All Episodes
This Isn’t Therapy — 235 episodes
Compilation: Family Dynamics
"What Should I Do?" & Cognitive Bias
✨ Astrology ✨ & Coaching vs. Therapy
Digital Isolation & Main Character Energy
The Business of Calm & How to Make a Major Life Decision
Hilary Duff & Sports Betting
Sexistential (Robyn) & Trad Wives
Gift-Giving Pressure & Goodness Anxiety
Oversharing Online + Gen Z Going Sober
Irrational Anger + Productivity Guilt
Being High Maintenance & Being Low Maintenance
Survivor & Hot Girl Walks
The Chore of Self-Care & The Mindset Quiz
Finding Love & Sexy AI Companions
The Default Mode Network & Feeling “Muted”
Extinction of Experience & Friendship Breakups
Decision Fatigue & Being Attracted To Your Therapist
The Drama Triangle & Bedrotting
Setting Good Goals & Disaster Capitalism
🦌🎁 Rizzdolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 🎁🦌
30-Day Digital Detox & The Roles of Social Change
Wayward & "The Performative Male"
Labubus & FOMO-JOMO
Touch Deprivation & Wicked: For Good
K-Pop Demon Hunters & Mushroom Mommies
ENCORE: Giving feedback to your therapist
ENCORE: The pursuit of endless bliss
ENCORE: Is therapy harming kids?
ENCORE: The pressure to be happy
ENCORE: How social media is re-wiring our brain
ENCORE: Doom-slang is making us numb
ENCORE: We talk to an AI therapist!
ENCORE: What to do when therapy isn't working
ENCORE: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
ENCORE: The two most essential skills for relationships
ENCORE: The invisible toll of parentification
ENCORE: Parasocial Relationships
ENCORE: The Empathy Wars
ENCORE: The Opinion Wars
ENCORE: The Attention Wars
ENCORE: Feeling Hopeless
ENCORE: Can AI replace human relationships?
ENCORE: Learning to be alone
ENCORE: Is it possible to be "too emotional"?
The Mind-Body Connection
So what are emotions, anyway?
How to become your true self
Validate me, please!
The problem with positivity: Unpacking the pressure to be happy
Peak Parasocial: The social relationships that aren't
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
The two most essential skills for relationships
Have we lost the plot in our attempts to de-stigmatize mental health?
The Empathy Wars: Declining connection in a divided world
The Opinion Wars: Can we really "agree to disagree"?
The Attention Wars: How the attention economy is reshaping the world… and us
How to be alone without feeling lonely
What to do when therapy isn't working
External validation and the quest for self-worth
Where did all these narcissists come from?
Inside the mind of a Chameleon Kid
Nanoships, microconnections, and bite-sized bonds
Regret It or Forget It: When to regret and when to release
Can AI replace real relationships?
Too much, too young: The toll of parentification
Four questions to help you become self-led
Why does finding hope feel so hopeless?
ENCORE: How the Grinch Stole Therapy
ENCORE: ✨'Twas the Night Before Therapy ✨
ENCORE: Being chronically online
ENCORE: Transference and Countertransference
ENCORE: Learning to adapt
ENCORE: "Thinking isn't doing"
ENCORE: People Pleasing
ENCORE: What are my needs? (Part 2)
ENCORE: What are my needs? (Part 1)
ENCORE: Lying to your therapist
ENCORE: Adulting is hard
ENCORE: Emotional Immaturity
ENCORE: Is doomslang making us all numb?
ENCORE: The eerie hype of self-improvement influencers
ENCORE: Making New Friends
ENCORE: Help! My therapist broke up with me...
ENCORE: Dating apps, hook up culture, and situationships
ENCORE: Hot takes and the pressure to be an expert
ENCORE: Is it my personality or my mental health?
ENCORE: Best Friends Forever? It's a myth.
ENCORE: When therapy sessions become devastating TV
ENCORE: Is therapy harming kids?
ENCORE: Phubbing 🤳✋
ENCORE: The pursuit of endless bliss ✨👀
ENCORE: Parenting your partner
ENCORE: Giving Feedback To Your Therapist
ENCORE: Mattering
ENCORE: AI Therapist vs. Human Therapist
ENCORE: Loneliness vs. Being Alone
ENCORE: The Rise In Therapy Language
Navigating Change
Is doomslang making us all numb?
