{"podcast":{"title":"Celeste The Therapist","slug":"celeste-the-therapist-558249","podcast_index_feed_id":558249,"rss_url":"https://celestethetherapist.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://celestethetherapist.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/d/d/c/2ddc1f138c8bd772d959afa2a1bf1c87/Heading_1.png","author":"Celeste The Therapist","episode_count":730,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T02:17:34.953868+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/celeste-the-therapist-558249"},"episode":{"title":"EP 543 Your Feelings Are Valid. Your Actions Aren't Always.","slug":"ep-543-your-feelings-are-valid-your-actions-aren-t-always","published_at":"2026-06-30T06:47:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/celeste-the-therapist-558249/ep-543-your-feelings-are-valid-your-actions-aren-t-always","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/celeste-the-therapist-558249","url":"https://www.celestethetherapist.com/episode543","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/celestethetherapist/feelings_are_valid.mp3?dest-id=721232","summary":"Your feelings are valid. All of them — the anger, the hurt, the jealousy, the grief, the fear. You don't have to earn the right to feel what you feel. But somewhere along the way, emotional validation got confused with emotional permission — and Celeste is breaking that down today. In this episode she draws a clear line between feelings, which are involuntary and always valid, and actions, which are choices and always carry consequences. This is the conversation that takes emotional intelligence from awareness into accountability. Topics covered: Why emotional validation matters and what it actually means How \"my feelings are valid\" became a misused concept The difference between explaining behavior and excusing it Why trauma context matters but doesn't eliminate responsibility How the gap between feeling and action is where real growth happens Classes Store Follow Celeste podcast page on tick tock , facebook and instagram Follow STWYT Wellness center on tick tock , facebook and instagram","meta_description":"Your feelings are valid. All of them — the anger, the hurt, the jealousy, the grief, the fear. You don't have to earn the right to feel what you feel. But…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1554,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/celeste-the-therapist-558249/episodes/ep-543-your-feelings-are-valid-your-actions-aren-t-always/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/celeste-the-therapist-558249/ep-543-your-feelings-are-valid-your-actions-aren-t-always.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}