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Aha! Moments with Elliott Connie — 625 episodes

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Support Your Inner Child

2

Develop Empathy in Our Kids

3

If Adults Asked About Kids

4

Watch Your Kids Behavior

5

Kids Absorbing Trauma

6

Participating in Your Happiness

7

Seek Your Happiest Memories

8

I'll Be Happy When

9

Happiness Comes with Acknowledgement

10

Happiness Management

11

Controlling Your Anger

12

Anger in the Present

13

Worth Defending Yourself

14

Accumulative Anger

15

Anger is the Appropriate Response

16

Burnout is Curable

17

Choosing Yourself Sometimes

18

Boundaries Around Burnout

19

Signs and Solutions of Burnout

20

On Burnout

21

Never Disappoint Yourself

22

Tempering Expectation

23

Protecting Your Peace

24

Tailor Your Algorithm

25

Preventative Mental Health Care

26

Do Not Lose Yourself

27

Sincerely Apologize

28

We CAN Make Each Other Happy

29

Acknowledging the Good

30

Working Together

31

Measuring the Good Old Days

32

Break Down the Day

33

Your Body and Irritability

34

Sleep Signs

35

Taking a Pause

36

Persist During Turmoil

37

Reestablish Trust

38

Research Sources

39

Signs of Negative Impacts

40

Our Youth's Hope

41

When to Leave Therapy

42

Therapy That Hurts Less

43

Persistent Therapy

44

Being Honest in Therapy

45

Getting Started With Therapy

46

Stop Caring About What Others Think

47

Energy In Projection

48

Projection Harms People

49

Sources of Our Projection

50

Projecting on People

51

Is Masculinity Working For You?

52

Examples of Masculinity

53

Adjusting Your Algorithm

54

The Definition of Alpha Males

55

A Meditation on Masculinity

56

Trusting Yourself

57

Children Trusting You

58

Trusting in the Outcome

59

Trusting You Did No Wrong

60

A Meditation on Trust

61

One Step Change

62

Being Who You Are

63

The Myth of the Right Time

64

Plunge of the Risk

65

Mindset Holding You Back

66

Your Self-Perception

67

Positive Inner Circle

68

Body Maintainence

69

Fueling Your Body Properly

70

Champion Sleep

71

Receiving Help is a Gift Too

72

The Small Ways We Give to Others

73

The Gift of Emotional Connection

74

The Greatest Gift You Can Give

75

A Different Kind of Giving

76

True Holiday Riches

77

Christmas Memories

78

Holiday Pressures

79

Positive Seasonal Times

80

On Seasonal Depression

81

Abuse Has a Time Limit

82

How I Coped With My Abuse

83

Lean on Others

84

What I've Learned Surviving Abuse

85

Abusive Households

86

Authenticity's Role in a Relationship

87

How You Should Perceive Your Relationship

88

Recognizing Red Flags

89

Fostering Happiness in Others

90

Foundations in Relationships

91

Demand Consideration

92

Happy Thanksgiving 2025

93

Consider It Can Get Better

94

Consider The Sides

95

On Consideration

96

The Therapists That Will Be Replaced by AI

97

Healthily Using AI

98

An AI Murder Case

99

Unhealthy AI Use

100

AI And Your Health

101

The Right Time

102

Evidence of Survival

103

The Little Things

104

Evidence of Efficacy

105

When Things Don't Work Out

106

Early Signs to Fight Anxiety

107

The Root of All Anxiety

108

3 Ways to Mitigate Anxiety

109

An Anxious World

110

Anxiety's Mark

111

Changes in the World

112

Consume the Info Right For you

113

Confirmation Bias

114

The Impact of Targeted Media

115

The Age of Misinformation

116

Owe Yourself Autheticity

117

Off Your Authentic Path

118

Mental Fortitude Against Rejection

119

Inspiring Your Own Change

120

External Pressures

121

Stimulate Your Brain

122

Changing Your Views

123

Openly Talking About Mental Health

124

Consequences of Not Seeking Help

125

Stigma on Therapy

126

Choosing the Most Difficult Path

127

Guilt About Your Boundaries

128

Disappointing Others Anyway

129

Learning How to Say No

130

Unlearning People Pleasing

131

What to Do When You're Ready to Change

132

Life Regrets that You CAN'T Change

133

The Time I Needed to Change My Life

134

Why Do We Make the Wrong Life Decisions?

