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The Overwhelmed Brain — 643 episodes

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1

Moving forward through loss

2

When those we love die

3

The "It's not my fault" apology

4

Making hard decisions when you're not sure what's true

5

The ten components that make up a healthy, long-lasting relationship

6

The bare minimum needed for any close relationship

7

Should I reveal my past to a potential new partner

8

Are these old emotional wounds or something real happening now?

9

The on again off again relationship and other challenging topics

10

Some people don't want you to be yourself

11

How to be direct about someone's hurtful behavior without being confrontational

12

Always take what sounds like a threat seriously

13

The past is the worst place to ruminate

14

When good enough is much less than you want to settle for

15

They do wrong, you get blamed

16

When what you did is always thrown back in your face

17

Life and relationship questions you may want the answers to

18

Are you the only one keeping the friendship going?

19

The specific steps some people take to manipulate you

20

The direct way to communicate with a passive-aggressive person

21

Avoid taking on the pain and suffering of others

22

The aggressive accuser blaming you for things you didn't do

23

Self-hate does not come from you

24

This doesn't have to be as good as it gets

25

Stop blaming yourself for your stupid decisions

26

The traps some people set for us by playing the victim

27

8 myths about life and relationships

28

Keeping yourself unintentionally limited and stuck

29

When nothing is that great and you think you can't do anything about it

30

When you're about to lose your sh*t

31

The five words that will change your life

32

His ex is unsafe for our relationship

33

Constantly accused for things you didn't do

34

How do I raise my kids without completely screwing them up?

35

What you don't bring up will come up

36

It's in some people's nature to bring you down and drain your energy

37

Wanting more than friendship when they don't

38

The growing resentment of people and circumstances you just can't accept

39

The most empowering question to build your self-confidence

40

Everything is good except the idea of marriage

41

My abusive ex wants me to sit next to him at our child's wedding

42

Why is finding and connecting with others so darn hard sometimes?

43

When it's always your fault

44

The childhood trauma we try to leave in the past

45

The intense pain, longing, and pining over the one who left

46

Waiting and waiting for others to change

47

10 Life lessons that will help you in your pursuit of happiness

48

How do I know when I'm ready to love again?

49

The giant waste of time you spent with someone or someone spent with you

50

The formula for making hard decisions

51

What's the real reason you keep getting into "those" kinds of relationships?

52

Did a pedophile groom her daughter into marriage?

53

The fears and insecurities that push away those who get too close

54

Are you giving away your power?

55

The way we tell others to go away may make them stay

56

The wife who seems unfazed by her husband's family health

57

From dark to light - the path to courage

58

Every opportunity offers a choice to stay the same or change forever

59

Constant bickering back and forth

60

You're stuck and there's nothing you can do about it

61

When your best intentions turn into their disappointment

62

Is that really you inside your head?

63

Some people are a black hole of suck all your life then they're gone

64

Those who never follow through what they say they're going to do

65

When you want to be more than friends

66

When you should avoid making decisions with lasting consequences

67

Life isn't exactly fulfilling when you are holding on to upset toward someone

68

Stay in control or let it go?

69

The games our loved ones play

70

What is love?

71

Never put your faith in anyone who makes you feel unworthy

72

When every argument is petty and unresolved

73

The big life lessons that can change everything for the better

74

Am I really the problem?

75

Should payback for bad behavior be a relationship norm?

76

Decluttering the overwhelmed brain

77

When empathy is used against you

78

What can keep you stuck with the same results over and over again

79

Washing your hands of a problem that won't go away

80

The pressure of sex and expectations in an established relationship

81

Feeling like you have no choice but to submit to ungrateful, uncaring people

82

The partner who likes things as they are when you're just miserable

83

The people who avoid you

84

The judgments you have about others that keep you unhappy

85

How your coping mechanisms may be interfering with your happiness

86

The massive, impossible, overwhelming circumstances that make life feel hopeless

87

Can you heal from the big reveal of your partner's past?

88

Those "Nothing" people when you ask what's wrong

89

The family bonds that require boundaries

90

Arguing your way to understanding

91

The bonds that never seem to end

92

When your relationships aren't exactly high quality or authentic

93

What to do when someone you care about shows more excitement about their interests than you

94

When people treat you as you were, not as you are

95

When you love someone so much it doesn't matter how much they hurt you

96

Can we get past the issues that divide us

97

Dealing with hurtful people who won't change

98

I didn't ask to be born and I don't want to be here

99

The people who don't grow may never accept your growth

100

Can an unempathetic person develop empathy?

101

Obsession and regret - when you just can't stop thinking about what happened

102

The part of you that you don't want others to see

103

Moving out of a full life of toxic family

104

Relationship challenges, insecurities, and questions

105

What will you sacrifice to be happy?

