Press & Media
Explore television appearances and podcast conversations with psychotherapist and author Jessica Anne Pressler on relationships, self-abandonment, emotional health, and learning to trust yourself.
Television
Good Day Atlanta | FOX5
Breaking the Cycles of Self-Abandonment
Jessica joins Good Day Atlanta to discuss self-abandonment and emotional resilience, sharing her perspective as a psychotherapist and author.
Good Day DC | FOX5 D.C.
“Cuffing Season” and Unhealthy Relationship Patterns
Jessica examines the unhealthy relationship patterns that can surface during “cuffing season” in this appearance on Good Day DC.
Your California Life | ABC10
Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” and Toxic Relationship Dynamics
Jessica brings a psychotherapist’s perspective to a conversation about Taylor Swift’s “Patient Zero” video and its connection to toxic relationship dynamics.
Podcasts
Heal Your Heartbreak
Recognizing Your Traitor Within
Jessica joins Kendra Allen to explore how fear of abandonment can become people-pleasing and self-abandonment in adult relationships. She discusses healing after heartbreak and how storytelling can help us recognize the relationship patterns we keep repeating.
No Guilt Mom
Why You Keep Abandoning Yourself to Keep Everyone Else Happy
Jessica joins JoAnn Crohn to explore why mothers often put their own needs last. They discuss the roots of people-pleasing, the pull of trauma bonds, and what it means to begin trusting yourself again.
Relationship Advice
What Happens When We Betray Ourselves
Jessica explores how childhood coping strategies can become self-sabotage in adult relationships. The conversation examines repeated relationship patterns, internal boundaries, and a more compassionate way to understand the parts of ourselves that developed to keep us safe.
Speak Honest
The Traitor Within: How Childhood Wounds Keep You Stuck in Toxic Relationships
Jessica joins Jenn Noble to discuss why childhood coping habits can keep people in harmful relationships. They explore people-pleasing, narcissistic relationship dynamics, and the difference between setting a boundary and asking a partner for connection.
The Terri Cole Show
Stop Self-Sabotage
Jessica and Terri Cole discuss self-sabotage, trauma bonding, and why unhealthy relationships can be difficult to leave. Drawing on her clinical work, personal experiences, and novel, Traitor Within, Jessica explores rebuilding self-trust and letting go of shame.
The Midlife Makeover Show
How We Lose Ourselves in Love
Jessica explores trauma bonding, self-abandonment, and the experience of losing your identity in a relationship. The conversation looks at why leaving can feel so difficult and the steps toward setting boundaries and reconnecting with your own voice.
thERINpy with Erin Washington
Understanding Your “Traitor Within”
Jessica helps Erin Washington examine the relationship patterns behind her own “traitor within.” Their conversation focuses on pursuing avoidant partners and becoming more comfortable with secure relationships.
Trauma Interrupted with Jan Broberg
Jessica Anne Pressler’s Story: Naming the Traitor Within
Jessica shares her personal story with Jan Broberg, connecting childhood experiences and abandonment wounds with the patterns that can follow us into adulthood. The conversation explores her path to healing and the experiences that informed Traitor Within.
Travis Makes Money
Make Money by Understanding the “Traitor Within”
Jessica discusses how early coping patterns can affect adult relationships and work. The conversation covers recognizing self-sabotage, understanding emotional triggers, and the role of awareness and compassion in changing familiar patterns.
The Feel Good Club
Uncovering the Roots of Self-Sabotage in Working Moms
Jessica joins Tia Graham to discuss the pressure working mothers feel to get everything right. They explore perfectionism, childhood influences, emotional triggers, and making space for self-care without measuring your worth by achievement.