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EPISODE · Feb 11, 2026 · 6 MIN

When Explanation Stops Helping

from The Psychology of Us · host RJ Starr

Psychology has become very good at explaining.So has this podcast.After more than a hundred episodes spent naming patterns, clarifying dynamics, and making sense of experience, a question has become harder to ignore: what happens when explanation stops producing movement?This episode marks a subtle shift. Not away from rigor, but toward a different kind of psychological work. Less focused on understanding experience, and more focused on how experience is actually held when it arises.If you’ve ever felt deeply informed and yet unchanged in the moments that matter, this conversation may meet you right at that edge.No steps. No answers. Just a reorientation.

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