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The Overwhelmed Brain — 650 episodes
The foundation of all dysfunctional behavior
Is toxic energy blocking the life you want?
Are you living your life on a foundation of fears and insecurities?
Can you get more time with someone without controlling what they do with their time?
Is sarcasm supposed to be funny or mean or...
When you don't talk about the hard stuff, hard stuff tends to stick around
When your values collide with others
Moving forward through loss
When those we love die
The "It's not my fault" apology
Making hard decisions when you're not sure what's true
The ten components that make up a healthy, long-lasting relationship
The bare minimum needed for any close relationship
Should I reveal my past to a potential new partner
Are these old emotional wounds or something real happening now?
The on again off again relationship and other challenging topics
Some people don't want you to be yourself
How to be direct about someone's hurtful behavior without being confrontational
Always take what sounds like a threat seriously
The past is the worst place to ruminate
When good enough is much less than you want to settle for
They do wrong, you get blamed
When what you did is always thrown back in your face
Life and relationship questions you may want the answers to
Are you the only one keeping the friendship going?
The specific steps some people take to manipulate you
The direct way to communicate with a passive-aggressive person
Avoid taking on the pain and suffering of others
The aggressive accuser blaming you for things you didn't do
Self-hate does not come from you
This doesn't have to be as good as it gets
Stop blaming yourself for your stupid decisions
The traps some people set for us by playing the victim
8 myths about life and relationships
Keeping yourself unintentionally limited and stuck
When nothing is that great and you think you can't do anything about it
When you're about to lose your sh*t
The five words that will change your life
His ex is unsafe for our relationship
Constantly accused for things you didn't do
How do I raise my kids without completely screwing them up?
What you don't bring up will come up
It's in some people's nature to bring you down and drain your energy
Wanting more than friendship when they don't
The growing resentment of people and circumstances you just can't accept
The most empowering question to build your self-confidence
Everything is good except the idea of marriage
My abusive ex wants me to sit next to him at our child's wedding
Why is finding and connecting with others so darn hard sometimes?
When it's always your fault
The childhood trauma we try to leave in the past
The intense pain, longing, and pining over the one who left
Waiting and waiting for others to change
10 Life lessons that will help you in your pursuit of happiness
How do I know when I'm ready to love again?
The giant waste of time you spent with someone or someone spent with you
The formula for making hard decisions
What's the real reason you keep getting into "those" kinds of relationships?
Did a pedophile groom her daughter into marriage?
The fears and insecurities that push away those who get too close
Are you giving away your power?
The way we tell others to go away may make them stay
The wife who seems unfazed by her husband's family health
From dark to light - the path to courage
Every opportunity offers a choice to stay the same or change forever
Constant bickering back and forth
You're stuck and there's nothing you can do about it
When your best intentions turn into their disappointment
Is that really you inside your head?
Some people are a black hole of suck all your life then they're gone
Those who never follow through what they say they're going to do
When you want to be more than friends
When you should avoid making decisions with lasting consequences
Life isn't exactly fulfilling when you are holding on to upset toward someone
Stay in control or let it go?
The games our loved ones play
What is love?
Never put your faith in anyone who makes you feel unworthy
When every argument is petty and unresolved
The big life lessons that can change everything for the better
Am I really the problem?
Should payback for bad behavior be a relationship norm?
Decluttering the overwhelmed brain
When empathy is used against you
What can keep you stuck with the same results over and over again
Washing your hands of a problem that won't go away
The pressure of sex and expectations in an established relationship
Feeling like you have no choice but to submit to ungrateful, uncaring people
The partner who likes things as they are when you're just miserable
The people who avoid you
The judgments you have about others that keep you unhappy
How your coping mechanisms may be interfering with your happiness
The massive, impossible, overwhelming circumstances that make life feel hopeless
Can you heal from the big reveal of your partner's past?
Those "Nothing" people when you ask what's wrong
The family bonds that require boundaries
Arguing your way to understanding
The bonds that never seem to end
When your relationships aren't exactly high quality or authentic
What to do when someone you care about shows more excitement about their interests than you
When people treat you as you were, not as you are
When you love someone so much it doesn't matter how much they hurt you
Can we get past the issues that divide us
Dealing with hurtful people who won't change
I didn't ask to be born and I don't want to be here
The people who don't grow may never accept your growth
Can an unempathetic person develop empathy?
