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Aha! Moments with Elliott Connie — 599 episodes

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Do Not Lose Yourself

2

Sincerely Apologize

3

We CAN Make Each Other Happy

4

Acknowledging the Good

5

Working Together

6

Measuring the Good Old Days

7

Break Down the Day

8

Your Body and Irritability

9

Sleep Signs

10

Taking a Pause

11

Persist During Turmoil

12

Reestablish Trust

13

Research Sources

14

Signs of Negative Impacts

15

Our Youth's Hope

16

When to Leave Therapy

17

Therapy That Hurts Less

18

Persistent Therapy

19

Being Honest in Therapy

20

Getting Started With Therapy

21

Stop Caring About What Others Think

22

Energy In Projection

23

Projection Harms People

24

Sources of Our Projection

25

Projecting on People

26

Is Masculinity Working For You?

27

Examples of Masculinity

28

Adjusting Your Algorithm

29

The Definition of Alpha Males

30

A Meditation on Masculinity

31

Trusting Yourself

32

Children Trusting You

33

Trusting in the Outcome

34

Trusting You Did No Wrong

35

A Meditation on Trust

36

One Step Change

37

Being Who You Are

38

The Myth of the Right Time

39

Plunge of the Risk

40

Mindset Holding You Back

41

Your Self-Perception

42

Positive Inner Circle

43

Body Maintainence

44

Fueling Your Body Properly

45

Champion Sleep

46

Receiving Help is a Gift Too

47

The Small Ways We Give to Others

48

The Gift of Emotional Connection

49

The Greatest Gift You Can Give

50

A Different Kind of Giving

51

True Holiday Riches

52

Christmas Memories

53

Holiday Pressures

54

Positive Seasonal Times

55

On Seasonal Depression

56

Abuse Has a Time Limit

57

How I Coped With My Abuse

58

Lean on Others

59

What I've Learned Surviving Abuse

60

Abusive Households

61

Authenticity's Role in a Relationship

62

How You Should Perceive Your Relationship

63

Recognizing Red Flags

64

Fostering Happiness in Others

65

Foundations in Relationships

66

Demand Consideration

67

Happy Thanksgiving 2025

68

Consider It Can Get Better

69

Consider The Sides

70

On Consideration

71

The Therapists That Will Be Replaced by AI

72

Healthily Using AI

73

An AI Murder Case

74

Unhealthy AI Use

75

AI And Your Health

76

The Right Time

77

Evidence of Survival

78

The Little Things

79

Evidence of Efficacy

80

When Things Don't Work Out

81

Early Signs to Fight Anxiety

82

The Root of All Anxiety

83

3 Ways to Mitigate Anxiety

84

An Anxious World

85

Anxiety's Mark

86

Changes in the World

87

Consume the Info Right For you

88

Confirmation Bias

89

The Impact of Targeted Media

90

The Age of Misinformation

91

Owe Yourself Autheticity

92

Off Your Authentic Path

93

Mental Fortitude Against Rejection

94

Inspiring Your Own Change

95

External Pressures

96

Stimulate Your Brain

97

Changing Your Views

98

Openly Talking About Mental Health

99

Consequences of Not Seeking Help

100

Stigma on Therapy

101

Choosing the Most Difficult Path

102

Guilt About Your Boundaries

103

Disappointing Others Anyway

104

Learning How to Say No

105

Unlearning People Pleasing

106

What to Do When You're Ready to Change

107

Life Regrets that You CAN'T Change

108

The Time I Needed to Change My Life

109

Why Do We Make the Wrong Life Decisions?

