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Stacy Schaffer: The Shiny Kid, and a Comfort Kit for Two Houses
Season 2025 Episode 323
Stacy Schaffer works with the child nobody is worried about. She calls them shiny kids: succeeding, organized, often perfectionist, and carrying more…
9 months ago
Dr. Elizabeth Polinsky: The Seven Types of Affairs
Season 2025 Episode 322
Four of the seven have almost nothing to do with the relationship. That is the part Dr. Elizabeth Polinsky wanted to get to in this conversation, bec…
9 months ago
Paul Roseberry: Why Security Means Being Able to Walk Away
Season 2025 Episode 321
Confidence gets talked about as a feeling. Paul Roseberry treats it as information. His argument in this conversation is that confidence is really se…
9 months, 1 week ago
Olaolu Ogunyemi: Raising Resilient Kids Takes a Community
Season 2025 Episode 320
Olaolu Ogunyemi grabbed his kids by the arm every time they wandered toward the street without looking, and he will tell you what that bought him. Co…
9 months, 1 week ago
Ron Platt: A Membership Model for Single and Divorced Families
Season 2025 Episode 319
Ron Platt spent years in insurance, business, and real estate, and time as a foster parent, before he built a membership group aimed squarely at sing…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Marisa De Sa: Can a Narcissist Change? A DBT Therapist Answers
Season 2025 Episode 318
One of DBT's core assumptions is that people are doing the best they can with what they have, and that they are capable of learning new ways of respo…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Alexa Sasha: Healing After Narcissistic Abuse, Past Talk Therapy
Season 2025 Episode 317
Physical injuries are visible and the body has a process for them. Emotional abuse has neither, which is why Alexa Sasha says it can be so much harde…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Ken Childs: Hiring a Private Investigator in a Divorce Case
Season 2025 Episode 316
Insurance fraud, workers' compensation claims, background checks on a new partner, and yes, occasionally a missing cat. What a private investigator g…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Doug Fifer: Negotiating With a High-Conflict Ex
Season 2025 Episode 315
In 25 years as a cop, what wore Doug Fifer down was not the physical danger. It was hostage negotiation: hours on a phone line with someone whose nex…
10 months ago
Jane Frumberg: Internal Family Systems, and Picking a Therapist
Season 2025 Episode 314
Internal Family Systems, developed by Richard Schwartz, asks each person to look inward at their own parts rather than at the relationship in front o…
10 months ago