A podcast episode on naming your favorite negative emotion, the cathartic and addictive nature of worry and similar feelings, and how connecting to yourself can break the cycle.

Continue reading Ep 36 – Your Favorite Misery, Addiction To Worry And How To Connect To Yourself To Stop at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A podcast episode on the interdependent relationship between feeling at one and feeling alone, and a challenge to the belief that growth requires suffering—outlining, with examples, what an effective growth experience actually needs.

Continue reading Ep 35 – Oneness And Aloneness Plus Growth Through Challenge Versus Suffering at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A podcast episode on why impossible goals are worth pursuing and how to achieve them by breaking them into smaller, immediate goals and benefits, plus how to handle the people—including yourself—who discourage big ambitions.

Continue reading Ep 34 – Achieving Impossible Goals And Dealing With The People Who Discourage Them at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A podcast episode on the neuroscience of listening—how our brains mimic a speaker's neural patterns and brainwaves through voice and writing—and how what we choose to tune in to reshapes our own minds.

Continue reading Ep 33 – Tuning In – The Neuroscience Of Reading People Through Voice And Writing at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A podcast episode on the capacity to love and be loved, arguing that those who act unloving may lack the capacity to love others beyond how they love themselves, and how to use this to assess yourself and others and further your growth.

Continue reading Ep 32 – The Capacity To Love And Be Loved – How To Assess Others And Grow Your Own Capacity at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A podcast episode distinguishing freeing up your time from freeing up your attention, how open attention gives rise to intention, and how to send a consistent signal of your intentions while releasing attachment to the outcome.

Continue reading Ep 31 – Freedom of Attention, Intention and Letting It Go And The Strongest Most Consistent Signal To Design Your Life Before Someone Else Does at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A podcast episode arguing that you can will yourself to exercise your will and choose who to be, using the question of what you need to BE to guide action, and learning to recognize when someone fakes a later developmental stage to manipulate you.

Continue reading Ep 30 – Willing Yourself To Will, Figuring Out What To Do By Asking What To Be, and Recognizing When Someone Is Faking A Stage To Manipulate You at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A podcast episode on when and how to take a healthy break from specific family members, and the conditions required for genuine reconnection, drawn largely from the host's own experience and applicable to close friends as well.

Continue reading Ep 29 – Family – When And How To Walk Away Or Reconnect at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A wide-ranging podcast episode touching on whether peace means an open heart, why and how to dive into love, a long list of reflective questions, how surgery can resurface unresolved trauma, and avoiding a commuting-induced negative attitude.

Continue reading Ep 28 – Peace, Open Hearts, Diving Into Love, Great Questions, Surgery and Past Trauma And Avoiding Commuting-Induced Negative Attitudes at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.

A podcast episode on the taboo of religion — discomfort with its inconsistencies alongside its benefits, how any faith can be used to justify any behavior, and how to identify your developmental stage when you seem to occupy several at once.

Continue reading Ep 27 – Religious Discomfort, Rejection And Justification, and How To Know What Stage You Are In at Dr. Kathryn Colleen, PhD.