Session # 15 - These Children That You Spit On (Generational Rant)
Release Date: 03/07/2019
Session # 30 - 2020, Personal Thoughts, and The Advice of My Clients (Year End Episode)
Psychological Content
It's the end of the year 2020. In this podcast there is processing and reflection. There is great music and poetry. Also included is some awesome year end advice from real psychotherapy clients. It's a fittingly messy show. Enjoy. See you in 2021.
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Session # 29 - Bewildered Wandering and The Fugue State of 2020 (Current Events)
Psychological Content
In this episode there is a Lunar Eclipse and a tale of extreme violence in the summer of 88 as well as some personal musings about living in 2020. There are great quotes from Sigmund Freud, Henry Miller, and Arnold Schopenhauer. The episode also delivers some extraordinary music from Billy Hartman, a beautiful son of Texas.
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On Being Me: A Rambling Road-Trip Memoir
Psychological Content
On a road trip from Hells Half Acre to Corpus Christi and back again, join me as I think out loud and reflect for 3 hours on being a boy, son, brother, boyfriend, man, service member, husband, father, paramedic, corpsman, surgical technologist, veteran, creative type, catholic, man in love, therapist, man afraid, man content… On Being Me. It’s a road trip straight down and up through the Texas plains, hill country, and gulf coast areas.
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Session # 28 - The Boy, The Virgin, The Train, The Bullets, The Summer (Personal Processing)
Psychological Content
Special Bonus Episode! Again! Here is another episode dedicated to "doing the work" in therapy. I am on this journey too. What you hear is what you get. It's raw. You also get to hear two tracks from Cleveland's own Madeline Finn. Take a visit to the Grand River and Painesville, Ohio's former relic train trestle. It's dangerous.
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Session # 27 -The Boy, The Bully, The Beach, The Lighthouse, The Fear (Personal Processing)
Psychological Content
Special Bonus Episode! I felt the need to process with my audience. This episode is an example of “doing the work” in therapy. Like you, I’m on a journey. What you hear is what you get. We are all in this together. Also, some good old Michael Stanley Band tunes!
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Session # 26 - Negative Space and the Art of Gestalt (Personal Management)
Psychological Content
In this session I check in on current events. The show then turns to the beauty and tragedy of the artist Rosamond and 1974's Blue Ice. We weave in and out of Gestalt Psychology, Theory, and Therapy and listen to some amazing music. Then it is all tied into a beautiful bow.
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Session # 25 - COVID-19 Special Episode
Psychological Content
A check-in from my home in South West Fort Worth, Texas. In this brief Special Episode I once again touch upon the fear, discomfort, and uncertainty that has engulfed our nation. I drop some mad knowledge gained from a hero of mine, Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield and we rock back and forth to a tune by Skuff Micksun.
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Session # 24 - COVID-19 Special Edition
Psychological Content
In this Special Edition of the podcast you get a field recording, an interview with my wife who is a frontline healthcare worker, and valuable insight into managing fear, discomfort, and uncertainty during this Coronavius Global Pandemic. You get a valuable children's story and my thoughts on how to cope, function, and manage during this darkening time.
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Session # 23 - New Year, New Decade (Intentions)
Psychological Content
In this 1st Session of the new year and new decade we check in and learn a little about Texas while exploring New Years resolutions as goals vs. intentions. Have something to write with or visit the companion blog because there is good info in here. Do something new and different this time around and let me help you do it. Follow me as I follow a healthier path. If not, what's your alternative?
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Session # 22 - The Art of Kindness (Kindness)
Psychological Content
In this episode kindness is explored and the question is asked, "are you kind?" See what my in-laws and the Grateful Dead have in common. Also you'll get to check out the killer new song by Skuff Micksun, "Strange." Kindness is sooooooooooo good.
info_outlineIn this session I am just in a mood. I call out my Gen X cohorts and beyond. Take it easy on those younger than you. Take responsibility for the world that you left them. It's not their job to adapt to your world, it's your job to adapt to theirs.