Celeste The Therapist

Mental

Shifting the way you think starts here. Celeste the Therapist is a mental health and emotional wellness podcast created to support you in real, everyday life — not just when you're in crisis, but as a daily practice of awareness, regulation, and...

Location:

United States

Genres:

Mental

Podcasts

Description:

Shifting the way you think starts here. Celeste the Therapist is a mental health and emotional wellness podcast created to support you in real, everyday life — not just when you're in crisis, but as a daily practice of awareness, regulation, and intentional living. Hosted by licensed mental health counselor Celeste Viciere, LMHC, the podcast offers grounded conversations and therapeutic insights to help you better understand yourself, your patterns, and your emotional world. The Daily Shift At the heart of the podcast is The Daily Shift — a short, daily ritual designed to help you pause, regulate, and reconnect with yourself, even on your busiest days. Each episode offers one simple perspective to support emotional awareness, nervous system regulation, and small shifts that create lasting change. You don't need to listen perfectly. You don't need to listen every day. The ritual is here when you need a moment to come back to yourself. Long-Form Episodes In addition to The Daily Shift, the podcast features longer conversations exploring mental health, relationships, childhood experiences, emotional growth, and healing — all through an accessible, therapist-led lens. This podcast is not about quick fixes or surface-level advice. It's about creating space, building insight, and learning how to meet yourself with honesty and compassion. If you're looking for a podcast that feels supportive, grounding, and human — you're in the right place.

Twitter:

@_itsmeceleste_

Language:

English

Website:

http://celestethetherapist.libsyn.com/rss

Episodes

Daily Shift 163: What your anxiety is actually trying to protect you from

5/25/2026

Most people relate to their anxiety like it's an enemy — something to fight, suppress, or get rid of as fast as possible. But what if your anxiety wasn't trying to hurt you? What if it was actually trying to protect you? In today's episode, Celeste flips the script on anxiety completely — and helps you understand what's underneath it, what it's guarding, and why making peace with it changes everything about how you move through it. If you've been at war with your anxiety, this one is going to shift how you see it entirely. Today's shift: Ask your anxiety one honest question today — what are you trying to protect me from? Then sit with whatever comes up.

Duration:00:04:38

Daily Shift 166: You can't control the news cycle but you can control your nervous system

5/24/2026

Daily Shift 166: You can't control the news cycle but you can control your nervous system The news is a lot right now. And for people who are already anxious, consuming it without boundaries is like pouring gasoline on a fire. In today's episode, Celeste talks about the difference between staying informed and staying dysregulated — and gives you a practical framework for protecting your nervous system in a world that is constantly demanding your attention and your anxiety. You can care about what's happening in the world and still protect your peace. Those two things are not in conflict. If the news cycle has been hijacking your nervous system, this one will help you take it back. Today's shift: Set one boundary around your news and social media consumption today — and replace that time with one thing that regulates you instead. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:51

Daily Shift 165: Stop waiting for things to calm down before you start living

5/23/2026

How many times have you said — once things settle down, I'll start. Once the uncertainty passes, I'll make the plan. Once I feel less anxious, I'll show up fully. In today's episode, Celeste addresses one of the most common ways anxiety keeps us stuck — the waiting room. The place where we put our lives on hold until conditions are perfect. Spoiler: the conditions are never going to be perfect. And your life is happening right now. If you've been living in the waiting room, this one is going to challenge you to walk out of it. Today's shift: Identify one thing you've been postponing until things calm down — and take one small step toward it today anyway. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:25

Daily Shift 164: When everything feels uncertain — how to find your footing

5/22/2026

SHOW NOTES Uncertainty is one of the hardest things for the human nervous system to sit with. When we don't know what's coming — financially, relationally, professionally, collectively — anxiety fills the gap. In today's episode, Celeste talks about what to do when the ground beneath you feels unsteady, and how to find your footing not by controlling what's outside of you but by anchoring what's inside of you. If you've been feeling unmoored by everything that's uncertain right now, this one will give you something solid to stand on. Today's shift: Identify three things that are certain in your life right now — and let yourself stand on those today. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:52

Daily Shift 162: The difference between worry and anxiety

5/20/2026

Most people use the words worry and anxiety interchangeably — but they're actually two very different experiences that require two very different responses. In today's episode, Celeste breaks down the distinction between worry and anxiety, why knowing the difference matters, and how to stop treating them the same way when they show up. Understanding which one you're dealing with in any given moment is one of the most practical tools you can have. If you've ever wondered whether what you're feeling is normal worry or something deeper, this one will help you figure it out. Today's shift: The next time your mind starts spinning, pause and ask yourself — is this worry or anxiety? Then respond accordingly. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:42

