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The Intense Mind with Imi Lo — 118 episodes

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1

When Doing Good Feels Pointless: For People Worn Out by Their Own Conscience - with Philosopher Travis Rieder

2

Alan Watts, Wu Wei, and McStoicism: What Popular Philosophy Gets Wrong - with Frank Saunders Jr.

3

Waiting Mode, Anxiety, and Intolerance of Uncertainty (Audio Essay)

4

Imi Lo Who Decides What Is Wrong? Neurodiversity, Diagnosis, and Patient Autonomy - With Dr. Eric Mathison

5

Who Decides What Is Wrong? Neurodiversity, Diagnosis, and Patient Autonomy - With Dr. Eric Mathison

6

Intense and Gifted: The Cost of Performing Normal - Gordon Smith, Imi Lo

7

A Philosopher's Case for Grieving — What Loss Does to the Self | Michael Cholbi & Imi Lo

8

Sensory Sensitivity, Neuroplasticity, and Learning to Trust Yourself | Joey Remenyi

9

Why High IQ People Feel Guilty All The Time (Audio Essay)

10

Gifted Adults and High-Functioning Depression: Not Waving but Drowning (audio essay)

11

Healing Beyond Intellectualizing and the Body Shadow – with Jungian Analyst Erica Lorentz

12

On Productivity Guilt, Play, and the Adults Who Never Learned to Rest – Nadja Rolli

13

Dependency and Denial - with Joe Pawson

14

Gifted and Neurodivergent: Why You Can't Stop Correcting the People You Love (Essay)

15

Existential Depression in Gifted Adults (Audio Essay)

16

(Audio Essay) On Leaving a Toxic Relationship

17

(Audio Essay) Gifted Trauma of Feeling Humiliated

18

Why We Still Feel Lonely - with Philosopher Lars Svendsen

19

Death Anxiety and the Will to Live: Finding Beauty in a Finite Life - with Philosopher Tom Cochrane

20

Your AI Therapist Never Misses You (Audio essay)

21

Beyond Anxious and Avoidant: Can You Actually Heal Your Attachment? - with Jessica Baum

22

The Fear of Being Unproductive (Audio Essay)

23

On Victimhood, Solidarity, and Invisible Suffering - with Dr. Lilie Chouliaraki

24

From Just “Fitting In” to Belonging at Work – Imi Lo, Sarabeth Berk Bickerton

25

Self Sabotaging Stories That Keep Us Stuck (audio essay)

26

Imi's Interview on Make Your Mind Podcast - On Neurodiversity, Emotional Intensity and Sensitivity

27

The Psychology Behind Írrational Rage' (short audio essay)

28

Unfinished (Short Audio Essay)

29

Dream Therapy: What Is Your Dream Telling You? Conversation with Dr. Leslie Ellis

30

Stop Pathologizing Your Intensity - Conversation with Chris Wells, Imi Lo

31

Your Buried Voice - Hermeneutical Injustice and Invisible Childhood Trauma

32

A Danger Which We Do Not Know? Existential Anxiety and Its Philosophical Remedy - Dr. David Rondel, Imi Lo

33

Aging, Dementia, Love, and the Meaning of It All: A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Balfour and Imi Lo

34

Love Languages for the Intense Adult and Gifted Child

35

Can Love Be Addictive? On Bioethics, AI, and Human Connection - Dr. Brian Earp, Imi Lo

36

Tired of Toxic Positivity? A Philosophical Discussion Defending Dark Moods- Dr. Marianna Alessandri, Imi Lo (SPECIAL EPISODE)

37

Loneliness and Finding Connections as a Highly Sensitive Gifted Man- Eric Windhorst, Imi Lo

38

Emotional Blackmail: Setting Boundaries with Parents Who Can't Help It (Audio Essay)

39

AI Therapist: Research Says AI Does Empathy Better Than Human - Dr. David Burns, Author of 'Feeling Good'

40

Limerence: Have You Ever Been Obsessively in Love? A Psychoanalytic take with Nicole Matusow

41

Limerence and BPD Limerence: "Why Can't I Let Them Go?"

42

A Love Letter to the Differently Employed

43

Defensive Parents- Coping with 'the Slam' (Audio Essay)

44

Invisible Loss, The Deadliest, Loneliest Scream (Short Audio)

45

Existential Dread— Not Choosing Is Still a Choice? (Audio Essay)

46

Why we ask why (short audio essay)

47

Gifted & Traumatized: Navigating the Intersection of Intensity - Patty Gently, Imi Lo

48

Is Reason Enough? Exploring Logic-Based Therapy- Dr. Elliot Cohen, Imi Lo

49

Yearning for a Soulmate (Short Audio Essay)

50

Growing up with an Unstable Parent (Audio Essay)

51

Abusive Father, Wounded Son (Audio Essay)

52

Loving The Child They Could Not See (Short Audio Essay)

53

Stop, then Create (Short Audio Essay)

54

Fear of Abandonment: The Child in You is Still Waiting (Audio Essay)

55

Healing Intergenerational Trauma and Bonding with Immigrant Parents- with Amy Yip

56

"Everything was NOT okay" - On Self-directed Anger (Short Audio Essay)

57

(Audio Essay) High-functioning Autism: Myths and Misunderstanding

58

Torn Between Passions? Embrace Your Many Career Identities - with Dr Sarabeth Berk

59

High-functioning Autism- Different, Not Less (Audio Essay)

60

"You are too much, or are you?"- 5 mins inspiration

61

Understanding Gifted Kids Who Don't Fit In- Fiona Smith, Imi Lo

62

Finding Love When You Have High IQ

63

Reasons to be Alive (Short Audio Essay)

