The Existential Coach: Recent Episodes
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What happens when we carry conflict? What happens when we feel unable to move beyond our single point of view? We know we are right. We know what others ”should” do. How does that knowing affect our being?
What happens when we talk about politics without politics?
What do we find?
What is hidden?
Is talking about nothing something? Does interrupting our repetitions bring us back to the something of nothing?
In this episode I turn the tables upside down and ask: what if doubt is reason and reason is doubt?
Not surprisingly… I’m thinking about new year’s resolutions—and the seeking of newness.
How is violence embedded into our ways of relating and what does that say about our capacity to reason?
What I learned thinking about shopping, sales, and the freedom to not have all my choices
In this episode I talk about how the problem is the solution and how we seek freedom from freedom.
In this episode I talk about how holding to rigid ways of understanding our experience can obscure a more holistic outlook.
In this episode I talk about interrupting anxiety and how, paradoxically, we can create more anxiety in an attempt to never feel anxious again.
In this episode I explore how we construct identify and wonder: what’s behind the identities we create?
In this episode I talk about “going grey” in conjunction with the recent termination of Canadian CTV New anchor, Lisa LaFlame. I ask, how is it that something we all do; i.e., aging and going grey, can be used to divide us, given it’s something we share? This leads to questions of oppression and alienation. Drawing from such writers as Simone de Beauviour, Shoshana Zuboff and Byung-Chulhan Han, I explore how lazy conceptual outs (like saying, “It’s a business decision”) reflect the underlying structures of entitlement that lead us to condemn rather than understand.
In this episode I talk with Lesley Mitchell-Clarke about her work as a hypnotherapist. My understanding of hypnotherapy was limited to TV and movies, which is in no way connected to what hypnotherapy is and how helpful it is in people’s lives. Lesley talks about how the control is always with the client and how hypnotherapy can interrupt behaviours the client wants to change.
You can reach out to Lesley at: https://lightworkhypnosis.com
In this episode I explore the way we may think about violence in relationships, and how avoiding the experiences of others sustains our way of understanding ourselves in the world. Do the shadows we cast create and perpetuate violence?
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In this episode I explore how we are culturally (and personally) influenced as to what silence is and how we should (or should not) act. Is there more to silence?
In part two, I continue to explore the experience of being overwhelmed. Drawing upon the book “Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues” by Koichi Togashi, I explore the way our perspectives both create our understanding of the world and interrupt our understanding of each other. Is there more to being overwhelmed?
That we are overwhelmed is obvious. That there is too much in our lives to process is also obvious. Given feeling overwhelmed is something that is so ubiquitous in our lives, can we look, not for solutions or reasons, but at the feeling of being overwhelmed itself?
Drawing from the Rumi line about the pot and how it is the space within the pot we use, I explore how choice emerges from our felt—embodied—experience.
In this episode I explore two seemingly unrelated topics and how they are, in fact, very much related.
In this episode I talk about complexity as holism and how some define feminism in reductionistic terms asking: how does reductionism condition our understanding?
In this episode I talk with psychotherapist Laura Notton about Sound Baths and the way healing can be realizing in the formless form of sound.
In this episode I reflect on war. How war is the absence to reason; yet, can our reasons lead us further into the abyss?
In this episode I talk with Michel DeQuevedo about his experience with neuroendocrine cancer. He discusses facing the unknown of cancer in the midst of misdiagnosis and limited information. And how his curiosity and humour led the way to choice.
Find out more (or reach out to Michel)
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In this episode I talk with artist and Pilates coach, Samantha Clayton about the process healing in our bodies.
To find out more about Samantha visit: https://www.pilateswithsamantha.com
What is our relationship to change? How do we experience change and what might we discover about our experience of change?
In this episode I reflect on the passing of bell hooks and how love is authentically expressed through criticism.
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In this episode I explore how our thoughts and feelings intersect. I then explore how we turn away, to avoid feelings of uncertainty. Can we explore our feelings curiously, unknowingly, lovingly?
If we mediate, get distracted, and think, "I'm doing it wrong" or "I guess meditation is not for me" is there more to the story? What happens when we expand into the silence?
Dealing with a narcissist and being told to just make boundaries flies in the face of what is most natural: that we need connection. How do we explore these parts of our experience?
What does Truth and Reconciliation mean to us? And how do we understand the choices we make?
How do we explore maturity in a lost world? What does maturity look like? What does acceptance look like? In this episode I reflect on my experience with change—what it has meant, the questions I am asking, and where I may go next.
In this podcast Caroline and I continue our conversation, exploring how we may be bounded to our ideas—to our cognitively created self—holding onto the “thoughts” of who we are; rather than wondering: Am I more than my thoughts?
And we have good reason to “think” we are our thoughts… but is there more to be explored?
In this podcast Caroline and I continue our conversation, discussing our narratives, our stories, and how we will "play it small." And we have good reason; yet, life is change. So how do we face the shattering?
Caroline Watters (the founder of The Mode School - https://www.themodeschool.com) and I discuss the relationship between intuition and rational. How can we explore the relationship between these dynamics of life? Do we have to choose?
Exploring the way conflict and potential intersect in our lives. Not always easy or possible; yet, is it worth thinking about?