How to Use Your Diagnosis (Without It Using You)
Receiving a diagnosis can be emotionally challenging, and leave a person with a lot of understandable questions: What does this mean? What do I do now? How do I relate to this? On this episode Dr. Ric...
22 Aug 20221h 7min
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with Dr. Albert Garcia Romeu
There’s been an explosion of interest in psychedelics over the last 10 years, and phrases like “psychedelic-assisted therapy” have gone from the relative fringes of the mental health conversation to b...
15 Aug 20221h 8min
Relating to Death, and Living a Better Life
The median life expectancy for a man living in the United States is roughly 80 years. That works out to 960 months, 4,160 weeks, or about 29,000 days. Rick is sneaking up on 70 years old, which means,...
8 Aug 20221h
Changing Your Relationship to Shame
Shame is one of the most complex and difficult emotions we experience on a regular basis, and one that can have seriously negative impacts on our sense of self-worth and ability to experience healthy ...
1 Aug 20221h
The Grieving Brain with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor
There’s a lot of loss in the world these days, both in our individual lives and in our broader communities, and with those losses comes grief. Grief is one of the most challenging emotions to be with,...
25 Juli 20221h 11min
Borderline Personality Disorder: Regulation, Nurturance, and Compassion
One of the most important and challenging skills we can develop is learning to regulate our strong emotions. While it’s very natural to have fluctuations in how we feel about others and ourselves, for...
18 Juli 20221h 1min
How to Make Learning STICK
One of the most important skills we can develop is learning how to learn–how to update old beliefs about ourselves, take in new information, and build psychological resources like courage, gratitude, ...
11 Juli 20221h 2min
Rediscovering Your True Self: Parentification and the "Gifted Child"
When a child is particularly emotionally intelligent, and a parent is particularly emotionally vulnerable, an inversion of the typical relationship can occur where the child devotes themselves to meet...
4 Juli 20221h 2min