135

When You Regret Your Life Choices

136

The Moment is the Truth

137

What Came Before is Not Now

138

Belief in Other People

139

Relax Your Alertness

140

How to Stop Assuming the Worst About Anything

141

Burnout and Lifestyle

142

Shake Up Your Lifestyle

143

Unfocus the Burnout

144

Burnout Causes

145

Curbing Burnout

146

Compare Yourself to Yourself

147

The Wrong Expectations

148

Love Your Path

149

Heavy Expectations

150

Expectations on Our Shoulders

151

101 Failures to Success

152

Failure Motivates

153

Failing At Failure

154

Reframing Failure

155

Failure Is Success

156

The 1000th Episode

157

Goals With Flexibility

158

Sticking With Success

159

Making an Impact With Consistency

160

The Lesson of 1000 Tries

161

Universal Experiences

162

Inspiration From Comparison

163

Transforming Comparison

164

Manufactured Exterior

165

Compromised Comparison

166

How Therapy Has Changed

167

Things That Have Changed Since Starting

168

Therapy Is Not Always Good

169

Therapy and Help

170

As a Therapist Over the Years

171

Belief When Needed

172

Belief At the Lowest

173

Why Belief is Life Changing

174

Believing in Others

175

Consistency is Key to Balance

176

Work Life Balance is Intentional

177

Doing Things Differently

178

Time Spent Adds Up

179

The Trick to Work-Life Balance

180

Permission to Succeed

181

Defining Your Success

182

Success is a Habit

183

Aligning Your Success

184

Finding Success

185

Raising Emotional Intelligence

186

Emotional Love

187

Emotional Intention

188

Measuring Your Emotional Intelligence

189

Defining Emotional Intelligence

190

The Strength Your Built

191

Trusting Yourself

192

Giving to Our Past Selves

193

Handling Problems

194

Healing Past Traumas

195

Grief and Lessons

196

Offsetting Grief

197

Surviving Grief

198

Deep Memories

199

Grieving a Loved One

200

Love the Whole You

201

Love Role Models

202

Self Love is an Act

203

Traits You Can Learn to Love

204

Self Love and Self Care

205

Routines and Control

206

Control in Therapy

207

3 Signs of Controlling Behavior

208

Slipping Control

209

What I Can Control

210

Struggles are Temporary

211

Support through Struggle

212

The Question of Difficulty

213

When The Going Gets Tough

214

You Can Get Through It

215

Challenge Your Comfort

216

Choose to Challenge Yourself

217

Expect Change and Pain

218

Different Choices and Challenges

219

On Challenging Yourself

220

Two Words For You

221

Where I Would Have Been

222

We Have Done This Before

223

Ripples of My New Chapter

224

It's Never Too Late to Start a New Chapter

225

Salvaging Relationships

226

Your Position Communicated

227

On Comprimises

228

Conflict and Communication

229

On Conflict Resolution

230

Your True Value

231

3 Things to Boost Self-Worth

232

What Happened When I Lost My Self Worth as a Therapist

233

How My Grandmother Taught Me Self Value

234

Is Your Self Worth Conditional?

235

Surround Your Thoughts With This

236

One Action to Stop Overthinking

237

When You Overthink

238

Are You and Overthinker?

