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Oct 28, 2018

Silence is golden until it isn't. There are three main levels of silent treatment:

1. Processing time to figure out what you're going to do with what you just learned.

2. Cool down time as a way to regulate what might normally be a heightened response

3. A method to make someone you care about feel bad I'll give you one...


Oct 21, 2018

Do you enable behavior that you don't like? Is it possible that the people that cause you stress do so because you are allowing it in some way? This is a very important topic that may help you get your power back if you adopt and apply the message.


Oct 17, 2018

Social anxiety can be debilitating. In this bonus mini-episode, I talk about one way to start thinking about it differently so that it doesn't have such a grip on you.

Take the social anxiety survey at theoverwhelmedbrain.com/safe to share your experience. Survey closes November 2018.


Oct 14, 2018

If they're not like you, you don't like them. If you're not like them, they don't like you. You have opinions, so do they, but should your differences separate you and cause you so much stress that you would rather lose relationships than accept people for their differences? This is a full episode with many...


Oct 7, 2018

Trying to find happiness is hard enough, but trying to do it when other people are in your life (or are interfering with your life) is even harder. The first email I read is from someone who has a problem with his girlfriend smoking pot. He wants the relationship, but not the pot. The second email dives into how deeply...