110

When You Regret Your Life Choices

111

The Moment is the Truth

112

What Came Before is Not Now

113

Belief in Other People

114

Relax Your Alertness

115

How to Stop Assuming the Worst About Anything

116

Burnout and Lifestyle

117

Shake Up Your Lifestyle

118

Unfocus the Burnout

119

Burnout Causes

120

Curbing Burnout

121

Compare Yourself to Yourself

122

The Wrong Expectations

123

Love Your Path

124

Heavy Expectations

125

Expectations on Our Shoulders

126

101 Failures to Success

127

Failure Motivates

128

Failing At Failure

129

Reframing Failure

130

Failure Is Success

131

The 1000th Episode

132

Goals With Flexibility

133

Sticking With Success

134

Making an Impact With Consistency

135

The Lesson of 1000 Tries

136

Universal Experiences

137

Inspiration From Comparison

138

Transforming Comparison

139

Manufactured Exterior

140

Compromised Comparison

141

How Therapy Has Changed

142

Things That Have Changed Since Starting

143

Therapy Is Not Always Good

144

Therapy and Help

145

As a Therapist Over the Years

146

Belief When Needed

147

Belief At the Lowest

148

Why Belief is Life Changing

149

Believing in Others

150

Consistency is Key to Balance

151

Work Life Balance is Intentional

152

Doing Things Differently

153

Time Spent Adds Up

154

The Trick to Work-Life Balance

155

Permission to Succeed

156

Defining Your Success

157

Success is a Habit

158

Aligning Your Success

159

Finding Success

160

Raising Emotional Intelligence

161

Emotional Love

162

Emotional Intention

163

Measuring Your Emotional Intelligence

164

Defining Emotional Intelligence

165

The Strength Your Built

166

Giving to Our Past Selves

167

Handling Problems

168

Healing Past Traumas

169

Grief and Lessons

170

Offsetting Grief

171

Surviving Grief

172

Deep Memories

173

Grieving a Loved One

174

Love the Whole You

175

Love Role Models

176

Self Love is an Act

177

Traits You Can Learn to Love

178

Self Love and Self Care

179

Routines and Control

180

Control in Therapy

181

3 Signs of Controlling Behavior

182

Slipping Control

183

What I Can Control

184

Struggles are Temporary

185

Support through Struggle

186

The Question of Difficulty

187

When The Going Gets Tough

188

You Can Get Through It

189

Challenge Your Comfort

190

Choose to Challenge Yourself

191

Expect Change and Pain

192

Different Choices and Challenges

193

On Challenging Yourself

194

Two Words For You

195

Where I Would Have Been

196

We Have Done This Before

197

Ripples of My New Chapter

198

It's Never Too Late to Start a New Chapter

199

Salvaging Relationships

200

Your Position Communicated

201

On Comprimises

202

Conflict and Communication

203

On Conflict Resolution

204

Your True Value

205

3 Things to Boost Self-Worth

206

What Happened When I Lost My Self Worth as a Therapist

207

How My Grandmother Taught Me Self Value

208

Is Your Self Worth Conditional?

209

Surround Your Thoughts With This

210

One Action to Stop Overthinking

211

When You Overthink

212

Are You and Overthinker?