106

Know your worth

107

The missing ingredient that can sometimes make or break a new relationship

108

The growing, compounding negative emotional energy building up inside you

109

Jumping to conclusions and overreacting

110

Fool me three times, uh, shame on you again

111

You hurt me and now I want you to hurt... forever

112

Trying to connect with the emotionally disconnected person

113

Why do some people have such a short fuse?

114

Should you convince people who don't like or trust you to like or trust you?

115

When shame, guilt, and regret keep you from moving forward

116

Is your fear in control of your life?

117

How we make others feel unworthy without doing anything at all

118

When your lessons come back to test you

119

What if I have no clue who I am?

120

When family believes they know what's best for you

121

When all feels lost and you believe nothing will ever be good again

122

Trying to avoid overwhelm and disappointment while moving toward your goal

123

The inner conflict of tough decisions

124

Can a chronic complainer ever be content?

125

Stuck in the middle of someone else's relationship issues

126

When the new person in your life still has feelings for their ex

127

How do I deal with someone always putting me down?

128

The quirks that might make others judge us

129

Can challenges and conflicts lead to happiness?

130

Am I wasting time thinking it's ever going to get better?

131

When you don't want to accept that thing they do

132

You only get along when you agree they have no flaws

133

Will the long-term lie tear the relationship apart?

134

Should you keep the door open to people who want to close it?

135

Why you can't get through to some people

136

The tiny things that improve your life

137

Challenges come in all shapes and sizes in romantic relationships

138

When friends and family think you're making a bad decision

139

Holding on to guilt

140

Carrying around the past can screw up the present

141

Standing proud in your own worth when others are incapable of seeing it

142

BONUS - Time to sleep

143

The toxic partners of friends and family can make life more challenging

144

Where do you look when you believe this is all there is?

145

Struggling with the fear of death

146

Please get off your phone and pay attention to me

147

When perpetual resentment is the new normal of the relationship

148

Are your most private thoughts yours alone or for others know too?

149

The part of you that can take over when things get tough

150

Things are good and bad and mostly bad until they're good

151

When bad things keep happening to you

152

Asserting yourself without getting aggressive

153

Is it possible to patch things up with family who won't let go of the past?

154

Maintaining a healthy relationship with your therapist, coach, or healer

155

The lessons that can change your life for the better

156

When you're feeling judgmental and critical of those you love

157

Getting through every day you can't stop thinking about what happened in the past

158

Can you stay connected to friends and family that don't share your values?

159

We're told no one can make us feel anything... Yeah right

160

Filtering out the good and bad to clear the way for the great

161

Crawling out of the deep hole of being someone you're not

162

How do you cope with people who can't cope?

163

The direct path to stronger bonds

164

There are good people that do bad things and bad people that do bad things

165

The path to emotionally reconnecting with yourself

166

Sometimes you have no options left so you become depressed

167

When confidence feels impossible

168

Trusting the deeper part of you that is watching out for you

169

The hard steps that lead to happiness and a life worth living

170

How to approach those you know will be upset by what you say

171

Trusting someone to make the right choice

172

Are your feelings wrong?

173

How many strikes do you give someone before they're out?

174

The big, scary choices you might have to make to add more peace and comfort to your life

175

When your happiness depends on and maybe even drains another person

176

When everything bad happens to you and tomorrow will be just as bad or worse

177

Thinking you should have accomplished a lot more by now

178

Don't forget yourself: Taking the leap out of codependent behavior

179

Old coping skills that don't work like they used to

180

Should I accept who they are or move on with my life?

181

Does vulnerability increase love and connection?

182

Getting accustomed to getting older

183

Toxic bonds that might need breaking

184

The next steps in a stuck relationship

185

When you feel like you're not that important to your friends and family

186

Boring, self-absorbed people or maybe you

187

Walking your talk shows you who really wants you to be happy

188

Discovering those buried emotions that you'd like to release

189

It's hard as hell to be vulnerable

190

Where is my thank you? When you don't get acknowledgment for your kindness.

191

The possibility of reconciling with estranged family

192

Have you met the real you?

193

Why it seems impossible to defuse some arguments

194

The choices we make to avoid the choices we don't want to make

195

The risk and reward of being yourself

196

The obligations and responsibilities that can exhaust us

197

Is there really life outside the box or is this all there is?

198

Afraid they'll discover you're a fraud - The Impostor Syndrome

199

Helpful ways to respond to the difficult person

200

The negativity that likes to work its way into your mind and body

201

The beliefs that serve you and the beliefs that don't

202

Punishing yourself for your mistakes

203

I promise this time I'll keep my promise

204

Some people just cannot admit that they are the problem

205

I do so much for them for so little in return

206

When your happy place becomes your misery

207

Not all parents are loving and supportive

208

What's the point of the day to day just to feel depressed and anxious?