Obsession and regret - when you just can't stop thinking about what happened
The part of you that you don't want others to see
Moving out of a full life of toxic family
Relationship challenges, insecurities, and questions
What will you sacrifice to be happy?
Know your worth
The missing ingredient that can sometimes make or break a new relationship
The growing, compounding negative emotional energy building up inside you
Jumping to conclusions and overreacting
Fool me three times, uh, shame on you again
You hurt me and now I want you to hurt... forever
Trying to connect with the emotionally disconnected person
Why do some people have such a short fuse?
Should you convince people who don't like or trust you to like or trust you?
When shame, guilt, and regret keep you from moving forward
Is your fear in control of your life?
How we make others feel unworthy without doing anything at all
When your lessons come back to test you
What if I have no clue who I am?
When family believes they know what's best for you
When all feels lost and you believe nothing will ever be good again
Trying to avoid overwhelm and disappointment while moving toward your goal
The inner conflict of tough decisions
Can a chronic complainer ever be content?
Stuck in the middle of someone else's relationship issues
When the new person in your life still has feelings for their ex
How do I deal with someone always putting me down?
The quirks that might make others judge us
Can challenges and conflicts lead to happiness?
Am I wasting time thinking it's ever going to get better?
When you don't want to accept that thing they do
You only get along when you agree they have no flaws
Will the long-term lie tear the relationship apart?
Should you keep the door open to people who want to close it?
Why you can't get through to some people
The tiny things that improve your life
Challenges come in all shapes and sizes in romantic relationships
When friends and family think you're making a bad decision
Holding on to guilt
Carrying around the past can screw up the present
Standing proud in your own worth when others are incapable of seeing it
BONUS - Time to sleep
The toxic partners of friends and family can make life more challenging
Where do you look when you believe this is all there is?
Struggling with the fear of death
Please get off your phone and pay attention to me
When perpetual resentment is the new normal of the relationship
Are your most private thoughts yours alone or for others know too?
The part of you that can take over when things get tough
Things are good and bad and mostly bad until they're good
When bad things keep happening to you
Asserting yourself without getting aggressive
Is it possible to patch things up with family who won't let go of the past?
Maintaining a healthy relationship with your therapist, coach, or healer
The lessons that can change your life for the better
When you're feeling judgmental and critical of those you love
Getting through every day you can't stop thinking about what happened in the past
Can you stay connected to friends and family that don't share your values?
We're told no one can make us feel anything... Yeah right
Filtering out the good and bad to clear the way for the great
Crawling out of the deep hole of being someone you're not
How do you cope with people who can't cope?
The direct path to stronger bonds
There are good people that do bad things and bad people that do bad things
The path to emotionally reconnecting with yourself
Sometimes you have no options left so you become depressed
When confidence feels impossible
Trusting the deeper part of you that is watching out for you
The hard steps that lead to happiness and a life worth living
How to approach those you know will be upset by what you say
Trusting someone to make the right choice
Are your feelings wrong?
How many strikes do you give someone before they're out?
The big, scary choices you might have to make to add more peace and comfort to your life
When your happiness depends on and maybe even drains another person
When everything bad happens to you and tomorrow will be just as bad or worse
Thinking you should have accomplished a lot more by now
Don't forget yourself: Taking the leap out of codependent behavior
Old coping skills that don't work like they used to
Should I accept who they are or move on with my life?
Does vulnerability increase love and connection?
Getting accustomed to getting older
Toxic bonds that might need breaking
The next steps in a stuck relationship
When you feel like you're not that important to your friends and family
Boring, self-absorbed people or maybe you
Walking your talk shows you who really wants you to be happy
Discovering those buried emotions that you'd like to release
It's hard as hell to be vulnerable
Where is my thank you? When you don't get acknowledgment for your kindness.
The possibility of reconciling with estranged family
Have you met the real you?
Why it seems impossible to defuse some arguments
The choices we make to avoid the choices we don't want to make
The risk and reward of being yourself
The obligations and responsibilities that can exhaust us
Is there really life outside the box or is this all there is?
Afraid they'll discover you're a fraud - The Impostor Syndrome
Helpful ways to respond to the difficult person
The negativity that likes to work its way into your mind and body
The beliefs that serve you and the beliefs that don't
Punishing yourself for your mistakes
I promise this time I'll keep my promise
Some people just cannot admit that they are the problem
I do so much for them for so little in return
When your happy place becomes your misery
Not all parents are loving and supportive
What's the point of the day to day just to feel depressed and anxious?
