FWD JOY by Chrissy Rutherford

How do you decenter men when you’re still a lover girl? In this episode of Forward Joy, I share how a painful situationship sparked a decade of growth and what I’ve learned about healing anxious attachment, building self-worth, and creating a life I love.We’re talking about taking rejection less personally, validating your own beauty, prioritizing your pleasure, and refusing to abandon yourself just to be chosen. You can desire partnership deeply and still know that your life is full, your needs matter, and your worth was never up for debate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if your cravings aren’t a lack of willpower, but your body trying to tell you something?This week, Chrissy sits down with somatic therapist, trauma educator, nutritionist, and Food Therapy author Luis Mojica for a deeply personal conversation about the connection between food, trauma, and the nervous system. Luis shares how his own 25 year experience with binge eating ultimately led him to somatic healing and a completely different way of understanding our relationship with food. Together, he and Chrissy unpack why cravings can be adaptive responses to stress, what it actually means to feel safe in your body, and how fear can become attached to food in ways we may not even realize.Chrissy also opens up about her own relationship with food and anxiety, while Luis offers a new framework for moving beyond “good” and “bad” foods and toward curiosity, body trust, and awareness. They also get into blood sugar, intuitive eating, food noise, GLP 1s, and the simple practice Luis uses to understand what a craving might really be asking for. Because sometimes the question isn’t “Is this food healthy?” It’s “How does my body actually feel?” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aycee Brown is a psychic medium, astrologer, and human design expert who's spent over 15 years guiding high-profile leaders, creatives, and seekers through the questions that keep them up at night. She's the author of Embody Your Magic and holds an MBA in marketing, a rare combination of mystic and strategist that shows up in how she works. In this conversation, Aycee and Chrissy get into what she calls "the boring middle," that stuck-in-limbo feeling so many people are sitting with right now, plus the Leo/Aquarius node shift, why texting every day isn't intimacy, reading your birth chart as a business plan, and why the antidote to spiraling on astrology content is simply learning to trust yourself again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, bestselling author, actress, and producer Robinne Lee joins Chrissy for a conversation about creativity, reinvention, and writing women as complex, fully realized people.From growing up with Jamaican immigrant parents to navigating Hollywood, attending Columbia Law School, and becoming the author of The Idea of You, Robinne reflects on the unexpected path that shaped her career. She also discusses her new novel, Crash Into Me, exploring themes of identity, desire, motherhood, race, sexuality, and belonging.Together, they dive into the realities of pursuing creative work, the importance of telling stories that challenge cultural expectations, and why it's never too late to choose the life that's most authentic to you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on FWD JOY, Chrissy sits down with licensed clinical social worker Alyssa Mancao for an honest conversation about therapy, trauma, anxiety, and the modalities people can’t stop talking about right now: CBT, EMDR, brainspotting, and trauma-informed therapy.Together, they unpack why your relationship with your therapist matters more than any trendy modality, what EMDR actually feels like in practice, and how unresolved experiences can quietly shape the way we move through the world for years. Chrissy also opens up about her own experiences with anxiety, panic attacks, fear of flying, emetophobia, and the evolving nature of her healing journey.If you’ve ever wondered whether therapy is “working,” struggled to find the right therapist, or questioned whether your experiences are “bad enough” to count as trauma, this episode is for you.*ShopMy is my favorite platform for recommendations because it feels curated rather than overwhelming. I love being able to organize all my beauty, fashion, and wellness favorites in one place. And if you’re someone who’s always recommending products to friends anyway, you can easily earn commission from those recommendations too. If you want to join, you can use my referral link/code here: shopmy.us/join/chrissyford Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.