In Your Right Mind with Monique Rhodes

You sit down to meditate and you can't do it. Your mind won't slow, and sometimes you feel worse afterwards than you did before, so you quietly decide meditation isn't for you. It is. What nobody told you is that a practice built for a settled mind can't be started at an eight out of ten, and there's a simple ninety second step that comes first.

Your life looks fine on paper. You can list everything you're lucky to have, usually while lying awake at three in the morning. And you still feel flat, and then you feel ashamed of feeling flat. This one is about why gratitude has never once moved that feeling, what your nervous system has been doing with the dial all these years, and how joy actually comes back, which is no...

If you've ever said "I've tried everything and nothing works," this one is for you. There's a reason the supplements, the apps, the journals and the early nights all helped for a fortnight and then stopped, and it has nothing to do with you being one of the ones it doesn't work for. I'll show you what every single thing on your list had in common, and the one ninety second pr...

This episode is about the strange anxiety that arrives not when life is hard, but when it starts to get genuinely good. If you've ever found yourself bracing, pulling back, or creating problems right when things were finally going well — this is for you. It's not self-sabotage. It's a nervous system that learned to stay ready.

This episode is for anyone who has noticed a strange blankness where their own desires used to be — not depression, not burnout, just a quiet difficulty accessing what you actually want. We're talking about how it happens, why it makes complete sense, and how to find your way back to yourself.