209

Stuffing who you are way down can make you numb

210

Giving up happiness because someone holds something over your head

211

Email grab bag 5 - Codependent and stuck - New on the job - Getting a raise - Vague signals while dating

212

Some dysfunctional people don't like when you're functional

213

Is it worth the risk to seek a romantic relationship with a good friend?

214

The toxic relationship ended but I can't forgive myself and move on

215

Putting an end to your own passive aggressive behavior

216

Apologizing to the ex… good idea or bad?

217

Do you let the breadcrumbing toxic family member back in your life?

218

Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

219

Will you ever be good enough?

220

The rut of waiting for someone else to decide before you can move on

221

Carrying around the burden of someone else's secret

222

Getting stalked online and there's something about love you should know

223

When you're "on" too much for others but not enough for yourself

224

Pretending to be the person you're not

225

Stopping the head games

226

When is it time to wean your parents off of you?

227

To compromise, sacrifice, or support no matter what

228

Balancing your life with only those things and people that matter

229

The pressure that builds when you can't let go of the negative emotions

230

Are you judgmental toward people that bother the heck out of you?

231

When you want the greener grass on the other side - the life you want vs the life you have

232

Is there such thing as an instant soul mate or is that the first warning sign of a difficult relationship?

233

Not everything is your fault

234

Does bad behavior ever deserve a free pass?

235

The smile of denial that keeps you feeling miserable

236

Is honoring yourself supposed to destroy relationships?

237

Are you being mean but don't mean to be?

238

Following the path that serves you best even if it feels the worst

239

The pain of loss

240

Stuffing emotions way down there

241

How you can sabotage your own happiness waiting for others to change

242

Questions to ask yourself to get to the deepest layer of repressed emotions

243

How complex does something have to get before you decide to quit?

244

Training yourself ahead of time to deal with difficult people

245

Taking the big leap into self-worth and self-esteem

246

Are difficult people really doing the best they can?

247

Is there an answer to the lying, manipulative child?

248

People can change but what about when they don't or wont?

249

What do you do when you're so tired of the world being against you?

250

Should you be happy letting go of people who are a vortex of misery in your life?

251

The betrayal of relationship trust - Emotional Affairs

252

Does your amazing personality intimidate others?

253

Email Grab Bag 4 - Rising toleration of bad behavior, from victim to victor, porn ruining the relationship

254

The obstacles that block the path to self-worth and happiness

255

What did you sign up for in the relationship?

256

Just how deep do you have to dig to heal unresolved issues?

257

Should you erase every speck of old relationships to focus on new ones?

258

Some people just like to put you down and keep you there

259

Perfectionism is a fantastic procrastination tool that sabotages what you value most

260

Is it me or them? Difficult people that make you think you're the problem

261

Is it selfish to focus on your own personal development when others need your time and energy?

262

Should you be more tolerant of bad behavior when they can't control themselves?

263

How your body image can make you do things you may regret

264

Can dysfunctions be useful?

265

Does it make sense to try and change a controlling person?

266

The best kind of relationship is the one where you can be yourself

267

When you don't want to deal with someone else's fears, worries, and anxiety anymore

268

Sometimes the best healing and growth takes place away from other people

269

The inside the box thinking that keeps your emotional triggers alive

270

What fills the holes left behind when people leave you or die?

271

Is it always necessary to dive into the past to heal old traumas?

272

The part you play when you get terrible results

273

When feelings of inadequacy prevent you from enjoying what's right in front of you

274

Self-reliance, self-respect, and a mindset to go along with it

275

The hidden emotions that may be inside you and you don't know it

276

Closing the door so that you can stop overthinking and start moving forward

277

The Ten Commandments of Personal Power - Part 2

278

The Ten Commandments of Personal Power - Part 1

279

Random romantic relationship questions answered

280

Learning to counter rude and intimidating behavior from others

281

Getting comfortable in your own skin

282

The secret to making passive-aggressive people less aggressive

283

When their sexual history bothers you

284

Every action you take in your life either increases your power or decreases it

285

When the fear of failure stops you from doing anything and everything

286

Laying down the ground rules for the toxic people in your life

287

Making the shift from repeatedly being upset at someone else and letting it go

288

The risk you take by being your authentic self

289

Making the decisions that help you prevent overwhelm

290

How some life choices bring on your own suffering

291

Feeling more secure with your insecurities

292

Learning to control your own reactions and overreactions

293

The path to empowerment is full of risk and reward

294

Arguing as a tool for healing

295

Don't let fear of confrontation make you silent

296

Learning the difference between useful and unuseful emotions will change your level of happiness

297

Loosening the grip emotional pain and suffering can have on you

298

How to avoid making the same mistakes over and over again

299

Choosing between the empowered response and the dysfunctional one

300

The past, present, and future of unpleasant memories

301

Disarming people that disempower you

302

When loved ones reject your reality and replace it with their own

303

Feeling crazy because you don't have the answers

304

Sometimes facing yourself is the only way change can happen

305

Friends and family that try to be helpful but really aren't

306

The pain you sometimes need to go through to increase your quality of life

307

Taking the blame for their behavior

308

When you don't know who you are

309

What to do when the judgments come out of you

310

Can there be peace and balance in an unbalanced relationship?

