He was just a kid who wanted to get into art school but when he was rejected, he instead got sent to Vietnam. Later he would use painting to process the traumas he experienced.
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Paul and Meredith -who is an online retailer and deals with the public every day- share their stories and thoughts about encountering internet trolls, Social Justice Warriors gone awry and self-righteous bullies.
The improvisor/actor (Comedy Bang Bang, UCB, Adult Swim – Mr. Neighbor’s House) shares about dealing with his co-dependency, urge to fix other people, play the resentful victim and how support groups help him.
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Elizabeth Menzel’s life’s work is understanding and healing trauma trapped in the body – including her own. Originally a trained physical therapist she became intrigued by the link between clients with fibromyalgia and a history of trauma. She found help in Somatic Experiencing and other modes of releasing trauma. She talks about the science of releasing tension and stress, PTSD and sexism – including sharing her own struggles coming from a childhood with an overtly misogynistic father.
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Daniel looks back at his relationship with his soon-to-be-ex-wife; turning from the woman of his dreams to a dangerously violent and unpredictable stranger. He talks about the myths around female on male DV and his experiences before leaving her
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The author of How To Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety, and Harvard Medical School Psychologist shares not only the science of Social Anxiety and ways to deal with it but some of her own battles with it.
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Few guests have revealed as much of themselves as Jessa, a comic and podcaster (Mormon and the Meth-Head) We touch on being molested, fear of intimacy, addiction, mending relationships, sobriety, anger, psych wards, rejection, sexual fantasies most people would never share publicly (rape, being cheated on), psychosis, binge eating and the lengths we will go to get attention.
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Decluttering expert Tracy McCubbin shares about her experiences being raised by a hoarder and how she helps clients part with their stuff. She and Paul get into the topics of materialism, cheap-goods consumerism, compulsive shopping and using “stuff”, especially collecting to avoid feelings or issues in our lives.
Paul’s friend shares about the co-dependent relationship with his longtime lover that ended in tragedy & Todd’s PTSD, porn & meth binges tailspinning into a showdown on his roof vs a SWAT team, before finally having a moment of clarity and getting his life together piece by piece.