Today's episode takes the CBT lens to the concepts of the "Ick," gaslighting and trigger warnings.

This episode is our sale's pitch for having more fun. We discuss what gets in the way, how emotions and mental illness can make it harder to feel joy and strategies to make more time for fun.

This episode is a follow up to the previous episode. This episode digs into the cost of polarization, ways to think about moving forward, and where people get stuck in black and white thinking about politics.

This episode we are taking a look at political culture and climate and the role psychology plays in how we think about political divisiveness, tribal politics and relating to people in the political sphere.

We will discuss common distortions associated with political polarization. We will also take a look at the Pew Research Study: Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology and discuss our thoughts on this.

Pew study to be found here:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-vs-blue-the-political-typology-2/

In this episode, we discuss assumptions we have around the capacity for people to change. We discuss thoughts and behaviors that keep people stuck in the belief that they cannot change. We discuss adopting an attitude of openness towards possibility of change. We cover the process of behavior change and tips to create behavior change in your own life.

This episode is a dive into our favorite word: No. We talk about why people struggle to say, people pleasing and consequences of not saying no. We discuss emotions of anger, resentment and guilt associated with saying/not saying no. We discuss why saying no and being genuine is a show of self respect and respect for the other person. We discuss ways to set boundaries and practice saying no more. Lastly, we discuss learning to tolerate disappointment and the value of that.

The frequency of difficult, scary and painful events are happening at a frequency that most are finding untenable .There a lot of big emotions on/offline, which are hard to feel on a nonstop, daily basis. The goal of this podcast to sort through thoughts, feelings, attitudes and how we may suggest thinking through these so to not get stuck in big emotions and hopeless thinking and still try to find purpose, meaning and enjoyment in life.

This episode is all about fighting on the Internet. We discuss our observations and thoughts about how and why it happens. We point out distorted thoughts around internet arguments. We reviewed types of biases and it's application to subject. Lastly, we talk about fallibility and how to increase our own awareness to bias on the internet and within ourselves, as well as how to interact with internet debate in a more healthy way.

On this episode, we dig into our thoughts on social media. We discuss benefits and utility of it, some issues we see with it and suggestions to moderate how you use and consume it.

This podcast was recorded right after the Uvalde, Texas school shooting. We spent the episode debriefing on thoughts, feelings and perspectives in digesting the news story as people, parents and therapists.