311

Practicing non-confrontational ways to honor yourself

312

What to do when you're going nowhere

313

The regrets and leftover emotions after someone dies

314

Do people think you're stubborn for honoring your boundaries?

315

Working through those old emotional triggers so that you can stop the PTSD and start living life again

316

The intimacy that happens behind their back

317

When loved ones resist the decisions you need to make for yourself

318

Depression or the blahs shouldn't be a way of life

319

Walking around as an adult with dysfunctions from childhood

320

Email grab bag: Getting ghosted while dating and when you have trouble forgiving someone who wronged you

321

Should commitments always be a forever thing?

322

More on taking a stand to make changes in your life - A peaceful approach or take a risk instead?

323

Email grab bag: Purging awkwardness, the perfect partner, lonely and depressed

324

How to deal with the worries of today and the emotional triggers of every day

325

I can't get you out of my head but I need to so I can start living again

326

Dealing with mean family

327

Sometimes you have to take a stand to make a change in your life, even if you're scared as hell.

328

Your life's purpose does not have to be about you

329

Can love enable those you care about to do bad behavior_

330

When people don't like you

331

When you have to make a big decision about the relationship

332

Waiting for someone else to change so that your life will be better

333

The emotional aftermath of getting free of the narcissistic relationship

334

Why you're not getting a second chance

335

The toxic residue that lingers inside you from people that make you feel bad about yourself

336

Learning that your adult child suffered child sexual abuse

337

When your top values aren't being met, the rest of it falls apart

338

Know and stand by your standards for the healthiest relationships possible

339

When you desperately want an explanation or closure but you can't get it

340

How to feel better about yourself

341

New relationships should not create worry about what it is or isn't

342

Getting comfortable letting go of what no longer serves you

343

Making sure toxic people and toxic environments don't take over your life

344

When social anxiety, fear, and loneliness keep you from doing what you want to do

345

When life seems like an endless series of dead ends

346

The one question to ask yourself when you can't figure out what to do

347

Overcoming a general distrust of people and the benefit of taking risks

348

Am I overreacting or are they just a jerk? And the woman who is the last to know about the family secret

349

When the fear of abandonment keeps you from happiness

350

Those selfish people that don't care if you're hurt by their behavior

351

Bringing the best version of yourself into a world full of fearful people

352

Making impossible decisions

353

How to help yourself and others by accessing your inner wisdom

354

Staying positive while other people get what you want and you don't

355

When it feels like you never get enough from life

356

Keeping old emotional pain out of the new year

357

Keep your power by giving yourself one of the greatest gifts possible

358

Using loved ones as a verbal punching bag

359

How to avoid destroying yourself with guilt

360

Being alone

361

What to do when your self-improvement creates fears and conflict in others

362

What comes out of you when people push you over the edge

363

Establishing boundaries with toxic family

364

"There must be something wrong with me": How you brainwash yourself by reinforcing negative false beliefs

365

Facing the challenge, getting through it, and coming out of it new and improved

366

When others make you feel small

367

Are you inadvertently responsible for your own unhappiness

368

Processing thoughts and emotions through self-guided questions

369

Keeping your power in conversations with controlling, dominating and overpowering people

370

Dealing with the impossible boss and other relationship advice when it comes to job, career and life

371

Jealousy in the relationship

372

When there's insecurity or fear around sex, the entire relationship suffers. And a listener disagrees with my advice

373

Making difficult and sometimes painful decisions that almost always improve your life

374

Enforce your boundaries, keep the balance, stop the compromising, end your suffering and more: Email grab bag episode

375

What you might have to do if the people and situations in your life never improve

376

The big, scary steps that lead to positive change

377

Self-help variety episode: Anxiety, guilt, and people who are worried about their personal life interfering their professional life

378

Changing your habitual negative emotions about the past or future

379

Holding yourself in high regard when others don't

380

When people don't step up in your defense

381

Those intrusive, invading and disturbing thoughts that you try to resist and repress

382

The tough-love principles of living a life without giving away your power

383

When you just can't move forward because of inner conflict

384

The decisions that cause you to lose your power and keep you in a rut

385

You got through the bullying when you were younger but how do you deal with the residual as an adult?