Stuffing who you are way down can make you numb
Giving up happiness because someone holds something over your head
Email grab bag 5 - Codependent and stuck - New on the job - Getting a raise - Vague signals while dating
Some dysfunctional people don't like when you're functional
Is it worth the risk to seek a romantic relationship with a good friend?
The toxic relationship ended but I can't forgive myself and move on
Putting an end to your own passive aggressive behavior
Apologizing to the ex… good idea or bad?
Do you let the breadcrumbing toxic family member back in your life?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say.
Will you ever be good enough?
The rut of waiting for someone else to decide before you can move on
Carrying around the burden of someone else's secret
Getting stalked online and there's something about love you should know
When you're "on" too much for others but not enough for yourself
Pretending to be the person you're not
Stopping the head games
When is it time to wean your parents off of you?
To compromise, sacrifice, or support no matter what
Balancing your life with only those things and people that matter
The pressure that builds when you can't let go of the negative emotions
Are you judgmental toward people that bother the heck out of you?
When you want the greener grass on the other side - the life you want vs the life you have
Is there such thing as an instant soul mate or is that the first warning sign of a difficult relationship?
Not everything is your fault
Does bad behavior ever deserve a free pass?
The smile of denial that keeps you feeling miserable
Is honoring yourself supposed to destroy relationships?
Are you being mean but don't mean to be?
Following the path that serves you best even if it feels the worst
The pain of loss
Stuffing emotions way down there
How you can sabotage your own happiness waiting for others to change
Questions to ask yourself to get to the deepest layer of repressed emotions
How complex does something have to get before you decide to quit?
Training yourself ahead of time to deal with difficult people
Taking the big leap into self-worth and self-esteem
Are difficult people really doing the best they can?
Is there an answer to the lying, manipulative child?
People can change but what about when they don't or wont?
What do you do when you're so tired of the world being against you?
Should you be happy letting go of people who are a vortex of misery in your life?
The betrayal of relationship trust - Emotional Affairs
Does your amazing personality intimidate others?
Email Grab Bag 4 - Rising toleration of bad behavior, from victim to victor, porn ruining the relationship
The obstacles that block the path to self-worth and happiness
What did you sign up for in the relationship?
Just how deep do you have to dig to heal unresolved issues?
Should you erase every speck of old relationships to focus on new ones?
Some people just like to put you down and keep you there
Perfectionism is a fantastic procrastination tool that sabotages what you value most
Is it me or them? Difficult people that make you think you're the problem
Is it selfish to focus on your own personal development when others need your time and energy?
Should you be more tolerant of bad behavior when they can't control themselves?
How your body image can make you do things you may regret
Can dysfunctions be useful?
Does it make sense to try and change a controlling person?
The best kind of relationship is the one where you can be yourself
When you don't want to deal with someone else's fears, worries, and anxiety anymore
Sometimes the best healing and growth takes place away from other people
The inside the box thinking that keeps your emotional triggers alive
What fills the holes left behind when people leave you or die?
Is it always necessary to dive into the past to heal old traumas?
The part you play when you get terrible results
When feelings of inadequacy prevent you from enjoying what's right in front of you
Self-reliance, self-respect, and a mindset to go along with it
The hidden emotions that may be inside you and you don't know it
Closing the door so that you can stop overthinking and start moving forward
The Ten Commandments of Personal Power - Part 2
The Ten Commandments of Personal Power - Part 1
Random romantic relationship questions answered
Learning to counter rude and intimidating behavior from others
Getting comfortable in your own skin
The secret to making passive-aggressive people less aggressive
When their sexual history bothers you
Every action you take in your life either increases your power or decreases it
When the fear of failure stops you from doing anything and everything
Laying down the ground rules for the toxic people in your life
Making the shift from repeatedly being upset at someone else and letting it go
The risk you take by being your authentic self
Making the decisions that help you prevent overwhelm
How some life choices bring on your own suffering
Feeling more secure with your insecurities
Learning to control your own reactions and overreactions
The path to empowerment is full of risk and reward
Arguing as a tool for healing
Don't let fear of confrontation make you silent
Learning the difference between useful and unuseful emotions will change your level of happiness
Loosening the grip emotional pain and suffering can have on you
How to avoid making the same mistakes over and over again
Choosing between the empowered response and the dysfunctional one
The past, present, and future of unpleasant memories
Disarming people that disempower you
When loved ones reject your reality and replace it with their own
Feeling crazy because you don't have the answers
Sometimes facing yourself is the only way change can happen
Friends and family that try to be helpful but really aren't
The pain you sometimes need to go through to increase your quality of life
Taking the blame for their behavior
When you don't know who you are
What to do when the judgments come out of you
Can there be peace and balance in an unbalanced relationship?
