Mental Nesting

Mental Nesting is the gentle space for sensitive adults who've outgrown the "hustle through your healing" mentality. Hosted by licensed therapist and writer Barbara Guimaraes, this podcast explores the messy, nonlinear reality of rebuilding your life after trauma, heartbreak, and the kind of personal upheaval that leaves you questioning everything.

If you're someone who's done therapy, read the books, and tried all the self-help strategies but still feel like you're figuring it out as you go—this podcast is for you. Barbara brings both her clinical expertise and lived experience of navigating bipolar disorder, relationship trauma, coming out later in life, and the quiet courage it takes to choose yourself when no one taught you how.

Each episode feels like a conversation with your most emotionally intelligent friend—the one who sees your sensitivity as a superpower, not a flaw. Through vulnerable storytelling, practical frameworks, and her signature "soft but unfiltered" approach, Barbara helps you reconnect with your inner child, build unshakable self-trust, and create a life that feels authentically yours.

This isn't about optimizing or fixing yourself. It's about learning to be human—messily, beautifully, exactly as you are. Because sometimes the most radical thing you can do is slow down, turn inward, and remember that healing doesn't have to hurt to be real.

Perfect for highly sensitive people, therapy graduates, late bloomers, and anyone who's ever felt "too much" in a world that demands you be less. Welcome to your emotional homecoming.

Contributors

Host

Barbara Guimaraes, LMSW

Barbara Guimarães, LMSW, is a licensed therapist and nervous system coach specializing in trauma and nervous system responses. Her work bridges clinical training and lived experience and is shaped by years spent navigating the gap between insight and embodiment, often described as the “I know it, but I can’t do it” cycle.

Trained in trauma-informed care and polyvagal theory, Barbara supports people in understanding their patterns and learning how to respond differently in real time. Her approach focuses on practical, body-based tools that help insight stay online when life feels activating, especially between therapy sessions.

Through Mental Nesting, she shares grounded conversations, reflections, and practices for people who feel deeply, think insightfully, and want change that shows up in daily life.

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