Podcasts about Adolescence

For some kids, the most powerful support is not one more program. It is an adult who keeps showing up. Jorie Das is the Executive Director of Friends of the Children Los Angeles, an organization doing something that immediately got my attention: pairing children who have experienced significant adversity with paid, professional mentors who make a 12-plus-year commitment to them. These are not volunteers dropping in for a semester or a program that disappears when the funding cycle ends. Friends spend intentional time with kids at school, at home, and in the community while helping them navigate goals, transitions, new experiences, and the very ordinary business of growing up. As Jorie says, childhood is not a program cycle. A kid can be doing beautifully at eight and struggling enormously at thirteen. Schools change. Families change. Adolescence happens. The commitment is designed to stay in place through those changes because the child does not have to reach a milestone or behave a particular way to earn the relationship. That becomes especially important when we talk about trauma. Jorie explains that we cannot expect a child who has experienced instability in relationships to immediately trust a new adult just because that adult has excellent intentions. Kids may pull away, shut down, or test whether this person is really staying. The mentor gets to respond through their actions: "You don't have to earn my consistency. I'm still here." Over time, that relationship can create new experiences of safety, predictability, and repair. Mentorship is not a replacement for therapy when a child needs clinical care, but a safe and consistent adult can absolutely be part of the healing environment. What I also love about the Friends model is that the child is not treated as though they exist in a vacuum. The organization supports caregivers, works with schools, connects families with community resources, and supports the mentors themselves. Because if we are asking adults to show up consistently for kids carrying a lot, those adults need people showing up for them too. We also talk about neurodivergence and educational advocacy. Jorie shares that a large percentage of the young people served by Friends LA have IEPs, which has pushed the organization to build more training around ADHD, autism, IEPs, and helping caregivers communicate with schools. Sometimes the parent knows something is not working but does not know the language, the process, or even who they are supposed to talk to. Having someone who knows the child and can help bridge that gap can change the entire conversation. And underneath all of this is something very simple and very human: kids need people who do not give up on them. Not because the relationship will always be easy. In fact, sometimes the most important moment may be after the really hard day, when the adult can say, "I'll see you Tuesday." For a child who has learned that people or support can disappear, knowing somebody is coming back can be a very big deal. Key Takeaways Consistency can be an intervention, especially for children who have experienced trauma or instability in relationships. Children should not have to behave a certain way or reach a milestone to earn a trusted adult's continued presence. Long-term relationships give adults the chance to know the whole child as they grow and change over time. Trauma can make it difficult for children to trust adults, even when those adults have good intentions. Safe, predictable relationships can create new experiences of trust, repair, and connection. Mentorship can support healing, but it does not replace therapy or other clinical care when those services are needed. Supporting children also means supporting caregivers, schools, mentors, and the larger community around them. Neurodivergent children and their caregivers may need additional support navigating IEPs and advocating within school systems. When a child pushes an adult away, curiosity about what they have learned about relationships can be more useful than taking the behavior personally. Sometimes the most powerful message an adult can give a child is simply, "I'm still here." About Jorie Das Jorie Das is the Executive Director of Friends of the Children Los Angeles, where she leads an evidence-based professional mentoring program serving children and families impacted by the child welfare system. With more than a decade of experience in nonprofit management, youth programming, and advocacy in Greater Los Angeles, Jorie is deeply committed to positive youth development, trauma-informed care, and the transformative power of long-term relationships. Her own experience in foster care also brings an important lived perspective to her work. Under Jorie's leadership, Friends LA has expanded its reach across Los Angeles County, growing the number of youth and families served and developing additional programming to support young people as they move toward adulthood. She previously served as Interim Executive Director at InsideOUT Writers and held executive roles at Baby2Baby and Free Arts. Jorie holds a BA in Ethnic Studies and Art from the University of Oregon and an MA in International Affairs and Business from Chapman University. About Your Host, Gabriele Nicolet I'm Gabriele Nicolet, toddler whisperer, speech therapist, parenting life coach, and host of Complicated Kids. Each week, I share practical, relationship-based strategies for raising kids with big feelings, big needs, and beautifully different brains. My goal is to help families move from surviving to thriving by building connection, confidence, and clarity at home. 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La romancière Amélie Nothomb signe son 35e livre, "Lʹadolescence du perroquet", aux éditions Albin Michel. Elle y raconte la relation compliquée entre Alban, un chroniqueur parisien, vivant dans la solitude, et son perroquet gris du Gabon lorsquʹil rentre dans lʹadolescence. Une métaphore drôle et grinçante sur lʹamour, la solitude et la domination. Amélie Nothomb est l'invitée d'Anne Laure Gannac.