Practicing non-confrontational ways to honor yourself
What to do when you're going nowhere
The regrets and leftover emotions after someone dies
Do people think you're stubborn for honoring your boundaries?
Working through those old emotional triggers so that you can stop the PTSD and start living life again
The intimacy that happens behind their back
When loved ones resist the decisions you need to make for yourself
Depression or the blahs shouldn't be a way of life
Walking around as an adult with dysfunctions from childhood
Email grab bag: Getting ghosted while dating and when you have trouble forgiving someone who wronged you
Should commitments always be a forever thing?
More on taking a stand to make changes in your life - A peaceful approach or take a risk instead?
Email grab bag: Purging awkwardness, the perfect partner, lonely and depressed
How to deal with the worries of today and the emotional triggers of every day
I can't get you out of my head but I need to so I can start living again
Dealing with mean family
Sometimes you have to take a stand to make a change in your life, even if you're scared as hell.
Your life's purpose does not have to be about you
Can love enable those you care about to do bad behavior_
When people don't like you
When you have to make a big decision about the relationship
Waiting for someone else to change so that your life will be better
The emotional aftermath of getting free of the narcissistic relationship
Why you're not getting a second chance
The toxic residue that lingers inside you from people that make you feel bad about yourself
Learning that your adult child suffered child sexual abuse
When your top values aren't being met, the rest of it falls apart
Know and stand by your standards for the healthiest relationships possible
When you desperately want an explanation or closure but you can't get it
How to feel better about yourself
New relationships should not create worry about what it is or isn't
Getting comfortable letting go of what no longer serves you
Making sure toxic people and toxic environments don't take over your life
When social anxiety, fear, and loneliness keep you from doing what you want to do
When life seems like an endless series of dead ends
The one question to ask yourself when you can't figure out what to do
Overcoming a general distrust of people and the benefit of taking risks
Am I overreacting or are they just a jerk? And the woman who is the last to know about the family secret
When the fear of abandonment keeps you from happiness
Those selfish people that don't care if you're hurt by their behavior
Bringing the best version of yourself into a world full of fearful people
Making impossible decisions
How to help yourself and others by accessing your inner wisdom
Staying positive while other people get what you want and you don't
When it feels like you never get enough from life
Keeping old emotional pain out of the new year
Keep your power by giving yourself one of the greatest gifts possible
Using loved ones as a verbal punching bag
How to avoid destroying yourself with guilt
Being alone
What to do when your self-improvement creates fears and conflict in others
What comes out of you when people push you over the edge
Establishing boundaries with toxic family
"There must be something wrong with me": How you brainwash yourself by reinforcing negative false beliefs
Facing the challenge, getting through it, and coming out of it new and improved
When others make you feel small
Are you inadvertently responsible for your own unhappiness
Processing thoughts and emotions through self-guided questions
Keeping your power in conversations with controlling, dominating and overpowering people
Dealing with the impossible boss and other relationship advice when it comes to job, career and life
Jealousy in the relationship
When there's insecurity or fear around sex, the entire relationship suffers. And a listener disagrees with my advice
Making difficult and sometimes painful decisions that almost always improve your life
Enforce your boundaries, keep the balance, stop the compromising, end your suffering and more: Email grab bag episode
What you might have to do if the people and situations in your life never improve
The big, scary steps that lead to positive change
Self-help variety episode: Anxiety, guilt, and people who are worried about their personal life interfering their professional life
Changing your habitual negative emotions about the past or future
Holding yourself in high regard when others don't
When people don't step up in your defense
Those intrusive, invading and disturbing thoughts that you try to resist and repress
The tough-love principles of living a life without giving away your power
When you just can't move forward because of inner conflict
The decisions that cause you to lose your power and keep you in a rut
You got through the bullying when you were younger but how do you deal with the residual as an adult?
When you don't even realize you're giving a free pass to bad behavior: The simple formation and difficult termination of codependent relationships
Dealing with those passive aggressive, negative, so hard to be around people that you just hope get it one day
BONUS re-release: When Panic Attacks - The Anxiety Episode
Utilizing your dysfunctions to work for you instead of against you
Criticisms and hurtful comments from others don't apply when you are in alignment with your inner compass
When you can't enjoy life because you're always waiting for the other shoe to drop
Purging negative emotions as soon as they happen
Wanting your partner to just stop doing that thing. Are Jealousy or other feelings creeping in?
