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Transitional Objects

Bridget Tremblay and Laura Walton

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 20

Transitional Objects is a podcast about the things we hold when everything else falls apart. Hosted by two longtime friends and therapists, this show explores the soft underbelly of being human—grief, trauma, intimacy, identity, and the strange comfort of things that tether us to ourselves when life gets unrecognizable. Equal parts sacred and irreverent, clinical and confessional, Transitional Objects is for anyone who’s ever lost the thread and gone looking for meaning in a song, a conversation, a hoodie, a heartbreak. Come for the emotional resonance, stay for the well-timed swearing.

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Legacy: What We Leave Behind

Episode 20

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 • Duration 39:32

In this episode of Transitional Objects, Laura and Bridget explore the weighty, surprisingly personal question of legacy...what we leave behind, whether we mean to or not.

What begins as a conversation about death, memory, and the stories that outlive us quickly expands into the much bigger (and philosophical) question of legacies passed through families, the burdens we inherit, the values we model, and the ways culture shapes what we call “worthwhile.” From intergenerational wounds to midlife reflection, they unpack how legacy can feel both sparkly and suffocating, full of meaning and impossible to define.

Together, they challenge the pressure hidden inside the word itself. Does legacy have to be grand? Is it something we create intentionally, or is it defined by the people who receive it long after we’re gone? Along the way, the conversation moves through grief, parenting, generativity, identity, and the liberating realization that maybe legacy is less about control and more about curiosity.

Send us a message at transitionalobectsthepodcast@gmail.com if you're interested in being a guest on Transitional Objects

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Another Year, Another Transition: A Birthday Episode

Episode 19

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 • Duration 38:42

In this episode of Transitional Objects, Bridget & Laura talk about birthdays as markers of time, of change, of who we were and who we’re becoming.

For a lot of people, birthdays don’t just bring cake and texts. Instead, they bring reflection & pressure, forcing you into taking inventory of your life or celebrating how far you have come.

We get into the way birthdays can stir up unexpected emotions like why your body might feel off, why your mood shifts, why things you thought you’d “moved past” suddenly feel close again. The stories we carry about where we thought we’d be by now. The people who are missing. The versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown (or maybe haven’t yet).

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow us on Instagram and Substack. If you are interested in being a guest on Transitional Objects, feel free to message us at transitionalobjectsthepodcast@gmail.com

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After Betrayal: Protecting Your Heart Without Hardening It

Episode 18

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 • Duration 39:14

In this episode of Transitional Objects, Laura and Bridget talk about betrayal... and not just the obvious kind, but the quieter, more complicated versions that crack something open in us. They explore what happens when trust feels ruptured, why our minds rush to fill in the blanks, and how old wounds can shape our reactions in the present.
The conversation moves through grief, vulnerability, self-protection, toxic relationship dynamics, and the difference between reacting from pain versus responding with clarity. At the center of it all is a question: when betrayal happens, how do we stay connected to ourselves without hardening completely?

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The Helper Interrupted: Showing Up When Your World Falls Apart

Episode 17

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 • Duration 41:33

What happens when the helper’s life is the one unraveling?

In this tender conversation, Bridget and Laura explore what it means to hold space for others when your own world feels like it's falling apart...whether by personal loss, political tension, systemic chaos, or the weight of being human right now. Bridget shares about practicing in Maine during a surge of ICE activity, navigating sessions where clients ask, “How are you doing?” Laura reflects on showing up for clients in the middle of heartbreak and fertility treatments.

Together, they unpack the strange phenomenon of doing some of your best clinical work while privately falling apart. They talk compassion fatigue, burnout, social media avoidance, political divide, and why transitions (even packing a suitcase) can feel like existential events.

This episode is a love letter to the therapists, the helpers, and anyone trying to show up despite it all.

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Embodied Echoes: When the Body Remembers

Episode 16

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 • Duration 41:42

In this episode of Transitional Objects, Laura and Bridget sit down for another unstructured, honest conversation.

Bridget opens up about experiencing a Crohn’s flare-up and the way her body immediately shifts into “alert mode,” even when her mind logically knows she’s safe and capable of handling it. That moment sparks a larger discussion about how our bodies store memory, respond to stress, and sometimes react before we’ve even consciously connected the dots.

Laura reflects on the anniversary of Beau’s death, an event that profoundly shaped her relationship with grief and the way the nervous system holds onto trauma over time. Together, Laura and Bridget explore the eerie timing of early morning wake-ups, the emotional weight anniversaries can carry, and the ways grief can show up in the body long after we think we’ve “moved on.”

This conversation is a thoughtful reminder that healing isn’t linear (and sometimes our bodies speak first, long before our minds catch up).

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Vulnerability Hangovers: Why Opening Up Feels SO Hard

Episode 15

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 • Duration 43:23

What happens after you’re vulnerable?

