Coping Skills

Understanding and Overcoming Social Anxiety: Attachment, Exposure and Confidence

Podcast, Anxiety, Coping Skills, Emotional Wellbeing, Social Anxiety /

In this episode, Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the all-too-common challenge of social anxiety. They break down what it really means to be socially anxious (hint: it’s not just being shy), where those feelings come from, and why they stick around. Rick explains the roots of social anxiety, highlighting the role of attachment styles and […]

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The Function of Anxiety with Dr. Richard Hogan

Podcast, Anxiety, Coping Skills, Emotional Wellbeing /

Anxiety can feel like something that is there to ruin our life, but the little alarm system going off inside us is actually incredibly important in giving us warning signals and keeping us alive. In this week’s episode Niall is joined by Dr. Richard Hogan, renowned psychotherapist and clinical director of Therapy Institute. Richard’s work

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Embracing Perfectionism with Katherine Morgan Schafler

Podcast, Coping Skills, Emotional Wellbeing, Happiness, Resilience, Self Care /

Forrest explores how we can harness perfectionism’s strengths without getting captured by its vulnerabilities with therapist and author Katherine Morgan Schafler. They talk about perfectionism’s bad branding, and how our relationship with perfectionism can lead to it being either a superpower or a stumbling block. They discuss the different types of perfectionists, the limitations of

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The Shadow, Individuation, Wholeness, and Becoming Your True Self

Podcast, Coping Skills, Emotional Wellbeing /

Dr. Rick and Forrest explore one of the most interesting concepts in psychology: Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow. The shadow includes the “the things a person has no wish to be,” the uncomfortable aspects of ourselves that we deny or ignore. Facing those parts can be difficult, but becoming aware of the shadow, accepting

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How to Get Out of a Depressed Mood

Podcast, Clinical Depression, Coping Skills, Depression, Emotional Wellbeing, Resilience, Self Care /

About 30% of people will experience depression at some point in their lives, and most of us know what a depressed mood feels like. Because depressive episodes are common, there’s no lack of good advice out there. But depression is so challenging in part because it attacks our ability to do anything about it. Depression

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How to Become a Disciplined Person

Podcast, Coping Skills, Discipline, Emotional Wellbeing, Self Care /

If we want to accomplish something in life it usually takes a combination of motivation and consistency – in other words, discipline. Discipline is both essential…and shockingly hard to develop. In today’s episode, Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how we can become more disciplined. They talk about whether discipline came naturally to Rick, and the

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