Dissolving love and connection by repressing thoughts and emotions with those you love
Is your compassion killing you? What you think is compassion could be self-destruction
When you're told to just accept your partner's emotional affair
The regrets and upsets from the past that you just can't seem to get over
Always Defending Yourself - Introduction to the Love and Abuse podcast
The sacred components of personal boundaries and why you should define and enforce them whenever possible
How to create the life you want
When tiny compromises lead to resentments
When you can't fully commit just in case there's something better
When fear is the primary obstacle in your life
How family drama can teach you a lot about personal boundaries
Part 2 - Making decisions that are right for you and tackling obsession and overthinking once and for all
Making decisions that are right for you and tackling obsession and overthinking once and for all
Enduring the spotlight of humiliation, embarrassment and criticism
When a guilty conscious interferes with your decisions and keeps you unhappy
Should you leave or stay in a toxic environment - Is it ever wrong to leave the toxic person, place or thing
When people take advantage of you
Seven little habits that will change your life - special episode featuring Optimal Living Daily
More self-help variety - The origin of upset, standing up to loved ones, apologies and forgiveness, shame and anger around death and more
Self-help variety - Pushy people, jealousy, body image, self-worth, self-esteem, intrusive thoughts and more!
When you're downright miserable at work
Second chances - How do you know if it's safe to take someone back into your life?
What to look for when starting a new relationship
Giving up your power to toxic people
Living life on your terms
The 'take care of you' episode: Showing up as the best version of yourself
Avoiding vulnerability and stuffing down emotions
Why don't people understand me? Taking responsibility for the meaning of your communication
The Silent Treatment
Are you enabling the bad behavior of other people?
Decrease Social Anxiety
I'm right you're wrong: The sides we take that create division and distress
Finding your true path so you don't end up living a false life
Stop believing what hurtful people say to you: Transforming negative self-talk to empowerment
How to avoid miserable relationships by knowing how to make better choices
The phobia of commitments and making decisions
Investigating gut feelings in relationships
Loosening the Emotional Grip Problems Have on You
The fear that you'll never experience something ever again
Signs that you are a difficult person for others
The mess of mixed messages
When a dysfunctional upbringing leaves you with nothing but broken tools
People pleasing your way to unhappiness
Withdrawing love and affection
When you just can't figure out why you're unhappy
Is Your Negative Self-Perception Making You Believe in Lies?
Increasing intimacy in your relationships and a comment on obsessive thinking
Should you leave your partner if the future seems bleak?
Pulling out of the emotional rut
When you can't let go of guilt
The vulnerabiliity of full self-expression
I don't let anyone get close to me
When your parent doesn't make you feel worthy
Are you capable of emotional abuse?
Learning the process of figuring out problems
Releasing the fears and pain by walking the path of enlightenment
Empowering yourself to fearlessness
When you feel unlovable and unworthy
When your partner changes their mind about your life plans
The life decision you regret - Never find true love again - Do you value yourself
Life changing lessons and working through introversion
Exploring infidelity - Can the relationship survive the affair
The life-altering mistake - Controlling others can lead to betrayal - Things narcissists do
Emotionally unavailable - Express and heal - Cancelling Criticism
When you lose your mentor - The biggest problem in the relationship - Control and Responsibility
Find the Right Teacher - Everything is failing, nothing is working out
Controlling upset toward others - Feeding dysfunctional people - Full commitment then re-evaluation
Changing someone's life - Tackling your insecurities
Breaking up for newbies - Enabling your own terrible relationship - Dating the emotional abuser
Valuing Your Partner's Values for Relationship Longevity
Handling a Rejection - Combining logic and emotion - Leaving doesn't mean not loving
Stupid questions that heal - Dealing with the Sociopath - Endless codependence
Will letting go of my narcissistic mom destroy my self-worth?
Getting along with everyone - Stuck in the marriage - Get offline to stretch your mind
Work sucks. Help.
