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In Sanity: A piece of mind — 291 episodes

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Episode 290 - Shame and The Mask of Narcissism

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Episode 289 - Raising Connected Kids, Toddler to Teen and An In Sanity Rebrand

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Episode 288 - Shame: Listener Questions and a Conversation with My Daughters

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Episode 287 - Shame: More Listener Feedback and Questions

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Episode 286 - Shame: Listener Questions and Feedback

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Episode 285 - The Story You're Living

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Episode 284 - Asking for Listener Questions and Feedback

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Episode 283 - Shame and the brain: Wired for Joy

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Episode 282 - The River: A meditation

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Episode 281 - Mind, Mirror, Wound: Shame is hijacking your brain

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Episode 280 - The Narrator you Didn't Choose

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Episode 279 - You Are Not What Shame Says You Are — Exploring "The Soul of Shame" with Curt Thompson

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Episode 278 - Shame : who, what, where, and why?

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Episode 277 - Shame, Guilt, & Your Brain

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Episode 276 - Guided Meditation: Building Competency

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Episode 275 - Asteya: Building Competence, Pt 2

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Episode 274 - Asteya: Building Competency, Pt 1

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Episode 273 - Asteya: Stealing from Others

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Episode 272 - Meditation on Yamas

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Episode 271 - Asteya: Non-Stealing

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Episode 270 - Satya: Doing it Right the First Time, Pt. 3

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Episode 269 - Satya: Do it Right the First Time, Pt. 2

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Episode 268- Satya: Do it Right the First Time

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Episode 267 - Satya: Growth and Belonging in Our Communities

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Episode 266 - Satya: The need to belong (fit in) vs. the need to grow

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Episode 265 - New Equipment and a Teaser for Next Week

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Episode 264 - The Fine Line Between Self-Expression and Self-Indulgence

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Episode 263 - Satya: Real vs. Nice, Cont'd

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Episode 262 - Satya: Authenticity vs. Niceness - A Deep Dive

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Episode 261 - Mentally Fit: a conversation with Annie and Christian

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Episode 260 - A conversation with Christian: The Shimmer

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Episode 259 - Satya: Truthfulness

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Episode 258 - The Fourth Face of Mara: Dukka or Reactivity

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Episode 257 - Ahimsa: Self-love and Violence to others

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Episode 256 - The Third Face of Mara: Multitasking

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Episode 255 - The Second Face of Mara: Mind-wandering

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Episode 254 - Ahimsa: Nonviolence and Finding Your Courage

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Episode 253 - Mindlessness: The First Face of Mara

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Episode 252 - Untrained Minds and Attentional Systems

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Episode 251 - Ahimsa: Dealing with our Powerlessness

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Episode 250 - The Shimmer Metaphor, Pt. 2

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Episode 249 - The Shimmer: An internet metaphor

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Episode 248 - Rules for Deep Work

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Episode 247 - Deep Work: A Discussion

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Episode 246 - The Anxious Generation: A Wake-Up Call for Parents

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Episode 245 - The Necessity of Mindfulness

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Episode 244 - What's the Deal with Digital?

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Episode 243 - The Shallows . . . Revisited, Pt 2

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Episode 242 - "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains" - a Book Review

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Episode 241 - The Value of Reading Fiction as an Adult

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Episode 240 - Universalizing Faith: Fowler's Stage Six

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Episode 239 - Conjunctive Faith: Fowler's Stage Five, Pt. 2

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Episode 238 - Conjunctive Faith: Fowler's Stage Five, Pt. 1

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Episode - 237 - Individuative-Reflective Faith: Fowler's Stage 4

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Episode 236 - Conventional Synthetic Stage: Fowler's Stage 3

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Episode 235 - Mythical Literal Stage: Fowler's Stage 2

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Episode 234 - Intuitive-Projective Faith: Fowler's Stage One

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Episode 233 - What is Spiritual Maturity?

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Episode 232 - What is Emotional Spirituality

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Episode 231 - What is Emotional Maturity

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Episode 230 - What is Emotional Immaturity

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Episode 229 - Father's Day

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Episode 228 - Some of My Favorite Episodes

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Episode 227 - I am on vacation

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Episode 226 - Book Review: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero

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Episode 225 - Taking Accountability, Pt. 4: complicity, review and action

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Episode 224 - Taking Accountability, Pt. 3: Why is it so hard?

