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The Intense Mind with Imi Lo — 118 episodes
When Doing Good Feels Pointless: For People Worn Out by Their Own Conscience - with Philosopher Travis Rieder
Alan Watts, Wu Wei, and McStoicism: What Popular Philosophy Gets Wrong - with Frank Saunders Jr.
Waiting Mode, Anxiety, and Intolerance of Uncertainty (Audio Essay)
Imi Lo Who Decides What Is Wrong? Neurodiversity, Diagnosis, and Patient Autonomy - With Dr. Eric Mathison
Who Decides What Is Wrong? Neurodiversity, Diagnosis, and Patient Autonomy - With Dr. Eric Mathison
Intense and Gifted: The Cost of Performing Normal - Gordon Smith, Imi Lo
A Philosopher's Case for Grieving — What Loss Does to the Self | Michael Cholbi & Imi Lo
Sensory Sensitivity, Neuroplasticity, and Learning to Trust Yourself | Joey Remenyi
Why High IQ People Feel Guilty All The Time (Audio Essay)
Gifted Adults and High-Functioning Depression: Not Waving but Drowning (audio essay)
Healing Beyond Intellectualizing and the Body Shadow – with Jungian Analyst Erica Lorentz
On Productivity Guilt, Play, and the Adults Who Never Learned to Rest – Nadja Rolli
Dependency and Denial - with Joe Pawson
Gifted and Neurodivergent: Why You Can't Stop Correcting the People You Love (Essay)
Existential Depression in Gifted Adults (Audio Essay)
(Audio Essay) On Leaving a Toxic Relationship
(Audio Essay) Gifted Trauma of Feeling Humiliated
Why We Still Feel Lonely - with Philosopher Lars Svendsen
Death Anxiety and the Will to Live: Finding Beauty in a Finite Life - with Philosopher Tom Cochrane
Your AI Therapist Never Misses You (Audio essay)
Beyond Anxious and Avoidant: Can You Actually Heal Your Attachment? - with Jessica Baum
The Fear of Being Unproductive (Audio Essay)
On Victimhood, Solidarity, and Invisible Suffering - with Dr. Lilie Chouliaraki
From Just “Fitting In” to Belonging at Work – Imi Lo, Sarabeth Berk Bickerton
Self Sabotaging Stories That Keep Us Stuck (audio essay)
Imi's Interview on Make Your Mind Podcast - On Neurodiversity, Emotional Intensity and Sensitivity
The Psychology Behind Írrational Rage' (short audio essay)
Unfinished (Short Audio Essay)
Dream Therapy: What Is Your Dream Telling You? Conversation with Dr. Leslie Ellis
Stop Pathologizing Your Intensity - Conversation with Chris Wells, Imi Lo
Your Buried Voice - Hermeneutical Injustice and Invisible Childhood Trauma
A Danger Which We Do Not Know? Existential Anxiety and Its Philosophical Remedy - Dr. David Rondel, Imi Lo
Aging, Dementia, Love, and the Meaning of It All: A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Balfour and Imi Lo
Love Languages for the Intense Adult and Gifted Child
Can Love Be Addictive? On Bioethics, AI, and Human Connection - Dr. Brian Earp, Imi Lo
Tired of Toxic Positivity? A Philosophical Discussion Defending Dark Moods- Dr. Marianna Alessandri, Imi Lo (SPECIAL EPISODE)
Loneliness and Finding Connections as a Highly Sensitive Gifted Man- Eric Windhorst, Imi Lo
Emotional Blackmail: Setting Boundaries with Parents Who Can't Help It (Audio Essay)
AI Therapist: Research Says AI Does Empathy Better Than Human - Dr. David Burns, Author of 'Feeling Good'
Limerence: Have You Ever Been Obsessively in Love? A Psychoanalytic take with Nicole Matusow
Limerence and BPD Limerence: "Why Can't I Let Them Go?"