386

When you don't even realize you're giving a free pass to bad behavior: The simple formation and difficult termination of codependent relationships

387

Dealing with those passive aggressive, negative, so hard to be around people that you just hope get it one day

388

BONUS re-release: When Panic Attacks - The Anxiety Episode

389

Utilizing your dysfunctions to work for you instead of against you

390

Criticisms and hurtful comments from others don't apply when you are in alignment with your inner compass

391

When you can't enjoy life because you're always waiting for the other shoe to drop

392

Purging negative emotions as soon as they happen

393

Wanting your partner to just stop doing that thing. Are Jealousy or other feelings creeping in?

394

Dissolving love and connection by repressing thoughts and emotions with those you love

395

Is your compassion killing you? What you think is compassion could be self-destruction

396

When you're told to just accept your partner's emotional affair

397

The regrets and upsets from the past that you just can't seem to get over

398

Always Defending Yourself - Introduction to the Love and Abuse podcast

399

The sacred components of personal boundaries and why you should define and enforce them whenever possible

400

How to create the life you want

401

When tiny compromises lead to resentments

402

When you can't fully commit just in case there's something better

403

When fear is the primary obstacle in your life

404

How family drama can teach you a lot about personal boundaries

405

Part 2 - Making decisions that are right for you and tackling obsession and overthinking once and for all

406

Making decisions that are right for you and tackling obsession and overthinking once and for all

407

Enduring the spotlight of humiliation, embarrassment and criticism

408

When a guilty conscious interferes with your decisions and keeps you unhappy

409

Should you leave or stay in a toxic environment - Is it ever wrong to leave the toxic person, place or thing

410

When people take advantage of you

411

Seven little habits that will change your life - special episode featuring Optimal Living Daily

412

More self-help variety - The origin of upset, standing up to loved ones, apologies and forgiveness, shame and anger around death and more

413

Self-help variety - Pushy people, jealousy, body image, self-worth, self-esteem, intrusive thoughts and more!

414

When you're downright miserable at work

415

Second chances - How do you know if it's safe to take someone back into your life?

416

What to look for when starting a new relationship

417

Giving up your power to toxic people

418

Living life on your terms

419

The 'take care of you' episode: Showing up as the best version of yourself

420

Avoiding vulnerability and stuffing down emotions

421

Why don't people understand me? Taking responsibility for the meaning of your communication

422

The Silent Treatment

423

Are you enabling the bad behavior of other people?

424

Decrease Social Anxiety

425

I'm right you're wrong: The sides we take that create division and distress

426

Finding your true path so you don't end up living a false life

427

Stop believing what hurtful people say to you: Transforming negative self-talk to empowerment

428

How to avoid miserable relationships by knowing how to make better choices

429

The phobia of commitments and making decisions

430

Investigating gut feelings in relationships

431

Loosening the Emotional Grip Problems Have on You

432

The fear that you'll never experience something ever again

433

Signs that you are a difficult person for others

434

The mess of mixed messages

435

When a dysfunctional upbringing leaves you with nothing but broken tools

436

People pleasing your way to unhappiness

437

Withdrawing love and affection

438

When you just can't figure out why you're unhappy

439

Is Your Negative Self-Perception Making You Believe in Lies?

440

Increasing intimacy in your relationships and a comment on obsessive thinking

441

Should you leave your partner if the future seems bleak?

442

Pulling out of the emotional rut

443

When you can't let go of guilt

444

The vulnerabiliity of full self-expression

445

I don't let anyone get close to me

446

When your parent doesn't make you feel worthy

447

Are you capable of emotional abuse?

448

Learning the process of figuring out problems

449

Releasing the fears and pain by walking the path of enlightenment

450

Empowering yourself to fearlessness

451

When you feel unlovable and unworthy

452

When your partner changes their mind about your life plans

453

The life decision you regret - Never find true love again - Do you value yourself

454

Life changing lessons and working through introversion

455

Exploring infidelity - Can the relationship survive the affair

456

The life-altering mistake - Controlling others can lead to betrayal - Things narcissists do

457

Emotionally unavailable - Express and heal - Cancelling Criticism

458

When you lose your mentor - The biggest problem in the relationship - Control and Responsibility

459

Find the Right Teacher - Everything is failing, nothing is working out

460

Controlling upset toward others - Feeding dysfunctional people - Full commitment then re-evaluation

461

Changing someone's life - Tackling your insecurities

462

Breaking up for newbies - Enabling your own terrible relationship - Dating the emotional abuser

463

Valuing Your Partner's Values for Relationship Longevity

464

Handling a Rejection - Combining logic and emotion - Leaving doesn't mean not loving

465

Stupid questions that heal - Dealing with the Sociopath - Endless codependence

466

Will letting go of my narcissistic mom destroy my self-worth?

467

Getting along with everyone - Stuck in the marriage - Get offline to stretch your mind

468

Work sucks. Help.

