37: Question Your Feelings, but Don't Dismiss Them
Looking at the "untruth" of "Always trust your feelings" from the book "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. In response, I offer an alternative principle to live b...
30 Nov 202039min
36: Consequences are Inevitable, Learn From Them
As noted by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt in their book "The Coddling of the American Mind," there is an untruth of "what doesn't kill you makes you weaker." To that, we will instead embrace a dee...
17 Nov 202035min
35: Why Hate Feels So Good and What to Do About It
An exploration of hatred within an understanding of our very human need to shape reality to suit our vision of what we believe it to be or should be, and seeing then how anything that gets in the way ...
10 Nov 202028min
34: Election Thoughts - Voting 2020
Democracy is a Value-based interpersonal construct for guiding human behavior. As such, democracy exists at the intersection of humanity's greatest potential and all our foibles. We can aspire to be t...
2 Nov 202022min
33: Self-Care Instead of Self-Harm
Working through the stories that bring us down, that make it difficult to cope with adversity. Exploring three basic truths concerning how we deal with consequences, create meaning/purpose and learn t...
14 Sep 202024min
32: Accepting and Rebounding from Failure
Looking at failure, it's inevitability in our lives and how you can accept, learn from and not define the whole of who you are by it. Will tie the nature of failure to last episode's discussion of beh...
24 Aug 202024min
31: The Values of Behavior
Ever wondered what behavior was all about? Here we explore Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) through the relational structure of Values - Narrative - Behavior. We'll be challenging the usual und...
10 Aug 202033min
30: Pathologizing Human Behavior
Our desire for simple answers is funneled through the intrinsic psychology of having the stories of our lives be consistent. This consistency is always self-serving, in the sense of providing a feelin...
22 Sep 201928min