Teenage Stroke: When Recovery Feels Like Losing Yourself Benjamin Miller was 16 years old and playing football in Texas when a carotid artery dissection changed the course of his life on September 22, 2017. He didn’t know what a stroke was. He didn’t know that the word would come to define the years that followed not because of what it took from his body, but because of what it took from his sense of who he was. Teenage stroke recovery is not what most people picture. The standard narrative runs like this: young brain, high neuroplasticity, rapid recovery, inspirational outcome. And in some ways, that’s true. The motor and language systems that stroke damages can rebuild quickly in an adolescent brain. But there’s a part of recovery that neuroplasticity doesn’t touch, and that’s identity. Who Was Benjamin Before the Stroke? He was a football player. In Texas, that means something. It means a community, a future, a sense of place in the social architecture of a town. When the stroke took that away, it didn’t just end a sport. It ended a version of himself that he hadn’t finished becoming. “My soul was torn in half,” Benjamin said in this conversation with Bill Gasiamis. It’s one of those phrases that stops you not because it’s dramatic, but because it’s accurate. “My soul was torn in half.” — Benjamin Miller, EP422 The stroke forced him to grieve something most 16-year-olds don’t have language for: the future self they were building toward. When that future collapsed overnight, he was left with a present he didn’t recognise and a past that no longer pointed toward anything. Why Teenage Stroke Is Different Teenage stroke recovery carries a layer of complexity that adult stroke recovery doesn’t always share. Adolescence is the developmental period in which identity is actively constructed; it’s not a fixed thing waiting to be restored. When stroke interrupts that process mid-construction, the survivor isn’t returning to who they were. They’re trying to become someone they haven’t yet figured out how to be. Benjamin’s experience of turning to substance use during his recovery wasn’t a character failure. It was, as he articulates in this episode, an attempt to manage an identity fracture that nobody around him had the vocabulary to name. When the pain doesn’t have a name, people find their own ways to survive it. This is one reason teenage stroke recovery deserves its own conversation separate from paediatric stroke outcome data, and separate from the adult recovery narrative. The emotional, psychological, and social dimensions are specific to this life stage. You might also recognise elements of this in other episodes: the identity rupture that follows sudden stroke in a young person surfaces in Young Stroke Survivor Recovery and Identity Loss After Stroke. Benjamin’s story adds a dimension that’s less often named: what happens when the loss of identity happens before you’ve finished building one. When the Brain Heals Faster Than the Self Can Here’s something worth naming a phenomenon the clinical literature notes but rarely centres in recovery conversations. Adolescent neuroplasticity is real. Benjamin’s brain had the capacity to rebuild physical and linguistic function faster than an older adult’s would. But neuroplasticity is a structural property of the brain. It doesn’t extend to the psychological work of integrating a traumatic experience into a developing sense of self. The result is a gap, sometimes a wide one, between the physical recovery that others can see and the internal recovery that isn’t visible at all. Benjamin appeared to be “doing well” in many respects while internally carrying a fracture that hadn’t been addressed. This gap is one of the least-discussed aspects of teenage stroke recovery. If you’ve experienced it, or watched someone you love experience it, it may be the most important thing in this episode. The Road Back And What It Actually Looks Like Benjamin’s memoir, Ed and I, available on YouTube, traces this journey. What comes through clearly in his conversation with Bill is that the path forward required him to walk through the things he’d been managing around the grief, the identity loss, the fracture itself. Recovery, in his telling, doesn’t take you back to who you were. It takes you through who you are now. That reframe from restoration to transformation is one that many stroke survivors eventually arrive at. Bill’s book The Unexpected Way That A Stroke Became The Best Thing That Happened documents ten tools for exactly that kind of recovery. For more episodes touching on identity and recovery: Emotional Recovery After Stroke Mistakes, Identity After Stroke — Cassie Jewell, Stroke With No Warning Signs — Tom Ballo, Losing Confidence After Stroke, and Stroke Brain Healing Neuroplasticity. Listen to EP422 This episode doesn’t pretend that recovery is a clean arc or that there’s a single turning point you can point to. What it offers instead is something more honest: the lived texture of finding yourself again when you’re not sure who you’re finding your way back to. Listen to EP422 of the Recovery After Stroke podcast wherever you listen. If a stroke or any trauma has made your world feel smaller, Bill’s new book Your World Doesn’t Have to Stay This Small is a practical guide to rebuilding your life, even when you’re not ready. Find it on Amazon at mybook.to/yourworld. If this show has helped you, you can support it at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. This blog is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Please consult your doctor before making any changes to your health or recovery plan. Benjamin Miller on Identity, Substances, and Finding His Way Back “My soul was torn in half.” Benjamin Miller had a stroke at 16 and lost more than football here’s how he found his way back. Highlights: 00:00 Introduction – Teenage Stroke09:01 The Day of the Stroke11:56 The Loss of Identity17:12 Coping Mechanisms: Alcohol and Escapism22:37 COVID-19: A Blessing in Disguise28:57 The Journey of Healing Begins32:40 Facing Uncomfortable Emotions38:45 Spiritual Awakening Through Adversity42:34 The Power of Breath and Movement47:35 Building Community in Recovery55:39 Finding Belonging and Understanding59:12 Creating a Path for Self-Healing Transcript: Introduction – Teenage Stroke Benjamin Miller (00:00)when I was told that by my father that. It felt like my soul was torn in half, because like I always saw myself as a student athlete and the bigger part of that was the athlete. And now I lost half of my identity and. I just didn’t know how to as a. 17 year old now like how to move forward with life and I didn’t know who I was and the only thing I defined myself as was taken away from me So now I was just like in this weird place where I felt like I was drowning on a day-to-day basis. Bill Gasiamis (00:33)hello, everybody. Welcome back to Recovery After Stroke. I’m Bill Gasciamas. My guest today had a stroke at just 16 years old, a carotid artery dissection that ended his football career and cracked his sense of who he was, right at the age when most people are just beginning to figure that out. Before we get into it, if you’ve been finding value in this podcast, my new book is out now. It’s called Your World Doesn’t Have to Stay This Small. A practical guide to rebuilding your life after trauma even when you’re not ready. You can find it on Amazon by searching my name or you can click the link in the show notes. Now it’s on to the episode. Bill Gasiamis (01:14)Benjamin Miller, welcome to the podcast. Benjamin Miller (01:16)Sir, thank you for having me. Bill Gasiamis (01:19)Tell me what’s regular life like for you before the stroke? Benjamin Miller (01:26)Yeah, I mean, when I had my stroke, I was 16 years old and I was in my third year of high school. So it was really comprised of just school, going to school every day and then playing sports after school. Like through the school, would play American football. I played baseball earlier in my life. And then towards the end of my high school, I just continued to play American football because I had the goal of following in my two older brother’s footsteps. for playing football, American football, in college at that time. So I just saw myself as following their path and going to play college football. And that’s what I was chasing throughout high school. Bill Gasiamis (02:09)How long ago was that? The stroke? Benjamin Miller (02:12)It was 2017, the fall of 2017. So Bill Gasiamis (02:16)Okay. Benjamin Miller (02:16)coming up on nine years on the 22nd of September. Bill Gasiamis (02:23)I I expect that stroke is the last thing going through the mind of a sixteen year old and the family of a sixteen year old. So Benjamin Miller (02:34)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (02:34)w do you have any recollection of what it was like on the day of the stroke? Was there some kind of sign, was there anything that gave you an inkling of something being wrong before everything happened? Benjamin Miller (02:53)maybe like right before, because just playing American football, you’re always hear about head trauma and just CTE and concussions. And that’s always the biggest worry for playing football. But it was during the game that Friday night, it was the second game of our football season. And it was in between the first quarter and second quarter. And I came over to the bench and like in between going back on the field, our coach like brings the offense or defensive units together and we like talk about any in-game adjustments and I came over and sat down on the bench and I just noticed my balance like start to tip like I was having to stare down at my feet in order to stop myself from falling over and Yeah, just from there like I like grew up in a Society like especially in football. It’s I don’t know if I surround football is the same but just no pain no gain so Bill Gasiamis (03:51)Mm-hmm. Benjamin Miller (03:51)you’re always pushing yourself to your limits and That was like a saying that I grew up in if you’re hurt you can walk off the field if you’re injured you can so unfortunately, I played until I go back on the field and The first or second play of the next series I help my teammates make a tackle. get back up to my feet and then I collapsed face first and at the ground. And from there, I, I’m able to like the trainers obviously come on the field and help me to the sideline and they’re running concussion tests, asked me, what’s your name? Where are you? What are you doing? And I’m answering every question. But even at that early stage, I mean, it was just like, that’s like when the initial carotid dissection happened. It was probably in the guy, my teammate I was playing next to actually, he went on to study pre-med and he saw my aphasia on my face and he’s told our other teammates that Ben is having a stroke, but who’s going to listen to a 17 year old kid? And like we had a team doctor on the sideline, the trainers, no one really knew what was wrong with me. They just thought it was a severe concussion. So that’s what it was treated as. So I spent probably 20 to 30 more minutes on the sideline. And before I was, yeah, it was just like a, just a failure on the part of the adults around me at that time. And yeah. Bill Gasiamis (05:28)Yeah, rough. The dissection that happened do you think it might have been from a collision during the game or what what’s the thinking behind the cause of the stroke? Benjamin Miller (05:42)Yeah, that’s something like a question that I’ve like both my parents and myself as I’ve always had, but it just never could be answered. Whether it was just from like one hit. saw a chiropractor for the first time at the beginning of that week, like the Monday before the injury. So maybe like a neck adjustment caused it or maybe like it could have been genetic. So like that’s what my parents’ biggest concern was, was having my two older brothers still playing college football at that time. That if it’s genetic, is there a chance that it can happen to our two other sons? But they Bill Gasiamis (06:19)Yeah. Benjamin Miller (06:20)just… Bill Gasiamis (06:21)Sorry, Ben, I was gonna say yeah, it I know what you mean about genetic in that sometimes people’s carotid arteries for no reason do dissect. and sometimes I’ve heard the connection with chiropractic, there’s been a few well, it’s very well documented people going for adjustments. The thing about the adjustment is it’s never known whether or not the person was feeling something in their neck because of a dissection. They went to the chiropractor, they had an adjustment, and then it caused the situation to get worse, or do you know what I mean? Like it may not have totally been linked, but I get that. I’ve met people who have had dissections who had no injury, had no adjustment, They just had a dissection. So that’s a thing. when you went to the chiropractor for the neck adjustment the week before, was it because you had an issue that you needed to deal with? Was there some kind of pain that you were experiencing? Benjamin Miller (07:29)Yeah, I mean, I was actually dealing with lower back pain. So one of my teammates recommended me to a chiropractic, but he adjusted my whole back all the way up to my neck. So it wasn’t like, I wasn’t going there for a neck adjustment, but he just happened to do one while I was in there. Bill Gasiamis (07:47)Yeah, which is pretty standard procedure for a chiropractor. If you go there, you get your neck adjusted. Okay. so then you’re sitting on the sideline for another twenty or thirty minutes, and then what happens? How do they finally decide something’s not right? The Day of the Stroke Benjamin Miller (08:06)Yeah, so just after that time period, the team doctor called my parents down to like in Texas, like we play in like massive stadiums even as kids. So he called my parents down to like the railing of the stands to the field and told my parents to bring our family car so they could take me to a local clinic. And as I’m walking out of the stadium, I Like there’s like a incline up to get out of the stadium because it’s kind of like a bowl shaped and I can’t walk up like a 15 degree incline. Like I started like tipping over to my right side. So then they have to bring a athletic cart. They sit me in the cart and there’s like a trainer sitting behind me, holding me upright so I don’t slump out the side of the cart. And it was probably like a 15 meter ride to my parents’ car. And my parents saw me from there and drove me straight to the emergency room at a bigger hospital. And from there I was, I would say in the emergency room prior for like two, three hours and they were running CT scans of my like base of my skull up. So they didn’t see the actual carotid. Bill Gasiamis (09:16)What Benjamin Miller (09:17)Yeah. So it was like with everything, how everything happened, like I’m so lucky to be here and be able to move and be able to speak and. But yeah. So then probably I probably got hurt around. 8 p.m. and it was around 12 a.m. where they finally called downtown to the bigger hospital in Houston, downtown Houston and a neurosurgeon on call that night said he’s having a he had a carotid artery dissection so then they life flighted me down and on the life flight down to Houston to downtown that’s when I lost consciousness in the helicopter so Bill Gasiamis (09:54)Mm. And then at some point you wake up in hospital, Benjamin Miller (10:00)Yeah, I woke up in the ICU probably, this happened Friday night, I would say maybe Monday morning. So I was unconscious for a couple days. Bill Gasiamis (10:11)Mm-hmm. And then after that, what are you dealing with? You wake up, you’re told you’ve had a dissection, a stroke, and then what are you dealing with physically? What’s not happening for your body? Benjamin Miller (10:28)lost all use of the right side of my body. So it was just immediately starting rehab, rehab. And Bill Gasiamis (10:36)Mm-hmm. Benjamin Miller (10:37)yeah, I mean, I was just going from like being on the verge of being a higher level athlete to my right side, going back to like, I was always describing it as like a newborn. Bill Gasiamis (10:49)Mm-hmm. Benjamin Miller (10:49)I didn’t know how as a 16 year old to really handle that. I mean, it took like In the beginning, it was easy because I was so focused. Like I believed I was going to play American football again. So I was just like so committed to the rehab and doing therapy multiple times a day and just really just with that goal of getting back on the field. So the really the early days are really driven by that want to get back on the football field. The Loss of Identity Bill Gasiamis (11:20)Was there a moment you had the realisation that it’s not going to happen and what was that like? Benjamin Miller (11:27)Yeah, probably in June of 2018, I had a follow up with my neurosurgeon and before we went in to go see him, because I was supposed to, I got hurt September of 2017. So about nine months later and my parents sat me down and told me, Ben, when we go see your neurosurgeon tomorrow, he’s going to tell you after retire. And that was, yeah, that was like a very, I didn’t know how to deal with that as a 17 year old. Like very soon after that I fell into alcohol use and then, yeah, just progressed from there. Bill Gasiamis (12:04)Got it. And by nine months later, were you up on your feet? Had you recovered the deficits or were they still there? Benjamin Miller (12:15)Yeah, I mean, I was lucky that I was 16. So my brain was still very plastic and I recovered like really I was in a wheelchair for the first day. Like September 23rd, I was in a wheelchair. I mean, like probably like just one day after. And then I was up and walking on day two and just like my strike pattern of the ground wasn’t correct. Like I would swing my leg and have drop foot as many stroke people patients suffer with. but I wasn’t gonna let the stroke, like the people around me seeing me as still struggling from the stroke. So even like the early days in the hospital, I just hide it from everyone. Anytime my parents or my friends or anybody, my brothers would ask, how am I doing? I just tell them, I’m okay, I’m fine. You don’t need to worry about me. Which then led to me needing to find a release in alcohol later on the line, so. Bill Gasiamis (13:10)The whole I’m fine, you don’t need to worry about me was so that you can convince yourself perhaps and them that you’re good to go, you’re ready to just slide back into life exactly the way that you were. Benjamin Miller (13:24)That’s definitely it. Bill Gasiamis (13:27)Yeah. But you clearly weren’t okay if you’re we’ll talk about the alcohol in a moment, but you’re clearly not okay. What are you experiencing psychologically or emotionally that you’re hiding from them? Like what’s actually happening in that moment? Benjamin Miller (13:44)Yeah, Maybe just. It was more so from the retirement from football. It felt like when I was told that by my father that. It felt like my soul was torn in half, because like I always saw myself as a student athlete and the bigger part of that was the athlete. And now I lost half of my identity and. I just didn’t know how to as a. 17 year old now like how to move forward with life and I didn’t know who I was and the only thing I defined myself as was taken away from me and along Bill Gasiamis (14:21)Mm. Benjamin Miller (14:22)with like missing a whole semester of school. It was just like I just stopped caring about school too. So now I was just like in this weird place where I felt like I was drowning on a day-to-day basis. Bill Gasiamis (14:36)Setback after setback. It’s not that you become unwell and then you wake up in the morning and you just can’t play football. It’s also you’ve missed school, so you’re gonna go back and probably repeat that. Your friends have moved on. They’re doing what you know, seventeen year olds do, playing football, going out, doing their studies, who knows what they’re doing. You’re You have to pick up the pieces and there’s a lot of pieces to pick up, right? There’s so much. The alcohol did it was it something that you did before this incident in in that had you as a sixteen year old had alcohol before? I know most kids would have at some point in America, in Australia, by the time they’re sixteen, they’ve had a drink. Had you had a drink before that? Benjamin Miller (15:29)I didn’t actually just with the role models that my brothers were, were very straight edge guys, like just focused on the goal of Bill Gasiamis (15:38)Mm-hmm. Benjamin Miller (15:39)college football. And so like I was very much the same way, but after just the injury, being around my friends and not having like those same like level of role models in the same house that I fell into the, just down the wrong path. I won’t. say it’s my friend’s fault because it was… Bill Gasiamis (15:59)Yeah. Benjamin Miller (16:00)yeah, but it was… Bill Gasiamis (16:03)Sounds like it’s still tough talking about it. Benjamin Miller (16:07)Yeah, at times. Like sometimes it’s easier, sometimes… Bill Gasiamis (16:12)Hmm. With the I’m not sure. I’ve never I’ve drank and I’ve drank a lot to be drunk and I’ve drank too much where I’m completely gone and I don’t drink since the stroke. What’s the what’s it helping you do when you have a drink? Is it helping you forget? Is it helping the emotional part of it? What is it kind of putting a cloud over or And kind of stopping from coming forward. Coping Mechanisms: Alcohol and Escapism Benjamin Miller (16:46)Yeah, it was just, I mean, I would drink to escape, to be honest. It was just like my way to stop feeling the stress of how much I have to recover, the stress of how do I get back? How do I show people that I’m fine, that the stroke didn’t affect me? And it was just like a couple hours out of the night where I could just not feel any of the stress of me trying to hide the… Just the emotional pain of not knowing who I was and not knowing how to move forward with my life without football, without sports, without like the level of a student I used to be because I was just very, I was a perfectionist growing up and had to make the best grades in class, had to be the best on the football field, had to be just the strongest in the weight room. So I just didn’t know how to move forward without. trying to show everyone I’m still this perfect version of myself and just as Ben, the not perfect kid, the one who’s still fighting from what Bill Gasiamis (17:51)Mm. Benjamin Miller (17:51)he’s been through, but he’s not perfect anymore, even though. Bill Gasiamis (17:55)You never were perfect, but you at least were more capable of pulling off the facade, you know, because you did have good grades, because you were an athlete, because you always worked on improving things. So the th the the time that you were drinking gave you a little bit of relief from all the things that were kind of happening. in your head that you needed to kind of quieten down. And then did that escalate? Did it go from a small amount to a larger amount and then and then kind of how bad did it get? Benjamin Miller (18:38)Yeah, I mean, over my senior year of high school, it did escalate to abuse. I go solely on the weekends, like Friday night, Saturday night. But then beginning university and the fall of 2019, it was five, six nights a week. I would be drinking till I would be most nights just blocking out. So I didn’t remember what happened the night before. And then even waking up in the morning, it was. That’s the only thing I could think about was just making it back, getting through class, making it back to the nights where I could drink till I wouldn’t feel anything. And that continued through the end of 2019 and into the beginning of 2020, I joined a fraternity. And that’s when I noticed myself like really start to spiral, started to get into, like tried cocaine a couple of times, like was still drinking every night. And like that’s why COVID was like a lifesaver for me. that I could go home and, you know, because like I was on a very bad path at school. Bill Gasiamis (19:45)So you’re already heavy drinker, then you join a fraternity. Benjamin Miller (19:50)you Bill Gasiamis (19:51)You’re the perfect candidate for being in an in a fraternity, right? And you Benjamin Miller (19:55)Yeah, it was a mess. Bill Gasiamis (19:57)can yeah, you can see why that would escalate it because already the culture is about drinking, about partying, about being loose or crazy or whatever. And it makes sense that it would escalate and get really bad and get worse and then you try other things. And then COVID happens. And then that gives it the opportunity to have a bit of a break in the cycle. Benjamin Miller (20:27)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (20:28)Your studies up until COVID, even though you were drinking heavily and probably parting too hard, were the studies being affected or were you still able to put out good work? Benjamin Miller (20:42)I won’t say good work, but just grades that were good enough. Like not failing classes, but not excelling. just like Bill Gasiamis (20:49)Mm-hmm. Benjamin Miller (20:50)B’s and C’s, maybe one or two A’s. just like for like the stand, like my perfection standards that I used to have, like just like kind of skating by. Bill Gasiamis (21:02)I l I love the sound B’s and C’s skating by. Dude, if I was getting B’s and C’s when I was at school, my God, that would be amazing. but I it gives me a good insight into like what the expectation of yourself is. I totally get it. Okay. So you’re skating by, you’re getting your grades. Does anyone n realize how bad things are? Like people in your periphery, your family going Ben, we’re concerned about you. We think we need to talk. Was it any of that stuff or were you hiding it? Benjamin Miller (21:36)I was very good at hiding it from everybody. really like, I didn’t let anybody at that point, like that early on in the journey, like anybody see what was going on underneath. Cause I didn’t understand it I didn’t have the ability to verbalize what I was going through emotionally, what I was going through mentally. So it’s like at that point I was even hidden from myself. I’d go that far. Bill Gasiamis (22:02)Wow. You had to saved yourself in thinking that everything is normal, perhaps. Benjamin Miller (22:07)Yeah, I just thought like the more time that goes by like Everything will be okay without me having to do anything especially like at that time COVID-19: A Blessing in Disguise Bill Gasiamis (22:17)Mm-hmm. And then COVID happens. Why is that a blessing in disguise? How did it change things for you? And then we’ll talk about what what you have to deal with after that. But at the ma in that moment COVID comes along and it changes something for the better. Benjamin Miller (22:37)Yeah, in March of 2020, I go back to Houston from I was at school in Chicago, Illinois. And from there, it’s just like just being at home with my both my brothers are back at home and in our old house. It was just nice the first time since like 2016 since my oldest brother left for school. That we’re all together again, and I could just get out of that environment that I knew I was spiraling and I still wasn’t in a better place at home. I’ll still. struggling with like I started using performance-answersing drugs at the beginning of that year too. Just to, I thought that if I big, like built my muscle and strong, like really strong, that my effects from the stroke would also heal. So I just spent like two, an hour to two hours every day in the gym just, yeah, just like over that period of time from March of 2022, December of 2020. just going to the gym every day and just trying to put on as much muscle as possible because I thought that would help me heal. And yeah, it didn’t. Bill Gasiamis (23:52)It didn’t Did you get bigger? Benjamin Miller (23:56)Yeah, I mean, I was I don’t know. And I would say I got up to like 100 kilos, like 220 Bill Gasiamis (24:02)Okay. Benjamin Miller (24:02)pounds. Bill Gasiamis (24:04)Yeah. So you got bigger you achieved that thing, so visually it may have looked like you were achieving something, but you didn’t feel better. So Benjamin Miller (24:15)So. Bill Gasiamis (24:16)what what did it feel like still? What does it feel like in your body when you’re gone back home, everyone’s together, you’re hitting the gym, you’re using performance enhancing drugs. What does that feel like? Does it feel like a letdown, a disappointment, or I’m not quite there yet? What what does it feel like? Benjamin Miller (24:37)I would say like, I’m not quite there yet. Like just always chasing a ever moving goal that like, as soon as it got closer, just like move further away. But I never like step back to like actually look at what I was chasing and realize that’s not what I’m supposed to be chasing. I need to be just turning around to my internal world and focus on healing myself from the inside out versus trying to do all this, put on another mask. do another substance, put another thing in my body, chase another goal, external goal, to try to heal versus turning around and looking inside. So that took many years. Bill Gasiamis (25:19)Hmm. I love that flip that you said healing from the inside out instead of putting on another mask. And that’s really profound to get to that stage where you when you realize that. and at the same time when you were hitting the gym, getting bigger, your right side, is that feeling different? Do you have deficits on that side still? Benjamin Miller (25:47)Yeah, I would say at that time, yes, I was still very tight through my whole right arm and right leg. Still, like anytime I went up a stair, I got hit my right foot on the top of the step. So it was like, and I just thought the more like just being a no pain, no gain mindset stuff, I’m in pain Bill Gasiamis (26:08)Mm-hmm. Benjamin Miller (26:08)and I’m going to be recovering. I’m going to be gaining. And yeah, it just was. And like the more muscle I put on the tighter it became because just the range of motion wasn’t right through my shoulder and through my hip. I was still swinging my leg, still shoulder hiked forward versus like pulling it back and letting gravity work, like working with gravity instead of fighting it. So that was. Bill Gasiamis (26:33)Yeah. Yeah. I know what you mean because when I’ve been to the gym after the stroke, it’s I I tend to kinda achieve one thing and then the muscles get so tight that I’ve got to go and have a massage and try and loosen them up and try and get them moving again. And then it’s like that one two day recovery after you do your arms, for example, and your chest takes four or five days and it’s like back at the gym already. And I still haven’t overcome or recovered from four days ago. And it’s really challenging and frustrating. It kind of makes it kind