Veritas Views (with Veritas Psychology Partners)4 Mar

Why Texts Drain Us, HR Trainings Drag, and Terminal Cancer Hits Different (Two Therapists + AITA)

🛑 Sometimes you have time, but you do not have bandwidth. And that is when small things feel weirdly impossible.

💡 Why do adults struggle to stay present for HR trainings, hard diagnoses, and even simple text threads?

What You’ll Learn:

✔️ Why mandatory HR trainings can feel unbearable, even when the content matters

✔️ What’s really happening in the room, including resistance, fatigue, and quiet anxiety

✔️ How families process terminal diagnoses, and why denial can sound like “he’ll get better”

✔️ How to balance realism with compassion when someone is running on hope and fear

✔️ Why texting can be exhausting, including tone parsing, response pressure, and constant micro-decisions

✔️ A simple bandwidth check that reduces reactivity across work, family, and relationships

🌱 You are not broken. You are often overloaded. The goal is to name it and respond cleanly.

📅 Need support? Veritas Psychology Partners offers private-pay therapy via telehealth in 43 states (including New York). Schedule here: https://www.veritaspp.com/schedule

Meet the Team:

🎙️ Dr. Dan Kessler → https://www.veritaspp.com/dnk

🎙️ Dr. Gayle MacBride → https://www.veritaspp.com/ghm

🎙️ Kelley Buttrick (voice talent) → https://kbvoiceovers.com

🎙️ Michael MacBride (host) → http://www.michaelmacbride.com

🔎 About our experts:

Dr. Daniel Kessler, PsyD, LP, DBSM is a co-founder of Veritas Psychology Partners. He focuses on men’s issues, CBT-I for persistent insomnia and sleep, anxiety/overthinking and performance stress, and relationship repair and intimacy concerns, with a directive, practical style designed for measurable outcomes.

Dr. Gayle MacBride, PhD, LP is a co-founder of Veritas Psychology Partners. Her work centers on CBT-I and behavioral sleep medicine, anxiety and emotional overload in high-achieving women, trauma recovery, and couples therapy (Gottman Method) plus Discernment Counseling, grounded in evidence-based, usable strategies.

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