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Episode 223 - Taking Accountability, Pt 2: Tell the Truth and the Ego

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Episode 222 - Taking Accountability, Pt. 1

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Episode 221 - Nervous System Redux

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Episode 220 - Gossip: Talk about people, things, or ideas

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Episode 219 - Chinese Medicine: A conversation with Aspen

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Episode 218 - Tracking Your Emotions: How we feel

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Episode 217 - Wrapping up Internal Family Systems

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Episode 216 - Internal Family Systems: The self

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Episode 215 - IFS: Getting to Know Your Parts

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Episode 214 - An Introduction to Internal Family Systems

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Episode 213 - Meditation: A Reminder

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Episode 212 - The Who, What, Why and How of Perfectionism

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Episode 211 - High Achievement Schools: Can you find balance

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Episode 210 - Achievement Culture: What parents can do to bring balance

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Episode 209 - Achievement Culture: It's negative effects on kids and parents

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Episode 208 - Thoughts I Have Been Thinking

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Episode 207 - Parenting NVC: Rescuing, Rewarding and Changing our Habits

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Episode 206 - Parenting Using Nonviolent Communication: A better way

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Episode 205 - Chinese Medicine and Other Stuff with Lindsay and Aspen

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Episode 204 - Nonviolent Communication Review and Examples Episode

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Episode 203 - Parenting Through the Lens of Nonviolent Communication

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Episode 202 - The Four Ways to Hear a Negative Message

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Episode 201 - Nonviolent Communication Ideas that Inspire Me

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Episode 200 - Building Awareness of Needs and Wants

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Episode 199 - The Jackal: A Life Alienating System

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Episode 198 - NVC: Paying Attention to Needs

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Episode 197 - NVC Life-serving vs. Life-alienating

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Episode 196 - Four Components of an NVC Expression and Moving Toward Connection

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Episode 195 - Feelings vs. Evaluations (NVC)

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Episode 194 - Emotional Myth, Pt. 8

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Episode 193 - Why Should I Use Nonviolent Communication

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Episode 192 - Nonviolent Communication: A conversation with Lindsay

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Episode 191 - Needs and Emotion Vocabulary

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Episode 190 - A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Recap

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Episode 189 - Emotional Myths, Pt. 7

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Episode 188 - DBT: Radical Acceptance, Willingness and Everyday Acceptance Skills

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Episode 187 - DBT Skills: IMPROVE, Self-soothing, and Using Pros and Cons

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Episode 186 - Emotional Myths, Pt. 6

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Episode 185 - Distress Tolerance ACCEPTS Skills

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Episode 184 - Emotional Myths, Pt. 5

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Episode 183 - Two Book Recommendations

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Episode 182- Emotional Myths, Pt. 4

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Episode 181 - Distress Tolerance; crisis survival skills

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Episode 180 - Introduction to Distress Tolerance

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Episode 179 - Emotional Myths, Pt. 3

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Episode 178 - Emotional Myths, Pt. 2

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Episode 177 - Emotional Myths, Pt. 1

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Episode 176 - Mood Momentum, Attending to Relationships and Opposite to Emotion to Perpetuate Positive Emotions

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Episode 175 - Building Positive Experiences

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Episode 174 - What are the Barriers to Emotional Regulation?

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Episode 173 - Emotions, Thoughts and Behaviors

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Episode 172 - Emotional Awareness, Continued

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Episode 171 - Designed as Emotional Beings

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Episode 170 - What's the Matter with Emotion

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Episode 169 - F.A.S.T. Skills with Examples

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Episode 168 - Emotional Intelligence, Health and Regulation: An introduction

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Episode 167 - Getting your Objectives Met: DEAR MAN

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Episode 166 - Using GIVE Skills to Build and Keep Healthy Relationships

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Episode 165 - Self-Respect and FAST (interpersonal effectiveness)

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Episode 164 - Obtaining Objectives Skillfully: Understanding priorities and clarifying goals

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Episode 163 - DBT Mindfulness Session (Sort of )

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Episode 162 - An Introduction to Interpersonal Effectiveness

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Episode 161 - Thoughts on Unsolicited Advice

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Episode 160 - The HOW of a Mindfulness Practice

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Episode 159 - The WHAT of a Mindful Practice

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Episode 158 - Mindfulness: The Backbone of DBT

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Episode 157 - DBT: What are your Missing Links?