An Addict's Mind - Is Suffering Optional - Avoid Healing by Judging Others
Resolving Before New Years - Are You The Problem - Free Will or Destiny - Get Ready for Next Year
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
The Adapting Chameleon Personality - When they hurt you to get rid of you - Accepting or denying toxic family members
When your partner sides with their family against you
The cheater who went from kind to cold when caught - Ex won't return even after I improve - Your intuition needs closure
Holding on to a lie to keep the relationship going
Attracting higher quality partners - Feeling sorry for those that abuse you - Try, try again or do or do not
Escaping the Real World - Kids and the Narcissistic Parent - The Isolation of the Child Sexual Abuse Survivor
Losing love and the general lies we tell ourselves
Freeze instead of fight or flight - Learning what didn't work with the ex - Healing the hole in your heart
The abuse victim's perspective - Step-parents and step-children - When honoring yourself leads to loneliness
Keeping Your Relationship from Slipping into Dysfunction
Stonewalling - Expectations of friends - Emotional abuse follows you - Get away to get closer to people
How to feed your brain - Why do abusers abuse? - Too scared to be in a relationship - Everything is temporary
Guilt stops growth - Dad's new girlfriend - Enabling the freeloader
Those "think positively" people - Little problems that lead to explosive reactions - What is a toxic person?
Mother treats me badly - Early warning signs in relationships - You are not that - Bypassing intuition
When "I Know" prevents healing - How to be a safe partner - When others bypass your intuition
The no-win conversation - Lashing out at others - Blame the cheater not yourself
Success via stress - Never too old - judging others when you do the same thing - The guilt of the infidel
Obsessing about people - Can your marriage heal if you grow - Online shaming
See me, Judge me - Is your opinion really that important?- Stop Oversharing - What is No Contact?
Trusting Your Gut - Can You Reconcile with Someone You've Hurt - Making Decisions Easier
Blaming Others for Everything - Does time heal? - The overworking ADD partner - Hanging up on family
Wanting someone who doesn't want you - The price of inauthenticity - When you want someone to get help
Criticism and how you are like them - How to start the therapeutic process - The damage to the soul when someone dies
So What You're Afraid - Avoiding Unavoidable People - To Start Anew or Wait for the Old
Feeling Unworthy by Comparison - Your Partner's Controlling Parent - Breakdown of Narcissism - Recycling Dysfunction
Handling negative feedback - Stop worrying about everything - Enabling is disabling - Guilt and apologies
Does Authenticity Make You Cringe - Getting Past Your Partner's Past - Building Rapport with People
Rekindling with toxic family - The long-term results of honoring yourself - Even the victim plays a role - Contact or no contact your ex
All those years wasted with your ex - When hope works against you - Under the stream of negative emotions
Identifying Your Sense of Self - Overcoming the Guilt of Leaving the Emotional Abuser - Diminishing Emotional Triggers
When You Haven't Achieved Life Goals Yet - Walking the Line Between Partner and Consoler - Waiting for Your Ex to Return to the Relationship
Starting Sex Before the Bedroom - Achieving Closure After the Breakup - Attracting Authentic People
Fear-Based Decision Making - Wanting more than friendship - Giving it all away for free
Holding on to regrets and resentments - What is healthy communication? - When it can't get any worse
When it's time to call it quits in a relationship - Weaning family off you - Finding Purpose
Don't Want You in My Mind - Spouse's Parents Don't Like Me - Most Important Relationship Lessons - Standing in Other's Shoes
What are Guilt and Shame - Fearing Rejection and Abandonment - Solving All Your Problems
Suicidal Thoughts - You're Not Alone - The Big Picture in Relationships - Taking Time to Heal Loneliness
Emotionally Needy People - Tapping into your Foundation - I Didn't Ask For Your Advice - Fighting Desires
Failing the Challenge - Silent Abuse in Relationships - Depressed and Unmotivated - Appreciating What Works
Committing to a Decision - Chronic Pain and Suffering - Trouble Receiving - Expanding Beyond You
Surviving the Crisis - Self-Perpetuating Abuse - Building Resilience Through Criticism
Settling for a job because you can't find anything better
Overcoming General Unease - When Nothing Works Out in Life - Questioning Trust in Relationships
The Abused Mind and Mixed Signals in Relationships - Still Mourning - Overcoming Your Overwhelmed Brain
Breaking Through Obsessive Thoughts - Is Everyone Toxic? - The Real Issue in the Relationship
Bad Luck and Great Fortune - Stuck with No Way Out - Small Lies and Big Problems - Advice For Life
Judging Others - Moving from Guilt to Great - Guilt is a Path to Compassion
When love isn't enough - Will marriage fix dysfunction? - Untying selfishness from personal boundaries - Tolerating abuse
Racism does not make good rapport - Can Separation save your relationship_ - The standards of a good relationship
Why do we dream - The baggage of new love - You either give or take
The Formula for Friendship - Tuning Into the Yellow Flags of Betrayal - Trusting Relationships
