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S3E36: Teach Your Friends This Language with Vickey Easa, LICSW

S3E36: Teach Your Friends This Language with Vickey Easa, LICSW

Vickey and I talk about the message perfection is really sending, both inwardly and outwardly, why contempt is always the thing behind being less than or better than, and how we are both still working on all of this in our own lives.

S3E34: Baby Bomb with Stan Tatkin & Kara Hoppe

S3E34: Baby Bomb with Stan Tatkin & Kara Hoppe

Dr. Stan Tatkin and Kara Hoppe, psychotherapists and co-authors of Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents, join the podcast to share their wisdom on creating secure, purposeful relationships in a world that is indifferent to us. They explain why this relationship is so imperative, especially when it comes to raising healthy, happy children.

031: Mother Hunger with Kelly McDaniel

031: Mother Hunger with Kelly McDaniel

Kelly McDaniel, LPC returns to the podcast (she joined us on episode 28: The Legacy of Chronic Loneliness) to explore the legacy of maternal deprivation. Her upcoming book, Mother Hunger, soothes the legacy of shame that accompanies being under-mothered. Mother Hunger addresses the constant search for love —nurturance, protection, and guidance— that may lead to a lifelong quest for what was missing. It’s not about critiquing how you were raised, rather it’s about learning how to heal and re-parent the hungry parts inside. Healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing.

028: The Legacy of Chronic Loneliness with Kelly McDaniel

028: The Legacy of Chronic Loneliness with Kelly McDaniel

We need relationship in order to survive. If you were raised without a secure base you likely learned early on to modify yourself. In this episode I am talking with Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC, CSAT, author and psychotherapist, about the complex trauma of chronic loneliness and how to heal from the toxic stress of disconnection.

026: How Sex Education (Or Lack Of) Impacts Us All with Elizabeth Greenblatt

026: How Sex Education (Or Lack Of) Impacts Us All with Elizabeth Greenblatt

Sexuality is a part of who we are and we all deserve to learn about it in a way that is safe, comfortable, and judgement-free. Learning about positive sexuality is transformative for individuals and society overall. My guest, Elizabeth Greenblatt, strives to support young people develop the skills to navigate their sexuality in a healthy and fulfilling way and believes young people must be at the center of this work.

016: Secure Relationships with Dr. Rebecca Jorgenson

016: Secure Relationships with Dr. Rebecca Jorgenson

Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen joins me to discuss how to avoid common pitfalls and achieve more secure relationships. We talk about how our need to connect is locked in a dance with our insecurities. How our defensive, protective strategies are activated when we feel insecure. Our guard goes up, we go behind a wall, or get critical of others and push them behind a wall. Blocking ourselves from having what we need the most, secure connection. And this is why we need to cultivate safe sacred space to deepen our awareness around how these adaptations to our insecurities inadvertently increase our pain and loneliness rather than cultivate security.