Episodes
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S7 Ep 4: Diana's Brilliance
The brilliance of my ex-wife Diana, and the model she put in place for me (and others) to follow. The way real change behaves and the way it doesn't behave. Compensating for great harm caused to others by bringing things back into balance; Turning tragedy into something that matters and adds good...
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S7 Ep 3: How To Win Every Argument
How to win every argument. Two different, distinct realms we all inhabit throughout each day. Two different, distinct types of argument. Two different, distinct circumstances: One where arguing makes sense, another where arguing never makes sense. https://www.thelastsymptom.com
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S7 Ep 2: Rumination Vs. Obsession & Avoidance
I keep seeing the "experts" talking about how 'Rumination' is bad. Is it? What's the difference between Rumination and Obsession? Is Avoidance any better? Since they won't help you understand these things, I will. https://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at…
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S7 Ep 1: Your Looks
https://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.Locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app and searching for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett within. Exclusive livestreams there on Mondays.
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S6 Ep 18 Season Finale: The Law of Hate
Special Season 6 Finale: Laws and principles of emotional health to get you through the holidays. Some reminders, and some new information: The Law of Hate. The two types of allowing yourself to be wronged - the healthy one and the unhealthy one. More about inherent value and commercial value and...
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S6 Ep 17: Let's Talk About Cults
Let's hear from the experts about what a cult is, and compare what they have to say with my approach with The Last Symptom. A discussion about why censorship is stupid. Another reminder to be careful with "Health Coaches". Always ask yourself, "Is there any substance here? Or is this just…
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S6 Ep 16: The Epiphany Episode
Upcoming Last Symptom book announcement. What is true or not. Where value originates. The origin of all motive. Get The Apple Tower book in the US here: The Apple Tower: Complete Collection https://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading…
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S6 Ep 15: What 100% Healthy Means
Am I 100% emotionally healthy? Is anybody? Can you be? Why or why not? My new book - not directly related to my work with The Last Symptom - available for purchase in both paperback and Kindle: The Apple Tower: Complete Collection. I'll explain why I'm presenting it here and how this graphic…
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S6 Ep 14: For Kids & Parents
A special episode for the kids, and also for parents who are interested in my parenting style. My 9-year-old daughter, Eloise, shares some of her insights about life, relationships, feelings, and other things. https://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com…
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S6 Ep 13 Special: How to Love Yourself for Real
The Last Symptom website: https://www.thelastsymptom.com The Last Symptom exclusive online community: https://thelastsymptom.locals.com (Livestreams here on Mondays) YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAZlwS8utF296RgFcvgqQnA Rumble Channel: https://rumble.com/c/TheLastSymptom
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S6 Ep 12 SPECIAL: The Origin of Your Shame
https://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app from the App Store and searching for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett within. Livestreams there on Mondays. #shame #guilt #emotionalhealth #emotionaldisorders #distinctions...
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S6 Ep 11: A Parenting Story
A life lesson learned from fishing. A parenting story about make-or-break moments in time. Parenting attitudes. Allowing yourself and others to be human, and some of what that means. Why judging others is a big mistake. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at...
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S6 Ep 10: Stop Reveling in Sadness
Trying to figure out how to 'deal' with other people is a problem. There's no difference between total strangers and people we are in relationships with. Stop reveling in sadness. Do you view life as happening 'to' you? Or do you view the majority of things in your personal life as something you...
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S6 Ep 9: A Blueprint for Real Recovery
I interview special guest 'Ava' in this episode, who has really set an excellent example of what authentic recovery from emotional disorders looks like, the natural way people behave when they are truly motivated and invested in getting healthy. Here, she talks about her attitude, the specifics…
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S6 Ep 8: There's No Such Thing as a Healthy Marriage
There's no such thing as healthy or unhealthy relationships, no such thing as healthy or unhealthy marriages, and marriage counseling is an inherent obstruction to authentic recovery that is built entirely on a lie. In this episode we talk in depth about Love, and we ask 'Why'? Why does Love…
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S6 Ep 7: How Abuse Begins
An exception to always siding with your spouse. How to know if something is abuse or not. Placing importance on feelings themselves, not on whether the feelings are "right" or not. http://www.thelastsymptom..com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the...
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S6 Ep 6: A Hard Thing You Must Be Willing To Do
John & Julian Lennon. Dancing along with the unhealthy crowd. Does the risk of making people angry control you? Who gets priority: Mother or Wife? Inner peace & good health are the same thing. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the...
