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Let Her SpeakChoosing What Comes Next — Closing 2025 with ClarityAs we close out the final episode of 2025, Jess wanted to reflect with you. This year has asked a lot from so many of us, and if you’ve felt the shedding, the questioning, or the emotional rollercoaster, this conversation is for you.One of the biggest realisations Jess shares in this episode is this:“Life does not have to be linear in order for it to feel fulfilling or successful.”We talk about what 2025 has been stripping away, why clarity often comes after discomfort, and how choice becomes the bridge between awareness and real change...
2025-12-2212 minLet Her SpeakFeeling Off, Overwhelmed, or Numb? It’s time to listen to your body with Bianca MoeschingerWhen you're constantly expanding, achieving, doing – it's easy to lose touch with the deeper truth of who you really are. Jess sits down with psychosomatic therapy teacher and emotional anatomy expert Bianca Moeschinger to explore what it really means to come home to yourself through the body.From financial collapse to emotional release, Bianca shares how her own unraveling became the doorway to inner freedom – and how the body holds everything we've been unwilling to feel. Together, they explore why survival mode isn’t a failure but a portal, and how nervous system wisdom c...
2025-11-2554 minLet Her SpeakWhat If You’re Not Lost – Just Ready for a New Life? With Dagmar SprembergJess sits down with yoga teacher and pro-age mentor Dagmar Spremberg to explore the wild, tender process of becoming. What unfolds is a conversation about the courage to start over, the beauty of following synchronicities, and how softening into stillness can reconnect us with who we really are – especially when life feels like it's falling apart.From her early days in Germany to her transformative years in Costa Rica, Dagmar shares her journey of leaving behind the known in search of a life that felt true. She speaks openly about menopause, ageing, body image, and the spiritual pr...
2025-11-1148 minLet Her SpeakWhy the Strongest Women Feel the Most LostHave you ever wondered how you can be so good at holding others, but feel completely lost when it comes to yourself?Jess shares a conversation around the identity of the “strong woman” – the ones who are the emotional anchors for everyone else, the solution-finders, the calm in the chaos. But what happens when theydon’t feel okay? Where do they go when things fall apart?Drawing from her own experience and powerful client conversations, Jess explores the inner freeze, the loneliness, and the shame that silently lives beneath the surface for so many high-functioning, emotionally i...
2025-10-2815 minLet Her SpeakYour Home Is Talking to Your Nervous System with Chanel Choice Jess sits down with Chanel Choice – founder of Flowing Feng Shui– to explore how the unseen energy in our homes directly impacts our nervous system, sense of safety, and emotional wellbeing.Chanel shares the ancient practice of flying stars feng shui (Fenue), offering real-life examples and practical shifts that help women (especially mothers) create homes that feel like a true exhale. From rethinking your front door to understanding the energy of your furniture, this episode invites you to tune into the language your home has been speaking all along.Together, they explore how your space refle...
2025-10-2150 minLet Her SpeakThe Hidden Cost of Being Online While MotheringThere’s something that’s not being said, and it’s time we said it: the noise isn’t helping. It’s harming.In this episode, Jess speaks to the ache that so many mothers and practitioners carry – the pressure to show up online, the unspoken shame baked into marketing, and the collective cliff we’re all falling from when we believe that silence and stillness are luxuries we can’t afford.She opens up about her own love–hate relationship with social media, what it's really costing us as women, and why she’s choosing to step bac...
2025-10-1519 minLet Her SpeakHow to change your reactions when you’re stressed (sneak peak inside HHP)How to change your reactions when you’re stressed (sneak peak inside HHP)In this Q&A episode, Jess shares what we actually mean when we talk about nervous system rewiring. What does it look like in the chaos of real life, with a toddler throwing food and a mind racing with a thousand invisible tabs open?This isn't about strategies or parenting hacks. It's about the sacred pause – the moment before the eruption – where we get to choose curiosity over criticism, embodiment over reaction.In this episode, you’ll hear:What nervous sy...
