Unapologetically Human with Dan Boivin

In this episode, I share my conversation with Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, aka, The Truthful Therapist.

Pamela has become well-known in recent years for pushing back against the claims of gender ideology and so-called "gender-affirming" medicine. In her work and advocacy to protect those struggling with gender dysphoria and distress, she leans into what the scientific evidence does and does not say. Pamela has been featured in multiple documentaries on the subject and has testified both for and against many bills across the US related to gender medicine.

Check out Pamela's website here, and her new book, A Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families. Follow Pamela online here: IG @the.truthfultherapist Twitter/X @truththerapist YouTube @thetruthfultherapist Substack

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• Pamela's background and the issues in the counselling profession, particularly when it comes to gender ideology and the legislated demands to unquestioningly "affirm" a patient's new identity

• Activist claims about trans suicides vs reality

• Progressive politics on several topics, how people have good intentions, where they go wrong, and how it leads to bad/counterproductive policies

• Recent trainings Pamela's been to and how many people pushing progressive ideologies in her profession are afraid that their narratives are crumbling and the mounting pushback against them

•  How many of the challenges being positioned as unique to the trans community are, in fact, mostly normal human challenges many people struggle with, especially during puberty, trying to find/create your identity, and becoming an adult

• How there are many potential motivations influencing people to adopt a trans identity vs the simplistic narratives being pushed

• The multi-billion dollar industry interests pushing and financing this movement, and how progressive activists are unable or unwilling to acknowledge the complexity of these issues

• The social clout of reinforcing victim identities

• Internal Family Systems and how many useful concepts have been twisted to the point of being pathological

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Thomas Sowell

• Honestly podcast episode with Freddie deBoer, Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?

• JBP’s conversation with detransitioner Chloe Cole and how therapists are neglecting their duties, particularly when it comes to gender dysphoria

• JBP’s conversation with physician, Dr. Miriam Grossman, on the horrifying history of gender ideology and medicine, and how it is destroying families

• JBP's conversation with former clinician working in the field of transgender medicine, Sara Stockton, who helped to create the process to assess gender-dysphoric children for medical intervention, which she regrets

• Explosive Whose Body Is It? podcast episode with Leigh Janet Marshall, Detransition and Growth

• The WPATH Files, which show through leaked documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health that the narratives and interventions for gender medicine are not scientific, not medicine, nor backed by evidence. They also show that many practitioners know that they are not getting proper informed consent from patients or their parents and know that they are causing great harms to them

• Doc: No Way Back: The Reality of Gender-Affirming Care • Doc: Dysconnected: The Real Story Behind the Transgender Explosion • Doc: Trans Mission: What's the Rush to Reassign Gender? • Doc: Cut: Daughters of the West • Doc: Gender Transformation: The Untold Realities • Doc: What is a Woman?

• Resources from Pamela's website

• Therapy First, Psychotherapy as first-line treatment for gender dysphoria

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share my conversation with friend and fellow artist, Vijay Maharaj, who I met during some leadership trainings we both did several years ago.

We talk about many things going on in our society and our world today—circa 07/22/23 when this conversation was recorded—and the absolute clusterfuck of it all. 

Follow Vijay on IG @viijaylm.

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• How I lost the recording of our previous conversation

• The rise and fall of empires through history, cycles of stability and integration and instability and disintegration

• Listening to our inner voice, setting boundaries, and telling people to fuck off

• The trial of Socrates

• The horrific massacres that happened in the 20th century and the ensuing (and continuing/escalating) standoff of mutually assured destruction

• How deeply people have been traumatized and manipulated with fear and propaganda these past few years

• The importance of having people in your life who you can have conversations with where you disagree and not have it threaten the friendship

• The problems with text-based communication, and how the filters we listen through affect how we perceive communication

• The importance of filling your cup up first and stopping people pleasing

• The need for us to find ways to live with each other despite our differences and to actually cultivate tolerance

• The controversy surrounding Jordan Peterson, compelled speech, what he and his actual philosophies are about, and how we cannot have free societies without free speech

• The history of psychological epidemics and how they disproportionately affect women due to biological and psychological vulnerabilities

• The systematic reviews done and stepping back from the so-called “affirmative model“ of gender medicine by Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the UK due to the poor quality of evidence for its efficacy and clear evidence for its dangers and long term repercussions, especially related to minors

• How people get wrapped up into ideologies because they attach their own identity to a set of beliefs and ideas leading people to attack and demonize those who disagree with them

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Honestly podcast with data driven historian, David Turchin, Are We Living Through ‘End Times’?

• Patrick Bet-David / Valuetainment

• JBP’s conversation with Chloe Cole and how therapists are neglecting their duties, particularly when it comes to gender dysphoria

• JBP updates on Ontario College of Psychologists case against him:      - 01/12/23         - 08/24/23       - 01/23/24

• Convicted rapists and murderers self identifying as women to get into women’s prisons/stay out of men’s prisons

• Kellie-Jay Keen’s Let Women Speak events and the violent trans rights activists that show up to try to shut them down, such as what happened in New Zealand

• Layla Jane, who was given a double mastectomy at 13 years old

• Jordan Peterson joke from comedian Aaron Chen’s standup special, If Weren’t Filmed, Nobody Would Believe

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share my conversation with a behavioural analyst who's been working with autistic patients for over a decade, Missy Morris.

