The popular cartoonist @AlecWithPen shares his history with depression, anxiety, failed relationships, a wealthy but distant family, his type A Olympian dad, low self-esteem, trying to find his passion & how he finally channeled it into his drawings. Also Dr. Ellen Hendriksen reads a chapter from her book How To Be Yourself on social anxiety and making friends.
@AndreaBrandtPhD is a 77 year-old veteran psychotherapist, teacher and author shares her insights into how we can embrace aging and mortality to deal with feelings of irrelevance and anger and find contentment thru acceptance, mindfulness, passion and purpose. Dr. Brandt is the author of Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life After 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose and Joy
Note: This episode was recorded in 2018 but not previously released.
Her lifelong fear of commitment was masked behind an obsession with emotionally available men – Christina shares how she personally changed and healed her pain to be able to recognize and accept healthy love including self-love.
The hilarious blogger/author of Ramshackle Glam @RamshackleGlam and The Big Activity Book For Anxious People shares about her battles with anxiety, relationships and being replaced as the creator and lead actress on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She and Paul also get into some fun Fears and Loves.
The comedian @RyDoon shares about his battles with depression, fear of failure, huge financial and professional setbacks (he had a huge following on Vine before it was retired), having a mother with BiPolar I, and alcohol.
Paul’s former Dinner and a Movie cohost and very first guest on the podcast returns to share about fears, loves, panic attacks, people pleasing, hurt feelings and her battles with personalization displacement syndrome.
The IT entrepreneur and writer who created the Mend app talks about her struggles with obsessions and letting go especially after breakups or loss, how she is creating a community online to deal with the shame, isolation, obsession and feelings of rejection and not being enough. She also talks about the sickness of working to extreme exhaustion and trying to find validation outside of her accomplishments.
The comedian and podcaster (New Player Has Joined) @KeithKingbay opens up about his financially privileged but emotionally barren childhood, verbal abuse from youth hockey coaches, and discovering himself thru video games.
The licensed therapist and author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone shares about common issues people deal with in therapy and ways that we are our own worst enemy. Paul shares about adopting a dog, plus great listener descriptions of their food issues anxiety and depression.