of makes it harder to go back to the gym. You’re all I’m always thinking about, I’m gonna go there and it’s I’m gonna just tighten everything up and I’m gonna put myself in that situation and it’s not gonna recover. And I’m gonna have to get massage again. And it’s just this whole loop of. It’s very it’s very helpful, but it’s also something that has to be managed completely differently than it used to when you go to the gym and you recovered for two days and then you’re back again. and before we move on to the kind of the next phase of the conversation, I also wanna kinda understand this perfectionism in you on the field, off the field field, at school. Where did that come from? What Do you have like a sense of how that started and why it was a thing that you adopted and ran with? Benjamin Miller (28:12)I would say that just watching my two older brothers grow up and seeing like in my like kid eyes, they were like the perfect human being, like the perfect role models. Like I just tried to be like them in every way. And I always thought that they were like so up here and like, didn’t know like, I was three years and two years younger than them. So they hit puberty before me. just at the time that my oldest brother, Alex left for school, I would still be like, at his like chest level, always like looking up to them. So they were just like gods in my head. And I always would ask myself, how do I measure up to them? And because they were perfect in my eyes. So was like, I to be above perfect to The Journey of Healing Begins Bill Gasiamis (28:57)Mm-hmm. Benjamin Miller (28:57)be recognized as like their brothers. I got, it’s like always the bar I was chasing and yeah. Bill Gasiamis (29:08)And now you know they weren’t perfect, they were just bigger and older than you by three years and two years. Yeah. so then you have this realization that the healing has to start from the inside, but that’s gotta Benjamin Miller (29:26)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (29:26)be is that a relief that you work that out? Is that what what am I gonna do now? How how do you gr grapple with that? Benjamin Miller (29:37)Yeah, I’d say like, I had the, I know if I hit rock bottom, but I had to go even lower before I came to that realization. So I mean, yeah, like 2021 was probably the one of the lower lowest points. So it’s a, so like going back to school in January of 2021, I got into stimulant use at the same time as the performance enhancing drugs at the same time as alcohol and then marijuana came into the picture too. So I was just using like a cocktail of drugs just to get through a day. And I ended up that winter quarter, I did make the Dean’s List at school. was like the top performer, but I remember just like looking at that email and like, I have like all the external achievement again. And I was even more, like I was lower. I got a lower place emotionally and mentally and like felt so empty inside that I knew that this isn’t what I’m supposed to be doing at this point in time. So I went on medical leave from school like pretty soon after that. And that’s where I would say where the healing process really began was in the summer of 2021. And yeah, I mean, it’s been, I thought it’d take like in the beginning, the healing process would be like six months, but it’s been around five years that it’s taken me to be honest. So four years of just. sliding down and I would say like I might have like and like the healing process too has been like trying to make it up and then still falling and going back up. So it’s never a straight line for Bill Gasiamis (31:19)Never linear. Benjamin Miller (31:20)me a long time to recognize that let’s focus on the trend. Bill Gasiamis (31:25)Never linear man, far out. you you still make it on the Dean’s list, that’s cool. But I I get like it even under duress, you know, you still make it on the Dean’s list. And then you have this realization and it’s like you hear that analogy, you know, things are gotta get worse before they get better. Benjamin Miller (31:48)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (31:50)Dude, like how much worse can they get? Why should they get worse? Why can’t we just start improving from here? But is it’s for you the worst part? Was it about reconstructing from the beginning and then you therefore you have to get to the bottom because you can’t kind of reconstruct from b you know, above the bottom? Facing Uncomfortable Emotions Benjamin Miller (32:13)Hmm. Yeah, I mean, I would say in a way like I would say like the first over that summer of 2021, I just focused on like I was doing a lot like yoga almost every day, and that was the first time I started meditating in my life and working on like that’s really where my rehab started was just a lot of breath work, a lot of meditation, a lot of yoga, just to. begin to be able to sit with the emotions and the mental states that I couldn’t tolerate. And like at that early point in time, I still couldn’t tolerate it. still like so uncomfortable that I still had to go use marijuana just to get through the days. But it was just the beginning of that process of being able to tolerate what I had been running from through alcohol, through stimulants, through performance enhancing drugs for so long that like I was still inputting a substance into my body, but I could begin that process of sitting with it, even if it was for a minute. And those early days, two minutes, three minutes became 10, 15, 20, which then continued to expand longer. And the more just times I came back to sitting with those uncomfortable states. Bill Gasiamis (33:26)Yeah, wha what is it about being uncomfortable that people can’t handle? Do you think maybe you can tell me from your perspective? because you hear that, it’s almost ridiculous to hear somebody saying, I have a thought, it’s making me uncomfortable, I have to get that thought out. Yeah, I’ve b I’ve been there, so I’m not saying that Benjamin Miller (33:47)Thank you. Bill Gasiamis (33:49)people shouldn’t be doing that, but it almost does feel crazy, doesn’t it? Because it’s a feeling and a thought that makes you uncomfortable doesn’t necessarily put you in danger. But Benjamin Miller (34:01)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (34:02)we can’t do that. Like, do you have a any inkling as to why why philosophically that might be the case? Benjamin Miller (34:13)I mean, would just like our autonomic nervous system, a danger, like a physical danger versus a mental danger. can’t, our physical body can’t tell a difference. So they’re treated the same. And I would say like this. Yeah, so like just like uncomfortable, like state of mind or uncomfortable thought. just as humans, we prefer to be in a place of comfort, a place of safety. And so anytime something is uncomfortable, we tend to run in the opposite direction back towards what is known, what is comfortable, what is safe. And it’s like, that’s something I always like ask myself, like, how do I make my, what can I do today? That’s uncomfortable, but not like to the point that I lose myself and I just go off the deep end and where I’ve been. So just like a weird and like, feel like that place changes every day. It’s just like a balance that’s always, yeah. Bill Gasiamis (35:16)I get what you’re saying. So a a thing that is scary and dangerous, a physical thing, a bear, a tiger, you run. You can run away from that. If you’re lucky, you’ll outrun it, right? And then Benjamin Miller (35:30)Thank Bill Gasiamis (35:30)you’re safe. And then there’s no bear around and there’s no tiger around. So you’re good. You’re good to go. You can just move on with life. But when the body is confusing thoughts and feelings with the same type of Imminent danger, and you can’t run away from it, and it’s still there. You have to find a way to either escape it, which is short-lived because we’re harming ourselves to escape it, or you have to remind your body and yourself, your mind, that in fact you’re not in imminent danger. There’s nothing to run away from. This is An obstacle that I can tackle and overcome. Like it might just be on the path to, you know, that walk in the wilderness instead of a bear, it’s actually just a fallen log. A tree fowl, it’s an obstacle. I’ve just got to find a way around it, under it, over it, whatever. And if you’ve never used that muscle, then you don’t know how to do it. And then you get stuck behind something like a log that should not be as debilitating as it is. It should be something that you can find a way over. At 16, that’s understandable that, you know, most people haven’t dealt with real exponential life problems, you know, that just keep getting worse and worse. That changes your identity. They haven’t dealt with that. So they haven’t developed the skill. So could it just have been a case of you were a little premature? just from age an age perspective that y all you needed to worry about was playing football and and and studying and now you’ve got to deal with these existential issues, you know, that most people aren’t equipped to deal with at sixteen. Benjamin Miller (37:38)Yeah, mean, yeah, that’s like one thing in March of 2018. So about six months after my stroke, my mom took me to a neurosurgeon and he said, the good thing is that Ben is young and the bad thing is that Ben is young. And both of us didn’t really understand what he meant at that point in time, but just like the spiritual and existential journey that the stroke has taken me on. It’s that’s like been like both like the scariest and most comforting piece of the journey. Just because like I was never a spiritual person and not like in terms of religion, but just like believing in something higher, something bigger than me, some energy source that’s larger than us as human beings. And that’s been like the most like the biggest part of the journey, like the emotional side, the mental side, the physical side, we’re all. And like, I’m still on those journeys, but just like the spiritual side of it has been, yeah, just something I wasn’t expecting. Spiritual Awakening Through Adversity Bill Gasiamis (38:45)Yeah. It is kinda good that you discovered it early, but the path to discovering it is, man, so hard to have to go through what you went through to to have these learnings and understandings. and then to learn that if you tackle the thing that you’re most afraid of, you can actually conquer it. You can overcome it. Benjamin Miller (39:10)Mm-mm. Bill Gasiamis (39:11)And If you get good at doing that, you can overcome most things. And you can also recognise when it’s time to live in the pain and discomfort, the suffering, whatever it is, to live in it temporarily and then Benjamin Miller (39:27)Thank Bill Gasiamis (39:29)r find a way through. What other than yoga and meditation, what else was it that helped you go on this other journey, this recovery or growth journey. Benjamin Miller (39:45)I would say there were a couple things. I don’t know if you ever heard about internal family systems. It’s Bill Gasiamis (39:50)No, tell Benjamin Miller (39:54)a theory from Dr. Richard Schwartz. He wrote the book, No Bad Parts. And that was in 2022 after going on another medical leave from school when I first discovered that book. And it was just talking about the different parts of the mind, like, and how different we get stuck through our history at different points in our life. The Power of Breath and Movement And we have to like there are parts of our brain like different voices like speaking to each other and they are some are trying to protect us some are trying to move us forward some are trying to keep us where we are and it just like developing a conversation between those parts because there was a lot of traumas I suffered from the stroke and being in the hospital and then just like post stroke to just like trying to hide my spasticity. from everyone, not showing my parents, not showing my friends, not showing anybody I was struggling at all. And just starting to understand the different voices in my head and even the young perfectionist Ben could always be trying to push me to be beyond perfect and just beginning to have a conversation between those different voices in my head and allowing them to speak instead of just repressing emotions, repressing, repressing until they’re like. bubble up and I need to go get drunk or high or need to use something just to survive during the day. And the biggest other big piece for me was I started to practice Tai Chi in 2022 and that was as big of it physically was for me. It was just as big spiritually. Just that’s what I, when I first learned just like the… how to start being like water and going with what is today and not trying to force. Yeah, just like force myself to be able to do every single Tai Chi movement and, but yeah, and that’s like still a thing I struggle with is like this past month, I pushed myself too hard in the gym and now have tendonitis in my right ankle. So I haven’t been able to train for the past two weeks and it’s frustrating, but it’s just like, I can look at it as a frustration or just something to learn from. And I can recognize I wasn’t being like water over the past month. Instead of resting immediately, I just let the injury build and build and build day by day until now I can’t train. So yeah, but the Tai Chi, like the breathing, the Tai Chi breathing technique. So that was like another thing. It’s like yogic breathing. You inhale and expand your belly. Then when you exhale, you contract. But in Tai Chi, it was as you inhale, you contract. And as you exhale, expand. So that was like something I was never aware of. So like whenever I’m meditating now or just like trying to relax, I’ll do a yogic breathing. And whenever I’m like doing something active, working out on a walk or just like moving around, like I’ll be like Tai Chi breathing. So that’s something I got to work with stroke patients in 2023 than last year and earlier this year. And I got something like I always stress with them was learning how to breathe because like I feel like as we never actually learn how to breathe it’s just like something we do unconsciously from the time we’re born and just like going back to that most basic step of being a living being of learning how to breathe I was like Bill Gasiamis (43:24)I it sounds like it was real insightful. A lot of people breathe incorrectly as well, and they haven’t realized that shallow breathing, you know, or the opposite of shallow breathing and therefore it puts them into a different physiological state. You know, shallow breathing can create anxious experiences and then and then the opposite can create hyperventilation, those types of experiences. So it’s like you can alter how you feel, even if your goal is to not worry about the thinking, or even if your goal is not about what you’ve been suppressing, even if you just get rid of all of the things that we could possibly help us resolve or overcome or grow from or be like water, even if we get rid of all of that and you just change your breath. And jumped on a YouTube video and found somebody that was doing a calm meditation for whatever purpose. And even if you just did that and you had no other agenda other than to just experience a different breath right, you Benjamin Miller (44:39)Thank you. Bill Gasiamis (44:40)some people will have a profound experience from doing that, wouldn’t they? Benjamin Miller (44:45)Yeah, I 100 % agree. I just, I know to this like, yeah, I say that’s just like where it started was just like the recovery journey for me started with my breath work and relearning how to breathe and just like learning a bunch of different techniques of breathing and just like seeing what worked best at what times and it’s just like a trial and error type. Just as like life after a stroke is, feels like you’re just trying things out and see what sticks, see what doesn’t. And tomorrow’s a new day. We’ll see if this still works today. And then if it doesn’t, we’ll find something else that just. Bill Gasiamis (45:24)Yeah. Curiosity seems to be a massive Benjamin Miller (45:28)Mm. Bill Gasiamis (45:29)thing for you right now. Is we’ll try this, see what happens, try this, see what happens, see what sticks. If it doesn’t stick, well then we’ll just move on. Tai Chi, how did you stumble across that? Like what made you start trying it? Benjamin Miller (45:44)I was seeing an acupuncturist in Houston actually when I came home on a medical leave and he recommended me to his Sifu or teacher and his teacher had from chemotherapy because he had cancer but he would get like the toast plasticity and he like so I knew he understood like the first time I walked in to meet him we were at a coffee shop and he told me you look calm cool and collected but I can tell you’re a raging fire on the inside. I’m like, okay, he just walked past every mask, everything I tried to show to the public and he could see what, how I actually feel. So it was just like that instant connection. And from there he started to train me. Like I could go to his house and we train in a private session twice a week for like a year really. Like I still practice every day by myself, but he just was the first person that I didn’t have to wear like this fake face to. And I could like go in and like, it was like more like talk therapy. Like we’d be doing Tai Chi, but I could just like tell him I was really feeling that I was still struggling with marijuana at that time. This was around 2023. And that was like the biggest thing like in my substance recovery journey was what he told me. He’s like, I don’t care what you do outside of. this training, but the fact that you’re showing up here today shows me that you’re trying to move in the right direction. And I know that the fact that you’re still showing up, that you will be eventually moving in the right direction. Don’t worry about where you are today. Just focus on where you’re going and the trend of months, years, and especially in substance use. you get, I mean, in stroke too, you get so caught up in the day today. Bill Gasiamis (47:35)Yeah. Building Community in Recovery Benjamin Miller (47:35)How am I gonna survive today? And just to start looking more long-term was a very, it’s a very hard. Yeah, it’s so hard. Bill Gasiamis (47:46)I love I love the acknowledgement of right now you’re in Tai Chi. Everything’s fine. You’re doing great. It shows me that you’re moving forward. And people forget to do that to themselves as well. Like how far have I come? Six months ago, I wasn’t walk walking. Six months ago, I couldn’t speak the way I’m speaking now. Even if it’s not perfect, it has changed. There’s signs of improvement. And all that kind of thing. It’s kind of the same conversation that you had with your trainer who was just saying, Yeah, we’re here, we’re doing it. And that’s another rep that is going to benefit you down the track. If it doesn’t feel like it’s benefiting you now, that doesn’t matter. It matters that you’re here and that you’re putting the work in and you’re turning up and the whole lot matters. one of the interesting funny things that came up in my head about Tai Chi, it’s a martial art, right? And Benjamin Miller (48:50)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (48:52)and there was a meme on one of the socials where somebody was walking down the street and they were mugged and during the mugging they broke out into Tai Chi you know, to defend themselves or to stop the person stealing their bag. It was the epitome of you know like it’s probably not useful to stop the guy but calming Benjamin Miller (49:19)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (49:21)and getting yourself grounded and being okay about it was just a real cool thing to sort of to sort of see in that in that moment in that in that time it is a it’s a it’s a it’s a martial art but for a different purpose. It’s not for defending yourself or taking somebody down. It’s the exact opposite of what you were doing on the field as well. Benjamin Miller (49:53)just felt like refinding yourself in like the chaos of everyday life. That’s like how I describe it. Like it just allows you to come back to like your center line and just, just be. like, it’s like thinking of the Tai Chi versus a robber. Like that’s why I continued like from Tai Chi. started to go, I lived in Thailand in 2024 for a couple of months and train Muay Thai. as like the next stage to go from like super slow to start speeding everything up. And I was lucky enough to go live in up in Northern Thailand and Chiang Mai and train Muay Thai for a couple of months and have been back. And yeah, I’m actually going, my mom and I are to Bhutan where my mom is from at the end of October. And then I’ll go spend a little bit of time in Thailand before I come back home. So. Yeah, life is… Bill Gasiamis (50:51)I I I think about people going in practicing getting in the ring, MMA, Muay Thai, all that kind of stuff. It’s like, dude, how can you do it? How can you get in the ring and know that you’re going to get hurt? Benjamin Miller (51:09)I don’t, I won’t fight. just like, sparring is like very like just tap sparring. So it gets like all timing and rhythm, but Bill Gasiamis (51:17)Yeah. Benjamin Miller (51:17)like I had to retire from contact sports. So it’s just like more of like a therapeutic, like Bill Gasiamis (51:22)Okay. Benjamin Miller (51:23)beating my body up and learning how to throw kicks with both my right leg and left leg, throwing Bill Gasiamis (51:27)Okay. Benjamin Miller (51:28)punches. So yeah, I’m not going to go fight. Bill Gasiamis (51:31)I okay, good. That’s fine. I mean, even if you did, that’s fine as well. But that’s immediately when I what I went to when you said Moi Toy, like I’ve seen those dudes, they’re mental and amazing athletes, but they hurt themselves. And I saw how can you put yourself in that kind of danger? Even though that’s what you’re training to do. It my mind doesn’t go there, you know, it can’t physically make me do that. Of course I’ve defended myself in fights before if I’ve needed to. not as a fifty year old, but I probably still could, but getting in the ring is a completely different thing. So you’re not getting in the ring. That’s cool. so you worked with stroke survivors. How did that come about? Why did that come about? Benjamin Miller (52:19)Yeah. I was, like a guinea pig, like early patient at a stroke clinic in the Netherlands. And I, my, one of my mentors who’s co-owner of this clinic, Linda Radezdad, she wrote two books now, Stroke Rebell, Bill Gasiamis (52:37)Yeah. Benjamin Miller (52:38)Stroke Rebell 2, and just had the ability to go there and attend the clinic. And while I was there, I mean, they treated me like family. It was the first time, this was in 2022, so about four and a half years since my stroke, the first time I ran in four and a half years. And they just wanted me to come back and volunteer at their clinic. Cause I opened another one in Cyprus and that they just did last year one in South Carolina in the U S and then earlier this year in Florida. So I got to go out to Cyprus in 2023, then South Carolina last year, then Florida at the beginning of this year. And they just, mean, they just always treated me like family. And I’ve been so grateful for her and her partner, our young Kipers. Both of them have treated me like their own son, invited me into their house. I stayed with them after Cyprus, going back where they live in Germany and got to go to the clinic with them every day for two weeks while I stayed with them. And yeah, I I don’t know what I’d Bill Gasiamis (53:45)Yeah. How amazing. Benjamin Miller (53:47)do, but. Bill Gasiamis (53:48)I’ve heard of Linda and her partner. I’ve heard of them for many years and I don’t really understand what they do. Linda had a stroke, is that right? Benjamin Miller (53:58)She had two strokes in 2017 and at the beginning of 2018 I want to Drunk. Bill Gasiamis (54:03)Uhhuh. Okay. And now they run is it retreats? Are these clinics full time? and d do they see only stroke survivors or do they see all sorts of people? Benjamin Miller (54:16)I know Arjan when he ran his chiropractic clinic in Zutphen, the Netherlands, it was like he would see people with TBIs and strokes and just anything brain related. But now I think they’re focused on strokes and they host like two week retreats multiple times a year. I don’t know their website, but Yeah, they do them in Cyprus and Sweden in the summer. And then now they’re starting in the U S so it’s. Yeah, I don’t know what their end goal is, like how like what’s next for them, but I know they’re retreat. Like at least when I went in 2022, it was like. The amount of attention I got for. 14 days straight was nothing I’d ever experienced in any hospital or any. outpatient or inpatient rehab. It was something that I’ll forever be grateful for them for. But Arjan Bill Gasiamis (55:16)What’s the Benjamin Miller (55:18)just wrote his book. I couldn’t tell you the name of it, but Arjan Kuyper’s. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (55:25)Yeah, we’ll look it up. what did you gain from it, that first r retreat that you attended after fourteen days? W when you left, what did you feel like you left with? Finding Belonging and Understanding Benjamin Miller (55:39)I’d say the biggest thing was just like the mental and emotional piece that I didn’t feel alone for the first time in five years. I felt like I could walk into that clinic and just be Benjamin the stroke patient and not Ben this other guy that Ben this party kid and college Ben this wannabe bodybuilder. But I could just be the stroke patient who doesn’t know what he’s doing and just wants to recover further, but doesn’t know how to move forward. Yeah, that was like the biggest thing for me was just finding like a group of people for the first time in four and a half years. Bill Gasiamis (56:19)Yeah. I know that feeling of almost like belonging, but being understood and not needing to pretend and all that. That’s so good when you go into a room where people have been through what you’ve been through. It’s completely different because they get it and you don’t even have to talk. You just know that they get it and they know you. and it’s interesting that you said like what you got out of it was Like all emotional and kind of more more along the lines of things that are unspoken rather than I walked out better or I my muscle was better or this was better or that was better. That’s definitely a goal. That’s definitely something to work towards and always find a way to try and optimize. But you’re talking about I I left feeling better, thinking better, clearly more understood, more all these things. People don’t realize that the gravity of that experience and how profound li i it can change their life and put it on a different trajectory in a good way. Benjamin Miller (57:35)Yeah, I would say like even going back and volunteering, like helping work with stroke patients. It was the first time many of them would be around a group of people who they could just be themselves. could just like, they could struggle together. They could celebrate their wins, little wins together. Cause like, just like watching people walk for the first time. And I don’t know how like probably since their stroke and it was just, yeah. And like, they like just felt like, the level of community that they’d build and even though they’d known each other for one week, two weeks, so it was a really beautiful thing just to watch humans, like human beings in that way. Just like how I, I know how isolating at post stroke it can feel that no one understands like why me? And then just seeing people who feel the way that we felt and then finding that same level of community and home. Bill Gasiamis (58:31)Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. so it’s twenty twenty six, we’re near the end of twenty twenty six. How are you these days? How are you feeling? Benjamin Miller (58:42)Yeah, doing, I mean, been really well, to be honest. Had a great summer, great spring, just really on a upward trajectory right now. I wrote my memoir, Ed and I, available on YouTube and am working on self-publishing my workbook that I kind of built over these years called Self-Healing. Creating a Path for Self-Healing Just like a, I want it to be like a pocket size guide that can take anywhere. And just for anybody who just after for myself being through too many psychologists and psychiatrists to count on my hands and toes, that I just wanted to create a all inclusive guide to what helped me recover mentally and emotionally and be able to integrate. Like, I don’t think recovery is just like. You’re not recovered, you’re broken, then you’re healed. It’s just like a constant every day, check, check, check in, check in, check in, check in. Sometimes we start off the path, then we come back. We refine our center and it just, I don’t think it’s ever just a end journey. So just kind of created a workbook off that and I’m working on a website right now to have that. And we’d like to start public speaking, least around the United States right now. And I just see where we go. Bill Gasiamis (1:00:11)Yeah, man. It’s such a good place to find yourself. And I know the feeling of leaving the psychologists behind, you know, and the counselors behind and everyone behind and saying, Well, I don’t I think I’m good. I don’t need you now. I was probably seeing a counselor from the age of about twenty seven and still do, but there are lots of gaps in between sessions now where there previously wasn’t. There needed to be more regular sessions, sometimes weekly, and then every two weeks and then monthly. and then once or twice a year. But now I’m kind of back into the regular monthly. Benjamin Miller (1:01:00)you Bill Gasiamis (1:01:01)And it’s been like that for about a year. And it’s just because life has changed. Things are different and I’m reassessing and changing direction and all that type of thing. And I need somebody who’s got my back. Not not Benjamin Miller (1:01:20)Enough. Bill Gasiamis (1:01:21)that everyone around me doesn’t have my back. They do, all my family, my wife, everyone, they’re amazing. It’s just not their job to take go on the journey with me. Like they’re doing their own thing. It’s their own journey. So I I sort of seek out support. from an independent person to just be fully even though they’re getting paid to be fully on my journey with me to support me through that. And it’s so good to be able to go back to something like that, to reach out to somebody that has been left behind for a little bit. I’m gonna venture on my own, you know, I’m a big boy now. I’m gonna go and see what the world’s like. the world has thrown me a curveball. Okay. I’m gonna manage that, but also I’m gonna reach out and get