The Control Paradox
Exploring our inner world
The eerie hype of self-improvement influencers
6 Types of Play Everyone Needs
Does anyone feel like an actual adult?
Loneliness vs Being Alone
Mimetic Rivalries
Vocalizing your needs
Is therapy harming kids?
Why we want what other people want
Giving feedback to your therapist 👀
How social media re-wired us all
Stop Opening Up About Your Mental Health Online
Scrutiny, shame, and Taylor Swift criticism
Brené Brown answers Jake's question
Being chronically online
Can we really fake it ‘til we make it?
The pursuit of endless bliss 🙃✌️
We talk to an AI therapist
Failed Expectations
Asking For A Friend
Emotional immaturity 🥺
How The Grinch Stole Therapy
Adulting is hard
Bonus: We made a Best Indie Podcast list!!
Am I too emotional?
Lying to your therapist
Can therapy fix everything?
Surprise Solo Sesh with Simon 🥵
Debunking the BFF Myth
Mattering
Making new friends
EPISODE 100 🌟😭
Toxic achievement culture
Is it my personality or is it mental health?
Leaving your comfort zone
Taking social risks
Have we lost our sense of play?
Bullying with boundaries
Parenting your partner
Phubbing 🤳🏼
FOMO
Help! My therapist broke up with me...
A couple living in denial
Hot takes, problem spotting, and faking expertise
People Pleasing
Worrying about the future
Finding hope in hopeless times
Building community
🎶 I’m coming out! 🎶
Adapting to difference
How to be yourself
Is the fly-on-the-wall therapy genre unhealthy voyeurism?
The Matrix of Grief
Coping with humor 🤡
Feeling content with life
"Doing isn't being."
“Thinking isn’t doing.”
Taking The Mental Health of Boys Seriously
Therapy taught me...
The rise in therapy language
Self-Diagnosis: Is it valid?
How loneliness reshapes the brain
The Future of Therapy (AI, VR, & Web 3.0)
What are my needs? (Part 2)
What are my needs? (Part 1)
Dating apps, hook up culture and situationships
Am I falling behind?
Rugged Individualism (via Shrek)
Pity, pity, pity
Perfectionism vs. Healthy Striving
Picking Your “Word of the Year”
The 2022 Roundup (Part 2)
✨'Twas the Night Before Therapy ✨
The 2022 Roundup (Part 1)
Transference vs. Countertransference
Meeting the Moment
Popularity (via Mean Girls) 💋
Am I addicted to social media?
Therapy 🚩 Red Flags 🚩
Anger
Does going to therapy make you a good person?
Deflecting with humor 😜
Getting to know our "parts"
How to build better boundaries
Masculinity via the movie Bros
Being sexy online
Learning from mistakes
Regrets
Quiet quitting
SQUAWK & TALK: 2nd anni episode + an announcement!
Working through grief
How to navigate change
Busting even more therapy myths
"Forced Fun"
Difference of opinions
Friendship breakups
Feeling good isn't permanent
Foreboding Joy
Big Box Therapy™
Busting therapy myths
Intergenerational Trauma ft. Encanto
Loneliness
The five types of boundaries
Building better habits
Do resolutions work?
Hearing hard feedback
The four warning signs in a relationship
An urgent pandemic check-in
Breaking up with your therapist
Routes of Safety
Nature vs. Nurture via Disney's Cruella
"If it's not perfect, I'm not starting."
21 Questions - Part 2
21 Questions - Part 1
Perfectionism
The "New" Normal
Pandemic burnout
Struggling to socialize
Masking for a friend
Best friends forever?
The one about childhood friendships
Can I be friends with my therapist?
Impostor Syndrome
Overthinking
The 2020 Roundup
Mindfulness
Toxic positivity, baby
"Instagram Therapy"
The First Session
Connection
Rupture & Repair
Finding a therapist
Avoiding big feelings
Vulnerability city
This Isn't Therapy: Trailer