Kelly Poelker

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Dr. Calvin Spinks: When Being Needed Becomes Your Identity

Dr. Calvin Spinks: When Being Needed Becomes Your Identity

Dr. Calvin Spinks shares how childhood rejection, racism, instability, and anxious attachment shaped his need to help, fix, and carry everyone around him. In this honest conversation, he explores people pleasing, boundaries, self-worth, unhealthy coping, and what it took to stop being the tugboat—and become the lighthouse.

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Camille Ellis: Don’t Forget What You Had

Camille Ellis: Don’t Forget What You Had

After losing her son Wes to suicide, Camille Ellis discovered one simple shift in perspective that changed everything: don’t become so focused on what you lost that you forget what you had. In this heartfelt conversation, she shares how that realization helped her carry love forward, embrace healing, and rediscover joy without leaving her son behind.

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