One of the realest podcasts I’ve listened to on this topic. Joe isn’t for everyone and he doesn’t need to be. Hoping he writes a book someday.

I enjoy listening to you Joe! Thank you for being real and letting the world hear what you have been through and how we can work on getting better.

Talk about getting real?!?!? I just listened to several of Joe’s podcasts. I’ve never heard anyone get so real. So hardcore. So truthful so fast. Like every sentence. Some of it … hard to hear. But, the truth always is!! I love it and feel like I’ve learned so much in the last few hours. Wow!!! Listen and take of business. All we have is now!!!

Some podcasts really help one live life better. This podcast is that. He’s real, honest, concise, and eloquent. He’s helped me feel better and be better to myself and others too. And he’s got so much integrity. What else could one want from a podcast?

There’s something so compelling, comforting, and inspiring about this pod. It feels really good to hear someone talk so honestly, owning their own experiences, rather than hovering over a concept in a way that explains things without taking any ownership of anything. Idk. It just feels really real and honest and there’s something very compelling about it and I love it!

Bravo 🙌 Joe is so honest! Face our shame and find ourselves. ❤️

I had a 10 year stint with hard core drugs. Prior to the drugs I was numbing out on weed and promiscuity. Fast forward to 1995 I no longer used hard core drugs. I thought without that hard drug I was okay. It’s been 28 years, but I’m not okay. I’m fragile and in pain. Shame, guilt & humiliation are apart of my life and I hate it. I’ve stumbled across this podcast and I know this information can help me in my healing journey.

I love this podcast; super relatable, 100% authentic. It’s not always easy to listen to the episodes, they present the challenge of looking inward. Feels like listening to a friend.

Listening to you speak today was like you were speaking the words that have been in my thoughts a lot lately. Literally every word. Every stage is where I too am at right now and it felt so comforting to know there is someone else out there that gets it! 💛. Thank you for sharing and being so open and vulnerable with your story and your work. I appreciate you and thank you for being my voice today 💙💛

I love this podcast not only because it’s thought provoking but hearing his first hang experience and encouragement. I listen to a few self help podcasts and this one is in the top five!

If I were to ever get a life coach he would be the one. This dude is SO vulnerable and honest and raw- absolutely beautiful. He speaks the truth that I need to hear and don’t come across in life. Grateful to listen to his talks. Love the short & direct format too.

This dude is out here saving lives. He expresses his pov so articulately and pointedly, no filter and no apologies, but all the while with a purpose. I didn’t know how much I needed to hear this podcast until I actually did. The work you do and the vulnerability that moves it is absolutely necessary and deeply valued. Thank you.

I literally started to cry when he started to speak about how much we needed as a child but didn’t receive. It struck me because it’s affecting me now and I’m trying to heal. I need to be more confident and open and just find myself again.

I just finished episode 4 for the first (I say first because I know I will be checking back in to listen again and again) time. At 5:20 I felt like you just handed me the cheat code to my eventual healing. I have never felt so seen. And yes, I have been stuck and confused. This makes so much sense to me. The why and how I got here and a place to begin. My heart is still racing! Thank you so much!! Going to listen to episode 5 right now!

Thank you for your words. I’m at very low point tonight and some how found the strength to turn on a podcast. Your podcast that I just recently started listening to. It was about trauma. It blew me away. A lot of tears have been shed and your voice spoke truth and healing and hope to me. Thank you for sharing all you have been through. Again Thank you for your words they really helped me tonight. Thank you for episode 60. You are absolutely amazing and your voice and words hit my soul and I am so grateful. Thank you!

So needed. Thank you. A compassionate, understanding and enlightening voice.

Joe is very knowledgeable but also understands that true healing doesn’t happen unless we sit quietly with our pain on multiple occasions, process it, reframe it, and find a little self compassion on which to build so we can find approval and acceptance without the use of the usual outside sources. Really nice work Joe, Lord bless.

