Episodes 17
Avg. Duration 21m
Activity Sporadic
Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
35%
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About This Podcast

Welcome to My Therapist Is a Poem, the podcast where the poem is the therapist, and I am the patient. I’m Jen, an American living in Spain and a psych major-turned-now-retired-English-teacher. Poem by poem, I’m analyzing, questioning, and even doubting — all in the hopes of making this one life I get to live better. So, are we ready to begin? Great! "The poem will see you now!"

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Recent Episodes

(Almost) Famous

Feb 12, 2026 26m

In this therapy session, Jen does some dream (read: nightmare!) analysis and discovers that she is in a very scary place. She talks about crying in Spanish and the scam of social media as well. Be a…

Existential Dread ... And Instagram!

Jan 28, 2026 25m

Jen is experiencing an existential crisis — an Instagram existential crisis. Dread, agony of choice, and the impossibility of perfection are all topics on this episode. But pulling it all together is…

Not all who wander are lost...

Jan 21, 2026 31m

...but Jen definitely is! And that's OK. She's finding purpose in her wandering, especially when it leads to beautiful, surprising discoveries -- like maybe she's not as horrible at speaking Spanish…

And I am a dystopian girl

Dec 03, 2025 23m

You know that we are living in a dystopian world, and I am a dystopian girl. So predicted Aldous Huxley, anyway, according to Neil Postman, author of the book Amusing Ourselves to Death. On this…

Owning It

Nov 19, 2025 24m

There's freedom in letting go of possessions. Jen chats about how culturally it's easier to feel that way living in Spain than in the States and how even still she has to make it a point to say, "No,…

Outages

Nov 12, 2025 24m

El apagón -- the never-really-explained, mysterious power outage of Spain: Jen talks about her experience with it and how maybe we all need some outages in life here and there. Maybe we need to "stop…

I'm losing it.

Nov 05, 2025 20m

Losing things, losing friends -- it's all in this therapy session. Join Jen as she loses socks, a wedding ring, and a best friend but maybe (hopefully) gains some clarity."One Art""too tight" This is…

DIE, flowers!

Oct 29, 2025 17m

It's Fall, y'all, and all that. In other words, 'tis the season of DEATH. Grab a pumpkin spice latte, and join Jen as she takes a different perspective on death in this light episode."Fall, leaves,…

Regretfully Yours

Oct 22, 2025 19m

Jen tackles regret in this episode. But instead of beating it up, she ... gives it a hug? Strange times, indeed. Join her.⁠In Praise of Regret⁠ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss…

Layers

Oct 15, 2025 21m

Alternate title: Fruit, THE HORROR! As you start layering up when the air gets crisp, may you be reminded that we're all made of of life layers -- and we're getting between them on this episode. Join…

(don't be a) Rule-Following Robot

Oct 08, 2025 19m

Rebel! Rebel! Rebel! On this episode, Jen is MAD. Join her. Don't become a rule-following robot.Yanking Down Signs and Other Ways to Rebel Against BS This is a public episode. If you would like to…

FIND WORK

Oct 01, 2025 18m

Alternate title: "find work INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH GRIEF." Join Jen as she asks herself if she anesthetizes herself through work and staying busy so she doesn't have to feel grief. Yikes."Find…

(go jump in the sea)

Sep 24, 2025 21m

"As small as a world and as large as alone" -- contradictions are the name of the game in this therapy session, along with the horrible thing chasing Jen, of course. Join her as she muddles her way…

The Downfall

Sep 17, 2025 16m

The ripeness of an apple is its downfall, but is that true of me, too? On this episode, be a fly on the wall for Jen's therapy session where she explores ambition, accomplishments, and ambiguity…

Snake Skins

Sep 10, 2025 23m

Snakes shedding, peeling bananas, and cursing God -- these are just a few issues Jen talks about in her therapy session this week. "Summer," Robin Coste Lewis"tangerines," Jen Steed Knapp This is a…

I Don't Want To Be Respectable

Sep 03, 2025 18m

Anyone else still traumatized from middle school? That trauma and more on this episode of My Therapist Is a Poem. Join Jen as she knows she doesn't know anything, but tries to know anyway -- this…

The Introduction

Jul 17, 2025 0m

So you wanna know what my podcast is about… In My Therapist Is a Poem, I, Jen, will be having therapy sessions — with poetry. We don’t give enough credit to poetry for opening doors to life…

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