2025-09-2414 minLet Her Speak Breath, Birth & Becoming – Finding Yourself in Life’s Biggest Transitions with Nicola LayeSome conversations feel like sitting down with an old friend who sees you — all of you. This is one of those.In this episode, I’m joined by Nicola Laye, a breathwork practitioner, mentor and spaceholder with over 25 years of experience guiding women through the defining rites of passage in life — from conception and birth to rediscovering themselves beyond motherhood. Her work is woven from deep empathy, lived experience, and an unshakable belief that we can meet every transition with calm, clarity, and confidence.We talk about the quiet power of breath, the unspoken realities of pos...
2025-09-241h 03Let Her SpeakEP013: When Pain Becomes the Portal with Kim MorrisonWhat if the moments that brought you to your knees were actually leading you home to yourself?Jess sits down with the radiant Kim Morrison – five-time bestselling author, endurance athlete, aromatherapist, and founder of 28 Essentials. Kim opens her heart to share her journey from childhood responsibility, trauma, and heartbreak, through to resilience, motherhood, and radical self-love. With her signature warmth and wisdom, she reminds us that the pain isn’t the end – it’s the portal.From the metaphor of ultramarathons to the reality of raising teenagers, Kim walks us through her own becoming and invites...
2025-09-1058 minLet Her SpeakThe Shame of Survival ModeJess unpacks a hidden truth so many women carry: the shame we feel for simply surviving. When life gets overwhelming – kids, work, relationships, identity – we drop into survival mode. And then we make ourselves wrong for it.But what if there’s nothing wrong with you? What if survival mode is not a flaw to fix but a truth to honour?From daily walks in nature with her daughter to the deeper layers of nervous system wiring, Jess offers a reframe that brings both science and soul. She gently challenges the self-help culture that pathologises surviv...
2025-09-0318 minLet Her SpeakSelf-Love After Giving BirthBecoming a mother cracks you open – body, heart, identity. And in the wake of that, self-love can feel like a distant, even impossible, concept. Jess shares the raw truths of her postpartum experience – including a traumatic birth, moments of disconnect from her daughter, and the painful internal dialogue that resurfaced after becoming a mother.But this isn’t just a story about struggle – it’s a reclamation. Jess invites us into the deeply personal journey of learning to love herself in the mirror again. She speaks to the invisible threads that tie our mothers’ self-perception to our own, and how...
2025-08-2719 minLet Her SpeakInside Psychiatry – What You’re Not Being Told About MedicationWhat if the “solution” you’re being offered for emotional distress comes with invisible costs?In this conversation, Psychiatrist Dr Josef Doerrin takes us behind the closed doors of the FDA and pharmaceutical industry. From his early ideals of helping people heal through understanding and support, to the disillusionment he felt watching a medication-first model dominate the field, Josef reveals what most patients (and parents) are never told before starting psychiatric drugs.We talk openly about:Why most emotional suffering is rooted in life hardship, not brain chemistryThe commercial forces shaping medical education, public health...
2025-08-201h 01Let Her SpeakMaking Decisions When You’ve Lost Touch with YourselfMost of us have been told at some point to “remember who you are” or “make decisions from your true self.” But what happens when you hear those words and… nothing comes? No answer. No spark. Just a blank space.In this episode, I share a conversation with a client who felt exactly that way – and how we traced her way back to her own knowing through something as simple as choosing tea over coffee. We explore why big, life-changing decisions can feel impossible if we haven’t practised tuning into ourselves in the small ones, and how our surviv...
2025-08-1319 minLet Her SpeakLove Isn’t Enough. Here’s What Actually Makes Relationships Last.What if the real issue in your relationship isn’t communication... but survival mode? In this deeply grounding conversation, I’m joined by renowned clinician and author Dr Stan Tatkin to explore why love alone isn’t enough – and what it really takes to build secure, lasting relationships.We unpack how our nervous systems interpret safety and threat in partnership, why childhood adaptations resurface in adulthood, and the science behind why so many of us end up in repetitive cycles of conflict – even with the people we love most.I share my own patterns of clinging...
