This podcast isn’t a takedown. It’s a wake-up call.

In this opening episode of FFreud, Shrink Me! I Am Just Waking Up, we talk about the danger of not seeing what’s right in front of us — the idealizations, the compromises, the tiny self-betrayals we call “coping.” We adapt, we shrink, and then wonder why we’re hurting.

But waking up doesn’t mean turning against what shaped us. It means re-seeing it with clarity and curiosity.

Yes, I’m Freudian — deeply so. But Ferenczi? He cracked something open. While Freud stood in the spotlight, Ferenczi stood with the patient, with tenderness, with risk. This episode is a tribute to both — and to the power of naming what we once couldn’t see.

Come for the theory. Stay for the reckoning.

Let’s wake up, gently but fully.