469

An Addict's Mind - Is Suffering Optional - Avoid Healing by Judging Others

470

Resolving Before New Years - Are You The Problem - Free Will or Destiny - Get Ready for Next Year

471

They love you but don't like to say it - Getting over the guilt of how you treated your ex - You can manipulate but should you

472

The Adapting Chameleon Personality - When they hurt you to get rid of you - Accepting or denying toxic family members

473

When your partner sides with their family against you

474

The cheater who went from kind to cold when caught - Ex won't return even after I improve - Your intuition needs closure

475

Holding on to a lie to keep the relationship going

476

Attracting higher quality partners - Feeling sorry for those that abuse you - Try, try again or do or do not

477

Escaping the Real World - Kids and the Narcissistic Parent - The Isolation of the Child Sexual Abuse Survivor

478

Losing love and the general lies we tell ourselves

479

Freeze instead of fight or flight - Learning what didn't work with the ex - Healing the hole in your heart

480

The abuse victim's perspective - Step-parents and step-children - When honoring yourself leads to loneliness

481

Keeping Your Relationship from Slipping into Dysfunction

482

Stonewalling - Expectations of friends - Emotional abuse follows you - Get away to get closer to people

483

How to feed your brain - Why do abusers abuse? - Too scared to be in a relationship - Everything is temporary

484

Guilt stops growth - Dad's new girlfriend - Enabling the freeloader

485

Those "think positively" people - Little problems that lead to explosive reactions - What is a toxic person?

486

Mother treats me badly - Early warning signs in relationships - You are not that - Bypassing intuition

487

When "I Know" prevents healing - How to be a safe partner - When others bypass your intuition

488

The no-win conversation - Lashing out at others - Blame the cheater not yourself

489

Success via stress - Never too old - judging others when you do the same thing - The guilt of the infidel

490

Obsessing about people - Can your marriage heal if you grow - Online shaming

491

See me, Judge me - Is your opinion really that important?- Stop Oversharing - What is No Contact?

492

Trusting Your Gut - Can You Reconcile with Someone You've Hurt - Making Decisions Easier

493

Blaming Others for Everything - Does time heal? - The overworking ADD partner - Hanging up on family

494

Wanting someone who doesn't want you - The price of inauthenticity - When you want someone to get help

495

Criticism and how you are like them - How to start the therapeutic process - The damage to the soul when someone dies

496

So What You're Afraid - Avoiding Unavoidable People - To Start Anew or Wait for the Old

497

Feeling Unworthy by Comparison - Your Partner's Controlling Parent - Breakdown of Narcissism - Recycling Dysfunction

498

Handling negative feedback - Stop worrying about everything - Enabling is disabling - Guilt and apologies

499

Does Authenticity Make You Cringe - Getting Past Your Partner's Past - Building Rapport with People

500

Rekindling with toxic family - The long-term results of honoring yourself - Even the victim plays a role - Contact or no contact your ex

501

All those years wasted with your ex - When hope works against you - Under the stream of negative emotions

502

Identifying Your Sense of Self - Overcoming the Guilt of Leaving the Emotional Abuser - Diminishing Emotional Triggers

503

When You Haven't Achieved Life Goals Yet - Walking the Line Between Partner and Consoler - Waiting for Your Ex to Return to the Relationship

504

Starting Sex Before the Bedroom - Achieving Closure After the Breakup - Attracting Authentic People

505

Fear-Based Decision Making - Wanting more than friendship - Giving it all away for free

506

Holding on to regrets and resentments - What is healthy communication? - When it can't get any worse

507

When it's time to call it quits in a relationship - Weaning family off you - Finding Purpose

508

Don't Want You in My Mind - Spouse's Parents Don't Like Me - Most Important Relationship Lessons - Standing in Other's Shoes

509

What are Guilt and Shame - Fearing Rejection and Abandonment - Solving All Your Problems

510

Suicidal Thoughts - You're Not Alone - The Big Picture in Relationships - Taking Time to Heal Loneliness

511

Emotionally Needy People - Tapping into your Foundation - I Didn't Ask For Your Advice - Fighting Desires

512

Failing the Challenge - Silent Abuse in Relationships - Depressed and Unmotivated - Appreciating What Works

513

Committing to a Decision - Chronic Pain and Suffering - Trouble Receiving - Expanding Beyond You

514

Surviving the Crisis - Self-Perpetuating Abuse - Building Resilience Through Criticism

515

Settling for a job because you can't find anything better

516

Overcoming General Unease - When Nothing Works Out in Life - Questioning Trust in Relationships

517

The Abused Mind and Mixed Signals in Relationships - Still Mourning - Overcoming Your Overwhelmed Brain

518

Breaking Through Obsessive Thoughts - Is Everyone Toxic? - The Real Issue in the Relationship

519

Bad Luck and Great Fortune - Stuck with No Way Out - Small Lies and Big Problems - Advice For Life

