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How Financial Gaslighting Affects The Lives Of Ordinary Households
You may not have heard of the term financial gaslighting before, but chances are you have already felt its effects in one way or another. Do you feel like it’s harder to live nowadays? That no matter how hard you try, you still find yourself struggling to...
Recovering Out Loud: Achieving Mental Healing In The Most Natural Way With Rynda Laurel
The path towards sobriety is also a story of mental healing. Since it directly impacts our minds, dealing with anxiety and depression is also a huge factor when getting rid of addiction. However, treatments for such a diagnosis are primarily dependent on a huge...
Understanding The Dangers To Women’s Physical Safety And The Precautions That Women Can Take To Protect Themselves
Trigger Warning: Discussion of harassment and harm to women. In this episode, Jason Wrobel & Whitney Lauritsen discuss the issue of women's physical safety. Whitney starts off with a curiosity around her seeming ignorance of her own safety as a woman. She's...
Does Reverse Comparison Trap Alleviate Or Worsen Suffering?
Are you often told that other people have it worse than you? This phenomenon is what Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen refer to as the Reverse Comparison Trap. When you share your sufferings with people, their immediate response is to compare your pain with...
Britt East: Why Dealing With Multiple Identities Must Begin With Yourself
In today's world, many people struggle with their identities. Author and speaker Britt East joins Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen to discuss how society's seemingly unending discrimination of the LGBTQ+ community can be solved by getting straight people into...
Why You Aren’t Getting Better: Examining The Reasons Behind Being “Better”
Human as we are, we’re living life constantly reaching for the better things. We’re aiming for the next opportunity, next level, next step in our career, or the next phase in our lives. But why is that? Why do we want to be better? Jason Wrobel and Whitney...
How To Get Rid Of The People-Pleasing Attitude
Society has instilled in our minds that we should gain the trust of others to have self-fulfillment. But with our constant pursuit of people-pleasing, our own personality and humanity may be sacrificed and diminished. Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen talk...
Shame Rules! The Relationship Between Shame & Power With Nick Jaworski
We often take shame for granted, but it is actually one of the most basic, earliest developed emotions that we, humans, have. Nick Jaworksi even goes so far as to treat shame as a structural force that shapes a lot of things we live with in the world. In his...
Milestones: Is There More To Them Than Just Being Arbitrary Markers?
What does it mean to reach milestones personally and professionally? The show has been on for 200 episodes now, but to Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen, it seems like it was only yesterday when they capped the 100th. With Wellevatr’s third anniversary and...