Missy is also the host of the podcast, Just Sayin' It, in which she shares deeply personal stories about her life, her beliefs, what she sees going on in the world that not enough people are speaking up about, using her voice to follow her divine path, and many other topics.

We talk about the timeless human experience of good vs evil and how it relates to our world today, being authentic and true to yourself, using your voice, and finding your people. 

Follow Missy on IG @justsayinitpod and Twitter (now "X") @justsayinitpod.

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• The corruption in the world at the level of evil, needing Biblical language to be invoked in order to understand its magnitude 

• The link between vaccines and autism, which in my episode intro leading up to my convo with Missy, I touch upon Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast and the controversy generated discussing the same topic, as well as his  appearance on Bari Weiss' podcast, Honestly

(I forgot to mention the increase in autism from 1 in 10,000 in 1970 to 1 in 36 today. If it's not vaccines, then we've got to have discussions to figure out what has caused this insane increase.)

• How Missy has pushed through the fear of potential social and professional repercussions to speak out in the way that she is

• How differently people think about the exact same subject simply because of tuning into different sources of information cause them to live in different realities

• The mass manipulation of people causing them to turn on each other. (former director of the CIA in 1981, William J. Casey, once said, "We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ...something to think about.) 

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Dr. Vinay Prasad's The Free Press article about what RFK Jr. got right and wrong in his conversation with Joe Rogan

• Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago

• The Tuskegee Experiments and Unit 731  

• After Skool's video on how individuals and societies spiral out of control into a state of Mass Psychosis

• Matias Desmet and Hannah Arendt's work about the history and psychology of authoritarianism and totalitarianism

• Autistic Letterboarding

• Ed Dowd's research on the excess deaths and massive amounts of disabilities that all signs are pointing to being caused by the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share a conversation with my friend, Andrew Choflet, about how our beliefs, values, and identities inform the stories we tell about ourselves, each other, and the world, and orient how we show up in all areas of life.

Follow Andrew on IG @andrewchoflet. Check out his Substack, Agile Faith, here!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• The consequences of the loss of religion and spirituality in Western society, and the need for a unifying belief system

• The conflict between and compatibility of scientific thought and religious beliefs, and figuring out what we actually believe ourselves on our own terms 

• What the Bible actually is, and how, according to a deep analysis by Dr. Jordan Peterson and others, it is  the world's most influential book, or rather, a library of books

• The lack of empathy in those misinterpreting and misrepresenting people they disagree with, and the importance of finding common ground to move conversations forward

• The cultural baggage around religious language and stories vs modernity and secularism

• How the use of story and myth to pass down knowledge is what makes us human

• My trip to Miami to see a modern-day prophet, Dr. Lovy Elias, and my Messiah complex

• How humanity is a superorganism

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Determine your own hierarchy of values with the help of Dr. John Demartini

• The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (The ARC)  

• Actualized.org's amazingly in-depth podcast episodes, What is God? Part 1: A No Bullshit Explanation for Smart People and Part 2: Clear Answers to 70+ Commonly Asked Questions

• The Bible Project and their Paradigm podcast series

• Dr. Wayne Dyer

• Yahya Bakkar

• Dr. Bruce Lipton

• After Skool's video of Dr. Jordan Peterson on the virtue in and need to Become a Monster and learn to control it

• Kurzgesagt's video about the evolution of humanity and adding 10,000 years to our calendar to make it more accurate

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share a conversation with digital marketing exec. and behavioral and organizational psychologist, Bob Hutchins, about his new book, Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma, and a Path Toward Recovery, which he co-authored with Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Jenny Black.

Follow Bob on IG @bwhutchins, or on LinkedIn. Purchase the book here!

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Please reach out with feedback/comments, or questions and to let me know what you'd like to hear or learn more about!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• How modern media and tech are making us addicted, traumatizing us, and a pathway to healing from it

• Why we need to stop viewing our "phones" as simple tools and recognize the true power they represent, both good and bad 

• The importance of practicing being bored and dealing with the discomfort that has us reaching for our phones so often in the first place

• How resilient we are as humans and that we are going to make it through the challenges we're currently faced with

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Bob's TEDx Talk, Ambiguous loss & tragic optimism: Our journey through collective grief

• Jenny's TEDx Talk, The Slow Drip of Media Trauma  

• The Social Dilemma on Netflix / Tristan Harris' work educating about the issues with tech addiction and online media driving polarization and conflict in our societies

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share a conversation with world-renowned poet and author, Iain S. Thomas, about his recently released book, What Makes Us Human: An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions, co-authored with technologist and philosopher, Jasmine Wang, and GPT-3 (before it was released to the public).