520

Judging Others - Moving from Guilt to Great - Guilt is a Path to Compassion

521

When love isn't enough - Will marriage fix dysfunction? - Untying selfishness from personal boundaries - Tolerating abuse

522

Racism does not make good rapport - Can Separation save your relationship_ - The standards of a good relationship

523

Why do we dream - The baggage of new love - You either give or take

524

The Formula for Friendship - Tuning Into the Yellow Flags of Betrayal - Trusting Relationships

525

Forget New Years Resolutions, Let's Talk About Commitment and Compatibility

526

A Journey into Jealousy - The Dysfunctional Family Holiday Season - Their Emotions are not Your Responsibility

527

The Emotional Healing Journey - To Express or Not To Express - Focus on Yourself

528

The partner who'd rather be anywhere but home - Honoring myself everywhere but home - The present moment

529

The Toxic Episode - The toxic relationship - Validating toxic friends - Enabling Toxic Behavior

530

The Spiritual Lessons Connecting the Past to Present - Letting Family Hit Rock Bottom - Alone on the Holidays

531

Getting better at receiving - Recovering from abusive love - Living with the affair

532

Selfish or self-sustaining? - The mom who wasn't there for me - Obsession about my partner's history

533

Begin Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse

534

The Meaning of Communication - Guilt by Manipulation - Obsessing Over the Ex

535

The Pattern of Anxiety - Saving Anger Only For Those Closest to You

536

Laughing at Criticism - There Are No Terrible Children - Fixing Your Own Toxic Behavior

537

Measuring Your Worth and Esteem - Jealous and Insecure in the Relationship

538

The Silent Treatment - The Drawbacks of Non-Confrontational Behavior - Permission to Hate

539

Indecision and Stagnation - Realizations of a New, Bad Marriage - Music and Emotions

540

Losing Your Identity in the Relationship - The Brilliant, Worthy You - Exes as Friends - The Right Partner

541

The Bad First Impression - Living with Debilitating Pain - Fear of Doing Whats Right For You

542

The Yeah But Mentality - Life After Abuse - Rejecting Former Friends

543

Building emotional deficit - Can't find or keep friends - In Love But Still Cheated

544

My Partner Changed But Is It Too Late - Guilt About Leaving the Marriage - More Manipulative People

545

The Dysfunction of The New Normal - Offending Defensive People

546

Strength in vulnerability - What if divorce is a mistake? - Never happy without someone else in my life

547

The choice to confront - Release the pressure of negativity - can long distance love work

548

When people don't like you - Is it time to get a divorce - Some family isn't healthy to keep

549

The secrets that we keep - Feeling overexposed and hollow inside - Lonely when you are not alone

550

Getting control back - The small door out of depression - The unforever soulmate - Emotionally disconnected partners

551

You still have to do the work - Protecting your kids from dysfunction - The chain of thoughts

552

Taking the opposite advice - I feel unlovable and unwanted

553

Learning your boundaries - Utilizing anger in a healthy way - Accepting the limitations of others

554

Acting from Integrity - Balancing personal growth with relationship growth - Knowing when you are out of love - Making the right choices

555

The Kids Episode - For Kids And The Kid In You

556

Healing from New Age Thinking - The fears in honoring yourself - The stolen childhood of Adult Children of Alcoholics

557

The relationship you have with yourself - Wanting the anxiety to go away - Enabling abusive people

558

The Process of Self-Sabotage - You don't have to forgive everyone - Anxiety all the time

559

Codependency: The Subtle Erosion of Love and Connection

560

Depending on Abusive People - When Physical Pain Will Not End - Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You

561

How your needs drive your behavior and motivation

562

You Are Not Alone in Your Challenges But May Feel Alone in Your Relationship

563

Resolving Emotions Mindfully - I'm Not Cheating So Whats The Big Deal

564

Keep Showing Up and Bringing Value - Dealing With The Pain of Lost Love and Starting the Healing

565

Kids Humiliating Kids - My Boss is Irrational - Enablers Give Their Dependents a Free Ride - The Meaning of Spirituality

566

You Cannot Control Every Thought - Taking the Leap Into The Improved You - Making Empowered Decisions Around Family

567

The Abused Mind in Relationships - A Listener Gets Cheated On And Kicked Out - Wanting Others To Do What You Believe is Right

568

Spotting the Red Flags of Incongruent Metaphysical Teachings - Keeping Your Cool at Work - Empowering Others

569

Healing And Growing From The Dysfunction of Childhood - The Depression of Sexuality

570

Aligning With Fulfillment - The Disrespecting Unloving Relationship - Brain Trick For Eliminating Negative Emotions

571

The Emotional Debt of Financial Debt - A Listener Works Minimum Wage and Owes Two Hundred Thousand for College - You Are a Specialist

572

A Yes Person Can Say No - Fear While Talking to People - Even a Goldfish has Emotions

