Overcome With Travis White
Overcome is a mental health podcast for people who look “fine” on the outside but feel exhausted, stuck, or quietly struggling on the inside.
Hosted by Travis White, Overcome goes beyond surface-level mental health advice to explore the deeper roots of anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, and emotional pain. These are honest, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about what it really takes to heal not just cope.
Each episode features real stories and thoughtful discussions with advocates, professionals, and people who have lived through loss, trauma, illness, addiction, and identity-shifting life events. Together, we explore healing through personal responsibility, self-awareness, resilience, faith-adjacent meaning, and practical insight—without toxic positivity or quick fixes.
This podcast is for you if:
- You’re tired of “just manage your symptoms” advice
- You’re high-functioning but emotionally worn down
- You want depth, truth, and growth not therapy soundbites
- You believe healing is possible, but not linear
Overcome isn’t about pretending everything is okay.
It’s about understanding your pain, rebuilding from the inside out, and learning how to move forward with clarity and purpose.
If you’re ready for real conversations about mental health, trauma recovery, resilience, and meaning, this show is for you.
Overcome With Travis White
Why Suppressing Anger Is Making You Anxious, Depressed, and Physically Sick
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What if the anger you were taught to suppress never disappeared—only turned inward?
In this episode of Overcome with Travis White, Travis sits down with licensed psychotherapist and anger expert Bronwyn Schweiger to unpack the uncomfortable truth about anger, shame, and mental health. Bronwyn shares how suppressed, dissociated anger can manifest as anxiety, depression, insomnia, and even physical illness—and why avoiding anger doesn’t make it go away.
Together, they explore how childhood conditioning, shame, and fear of abandonment teach us to disconnect from anger at a young age, and how that disconnection follows us into adulthood. Bronwyn explains why anger is not the enemy, how it holds wisdom, and how reconnecting with it can be a powerful step toward healing.
This conversation challenges everything we’ve been taught about “negative emotions” and offers a compassionate, honest look at what real emotional healing requires.
What We Discuss:
- Why suppressed anger often shows up as anxiety, depression, and physical symptoms
- How childhood shame and emotional invalidation shape adult mental health
- The difference between healthy anger and destructive anger
- Why shame keeps people stuck—and why it isn’t an emotion
- How therapy can help reconnect you to emotions you’ve learned to avoid
- The link between unresolved emotional pain and insomnia, illness, and burnout
- Why being true to yourself isn’t selfish—it’s healing
Learn More:
- Bronwyn Schweiger Podcast: Angry at the Right Things
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