Maman lourde aux portes ouvertes : Marie-Eve Janvier replonge en adolescence et aimerait vraiment retourner faire son secondaire. Le secret effacé de la santé féminine : Retour sur le Rete Ovarii, cette structure ovarienne ignorée par la médecine qui pourrait enfin éclairer la ménopause, l'endométriose et le SOPK. L'IA s'empare du quotidien : Consternation face aux faux profils d'influenceuses québécoises générés par IA et à l'omniprésence de ChatGPT chez les plus jeunes. Potins et confidences poignantes : Réflexion sans tabou sur le commérage, suivie d'un moment d'émotion brute où Maripier Morin se livre sur l'impact de drames chez les célébrités et ses secrets personnels. Voir https://www.cogecomedia.com/vie-privee pour notre politique de vie privée

In this long-awaited jukebox episode, Barry and Abigail are joined by Dr. Alinor “Lucky” Mezinord to dig into J. Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive—an album Lucky considers one of the greatest of all time and one that deeply resonated with his own experience growing up. The group also rated two beers from Magic 13 Brewing Company in Miami, Florida: Islander and American Dream. The conversation quickly becomes much more than a discussion of hip-hop: it explores ambition, identity, family, community, race, success, and the choices that shape a life. Lucky explains why J. Cole's conscious, story-driven style connected with him, particularly as someone who grew up reading and looking for a different path out of his community. Barry and Abigail are struck by the album's unusually strong narrative structure. Rather than simply being a collection of songs, 2014 Forest Hills Drive follows an arc from J. Cole's childhood and aspirations, through his emergence as a successful rapper, to his growing discomfort with the persona and lifestyle that accompany fame—and ultimately his return to his roots. The title itself becomes part of that story: 2014 Forest Hills Drive was the address of the home his mother lost to foreclosure, which Cole later purchased and repurposed as housing for single mothers in his community.They then explore how songs such as “January 28th,” “Wet Dreamz,” “03' Adolescence,” “A Tale of 2 Citiez,” and “Fire Squad” portray the competing pressures facing young people: the desire to escape poverty, the lure of money and status, limited opportunities, and the importance of supportive people who encourage you to pursue a different path. Lucky brings a particularly personal perspective to these themes, connecting the album to his own experiences growing up in Miami and eventually becoming a physician. The discussion also considers how seemingly small decisions accumulate over time—and how circumstances, family support, opportunity, and adversity can be just as important as individual choices.As Cole achieves the success he dreamed about, the album's tone changes. “Saint Tropez,” “G.O.M.D.,” and “No Role Modelz” become launching points for a discussion about what happens when ambition turns into ego and when success creates distance from the people and places that shaped you. Abigail also took the opportunity to share the sample from Berta, Berta by Branford Marsalis, highlighting the slavery imagery used in the music video for “G.O.M.D.”The emotional heart of the album—and the episode—comes with “Hello” and “Apparently.” Barry sees “Hello” as a continuation of the story begun in “Wet Dreamz,” while Abigail and Lucky offer different interpretations of whether Cole ultimately chooses to return to the relationship represented in the song. “Apparently,” meanwhile, brings the story back to Cole's mother, his childhood home, and the sacrifices and love that helped make his success possible. The hosts discuss how repeated lyrics gain new meaning as the album progresses, reinforcing their appreciation of Cole's songwriting and sequencing.The discussion closes with “Love Yourz” and the controversial “Note to Self.” The hosts debate whether “Love Yourz” offers an empowering message about appreciating what you have or risks sounding like a prescription for complacency. Abigail also enters “Love Yourz” into The Abigail Hummel School of Speaking Smartly About Music by comparing elements of the song to “Same Love” by Macklemore.“Note to Self,” a lengthy spoken-word set of credits and thank-yous, produces perhaps the episode's funniest disagreement: Barry wants to skip it, while Abigail and Lucky love the personality and behind-the-scenes glimpse it provides.And, after nearly a year of waiting to record this episode, Lucky gets the honor of choosing the next jukebox album, “Criminal Minded” by Boogie Down Productions, submitted by Barry's brother (and Abigail's uncle) Derek Hummel.

