarceration, and the discipline of gentleness rooted in faith.

This is a conversation about healing without erasing, setting boundaries without abandoning love, and choosing purpose when bitterness would be easier. If you’re torn between who you were told you are and who you feel called to be, this episode is for you.

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This holiday special skips the wrapping paper and goes straight for the heart.

In Part I of a two-part series, Jermine Alberty sits with his father, Jimmie Jones, for a raw, unvarnished father–son conversation about what we inherit, what we choose, and how faith and responsibility can rewrite the story. From 1960s Kansas City streets to a modern kitchen table, they explore temperament and trauma, the sting of denial, inherited anger, and the vow to never let children grow up as strangers.

Nature versus nurture comes alive—how a grandson mirrors a grandfather’s fire, how unexamined pain can shape behavior, and how prayer, presence, and community can interrupt old patterns. Mental health is named, not whispered—anxiety, depressive swings, and bipolar tendencies framed not as destiny, but as context for compassion and growth.

At the core is a simple dream: keep God first, gather the family, and build a legacy of belonging that stitches generations together. If you’ve ever wondered whether your past defines you—or how to break cycles without breaking yourself—this conversation offers candor, wisdom, and hope.

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