The Bird Brain Podcast

People don't usually stop loving you all at once. There's no argument. No betrayal. No clear ending.

There's just distance. Forgetfulness. Lack of bids, lack of priority.
In this episode, we unpack why some people are drawn to your depth, your presence, and your emotional-availability until that same closeness begins to require something of them.

This conversation isn't about being "too much." It's about what happens when love shifts from being effortless to being reciprocal.

We explore:
Why consistency and care can feel comforting at first- and confronting later.

How emotional depth becomes a mirror people didn't ask to look into.

The quiet withdrawal that happens when love starts to require integrity.

Why being loved easily is not the same thing as being loved intentionally.

If you've ever been deeply appreciated, then slowly deprioritized-without explanation- this episode isn't here to fix you. It's here to contextualize you.

Sometimes people don't leave because you changed. They leave because staying would have required them to.

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February begins with a shift.

Not the kind you announce loudly—but the kind you feel settling into your bones.

In this episode, I talk about moving in silence, choosing discernment over disclosure, and why not everything meaningful in your life needs to be explained, shared, or made legible for others. We explore the difference between secrecy and stewardship, oversharing and authenticity, urgency and alignment.

This is a conversation about protecting what’s still becoming, letting things mature before they’re consumed, and giving yourself permission to have a private life—even in a world that constantly asks for access.

If you’re in a season where something is changing quietly behind the scenes, this one is for you.

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This episode is not about fixing your life. It's about taking inventory. In the spirit of audit season, I'm walking through the idea of a self Audit- looking honestly at where our time, care, energy, and Presence are going, and how they're being met.

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We’ve been taught that expecting less from people is emotional maturity.
But what if that narrative is actually protecting avoidance?

In this episode, I unpack the growing cultural tendency to label expectations as “too much” while normalizing emotional absence, low effort, and unspoken withdrawal. We talk about how “low-maintenance” has become a shield for neglect, how “capacity” is often confused with accountability, and why so many people want the benefits of connection without participating in the labor of it.

This isn’t about forcing people to give what they don’t have.
It’s about being honest about what relationships require—and who pays the cost when others opt out.

Because expectations don’t destroy relationships.
Avoidance does.

People can name patterns, explain their trauma, and articulate their inner world with impressive clarity. But insight alone isn't the same as growth.

In this episode, we unpack why self-awareness without repair becomes self-narration- a way of explaining behavior without changing it. We explore how awareness can turn into a shield, how trauma language gets misused to avoid accountability, and why understanding yourself doesn't automatically make you safe to be in a relationship with.

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