What does it mean to raise confident, emotionally healthy kids in a world of AI, social media, beauty standards and the manosphere? Dr. Shefali Tsabary, clinical psychologist and author of the 2010 bestseller The Conscious Parent, joins Danielle to unpack her new books, Raising Conscious Daughters and Raising Conscious Sons. Dr. Shefali lays out a new reality of childhood, including the ways girls are excelling while struggling internally, why boys are searching for new models of masculinity and how algorithms are competing with parents for our children’s attention. She shares insight into everything from “good girl” conditioning and the male gaze to screen time, self-worth, curfews and whether 30 minutes of truly present parenting can actually be enough. Plus, Dr. Shefali challenges us to rethink what it means to be a “good” parent in our world today and shares why raising secure kids may have less to do with controlling them and more to do with trusting, listening and showing up. In this episode you’ll learn: How watching Netflix’s Adolescence gave Dr. Shefali a new sense of urgency around raising boys and ultimately inspired her book Raising Conscious Sons How AI and social media are competing with parents for kids’ attention, attachment and connection Why boys are increasingly drawn to the manosphere and what parents can do to model a healthier version of masculinity. How parents can teach boys to process rejection, vulnerability and difficult emotions instead of suppressing them. Why children and teens may turn to AI chatbots for validation and emotional support. How parental phone use can impact a child’s self-worth and sense of being seen. Why lowering expectations in early childhood can actually help kids build confidence. How giving kids age-appropriate choices can develop independence, resilience and self-trust. Why raising a “good girl” can unintentionally teach daughters people-pleasing, obedience and silence. Why girls can appear successful on the outside while struggling with anxiety, perfectionism and pressure within. What the Kardashians can teach us about beauty standards, female empowerment, the male gaze and the messages young girls absorb from culture. Why Dr. Shefali challenges the idea that women dress entirely “for themselves”—and why understanding our desire for external validation matters. Why strict rules and too much parental control can sometimes create more rebellion in kids How algorithms influence what we see, want and believe, and why Dr. Shefali believes our social media feeds are increasingly leading us to being “brainwashed.” Why Dr. Shefali says Emma Grede’s viral “three-hour mom” comment may have a point: quality time with kids can matter more than quantity. Dr. Shefali’s Book Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle Grab a copy of Dr. Shefali’s books, Raising Conscious Daughters here and Raising Conscious Sons here. Follow Dr. Shefali on Instagram.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know something is wrong.Your teenage son is quieter than usual, irritated, withdrawn, or clearly upset.So you ask:“What happened?”“Are you okay?”“Did something happen at school?”And all you get back is:“I'm fine.”Or worse:“Mom, leave me alone.”When you're worried about your child, it can feel almost impossible not to keep asking.But sometimes, the harder we pursue connection, the farther away our teenager moves.In this short Thursday Quick Reset, I'm sharing a simple shift that can completely change these moments:Open the door. Don't drag him through it.You'll learn why repeated questions can feel like pressure to an overwhelmed teenager and what to say instead.I'm also giving you three specific scripts you can use when:You know something is wrong but your teen says he's fineYour son seems overwhelmed and needs spaceHe snaps, “Leave me alone”We'll also talk about why some of the best conversations with teenagers happen sideways—in the car, walking the dog, making food, or sitting together without the pressure of a formal conversation.The goal isn't to get your teenager to tell you everything.And connection does not mean your son never pulls away.Adolescence is supposed to include independence and separation.The goal is to build a relationship where your teenager knows:“I can come back here when I'm ready.”Because your job isn't to make him talk.Your job is to make the relationship safe enough that when he wants to talk, he knows where to come.As I say often:The relationship is the intervention.Listen to Episode 298 and practice just one change this week:Instead of asking another question, try:“You don't have to talk about it right now. I'm around if you want me.”Then give it some space.If conflict and communication with your tween or teen have become exhausting, download my Tween and Teen Conflict Reset Kit for practical scripts and a plan for handling those first critical minutes of conflict.⭐️ If your family is stuck in repeating school-morning conflict, book a Parent Reset Strategy Session.⭐️Join the Family and get your weekly Mindful Kids and Family Journal here: https://www.mindfulkidsandfamilies.com/join-the-family (Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents, and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)