Daily Shift 161: You can't think your way out of anxiety

5/20/2026

If you've ever tried to logic your way out of anxiety — telling yourself there's nothing to worry about, that everything is fine, that you're being irrational — you already know it doesn't work. In today's episode, Celeste explains exactly why thinking harder is not the solution to anxiety, and what actually works instead. This one is going to change how you approach your anxious moments completely. If you've been trying to reason with your anxiety and losing every time, this one is for you. Today's shift: The next time anxiety shows up, stop trying to think your way out — and do one thing to regulate your body instead.

Duration:00:04:18

Daily Shift 160: Anxiety isn't a character flaw — it's a nervous system response

5/19/2026

SHOW NOTES So many people walk around feeling ashamed of their anxiety. Like it means they're weak, or broken, or not faithful enough, or not strong enough to handle life. In today's episode, Celeste reframes anxiety completely — not as a personal failure but as a biological response that was designed to protect you. Understanding what anxiety actually is changes everything about how you relate to it. If you've been judging yourself for being anxious, this one will change how you see yourself. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:31

Daily Shift 159: The world feels heavy right now and that's not in your head

5/18/2026

If you've been feeling more anxious, more exhausted, more on edge than usual — there's a reason. The world is a lot right now. The economy, the news, the uncertainty about what's coming next. In today's episode, Celeste names what's happening collectively and gives you permission to stop gaslighting yourself about why you feel the way you feel. You're not weak. You're not broken. You're a human being responding to a genuinely hard moment in history. If you've been wondering why you can't just shake it off, this one will explain why — and give you somewhere to start. Today's shift: Stop telling yourself you shouldn't feel this way — and start acknowledging that what you're carrying is real. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:50

Daily Shift 158: You're allowed to be okay again

5/17/2026

This is the episode Celeste saved for last. Because after everything — the naming, the normalizing, the hard kinds of grief, the guilt, the fear of moving forward — it all comes down to this. You are allowed to be okay again. Not because the loss didn't matter. Not because you're over it. But because you survived it. And surviving it is not something to feel guilty about. It's something to honor. If any part of you has been waiting for permission to feel okay — this is it. Today's shift: Let yourself be okay today. Just today. Without guilt, without explanation, without apology. `

Duration:00:04:40

Daily Shift 157: Moving forward is not the same as moving on

5/16/2026

One of the biggest fears people have in grief is that healing means forgetting. That if you start to feel better, it means the person or the relationship or the loss didn't matter enough. In today's episode, Celeste makes a distinction that changes everything — moving forward and moving on are not the same thing. You can carry someone with you and still choose to live fully. You can honor what you lost without staying stuck in it forever. If the fear of forgetting has been keeping you from healing, this one will give you permission to move. Today's shift: Identify one small way you can move forward today — without feeling like you're leaving anything behind. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow STWYT Wellness Center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:38

Daily Shift 156: Grief and guilt are not the same thing

5/15/2026

TITLE Daily Shift 156: Grief and guilt are not the same thing Grief and guilt often show up together — and for a lot of people they become so tangled it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Did I do enough? Should I have said something sooner? Could I have prevented this? In today's episode, Celeste untangles grief from guilt and helps you understand why carrying both at the same time is one of the heaviest things a person can do — and how to start setting one of them down. If guilt has become part of your grief, this one will help you separate the two. Today's shift: Identify one guilty thought you've been carrying inside your grief — and examine whether it's actually true. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow Celeste Personal Page on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:12

Daily Shift 155: You're allowed to grieve the life you thought you'd have

5/14/2026

There's a particular kind of grief that almost nobody talks about — the grief of a life that never happened. The marriage you thought you'd have by now. The career that didn't go the way you planned. The family you imagined that looks nothing like reality. The version of yourself you thought you'd be at this age. In today's episode, Celeste talks about grieving the imagined life — and why letting go of who you thought you'd be is one of the most important and most overlooked parts of healing. If you've been quietly mourning a future that didn't happen, this one will give you permission to feel it fully. Today's shift: Name the life you thought you'd have — and give yourself permission to grieve the gap between that and where you are now. Today's shift: Stop waiting for closure to come from the outside — and start creating it from within. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Events Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow Celeste Personal Page on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:26