2025-08-061h 02
My Inner KnowingThe Power of Self-Trust with Jess ArachchiWhat does it take to truly trust yourself?In this powerful conversation, Motherhood Wellness Coach Jess Arachchi joins us to share her journey of healing, nervous system regulation, and the deep inner work that allows us to return to ourselves—especially when life feels overwhelming. From navigating anxiety and panic to parenting with presence, Jess offers insight into what it means to come home to your body and your truth.You’ll learn how to differentiate between survival responses and inner knowing, why befriending your sensations changes everything, and how to stay connected to yourself in t...
2025-07-1155 min
Self Love PodcastSLP 494: Accepting Things As They Are with Chaz Arachchi‘My Dad right now has been diagnosed with some hardening of the arteries in his heart, and it looks to be pretty serious. I don’t want to make this morbid, but I got a real sense of mortality very quickly. But I feel like this is the same sort of thing. I am pretty sure he is a healthy man, he will be fine, but I think the word is ‘acceptance’. Rather than being scared or not really dealing with it, I know this is a part of life, this is what happens, we can’t be here forever, a...
2025-07-091h 08Let Her SpeakStop Making Survival Your StandardFrom late-night reflections to one of the most pivotal decisions of her life, Jess explores what it really means to live from your soul self, the deeply aligned, fiercely wise part of you that knows you were made for more.She unpacks the subtle ways we stay stuck in patterns that feel “safe” but are actually stifling, and offers a new lens for understanding your decisions, fears, and inner resistance, without shame.You’ll hear:The moment Jess realised she was responsible for her reality, and everything changedThe difference between survival decisions and soul-led onesWh...
2025-07-0921 minLet Her SpeakA Psychologist’s Warning to Parents: What the Mental Health System Gets Wrong About Kids with Dr Roger McFillinIn this important episode of Let Her Speak, Jess sits down with clinical psychologist and outspoken mental health advocate Dr. Roger McFillin to unpack a confronting truth: the way we’re addressing children’s mental health is failing families.With years of experience working with children and teens, Dr. McFillin shares what’s really going on behind rising diagnoses of anxiety, ADHD, and other behavioural labels — and why medicating the symptoms often misses the point entirely.You’ll hear:Why many childhood diagnoses don’t address root causesThe overlooked impact of trauma, attachment, and nervous syst...
2025-07-021h 03Let Her SpeakThe Patterns You Didn’t Choose… But Are Still Living In with Michelle MastersIn this powerful conversation, Jess sits down with transformational coach and NLP trainer Michelle Masters to unpack the unseen patterns shaping our lives — and how to break free from the ones we never consciously chose.Together, they explore the emotional wiring behind people-pleasing, perfectionism, burnout, and other self-sabotaging patterns that keep women stuck — and reveal how those patterns aren’t actually ours to begin with.You’ll hear:How emotional and behavioural patterns are passed down unconsciouslyWhy most mindset work falls short (and what actually works)The deeper reason we repeat cycles, even when we want...
2025-06-2749 minLet Her SpeakWhy Burnout Isn’t What You Think It IsEpisode 4: Why Burnout Isn’t What You Think It IsBurnout. We’ve all felt it—but what if we’ve misunderstood it all along?In this powerful episode, Jess Arachchi breaks down the truth about burnout and why it isn’t just about doing “too much.” It’s about doing everything but the things that actually nourish your soul.You’ll hear:Why traditional self-care routines often don’t work (and what does)The real cause of burnout most mothers never talk aboutHow to know when your life is out of alignmentThe surpris...
2025-06-2614 minLet Her SpeakThe Confidence Con: Why You Still Don’t Feel Enough with Nicole KalilIn this powerful conversation, Jess sits down with confidence coach and podcast host Nicole Kalil to unpack the real reason so many women still don’t feel “enough” - even after doing all the work.Together, they call out the harmful myths around confidence, reveal the hidden conditioning behind perfectionism and people-pleasing, and explore how women can start building true self-trust from the inside out.You’ll hear:The #1 lie about confidence that keeps women stuckWhy “worthiness” work doesn’t always stick—and what to do insteadHow our obsession with being seen as nice, good, selfless i...
