061: The Secret Lives Of Children And Why They Keep To Themselves

061: The Secret Lives Of Children And Why The...

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073: Empty Parking Lots & The Negative Space, Attempting to See the Unseen

This episode is for those who find themselves in an inner space of awkward loss and silence, for those who feel grief and overwhelm from the events of the world. Here we reflect on the Middle East crisis, by stepping outside the politics and into the quiet solitude of a grieving ...  Show more

072: Why Overcomplicating Emotions Harms Us and What To Do Instead

Imagine if we needed to know everything about our lungs in order to take a breath. It would be impossible to live. And yet, something similar is happening with emotions. We no longer trust our basic intuitions about what we feel, because of so much noise in the mainstream narrati ...  Show more

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