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How Inherited Beliefs and External Messages Impact Anxiety
Understanding the importance of both nature and nurture is a vital step in comprehending how our anxious thoughts have been formed and in beginning to challenge and change them.
Phil Lane MSW, LCSW
How to step out of your inner monologue and understand the world better
Expanding your worldview starts with understanding your brain. Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman explains.
David Eagleman
Imago Relational Therapy / Getting the Love You Want
Creating a Relationship Vision Together: 3 Steps Toward Happiness
Couples who incorporate a relationship vision use it as a tool to seek their desires and goals together to live a happy life together.
Dana Cole, LMFT
Existential
Existential, and also the basis of Imago therapy
Research Updates:
What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? | Quanta Magazine
Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now the spotlight is turning to other aspects of brain chemistry. In this episode, the neuropharmacologist John Krystal shares findings that are overturning our understanding of depression.
Steven Strogatz
May, 2024 interview with ketamine researcher John Krystal. Although this interview focuses on depression. Research indicates similar factors in anxiety, burnout/stress and trauma.
Sexuality:
Secular Sexuality
Secular Sexuality is a weekly call-in show live from Austin, Texas every Thursday at 7pm CT. Call us at 1-512-991-9242. We talk about sex from a secular perspective. Sex and sexuality are natural to all living creatures but religion takes this and twists it into something awful and to be ashamed of. Acceptance, education, and fun is what we strive for. We lay the intersection of sex and religion (and occasionally ourselves) bare, openly and honestly. We discuss a wide range of topics each week, removing the shame and reclaiming what has been natural to us all along. Secular Sexuality is produced by the Atheist Community of Austin.
The Central Paradox of Love: Esther Perel on Reconciling the Closeness Needed for Intimacy with the Psychological Distance That Fuels Desire
“Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness. One does not exist without the other.”
Maria Popova
Why people cheat: The psychology of infidelity
What are the true motivations of people who cheat, and why do even happy spouses do it?
Esther Perel