2025-06-2543 minLet Her SpeakWhy Feeling Good Feels So Far AwayIn this grounded and soul-stirring second episode, Jess Arachchi explores why so many mothers feel disconnected from joy—and how we begin the slow, gentle return to ourselves. Through personal reflection and client stories, Jess unpacks how survival mode becomes our default setting, and how compassion, awareness, and conscious choice can begin to bring joy back into reach.You’ll hear:Why so many women lose touch with their joy—and don’t even realize itHow your nervous system is doing its job, but not always in alignment with your soulThe survival strategies you mistake for personal...
2025-06-2415 minLet Her SpeakThe Moment I Chose Myself at 30,000 FeetIn this raw and heartfelt first episode, Jess Arachchi shares the deeply personal story behind the creation of Let Her Speak. From ending a long-term relationship to rediscovering herself while flying over Europe, Jess invites you into a defining moment—a tear-soaked awakening that would shape her life’s mission and the work she now offers to women and mothers.You’ll hear:The emotional breakthrough that sparked Jess’s journey back to herselfWhy bold, soul-led decisions often come with tantrums and tears (and why that’s okay)The real reason she launched this podcast—and who it’s forW...
2025-06-2320 min
Joy Found HereThe Real Reason You’re Not a Happy Parent (And How to Change That Today!) with Jess ArachchiWhat if the key to raising a happy child isn't about fixing them, but healing yourself first?In this episode, I'm joined by Jess Arachchi, a child behavior and family dynamics specialist who challenges everything we think we know about parenting. With a background in social work, psychology, and yoga therapy, as well as a powerful personal story, Jess offers a radically compassionate and conscious approach to parenting that begins with one simple question: What if your happiness is the foundation for theirs?In this heart-opening conversation, Jess shares how her chaotic childhood...
2025-06-1758 min
Into The Nothing with Patrice64. Magic begins with the mother with Jess ArachchiSend us a textMotherhood is a wild ride - beautiful, messy, and transformative. In this episode, we welcome back Jess, a Motherhood and Family Therapist and the heart behind the HAPPY Home Movement. Whether you’re a mum or dreaming of becoming one, this conversation is for you.Jess shares simple, low-cost ways to nourish yourself as a mother, practical tools to navigate mum guilt, and how to handle big emotions (both yours and your child's). Most importantly, she reminds us: you are not alone.In this episode: ✨ The powe...
2025-03-1259 min
Call Me CEO: Moms Building Businesses, a Woman's guide to Balancing it All227: Nurturing Your Nervous System and Discovering Your PurposeSend us a textDiscover the transformative power of a mother's mindset with our insightful guest, Jess Arachchi. From a challenging upbringing with an alcoholic father to finding her calling as a motherhood mindset coach and family therapist, Jess has a wealth of experiences to share. Her journey took her from Brisbane to Italy and Singapore, ultimately leading her to support mothers in Australia. In this episode, Jess opens up about her path to clarity and purpose, and how it informs her work helping mothers create harmonious family environments.Harnessing the energy of stillness, Jess...
2024-12-1754 min
Self Love PodcastSLP 412: The Secret Sauce of Parenthood with Jess Arachchi‘This is kind of the secret sauce of parenthood when you feel like, ‘Am I stuffing my children up? Have I done something so bad?’ And the point I would say here for parents is the really big golden nugget is how open are you to having the really, really uncomfortable conversations with your kids around what they did like and didn’t like, what they struggled with, what they felt hurt by, sad by… are you willing and able to have those conversations which will ultimately lead to growth and their self-discovery and their healing… also a deep connection w...
2024-09-091h 23
Thrive Again - Your relationship podcastHow to Navigate Parenting Differences and Managing "Meltdowns": A Conversation with Jess Arachchi - Family Dynamic SpecialistHave you ever wondered how your childhood experiences shape your approach to parenting? Join us for a heartfelt conversation with Jess Arachchi, the inspiring founder and CEO of the Happy Home Network. Jess shares her powerful story of overcoming a tumultuous childhood marked by her father's addiction and her mother's mental health struggles. Through her journey, Jess discovered the profound impact of parents' emotional well-being on their children's development and happiness. Tune in to hear her insights on creating safe and supportive home environments through understanding and regulating the nervous system.In our discussion, we dive into...
2024-07-2348 min