JB Copeland's Sappy Hour

We don’t stay stuck because we’re broken — we stay stuck because we’re addicted to what’s familiar. Not just emotionally, but chemically.Our nervous systems cling to the same emotions — stress, guilt, fear — not because they feel good, but because they feel known.That’s the familiar hell: the emotional home you know too well.Peace, love, freedom — that’s the unfamiliar heaven. And most people never get there because the unknown feels unsafe.This episode is the full breakdown of The 7 Steps — the real process of how to rewire your mind and body, break the habit of being your old self, and step into the version of you your future actually needs.You’ll learn how to:Interrupt the loop keeping you stuck.Sit in the unknown and rewire your nervous system.Redefine your future self.Rehearse until it’s real.Feel it before you see it.Sustain the state in everyday life.Surrender and trust God to meet you halfway.Get my new book Sappy Hour ⁠HERE***use SAPPYHOUR10 for 10% off🎧 Listen to Sappy Hour everywhere podcasts are streamed📲 Instagram: @jb_copeland

Loneliness isn’t proof that something’s wrong with you.It’s proof that there’s something inside you still alive enough to want connection.JB Copeland unpacks the psychology of chronic loneliness — what it really means when you’ve “always felt lonely.” From childhood attachment to self-discrepancy theory, he breaks down how lack emotional attunement shapes our adult lives, and how we can begin to reconnect with the actual self that’s been waiting underneath the performance.Maybe you don’t need to find more people. Maybe you just need to find the part of you that’s been missing.Get my new book Sappy Hour HERE***use SAPPYHOUR10 for 10% off🎧 Listen to Sappy Hour everywhere podcasts are streamed📲 Instagram: @jb_copeland

Your body already knows what your mind is still trying to figure out.In this episode, I’m breaking down the science and spirituality of intuition — how your heart, body, and brain work together as one intelligent system, and how to know when it’s intuition guiding you… and when it’s conditioning trying to keep you safe.We’ll dive into:🧬 The HeartMath studies that prove your heart senses before your brain🧠 The Iowa experiments showing how your body knows before your thoughts do💫 How intuition bridges science and spirit — the field, the frequency, the divine intelligence moving through you⚡️ The difference between intuition and trauma responses❤️ How to retrain your nervous system to feel safe enough to hear truth againThis episode will help you stop confusing anxiety for intuition — and start trusting your deepest knowing.Meditation & Breathwork on the Open Appfree 30 day link hereGet my new book "Sappy Medium" hereuse SAPPYHOUR10 for 10% off🎧 Listen to Sappy Hour everywhere podcasts are streamed📲 Instagram: @jb_copeland

Your life just flipped. They left. You're at a loss. You feel rejected. Life doesn't make sense. The future you pictured vanished, and right now everything feels upside down.This episode is about more than “moving on.” It’s about how to turn heartbreak into self-trust.We’ll break down:How anxious attachment makes us chase instead of heal.6 research-backed steps to shift from panic → peace.The daily compass: “Am I bringing peace or anxiety?”This isn’t cliché advice. It’s psychology, spirituality, and lived human truth to help you breathe again, rebuild steady, and realize: falling apart can mean falling into place.Check out ⁠Sappy Medium below. Use code SAPPYHOUR10 for 10% off.📞 Call the Sappy Hotline: 888-444-9461 — your story might be featured.🎧 Sappy Hour streams every Friday on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.👉 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share this episode if it helped you.

What if your goals didn’t trigger fear—but safety?In this episode of Sappy Hour, I sit down with Emily McDonald (@emonthebrain) to explore the neuroscience of success, safety, and rewiring your mind to stop self-sabotage.We cover:Why your nervous system links goals with danger (and how to reprogram it)The power of heart rate variability (HRV) and adaptabilityHow meditation quiets the default mode network (autopilot)Emily’s 3M Morning Routine: Movement, Mindfulness, MindsetHow to practice creator mode instead of reactive modeUsing intention & visualization to rewire fear into freedom✨ Partnered with OPEN → Try the “Becoming Magnetic” meditation track for free:OPEN link below + 30 day free code (JB30) is applied automatically.Open link hereCheck out Sappy Medium. Use code SAPPYHOUR10 for 10% off.📞 Call the Sappy Hotline: 888-444-9461 — your story might be featured.🎧 Sappy Hour streams every Friday on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.👉 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share this episode if it helped you.follow Emily McDonald on socials @emonthebrain

