All Episodes
Thanks for Sharing — 216 episodes
Episode 379: What do you need? What do you want?
Episode 378: "I Know It's Best to Just Move On":
Episode 377: Who Am I? Why We Lose Ourselves and How We Find Our Way Back
Episode 376: Narcissistic Neglect
Episode 375: The Basics of Recovery: A conversation on early recovery
Episode 374: What Did Touch Teach You?
Episode 373: When You Change, Your Relationships Change
Episode 372: Now What? Developing the Second Response:
Episode 371: The Gap Between Reaction and Response
Episode 370: Why knowing isn't enough
Episode 369: If I Can't Be Loved, I'll Be Needed
Episode 368: All Behavior Makes Sense
Episode 367: Beliefs, Values, and the road back to yourself: What if some of the beliefs running your life were never actually chosen by you?
Episode 366: Friendship, Authenticity and the People Who Stay: Why is friendship — truly lasting, genuinely honest friendship — so hard to find and harder to keep?
Episode 365: The Boundary Hangover: Why You Feel Worse After Setting Limits (And What's Actually Happening)
Episode 364: When Everything You Believed Stops Making Sense
Episode 363: Building Bandwidth in Difficult Relationships
Episode 362: Why We Lie and How to Start Being Honest
Episode 361: Patriarchy, Relationships, and Healing (Guest Appearance on The Wholeness Network)
Episode 360: When Healing Feels Incomplete
Episode 359: Why does America respond differently to scandals like the Epstein case?
Episode 358: Why He Shuts Down When Emotions Show Up
Episode 357 | Episode 5 in the Pornography Use, Addiction & Healing Series:
Episode 356: Rebuilding After Secrecy: Why Sobriety Alone Doesn’t Fix the Relationship
Episode 355: Porn, Compartmentalization, and the Secret Self
Episode 354: Porn, Predictability, and Relational Capacity: Porn is often framed as a private habit or a personal struggle. But its impact is rarely private.
Episode 353: What Porn Actually Does to the Brain: Porn isn’t just about sex, it’s about the brain.
Episode 352: The world feels divided — but the real damage is happening between us.
Episode 351: When Answers Become a Defense: How Rationalization Keeps Us Comfortable...and Stuck: Most avoidance doesn’t sound defensive.
Episode 350: When you try to talk… and somehow you become the problem.
Episode 349: Letting the Year Unfold : What if the new year isn’t asking you to decide anything?
Episode 348: What we're carrying forward, and what we're putting down: Not every year ends with closure. Some years end with clarity, and some don’t.
Episode 347: Navigating Uneven Healing in Couples
Episode 346: Identity Shifts and Recovery
Episode 345: 🎙️The Discomfort Paradox: Why the Hardest Parts of Healing Set You Free
Episode 344: The Family Roles We Inherit
Episode 343: Who Do You Think You Are?: “Who do you think you are?” Sometimes that question feels like an accusation — but what if it’s actually an invitation?
Episode 342: Healing Emotional Pain
Episode 341 We Need to Talk about Jeffrey Epstein
🔐 Episode 340: The Green Flags in Relationships No One Talks About
Episode 339: But is it good sex?
Episode 338: The Loneliness Epidemic: How we lost connection
Episode 337: 🌿 Trauma bonds keep us tied to relationships that hurt us—relationships we know aren’t healthy, but somehow feel impossible to leave. 💔
Episode 336: Raising Sons and Young Men
Episode 335: Rage isn’t the same as anger—and knowing the difference can change your relationships.
Episode 334: Hard conversations don’t have to break connection—they can build it. 💬
Episode 333: Netflix Adolescents - Part 2
Episode 332: Netflix's Adolescents - Part 1
Episode 331: 🎯 Are you unknowingly abandoning or betraying yourself?
Episode 330: 💔 What happens when men experience betrayal trauma?
Episode 329: 🎙️ Is relapse the end of recovery—or the beginning of something deeper? What if every setback is actually an invitation to build a stronger path forward?
Episode 328: 🎙 From Addiction to Intimacy: A Conversation with Josh & Charlene Lewis
Episode 327: Beyond the Kiss Cam: The Betrayed. The Betrayer. The Truth.
Episode 326: 🎧 Anxiety isn’t just in your head. It’s in your body, your past, your personality—and often, your midlife wake-up call.
Episode 325: 🎯 You’re not in trouble—you’re just triggered.
Episode 324: Why Men Are Afraid of Women
The Art of Being Yourself Without Losing Connection
Episdoe 322: Relationships Can Be An Algorithm
Episode 321: The Business of Mental Health: What Happens When Therapy Goes Corporate.
Episode 320: Self-sabotage in Recovery
Episode 319: Primary and Secondary Emotions
Episode 318: Sex Addiction
Episode 317: Talking to teens about sex in the digital age.
Episode 316: First-order Change vs. Second-order change
Episode 315: Healing Sex Addiction and Betrayal Trauma as a couple (part two)
Episode 314: Healing Sex Addiction and Betrayal Trauma for couples
Episode 313: Rebuilding Trust
Episode 312: Reclaiming Wants and Needs
Episode 311: Navigating Safety
Episode 310: Gentle Parenting
Episode 309: Happy Anniversary to Us!
Episode 308: Bad Therapists - Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt
Episode 307: Bad Relationship Advice
Episode 306: Healing Addiction and Enmeshment with Erin Snow
Episode 305: Understanding Attachment
Episode 304: Resistance and Dissent
Episode 303: Dishonesty and Deceit
Episode 302: The Importance of Fathers
Episode 301: Shock and Awe and the Work Ahead
Episode 300: Interview with my daughters
Episode 299: The History of Social Work
Episode 298: Autonomy and Connection
Episode 297: Understanding the shooting of the UHC CEO and the public response.