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Episode 156 - Dialectical Behavior Skills: Analyzing Behavior

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Episode 155 - A Conversation about Spirituality and Mental Health

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Episode 154 - DBT: Skills to improve your life

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Episode 153 - An Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy

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Episode 152 - A Christmas Story

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Episode 151 - Everybody has a Story

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Episode 150 - Holidays, Boundaries and our Stories

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Episode 149 - Polyvagal: Stories follow States

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Episode 148 - Mapping the Nervous System; Holiday Edition

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Episode 147 - Can you detect Neuroception?

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Episode 146 - Your Nervous System, Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal

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Episode 145 - Your Miraculous Nervous System

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Episode 144 - A Conversation about a 3-Part Brain

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Episode 143 - Precision of Language and Highlighting Behavior

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Episode 142 - Carl Jung and I are in sync - at least today

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Episode 141 - Good and Right: What Gives?

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Episode 140 - Parenting: More on Yelling, Mindfulness and Attachment

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Episode 139 - Parents: Why do we yell?

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Episode 138 - Are you MindLESS or MindFULL?

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Episode 137 - Bravery and Truth-telling: A conversation with Lindsay and Kylee

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Episode 136 - Be Brave: A conversation with Kylee

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Episode 135 - Parenting: Try out your Self-Compassion

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Episode 134 - An Exercise to Befriend Your Inner Critic

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Episode 133 - Self Criticism, Neglect, Compassion and Care

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Episode 132 - Creating connection; Just because.

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Episode 131 - Emotional Connection and Influence; I think I got it!

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Episode 130 - More on Control ... and Influence

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Episode 129 - Effective Influence

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Episode 128 - Let's Talk Control vs. Influence

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Episode 127 - It's Not About You: Differentiation and Connection

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Episode 126 - How Do You Relate to Your Adult Children?

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Episode 125 - The Three Circles Feedback Podcast

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Episode 124 Emma Reedy and The Three Circles

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Episode 123 - Three Circles Communication Tool "Other's Circle"

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Episode 122 - The 3 Circles Communication "Relationship Circle"

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Episode 121 - The Three Circles Communication Tool (by Emma Reedy)

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Episode 120 - Stress, Cortisol and Mental Health

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Episode 119 - You can't choose your family

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Episode 118- HSP in Real Life: A conversation with my daughter

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Episode 117 - Sensory Processing Sensitivity (HSP)

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Episode 116 - The Highly Sensitive Person

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Episode 115 - Mindfulness and What it is Not

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Episode 114 - M M M Mindfulness

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Episode 113 - Do We Really Have to Teach Emotions?

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Episode 112 - Generational Trauma and Epigenetics

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Episode 111 - Tuning in to the Feelings of Others

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Episode 110 - Healing from Generational Trauma

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Episode 109 - How Women and Men Experience PTSD/PTEs Differently

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Episode 108 - More on Generational Trauma, Pt. 2

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Episode 107 - Generational Trauma, Pt. 1

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Episode 106 - The Importance of Empathy

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Episode 105 - Conflict of Abuse, Part 2 Abuse (AMA)

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Episode 104 - Conflict or Abuse, Part 1 Conflict (AMA)

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Episode 103 - How to Breakup with Your Therapist (AMA)

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Episode 102 - All Work and No Play & the Giveaway Winners!

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Episode 101 - Play Your Way to Wellness & Giveaway week

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Episode 100 - Reflections on the First 100

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Episode 99 - My Thoughts on Christmas

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Episode 98 - Awareness, Acceptance and Communication with Avoidant Personalities

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Episode 97 - Relationships with Avoidant Attached Partners

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Episode 96 - Insecure Attachment Avoidant Style

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Episode 95 - Competing Attachments, Part 2

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Episode 94 - Micro-anxieties: What can you fix in 5 minutes

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Episode 93 - Relationships and Competing Attachments

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Episode 92 - Empathy, Communication and Needs for Anxious Insecure Attachment

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Episode 91 - Acceptance, Self-Compassion and Anxious Attachment

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Episode 90 - Relationships with the Anxiously Attached

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Episode 89 - The Neuroscience of Attachment

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Episode 88 - Anxious Attachment Style

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Episode 87 - Understanding Attachment Theory

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Episode 86 - The Importance of Emotional Validation

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Episode 85 - What do these words mean to you?

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Episode 84 - Cognitive Dissonance and Naive Realism: The Brain and Being Wrong

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Episode 83 - Why is it so Hard to Admit You are Wrong?