Daily Shift 154: When there was no goodbye

5/13/2026

Some of the hardest grief to carry is the kind that came without warning. No chance to say what needed to be said. No closure. No final conversation. Just here one day and gone the next — whether that's a death, a relationship that ended abruptly, or a door that closed before you were ready. In today's episode, Celeste talks about what it means to grieve without closure and why waiting for it might be keeping you stuck. If you're carrying a loss that never got a proper ending, this one is for you. Today's shift: Stop waiting for closure to come from the outside — and start creating it from within. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow Celeste Personal Page on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:00

Daily Shift 153: Grieving someone who is still alive

5/12/2026

One of the most confusing and isolating forms of grief is grieving someone who hasn't died. A parent who was never really present. A friendship that slowly disappeared. A relationship that ended but the person is still there in your life, on your phone, on your social media. In today's episode, Celeste talks about ambiguous loss — the grief that doesn't come with a funeral, a casserole, or permission from anyone around you to fall apart. If you're mourning a relationship with someone who is still alive and don't know how to make sense of what you're feeling, this one will help you name it. Today's shift: Give yourself permission to grieve this relationship — even though the person is still here. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow Celeste Personal Page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow the wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:03:38

EP 540 The Exhausting Truth About Being the Most Aware Person in the Room

5/12/2026

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Duration:00:24:54

Daily Shift 152: The stages of grief were never meant to be a checklist

5/9/2026

Most people have heard of the five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. And most people think they're supposed to move through them in order, check each one off, and come out healed on the other side. But that's not what the research says, and it's not what grief actually looks like in real life. In today's episode, Celeste sets the record straight on the stages of grief — what they were actually meant to do, and why forcing yourself through a checklist might be making your healing harder, not easier. If you've ever felt like you're grieving wrong, this one will give you a lot of relief. Today's shift: Let go of the timeline you think you're supposed to be on — and trust where you actually are today. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow Celeste Personal Page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow the wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:18

Daily Shift 151: You don't have to be strong right now

5/8/2026

When loss hits, one of the first things people say is "stay strong." And most of us comply — because we were taught that strength means not falling apart. But what if the most courageous thing you could do right now is stop performing strength and actually feel what's there? In today's episode, Celeste challenges the idea that holding it together is the same as healing — and gives you permission to put the armor down. If you've been the strong one for so long you don't even know how to stop, this one is for you. Today's shift: Identify one place in your life where you've been performing strength — and give yourself permission to just be human there today. visit the wellness center stwyt.com Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow Celeste Personal Page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow the wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram

Duration:00:04:07

Daily Shift 150: Grief lives in your body, not just your mind

5/7/2026

We tend to think of grief as something that happens in our heads — the thoughts, the memories, the sadness. But grief is just as much a body experience as it is an emotional one. The tightness in your chest. The exhaustion that won't lift. The way your appetite disappears or takes over completely. In today's episode, Celeste breaks down what grief actually does to your nervous system — and why taking care of your body is not separate from processing your loss. It's part of it. If you've been wondering why you feel grief physically, this one will help you understand what's actually happening inside you. Today's shift: Check in with your body today — not your thoughts. Notice where you're holding it.

Duration:00:04:06

Daily Shift 149: Grief isn't only about death

5/6/2026

When most people hear the word grief, they think about losing someone to death. But grief shows up in so many other places — the end of a relationship, a friendship that faded, a version of yourself you had to leave behind, a life that didn't go the way you planned. In today's episode, Celeste opens up the grief conversation by expanding what we're even allowed to grieve in the first place. If you've ever felt a deep loss but told yourself it didn't count because nobody died, this one is for you. Today's shift: Name one thing you've been carrying as sadness that you haven't yet given yourself permission to call grief. https://www.instagram.com/celeste.the.therapist/ https://www.tiktok.com/@celestethetherapist

Duration:00:03:32

Daily Shift 148: You're allowed to want a different pace

5/5/2026

Not everyone has to live at full speed. But somewhere along the way, wanting a slower, calmer life got labeled as laziness — or worse, as not being ambitious enough. In today's episode, Celeste closes out the burnout cluster with the most honest question of all: what if the pace you've been keeping was never actually yours to begin with? This one is about more than burnout recovery. It's about choosing, maybe for the first time, the life you actually want. Today's shift: Name the pace you actually want and take one step today to protect it.

Duration:00:04:12