I just listened to Releasing Pain and Vulnerability in Relationships. This is my new favorite podcast. Joe, you reached my heart, and now I have hope again.

Honest feelings, direct words that we can all relate to in some way and an encouraging talk, all I can say about this amazing podcast.

I stumbled across this podcast during a particularly difficult time of managing my emotions from a recent difficulty. Years of harming others with my words and actions due to my childhood trauma and resulting PTSD, have harmed many of my relationships an impeded upon my growth and maturity. Years of therapy have not helped me as much as this podcast. I encourage you to give this podcast a listen and promise it will enhance your life. Joe is authentic. He is compassionate and caring. I am so encouraged that I found him and will carry him in my pocket from now on. An invaluable resource.

His words are ALL the daily thoughts

Joe doesn’t hold back and tells it like he feels it! I’ve learned tons from him and truly from the depths of my heart am grateful for his bravery and kindness. If you want coaching you won’t regret it. I am forever blessed by you Joe.

Thank you so much for creating this podcast. Just hearing your experience and being able to completely relate- helps me. I don’t feel alone and I feel understood. I can tell your podcasts are going to help me.

Joe Ryan’s podcast makes me feel less alone as I grapple with recovery from abuse and childhood trauma. Because he is willing to share himself and his process so openly, and with insight and compassion, I feel seen and validated in my own process and am able to offer myself some of the compassion I witness Joe embodying for himself, and I feel the compassion he is offering to others walking a similar path. In a journey that already feels so lonely, I am deeply grateful that Joe is offering his story and process to others in this way. Thank you for your bravery, your willingness, and the love and intention you put into this healing work.

This podcast is very honest, raw and helpful. It offers great insights for those of us going through the trauma recovery process.

This is a difficult podcast to listen to, because I struggle with the things they talk about and for years had no idea I was. Now I’m learning to sit in the emotions and have felt stuck for so long. It has come into my life at a time where I was open to hearing it and it’s helping me to change my life. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

I’m for real blown away with how deep and vulnerable this podcast is. It resonates with my addiction and the chronic PTSD that is starting swallow me whole since I have gotten sober. It hurts. It’s so painful. His voice is so soothing and since binging them I do feel a little raw so maybe I’ll take a break but I know that I have to go through it to get on the other side. I have always been painfully self aware so I knew that I was going to have to relive my trauma but I did t know how to do it and this podcast has given me steps to take and I’m extremely grateful for that!

Wow, just listened to my first episode and was blown away. I got more out of the 17 minutes of the episode than working with any therapist. As someone who has been in recovery from severe childhood trauma for the past thirty years, I am looking forward to listening to all the remaining podcast. Peace, love and healing to you Joe, for doing this podcast and to all who have suffered childhood trauma.

I’m new to this podcast but so far it has been really great. I appreciate Joe’s honesty and vulnerability. I’m grateful for how he explains to ‘do the work.’ I’ve been stuck feeling like I’m supposed to actively do this or do that. He has confirmed for me that these layers will come up to the surface and the actual work is making space and letting them wash over me. Acknowledge them, grieve, take responsibility, or whatever it is I need to do for myself. Awesome podcast so far.

When I started listening to the show, I was just shocked and taken aback so often by the fact that what Joe is describing with his process, and experiences is almost parallel to my process and experiences. I love the extra insight, and inspiration. It feels really good to know I am not alone, and also to be reminded that working on myself and doing what I’m doing does matter, and does work. Healing is possible. Thank you for your insights and openness.

I recently started listening to you and I just want to say thank you for putting your story out there to help others. I just listened to episode 38 on Family System Boundaries and that was one of the most inspirational podcasts I’ve ever listened to. I completely relate to what you are saying and it was so beautifully explained. I appreciate your willingness to be completely open and genuine about your experiences. You are an inspiration and I’m so glad I came across you.

Thank you so much for being so vulnerable and honest. You are helping us all.

