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2025-03-28 | There are many lessons learned about grief through my work in the last 34 years of being a therapist. And today, I want to share them with you in this 439th episode of SelfWork.Some common questions that I'll cover are:Is it ever “too late” to grieve?D... |
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2025-03-21 |
438 SelfWork: Why Success Doesn't Feel Like It Should: A Conversation with Laura Gassner Otting Are you working toward success?My guest on SelfWork today is a career expert - Laura Gassner Otting - I've already been influenced by her new book WonderHell in quite a wonderful way!Laura’s secret superpower is seeing your greatness and reflecting it ... |
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2025-03-14 |
437 SelfWork: Expectations, Demands and Boundaries: What's the Difference? Today we're going to talk about the fairly sticky subject of the difference between expectations, demands, and boundaries. In this "second time around" episode, Christine Mathias, Dr. Margaret's communication manager, lets us in to how her younger self... |
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2025-03-07 | Today on SelfWork, the focus is on how to work through disappointment.John Crowley, my friend and incredible production engineer, chose this episode as one of his "second time around" favorites to present to you in my absence. My immense gratitude to h... |
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2025-02-28 | How are you supposed to live a normal life when "home" was chaos? That's the topic of today's SelfWork. and it's triggered by a very frank email from a listener whose kept his chaos secret for many years.We can tend to keep secret the fact that home wa... |
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2025-02-21 |
434 SelfWork: Belonging and Community... Find It In A Third Space Today we're going to focus on how to find community and belonging by finding or creating a "third space." What's that?Many of you don’t remember the 1983 hit show Cheers. It was about a local Boston bar run by a recovering alcoholic who was still very ... |
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2025-02-14 |
433 SelfWork: Why Is It So Hard to Treat Eating Disorders? A Conversation with Johanna Kandel Why is it so hard to treat eating disorders? We're going to find out today in this interview with Johanna Kandel, founder and director of the National Alliance for Eating Disorders.Kandel brings her own successful recovery from anorexia and bulimia to ... |
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2025-02-07 |
432 SelfWork: Doctors and Depression: A Conversation with Dr. Pam Buchanan Today the focus is on doctors and depression, with Dr. Pamela Buchanan as my guest, in a second episode in the "Careers That Kill" series, discussing medical providers, the pandemic, and depression. She's a board-certified physician, speaker and thoug... |
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2025-01-31 |
431 SelfWork: Optimism Fatigue: Is It A New Kind of Depression? What is optimism fatigue? Is it a new a kind of depression?In this episode of SelfWork, I’m thinking aloud a bit with you … if what we’re experiencing is a new kind of depression – one that’s mixed in with anxiety and fatigue. What’s it called? Optimis... |
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2025-01-24 | What was your "job" in your family?Most of us love to take tests like the Enneagram or the Myers/Briggs to find out what the test might have to say about our personality style or our strengths and vulnerabilities. But something you might also gravitate... |
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