Fixing the Foundations: Relational Trauma Recovery from a Feminist Perspective
Annie joined host Giovanna Rossi on The Well Woman Show, episode 346, for a 33-minute conversation about relational trauma, ambition and burnout, and why the cracks in a woman’s psychological foundation tend to surface right at the height of her success. The show is produced independently and carried on NPR affiliate stations.
Episode details
- Show: The Well Woman Show, episode 346
- Host: Giovanna Rossi
- Aired: May 14, 2025
- Length: 33 minutes
- Distribution: Carried on NPR affiliate stations, including KUNM
Listen to the full episode on The Well Woman Show →
What Annie and Giovanna covered
The conversation moved between Annie’s own history and what she sees clinically in driven women. Across the 33 minutes, they talked through:
- How childhood relational trauma turns into overwork, and why workaholism is so often a coping strategy rather than a personality trait
- The difference between relational trauma and the systemic forces that compound it
- Why ambition and healing aren’t in conflict, and what recovery looks like for a woman who has no intention of becoming less ambitious
- What Annie means by the cracks in the foundation, and why they tend to show up later rather than earlier
- Rest as something structural rather than indulgent, particularly for women carrying more than one system of pressure at once
- Annie’s path from her own healing work to founding a trauma-informed therapy center
In Annie’s words
These passages are quoted directly from the episode audio.
“So I’m a licensed psychotherapist, very specifically a trauma therapist with deep expertise in relational trauma recovery, particularly for ambitious and driven women who have coped with their own relational trauma through workaholism, pushing themselves past, you know, the sort of burnout levels.”
ANNIE WRIGHT, LMFT, The Well Woman Show, Episode 346
“And then along the way, when my daughter was three months old, I launched and founded Evergreen Counseling, the brick and mortar center, to basically become the therapy center that I would have wished for when I was starting my healing journey 15, 20 years ago, along the way.”
ANNIE WRIGHT, LMFT, The Well Woman Show, Episode 346
“And how it shows up in my world is the modeling I show my daughter, the modeling I show my clients, and the advocacy work that I do.”
ANNIE WRIGHT, LMFT, The Well Woman Show, Episode 346
A note on the transcript
An earlier version of this page presented a full transcript of the episode. That transcript named the wrong host and did not accurately reflect the recording, so it was removed on August 9, 2026. This page has been rebuilt from the episode audio itself. Every detail above, including the host’s name, the air date and the quoted passages, was verified against the recording and the show’s published feed. A complete verbatim transcript isn’t published here, because speaker-by-speaker attribution couldn’t be confirmed to the standard the rest of this site is held to. The full conversation is available in the episode audio linked above.