239

Overthinking Blocks Success

240

The Past is a Lesson

241

Leave Resentment at the Door

242

Forgivness and Forgetting

243

Redefining Moments

244

Learning Moments to Let Go

245

Expression is Transparency

246

Expressing Negative Emotions

247

Roots of Emotions

248

Expressive Awareness

249

Expressing Yourself

250

On Hatred and Bullying

251

Responding to Hate

252

Shifting Away From Hate

253

Just Keep Scrolling

254

Sifting Negativity Away

255

Motivation Markers

256

People Around Your Goals

257

Daily Actionable Steps

258

Little Steps Towards Goals

259

Setting Your Goals

260

Pushback on Our Passions

261

3 Things to Find Your Passion

262

Passion and Failure

263

Trying New Things

264

Setting on Your Passion

265

Getting the Most Without Burnout

266

Body Burnout

267

On Hustle Culture

268

What Burnout Looks Like

269

All About Burnout

270

True Confidence

271

Confidence to Try

272

Rebuilding Confidence

273

Getting Rid of Doubts

274

Exceed Your Own Expectations

275

Testing Boundaries

276

Choices & Boundaries

277

Boundaries With Other Things

278

Energy, Mood, & Boundaries

279

Establishing Boundaries

280

How Your Environment Speaks to You

281

Your Self-Image

282

Evidence of Self-Efficacy

283

Positive VS Negative Self-Talk

284

Successful Self-Talk

285

Don't Be Limited By Doubts

286

3 Ways to Be Limitless

287

Believing You're Limitless

288

When I Decided to Push My Limits

289

You Can Be Limitless

290

Representation Drives Me

291

The System Needs to Be Changed

292

Diversity IS Resiliency

293

It's Our History Too

294

Free Speech For Whom

295

Opportunities to Thrive

296

Needs Between Couples

297

Sustaining Your Relationship

298

Why Couples Break Up

299

Heal From Expectations

300

Secondary Consequences to Authenticity

301

We Need to Have a Serious Conversation About Authenticity

302

Embracing Your Culture Authentically

303

What You Should Be Doing to Become More Authentic

304

The Message I Received About Authenticity as a Child

305

Using Your Authenticity to Overcome Even the Hardest Challenges

306

What You Should Be Looking At Instead of the Challenge

307

Viewing Yourself as Capable of Change

308

Even Positive Changes Come With Challenges

309

Believe in Yourself, NOT Your Limitations

310

A Lesson on Aging From an Old Friend

311

Aging is Better Than the Alternative

312

How to Age Gracefully

313

The Most Important Lesson I've Learned as I've Aged

314

Aging is a Privilege

315

Going to Therapy When You're Grieving

316

The Loss Before the Loss: Coping with Anticipatory Grief

317

The 5 Stages of Grief Are a Lie

318

Bad News About Grief

319

What We Can Learn About Grief and Loss in Los Angeles

320

How to Develop True, Unfiltered Optimism

321

This Mindset Shift Can Change Your Life | The Power of Exceptions

322

Don't Let Pessimism Get in Your Way

323

Dreams Foster Optimism

324

Finding Optimism Everywhere

325

Your Purpose For Change

326

Effective Change

327

Consistency is Key to Change

328

How to Navigate a Resolution

329

On New Years Resolutions

330

My Small Joy

331

The Most Important Joys in Life

332

Creating Small Joy

333

Finding Joy Amidst Hard Times

334

Finding Small Joys

335

What is Compassion Fatigue?