In this episode of Transitional Objects, Laura and Bridget explore the experience many people don’t expect after opening up...the vulnerability hangover. That uneasy mix of emotional exposure, self-doubt, and nervous system overload that can show up after you share something personal, speak honestly, or allow yourself to be seen.

They unpack why vulnerability can feel connecting in the moment but unsettling afterward, and how shame, self-protection, and emotional exhaustion often follow moments of openness. Through clinical insight and real-life reflection, this episode reframes vulnerability hangovers as a natural response and offers ways to stay grounded rather than shutting down or pulling away.

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Working Through Work Wounds

Episode 14

Tuesday, January 27, 2026 • Duration 44:46

In this conversation, Laura and Bridget pull back the curtain on how work shapes us, scars us, and sometimes traumatizes us. From knocking on strangers’ doors as brand-new therapists under impossible timelines, to sitting on paint buckets in homes no one prepared them for, to carrying a level of responsibility that was never actually theirs to hold, they explore how certain work environments train our nervous systems into constant urgency, hyper-vigilance, and self-blame.

This episode moves through vicarious trauma, unethical systems, productivity culture, difficult supervisors, and the way toxic jobs can start to feel normal (even when they’re slowly dismantling your sense of self). Along the way, they unpack how these wounds linger years later, showing up as anxiety, over-responsibility, and the feeling that you’re never doing enough, even when you are.

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“Coping” with Coping Skills

Episode 13

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 • Duration 48:27

In the first episode of 2026, Laura and Bridget take a lovingly skeptical look at the idea of “coping skills”...what we’re taught they should look like, why so many of them fail us, and what actually helps when life feels tender, overwhelming, or just plain unmanageable. Set in that disorienting space between Christmas and New Year’s, coping skills are on the top of their minds.

They unpack how coping skills can morph into another form of self-pressure, especially in therapy culture and productivity culture, where “doing the right thing” can override what our bodies are actually asking for. From sensory regulation to the radical permission to do nothing, they explore the difference between caring for ourselves and controlling ourselves (and how often we confuse the two).

Warm, honest, and subversive, this episode is for anyone who’s ever felt like they were “failing” at coping. It offers a gentler reframe: that the skills that actually work aren’t always pretty, impressive, or Instagrammable. Instead, they’re the ones that help you stay with yourself when everything else feels like too much.

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Saying "No" to New Year's Resolutions

Episode 12

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 • Duration 41:09

In this episode of Transitional Objects, Laura and Bridget do what they do best...gently dismantle a culturally accepted idea and see what actually resonates. This time, it’s New Year’s resolutions (and yes, they dislike them).

Using the end of 2025 as a reflective pause rather than a self-improvement launchpad, the conversation moves through what this past year held, what it demanded, and what it reshaped. Instead of goal-setting or productivity theater, they talk about noticing. About patterns that revealed themselves slowly. About the difference between forcing change and allowing clarity to arrive on its own timeline.

Together, they explore why the language of “resolutions” often feels disruptive to the nervous system - rigid, moralized, and disconnected from how humans actually grow. In its place, they experiment with something softer for 2026; intentions rooted in capacity, curiosity, and truth-telling rather than performance.

There’s humor, skepticism, tenderness, and a shared rebellion to the notion that January 1st has magical powers. This one is for anyone who feels allergic to “new year, new you” energy.

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Thinning the Veil with Ashley Rosales

Episode 11

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 • Duration 01:25:00

In this episode of Transitional Objects, Laura and Bridget welcome their first-ever guest, psychic medium and energy healer Ashley Rosales. Together, they step into the space between what we can explain and what we feel but don’t always have language for, exploring intuition and the ways those we’ve loved can come through after death. Later in the episode, Ashley gives a medium reading to Bridget.

Together, they explore what it means to stay connected to the people (and animals) who have died, how grief can open doors we didn’t know existed, and why some relationships don’t end so much as they change form. Ashley shares her own path into mediumship, what shaped it, and how learning to listen (to energy, to spirit, to the body) altered her forever.

The conversation is tender, curious, and deeply human. There’s laughter, skepticism, awe, and a live reading that invites reflection on ancestry, care, and the unseen ways we’re supported.

Ashley Rosales is a spirit communicator and energy healer. Her practices are based in curanderismo, or traditional Latino Indigenous medicine and healing. She has been using her gifts to intentionally guide and bring healing to my life since 2011 and to help others since 2022.
She offers intro-level classes to help you develop your own intuition and monthly subscriptions for personal and collective card readings.
If you want to work with her directly, she offers 60-minute mediumship sessions on Zoom and limited in-person energy healing sessions in Bellingham, WA. You can find out more about Ashley at ashdelasrosas.square.site/

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