Why We Lie, When We Learned the Truth Was Unsafe & How to Rewire Safety with Nina Passero
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Ep 138. Have you ever wondered when we learn to stop being honest with ourselves, and how this teaches us to suppress our body’s signals? What if learning the truth is unsafe starts in our family systems — and how do we begin to tell the truth as adults? Nina Passero, FDN-P and my BFF is back on the pod! Nina has genuinely had one of the most intense journeys these past 6 years, from losing her beloved brother Matteo, to becoming a mother, to unpacking the taboo truths about grief that we never learn until we have to. This time, we are sitting down for a much more intimate chat. This is one of those conversations that speaks to the heart of our friendship. We’re breaking down the parallels between motherhood and grief, we dig into the strength of our friendship, why it’s lasted as long as it has, and the key factors that have kept it healthy. Nina is one of the best humans I know, and I’m so honored to be able to share this conversation with our community.
HERE'S THE JUICE:
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Do we bring hidden expectations into friendships? The role of contracts in business, and friendship – why they might have more in common than you think
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The importance of expanding our capacity to be with life and death – shifting your mindset to understand the importance of meditating on our own death and seeing life from a different perspective as a result
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The profound importance of honesty in a friendship and the key reasons why we often struggle in friendships as adults – bringing it back to the root cause to identify if we are operating from a place of fear
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Why do we often fail to see the interplay between intimacy and responsibility? This suggests that responsibility may be the thing we fear most
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The difference between keeping score and maintaining healthy relational dynamics – It's 2025, we’re not keeping score
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm finally sitting down with one of my best friends. |
| 0:06.8 | Not finally. |
| 0:07.4 | She's been on this podcast before. |
| 0:08.9 | Nina Pissero. |
| 0:09.5 | She's unbelievable. |
| 0:10.7 | She's an amazing practitioner. |
| 0:11.8 | But I'm finally sitting down with her today in a friendship kind of way, which is what |
| 0:16.0 | I'm really trying to bring to the podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | I honestly set out to film this season and do a lot more jokes and |
| 0:21.7 | laughter type beats. And yet, I have been pretty serious thus far. So we're going to work to change |
| 0:27.4 | that a little bit. This episode is going to be pure jokes a lot of the times. Nina and I are sitting down |
| 0:33.3 | as two friends, not as like practitioner to practitioner or podcaster to guest, but we're sitting |
| 0:38.3 | down as friends. And we are talking about everything from friendship to motherhood to the importance |
| 0:45.4 | of being honest with people you love to why our parents won't go to therapy and grief, which is a |
| 0:52.2 | topic that I feel like we as a society do not approach quite enough. |
| 0:57.8 | I've had a death duel on the podcast before who's talked about grief, but Nina has experienced |
| 1:02.7 | grief very personally and very recently in this life. |
| 1:05.9 | And it's something that she talks about in such an eloquent yet raw way. |
| 1:09.7 | And so we're just going to sit down as two friends |
| 1:11.2 | and have a conversation. And if you like this style of episode, please let me know because I want to |
| 1:15.5 | have more of my friends on because my friends happen to be really wonderful, intelligent, |
| 1:19.5 | accomplished humans that have so much to share. And I think it's nice to have some of these |
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