Episode #219: Why You Can't Focus (And What To Do About It)
Release Date: 04/09/2025
Battle Cry Of The Anxious Attacher
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's episode, your humble host considers the psychology of attachment styles, and waxes semi-eloquent about how anxious attachment has affected his experience of life, music, rejection, and relationships as a prelude to reminding listeners just how beautiful, powerful, and valuable they are. Follow the show at .
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A Few Of My Favourite Things
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
After the vulnerability of last week's episode, your humble host lightens up with an "introductory" episode this week, waxing semi-eloquent about his favourite songs, movies, writers, books, and tv shows, and sharing some personal history along the way. Just in case you were, you know, wondering .... Follow the show at .
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Drowning Lessons
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's episode, your humble host confesses a life-long shame, and waxes semi-eloquent about adult swimming lessons, appearing on the Music City Live tv show, vulnerability as inspiration, Cheers, and pushing through the fears that stop you from experiencing what life could really be. Follow the show at .
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Support LIVE Music
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's episode, your humble host encounters AI-generated songs for the first time, and waxes semi-eloquent about new music by Sombr, having the strength to get undressed for someone new, celebrity social media encounters, the Spanish Inquisition, and whether Laura Guldemond of Burning Witches is God. Follow the show at .
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Hide Your Heart?
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's episode, your humble host shares insights from a recent solo trip to Mexico, and waxes semi-eloquent about not succumbing to bitterness, staying open in the face of suffering, and the curious recording history of the song Hide Your Heart. Follow the show at .
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Joyful Easy
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's episode, your humble host offers encouragement to those who are struggling to find joy and purpose, and waxes semi-eloquent about car washes, reframing roadblocks as redirection, the subtle wisdom of Jeff Spicoli, and pursuing what is joyful and easy. Follow the show at .
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Control Your Dinks
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's episode, your humble host exploits a dodgy double entendre to share life lessons learned from pickleball, and waxes semi-eloquent about single guy obsessions, waiting for and seizing opportunities, enduring difficult times, and learning to take it easy on yourself when you get it wrong. Follow the show at .
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You Get What You Need
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's somewhat loose episode, your humble host confesses to being triggered by a song, and waxes semi-eloquent about working from intuition, cultivating faith in the future while honouring the present, and Anika Nilles joining Rush. Follow the show at .
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Turn Turn Turn
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's episode, your humble host goes down another strange Biblical rabbit hole, and waxes semi-eloquent about the connection between the Book of Eccelsiastes and a quintessential 1960s pop song, the legend of Pete Seeger, Silesian weavers, the Red Scare, and simple antidotes to suffering. Follow the show at .
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Which Wolf Are You Feeding?
Semi-Eloquent With John Huff
On this week's episode, your humble host considers the parable of the wolves, and waxes semi-eloquent about choosing to focus on things that inspire joy, connection, and community in the context of a weekend gig (which included Taylor Swift, a wedding party, and bowling!). Follow the show at .
info_outlineOn Episode #219, your humble host celebrates the sixth anniversary of the podcast, and waxes semi-eloquent about the reasons why it can be hard to focus on a project, identifying and facing fear, getting real about motivation, and launching wobbly. He also offers a lament for Frank the cat.
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* Door close sound effect by Caroline Ford, courtesy of soundbible.com. Creative Commons attribution 3.0.