DISCLAIMER: this episode discusses disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image in depth. If that's not what you need today, we'll see you on the next one — and if you or someone you love is struggling, Reframe Voices Society (reframevoices.ca) and NEDIC, the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (nedic.ca), are great places to start.Penny Greening is the founder and executive director of Reframe Voices Society — a creative brand strategist, former communications agency director, and community mental health advocate whose own life has moved through corporate marketing, bodybuilding, motherhood, and, eventually, building a nonprofit from scratch.Andrea and Penny chat about what an eating disorder is (guess what? 2 definitions!), why the word "fat" needs to be defused instead of avoided, and what body neutral parenting actually looks like in a house that isn't getting it perfect at every meal.**In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Intro(01:12) Who is Penny Greening today?(05:14) Andrea visiting a friend in the hospital with anorexia(05:32) Two definitions of an eating disorder, and "the monster"(08:19) Atypical anorexia, and a new word: "cachectic"(13:25) Healthism, and the culture that rewards it(15:09) The postpartum relapse, and the line a doc said after delivery(18:47) The four C's of eating disorders(22:29) Weight stigma and the word "fat"(33:51) Is it ok to praised a finished plate?(39:57) Adolescence — what to watch for between ages 8 and 14(44:14) A message to parents managing their own eating disorder while raising kids(46:36) Why "she's getting thinner" isn't a diagnosis(50:47) Eating disorders don't discriminate — and it happens to men too(52:07) Should this be proactive, or do you wait for your kid to bring it up?KEY TAKEAWAYThere's no moral value attached to fat, skinny, big, small — it just is. Body neutral parenting comes down to the words already happening in your kitchen, and whether they let food and bodies stay that neutral, or start turning them into something to be earned or ashamed of.About Penny GreeningPenny Greening is a creative brand strategist, former communications agency director, community mental health advocate and nonprofit founder whose work sits at the intersection of education and social impact. Once the Director of Marketing for Innovative Fitness, she helped shape a whole-person approach to selling healthy habits for life, while raising her daughter.A fifth-term board member with Variety - The Children's Charity of BC, Penny founded BC-nonprofit Reframe Voices Society in 2025, after recognizing a critical gap in the public awareness of how and when eating disorders truly begin.Today, she leads a multidisciplinary team of volunteers equipping parents and guardians of school-aged children and teens, with the language and practical tools they need to protect their child against eating disorders when it comes to food, feelings and body talk.Connect with PennyWebsite | https://www.reframevoices.ca | http://www.beyondbodytalk.ca/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/reframevoices/LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/reframe-voices-society/YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ReframeVoicesTikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@reframevoicesAbout Andrea Barr, host of All Figured Out:Andrea is a certified career and life coach for parents. Through her coaching, she supports parents in finding better work-life rhythms so they can continue to grow personally and professionally without sacrificing family time.Connect with AndreaWebsite | ⁠https://www.andreabarr.com/⁠Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/allfiguredoutandrea | https://www.instagram.com/allfiguredout.podcastListen to All Figured Out

A Sunday morning sermon by Pastor Brett Deal.When was the last time your life turned upside down? On the rollercoaster of life, it's only a matter of time before we're flipped again. Sometimes we can see it coming, but other times… not so much. Sometimes these experiences leave us feeling sick to our stomach, but other times they reorient us in ways we didn't know we needed.It's the old adage: things work until they don't. In life, we learn habits and rhythms and use them, not because they're right, but because they work. But when the rollercoaster rolls and those old habits or ways of thinking don't give us the same contentment that they once did, we're left frustrated and annoyed. So much of childhood is set with old mindset habits. We grow up longing for the validation of others: pleased parents, approving teachers, and happy friends. We learn not to rock the boat, finding our value in these relationships. But then… middle school. We've all been there. It isn't just that our hormones make us go crazy, but that the tried-and-true habits don't produce the same contentment. Adolescence is where we start searching for new patterns and practices to feed the validation we needed, and this compounds over time. We don't want to be discontent, and rightly so! As people, made in the image of God, we are inherently communal. We want to live out what is eternally revealed in the triunity of the Godhead as the Father, Son, and Spirit are in everlasting contentment as our Lord God. We are naturally born with this spiritual longing to be right with God and those around us, and—try though we might—our old mindset can't get us there. Settling for lesser versions of this, we give in to peer pressure and social norms which either dangerously feed our ego or painfully undermine it. Through the spinning spirals of life, Paul discovered the way to contentment in every situation. True contentment doesn't just happen. It is a learned skill and an attitude purposely put into practice. It's the reverse of what we've learned because it's fostered from the inside out—the opposite of our childhood experience. We experience contentment as we have the mind of Christ, setting our thoughts in discipleship and then living them out in community.

