If you didn’t peak in high school, college, your 20’s, 30’s, or 40’s, this episode is for you!
Find out why "mid-life" is such a fork in the road, and how to decide which way to go. Dana offers three useful strategies to approach this sometimes-complex time of life, derived from her extensive experience as a clinician. Also, get surprising (and happy!) news about what often happens to relationships that may have been "stuck" for decades as we hit these new thresholds of development.
If you didn’t peak in high school, college, your 20’s, 30’s, or 40’s, this episode is for you!
Find out why "mid-life" is such a fork in the road, and how to decide which way to go. Dana offers three useful strategies to approach this sometimes-complex time of life, derived from her extensive experience as a clinician. Also, get surprising (and happy!) news about what often happens to relationships that may have been "stuck" for decades as we hit these new thresholds of development.
For maybe the first time in history, there are currently four generations sharing the workplace. No matter what generation you belong to, the other ones can be so ANNOYING!
Come sit with Dana and Amy as we crack the code of how to get along with EVERY generation and how to understand their weird behaviors! You’ll get some hints about why we’re practically hard-wired to find “those young whippersnappers” annoying and why they’re just as programmed to find us clueless.
At the end of the episode, whether you’re a Gen X’er or a millennial, Gen Z or a Boomer, we hope you’ll look at your next inter-generational irritation in a new and more productive light!
It’s easy to feel like a victim of the pressure to pressure your kids to achieve more, do more, and do it all better. Our intentions are great; it’s the system that’s become so messed up and hyper-competitive! Join Dana and Amy on the couch as Dana shares strategies she’s developed over years of helping families out of this achievement anxiety spiral.
This one hit close to home for Dana and Amy! Join us on the couch as we learn what's really going on when you put off that one thing—or many things!
Dana helps us understand why procrastination is a perfectly normal and natural self-protective mechanism—and then, how to move past it to get on with our lives.
As part of our series on the Seven Deadly Sins, we cover Anger (often referred to in sin lit as "Wrath"). This sin cut to the front of the line when Dana had an anger incident brought about in part by the hell arcade that is Dave & Buster's. We learn that Dana's anger flares when someone tangles with her kids; Amy's is activated when someone eats her food. Please don't judge Amy too harshly for her skewed priorities.
Dana offers helpful insights about the positive value of anger and how to express it in a way that it doesn't overwhelm the recipient. We also explore the relationship between anger and depression that sometimes exists, which was something Amy learned this week!
For our concluding section of recommendations, "No, You HAVE To!", Amy offers tips for something money can't buy, and Dana recommends something money CAN buy, because sometimes, you HAVE to.
This episode was inspired by Michelle Obama speaking truth to “Lean In.” We’re not going to show you how to stop juggling too many balls in the air. We just want to help you identify the right balls for YOU. Find out when judging other parents can actually be productive. (C’mon, you already know when it isn’t!)
In NYC, where we live, it’s not unusual for people to start stories at brunch, “My therapist said…,” but we realize not everyone is comfortable talking about or even asking about therapy.
Tune in to hear what therapy can and can’t do, when to seek help, what to look for, and how a therapist differs from a paid friend! Believe it or not, we’ll have a few laughs, too.
