Episodes
March 3, 2020
Death Anxiety
The awareness of death is the downside of human intelligence. Life must end for all living beings, but only humans may grasp its existential meaning. Intellectually we may acknowledge our mortality, but deep down, we deny it....
Feb. 25, 2020
Hidden Rage
Despite popular opinion, anger issues aren't only of the loud/screaming/throwing things variety. Sometimes the signs are a lot more subtle, and may even go mostly unnoticed. Recognizing them, however, can mean saving your rel...
Feb. 18, 2020
Ghosting: Where did you go?
Ghosting means suddenly discontinuing all contact with another person to end a relationship. Ghosting can be failing to respond to a text exchange with someone you’ve never met, cutting off contact with someone you’ve dated a...
Feb. 4, 2020
Pride and Humility: Which is more powerful?
We all live a constant battle of pride vs humility, which is really just a war against two half’s of the same person. It’s you verses you. You are the only opponent against your inner greatness—against your humility. A person...
Jan. 28, 2020
Set Boundaries or Have Your Life Hijacked
Each of us tries to erect a boundary around the parts of ourself we want to keep private, or at least shielded from those with whom we’re not intimate. Some people are more vigilant about raising those firewalls than others, ...
Jan. 21, 2020
Attitudes and Behavior
Although we might use the term in a different way in our everyday life (e.g., “Hey, he’s really got an attitude!”), social psychologists reserve the term attitude to refer to our relatively enduring evaluation of something, w...
Jan. 14, 2020
The Atheist and Agnostic: The Post-Christian Western World
No matter what their reasons or how they approach the question, agnostics and atheists are fundamentally different, but also non-exclusive. Many people who adopt the label of agnostic simultaneously reject the label of atheis...
Jan. 7, 2020
Politics, Media and Anxiety
Political uncertainty can be challenging, regardless of your beliefs or where you might fall on the political spectrum. For many Americans, the transition of power and the rapid speed of change may cause stress and anxiety ab...
Dec. 31, 2019
Pornography and Porndogs
Pornography, often colloquially referred to as porn, is any sexually explicit material—written, visual, or otherwise—that is intended to sexually arouse. While pornography has existed in some form for millennia, today it’s mo...
Dec. 24, 2019
Eudaimonia: Becoming Our Best Version of Us
The ancient Greek philosophers were pretty much obsessed with the idea of a good life. Their whole way of life was organized around ideas about what makes a human life “good” or “noble” or “worthwhile.” While others pursued c...
Dec. 10, 2019
Judgy People
We’re constantly taking in information about our social world, and this can involve judging people. These judgments can be super quick and automatic. Some research has even shown that we can form pretty accurate impressions o...
Dec. 3, 2019
Borderline Personality: The Art of Gaslighting
Borderline personality disorder is a chronic condition that may include mood instability, difficulty with interpersonal relationships, and high rates of self-injury and suicidal behavior. Borderline personality disorder (BPD)...
Nov. 26, 2019
Raised By Abuse
The brains of children raised in violent families resemble the brains of soldiers exposed to combat, psychologists say. They're primed to perceive threat and anticipate pain, adaptations that may be helpful in abusive environ...
Nov. 19, 2019
Seasonal Depression
When daylight hours start to decrease and it gets colder outside many people may find themselves experiencing symptoms resembling depression. For some the symptoms are relatively brief. Tempers may seem shorter for parents st...
Nov. 12, 2019
Emotional Flooding: Fear Strikes
One of the biggest relationship challenges that people struggle with is emotional flooding. It’s something that happens to everyone sometimes, and if you don’t know how to respond to it, it can escalate conflict and create di...
Nov. 5, 2019
The Power of Resilience
Adversity is a fact of life. Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back at least as strong as before. Rather than letting difficulties or failure overcome them and dr...
Oct. 29, 2019
False Memory and Manipulation
Although memories seem to be a solid, straightforward sum of who people are, strong evidence suggests that memories are actually quite complex, subject to change, and often unreliable. Memories can be reconstructed as people ...
Oct. 22, 2019
The Law of Attraction
You may have a pretty good idea about what it is you’re attracted to: hair color, eye color, height, smell… Smell? Believe it or not, your subconscious has quite the strong opinion when it comes to finding others attractive. ...
Oct. 15, 2019
Diagnosis STUPID
Stupidity is in all of us. However, the degrees of stupid varies. . We are influenced by various cognitive biases that we are not aware of. The music we are listening to influences our opinion of the wine we drink, the weight...
Oct. 8, 2019
Maniacs: Bi-Polar Disorder
Bipolar disorders, or manic-depressive illness, is a group of disorders characterized by the presence of pronounced high-energy phases known as manic episodes. Typically, unusual shifts in mood and energy manifest in increase...
Oct. 1, 2019
Shaped by Attachment
The emotional bond that typically forms between infant and caregiver is the means by which the helpless infant gets primary needs met. It then becomes an engine of subsequent social, emotional, and cognitive development. The ...
Sept. 24, 2019
Self Entitlement Revealed
Self-entitlement is when an individual perceives themselves as deserving of unearned privileges. These are the people who believe life owes them something; a reward, a measure of success, a particular standard of livinA sense...
Sept. 17, 2019
Sex Addiction: Human Horn Dogs
For some people, persistent sexual desires, thoughts, and behavior can become problematic. Such individuals may become preoccupied with sexual fantasies and urges, and a subset will act on these impulses while feeling that th...
Sept. 10, 2019
Despicable Us
We are all despicable in various forms of despicableness. If we all could come to grips with that, than we understand that what makes us despicable are often triggered as coping or defense mechanisms that display our personal...