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TU141: How We Become the Person's We Are with Dr. Alan Sroufe, Attachment Through the Lifespan
Attachment Through the Lifespan - Leading attachment researcher Dr. Alan Sroufe shares the summary of his (and his team in Minnesota) decades of research looking at attachment though life. They followed individuals from birth through infancy and toddlerhood, to school...
TU140 – Couples Therapy Through the Eyes of Experts: Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson
Learn more about your relationships no matter what, but if you happen to be a therapist, dig into learning more about couples in therapy. Every couple has its ups and downs, but it's easy to think that your relationship is uniquely challenging. Experts in couples...
TU139: Boys and Sex, Modern Young Men and Sexuality with Peggy Orenstein
Dive into hook up culture, locker room talk, and the modern shifts in youth sexual behavior and health. Peggy Orenstein, NYT best-selling author, unpacks her new book “Boys and Sex” with co-host Ann Kelley. In this peak behind the curtain of the experience of young...
TU138: What if it's You that's the Difficult One? Holding Your Own Challenging Personality Traits (6 of 6)
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities – take away's from our series on staying (or becoming) secure in relationship with those with challenging personalities - DEDICATED TO OUR PATRONS!! Session 6 of 6 – What if it's you that is the challenging one... and...
TU137: Holding Your Own S5, Malignant Narcissism (5th in a series)
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities – staying (or becoming) secure in relationship with those with the most severe sort of personality structure - malignant narcissism. Session 5 – Staying safe with those with high psychopathology or malignant narcissism...
TU136: Holding Your Own S4 -“Borderline” Traits (4th in a series)
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities – staying (or becoming) secure in relationship with those with those with “borderline” traits Session 4 – Staying secure in connection with borderline or highly reactive responses When does sensitivity cross the line...
TU135: Holding Your Own Session 3 – Covert Narcissism (3rd in a Series)
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities – staying (or becoming) secure in relationship with those with covert narcissism. Session 3 – Staying secure in connection with one kind of narcissism: covert narcissism When does self-consciousness and self-reflection...
TU134: Holding Your Own Session 2, Grandiose Narcissism has Met it's Match (2nd in a series)
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities - staying secure in relationship with those high in narcissistic, borderline or anti-social traits. Session 2 - Staying secure in connection with one kind of narcissism: grandiose narcissism Co-hosts Ann Kelley and Sue...
TU133: Holding Your Own 1: Messy but Secure Relating
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities - staying secure in relationship with those high in narcissistic, borderline or anti-social traits. Session 1 Can my messy and loud relationship qualify as secure functioning? It's not that easy to tell. Most of us have...
TU132: Crisis Exhaustion – Hang in There, it's Going to Be OK (Eventually) If We Stick Together
Together we can protect our hearts from freezing in bitterness, drowning in sorrow, lashing out in justified rage or worse, disconnecting. Fight the exhaustion that comes with relentless crises surrounding us now. Dr. Ann Kelley & Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP reach...
TU131 – Strange Situation: Surprising Attachment Science Uncovered, with Bethany Saltman
People are profoundly bad at predicting their own attachment status, and if you are trying to do that you are headed in the right direction. 🙂 That sort of mindful inquiry is part of attachment security - learn more in today's episode about what the Strange...
TU130 – The Deep Biology of Love – Oxytocin Unpacked, with Research Pioneer Dr. Sue Carter
Love is not a soft feeling, it is "deep biology." Oxytocin research pioneer Dr. Sue Carter joins co-host Sue Marriott to unravel the mystery of Sue's favorite neuropeptide. You may have heard of oxytocin in the popular press, it's often called that "love drug."...
TU129 – Transformative Psychedelic Experiences With and Without Drugs, with Special Guest, Trey Ratcliff
Skeptical of the buzz about psychedelic-assisted therapy? What if you could get the benefits of therapeutic psychedelics without ingesting any drugs?! Trey Ratcliff may have just the answer to non-drug, mind-expanding experiences that can help us heal. We've been...
TU128 – Helping the Intense Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach
Emotionally and behaviorally challenged children can overwhelm any parent or system. In this episode, we’ll go over where many parents go wrong, what we can do instead, and how shifts in our strategies can revolutionize our households. Learn the strategies of the...
TU127 Grandma Heals: Community-Based Mental Health Care from Zimbabwe with Dr. Ruth Verhey
Discover an innovative program that delivers mental health care with proven effectiveness in low-resource settings, the Friendship Bench. It is so effective and deliverable, it has now spread world-wide. Researcher and program director Dr. Ruth Verhey and co-host Sue...
TU126 – What Do We Mean by Modern Attachment? Sue Marriott & Ann Kelley Discuss
Modern Attachment-Regulation Spectrum, a new way of bringing attachment science to real life. Pausing the riches of the guest interviews, Ann Kelley & Sue Marriott are back to discuss what has changed in the attachment field. They share what makes it modern...
TU125 – Dan Siegel & Tina Payne-Bryson: Parenting Under Stress
Learn the cheat code to parenting in a pandemic with Dr. Dan Siegel and Dr. Tina Payne-Bryson. We’re all struggling with some uncertainty and fear right now, and as a parent it can often be especially hard to know how to raise a child during the rise of Coronavirus....
TU125: Dan Siegel and Tina Payne-Bryson on Presence in times of Stress
Staying Present in times of Stress Chronic and acute stress can both impede our ability to stay present. Dr. Tina Payne Bryson is the co-author (with Dan Siegel) of two New York Times Best Sellers—The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline—each of which has been...
TU124 – Hip Hop as Therapy: Beat Making, Lyrics & Community Empowerment
Hip hop heals Our guests Dr. Eliot Gann and Dr. Raphael Travis shed light on how hip hop can help resolve the deep need for self-expression and trauma processing, especially in black and brown communities. Music-makers in hip hop culture are some of the greatest...
TU123 – Narratives of Fear: George Floyd, Protest, and Community Empowerment with Dr. Raphael Travis
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Sandra Bland. Rayshard Brooks. Tamir Rice. Emmett Till... and so on. The violence enacted by the criminal justice system isn’t new, so what makes this moment feel so different? Dr. Raphael Travis and Dr. Elliott Gann join...
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We bring you world-reknown guest experts, as well as outside-the-choir voices, so you may have direct access to updated theory and fresh ideas as they come.
Featured guests include the smartest minds in the relational sciences.
Bruce Perry
Kristen Neff
Lou Cossolino
Bonnie Badenoch
Pat Crittendon
Dan Siegel
David Elliott
Ellyn Bader
Dan Brown
Pat Ogden
Esther Perel
Bruce Eckert
Alan Srouf
Nancy McWilliams
Peggy Orenstein
Steve Porges
Tina Payne-Bryson
Deb Dana
Stan Tatkin
Lori Gottlieb
And many, many more deep thinkers and fabulous minds that we interview both to bring you their work, and to continuously integrate new and trusted perspectives into our own thinking and theory of what actually works to heal people.
Stan Tatkin
Steve Finn
Alphonso Appleton
Ellyn Bader
Dan Brown
Jules Shore
Liz Plank
Bonnie Badenoch
Sarah Peyton
Aby Blakely
Deb Dana
Doug Braun-Harvey
Tina Atkins
L Brookins
Pam Greenstone
Robyn Gobbel
Linno Rhodes
The Science of Psychotherapy's Becki Mendivil
Susan Ansorge
Bob Schneider
