We talk about what Scrupulosity actually looks like (clinically and in everyday life), how it often goes unnoticed, and why so many people silently live with its exhausting mental loops without realizing it. Even thinking that everyone lives like this, or that it’s a sign of their religious devotion. Jill shares experiences and insight from both her coaching practice and personal experience. As well as sharing about the therapies she experienced throughout her own journey.

If you’ve ever wrestled with intrusive thoughts, religious guilt, or the feeling that you’re “never good enough,” then this episode will open your eyes and your heart.

This is Part 2 of our conversation. Episode 4 is Part 1

We talk about what Scrupulosity actually looks like (clinically and in everyday life), how it often goes unnoticed, and why so many people silently live with its exhausting mental loops without realizing it. Even thinking that everyone lives like this, or that it’s a sign of their religious devotion. Jill shares experiences and insight from both her coaching practice and personal experience. As well as sharing about the therapies she experienced throughout her own journey.

If you’ve ever wrestled with intrusive thoughts, religious guilt, or the feeling that you’re “never good enough,” then this episode will open your eyes and your heart.

This is Part 1 of our conversation. Episode 5 is Part 2

In this deeply informative and experiential episode, life and emotion coach Jill Freestone returns to explore somatic experiencing (SE), a powerful, body-based trauma healing modality developed by Peter Levine. Jill shares the origins and science behind SE, explains the difference between trauma and traumatic stress, and illustrates key concepts such as titration, pendulation, and the body’s innate ability to process and heal.

Listeners will walk away with a new understanding of how trauma is stored in the nervous system, why talk therapy isn’t always enough, and how somatic tools can restore a sense of agency, safety, and emotional regulation. Jill also shares personal stories—including her own healing around a traumatic birth—and gives listeners real-time practices to begin reconnecting with their bodies in gentle, compassionate ways.

In the third installment of our series on anger, Coach Jill Freestone joins Heather Rackham to explore anger through a spiritual and religious lens. Jill shares how scriptural teachings and church culture can sometimes lead to misinterpretations about anger, causing unnecessary guilt and shame. Together, they discuss how to differentiate between the feeling of anger and the harmful actions often associated with it. Jill offers powerful insights into reframing anger as a useful and even sacred signal, helping us navigate faith transitions, family relationships, and personal growth with more compassion and clarity.

In this follow-up episode, Heather sits down again with Jill Freestone—an anxiety and emotion coach and somatic experiencing practitioner—to go even deeper into the emotion of anger. We focus on how anger shows up in family dynamics, especially between parents and children, and how we can change our relationship with this often-misunderstood emotion. Jill helps us reframe anger not as a problem, but as a powerful messenger with healing potential. Whether you’re navigating big emotions in your kids, teens, or even in yourself, this conversation is packed with insights, tools, and heartfelt stories that show how anger can actually be a doorway to connection and safety.

In this powerful and validating episode, Heather is joined by returning guest and anxiety/emotion coach Jill Freestone to explore the complex and misunderstood emotion of anger. With warmth, insight, and a touch of humor, they discuss how anger—especially in women—has been shamed, suppressed, and mischaracterized. Jill introduces the concept of “sacred rage,” explains why anger is actually a wise and essential emotion, and gives practical tools for processing it in healthy, empowering ways. They also dive into the somatic experience of anger and why the body plays a central role in healing. Whether you’ve struggled with rage, repression, or simply want to better understand your emotions, this episode is a must-listen.

Cheryl Cardall and Jill unpack some of the unhealthy and long held cultural and even doctrinal beliefs that have been preached from pulpits that we can misunderstand or misinterpret and often weaponize against those who choose and believe differently than we do.

This can create a lot of anxiety and anger in families.

Our goal is to help you have difficult conversations and feel difficult emotions so you can have a connected relationship with a family member that believes differently or has made different religious choices and non religious choices than you.

This episode is heavier on the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints because that is our background but the concepts can be applied more broadly. 

Jill’s anxiety tools are not just for managing worry—they’re also highly effective for those navigating challenges with pornography. In this episode, she joins Sara Brewer to discuss how understanding your body and sexuality from a shame-free perspective is essential for healing.

Can you talk about pornography in your home with ease? Do you understand what’s happening in your mind and body when you experience sexual thoughts, feelings, or stimuli? And most importantly, are you in control of your next steps?

Jill dives deep into how scrupulosity OCD connects to struggles with quitting porn. She shares insights on the basic characteristics of scrupulosity OCD, how it keeps you stuck in obsessive cycles, and why identifying it is the first step toward healing.

Jill Freestone is back on the podcast this week talking about what happens when those who have OCD bring it into religion. This type of OCD is called scrupulosity and it happens when someone obsessively worries about their behavior going against their religious or moral beliefs. In a church that has a lot of “do’s” and “don’ts” thinking clearly and not obsessing and acting on compulsions can be very difficult for someone with OCD. Jill does a great job of teaching why rules are actually there and how sometimes in order to be free of scrupulous thinking you have to learn to break the rules not for disobedience but so that you actually can take a higher moral road and live with more faith. Scrupulosity is probably more common than you know and this episode will help you see where it shows up either in your own life or in the life of a loved one.

If you feel you need more help overcoming scrupulosity please reach out to Jill so she can point you in the right direction. Also, please be sure to watch this episode on YouTube so you can see Jill’s slides that contain lots of useful information.

At some point or another in your life you have probably joked about your own tendencies or someone else’s as being OCD. But OCD is a real condition that those who struggle with are not laughing about. Jill Freestone is on the podcast today talking about what OCD really is, the myths surrounding it, the warning signs, and the effective treatment.