This podcast really helps me separate my emotional brain and my wisdom brain.

Joe has a way of explaining trauma and recovery in a way that makes so much sense. After years of trying to put the pieces together, listening to him is helping it all fall into place. Grateful to have an honest and wise voice that lets me know I’m not alone and that gives me hope.

Amazing and relatable podcast. Seriously. Do yourself the favor and listen.

Episode 38, family system boundaries. You nailed it. I plan to listen several more times until it sinks in to my skull. I want to start living again-for me. Thank you so much. Every single one of these “shares” are a true gift.

I feel grateful to have found this podcast. Thank you Joe for finding yourself and sharing that journey with us.

Your a gift. I needed this. Thank you⭐️

Thank you.

Thank you so much for putting this into the world.

i have found it hard to find podcasts revolving around mental health i’ve enjoyed that didn’t seem too “fluffy”. i am 22 diagnosed with ptsd along with the others that follow it, and that’s how i came across this. i listened to one episode and was hooked. i’ve gone through therapy, medication, etc, and i never felt more related to something until now. it was soothing hearing the conversations and stories, being able to have someone say exactly how i feel and what i’m going through is such a relief and has helped me be able to articulate how i express and explain things more. there are some things you know, but it’s just easier to act upon/believe/understand when you hear it from an outside source. i’ve already recommended it to my partner and my best friend. PLEASE give this a try. we all have some sort of trauma and even in listening it could help you understand how other people may work/think bc of their trauma. i am so thankful he made this podcast. this has truly soothed me in my in between time of no therapy and medication and if you have any experience with it that says a lot. i rarely leave reviews. ever. and never have on podcasts but, this is worth any and everyone listening to. i could literally go on and on but rather than reading this, click an episode and give this a try! 100/10 i cannot explain how thankful i am for him sharing himself. it means so much

I’ve been in therapy and support groups for two years. None of the therapists or group members could articulate the struggle to recover. This podcast is able to find the words for what it feels like every day to recover from enmeshed family systems and the fallout it created in my adult life. It gave me self compassion to have patience for all my ups and downs along the way. I’m grateful.

As I write this review I want to cry. It’s almost like you can see inside my soul. I can connect to everything you say and have felt. Honestly I have been in therapy for many years And this podcast is doing more for me than all those sessions. The way you explain things is so understandable and relatable. I don’t know how to thank you.

If you’re looking for a place to experience raw truth, Joe’s podcast is the perfect place to be. As I navigate through my own negative thoughts and feelings from years of abuse, it is refreshing to hear that I am not alone in dealing with these feelings, thoughts, and reactions. Even more, I love Joe’s encouragement to continue recognizing emotions and making room for joy in our lives by dismissing the emotional garbage we are slammed with regularly.

I don’t know anyone that’s worked harder at recovery and growth than Joe and that comes shining through in his podcasts. Great insight and advice from a guy that’s walked through the fire himself.

I stumbled on your podcast while looking for trauma help. Boy am I glad I did- I have never listened to anyone that has such an honest message packed with so much insightful information! Every episode speaks to me so deeply I feel I am in a therapy session. You make more sense than anything I have listened to. Thank you Joe! I will be listening to all your episodes!

I needed this so badly. I am so grateful for your courage to speak this. It’s clear that you’ve done a ton of hard work. I felt so confused and alone, and this podcast has become a lifeline.

It’s so refreshing to listen to someone who has walked through this and is still walking through this, instead of an academic who is looking at it from afar. I feel really really understood in a way that I haven’t in so long.

Joe Ryan is amazing. This podcast struck a chord in me and I couldn’t stop listening to it. Joe’s podcast is the best CPTSD podcast/resource I’ve found. Give it a listen - it’s real talk.

I’m only 16 so i haven’t lived thru a whole bunch but this podcast is the most helpful thing i’ve ever listened to. Heard one episode yesterday and i haven’t stopped listening since. Please never stop.