What is the connection between aerophobia and grieving the loss of a parent with whom you had a complicated relationship? On the surface, these things are seemingly unrelated. However, for my special celebrity guest Zoë Ligon who examines her experiences of panic while flying, we began to understand the panic as a trigger for past trauma and terror about returning to a time of compromised safety. We found some meaning in the airborne space between destinations (a kind of limbo) and began to conceptualize it as a unique site where contradictions can exist. That is, we can process the complex grief of a father who was both abusive and loving.

Note: Usually,  a phobia is met with a CBT tool that focuses on behaviour more than thoughts, such as an 'exposure hierarchy'. This episode demonstrates how a thought record might also be useful in such an instance.

SPECIAL GUEST:
Zoë Ligon (aka the “Dildo Duchess”) is a sex educator, writer, badass artist, and owner of the very cool and well-curated Spectrum Boutique--an online education-oriented sex toy store based out of Detroit: https://spectrumboutique.com
 
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ABOUT THE CBT DIVE PODCAST
The CBT Dive is a video podcast that brings therapy skills to the real world. Each episode welcomes a new guest who wants to explore a challenging situation using the most common cognitive behavioural therapy tool: the thought record.

ABOUT HOST
Rahim Thawer is a queer, racialized social worker and psychotherapist based in Toronto. He's created The CBT Dive podcast to support folks who want to learn how to use a thought record and to demystify what therapy can look like.

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Do you (or someone you know) struggle with following through on personal projects? It's really hard to have a brilliant mind and always second-guess yourself. This is the struggle for many adults living with ADHD including this week's guest on The CBT Dive. In this episode, we explore how Zee compares himself to others whose job performance and career trajectories seem linear and straightforward while he worries that his knowledge and lived experience don't measure up. The cycle of ADHD is clear: Zee has great ideas and lots of ambition but struggles in certain domains (time, organization, self-esteem); then, he "drops the ball" and feels like a failure, which reinforces his beliefs about not being good enough without having given his ideas a try.
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ABOUT THE CBT DIVE PODCAST
The CBT Dive is a video podcast that brings therapy skills to the real world. Each episode welcomes a new guest who wants to explore a challenging situation using the most common cognitive behavioural therapy tool: the thought record.

ABOUT HOST
Rahim Thawer is a queer, racialized social worker and psychotherapist based in Toronto. He's created The CBT Dive podcast to support folks who want to learn how to use a thought record and to demystify what therapy can look like.

THE CBT DIVE
📸 Instagram: Instagram.com/thecbtdive

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Gay men talk quite a bit about body image concerns and pressures to either achieve or maintain a particular physique. This preoccupation is about optimizing the ways they can participate in gay men's spaces, including dating and hookup culture. In this episode, we meet Al who seemingly has the body he's always wanted but we dig a bit deeper into the culture of 'never being enough' that begins with a fear of being overlooked and lands him in a place where he questions his worthiness.

ABOUT THE CBT DIVE PODCAST
The CBT Dive is a video podcast that brings therapy skills to the real world. Each episode welcomes a new guest who wants to explore a challenging situation using the most common cognitive behavioural therapy tool: the thought record.

ABOUT HOST
Rahim Thawer is a queer, racialized social worker and psychotherapist based in Toronto. He's created The CBT Dive podcast to support folks who want to learn how to use a thought record and to demystify what therapy can look like.

THE CBT DIVE
📸 Instagram: Instagram.com/thecbtdive

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ABOUT THE CBT DIVE PODCAST
The CBT Dive is a video podcast that brings therapy skills to the real world. Each episode welcomes a new guest who wants to explore a challenging situation using the most common cognitive behavioural therapy tool: the thought record.

ABOUT HOST
Rahim Thawer is a queer, racialized social worker and psychotherapist based in Toronto. He's created The CBT Dive podcast to support folks who want to learn how to use a thought record and to demystify what therapy can look like.

THE CBT DIVE
📸 Instagram: Instagram.com/thecbtdive

🌐 Main Hub
thepoliticizedpractitioner.com

📱 Socials (Follow Me)

• 🧵 Threads: threads.net/the.politicized.practitioner
• 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/the.politicized.practitioner
• 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rahim-thawer
• 🎵 TikTok: tiktok.com/@politicizedpractitioner
• 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/affective.consulting.psychotherapy.services
• ▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@ThePoliticizedPractiti...