Mental Breakthrough
Season 2
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Maryann Samreth is a wellness writing coach and founder of Sincerely Miss Mary. In this season she invites healers, coaches, therapists, and writers in the mental health and thought leadership space to share their stories of overcoming adversity. By exchanging our truths, we pave the way for others to feel safe experiencing theirs. When we share our stories filled with meaning and inner wisdom, we create a more compassionate world.
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Season 1
Discover the origin story of my pen name
Maryann Samreth, the woman behind the once anonymous pen name, Sincerely Miss Mary, shares stories of the darkest season in her life in this memoir podcast. In season 1, she dives into her repeated breakdowns of heartbreak, battling mental illness, and escaping an abusive relationship. Her gift of writing carries her away from toxicity and launches a healing journey where she reconnects with her Cambodian ancestral roots and breaks the cycle of generational trauma. Through sharing chapters of her life, she connects and empowers you through your healing journey.
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S1:E21: The Curse of Generational Trauma
In this episode, I talk about the curse of generational trauma and how I was conditioned to suppress my emotion because of the unprocessed trauma my parents endured. It is important to remember if we’re a child of immigrants, and our parents had a tumultuous upbringing, they were parenting from a place of unprocessed pain. They were parenting from trauma and without the mental health resources to help them adjust back to normalcy. Getting to a place of compassion, acceptance, and understanding why our parents are the way they are, will free us from the burdens of our past selves.
S1:E20: Reclaiming the Cambodian Legacy
For so long, I shamed my Cambodian heritage to assimilate to American white culture. But after my tumultuous breakup that ignited my healing journey, I began to unravel my family's history and learn about the story of their escape from the Khmer Rouge regime. In January of 2020, pre-pandemic, I traveled to Cambodia with my family and uncovered the untold stories of my family's experience living in the Killing Fields.
S1:E19: Paris Taught Me How To Love Myself
In an impulsive decision, I decided to go on a solo trip to Paris in the fall of 2019. This led me to a journey toward self-love and self-acceptance through reconnecting with my cousin and an old friend from the time I lived in Florence. My solo trip was a journey towards returning to myself and loving the person I was becoming.
S1:E18: Surfing Is In Your Blood
I talk about one of my favorite self-love/self-discovery/semi-solo trips to the Hamptons. This was part of my journey of deepening a relationship with myself, dating myself, falling in love with myself, and doing things for the first time alone like take a private surfing lesson and hitchhiking in the Hamptons. In moments of solitude, we discover who we are.
S1:E17: No One Believes You When Your Ex Stalks You
The title says it all in this episode. I ran into my ex at my first half-marathon race believing it was a coincidence when eventually I found out it wasn't.
S1:E16: How Becoming A Writer Turned Me Into A Badass
In this episode, I talk about how writing my vulnerable stories lead me to become the person I am today, an unapologetic badass.
S1:E15: Honor the Pain of Cheating & Betrayal
Today's episode is your guide to navigate through the pain of being cheated on. I share my first trauma story I published about this topic and how I was able to heal through this heartbreaking betrayal within the trauma writing process.
S1E14: An Undocumented Childhood With Yale Law Grad & Litigator, Qian Julie Wang
Qian Julie Wang shares her story of being an undocumented child in New York City, her experience working her way up the corporate litigator ladder as an Asian American woman, and how a mentor encouraged her to write her book. This is an inspiring and powerful episode.
S1:E12: I Am Worthy of A Love That Feels Like Home
In this episode, I share a current chapter of my life, a love story. I also discuss the mindset I cultivated to feel worthy of a love that feels safe, secure, and healthy.
S1:E11: I Wanted To Be A White Girl
I share my Asian American story of growing up in a white neighborhood and wanting to be a white girl until I met my best friend in 4th grade, Jenna, a white girl who taught me to embrace my Cambodian heritage.
S1:E10: This is Me Choosing to Let You Go
In this episode I tell you about a traumatic friend breakup I had the summer of 2019. My friendship with a best friend began to shift as I was choosing the path of healing, self-love, and growth in my single season.
S1:E9: Become Your Favorite Wedding Date
In this episode, I tell my story about going to my friend’s wedding solo for the first time and how this was the start of me falling in love with myself.
S1:E8: Be Brave Enough to Ask for Help
In this episode I take you through the steps to move forward to your future self that is healing, glowing, and thriving. This episode is your reminder that heartbreak lasts for a season and to keep moving forward with curiosity to the potential of who you could be.
S1:E7: To the Karen of My Life — Your Silence is Loud
In this episode I take you through the steps to move forward to your future self that is healing, glowing, and thriving. This episode is your reminder that heartbreak lasts for a season and to keep moving forward with curiosity to the potential of who you could be.
S1:E6: Don’t Move On, Move Forward to Your Future Self
In this episode I take you through the steps to move forward to your future self that is healing, glowing, and thriving. This episode is your reminder that heartbreak lasts for a season and to keep moving forward with curiosity to the potential of who you could be.
S1:E5: Now You Can Dream Again
I talk about how an inspiring pep talk with a dear friend empowered me to move forward by reminding me to dream of a better future without my partner.
S1:E4: Rejection Happens For You, Not To You
In this episode, I will be sharing how I reframed rejection as happening for me instead of to me. I take you through my thought process from what I’ve learned in cognitive behavioral therapy. The power is always within the way we choose to view things.
S1:E3: The Blessing of Rejection
Trigger warning: sexual assault and abuse story. In this episode, I talk about the rejection I faced from my partner’s friends and family who knew the man that sexually assaulted me. As painful as this experience was, I now see rejection as a blessing in disguise.
S1:E2: The Reckoning of Sincerely Miss Mary
Trigger warning: sexual assault and abuse story. In this episode, I tell you the origin story of my pen name persona, Sincerely Miss Mary. She was created during a season of depression and in the midst of the gaslighting and victim-blaming, I endured after confronting my partner about his predatory friend.
S1:E1: You're So Vain You Made My Sexual Assault About You
Trigger warning: sexual assault and abuse story. In this episode, I share my story of what launched my healing journey. It was a season of toxicity coming to an end followed by a new season of brokenness. I talk about the storm that irrupted after I publicly condemned the man that sexually assaulted me on Instagram because the man was my ex's best friend.