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S6 Ep 5: What Having Inherent Worth Does NOT Mean
An important discussion about what your inherent worth does not mean. What do healthy people use to make decisions in their lives if it's not their feelings? The really simple formula for determining if something is a fair and reasonable expectation to have for others, and for self....
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S6 Ep 4: The Qualification for Viewing Your Failures Positively
The qualification that must be met in order to view your failures positively. Every battle is won before it's fought. How to have a conversation with unhealthy people. "Nobody has a right to tell me what to do." Campfire stories. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at...
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S6 Ep 3: Laws & Principles of Emotional Health
Expanding on the topic of there not being lots of different "types" of people. Actor Will Smith & family. More about how important it is to make distinctions. A review and summary of some of the primary Laws & Principles of Emotional Health. (This is not an exhaustive list here.) What to do when...
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S6 Ep 2: The Law of Genuine Attitude Reflection. Dissociation.
The Law of Genuine Attitude Reflection. Dissociation. Shaming others for differences in preferences - Why? The Behavior Panel on YouTube. Jada Pinkett Smith, the gift to the world of emotional disorder analysis that keeps on giving. The Behavior Panel episode:...
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S6 Ep 1: Never Cooperate with Unhealth
Never cooperate with, or acquiesce, to emotional disorders and emotional unhealth and the reasons why. How to always push back against anything that is emotionally unhealthy. Real-life examples. The Calm-Assertive Communication-Behavior Style, although healthy and powerful, has a kryptonite. We...
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S5 Ep 27: Season Finale. Perceptions.
You're underestimating just how powerful perceptions are. Destroying narratives - the nature of the job and why you must do it. A season-end review of the topics we covered in Season 5. A few, brief, overdue campfire stories. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at...
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S5 Ep 26: Resentment
Resentment. Black & White Thinking Vs. Black & White Realities. "Shoulds" and "Should Nots". http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app from the App Store and searching for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett within....
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S5 Ep 25 Special: When Struggle is Good, and Help is Not
A brief, but extremely important episode. Struggle. Enabling. God. The ways that emotional health and spiritual health follow the exact same patterns. The reasons God can't help you in certain scenarios and what you may need to do first before he can act. The things discussed here do not only…
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S5 Ep 24: Forgiveness
Forgiveness. Letting go of resentment. Allowing somebody back into your good graces. Settling debts. Compensation. Vacuums, negative space. The Law of Enabling. Acceptance. Denial. Emotional rebellion. Five circumstances when you cannot healthfully forgive a person without consequences and...
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S5 Ep 23: What We Are, What We Feel, What We Do
One thing separating unhealthy people from healthy people is their failure to make important distinctions in everyday life, with sometimes subtle, but extremely important things - for example, when it comes to the identities we live with about ourselves. In this episode, we discuss the nature of...
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S5 Ep 22: Entropy, Spacial Disorientation & You
A really important episode. What does entropy and 'spacial disorientation' have to do with emotional health? Listen to learn more. Also, are you exploiting patterns and cycles? If not, now might be a good time to start. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community exclusively at...
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S5 Ep 21: Silverback Gorilla & Honeybee Lessons
What we can learn about emotional health by studying silverback gorillas and honeybees: The power of not minding, and your individual value as a person. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and…
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S5 Ep 19: The Most Important Episode
Humility. Sabotaging behaviors. The Participation Trophy Mentality. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett. #humility #sabotagingbehaviors...
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S5 Ep 18: The Only Way to Put Things Right
The only way to put things right, or to bring things back into balance. Also, what makes a perfect parent? http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app from the App Store and searching for The Last Symptom by Brian...
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S5 Ep 17: My Cousin Jay, Part 2
Part 2 of 2. The previous episode ended with Jay telling about the overdose death of his identical twin brother on fentanyl. In this episode we dive deeper into a discussion about feelings, family, cause & effect, enabling, and more. Some irreverent humor, and a technical glitch that allowed my...
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S5 Ep 16: My Cousin Jay, Part 1
A very frank discussion with my cousin Jay. The chaotic childhood he had, his experiences with divorce, drugs, death, jail, the law, and particularly the overdose death of his identical twin brother, Jarod. Part 1 of 2. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at...