“Family shaped you— they don’t get to script you.”In this Sappy Hour episode, JB breaks down why you can feel free in your own life but small at a familiar table—and how to keep your self‑respect and your relationships.We unpack family systems (roles like caretaker/peacekeeper/achiever), parentification (when kids become the emotional adults), the polyvagal lens (why a tone or look flips your body into defense), and the ACEs research that gives compassion—not shame—for what your nervous system remembers. This isn’t about cutting people off. It’s about differentiation: staying connected while staying you.You’ll hear two powerful voicemails—a 19‑year‑old who feels drained visiting home and an adult raised through addiction/illness now rebuilding authenticity—and JB weaves them into one clear answer: love with limits, compassion with clarity, connection without self‑abandonment. You’ll learnWhy families act like systems—and how roles become “the price of belonging.”Parentification: the upside (empathy, competence) and the cost (anxiety, shaky self).Polyvagal 101: ventral/sympathetic/dorsal—and how “the look” drops you down the ladder.ACEs: early stress ≠ destiny; it explains your load and points to care before choice.Feedback vs. criticism (Gottman): behavior‑specific input vs. identity attacks.Differentiation: love them, keep you—in real life, without villains.Top moments (no timestamps)“Guilt” vs grief: why not wanting to go home doesn’t make you ungrateful.“Retire the role, keep the gold”: empathy stays; self‑erasure goes.“Your body is a historian”: what neuroception is and how to meet it with awareness.“Short, kind, consistent”: how systems learn who you are now.“Family shaped you. They don’t get to script you.”If this helped, share it with the friend who needs language for what they feel.Sappy Hotline: 888‑444‑9461 Book: Sappy Medium || use code SAPPYHOUR10 for 10% off.IG/TikTok: @jb_copeland

In this powerful conversation, JB Copeland sits down with Dr. Gabor Maté, world-renowned physician and author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, to unpack the deep link between trauma, addiction, and healing.We explore how childhood wounds shape adult struggles — from people-pleasing and guilt, to the way addiction becomes a survival strategy. Dr. Maté shares profound insights on why we suffer, how our bodies store pain, and what it really takes to begin the journey toward freedom.If you’ve ever felt stuck in old patterns, battled self-blame, or wondered why moving forward feels so hard — this episode will give you clarity, compassion, and practical wisdom.✨ In this episode:Why addiction is not the problem, but the attempt to solve oneHow childhood experiences shape self-worth and emotional survivalThe role of guilt, shame, and people-pleasing in adult relationshipsWhy facing our deepest emotions is the first step to healingPractical shifts for self-compassion, forgiveness, and recoveryDr. Maté reminds us that healing isn’t about perfection — it’s about reconnection with self.🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.📘 Read JB’s new book Sappy Medium☎️ Call the Sappy Hotline: 888-444-9461📲 Follow @jb_copeland for daily insights

Why do we stay in jobs, relationships, or situations that look good — but don’t feel right? In this episode of Sappy Hour, JB lays out The 6 Steps to Alignment: a science-backed, soul-centered framework to stop forcing connections and start living in flow.Here’s what we cover:Why forcing connection always creates resistance (Psychological Reactance, Brehm, 1966)The danger of living in roles you’ve outgrown (Self-Concept Clarity, Campbell, 1996)Why urgency comes from fear, not clarity (relationship-contingent self-esteem research)The science of choosing intrinsic values over external validation (Deci & Ryan, 1985)How to trust yourself when others don’t understand your choices (Asch’s conformity experiments)Why protecting your energy is the ultimate form of alignment (Ego Depletion, Baumeister, 1998)✨ Quote from the pod:“Alignment always costs comfort. Sometimes that cost looks like walking away from a good person who just isn’t your person.”This episode is for anyone who feels “stuck” in something that looks good on paper — but deep down, you know it isn’t aligned.📞 Call the Sappy Hotline: 888-444-9461📘 Read JB’s book Sappy Medium🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube📲 Follow @jb_copeland on Instagram & TikTok

Betrayal cuts deep. It makes you question your worth, your choices, and sometimes even life itself. But here’s the truth: pain doesn’t mean you’re powerless.In this episode of Sappy Hour, JB responds to two powerful voicemails from young men who’ve been hurt, let down, and left doubting themselves. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, JB delivers the tough love and real-world guidance needed to shift from despair to dignity.You’ll learn:Why betrayal feels like identity-shock and how to recover from itThe hidden cost of self-betrayal — and how to rebuild self-trust step by stepThe psychology of learned helplessness (Seligman) and how to break freeHow scars can become standards, not shameWhy the world is neutral — and how your story determines your outcomesPractical steps to stop looping in pain and start creating momentum againThis isn’t about denial. It’s about choosing strength over stagnation, and realizing the world isn’t against you… but it also won’t wait for you.📞 Call the Sappy Hotline: 888-444-9461📘 Read JB’s new book Sappy MediumUSE CODE SAPPYHOUR10 FOR 10% OFF THE BOOK AND ANYTHING ELSE BY INTELLIGENT CHANGE. 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube

You’ve been hurt before. Betrayed, abandoned, lied to. And now you’re in something new — but instead of feeling safe, you catch yourself waiting for it to collapse.This episode of Sappy Hour is about how to stop dragging your past into your present. We’ll unpack why unresolved wounds make you project, how your body holds on to old betrayal, and the difference between healthy caution and self-sabotage.Inside, I’ll break down:Why unresolved pain makes you project fears onto people who haven’t earned themThe psychology of “emotional residue” and why your body still scans for dangerHow to tell healthy caution apart from destructive paranoiaThe right way to communicate your fears without making your new partner pay for your pastHow to rebuild trust — in yourself, your choices, and love itselfIf you’ve ever flinched at kindness, over-analyzed texts, or waited for the other shoe to drop — this episode will help you breathe again. Your past doesn’t get to dictate your future.🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube📘 Read JB’s new book Sappy Medium☎️ Call the Sappy Hotline: 888-444-9461📲 Follow @jb_copeland on Instagram & TikTok