Follow Iain on IG @realiainsthomas! Purchase the book here!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• How they went about training GPT-3 to generate the profound questions and answers contained in this book

• Being on the brink of a new creative revolution on par with the invention of language

• Former Google engineer, Blake Lemoine's, claims that Google has already developed a sentient AI (AGI)

• How we can learn to love each other when things seem so bleak and so complex, contentious, and polarized

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• A video of Iain and Jasmine explaining how they wrote the book with GPT-3

• Katie Teague's documentary about the ancient wisdom and healing practices around grief 

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share a conversation with my friend, David, a mental health professional, musician, and one of the most genuinely caring and insightful people I know. 

Follow David on IG @colouring.daydreams! Check out David's debut album here!

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Let's connect!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• David's Christian upbringing and later conversion to Islam, including some of his favourite stories from the Koran

• Examining your life's trajectory, including some of the most important questions in doing so, and standing up for what you believe in against the violent mob

• Living in a post-secular world and how people are adopting new religious-like ideologies and pseudo-religious belief systems

• Being a slave to part of yourself it seems like you can't control, the differences between the prefrontal cortex and the brain stem, and how important it is to learn to have conversations between them 

• Saying you believe in God, but not having a relationship with God

• That we are spiritual beings but that we try to feed our spiritual needs through physical means and how it fails us

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Series: Foundations of Islam by Hamza Yusuf

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share a conversation with my friend, Andrei, a Russian immigrant who studied political science at the University of Toronto.

Andrei and I have connected over the past few years on a number of shared concerns, including the erosion of social norms and institutions in our societies, as well as the breakdown in so many people's ability to establish common ground in communicating with one another, particularly those they disagree with, and the dangers these issues pose to all of us and our democracy.

Follow Andrei on IG @archangelski_!

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• The story of how Andrei was let go from 2 volunteer roles coaching entrepreneurs because a stranger didn't like a comment he made on Instagram, and proceeded to hunt him down to get him fired

• An article Andrei wrote after the murder of George Floyd about the statistics of police killings in America (which sealed his fate in the aforementioned witchhunt)

• Sam Harris' June 2020 podcast episode, Can We Pull Back From the Brink?, deep-diving into the same stats

• Another article Andrei wrote about the destructive impacts of identity politics and cancel culture on society

• What it means to be a citizen, and how we don't want Canada to become like Russia, where people are persecuted for thought crimes

• The complexity of the world, and how contradictory views can be simultaneously true

• Systems-level changes and the goal of creating a healthy society

• The difficulty of not getting emotionally hijacked

• The Matrix/being born into economic servitude 

• Working on changing yourself first/working to become the best version of ourselves

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Negativity bias and the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 errors

• Triggernometry with Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster

• Evolutionary/behavioural psychologist and professor, Dr. Gad Saad

• Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist and author, Chris Hedges, on the collapse of Western society

• The Sandwich Method for providing feedback

• The Munk Debates, and Dialogues series, and Podcast

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I share a deep and wide-ranging conversation with my friend, and men's coach, Colin Cummings.

Follow Colin on IG @iamcoachcolin!

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Let's connect!

For more from Unapologetically Human with Dan Boivin, follow us on Instagram:

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• The importance of community

• Navigating identity changes, being true to ourselves, and becoming secure in who you are

• Cultivating a mindset of gratitude 

• The policing of masculinity on men by other men

• My experiences coming out as bisexual to my family and friends, and how this relates to common challenges people face outside of anything to do with sexuality, such as coming out of the "God closet"

• The need to heal the divide between science and religion, the importance of having things that are sacred, and how we are now living in a post-secular world

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Stoic philosophy (such as from best-selling author, Ryan Holiday)

• Ray Dalio's Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

• The Munk Debates, and Dialogues series, and Podcast

• Dr. Stephen Porges and Polyvagal Theory

• Healing childhood trauma program, Road to Hope

• Personal and professional growth programs from Landmark 

• Mixed-orientation relationships

• Intermittent fasting and the human microbiome

• Eric Thomas, ET The Hip-Hop Preacher

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UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE UNIVERSE!

Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

In this episode, I bring back Sofia Pacitti for Part 2 where we talk all about the rollercoaster that is relationships.

Follow Sofia on IG @fiatheartist!

Topics covered/touched upon: 

• Monogamy vs different types of open relationships, namely, polyamory or ethical non-monogamy (ENM)

• The importance of communication no matter what kind of relationship dynamics you're in, intimate or otherwise

• Our cultural stories about relationships vs reality 

• Giving yourself the time and space to figure yourself out, and how challenging it can be

• Boundaries, self-sabotage, desires, relationship rituals, phases and stages, resentment, and more! 

Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• My first EP, Angel Numbers by Spiritual Superheroes (featuring me, a couple of my best and most talented friends, and some other real cool cats!)

• WellnessTogether.ca (free therapy for Ontario, Canada residents) and BetterHelp.com online therapy

• Aubrey Marcus on Open Relationships

• World-renowned relationship and sex therapist, Esther Perel

• TED Radio Hour and StarTalk Radio podcasts on the history of human promiscuity (I can't seem to find the one I referenced, but please reach out to let me know if you find it! Haha)

UH's theme music was composed by Akira The Don. He's amazing...check out his MEANINGWAVE YT channel! Lyrics and co-production by, yours truly, Max Draxby.

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