Neuf ans après Ouï, Camille sort un nouvel album The Sound of Milk, un disque enregistré sur plus de 15 ans autour de la maternité, de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, et des chansons qui grandissent en même temps.  Il aura fallu près de quinze ans à Camille pour composer ce nouvel album. Pensé comme un triptyque, il se déploie comme un véritable hommage à la maternité. Tout commence avec le titre « The Sound of Milk », choisi en anglais parce qu'elle redoutait la polysémie du mot « lait » en français. « C'est aussi la douceur du son milk qui m'a décidée », confie-t-elle. Articulé en trois volets — naissance, enfance, adolescence — l'album est une suite de récits intimes. Camille a attendu que ses enfants grandissent avant de poser un regard distancié sur la maternité et sur eux. Elle y célèbre la joie, comme force vitale dans une époque troublée « Dans cet état d'anxiété, on peut rester tendre. J'aime croire qu'une chanson pourrait avoir la possibilité de sauver le monde. » Pour écrire ses textes, elle puise parfois dans un mot d'enfant, une onomatopée, une phrase lâchée au hasard. Elle se dit « plus sensible aux sons qu'aux images » et évoque « une montée en sons à partir de mots simples », comme si le langage se réinventait à hauteur d'enfant. Camille est une chanteuse, auteure-compositrice et musicienne française reconnue pour son univers singulier, mêlant pop expérimentale, chanson française et recherches vocales contemporaines. Révélée au début des années 2000, notamment avec l'album Le Fil, elle s'est imposée par sa façon de traiter la voix comme un véritable instrument, en jouant sur les textures, les boucles et les percussions vocales. Parmi ses titres marquants, on peut citer « Ta douleur », « Au Port », « Pale Yellow » ou encore « Je ne mâche pas mes mots ».  Au fil de sa carrière, elle a exploré des univers variés à travers des albums comme Le Sac des filles, Music Hole ou Ilo Veyou, où l'on trouve des chansons telles que « Paris », « Gospel With No Lord » ou « L'Étourderie ». Elle a aussi participé à des projets collectifs et à des bandes originales,  théâtre et performance vocale.  Invitée : la chanteuse Camille. Son album triptyque « The sound of milk » sortira le 18 septembre 2026.   Programmation musicale :  - Comptine extraite du volet 1 Naissance - La terre du volet 2 Enfance - Monsieur Garçon du volet 3 Adolescence - GTB du volet 3 Adolescence.

Neuf ans après Ouï, Camille sort un nouvel album The Sound of Milk, un disque enregistré sur plus de 15 ans autour de la maternité, de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, et des chansons qui grandissent en même temps.  Il aura fallu près de quinze ans à Camille pour composer ce nouvel album. Pensé comme un triptyque, il se déploie comme un véritable hommage à la maternité. Tout commence avec le titre « The Sound of Milk », choisi en anglais parce qu'elle redoutait la polysémie du mot « lait » en français. « C'est aussi la douceur du son milk qui m'a décidée », confie-t-elle. Articulé en trois volets — naissance, enfance, adolescence — l'album est une suite de récits intimes. Camille a attendu que ses enfants grandissent avant de poser un regard distancié sur la maternité et sur eux. Elle y célèbre la joie, comme force vitale dans une époque troublée « Dans cet état d'anxiété, on peut rester tendre. J'aime croire qu'une chanson pourrait avoir la possibilité de sauver le monde. » Pour écrire ses textes, elle puise parfois dans un mot d'enfant, une onomatopée, une phrase lâchée au hasard. Elle se dit « plus sensible aux sons qu'aux images » et évoque « une montée en sons à partir de mots simples », comme si le langage se réinventait à hauteur d'enfant. Camille est une chanteuse, auteure-compositrice et musicienne française reconnue pour son univers singulier, mêlant pop expérimentale, chanson française et recherches vocales contemporaines. Révélée au début des années 2000, notamment avec l'album Le Fil, elle s'est imposée par sa façon de traiter la voix comme un véritable instrument, en jouant sur les textures, les boucles et les percussions vocales. Parmi ses titres marquants, on peut citer « Ta douleur », « Au Port », « Pale Yellow » ou encore « Je ne mâche pas mes mots ».  Au fil de sa carrière, elle a exploré des univers variés à travers des albums comme Le Sac des filles, Music Hole ou Ilo Veyou, où l'on trouve des chansons telles que « Paris », « Gospel With No Lord » ou « L'Étourderie ». Elle a aussi participé à des projets collectifs et à des bandes originales,  théâtre et performance vocale.  Invitée : la chanteuse Camille. Son album triptyque « The sound of milk » sortira le 18 septembre 2026.   Programmation musicale :  - Comptine extraite du volet 1 Naissance - La terre du volet 2 Enfance - Monsieur Garçon du volet 3 Adolescence - GTB du volet 3 Adolescence.

Welcome to the latest episode (September 2026) of DOC Updates, where every month Neil Skolnik, MD and John Russell, MD review the most important articles on diabetes, obesity, and cardiometabolic disease. This month on DOC Updates: Diaz KM, Murdock ME, Serafini MA, et al. Evaluating movement breaks as a public health strategy to mitigate the harms of prolonged sitting: a large-scale pragmatic intervention. British Journal of Sports Medicine 2026;60:1208-1217. Chorniy, et al. Progression to Diabetes by Adults With Prediabetes Who Use the National Diabetes Prevention Program: A Natural Experiment. Diabetes Care 20 August 2026; 49 (9): 1576–1584. doi.org/10.2337/dc25-2485 Harnois-Leblanc, et al. Genetic Determinants of Macronutrient Intake Are Associated With Specific Food Intake in Youth: A Cohort Study Across Childhood and Adolescence. Diabetes Care 20 August 2026; 49 (9): 1645–1653. doi.org/10.2337/dc25-2975 Guan, et al. Sarcopenic Obesity and Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study and Landmark Analysis From the UK Biobank. Diabetes Care 20 August 2026; 49 (9): 1663–1668. doi.org/10.2337/dc26-0797 Guo, et al. Life Course Cumulative BMI Burden From Childhood to Adulthood and Risk of Metabolic Multimorbidity: A 36-Year Prospective Cohort Study. Diabetes Care 20 August 2026; 49 (9): 1567–1575. doi.org/10.2337/dc25-2889 Presented by: Neil Skolnik, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Abington Jefferson Health John J. Russell, MD, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Chair-Department of Family Medicine, Abington Jefferson Health DOC Updates is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association's three science and medical journals—Diabetes, Diabetes Care, and Diabetes, Obesity, and CardioMetabolic CARE. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, DOC Updates discusses how the latest research is relevant in clinical practice. For information about the American Diabetes Association's scholarly journals, visit diabetesjournals.org. For more about this podcast, click here.

durée : 00:07:31 - Le masque et la plume - par : Rebecca Manzoni - Amélie Nothomb met en scène la relation toxique entre un chroniqueur radio et son oiseau domestique. Si certains de nos critiques sauvent d'un côté une fable amusante et décalée sur l'emprise et la parentalité, la majorité trouve que c'est un livre plat et mal ancré dans la temporalité du récit. - équipe : Ilinca Negulesco, Stéphane Le Guennec, Maëlle Couillard - invités : Philippe Trétiack Journaliste et écrivain, Raphaëlle Leyris Journaliste au Monde, critique littéraire, Arnaud Viviant Critique littéraire (Revue Regards), Elisabeth Philippe Critique littéraire (L'Obs) Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Was können Hazel und Thomas von jungen Comedians lernen? Maria Ziffy hat griechische Wurzeln, wohnt in Offenbach und war mit Hazel bei LOL Next. 00:00:00 Vorwort 00:02:12 Intro 00:15:36 Zeitpkapsel 00:25:02 LOL Next 00:38:22 Spielerisch gegeneinander 00:50:55 Andere Comedians 01:03:38 Fake sein 01:16:04 Leute überreden 01:29:10 Insta vs. TikTok 01:39:55 Outro Marcant https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcant Liechtenstein zu unbedeutend https://www.suedkurier.de/ueberregional/panorama/Warum-Liechtenstein-Hitler-zu-unbedeutend-war;art409965,10027264 Lumpensammler https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpensammler Wie Hazel früher aussah https://youtu.be/eYjErvNAQ4I?si=gWUfzKpvAKYBK033 Die Kamera, mit der „Adolescence“ gefilmt wurde, war wohl eine DJI Ronin 4D https://www.dji.com/de/ronin-4d Kamera Express https://www.kamera-express.de Manfred Spitzer bei Tim Gabel https://youtu.be/XxBp76177GU?si=ZNRHAuffv357-ei8 Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/hoererlebnis Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

durée : 00:58:27 - Les émissions culturelles de France Culture - par : Antoine Guillot - À l'occasion de la sortie en salles d'"Adieu monde cruel", entretien avec Félix de Givry, suivi d'un "Grand Angle" sur la figure adolescente chez Truffaut avec Antoine de Baecque, avec aussi Sandra Onana. - équipe : Anne-Vanessa Prévost, Anne-Laure Chanel - invités : Félix de Givry cinéaste, Antoine de Baecque Professeur d'histoire du cinéma à l'École normale supérieure, Sandra Onana Critique française de cinéma Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:31:59 - Plan large - par : Antoine Guillot - L'adolescence telle que vécue, vue et représentée par François Truffaut, et son influence dans le cinéma qui l'a suivi, en France comme à l'étranger, avec Antoine de Baecque. - équipe : Anne-Vanessa Prévost, Anne-Laure Chanel - invités : Antoine de Baecque Professeur d'histoire du cinéma à l'École normale supérieure, Félix de Givry cinéaste Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:58:27 - Plan large - par : Antoine Guillot - À l'occasion de la sortie en salles d'"Adieu monde cruel", entretien avec Félix de Givry, suivi d'un "Grand Angle" sur la figure adolescente chez Truffaut avec Antoine de Baecque, avec aussi Sandra Onana. - équipe : Anne-Vanessa Prévost, Anne-Laure Chanel - invités : Félix de Givry cinéaste, Antoine de Baecque Professeur d'histoire du cinéma à l'École normale supérieure, Sandra Onana Critique française de cinéma Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

