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Welcome to The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast—where emotional depth meets grounded psychology. Hosted by Dr. Allison Sucamele, this podcast is a sanctuary for anyone ready to do the inner work, face their shadow, and cultivate a life that feels authentic, aligned, and alive.
Each episode explores the psychology behind emotions, relationships, nervous system healing, and self-awareness. Whether you're navigating heartbreak, burnout, betrayal, people-pleasing, or the desire for deeper meaning, you'll find thoughtful reflections, symbolic storytelling, and powerful insights to help you bloom—one truth at a time.
Grab a cup of tea, tune in, and come home to yourself.
Follow along on Instagram @thelemontreecoaching and explore free resources on Teachers Pay Teachers at The Lemon Tree by AKS.
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Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. Sometimes an old ache returns - a memory you thought you’d outgrown, a feeling you believed you’d healed, a reaction that surprises you. And the first thought many of us have is, “Why am I still dealing with this? I thought I was past it.” But emotional reactivation isn’t regression. It’s capacity. In this short bonus episode, Dr. Allison Sucamele breaks down the psychology behind why old wounds resurface just when life s...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In this episode, we explore the moment in every healing journey when you realize that life isn’t asking you to erase your past - it’s asking you to integrate it. Through the lens of trauma psychology, narrative identity, and nervous system science, we unpack what it truly means to weave every chapter of your life into a coherent, compassionate story: the beautiful ones, the devastating ones, the ones that still make...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In this episode, we’re exploring a truth many of us learn only through heartbreak, confusion, or the slow unraveling of something we believed was solid: Anything that starts with a lie will end with a devastating truth. This isn’t an episode about blame or shame - it’s about compassion. Because nearly all of us, at some point, have lived inside a story held together by half-truths, omissions, or illusions we desperately w...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. Today, we’re diving into one of the most quietly powerful dynamics shaping our relationships, our self-worth, and our nervous systems: the psychological difference between attention and connection. At first glance, these two experiences can look, and even feel, similar. Both can be pleasurable, validating, and emotionally stimulating. But beneath the surface, they do very different things to the brain and body. Attention ...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In this short bonus episode of The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast, we’re exploring emotional first aid - the gentle, immediate care your mind and body need when you’re emotionally flooded. Emotional flooding isn’t a personal failure. It’s a physiological state where the nervous system becomes overwhelmed, the limbic system takes over, and rational thought goes offline. In this episode, you’ll learn three simple, ...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. There’s a feeling so many of us know deeply—the “raw” emotional state. When your skin feels too thin. When the world feels too loud, too sharp, too close. When someone asks, “Are you okay?” and you almost dissolve. In this episode, we unpack what feeling raw truly means from a psychological, emotional, and physiological perspective. Rawness isn’t a breakdown, a flaw, or a sign you’re “too sensitive.” It’s a threshold mome...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In today’s gentle bonus episode, Dr. Allison Sucamele explores the power of micro-moments of joy—the tiny, sensory delights that can soften your nervous system and rewire your brain for gratitude, calm, and emotional resilience. Drawing from the research of Dr. Barbara Fredrickson and Dr. Rick Hanson, this episode reveals why joy doesn’t need to be grand to be transformative. From the warmth of a morning mug to a single l...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In today’s episode of The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast, we’re diving into the tender, courageous process of rediscovering your voice after life convinced you that silence was safer. Whether that silence grew from difficult relationships, traumatic experiences, toxic environments, or the quiet pressures of society, many of us learned, often without realizing it, that hiding our truth felt easier than risking criticism, conf...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. We rarely recognize turning points while we’re in them. This episode explores the psychology behind life transitions - why our brains overlook endings, how identities evolve in seasons, and how to navigate the “neutral zone” between who you were and who you're becoming. Grounded in research from developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, this conversation offers a reflective space for anyone experienci...