Episode 296: Jackie goes on a cruise, healthy shame, shamelessness and emotions.
Episode 295: Induced, carried, and core emotions
Episode 294: Relationship Recovery
Episode 293: PTSD and CPTSD
Episode 292: Normalcy Bias
Episode 291: Coercive Control
Episode 290: The Drama Triangle
Episode 289: Masculinity Crisis Part One
Episode 287: Book Club with Jackie and Rachel
Episode 286: Insurance and Therapy
Episode 285: Emotional Availability
Episode 284: Healthy and Unhealthy Anger
Episode 283: Emotional Affairs
Episode 282: Ownership v Partnership, Part Two
Episode 281: Emotional Labor
Episode 246: Childhood Emotional Neglect (Rerun)
Episode 280: Family Reunions
Episode 279: Betrayal Blindness
Episode 278: The Ashley Madison Hack
Episode 277: Ownership vs. Partnership
Episode 276: Healing Insecure Attachment
Episode 275: Birthday wants and needs
Episode 274: Myths about Sexuality
Episode 173: The Impact of Family Dysfunction (rerun)
Episode 273: Intimacy and Attachment
Episode 272: George Michael and Freedom!
Episode 271: Compartmentalization
Episode 270: Certainty and Intimacy
Episode 269: Disordered Intimacy
Episode 268: Triggers
Episode 267: Pain and Sadness are not the Enemy
Episode 266: Reconstruction
Episode 265: Trauma-informed therapy
Episode 264: Thoughts After Two Funerals
Episode 263: How To Stop Watching Porn
Episode 262: Porn Addiction, Sex Addiction, and Treatment
Episode 261: Toxic Family Systems Within Religious Structures with Jackie and Rachel
Episode 260: Arousal Template part two
Episode 259: Red Flags with your therapist
Episode 258: Reparenting
Episode 257: Arousal Template
Episode 256: Spiritual Abuse and Trauma
Episode 255: Jackie and Rachel talk Shiny Happy People
Episode 254: Finding Your Inner Adult
Episode 253: Deconstruction continued and with a wider lens
Episode 252: Healthy Family Systems
Episode 251: Spiritual Deconstruction
Episode 250: Disengaged Families
Episode 249: Enmeshed Families
Episode 248: Structural Family Therapy
Episode 247: Attachment Styles and Issues
Episode 246: Childhood Emotional Neglect
Episode 245: The How Tos on Developing a Solid Sense of Self
Episode 244: Self Care
Episode 243: May I be I is the only prayer
Episode 242: The physical, physiological, neurological, and psychology of self
Episode 241: Overcoming Obstacles to Develop A Solid Sense of Self
Episode 240: Developing a Functional Sense of Self
Episode 239: When Childhood Trauma Shows Up in our Adult Lives
Episode 238: Courtship Dimensions
Episode 237: The 100 deadliest days of Summer
Episode 236: Issues that Impact Women
Episode 235: Shared Moments
Episode 234: Public Veridicts & History
Episode 0233: A Conversation on Domestic Violence
Episode 232: Grievance Stories and Gun Violence
Episode 231: Model for Change & Expected Obstacles
Episode 230: Trauma-informed vsTrauma work
Episode 229: Did you Know?
Episode 228: Courtship Dimensions
Episode 227: Forgiving Ourselves and claiming our healing
Episode 226: The Limits of Forgiveness
Episode 225: Compassionate Reparenting
Episode 224: Blame and Forgiveness
Episode 223: Decreasing Defense Mechanisms
Episode 222: Four Essentials to Grieving
Episode 221: A Current Cost of Emotional Repression
Episode 220: The Gifts of Grieving
Episode 219: Fully Feeling
Episode 218: Why Talk About The Past?
Episode 217: Heartwork
Episode216:Therapy meets the Christmas songs
Episode 215: The Unfinished Business
Episode 214: Choice: is it really that simple?
Episode 213: Generativity
Episode 212: Meaning
Episode 211: Trust
Episode 210: Responsiveness
Episode 209: Commitment
Episode 208: Courage
Episode 207: Honesty
Episode206: Burnout
Episode 205: Openness
Episode 204: Responsibility
Episode 203: Spirituality
Episode 202: Awareness
Episode201: Acceptance
Episode 200: A Year of Growth
Episode199: Endings and Beginnings
Episode 198: 2020 ugh!
Episode 197: Reclaiming the Self
Episode 196: Not this
Episode 195: Haunting & Healing
Episode 194: Healing Betrayal Trauma
Episode193: Knowing and Understanding Your Trauma Response
Episode192: All happy families
Episode191: Knowing your trauma response
Episode 190: The Pain of Betrayal Trauma
Episode189: Sabbath
Episode 188: Maslow's theory of motivation and the belief window
Episode 187: Optimal Recovery
Episode186: Getting what I want and being relational
Episode185: Self-expansion & Relationships
Episode 184: Components of Sexual Intimacy
Episode 183: EFT: Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Episode 182: Partner vs Power
Episode 181: The Times They Are A Changing
Episode 180: Why we elect Narcissists and Sociopaths
Episode 179: Politics for the people
Episode: 178 Living With Intent
Episode: 177 Drama Triangle
Episode 176: Are you crying?
Episode 175: Self-Compassion
Episode 174: Being Present In Our Relationships
Episode 173: The Impact of Family Dysfunction
Episode: 172 Emotional Regulation
Episode 171: Acting On Anger
Episode 170: What Needs To Continue
Episode 169: Loss & Hope
Episode 168: Improving Decision Making Skills
Episode 167: Freefall & Uncertainty
Episode 166: What is Therapy?
Episode 165: Treating OCD with Success