213

Overthinking Blocks Success

214

The Past is a Lesson

215

Leave Resentment at the Door

216

Forgivness and Forgetting

217

Redefining Moments

218

Learning Moments to Let Go

219

Expression is Transparency

220

Expressing Negative Emotions

221

Roots of Emotions

222

Expressive Awareness

223

Expressing Yourself

224

On Hatred and Bullying

225

Responding to Hate

226

Shifting Away From Hate

227

Just Keep Scrolling

228

Sifting Negativity Away

229

Motivation Markers

230

People Around Your Goals

231

Daily Actionable Steps

232

Little Steps Towards Goals

233

Setting Your Goals

234

Pushback on Our Passions

235

3 Things to Find Your Passion

236

Passion and Failure

237

Trying New Things

238

Setting on Your Passion

239

Getting the Most Without Burnout

240

Body Burnout

241

On Hustle Culture

242

What Burnout Looks Like

243

All About Burnout

244

True Confidence

245

Confidence to Try

246

Rebuilding Confidence

247

Getting Rid of Doubts

248

Exceed Your Own Expectations

249

Testing Boundaries

250

Choices & Boundaries

251

Boundaries With Other Things

252

Energy, Mood, & Boundaries

253

Establishing Boundaries

254

How Your Environment Speaks to You

255

Your Self-Image

256

Evidence of Self-Efficacy

257

Positive VS Negative Self-Talk

258

Successful Self-Talk

259

Don't Be Limited By Doubts

260

3 Ways to Be Limitless

261

Believing You're Limitless

262

When I Decided to Push My Limits

263

You Can Be Limitless

264

Representation Drives Me

265

The System Needs to Be Changed

266

Diversity IS Resiliency

267

It's Our History Too

268

Free Speech For Whom

269

Opportunities to Thrive

270

Needs Between Couples

271

Sustaining Your Relationship

272

Why Couples Break Up

273

Heal From Expectations

274

Secondary Consequences to Authenticity

275

We Need to Have a Serious Conversation About Authenticity

276

Embracing Your Culture Authentically

277

What You Should Be Doing to Become More Authentic

278

The Message I Received About Authenticity as a Child

279

Using Your Authenticity to Overcome Even the Hardest Challenges

280

What You Should Be Looking At Instead of the Challenge

281

Viewing Yourself as Capable of Change

282

Even Positive Changes Come With Challenges

283

Believe in Yourself, NOT Your Limitations

284

A Lesson on Aging From an Old Friend

285

Aging is Better Than the Alternative

286

How to Age Gracefully

287

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

288

Aging is a Privilege

289

Going to Therapy When You're Grieving

290

The Loss Before the Loss: Coping with Anticipatory Grief

291

The 5 Stages of Grief Are a Lie

292

Bad News About Grief

293

What We Can Learn About Grief and Loss in Los Angeles

294

How to Develop True, Unfiltered Optimism

295

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

296

Don't Let Pessimism Get in Your Way

297

Dreams Foster Optimism

298

Finding Optimism Everywhere

299

Your Purpose For Change

300

Effective Change

301

Consistency is Key to Change

302

How to Navigate a Resolution

303

On New Years Resolutions

304

My Small Joy

305

The Most Important Joys in Life

306

Creating Small Joy

307

Finding Joy Amidst Hard Times

308

Finding Small Joys

309

What is Compassion Fatigue?