Jill covers a lot of ground in this podcast and during her interview showed slides. If you would like to see those slides, please click on the link in the show notes that will take you to our YouTube channel.

This is an information packed episode and Jill brings both her personal and professional experience to this topic. If you have questions and want to learn more, please reach out to Jill and set up a time to chat with her. She will be on the podcast again next week as well answering more questions around scrupulosity, a form of OCD that comes from religion, so be sure to tune in then.

Jill helps us explore the concept of emotional safety in our relationships – that crucial foundation that enables true vulnerability and connection. She shares a poignant family example, shedding light on how unchecked emotions can lead to a disconnect. We talk about strategies for establishing emotional safety, from learning to communicate effectively to being fully present for intimate conversations. We also discuss self-regulation, and how managing our own emotional states can create a nurturing environment for connection.

Jill answers Christi’s questions about what contributing factors for anxiety she sees pertaining specifically to teenagers and young adults. Many of these may surprise you and they are within your ability to make helpful changes. Jill then shares the preventative measures you can take in your family to reduce anxiety through parenting, emotional regulation and safe communication. Last you will learn how to know if your kid needs professional help and other practical tools you can try today.

For women, anger is often looked at as something negative that we need to keep hidden. This chronic suppression over time can have emotional and physical effects on our body. Today my dear friend and colleague,  Jill Freestone, is here to dissolve some myths about anger. In this episode we discuss:

• The definition of anger (might be different than you think).

• How to get your body involved to process anger.

• How anger can actually be beneficial or helpful to you.

• Physical signs (and misdiagnoses) of anger.

• Externalized and internalized anger.

• Tips to integrate this new way of viewing and thinking about anger.

Heather Frazier said, “Anxiety is currently a buzzword, and for good reason. It wreaks havoc for our kids, thus for us as their parents. We often experience it as well.

It’s easy to feel helpless against the crush of anxiety, but that doesn’t have to be the case any longer. In todays episode of Pivot Parenting, I talk with the anxiety coaching expert, Jill Freestone

We talk about the kinds of anxiety, how they present, how we can help our kids through it and every other question on anxiety that you’ve been worrying about. You don’t have to watch your teen reeling while you sit helpless any longer.”

Tyson Bradley invited Jill to have a conversation about Heavenly Mother for his podcast. This conversation covers the beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints regarding a Mother God. He said, “Have you ever wondered about Heavenly Mother? Sometimes there is a taboo around talking about her and yet her existence is an important part of our Inherent Identity. Listen in to this interview to learn more about this cherished doctrine.”

Teen life coach Joey Mascio invited Jill and Cheryl to discuss teen anxiety on his podcast. He said, “SPECIAL EPISODE! I have a conversation with Jill Freestone and Cheryl Cardall about the different “levels” of anxiety and what you could do to help with each.”

In response to some messages from listeners and friends concerning staying “positive and hopeful” rather than angry, Kate invites Jill Freestone for a discussion on emotions, particularly anger and how we can make sense of it.  Jill is a certified life coach whose focus is on helping teens and adults handle anxiety and big emotions. Jill has an incredible heart and capacity for compassion and curiosity–and she says part of that has come from healing her relationship with anger.

Amanda said, “In this episode, I’m talking with my friend and fellow coach Jill Freestone about Eve. Throughout time, Eve has been almost vilified for her choice to eat the fruit. Let’s change those thoughts today and really look at who Eve was and what we can learn from her. Jill’s perspective is so thought provoking and just feels right. You will love this one!”

How can you stop out-running, out-producing, or out-numbing your hard emotions? How can you get better at FEELING your feelings? Jill Freestone introduces tools you can use to feel your emotions. You have so many tools to work on personal growth, but you can only move forward when you learn to process your emotions.

As parents we can often fear what may happen if our child suffers from anxiety. Often in that fear we either ignore the anxiety or try and “fix” it. But anxiety is not supposed to be fixed. It is an emotion we need to learn to move through, welcome, and not resist

Jill shares her journey with obsessive compulsive disorder and specifically with religious scrupulosity. Jill’s story and her discovery of her scrupulosity will fascinate and inspire you as she has become more empowered on how to understand her brain and how to help alleviate her anxiety and difficulties within her religious community.

Nearly a third of all teens will experience an anxiety disorder during their lifetime, according to the National Institute of Health. Is your teen one of them? Learn how to help your teen live with anxiety.

Jill shares an experience from 15 years ago when she contemplated jumping out of a moving car. She talks about what led up to those thoughts, how terrifying they were, and how she learned to stand up for herself in the process.

We have all experienced adversity. Learning to approach adversity with mindfulness helps us to become who we are meant to be, to pull ourselves back to center amidst all the distractions of life, and to process emotions and connect with God through mindfulness.

Jill Freestone, a certified life coach is teaching us all about how mindfulness can ease your suffering– and it doesn’t mean you have to sit on a yoga mat and meditate for an hour each day. Listen in to find out what you can do today to start working on the stress, fear, and anxiety in your life!

More than ever, our kids are dealing with feelings of disappointment, frustration, and grief! How do we help our kids navigate through these emotions? Do we try to re-create missed proms, end of the year activities, recitals, and sports seasons or just let them go? Join life coach Jill Freestone as she answers these questions and shares advice to help us all handle our big feelings in appropriate ways.

Today, we are talking about Mindfulness and I’ve invited Jill Freestone to tell us about her experiences with mental illness, chronic physical illness, and mindfulness.

Jill’s battles with anxiety, depression and chronic health problems led her to research, to take many courses and therapy, giving her the tools to heal and thrive.