348 SelfWork: Scrolling On The River: What's Real Fun and What's Depressing?
Increasingly, I’ve noticed a trend in how people are describing “having fun” – and so much of that time, what they’re doing is scrolling thru TikTok or Instagram – Reddit or Quora – or any online com...
7 Jul 202326min
347 SelfWork: The Risk and Fulfillment of Discovering Your Potential (And Here's My TEDx!)
Today I’m offering something different for you. No commercials. Just me and you talking. I’ve said before on SelfWork that I’ve seen so many people become paralyzed in their decision -making about wha...
5 Jul 202312min
346 SelfWork: Borderline Personality Disorder, Guilt, and Building Boundaries
I wouldn’t wish borderline personality disorder on anyone – it’s a truly difficult and chaotic way to live life. Yet it’s just as difficult to be in relationship with someone who lives their life on a...
30 Jun 202330min
345 SelfWork: Making the Hard Job of Caregiving Easier: A Conversation with Cathy Sikorski
There are some people who can take the most difficult situations and find the humor in them. Cathy Sikorski is one of those people. I met her several years ago at a midlife bloggers association meetin...
23 Jun 202339min
344 SelfWork: A Daughter's Determination To Save Lives After Her Mother's Suicide: A Conversation with Donna's Law Creator, Katrina Brees
This interview focuses on suicide prevention so please listen carefully. Here are the international suicide prevention crisis numbers (USA is not 988). I want to read you the first part of the email I...
16 Jun 202335min
343 SelfWork: What's Emotional Regulation? It's Both Self-Control and Self-Protection
There are a lot of mental illnesses that are characterized by intense emotion which then governs behavior, such as in bipolar disorder, major depression, or several personality disorders. But even it ...
9 Jun 202325min
342 SelfWork: Five Ways of Dealing with Defensiveness, Enmeshment Dynamics, and Roles Vs Relationships: Your Questions My Answers
Today is an episode filled with your questions and my answers – one of my favorite things to do here on SelfWork! So today the topics are enmeshment, the difference between playing a role in someone’s...
2 Jun 202323min
341 SelfWork: The Five Mental Mistakes of Depression: 4. Not Seeing the Trees For The Forest. And 5. Unrealistic Expectations.
We’re going to be talking about the last two major mental mistakes or bad habits that can either lead you into depression or be a factor in your depression worsening or sticking around. And those two ...
26 Mai 202327min