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. Have you ever shared something meaningful, only to have someone flip it back to themselves? You’re not imagining it. Today, we’re exploring the subtle — and sometimes exhausting — pattern of people who make everything about them. From hijacking conversations to emotional centering, we’ll uncover the psychological roots of self-focused behavior and why it’s often more about wounding than ego. 💭 In this episode: • Why peopl...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In this short bonus episode of The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast, Dr. Allison Sucamele explores the quiet strength hidden within our tears. We often see crying as a sign of fragility, but science reveals it’s actually a neurochemical release—a natural reset for the body and mind. Learn how emotional tears differ from reflex tears, what happens in the brain when we cry, and why allowing yourself to weep can calm the nervous ...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In this week’s episode of The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast, Dr. Allison Sucamele explores the beautiful intersection of movement, emotion, and psychology. From the brain’s release of feel-good chemicals when we move to music, to the emotional storytelling woven into dance performances, this episode unveils how rhythm becomes a bridge between body and soul. We’ll talk about how dance can heal, express, and connect us—...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. This short bonus episode is a soulful reflection on boundaries, truth, and one of the most revolutionary plays in history—Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Nora Helmer’s story reminds us that living for approval is not the same as living in truth. Beneath her perfect façade lies a woman losing herself to please everyone else. When she finally says no, it’s not rebellion—it’s rebirth. In this episode, we explore how Nora’s “n...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. 🎃 Halloween may look like pure fun — costumes, candy, laughter, and late nights, but beneath the glow of pumpkin lights, our boundaries often blur. In this episode, Dr. Allison Sucamele explores the psychology behind why that happens, and how to stay grounded, safe, and true to yourself in the midst of social pressure and sensory overload. From the “fawn response” to consent clarity, overstimulation, and self-trust,...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. This week, we’re exploring a topic that sits at the heart of emotional healing and nervous system regulation — your parasympathetic nervous system. Your nervous system has two main branches: the sympathetic branch — your fight, flight, or freeze responsethe parasympathetic branch — your rest, digest, and restore system.When your parasympathetic system is activated, your heart rate slows, your breath deepens, your mind cle...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. Step inside the shadowed chamber of the human heart. In this week’s episode of The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast, host Dr. Allison Sucamele explores the haunting world of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe — not just as a literary classic, but as a psychological map of grief, obsession, and the search for meaning in unbearable loss. We’ll unpack the poem’s psychological layers: 🌿 Grief and fixation through the narrator’s emotiona...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In this short bonus episode of The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast, Dr. Allison Sucamele unpacks the subtle but powerful difference between a tragic flaw and a tragic error. This distinction reshapes how we understand both classic tragedies, such as Othello, and our own human missteps. Drawing from Poetics by Aristotle, we’ll explore how hamartia is less about an unchangeable flaw and more about a single lapse in judgment — a...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. Step inside the mind of one of literature’s most powerful tragedies. In this episode of The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast, host Dr. Allison Sucamele explores the psychological forces that shape Othello by William Shakespeare — from Othello’s deep insecurities to Iago’s chilling manipulations and Desdemona’s tragic idealism. We’ll dive into: 🌿 How racism, imposter syndrome, and insecurity fuel Othello’s downfall 🧠 Iago as a ...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. In this episode of The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast, Dr. Allison Sucamele invites you to explore something so simple that most of us overlook it entirely—the pause. In a world obsessed with productivity, growth, and constant doing, the pause is where we remember how to simply be. Drawing from positive psychology and nervous system science, this reflection explores how the pause helps us shift from survival to safety, from ...
Ask The Lemon Tree Coaching Podcast a Question. Text the TLT Pod today. Step into one of the most haunting images in art history—Edvard Munch’s The Scream. In this episode, Dr. Allison Sucamele explores the painting not merely as a work of art, but as a profound psychological mirror of anxiety, alienation, and the human condition. Through lenses of psychology, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience, you’ll uncover how Munch’s silent cry reflects panic, existential dread, and the universal ache of b...
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