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Episode 82 - A Week of Finding the Good

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Episode 81 - Changing your Brain One Good Thing at a Time

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Episode 80 - Understanding the Importance of Metaphor

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Episode 79 - What it's Like to Have 8 Siblings

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Episode 78 - Automatic Negative Thoughts

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Episode 77 - Cognitive Distortions

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Episode 76 - Self Sabotage: Yes, it's a real thing

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Episode 75 - What is Parent Burnout?

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Episode 74 - Narrative therapy: You can do it at home

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Episode 73 - Finishing up with Grief

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Episode 72 - Grief is Emotional, not Intellectual

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Episode 71 - What's Wrong with Our Grief Narrative?

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Episode 70 - Grief: A Different Perspective

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Episode 69 - Codependency, Part 2

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Episode 68 - A Question about Making Friends and an Introduction on the Topic of Codependency

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Episode 67 - How to Find a Therapist and Information about Self Care

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Episode 66 - Perfect is the Enemy of Good

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Episode 65 - Validation, Self-Validation: How, Who & Why?

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Episode 64 - Criticism and Complaint: Whose problem is it?

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Episode 63 - Question about Increasing Self Awareness

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Episode 62 - Be There for Your Kids

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Episode 61 - Mindfulness Revisted

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Episode 60 - How to Understand your Partner's Perspective

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Episode 59 - Exploring Some Different Aspects of Understanding

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Episode 58 - Hedonia, Eudaimonia, Treadmills and Chasing Happiness

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Episode 57 - The Science of Happiness

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Episode 56 - How Habits and Relationships Intersect

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Episode 55 - Gottman's Four Horsemen

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Episode 54 - Conflict is Inevitable

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Episode 53 - Relationship Conflict

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Episode 52 - It's not you, It's your systems

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I uploaded too early

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Episode 51 - Habits are Better than Goals

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Episode 50 - Setting Boundaries with our Parents

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Episode 49 - Parenting Boundaries

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Episode 48 - Christmas Traditions of Service

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Episode 47 - Communication and Boundary Language

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Episode 46 - Boundaries: What kind of person are you?

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Episode 45 - Boundaries

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Episode 44 - Taking the Week Off

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Episode 43 - Cultivating Gratitude: Happy Thanksgiving

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Episode 42 - Small Changes Matter

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Episode 41 - Stress Management

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Episode 40 - The Difference Between Emotions and Feelings

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Episode 39 - Resilience: How much do you have, and how can you increase it?

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Episode 38 - Resilience: How to Help Young People Foster this Trait

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Episode 37 - Why Resilience is Important for a Happy Life

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Episode 36 - Criticism, Feedback and a Growth Mindset

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Episode 35 - Creating Savoring Rituals for Increased Happiness

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Episode 34 - Five Elements of Well-Being: How hard do you want to work?

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Episode 33 - Parenting: You didn't do it wrong, you just didn't know; and when you know better do better

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Episode 32 - Parenting with the Whole Brain in Mind

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Episode 31 - It's Not Time Management, It's Task Management

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Episode 30 - Stepping into Negative Emotion

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Episode 29 - The Trouble with Worry, Part 4 - Do You Really Owe That

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Episode 28 - The Trouble with Worry, Part 3 - Don't Worry! Be Happy!

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Episode 27 - The Trouble with Worry, Part 2- Nests in Your Hair

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Episode 26 - The Trouble with Worry

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Episode 25 - Processing Emotions

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Episode 24 - Can You Say Hodge Podge?

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Episode 23 - Mood & Food Part 3; What to Eat and Why

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Episode 22 - Morals First: Values Second

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Episode 21 - Mood and Food Part 2; Amino Acids and Mental Health

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Episode 20 - Mood and Food Part 1; Your Brain and Neurotransmitters

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Episode 19 - Parenting Using Love and Logic

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Episode 18 - What Type of Parent are You?

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Episode 17 - Why and How Does Mindfulness Work?

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Episode 16 - Self Awareness to Self Correct

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Episode 15 - Women Helping Women

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Episode 14 - Metaphor. Mindfulness. Movement.

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Life is Like Riding a Bike

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Episode 12 - A Conversation about Pets

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Episode 11 - Journaling - living life twice

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Episode 10 - Mindfulness for Kiddos

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Episode 9 - Moving into Mindfulness

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Episode 8 - Hearing is not Listening

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I used to be a Mommy Martyr, Part 2

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I used to be a Mommy Martyr, Part 1

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Positive Characteristics and Clarifying Values

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Absorbing into Myself

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Movement as an Investment

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In Sanity: A Piece of Mind Introduction Episode

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