The Official Podcast of Mount North

UNBURDENING

Hosted by therapist Clare Welsh, Unburdening explores mental health, culture, science, spirituality, and the evolving human experience — through thoughtful conversations grounded in therapy and real life.

The Official Podcast of Mount North

UNBURDENING

Hosted by therapist Clare Welsh, Unburdening explores mental health, culture, science, spirituality, and the evolving human experience — through thoughtful conversations grounded in therapy and real life.

Latest Conversations

Thoughtful, intimate conversations exploring identity, healing, technology, culture, spirituality, and what it means to be human.

New episodes drop the first Monday of every month

EPISODE 03
Released Sept 6, 2026

Unburdening the Benzo Epidemic

Clare Welsh and Mount North nurse practitioner Morgan Ward trace how benzodiazepines went from a 1950s prescription marketed to mothers to a driver of the overdose crisis — and what good psychiatric care should look like instead.

EPISODE 02
Released Aug 3, 2026

Unburdening Autism

This podcast episode features host Clare interviewing Shannon Beaver (licensed therapist and practice owner) and her 21-year-old son Evan (Yale student studying electrical engineering) about their personal journey with autism.

EPISODE 01
Released Jun 16, 2026

Unburdening Loneliness

In this inaugural episode of Unburdening, host Clare, a therapist at Mount North, explores the modern loneliness epidemic and how mainstream wellness content often exacerbates the very alienation it claims to solve.

Latest Conversations

Thoughtful, intimate conversations exploring identity, healing, technology, culture, spirituality, and what it means to be human.

New episodes drop the first Monday of every month

EPISODE 03
Released Sept 6, 2026

Unburdening the Benzo Epidemic

Clare Welsh and Mount North nurse practitioner Morgan Ward trace how benzodiazepines went from a 1950s prescription marketed to mothers to a driver of the overdose crisis — and what good psychiatric care should look like instead.

EPISODE 02
Released Aug 3, 2026

Unburdening Autism

This podcast episode features host Clare interviewing Shannon Beaver (licensed therapist and practice owner) and her 21-year-old son Evan (Yale student studying electrical engineering) about their personal journey with autism.

EPISODE 01
Released Jun 16, 2026

Unburdening Loneliness

In this inaugural episode of Unburdening, host Clare, a therapist at Mount North, explores the modern loneliness epidemic and how mainstream wellness content often exacerbates the very alienation it claims to solve.

What Is Unburdening?

What Is Unburdening?

Therapy is more than diagnosis or crisis management. It is about identity, grief, relationships, hope, meaning, and the stories we carry quietly through life.

Unburdening creates space for conversations that are thoughtful, nuanced, and deeply human — blending clinical insight, lived experience, and curiosity.

“Exploring what we carry. Reclaiming what we are.”

Topics We Explore

Conversations rooted in curiosity, healing, science, culture, and emotional honesty.

Trauma & Healing

Understanding the nervous system, emotional recovery, and resilience.

Identity

Exploring selfhood, authenticity, belonging, and personal change.

Technology

The psychological impact of hyperconnectivity and digital culture.

Spirituality

Conversations about meaning, mystery, ritual, and inner life.

Stay in the Conversation

Subscribe so you never miss an episode. New conversations release the first Monday of each month.

Stay in the Conversation

Subscribe so you never miss an episode. New conversations release the first Monday of each month.