why psychiatry failed her: laura delano on misdiagnosis, medication, and coming back to life
What is the cost of being a “good patient”? For Laura, it was nearly her life.Join me as I sit down with Laura Delano, author of the groundbreaking memoir Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Re...
8 Heinä 20252h 3min
the real reason you’re afraid of the devil (you’re possessed, and it looks nothing like the movies)
This episode plunges into the most feared symbols in the Western imagination: Lilith, Lucifer, the Devil, the Serpent, and the Dragon, and asks what we’ve buried, projected, or misunderstood in our ef...
3 Heinä 202537min
the psychology of love island USA S7: why it broke the internet (and what it says about us)
This is an in-depth psychological breakdown of Love Island USA Season 7, one of the most viral and culturally polarizing seasons in the franchise’s history. Drawing from attachment theory, nervous sys...
1 Heinä 20252h 6min
you’re NOT crazy, you’re remembering the real world.
We’ve all had moments that totally flipped our idea of reality on its head. Maybe it was an image from a dream that stayed with you for weeks, a phrase that popped into your head out of nowhere that l...
26 Kesä 202528min
why personality ISN'T a prison (unless you let it be)
If you were to believe the dominant frameworks of modern psychology, psychiatry, and popular self-help, you might assume that personality is a fixed structure. An inherited configuration of traits, di...
24 Kesä 20251h 41min
what you're calling a breakdown might be a dark baptism
Some people call it a breakdown. Others call it trauma. But when you look closely, these moments often follow a pattern. These moments come at a threshold (whether it’s psychologically, spiritually, e...
17 Kesä 20251h 18min
let them cook: shadow work, shame, and the stew of self
You’ve probably seen the phrase: let him cook. It gets used online when someone’s deep in a process that looks weird from the outside. Messy, maybe misguided… but people step back and give it space. T...
12 Kesä 202515min
dancing with the devil part 2: the return (how to grow the f*ck up and quit calling red flags soulmates)
This is Part Two of a two-part series. In Part One, we talked about what it feels like to override your gut instinct and confuse danger with connection. We became conscious of the pattern, and I share...
10 Kesä 20251h 1min