310

Provide What Can't Be Paid

311

Empathy Over Judgement

312

A Small Thing to Make a Difference

313

The Power of Helping People In Need

314

When Your Emotions Are Hindered

315

Expression With Social Media

316

Practice Expressing Yourself Authentically

317

Women Struggling to Express Their Emotions

318

Learning to Express Your Emotions

319

Finding Gratitude Under Verbal Abuse

320

Seeking Help Under Verbal Abuse

321

The Strength of Words

322

Covert Verbal Abuse

323

The Power of Words

324

On Deeper Connections

325

You Can't Please Everyone

326

Family and Your Well-Being Correlate

327

Family Togetherness

328

Families at Thanksgiving

329

Getting Betrayed

330

How I Learned to Trust

331

Trust in the Business

332

Chilhood and Trust

333

Exposing Trust Issues

334

Reconciling The Failure

335

Fear of Success

336

Fear and Failure

337

One of My First Failures

338

Recontextualizing Failure

339

What Follows Next

340

Election Results

341

Before Our Results

342

Vote Your Voice

343

Eve of Election

344

Don't Fear Failure

345

Overcoming The Greater Fear

346

Fear is an Opportunity

347

Take a Chance on Fear

348

Discerning Reasonable and Unreasonable Fears

349

Not Giving Up Pays Off

350

Loving Something to the Point of Never Quitting

351

Curbing The Need to Quit

352

Deciding Not to Quit

353

Never Giving Up is a Skill

354

They Live in Memory

355

One Thing I Regret

356

Just Listening Helps Grief

357

Express Your Grief in Your Own Way

358

Grief is Your Journey

359

What Women Go Through

360

Helping Domestic Violence Victims

361

Practical Domestic Violence Plans

362

Safety First in the Threat of Violence

363

Domestic Violence Awareness

364

The Value of Social Media

365

In Place of Doomscrolling

366

An Intended Purpose of Your Feed

367

The Comparison Game

368

Commenting on Social Media and Stimuli

369

Past to Purpose

370

Thinking About Legacy

371

Applying Your Past

372

Exercising Your Past

373

Your Applicable Past

374

How to Stay Mentally Acute

375

The Root of the Matter

376

Inspired By Other's Health

377

Getting To Know Others

378

Loving Yourself and Loving Your Body

379

Letting Go of Impressing Others

380

Letting Go of Worry

381

Letting Go of Control

382

Controlling What You Can

383

Do What is In Your Control

384

Self-Care is a Lifestyle

385

Schedule Resting Time

386

Rest Within Yourself

387

Effort Earns a Break

388

Celebrating Labor Day

389

Grow Into Your Person

390

Growth is Uncomfortable

391

When to Not Accept Change

392

Allowing Change to Assist You

393

Change as a Challenge

394

Presupposing The Change You Need

395

Observe Happy People

396

Intentionally Seeing Your Strengths

397

Be in Awe of Others

398

Experts of Our Brilliance

399

The Other Side of Fear

400

When I Faced My Fears

401

Big Goals & Surmounted Fears

402

Tackle What You Fear

403

Do It Scared

404

Why You Need to Stop Doomscrolling TODAY

405

External and Internal Biases

406

Intentional Disengagement

407

Explicit News

408

Confirmation Bias

409

A Lesson in Togetherness

410

The Road to Satisfaction

411

The Dedication of an Olympian

412

Two Inspiring Athletes

413

Olympian Goals

414

Transforming My Life

415

The Question That Changed My Life

416

Questions That Make a Difference

417

The Next Questions

418

Asking Yourself the Right Questions

419

Parental Examples

420

Thankfulness VS Gratefulness

421

On Passing Praise

422

Respect VS Parenting

423

Nurturing Parenting

424

I Grew to Be Stronger

425

Acknowledging BIPOC Voices

426

Richness in Diversity

427

Honor and Awareness to Other's Mental Health

428

BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month

429

Evolve Your Choices

430

Permission on Boundaries

431

Prioritize Now

432

Intentional Balancing

433

Healthy Working Environment

434

Self-Assurance and Competence

435

Your Confidence History

436

Momentum and Confidence

437

Acknowledging Past Challenges

438

My First Brush With Confidence

439

Don't Be Fooled By Social Media

440

The Real Social Media Threat

441

Awareness of Information

442

Attention Addiction

443

Training Your Tool

444

Sports Fans Need to Hear This

445

"Shut Up and Dribble"

