by | Oct 26, 2022 | Intimate Interactions Podcast
When I started this journey, I set out to make this journey simpler (maybe even make it easier). Instead, I wrote a lot of words. Tons and tons. Too many words. I thought I was making it simpler but I think instead, I was reinventing the wheel a bit.I’m...
by | Oct 26, 2022 | Intimate Interactions Podcast
What would your life look like if you never learned how to talk to people? How would going to a party and sitting on the outside feel? Now imagine you had the cure to that problem, an inexpensive way to make yourself immediately likable to most of the people there...
by | Oct 26, 2022 | Intimate Interactions Podcast
Ash and I talk about our coming from under-resourced families, our academic performance, our feeling disposable to our parents, and our fear of having children of our own. I don’t mean that we don’t like children. I like hanging out with my nieces. As a non parent,...
by | Oct 26, 2022 | Intimate Interactions Podcast
Do you feel a sense of comfort and security when you think of your heritage? Do you feel a sense of connection with a long line of ancestors? Are you sad about traumatized family members you never even got to know? Are you grateful to enormous and traumatic sacrifices...
by | Oct 26, 2022 | Intimate Interactions Podcast
If you have a potentially fatal illness, treatment probably comes with risks and is probably anxiety inducing. Recovery is sort of like that except in order to be treated, you have to do intense, deep psychological work. If someone said you had to go to counselling...
by | Oct 26, 2022 | Intimate Interactions Podcast
Today we meet someone new. Lauren was referred to us by Yana, so I hadn’t actually met her before this session. We talk about motivations behind addiction and the reasons that lead you down that kind of path. Socialization, bullying, parental coping strategies,...
