Episodes (Page 18)
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Guest comedian Eleanor Kerrigan discusses childhood among 10 siblings and family dynamics
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Explores Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe's approach to inventing themselves and rejecting conformity
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Host answers listener emails about relationship insecurity regarding partner watching pornography
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Explores selfishness as a positive trait and why women struggle with being selfish
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Explores concept of inertia using Dostoyevsky's philosophy and personal experience of feeling stuck
Dostoyevsky's Inertia
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Examines when creativity can flourish despite life obstacles like illness, parenting, and personal crises
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Uses labor contraction metaphor to explain finding peace in spaces between difficult moments
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Friend Joe shares firsthand experience of off-grid living in Alaska
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Addresses necessity and difficulty of major life transitions
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Continuation of self-hatred discussion due to strong listener response
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Critiques the self-esteem movement, arguing that unconditional self-love isn't realistic for most people
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Guest psychotherapist Mark Barone explains how therapy works and its mechanisms
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Host and friend Cat discuss the gap between public and private attitudes toward motherhood
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Guest Shauna shares experience of spending three weeks alone on an artist retreat in Ireland
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Uses Star Wars as framework to examine the appeal and utility of 'dark side' qualities
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Host shares personal experiences using hypnotherapy for childbirth, weight management, and smoking cessation
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Guest Greg Fitzsimmons discusses parenting despite children being loud, expensive, and demanding
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Identifies anxiety and depression as dominant themes in listener emails and societal experience
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Questions the relevance of marriage in modern era of dating apps and feminism
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Distinguishes between jealousy and envy as separate psychological emotions with different sources