446

Becoming More Aware of Human Bias

447

MLB's Big Change That Brought Backlash

448

Race and Sports

449

You Deserve to Be Yourself

450

On Influencing the Youth

451

Support the Marginalized

452

About Your Allyship

453

Pride Not Hate

454

My Message on Suicidality

455

3 Lessons on Suicidality

456

Inspire Hope

457

The Signs of Suicidal Ideation

458

When You Feel Hope is Lost

459

Your Perpetrator Did Not Win

460

Violence is Comfortable

461

Domestic Violence is an Environment

462

Emotional Toll

463

On Domestic Violence

464

Grieving The Living

465

The Proper Way to Grieve

466

Remembering Life

467

Grief and Honor

468

Grieve Your Way

469

Your Responses

470

Check on Others

471

Mental Influences

472

Checking on Yourself

473

Mental Health Awareness Month

474

No One is a Zero

475

Your Strengths Define You

476

You Don't Quit on YOU

477

Building the Esteem

478

My Self Esteem

479

A Motivating Movie

480

Internal Motivators

481

Staying With Your Motivation

482

Words of Motivation

483

Internal Motivation

484

Quality Family Time

485

Family and Opposing Beliefs

486

Family Therapy Demo

487

You Only Have One Family

488

Navigating Family Relationships

489

On Cancel Culture

490

Forgiveness is a Decision

491

Forgiveness is Not Acceptance

492

All About Forgiveness

493

The Impact of My Voice

494

How To Get a Therapist

495

Culturally Sensitive Therapy

496

Not The Therapy But the Therapist

497

Accessible Therapy

498

Kindness Requires Empathy

499

Prove Kindness Right

500

My Best Instance of Kindness

501

The Cost of Kindness

502

Experiencing Kindness

503

Children Practicing Personhood

504

Affirming Our Children

505

Childhood Reprieve

506

Do Not Limit Screen Time

507

Creating a Safe Environment

508

Awareness of Content

509

Real Human Connectedness

510

Our Media Exposure

511

Meditation on Comparison

512

Mindful of Consumption

513

Qualities of a Good Friendship

514

An Example of Friendship

515

Gifts of Friendship

516

Showing Up for Your Friends

517

Partnership in Friendship

518

Grateful for Leadership

519

Analyze Your Following

520

Authentic Leadership

521

My Favorite Leader

522

What Makes a Leader?

523

Walking Away

524

Not Combating Change or Opinion

525

Conflict Resolution for Both Parties

526

Communicating Your Ground

527

Experience and Triangulation

528

Important Advice for Single People

529

Expressing Love LOUDER

530

Everyday Could Be Valentine's Day

531

Healthy Couple's Boundaries

532

Always Keep Dating

533

Sharing Voices

534

Struggle IS Strength

535

My Voice is Earned

536

Politicized Acknowledgement

537

Black History Month

538

Visualizing Patience in Increments

539

Patience All Around Us

540

Sometimes Patience is All You Have

541

Patience IS Process

542

Patience is the Key Ingredient

543

Trusting Yourself Bring Results

544

Why You Should Trust Yourself

545

Showing Your Trust

546

Rebuilding Trust

547

Building Based on Trust

548

Knowing You are Worth Standing Up For

549

The Moment I Stood Up For Myself

550

The Reason I Stand Up

551

The Importance of Standing Up For Yourself

552

Rise and Stand Up

553

Self-Actualization is Silence

554

Purpose Removes Pain

555

What it Means to Self-Actualize

556

What A Better Version of Yourself Means

557

Basic Needs to the Bigger Needs

558

Get On the New Year

559

Biggest Lesson About Change

560

On New Year's Resolution

561

What I Hope to Achieve in 2024

562

Why Your New Year's Resolutions Don't Work

563

Why You Need to Avoid Loneliness

564

Why You Should Learn to Ask for Help

565

Why Connection is Healing

566

The True Joy of Christmas Memories

567

Savoring the Moment

568

Leading With Optimism

569

The Greatest Optimistic Example

570

Scheduling Optimism

571

Optimistic Mindset

572

Adopting Optimism

573

How to Know When Conflict Isn't Worth It

574

How I Learned to Handle Conflict

575

Handling Interpersonal Conflict at Work

576

How to Handle Conflict With Others

577

Why We Triangulate During Conflicts

578

The Best Example of Seasonal Depression That We All Know

579

Grounded Through Depression

580

Managing Seasonal Depression

581

Settling Seasonal Depression

582

Addressing Seasonal Depression

583

3 Things Following a Setback

584

Lessons From a Setback

585

The Greatest Rebound from a Setback

586

Our Reaction to Setbacks

587

Overcoming Setbacks

588

Celebrating the Fleeting

589

Gratitude for the Small Things

590

The Range of Gratitude

591

On Appreciation

592

Steps to Mental Health Improvement

593

Vulnerability IS Strength

594

Connection and Support

595

Addressing Your Loneliness

596

Emotional Expression

597

Positive Future Builds Resilience

598

10 Year Old Elliott

599

The HARDEST Lesson I've Learned This Year