Examining the "Victim Mentality"

We're currently on tour, but we are so excited to share this conversation with you! In this episode, we discuss all the interesting layers of this instagram reel by Jen Sims from The Redwood Center for Children & Families. As a trauma therapist herself, she decided to terminate t ...  Show more

Emotion is the heart of our work as therapists. They can be slippery and elusive, hard to access, scary to tap into and feel fully. There are countless frameworks for understanding emotion, and in this episode we talk about how we personally conceptualize these phenomena. ******* ...  Show more

Have you ever met someone who always seems to see themselves as the one who’s been wronged - or maybe noticed that pattern in yourself? The sense that life is happening to you, not for you? It might not just be negativity - it could be a victim mentality, a learned way of seeing ...  Show more

Do you get offended if a date doesn't immediately get back to you? 

How about when you ask a friend to call you later and they don't?

When you pass a stranger on the street and they glance at you, looking annoyed, do you assume their ...

You can be a genuine victim of something terrible and still refuse to live as a victim. That distinction is the whole episode. As I put it in the conversation, "the victim mindset is not just disempowering, it's also foolish, inaccurate, and irrational."I look at where the victim ...  Show more

Today we are talking about combatting victim mentality.Looking for trusted mental health support? Whether you're dealing with anxiety, trauma, depression, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, OCD, bipolar disorder, or just need some guidance, you've come to the right place. On this chan ...  Show more