Forget New Years Resolutions, Let's Talk About Commitment and Compatibility
A Journey into Jealousy - The Dysfunctional Family Holiday Season - Their Emotions are not Your Responsibility
The Emotional Healing Journey - To Express or Not To Express - Focus on Yourself
The partner who'd rather be anywhere but home - Honoring myself everywhere but home - The present moment
The Toxic Episode - The toxic relationship - Validating toxic friends - Enabling Toxic Behavior
The Spiritual Lessons Connecting the Past to Present - Letting Family Hit Rock Bottom - Alone on the Holidays
Getting better at receiving - Recovering from abusive love - Living with the affair
Selfish or self-sustaining? - The mom who wasn't there for me - Obsession about my partner's history
Begin Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse
The Meaning of Communication - Guilt by Manipulation - Obsessing Over the Ex
The Pattern of Anxiety - Saving Anger Only For Those Closest to You
Laughing at Criticism - There Are No Terrible Children - Fixing Your Own Toxic Behavior
Measuring Your Worth and Esteem - Jealous and Insecure in the Relationship
The Silent Treatment - The Drawbacks of Non-Confrontational Behavior - Permission to Hate
Indecision and Stagnation - Realizations of a New, Bad Marriage - Music and Emotions
Losing Your Identity in the Relationship - The Brilliant, Worthy You - Exes as Friends - The Right Partner
The Bad First Impression - Living with Debilitating Pain - Fear of Doing Whats Right For You
The Yeah But Mentality - Life After Abuse - Rejecting Former Friends
Building emotional deficit - Can't find or keep friends - In Love But Still Cheated
My Partner Changed But Is It Too Late - Guilt About Leaving the Marriage - More Manipulative People
The Dysfunction of The New Normal - Offending Defensive People
Strength in vulnerability - What if divorce is a mistake? - Never happy without someone else in my life
The choice to confront - Release the pressure of negativity - can long distance love work
When people don't like you - Is it time to get a divorce - Some family isn't healthy to keep
The secrets that we keep - Feeling overexposed and hollow inside - Lonely when you are not alone
Getting control back - The small door out of depression - The unforever soulmate - Emotionally disconnected partners
You still have to do the work - Protecting your kids from dysfunction - The chain of thoughts
Taking the opposite advice - I feel unlovable and unwanted
Learning your boundaries - Utilizing anger in a healthy way - Accepting the limitations of others
Acting from Integrity - Balancing personal growth with relationship growth - Knowing when you are out of love - Making the right choices
The Kids Episode - For Kids And The Kid In You
Healing from New Age Thinking - The fears in honoring yourself - The stolen childhood of Adult Children of Alcoholics
The relationship you have with yourself - Wanting the anxiety to go away - Enabling abusive people
The Process of Self-Sabotage - You don't have to forgive everyone - Anxiety all the time
Codependency: The Subtle Erosion of Love and Connection
Depending on Abusive People - When Physical Pain Will Not End - Should You Take Someone Who Desperately Wants You
How your needs drive your behavior and motivation
You Are Not Alone in Your Challenges But May Feel Alone in Your Relationship
Resolving Emotions Mindfully - I'm Not Cheating So Whats The Big Deal
Keep Showing Up and Bringing Value - Dealing With The Pain of Lost Love and Starting the Healing
Kids Humiliating Kids - My Boss is Irrational - Enablers Give Their Dependents a Free Ride - The Meaning of Spirituality
You Cannot Control Every Thought - Taking the Leap Into The Improved You - Making Empowered Decisions Around Family
The Abused Mind in Relationships - A Listener Gets Cheated On And Kicked Out - Wanting Others To Do What You Believe is Right
Spotting the Red Flags of Incongruent Metaphysical Teachings - Keeping Your Cool at Work - Empowering Others
Healing And Growing From The Dysfunction of Childhood - The Depression of Sexuality
Aligning With Fulfillment - The Disrespecting Unloving Relationship - Brain Trick For Eliminating Negative Emotions
The Emotional Debt of Financial Debt - A Listener Works Minimum Wage and Owes Two Hundred Thousand for College - You Are a Specialist
A Yes Person Can Say No - Fear While Talking to People - Even a Goldfish has Emotions
Transforming the Jerk - Ask Paul About Waiting During a Long Distance Relationship - Making a Contingency Plan in Case of a Break Up or Divorce
A Perspective on Living with Chronic Pain - Coming Out in the World and Broadcasting Your True Self
The Snapping Point of Lasting Change and Finding Compassion When People are Petty
Standing Up For Yourself Is The Right Thing - Getting Resistance While Honoring Your Boundaries - A Listener Stops Listening and Calls Me Out
The physical symptoms of emotional turmoil - The Unfaithful Husband and the Wife Who Never Let it Go - A Story of Giving for the Holidays
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
"I Want to End My Life" - A Letter from a 14 Year Old Considering Suicide - Special Episode
Gain Empowerment and Inner Strength by Accepting that Death Could Be The Outcome
The One You Feed - The Good Wolf Interview with Eric Zimmer - Then I Talk on Depression and Beliefs then Close the Show with Gratitude.
