246 SelfWork: Building Everyday Compassion: A Conversation with LinkedIn's Scott Shute
Every day I receive a bunch of emails from publicists, publishing houses, or teachers on every subject you could think of to suggest either themselves or their client to be a guest on SelfWork. It's a...
24 Aug 202141min
245 SelfWork: "How Could I Have Not Known?" The Shock of Sudden Suicide
Sometimes I receive an email that tears at my heartstrings. And this week was one of those times. I’ll read you the email – the heads up is that it’s about a sudden and totally unexpected suicide that...
20 Aug 202124min
244 SelfWork: Why We Lie (Even In Therapy)
Today we're going to focus on why we lie to each other, to ourselves and even in therapy. We'll touch on severe manipulative lying, called pathological lying, and compulsive lying, but most of the epi...
13 Aug 202126min
SelfWork YGTG: Simone, Stigma and Suicide
On today's You Get the Gist, I’m wanting to make a couple of points that may or may not have occurred to you while you heard about or you were watching Simone Biles’ journey at the Olympics. First, I ...
10 Aug 20215min
243 SelfWork: Handling Sudden Loss: A Personal Story
This week was very hard as one of my close family members died suddenly. I didn’t know if I’d have the energy or even the ability to do a podcast. So, I looked for one that I might add on to - maybe ...
6 Aug 202120min
242 SelfWork: The Over-Apologizer. Are You One?
Do you or someone you know apologize all the time? This can stem from several dynamics – if you’re in an abusive relationship currently or there was trauma in your childhood where you’ve grown up beli...
30 Jul 202126min
SelfWork YGTG: Is Therapy Self-Indulgent?
For today's YGTG, or "You Get the Gist", I was pondering what a patient of mine said the other day. He had to struggle a bit with the idea that therapy – for him – felt a little self-indulgent. He fol...
26 Jul 20214min
241 SelfWork: The Hidden Opponent in College Athletics: A Frank Conversation with Victoria Garrick
The Hidden Opponent is the name of D1 College Athlete Victoria Garrick's TedTalk. And it's powerful. Who is she? She's a former Division I Volleyball Player, TED Talk Speaker and has now become a soci...
23 Jul 202139min