64

Structural Dissociation and the Mask of ‘High-functioning’ (Audio Essay)

65

(Audio Essay) Loving Someone with BPD

66

Minimalist Lifestyle and Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) - Gabe Bult, Imi Lo

67

(Audio Essay) Projective Identification: The Silent Narcissistic Abuse that Haunts you

68

(Audio Essay) Childhood Trauma, Splitting, Complex Trauma and Dissociation

69

(Audio Essay) The Unexpected Gifts Inside Borderline Personality

70

When Things Fall Apart (Short Audio)

71

INFJ/ INFP: Unlock Your Potential and Overcome Shame- Lauren Sapala and Imi Lo

72

Toxic Family: 5 Toxic Family Dynamics (Audio Essay)

73

A Mother with BPD: What can you do now? (Audio Essay)

74

Neurodivergent traits, giftedness, sensory sensitivities, sharing our personal experiences- Dr. Nicole A. Tetreault and Imi Lo

75

You are not your parent (Short Audio Essay)

76

(Audio Essay) Haters Gonna Hate’- Rising Above Attacks as an Intense, Gifted, Highly Sensitive Person

77

Highly sensitive, Intense and Gifted: Dating, Working, Thriving in a Neurotypical World - Abel Abelson and Imi Lo

78

Overcontrol: Can Perfectionism Ruin Your Sex Life? - With Dr. Tom Murray

79

Gifted Adults, Gifted Trauma: When Pain & Brilliance Collide. Jennifer Harvey Sallin, Intergifted, Imi Lo

80

'I didn't know my father had autism' - an Unexpected Bliss Road with Martha Engber, Imi Lo

81

What is Quiet BPD? BPD Empathy: Do People with BPD have high or low Empathy? Imi Lo and Kayla from On the Line

82

(Audio Essay) Parentification Trauma as a Highly Sensitive and Empathic Person

83

(Audio Essay) Emotional Intensity: 5 Signs You May Be an Intense, Sensitive, Neuro-atypical Person

84

Quick Announcement about the Audio Essays :)

85

‘Will my therapist hurt me, too?’ On Relational Anxiety and Fragile Clients- Dr. Jon Frederickson is back!!

86

Anxious Attachment and the Anxious x Avoidant Pair- Jessica Baum and Imi Lo

87

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

88

On Transgenerational Trauma and, Defense Mechanisms and Inherited Pain- With Dr. Atlas Galit

89

Getting Over Grief... Or Not. -Dr. Mary Lamia and Imi Lo

90

Deep Knowing: Trusting in Something Bigger - Kim Hermanson and Imi Lo

91

Giftedness, Existential Depression and Advice for the Gifted - Lisa Van Gamert, the Gifted Guru.

92

Highly Sensitive Children, Highly Sensitive Parents? - with Author Melissa Schwartz

93

The Enneagram: Nine Ways of Surviving in the World- Beatrice Chestnut and Imi Lo

94

A Clinician’s Unique View to Feeling Down- With Dr. Pete Kelly

95

How To Amend Your Sibling Relationship Before It’s Too Late — Dr. Avidan Milevsky and Imi Lo

96

OCPD, the Driven Personality and the Healthy Compulsive — Jungian Analyst Gary Trosclair and Imi Lo

97

Sensitive on the Inside and Tough on the Outside? Everything you need to know about ‘Overcontrol’ — Hope Arnold with Imi Lo

98

Childfree Living: On Choosing Different and Grieving the Life We Had Left Behind - Eric and Melissa Jones

99

Sex Unshackled! Sapiosexual, Demisexual, Asexual, Kinks, BDSM

100

*SPECIAL EPISODE* A Deep Dive Into BPD, Splitting, Projection, Anxiety and Therapy - Jon Frederickson and Imi Lo

101

Five Ways of Being Intense— A fun chat about overexcitabilities, giftedness, and more

102

Do you Have Thin Skin? What Does That Mean for Your Health, Relationships and Spirituality?

103

Deconstructing Anxiety: What is Your Core Fear That Underlies Everything?

104

Listen to The Words of Your Soul: a Poet’s Guide to the Artist’s Block - with Julia Fehrenbacher

105

*SPECIAL EPISODE* Existential Crisis, Dreams and Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life - with James Hollis and Imi Lo

106

All About Fear, Anxiety and Panic - Karla McLaren with Imi Lo

107

On Emotional Eating, Perfectionism, Nice Boys/ Gals Syndrome- Karen Koenig with Imi Lo

108

*SPECIAL EPISODE* What if Normal Therapy Doesn't Work? Should You Try to Control Your Emotions? Steven Hayes with Imi Lo

109

‘Too Much and not Enough’— Embracing Intensity, ADHD and Giftedness with Aurora Holtzman

110

Processing Intense Emotions with Arts - Conversation With Artist Alessia Camoirano Bruges

111

What If You Are An Empath? What Are Your Emotions Telling You? Imi Lo with Karla McLaren

112

Being Uncommon: How Your MBTI Personality Type Changes The Experience of Giftedness- with Willem Kuipers

113

ADHD And How to Thrive When You Are Out-Of-Sync With The World- with Rebecca Champ

114

Have You Been Harmed By Cruel Parenting? Conversation with Eric Maisel

115

How To Thrive As A Creative Introvert?  Conversation with Cat Rose

116

Why Do Sensitive and Creative People Get Depressed? Conversation with Douglas Eby

117

I Was Born Intense and Sensitive. Now What? Conversation with Melissa Schwartz

118

Welcome to Eggshell Transformations! - A Teaser