Changing Bad Habits, an Inspiring Letter from Someone with an Eating Disorder , and Jared Fogle and Antisocial Personality Disorder - or the Sociopath
Eliminating Negative Memories, the Yin Yang of Masculine and Feminine, and Emotional Detachment
Getting the Big Picture in Arguments, Honoring Personal Boundaries with Parents, and Creating the Life You Want
Self-Worth, Self-Esteem and Choosing to Handle Situations as the Child or the Adult
Self-Compassion and Fearing Happiness
Do You Control Fate - Recovering From The Lies You've Told - You Can Spot a Fake Laugh and inauthentic behavior
The Long, Dirty Divorce Episode: Enduring The Emotional Drain of a Never-Ending Broken Marriage
Adapting to Change and Accepting Death
Do You Forgive? And a Little Bit on Shame
Part 2 - The Seven Habits of Highly Overextended People
Part 1 - The Seven Habits of Highly Overextended People
The Family Curse: Do You Become Who You Are Around Family, or Who You Used To Be?
Programming Your Future for Success
What's Missing In My Life?
The Problem with Resisting Your Problems
The 10 Components of a Satisfying, Loving Relationship - Part 2
The 10 Components of a Satisfying, Loving Relationship - Part 1
Stop Justifying Your Poisonous Beliefs - The Curse of Denial
The Deception of Perfectionism
Relationship Boundaries and Strengthening the Bond
How Do You Show Up In Life?
The Everyday Bully and Bully Behavior
The Breakthrough from the Breakdown and a Note on Assumptions
When Those Deeper Negative Emotions Just Won't Go Away
Setting Goals for People who Hate Setting Goals
When Others Aren't Ready for you to Evolve
The 5 Simple Realizations of a Peaceful Mind
What's the Point of Life Without Joy and Happiness?
More Motivation and Less Anxiety by Building a Healthy Ego
Sometimes the End of a Relationship is the Beginning of a New Challenge
Start Trusting Your Instincts
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do with Amy Morin
Annoyed by your job? Making the transition into something that fits you.
Reducing Negative Self-Talk
Closing the Past to Open the Future
A Practice in Mindfulness
10 Life Lessons You Should Already Know – Part 2
10 Life Lessons You Should Already Know - Part 1
Questioning Your Truths - The Philosophy of Belief
Judgment - The Ultimate Relationship Destroyer
What you think you know you probably don't
Honoring Your Personal Boundaries - Revisited
Dealing with the Victim Mentality
Empowerment Through Vulnerability
Infidelity - An Overlooked Warning Sign and Healing in the Aftermath
Releasing Emotional Triggers in Relationships
Repressed emotions cause harm to the body
Practicing Presence in a World of Past Hurts and Future Worries
Ending Suffering and Moving Towards Inner Peace
That "Blink" Moment, and Making the Right Decisions
Optimism, Pessimism and Creating the Life You Want
Clearing the Path to Happiness
How to deal with irrational people
How embracing the masculine and feminine in you leads to a fulfilling life
Building self-esteem and self-worth, while avoiding the ego trap
Avoiding and Eliminating Humiliation and Embarrassment
Letting Go of Attachments Part 2
Letting go of attachments Part 1
The Challenge and Freedom of Forgiveness
Can Your Defense Mechanisms Keep You From Creating the Life You Want?
How to live a more balanced life by accessing your inner strength
Relationship love, acceptance, and the decision to leave or stay