Stuff You Should Know About Therapy
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Stuff You Should Know About Therapy
Have you ever wondered what it's like going to therapy? Have you thought about going but are afraid of the stigma around therapy? Do you know someone who goes to therapy, but unsure if you should go? This podcast takes you on a journey of what therapy is like, what is typically talked about, and...
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Are We What's Wrong With The Relationship?
If you want to learn to have a successful relationship, you need to start taking responsibility for everything. You can only control what you do, not...
7 Habits of Successful Relationships
Remember: good relationships don’t fall out of the sky. Good relationships require growth, work, and change. Here are just 7 habits of a successful re...
3 Rules For Long Term Dating
We need to reward hard discussions, not punish them; we need to value our honesty over our partner’s comfort; and we need to remind ourselves that “ea...
Trust & Vulnerability
A trusting relationship is not something you find fully formed in a perfect Tinder profile just a few more swipes away. Trust is something you build w...
Never Stop Trying
In order to find someone to partner with us, we have to do the work to make ourselves whole, on our own. Only then can we partake in a healthy, lastin...
Why Dating Apps Don't Make Finding Love Easier
There are hundreds of apps for every sort of person. You can even filter for all the qualities you are looking for, down to the color of someone’s hai...
Letting Go Of Shame
Many times in life, the shame that we carry with us isn’t even our own. It is the shame of others projected onto us. In order to let go of this, we ha...
Vulnerability Is Not A Weakness
Vulnerability is one of the paradoxical aspects of life, values, and character. By showing our weakness, we prove ourselves strong. Only a strong pers...
Knock Out Shame
Shame is an indicator that we are out of alignment with our deeply held values, whether we realize it or not. This may sound like a simple fix, but it...
Help Reduce Shame
In order to really open up to someone about shame, we have to feel 2 things: 1) Feel like we are being heard 2) Feel like we are not being judged.
The Source of Shame
Often the source of shame is deeply buried in our past. Long ago, when we were dependent children or teens, something hit us emotionally and left us f...
Shame & Gratitude
Shame and gratitude can’t be held in your mind at the same time. If you don’t believe me, try it! If you feel like you can’t feel grateful right now,...
Dealing With Shame
Shame can be a central problem in our lives without us even knowing it. Are you having trouble at work, or do you struggle in a relationship, or are y...
Dreams & Goals
Get your sexual fears behind you! And I don’t mean forget about them, I mean stop letting them get in the way of the life you want to live. How do we...
Falling In Love Too Quickly
For some of us, love can be like a drug. Unlike other drugs, we can’t live without love. Abstinence is not an option, then. How do we live with love i...
Using Tinder In A Healthy Way
While tinder can be a place of really unhealthy dating habits, with the right outlook, it can be done very well and can lead you to healthy, lasting l...
Loving Feelings
Love is not always a sexual feeling, and sexual feelings are not always about love.
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Unwanted Thoughts
Do you have thoughts that you are not proud of? Guess what? You’re human and that’s completely normal. The issue arises when we decide we have a probl...
Informal Discussion
On this special episode, we take a detour of the normal format and have an informal discussion with myself and with Taylor Foreman, head writer for th...
Self Confidence In Our Sexuality
If our goal is to stay with our current partner, be it marriage or just a commitment to each other, then we need to work on our self-image. This is no...
Sex & Communication
What are our values? Because some people don’t know, and if we aren’t clear about them, they can easily slip to something like “power” or “control.” <...
Getting On The Same Page About Sex
Talking about how the sex isn’t good doesn’t mean you’re not meant to be. It just means you need to work on the sex life! Everything that is mentionab...
Sex Without Love
Sex and love are different things, obviously. However, we all have a notion in our heads that they should be together. Or maybe we rebelled from that...
Positive Effects Of Sex
Sex and love are tied together as one is the expression of the other. Yes, you can have sex without love, but it is like dancing without music--weird,...
Sexpectations
Sex isn’t meant to be a performance. There are no grades. In fact, the more honest we can be to ourselves, the more sex will feel like real and intima...
Sex and Shame
When we come from a place of security and joy, not out of obligation or resentment, we want to make our partner feel good, and vice versa.
Su...
Why we need to talk about sex
We have to know what our desires really are before we can find healthy ways to express them, and in order to do that, we have to look closely at the s...
Embrace Self Care
This self care journey never ends. It isn’t a game that we can win and stop playing. It is a river that goes on and on, some wins, some losses. We sho...
Self Care Rituals
If you are lost in the darkness now, I want to say that it can get better. And sometimes it looks like big epiphanies and breakthroughs, but mostly it...
Self Care Can Benefit Others
Giving ourselves time for self-care, benefits not only our friends and family, but every single person we come in contact with, and every person they...
Plan Self Care
I should rest when I feel like resting! Doing things out of obligation is only going to breed resentment and low self-esteem. When we deny the signals...
Being Your Own Top Priority
We can't draw from an empty well. A lot of people see their wells as empty and, in a panic, try to drink from everyone else’s well. It can be an act o...
Prioritizing Self Care
If we always prioritize what is urgent over what is important, then we will create a life that is a never ending rat race. If we always accept being r...
Magnifying Self Care
Self-care, or lack thereof, is either a virtuous cycle, or a vicious one. It’s hard to state how important self-care is, and how valuable compounding...
Self Care
The unglamorous truth about self-care is that it is a whole lot like brushing your teeth. While often not the most exciting thing, it can become somet...
Healing Grief
I want to talk about expectations of healing and how they can make a whole new set of problems. If you scar a tree, the scar never goes away or even g...
Making Meaning Out Of Grief
I want to talk about making meaning out of grief. As we begin to talk about normal life, or getting used to what might be a new normal, we naturally w...
The Positive Side Of Grief
Joy will come back to all of us in ways that we can’t currently imagine. It might be hard to believe, but one day we will look back on this time and b...
Sharing Grief With Others
Sharing what hurts us with people we trust is often the very best way to grow. There is strength in vulnerability, as difficult as that is to see at t...