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Back to SearchEp. 79: Authenticity: Why Being Realistically Real Matters
Episode 79
Living like no-one is watching is a rewarding but somewhat risky approach to life. While not caring what others think can allow us to be authentic, i…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ep. 78: How to Harness the Power of Lists for Your Well-Being
Episode 78
Some of us live by our lists. We do whatever they tell us to do. Others dig their heels in and rebel against whatever chores have been assigned there…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ep. 77: How to Help a Partner, Friend or Relative Who Feels Suicidal
Episode 77
How do you help a partner, relative or friend who feels suicidal? The situation is disturbing for anyone, and can be even more difficult for people w…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ep. 76: The Need to Control: A Compulsive Recipe for Poor Health
Episode 76
It might feel right at times to be all fired up and plowing through a messy house as if it were about to be condemned as inhabitable by the town, fix…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ep 75: 6 Steps to Stop Being Judgmental
Episode 75
It’s human nature to have standards and to compare, but this tendency can go rogue and unleash harsh judgments on others—with results completely cont…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ep. 74: Four Ways that Control Smothers the Flames of Romantic Love
Episode 74
Ah romance. What could feel better than falling in love? Bliss, delight, ecstasy. But those can happen only if we can let go enough to get things goi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ep. 73: Taoist Wisdom for Compulsive Perfectionists
Episode 73
While I find parts of the Tao Te Ching baffling, exasperating and mystifying, Lao Tzu’s encouragement to accept things as they are still conveys an a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 72: 7 Ways to Achieve More Flexibility in Your Relationships
Episode 72
I know that most of my listeners are passionately committed to doing the right thing, unfortunately that can lead to doing the wrong thing. If we get…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 71: Clinging to Sacred Cows: Identity and Worth in the Compulsive Personality
Episode 71
People with compulsive and obsessive tendencies tend to hold on to things—money, objects, time and ideas. We imagine that these things we hold on to …
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep. 70: Are you a compulsive hero or a heroic compulsive?
Episode 70
One way to free ourselves from unhealthy compulsive behavior is to understand our motivations, what drives and actually controls us. While we’re all …
1 year, 6 months ago