I am Hope in the Chaos

Never Enough

Jamie Kodra Season 1 Episode 23

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This episode explores what it truly feels like to spend your whole life believing you’re “never enough,” even while giving more than anyone realizes. Jamie shares the emotional reality of growing up unheard, working endlessly to earn worth, and watching others receive the praise she desperately needed but never got.

For years, every burst of energy, every project, every late-night surge of creativity felt like purpose — like maybe this time it would finally be enough. What she didn’t know then was that these highs were part of the bipolar disorder she’d carried since childhood. The rush, the drive, the “I can do everything” energy — and the emptiness that followed — were cycles she didn’t have language for. Cycles that left her chasing validation that never came.

This episode walks through how those early wounds and lifelong bipolar patterns tangled together, creating a painful belief that worth had to be earned. Jamie explains the emotional and internal experience behind the highs, the crashes, the invisibility, and the quiet heartbreak of giving everything while feeling unseen.

It’s a look at the patterns that made her question her value for decades — and the realization that her worth was never in the highs, the doing, the praise, or the people who didn’t see her. It was something she always had, even when she couldn’t feel it.

If you’ve ever carried the weight of “never enough,” this conversation will remind you that you always were.


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