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🎧 Episode 386: Do I Matter to You?
Episode 385: We Let the Cards Decide: What happens when neither of us knows what we're going to talk about?
Episode 384: The in-between: "I don't even think I'm angry. I think I just need it to be bad enough that I feel okay about going.
Episode 383: Inside the Therapy Room
Episode 382: What You Can’t See About Yourself
Episode 381: When There Is No Redo: Grieving What We Can’t Get Back
Episode 380: Validation vs Agreement: “I understand why that hurt you” is not the same as “I agree with everything you believe about what happened.”
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