573

Transforming the Jerk - Ask Paul About Waiting During a Long Distance Relationship - Making a Contingency Plan in Case of a Break Up or Divorce

574

A Perspective on Living with Chronic Pain - Coming Out in the World and Broadcasting Your True Self

575

The Snapping Point of Lasting Change and Finding Compassion When People are Petty

576

Standing Up For Yourself Is The Right Thing - Getting Resistance While Honoring Your Boundaries - A Listener Stops Listening and Calls Me Out

577

The physical symptoms of emotional turmoil - The Unfaithful Husband and the Wife Who Never Let it Go - A Story of Giving for the Holidays

578

Finding peace when so many people are suffering - Listener email about desperately wanting to save a relationship - inner emotion expressed outwardly through voice and movement

579

"I Want to End My Life" - A Letter from a 14 Year Old Considering Suicide - Special Episode

580

Gain Empowerment and Inner Strength by Accepting that Death Could Be The Outcome

581

The One You Feed - The Good Wolf Interview with Eric Zimmer - Then I Talk on Depression and Beliefs then Close the Show with Gratitude.

582

Changing Bad Habits, an Inspiring Letter from Someone with an Eating Disorder , and Jared Fogle and Antisocial Personality Disorder - or the Sociopath

583

Eliminating Negative Memories, the Yin Yang of Masculine and Feminine, and Emotional Detachment

584

Getting the Big Picture in Arguments, Honoring Personal Boundaries with Parents, and Creating the Life You Want

585

Self-Worth, Self-Esteem and Choosing to Handle Situations as the Child or the Adult

586

Self-Compassion and Fearing Happiness

587

Do You Control Fate - Recovering From The Lies You've Told - You Can Spot a Fake Laugh and inauthentic behavior

588

The Long, Dirty Divorce Episode: Enduring The Emotional Drain of a Never-Ending Broken Marriage

589

Adapting to Change and Accepting Death

590

Do You Forgive? And a Little Bit on Shame

591

Part 2 - The Seven Habits of Highly Overextended People

592

Part 1 - The Seven Habits of Highly Overextended People

593

The Family Curse: Do You Become Who You Are Around Family, or Who You Used To Be?

594

Programming Your Future for Success

595

What's Missing In My Life?

596

The Problem with Resisting Your Problems

597

The 10 Components of a Satisfying, Loving Relationship - Part 2

598

The 10 Components of a Satisfying, Loving Relationship - Part 1

599

Stop Justifying Your Poisonous Beliefs - The Curse of Denial

600

The Deception of Perfectionism

601

Relationship Boundaries and Strengthening the Bond

602

How Do You Show Up In Life?

603

The Everyday Bully and Bully Behavior

604

The Breakthrough from the Breakdown and a Note on Assumptions

605

When Those Deeper Negative Emotions Just Won't Go Away

606

Setting Goals for People who Hate Setting Goals

607

When Others Aren't Ready for you to Evolve

608

The 5 Simple Realizations of a Peaceful Mind

609

What's the Point of Life Without Joy and Happiness?

610

More Motivation and Less Anxiety by Building a Healthy Ego

611

Sometimes the End of a Relationship is the Beginning of a New Challenge

612

Start Trusting Your Instincts

613

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do with Amy Morin

614

Annoyed by your job? Making the transition into something that fits you.

615

Reducing Negative Self-Talk

616

Closing the Past to Open the Future

617

A Practice in Mindfulness

618

10 Life Lessons You Should Already Know – Part 2

619

10 Life Lessons You Should Already Know - Part 1

620

Questioning Your Truths - The Philosophy of Belief

621

Judgment - The Ultimate Relationship Destroyer

622

What you think you know you probably don't

623

Honoring Your Personal Boundaries - Revisited

624

Dealing with the Victim Mentality

625

Empowerment Through Vulnerability

626

Infidelity - An Overlooked Warning Sign and Healing in the Aftermath

627

Releasing Emotional Triggers in Relationships

628

Repressed emotions cause harm to the body

629

Practicing Presence in a World of Past Hurts and Future Worries

630

Ending Suffering and Moving Towards Inner Peace

631

That "Blink" Moment, and Making the Right Decisions

632

Optimism, Pessimism and Creating the Life You Want

633

Clearing the Path to Happiness

634

How to deal with irrational people

635

How embracing the masculine and feminine in you leads to a fulfilling life

636

Building self-esteem and self-worth, while avoiding the ego trap

637

Avoiding and Eliminating Humiliation and Embarrassment

638

Letting Go of Attachments Part 2

639

Letting go of attachments Part 1

640

The Challenge and Freedom of Forgiveness

641

Can Your Defense Mechanisms Keep You From Creating the Life You Want?

642

How to live a more balanced life by accessing your inner strength

643

Relationship love, acceptance, and the decision to leave or stay