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The Work of Being Human — 191 episodes

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Dr. Adam Urato: The Weaponization of Empathy

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What Man-Hating Does to Your Mental Health

3

Eli Singer: Stop Blaming the Algorithm and Take Your Life Back From Your Phone

4

Mental Health Is NOT What You’ve Been Told: Reality, Truth, and What it Takes to Heal

5

David Lea: Are We Responsible for Every Bad Thing That Happens to Us?

6

Is Celebrity Culture Good for Our Mental Health? (No.)

7

Deconstructing Impulsivity: Why We Act Before We Think

8

The Depression No One Sees

9

The Epstein Files: How Humans Slide into Utter Depravity

10

Dr. Chloe Carmichael: Free Speech is a Matter of Mental Health

11

Judith Belmont: Train Your Brain to Think Rationally

12

The War Within: What Your Nervous System is Trying to Tell You

13

Is There Really Such a Thing as a "Happy Childhood?"

14

Foundations: Has Therapy Become Our Religion?

15

Foundations: The Two Things You Need in Order to Grow

16

Ending the Year Well: A Christmas Special - Presence

17

Ending the Year Well: Recruit, Reconcile, Release

18

Ending the Year Well: Forgiveness

19

Thanksgiving Special

20

Elysia Skye: The Brilliance Method

21

Dr. Alan Weissenbacher: Change Isn’t About Will Power

22

Marcia Earhart: Holding Grief in the Land of the Living

23

"How Do I Change My Negative Beliefs?"

24

How to Disagree with Someone (without being a jerk)

25

“Why Am I So Hard on Myself?”

26

My Reaction to the Recent National Traumas and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

27

"I'm So Confused!" Here's What You Can Do About It

28

This is THE MOST Frequently Asked Question in Mental Health

29

"Can ChatGPT Replace My Therapist?"

30

The Trauma Informed Relationship

31

Layers

32

The Bench

33

David Lea: Creating Harmony in Relationships

34

The Wisdom of Weeding

35

Drill Down to the Real Issue: Your Belief Systems

36

Dr. Chip Dodd: A Champion for the Human Heart

37

You Can't Grow IF...

38

How to Leave the Past in the Past

39

Healthy and Unhealthy Pain (Yes, some pain is healthy.)

40

No Excuses

41

The Four Books You Must Read at the Start of Every Year

42

David Thornton: Healing the Soul (a follow up to “You Are Holy”)

43

Get a Thicker Skin! (Or don't)

44

Valentina Bain: What's Genes Got to Do with It?

45

Erika Enriquez: Transforming Wounds Into Wisdom

46

The Turning Point

47

"It's your fault!" Understanding the Persecutor

48

"Let me help!" Understanding the Rescuer Mindset

49

"Poor me!" The Victim Mindset

50

How to Heal a Family

51

Tracey Higgins: Healing a Shattered Mind

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If You Get This, You Get It

53

Virgil Stucker: How Communities Heal

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Can a Relationship Actually Heal Us?

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Erin Watt: Making Relationships EASIER

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Is It True? That You Can't Love Someone Until You Love Yourself?

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Listener Requested: When Is It Time to “Break Up” with a Friend?

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Michael Giles: How Therapy Fails Men

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Mental Push Ups

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Carry the Weight

61

Dr. David Thornton: You Are Holy

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How I Do Therapy and Why I Do It the Way I Do It

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How to Break the Chain of Dysfunction

64

Who Do You Let Into Your Life?

65

All of Us Need to Be “Bilingual”

66

Interview: Hannah and Kate are Therapists in the Making

67

But It's Family!

68

Jared Bentley “When Men Seek Therapy”

69

Understanding Your Anger

70

"I'm Okay"

71

The Silent Partner

72

Listener Requested: Living in the Land of Dysfunction

73

In the Wake of a Personal Loss...

74

Keeping it Real

75

How Support Systems Actually Work

76

Is Therapy a Waste of Time?

77

The Domino Effect

78

More Bad Advice: You, the Audience, Have Spoken!

79

Bad Advice: "Just Get Over It!"