336

Provide What Can't Be Paid

337

Empathy Over Judgement

338

A Small Thing to Make a Difference

339

The Power of Helping People In Need

340

When Your Emotions Are Hindered

341

Expression With Social Media

342

Practice Expressing Yourself Authentically

343

Women Struggling to Express Their Emotions

344

Learning to Express Your Emotions

345

Finding Gratitude Under Verbal Abuse

346

Seeking Help Under Verbal Abuse

347

The Strength of Words

348

Covert Verbal Abuse

349

The Power of Words

350

On Deeper Connections

351

You Can't Please Everyone

352

Family and Your Well-Being Correlate

353

Family Togetherness

354

Families at Thanksgiving

355

Getting Betrayed

356

How I Learned to Trust

357

Trust in the Business

358

Chilhood and Trust

359

Exposing Trust Issues

360

Reconciling The Failure

361

Fear of Success

362

Fear and Failure

363

One of My First Failures

364

Recontextualizing Failure

365

What Follows Next

366

Election Results

367

Before Our Results

368

Vote Your Voice

369

Eve of Election

370

Don't Fear Failure

371

Overcoming The Greater Fear

372

Fear is an Opportunity

373

Take a Chance on Fear

374

Discerning Reasonable and Unreasonable Fears

375

Not Giving Up Pays Off

376

Loving Something to the Point of Never Quitting

377

Curbing The Need to Quit

378

Deciding Not to Quit

379

Never Giving Up is a Skill

380

They Live in Memory

381

One Thing I Regret

382

Just Listening Helps Grief

383

Express Your Grief in Your Own Way

384

Grief is Your Journey

385

What Women Go Through

386

Helping Domestic Violence Victims

387

Practical Domestic Violence Plans

388

Safety First in the Threat of Violence

389

Domestic Violence Awareness

390

The Value of Social Media

391

In Place of Doomscrolling

392

An Intended Purpose of Your Feed

393

The Comparison Game

394

Commenting on Social Media and Stimuli

395

Past to Purpose

396

Thinking About Legacy

397

Applying Your Past

398

Exercising Your Past

399

Your Applicable Past

400

How to Stay Mentally Acute

401

The Root of the Matter

402

Inspired By Other's Health

403

Getting To Know Others

404

Loving Yourself and Loving Your Body

405

Letting Go of Impressing Others

406

Letting Go of Worry

407

Letting Go of Control

408

Controlling What You Can

409

Do What is In Your Control

410

Self-Care is a Lifestyle

411

Schedule Resting Time

412

Rest Within Yourself

413

Effort Earns a Break

414

Celebrating Labor Day

415

Grow Into Your Person

416

Growth is Uncomfortable

417

When to Not Accept Change

418

Allowing Change to Assist You

419

Change as a Challenge

420

Presupposing The Change You Need

421

Observe Happy People

422

Intentionally Seeing Your Strengths

423

Be in Awe of Others

424

Experts of Our Brilliance

425

The Other Side of Fear

426

When I Faced My Fears

427

Big Goals & Surmounted Fears

428

Tackle What You Fear

429

Do It Scared

430

Why You Need to Stop Doomscrolling TODAY

431

External and Internal Biases

432

Intentional Disengagement

433

Explicit News

434

Confirmation Bias

435

A Lesson in Togetherness

436

The Road to Satisfaction

437

The Dedication of an Olympian

438

Two Inspiring Athletes

439

Olympian Goals

440

Transforming My Life

441

The Question That Changed My Life

442

Questions That Make a Difference

443

The Next Questions

444

Asking Yourself the Right Questions

445

Parental Examples

446

Thankfulness VS Gratefulness

447

On Passing Praise

448

Respect VS Parenting

449

Nurturing Parenting

450

I Grew to Be Stronger

451

Acknowledging BIPOC Voices

452

Richness in Diversity

453

Honor and Awareness to Other's Mental Health

454

BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month

455

Evolve Your Choices

456

Permission on Boundaries

457

Prioritize Now

458

Intentional Balancing

459

Healthy Working Environment

460

Self-Assurance and Competence

461

Your Confidence History

462

Momentum and Confidence

463

Acknowledging Past Challenges

464

My First Brush With Confidence

465

Don't Be Fooled By Social Media

466

The Real Social Media Threat

467

Awareness of Information

468

Attention Addiction

469

Training Your Tool

470

Sports Fans Need to Hear This

471

"Shut Up and Dribble"