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S5 Ep 15: Happiness is a Natural State
Happiness, empathy, love and other good things fail to happen because they are obstructed. Lessons from John Muir - nobody knows a thing as intimately and fully as those who have lived it. Abusive people do not want to know things about you out of genuine interest in you. Facts and implications -...
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S5 Ep 14: You’re A Child. So Am I.
We all have many multiple versions of ourselves within us. All of them younger. How do we deal with all those versions of ourselves? The healthy among us do it well, the unhealthy do it poorly. But we can all do it healthfully, so what are we waiting for? Let's do a follow up discussion to Gabby...
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S5 Ep 13: The Observer Effect
How long did it take me personally to go from believing I had no inherent value to believing I have inherent value? The Observer Effect and what you should know about it in your recovery. Women worry unnecessarily about things. My dog Tipi. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community…
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S5 Ep 12: Stop Lying About Your Family
The Narrative - what it is, why it exists, how it behaves. A figurative bowl of cereal. Needs are different than wants. How we feel about people does not determine their goodness. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app...
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S5 Ep 11: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
Are you depressed or feeling down this time of year (holiday season)? Let's talk about that. While we're at it, let's talk about how you can tell you're not really happy even when you believe you are. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or…
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S5 Ep 10: Absurd Obsession with Relationships
Announcing weekly livestreams, exclusively for The Last Symptom Locals community. Relationships, Empathy, Intimacy, Love! How about this absurd obsession with relationships by people who can't even tolerate their own selves?? What will a romantic, committed relationship be like between a person...
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S5 Ep 9: Things Happened the Way They Had To Happen
When to never make decisions. Charles Hew Crooks and the airplane. Looking back and wishing you had known things sooner, while understandable, is not constructive. Things played out exactly as they have had to play out for you to get better. What makes a good parent. Poem: They Are Everywhere....
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S5 Ep 8: LIVESTREAM
Streamed live with participation on YouTube and Locals. Prioritizing responsibility to self. Major League Baseball World Series, Phillies & Astros. Humiliated for what you feel. Unhealthy people analyze experiences they have, not the feelings they experience. Doing anything to avoid humiliation....
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S5 Ep 7: Purposeful, Willful, Disingenuous Denial
I don't legitimize purposeful, willful, disingenuous denial by engaging in debate with folks who are trapped in this type of mindset, and neither should anybody else. It would fix the problem pretty quickly. Go Phillies! http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at...
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S5 Ep 6: Mind Yer Own Business
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." Are you sure you just don't hear the music? Fun and regret raking leaves. Mind your own business: Acceptance. Assuming rights, responsibility, and authority that do not belong to you at all. The failure to see where your place is, and of being...
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S5 Ep 5: PROOF. (But of what?)
You try and try, but you never seem to get closer to your objective. What is this undeniable proof of? Paying attention to subtleties are really, really important. It is impossible to generate true motivation for any effort you secretly perceive is pointless. What do you have to do if you…
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S5 Ep 4: Things You Are and Are Not Entitled To
A continued discussion about how to talk to those who aren't willing to distinguish between subjective and non-subjective things. What you can learn from "It's not my fault!" Does being a good person get you used? Story about Jordan's brother. A deeper conversation about when a 'lie' is not a…
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S5 Ep 3: Your Worst Helper
I hope you enjoy the discussions in the show about getting in our own way, self-sabotage, why the most people’s attention on a thing is so valuable, my political views (they may surprise you!), how to handle conversations when you begin to realize that you are becoming extremely frustrated or...
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S5 Ep 2: Until I Found You
Seeing people as people, as individuals, for real. All it necessitates and implies. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett. #individual #person #unique...
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S5 Ep 1: Low Self-Esteem Does Not Exist
HALF A MILLION DOWNLOADS! I hope everybody is doing well, it's good to be back for this new fifth season. I thought I would start it off with some controversy that is sure to upset a lot of people who don't take the time to see why I'm right: "Low" self-worth, "low" self-esteem are not real…
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S4 Ep 44: SEASON FINALE
Some very personal, and personable stuff. Distinguishing between getting an opinion, and getting information from somebody who has knowledge and recognition of a non-subjective reality. The emotional effect of finally being heard. Why it's ok for you to get nervous when you talk to me for the…
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Authentic & permanent recovery from emotional disorders, such as Borderline Personality Disorder. Comprehensive insights on emotional health & emotional unhealth.
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