80

A Thought is Not a Feeling

81

The Mountain and the Valley

82

We Have to Learn

83

The Imprint

84

AnneMarie Anderson: Brain Sex

85

Every Day Narcissism

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Your Inner Child: How to Make Contact and Why You Need To

87

The Root of Violence

88

Real Rest

89

Listener Requested: How an Eating Disorder Can Heal with Courtney Grimes, LCSW

90

The Triangle of Madness

91

The Middle Step

92

The Real Pandemic

93

Tell Yourself the Whole Story

94

Let's Pop the Bubble of Shame, Shall We?

95

Stop Comparing Yourself to Perfect

96

Jeremy Lister: Recovering What Was Lost

97

It's Human Nature

98

Those Pesky Emotions

99

The Point of Reference

100

"New Year, New You" ... Blech!

101

The Final Installment of the Yearly Inventory: YOU

102

The Yearly Inventory: Part III

103

The Yearly Inventory: Part II

104

The Yearly Inventory: Part I

105

The Holiday Trap

106

The Frame

107

Listener Requested: Breaking Free From People Pleasing

108

An Issue That Affects All of Us

109

Dolly Josette: REAL Sexual Healing

110

Listener Requested: Dysfunctional Family Roles, Part 2

111

Listener Requested: Dysfunctional Family Roles, Part 1

112

Sit In It

113

The Big, Bad DTR

114

Perhaps the Greatest Loss of All

115

The Inner Dialogue

116

If You Would Only Do This One Thing

117

The Narcissist's Toolbox

118

Patrick Hayes: Redefining Success

119

The Grief No One Tells You About

120

Stinkin' Thinkin'

121

Stay Centered in Your Core

122

You Have the Right to Remain Sane

123

Now I'm Mad

124

Life is Not an Ice Cream Sundae with a Pony Ride

125

Listener Requested: an Episode on Listening

126

Getting Your Priorities Right: Tina Parol

127

Is this field doing more harm than good?

128

Leaving Toxic

129

It's Never Too Late

130

The Path to a Meaningful Life

131

The Truth About Self-Care

132

The Essence of Shame

133

Conflict: The Long and the Short of It

134

The Way of Transformation: Dr. Brian Hooper

135

Mental Discipline

136

The Body Knows

137

Your Emotional Diet

138

Healed People Heal People: Angela Wittenberg

139

You Know You're Healing When...

140

The Psychology of Cults

141

The Relationship Killer

142

The Healing Space: Brad Ramsey, Principal Designer at Brad Ramsey Interiors

143

A Subtle but Devastating Wound

144

A New Definition of Love

145

Trust the Process

146

That Gut Feeling: Liz Sanfilippo, NTP

147

All Things Self

148

The Gentle Path

149

Connect More

150

Bring It In

151

Read the Room

152

The Work

153

The Yearly Inventory

154

The Cost Benefit Analysis of Doing Your Work

155

Love Grows

156

The Real Issue

157

Q & A

158

Core Beliefs

159

Time Takes Time

160

The House of Mirrors

161

Why We Need Boundaries

162

Substance Over Appearance

163

Living Numb

164

Read the Signs

165

Get Your Heart Back

166

Ten Unavoidable Truths Part II

167

Ten Unavoidable Truths Part I

168

The Five Stages of Waking Up: Acceptance

169

The Five Stages of Waking Up: Sadness

170

The Five Stages of Waking Up: Bargaining

171

The Five Stages of Waking Up: Anger

172

The Five Stages of Waking Up: Denial

173

The Mechanics of Change

174

The Trip of a Lifetime

175

The Foundation

176

Get Out of Your Own Way

177

Connect the Dots

178

The Power of Personal Accountability

179

The Cave You Fear to Enter

180

Connected, Not Happy

181

No, you're not crazy.

182

We Need To Talk About Depression... Differently

183

The Nearly Impossible Job of Being a Human Being

184

The Importance of Authenticity

185

The Importance of Integrity

186

Love Matters Part II

187

Love Matters Part I

188

We Have to Face Our Pain

189

What is Emotional Health?

190

What is Mental Health?

191

Growth