472

Becoming More Aware of Human Bias

473

MLB's Big Change That Brought Backlash

474

Race and Sports

475

You Deserve to Be Yourself

476

On Influencing the Youth

477

Support the Marginalized

478

About Your Allyship

479

Pride Not Hate

480

My Message on Suicidality

481

3 Lessons on Suicidality

482

Inspire Hope

483

The Signs of Suicidal Ideation

484

When You Feel Hope is Lost

485

Your Perpetrator Did Not Win

486

Violence is Comfortable

487

Domestic Violence is an Environment

488

Emotional Toll

489

On Domestic Violence

490

Grieving The Living

491

The Proper Way to Grieve

492

Remembering Life

493

Grief and Honor

494

Grieve Your Way

495

Your Responses

496

Check on Others

497

Mental Influences

498

Checking on Yourself

499

Mental Health Awareness Month

500

No One is a Zero

501

Your Strengths Define You

502

You Don't Quit on YOU

503

Building the Esteem

504

My Self Esteem

505

A Motivating Movie

506

Internal Motivators

507

Staying With Your Motivation

508

Words of Motivation

509

Internal Motivation

510

Quality Family Time

511

Family and Opposing Beliefs

512

Family Therapy Demo

513

You Only Have One Family

514

Navigating Family Relationships

515

On Cancel Culture

516

Forgiveness is a Decision

517

Forgiveness is Not Acceptance

518

All About Forgiveness

519

The Impact of My Voice

520

How To Get a Therapist

521

Culturally Sensitive Therapy

522

Not The Therapy But the Therapist

523

Accessible Therapy

524

Kindness Requires Empathy

525

Prove Kindness Right

526

My Best Instance of Kindness

527

The Cost of Kindness

528

Experiencing Kindness

529

Children Practicing Personhood

530

Affirming Our Children

531

Childhood Reprieve

532

Do Not Limit Screen Time

533

Creating a Safe Environment

534

Awareness of Content

535

Real Human Connectedness

536

Our Media Exposure

537

Meditation on Comparison

538

Mindful of Consumption

539

Qualities of a Good Friendship

540

An Example of Friendship

541

Gifts of Friendship

542

Showing Up for Your Friends

543

Partnership in Friendship

544

Grateful for Leadership

545

Analyze Your Following

546

Authentic Leadership

547

My Favorite Leader

548

What Makes a Leader?

549

Walking Away

550

Not Combating Change or Opinion

551

Conflict Resolution for Both Parties

552

Communicating Your Ground

553

Experience and Triangulation

554

Important Advice for Single People

555

Expressing Love LOUDER

556

Everyday Could Be Valentine's Day

557

Healthy Couple's Boundaries

558

Always Keep Dating

559

Sharing Voices

560

Struggle IS Strength

561

My Voice is Earned

562

Politicized Acknowledgement

563

Black History Month

564

Visualizing Patience in Increments

565

Patience All Around Us

566

Sometimes Patience is All You Have

567

Patience IS Process

568

Patience is the Key Ingredient

569

Trusting Yourself Bring Results

570

Why You Should Trust Yourself

571

Showing Your Trust

572

Rebuilding Trust

573

Building Based on Trust

574

Knowing You are Worth Standing Up For

575

The Moment I Stood Up For Myself

576

The Reason I Stand Up

577

The Importance of Standing Up For Yourself

578

Rise and Stand Up

579

Self-Actualization is Silence

580

Purpose Removes Pain

581

What it Means to Self-Actualize

582

What A Better Version of Yourself Means

583

Basic Needs to the Bigger Needs

584

Get On the New Year

585

Biggest Lesson About Change

586

On New Year's Resolution

587

What I Hope to Achieve in 2024

588

Why Your New Year's Resolutions Don't Work

589

Why You Need to Avoid Loneliness

590

Why You Should Learn to Ask for Help

591

Why Connection is Healing

592

The True Joy of Christmas Memories

593

Savoring the Moment

594

Leading With Optimism

595

The Greatest Optimistic Example

596

Scheduling Optimism

597

Optimistic Mindset

598

Adopting Optimism

599

How to Know When Conflict Isn't Worth It

600

How I Learned to Handle Conflict

601

Handling Interpersonal Conflict at Work

602

How to Handle Conflict With Others

603

Why We Triangulate During Conflicts

604

The Best Example of Seasonal Depression That We All Know

605

Grounded Through Depression

606

Managing Seasonal Depression

607

Settling Seasonal Depression

608

Addressing Seasonal Depression

609

3 Things Following a Setback

610

Lessons From a Setback

611

The Greatest Rebound from a Setback

612

Our Reaction to Setbacks

613

Overcoming Setbacks

614

Celebrating the Fleeting

615

Gratitude for the Small Things

616

The Range of Gratitude

617

On Appreciation

618

Steps to Mental Health Improvement

619

Vulnerability IS Strength

620

Connection and Support

621

Addressing Your Loneliness

622

Emotional Expression

623

Positive Future Builds Resilience

624

10 Year Old Elliott

625

The HARDEST Lesson I've Learned This Year