A Love Letter to the Differently Employed
Defensive Parents- Coping with 'the Slam' (Audio Essay)
Invisible Loss, The Deadliest, Loneliest Scream (Short Audio)
Existential Dread— Not Choosing Is Still a Choice? (Audio Essay)
Why we ask why (short audio essay)
Gifted & Traumatized: Navigating the Intersection of Intensity - Patty Gently, Imi Lo
Is Reason Enough? Exploring Logic-Based Therapy- Dr. Elliot Cohen, Imi Lo
Yearning for a Soulmate (Short Audio Essay)
Growing up with an Unstable Parent (Audio Essay)
Abusive Father, Wounded Son (Audio Essay)
Loving The Child They Could Not See (Short Audio Essay)
Stop, then Create (Short Audio Essay)
Fear of Abandonment: The Child in You is Still Waiting (Audio Essay)
Healing Intergenerational Trauma and Bonding with Immigrant Parents- with Amy Yip
"Everything was NOT okay" - On Self-directed Anger (Short Audio Essay)
(Audio Essay) High-functioning Autism: Myths and Misunderstanding
Torn Between Passions? Embrace Your Many Career Identities - with Dr Sarabeth Berk
High-functioning Autism- Different, Not Less (Audio Essay)
"You are too much, or are you?"- 5 mins inspiration
Understanding Gifted Kids Who Don't Fit In- Fiona Smith, Imi Lo
Finding Love When You Have High IQ
Reasons to be Alive (Short Audio Essay)
Structural Dissociation and the Mask of ‘High-functioning’ (Audio Essay)
(Audio Essay) Loving Someone with BPD
Minimalist Lifestyle and Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) - Gabe Bult, Imi Lo
(Audio Essay) Projective Identification: The Silent Narcissistic Abuse that Haunts you
(Audio Essay) Childhood Trauma, Splitting, Complex Trauma and Dissociation
(Audio Essay) The Unexpected Gifts Inside Borderline Personality
When Things Fall Apart (Short Audio)
INFJ/ INFP: Unlock Your Potential and Overcome Shame- Lauren Sapala and Imi Lo
Toxic Family: 5 Toxic Family Dynamics (Audio Essay)
A Mother with BPD: What can you do now? (Audio Essay)
Neurodivergent traits, giftedness, sensory sensitivities, sharing our personal experiences- Dr. Nicole A. Tetreault and Imi Lo
You are not your parent (Short Audio Essay)
(Audio Essay) Haters Gonna Hate’- Rising Above Attacks as an Intense, Gifted, Highly Sensitive Person
Highly sensitive, Intense and Gifted: Dating, Working, Thriving in a Neurotypical World - Abel Abelson and Imi Lo
Overcontrol: Can Perfectionism Ruin Your Sex Life? - With Dr. Tom Murray
Gifted Adults, Gifted Trauma: When Pain & Brilliance Collide. Jennifer Harvey Sallin, Intergifted, Imi Lo
'I didn't know my father had autism' - an Unexpected Bliss Road with Martha Engber, Imi Lo
What is Quiet BPD? BPD Empathy: Do People with BPD have high or low Empathy? Imi Lo and Kayla from On the Line
(Audio Essay) Parentification Trauma as a Highly Sensitive and Empathic Person
(Audio Essay) Emotional Intensity: 5 Signs You May Be an Intense, Sensitive, Neuro-atypical Person
Quick Announcement about the Audio Essays :)
‘Will my therapist hurt me, too?’ On Relational Anxiety and Fragile Clients- Dr. Jon Frederickson is back!!
Anxious Attachment and the Anxious x Avoidant Pair- Jessica Baum and Imi Lo
Can we have a ‘too good’ parent? The unconscious guilt that holds us back and various Object Relations topics- Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler and Imi Lo
On Transgenerational Trauma and, Defense Mechanisms and Inherited Pain- With Dr. Atlas Galit
Getting Over Grief... Or Not. -Dr. Mary Lamia and Imi Lo
Deep Knowing: Trusting in Something Bigger - Kim Hermanson and Imi Lo
Giftedness, Existential Depression and Advice for the Gifted - Lisa Van Gamert, the Gifted Guru.
Highly Sensitive Children, Highly Sensitive Parents? - with Author Melissa Schwartz
The Enneagram: Nine Ways of Surviving in the World- Beatrice Chestnut and Imi Lo
A Clinician’s Unique View to Feeling Down- With Dr. Pete Kelly
How To Amend Your Sibling Relationship Before It’s Too Late — Dr. Avidan Milevsky and Imi Lo
OCPD, the Driven Personality and the Healthy Compulsive — Jungian Analyst Gary Trosclair and Imi Lo
Sensitive on the Inside and Tough on the Outside? Everything you need to know about ‘Overcontrol’ — Hope Arnold with Imi Lo
Childfree Living: On Choosing Different and Grieving the Life We Had Left Behind - Eric and Melissa Jones
Sex Unshackled! Sapiosexual, Demisexual, Asexual, Kinks, BDSM
*SPECIAL EPISODE* A Deep Dive Into BPD, Splitting, Projection, Anxiety and Therapy - Jon Frederickson and Imi Lo
Five Ways of Being Intense— A fun chat about overexcitabilities, giftedness, and more
Do you Have Thin Skin? What Does That Mean for Your Health, Relationships and Spirituality?
Deconstructing Anxiety: What is Your Core Fear That Underlies Everything?
Listen to The Words of Your Soul: a Poet’s Guide to the Artist’s Block - with Julia Fehrenbacher
*SPECIAL EPISODE* Existential Crisis, Dreams and Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life - with James Hollis and Imi Lo
All About Fear, Anxiety and Panic - Karla McLaren with Imi Lo
On Emotional Eating, Perfectionism, Nice Boys/ Gals Syndrome- Karen Koenig with Imi Lo
*SPECIAL EPISODE* What if Normal Therapy Doesn't Work? Should You Try to Control Your Emotions? Steven Hayes with Imi Lo
‘Too Much and not Enough’— Embracing Intensity, ADHD and Giftedness with Aurora Holtzman
Processing Intense Emotions with Arts - Conversation With Artist Alessia Camoirano Bruges
What If You Are An Empath? What Are Your Emotions Telling You? Imi Lo with Karla McLaren
Being Uncommon: How Your MBTI Personality Type Changes The Experience of Giftedness- with Willem Kuipers
ADHD And How to Thrive When You Are Out-Of-Sync With The World- with Rebecca Champ
Have You Been Harmed By Cruel Parenting? Conversation with Eric Maisel
How To Thrive As A Creative Introvert? Conversation with Cat Rose
Why Do Sensitive and Creative People Get Depressed? Conversation with Douglas Eby
I Was Born Intense and Sensitive. Now What? Conversation with Melissa Schwartz
Welcome to Eggshell Transformations! - A Teaser