Podcast Episodes

BONUS Entering Yer HAUNTED self 👻 Choose your own spookventure begins!

We're doing something extra 💀 It's a halloween, election, and holiday season special! 💀 Today we begin exploring our abandoned selves and exorcising …

1 year, 4 months ago

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4.10 Reconnecting with your haunted self

Season 4 Episode 10

Being with you... isn't an innate skill after trauma. And yet, we must, or we'll never recover. Take this long treat of an episode to start practicin…

1 year, 4 months ago

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4.9 Obstacles to Actual self-Love After Trauma

Season 4 Episode 9

The filthiest words: love yourself. 🤮 Why does trauma create barriers between us and... not hating us? Talkin' lost relationships, criteria for love,…

1 year, 5 months ago

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4.8 Self Compassion; the Daily Battle for Recovery

Season 4 Episode 8

Education and Responsibility are important for t-recovery... But progress peters when self-punishment predominates. Without self-compassion, regressi…

1 year, 6 months ago

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4.7 Major Image-Distorting self-Defenses [Splitting and Projective Identification]

Season 4 Episode 7

When life serves conflictual and confusing information, our brains simplify it to survive... and fuck us over in the long-run. Let's talk about the "…

1 year, 7 months ago

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4.6. Acting out, Help-rejecting complaining, and Passive Aggression; The (most) Immature Defenses

Season 4 Episode 6

Ready to learn about the maladaptive tendencies of your most difficult relational partners? When we don't believe we're "entitled" to a need or emoti…

1 year, 8 months ago

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4.5 Narcs, Defense Mechanisms, & (non)Recovery: Intellectualizing, Rationalizing, and Reactionary Decision Making

Season 4 Episode 5

We've learned that narcs don't generally recover because of their "creative narration" abilities. Now, let's talk about some of the ways they spin th…

1 year, 9 months ago

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4.4. Pathological Structuring of Narcissists (Or, No Integrity without Integration)

Season 4 Episode 4

They'll shake your hand while pissing on your leg, plead and then pulverize promises, and generally give the sense that they're one hundred people wh…

1 year, 10 months ago

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4.3. Healing with "Adaptive Narcissism" and Uniqueness | Leveraging Stigma for Permissive self-Healing

Season 4 Episode 3

"Just feel good about your authentic self and don't let anyone wreck your recognition of specialness." Right. Let's talk about what may be holding us…

1 year, 10 months ago

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4.2. Filial Obligation Narratives, Ambivalence, Perception, and Guilt

Season 4 Episode 2

Why is the decision to sacrifice or save our brains so difficult to make? Let's talk about subconscious narratives we probably all carry, the ambival…

2 years ago

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