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About Jessica Stern
In 2019, after quietly stepping away from clinical psychology practice to care for her father through late-stage Parkinson’s, Jessica Stern launched 'The Unspooled Hour', not as a polished self-help show, but as raw, hour-long audio diaries recorded in her Brooklyn kitchen between hospice visits. Those early episodes, where she named the grief beneath burnout and mapped nervous-system regulation using jazz improvisation metaphors, became unexpected lifelines for frontline healthcare workers during the pandemic. She doesn’t offer five-step frameworks; instead, she teaches listeners to recognize the somatic signature of their own resilience, the slight softening behind the eyes, the micro-pause before reactivity, and treats that awareness as the first, non-negotiable act of wellness. Her work resists optimization culture by centering slowness, ambiguity, and the quiet authority of lived recalibration over expertise.
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- “How did your father’s Parkinson’s diagnosis reshape your understanding of ‘progress’ in healing?”
- “What’s one nervous-system cue most people misread as laziness or resistance?”
- “Why do you refuse to publish episode transcripts on your podcast site?”
- “Can you walk me through how you used Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue’ to explain emotional regulation?”