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The Overwhelmed Brain, 659 episodes. Page 5 of 7.

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

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

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

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Utilizing your dysfunctions to work for you instead of against you

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

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

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Purging negative emotions as soon as they happen

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

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

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

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

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

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Always Defending Yourself - Introduction to the Love and Abuse podcast

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

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How to create the life you want

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When tiny compromises lead to resentments

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

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When fear is the primary obstacle in your life

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How family drama can teach you a lot about personal boundaries

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

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

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Enduring the spotlight of humiliation, embarrassment and criticism

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

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

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When people take advantage of you

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

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

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

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When you're downright miserable at work

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

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What to look for when starting a new relationship

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Giving up your power to toxic people

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Living life on your terms

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

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Avoiding vulnerability and stuffing down emotions

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

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The Silent Treatment

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Are you enabling the bad behavior of other people?

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Decrease Social Anxiety

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

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

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

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

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The phobia of commitments and making decisions

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Investigating gut feelings in relationships

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Loosening the Emotional Grip Problems Have on You

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The fear that you'll never experience something ever again

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Signs that you are a difficult person for others

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The mess of mixed messages

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When a dysfunctional upbringing leaves you with nothing but broken tools

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People pleasing your way to unhappiness

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Withdrawing love and affection

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

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

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Increasing intimacy in your relationships and a comment on obsessive thinking

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Should you leave your partner if the future seems bleak?

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Pulling out of the emotional rut

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When you can't let go of guilt

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The vulnerabiliity of full self-expression

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I don't let anyone get close to me

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When your parent doesn't make you feel worthy

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Are you capable of emotional abuse?

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Learning the process of figuring out problems

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Releasing the fears and pain by walking the path of enlightenment

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Empowering yourself to fearlessness

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When you feel unlovable and unworthy

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When your partner changes their mind about your life plans

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

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Life changing lessons and working through introversion

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Exploring infidelity - Can the relationship survive the affair

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

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Emotionally unavailable - Express and heal - Cancelling Criticism

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

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

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

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Changing someone's life - Tackling your insecurities

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

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Valuing Your Partner's Values for Relationship Longevity

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

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

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

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

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Work sucks. Help.

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

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

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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

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

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When your partner sides with their family against you

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

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Holding on to a lie to keep the relationship going

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

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

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Losing love and the general lies we tell ourselves

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

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

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Keeping Your Relationship from Slipping into Dysfunction

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

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

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

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