The average age a child first sees porn online is nine to eleven. They are not looking for it. It finds them. In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Dr. Shefali, who has been on Oprah more than any other guest and is one of the most trusted voices in conscious parenting alive today. She joins Emily with two new books just weeks apart, Raising Conscious Sons and Raising Conscious Daughters, and the two go deep on the questions Emily is sitting with in real time as a mother to a seven-year-old boy. They talk about what a screen is actually giving a child that a parent can learn to give instead, why the average boy is never initiated into his own sexuality or his own masculinity, and why that single gap traces a direct line to shame, misogyny, and the abuse now surfacing everywhere from the Epstein files to a website called Motherless. Dr. Shefali also opens up about what writing these two books dissolved in her, a judgment of an entire generation she didn't know she was carrying, and a new compassion for men she wasn't expecting to find. In this episode, Dr. Shefali explores: Why the average age for a child's first exposure to porn is nine to eleven, and why no one is looking for it What a screen is actually giving a child, and how to build an analog version of that same reward at home Why sons need to be initiated into their sexuality the same way a daughter is initiated into her body The tribal initiation story behind the book Of Water and the Spirit, and what it reveals is missing today Why testosterone is a hormone of pursuit that needs somewhere to go, not a behavior to suppress The four pillars of raising a conscious son: mentors, authenticity, accountability, competency What changed in Dr. Shefali's own judgment of an entire generation once she wrote these books Why remothering the good men already in your life may be the fastest path to protecting your daughters The risk no parenting book saw coming: chatbot friends, chatbot lovers, and children gambling their parents' money online What never changes about a child's needs, no matter how fast the world moves around them Key Moments: 00:00 – Welcome back Dr. Shefali, and why this conversation was two years in the making 02:11 – The real challenge of raising a son across two households 03:44 – Detox and withdrawal: what happens the moment the iPad disappears 05:55 – Building an analog surrogate for the dopamine a screen provides 09:38 – The average age kids first see porn, and why it finds them unbidden 11:04 – Sacred sexuality, shame, and what pornography is teaching in its place 12:08 – Talking to a son about arousal the same way you'd talk to a daughter about her period 14:00 – A hundred kids interviewed, and the one answer nobody expected 17:33 – Life force is neutral: Emily's own kundalini awakening and learning to receive 20:38 – Why Raising Conscious Sons exists: Adolescence, misogyny, and a culture in crisis 21:34 – Isis remembers Osiris: the myth behind putting a wounded masculine back together 22:27 – The site called Motherless, and 81 million views in a single month 24:01 – Of Water and the Spirit: a stolen initiation into manhood, reclaimed 26:38 – Sovereignty for daughters, tribe for sons: why the initiation is different 29:46 – The Urban Explorers: how boys build their own dangerous rites of passage 34:39 – The Hadza hunt, and why testosterone needs somewhere to go 37:11 – The four pillars of conscious masculinity 42:52 – What writing these books dissolved in Dr. Shefali's own judgment 46:37 – Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and remothering the men already in your life 49:05 – The Pac-Man fix: what happened when Emily brought a screen into her own house 51:20 – Why the books are already outdated: chatbots, AI relationships, and kids gambling online 53:59 – What never changes: safety, soothing, and significance 58:44 – Retiring as "the mother," and letting a 23-year-old daughter adult on her own About Dr. Shefali: Dr. Shefali Tsabary holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University and is a New York Times bestselling author who pioneered the conscious parenting movement. She has appeared on Oprah more times than any other guest and is the author of nine books, including The Conscious Parent, The Awakened Family, A Radical Awakening, and The Parenting Map. Her two newest books, Raising Conscious Sons and Raising Conscious Daughters, are available now. Website: drshefali.com Instagram: @DrShefali ✨ Explore quantum energy with LeelaQ's Infinity Bloc. Get 10% off: leelaq.com – use code ZIVA

Watch the interview on ACAMH Learn at https://bit.ly/ADHD-Teen-Brain and get a free CPD/CME certificate by registering for a FREE ACAMH Learn account at https://bit.ly/4fF4BBWIn this conversation, Dr. Jane Gilmour and Professor Susan Young explore what it means to understand ADHD through the lens of the teenage brain. Adolescence is a period of rapid change, marked by increased risk-taking, emotional intensity, and a drive for novelty—characteristics that are also central to ADHD. She considers what happens when these developmental processes intersect, and how to distinguish between what is typical, what is neurodivergent, and what may be misunderstood. Professor Young reflects on how ADHD presents and evolves across adolescence and into young adulthood, challenging dominant narratives, including debates around overdiagnosis and late identification. She also examines more complex and often overlooked issues in practice, such as the relationship between ADHD and trauma, risk-taking behaviours including substance use, and pathways into the criminal justice system.The discussion moves beyond theory to consider what works in practice, including how clinicians can better engage young people in evidence-based interventions such as CBT, and what practical changes can make a meaningful difference. Overall, this conversation brings together research, clinical experience, and real-world challenges to better understand and support neurodivergent young people.Learning ObjectivesA. To understand ADHD through the lens of adolescent developmentB. To recognise areas of debate and uncertainty in ADHD (e.g. diagnosis, trauma, risk)C. To identify practical approaches to supporting and engaging young peopleGet a free CPD/CME certificate for listening to this podcast by registering for a FREE ACAMH Learn account at https://bit.ly/4fF4BBWVisit https://www.acamh.orgFacebook and LinkedIn search / ACAMHInstagram https://www.instagram.com/assoc.camhBluesky https://bsky.app/profile/acamh.bsky.socialX https://x.com/acamh

Notre répondeur vocal: https://www.vodio.fr/repondeur/311/---Et si le masculinisme avait aussi des répercussions dans l'intimité ?"J'ai été invitée par Olivier Mageren à venir parler du masculinisme et de ses répercussions, notamment à travers mon étude de recherche sur la sexualité des couples hétérosexuels en lien avec la montée des mouvements masculinistes.Dans cet épisode, j'explique ce qu'est le masculinisme, comment certains de ses discours peuvent s'inscrire dans les représentations et les expériences des hommes, et ce que cela peut produire dans la vie intime et sexuelle des couples.Nous discutons des influences des réseaux sociaux, de la recherche d'identité chez les jeunes, en cherchant notamment à comprendre le vécu du masculinisme, son rapport à la sexualité, à la séduction et à la manière dont ces phénomènes peuvent se manifester dans les relations.Cet épisode est aussi l'occasion de faire de la prévention, de déconstruire certaines idées reçues et surtout d'ouvrir un espace de réflexion et d'écoute autour de ces questions. Le masculinisme arrive en force sur les réseaux sociaux, ce mouvement prend des proportions inquiétantes. On vous invite à découvrir une papote sur le sujet dans ce nouvel épisode. Le podcast s'adresse à tout le monde, aux jeunes, aux parents, aux adultes, aux professionnel·les, aux curieux·ses…"Si certains sujets résonnent avec vous, Fanny propose son écoute et son accompagnement pour poursuivre la réflexion et en parler avec vous.Contact : @Ma.Psycho.Sexologuema.psycho.sexologue@gmail.comLien bonus :Les hommes et le masculinisme – Quarré et Corbineau – 2025 – OpinionWay pour Sidaction :- https://www.sidaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/synthese-opinionway-pour-sidaction-les-hommes-et-le-masculinisme-decembre-2025.pdfSéquençage du podcast:[00:00:19] Introduction au masculinisme et présentation de l'épisode[00:00:52] Présentation de Fanny Galodé, psycho-sexologue[00:01:11] Prévenir et comprendre la progression du masculinisme[00:02:06] La sexualité comme partage et vibration[00:03:02] Qu'est-ce qui marque lorsqu'on étudie le masculinisme ?[00:03:23] À l'écoute des adolescents et jeunes hommes[00:05:36] Qu'est-ce que le masculinisme ?[00:06:19] Masculinisme, identité masculine et vulnérabilité[00:06:48] Adolescence, construction identitaire et réseaux sociaux[00:09:51] Sensibilité, écoute et curiosité face aux modèles de masculinité[00:09:57] Comment les femmes réagissent-elles aux discours masculinistes ?[00:10:12] Femmes masculinistes, « trad wives » et limites des connaissances[00:11:43] Que disent les études sur le masculinisme et la sexualité ?[00:12:01] Sexologie, masculinisme et comportements sexuels des jeunes hommes[00:13:00] Préservatif, grossesse et conséquences des comportements sexuels[00:13:56] Pourquoi continuer à documenter le masculinisme aujourd'hui ?[00:14:29] Des ressources pour les professionnels qui accompagnent les jeunes[00:16:26] Le retour en force de certains discours machistes[00:16:54] Réseaux sociaux, IA et exposition des jeunes aux discours masculinistes[00:17:52] Comment les algorithmes amplifient les contenus masculinistes[00:18:18] Peut-on être exposé au masculinisme sans le rechercher ?[00:18:25] Des conseils de vie aux contenus masculinistes : comment l'exposition commence[00:19:39] Ce que les parents ne voient pas toujours de la vie des adolescents[00:20:27] À l'école et à la maison : deux visages de l'adolescence[00:20:31] Puberté, amour, sexualité et besoin de comprendre[00:20:57] Quel regard sexologique porter sur le masculinisme ?[00:21:47] Sexualité : un fossé entre hommes et femmes ?[00:22:36] Quand les discours masculinistes réduisent les femmes à un modèle unique[00:23:08] Objectification des femmes et stéréotypes masculinistes[00:24:00] Quand les modèles masculinistes éloignent de soi et de l'autre[00:24:46] « Suis-je un incel ? » : derrière l'étiquette, une question identitaire[00:26:45] Oser parler de sa vulnérabilité[00:27:14] Identité, orientation et changement : accepter de se questionner[00:28:42] Quels conseils donner aux parents ?[00:28:56] Parler réellement de santé mentale avec les jeunes[00:29:33] Quand la réponse d'un enfant renvoie le parent à lui-même[00:30:07] Éducateurs, enseignants et psychologues : créer des espaces de parole[00:30:54] À 13 ans : masculinisme, souffrance et pensées suicidaires[00:31:33] Écouter les hommes derrière la carapace et la virilité[00:32:00] Violence, souffrance psychique et vulnérabilités sous-jacentes[00:32:44] Que peut révéler le masculinisme chez les jeunes ?[00:33:10] Parler du masculinisme dans les cours d'EVRAS[00:33:27] Pourquoi les discours masculinistes peuvent-ils être séduisants ?[00:33:43] Du masculinisme chez les jeunes à son influence chez les adultes[00:34:07] Comment le masculinisme peut influencer la sexualité des hommes adultes[00:35:11] Pour comprendre les femmes, pourquoi demander aux hommes ?[00:35:32] Appartenance au groupe et recherche de repères masculins[00:36:05] Parler directement aux femmes plutôt que fantasmer « la femme »[00:36:33] Idéalisation, peur du féminin et objectification[00:37:00] Masculinisme, féminisme et patriarcat : lecture d'un texte pour conclure[00:38:04] Gratitude et conclusion avec Fanny Galodé[00:38:44] Les coulisses d'Entr'Nous et de la production du podcast[00:40:25] Clôture du podcast

On this episode of Vitality Radio, Jared and Jen sit down with clinical psychologist Dr. Roger McFillin for a challenging conversation about psychiatric diagnosis, mental health medications, and the medicalization of normal human struggle. Jen shares her experience of being prescribed Prozac at age 13 and spending decades living under diagnoses that shaped how she saw herself. Dr. McFillin explains why he has become an outspoken critic of his own profession and questions how conditions such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and ADHD are diagnosed. They discuss the DSM, informed consent, psychiatric medications, emotional suppression, personal agency, and the powerful effect a diagnosis can have on identity. This conversation asks an important question: Are we helping people understand why they are struggling, or simply giving their struggles a name?Additional Information:Dr. Roger McFillin - Website + Podcast Dr. Roger McFillin Instagram Dr: Roger McFillin on X Dr. Roger McFillin Substack Center for Integrated Behavioral Health Jen's Story Episodes:264: Emotional Vitality423: Emotional Vitality: Jen's Story Part 2 - Rebalancing Mind and Body Through Supplementation438: Emotional Vitality: Jen's Story Part 3 - Weaning Off of Pharma457: Emotional Vitality: Jen's Story Part 4 - How Changing Your Mindset Can Change Your Life 505: Emotional Vitality: Jen's Story Part 5 - The Impact of Diet on Mental Health and Physical PainVisit the podcast website here: VitalityRadio.comYou can follow @vitalitynutritionbountiful and @vitalityradio on Instagram, or Vitality Radio and Vitality Nutrition on Facebook. Join us also in the Vitality Radio Podcast Listener Community on Facebook. Shop the products that Jared mentions at vitalitynutrition.com. Let us know your thoughts about this episode using the hashtag #vitalityradio and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. Thank you!Just a reminder that this podcast is for educational purposes only. The FDA has not evaluated the podcast. The information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. The advice given is not intended to replace the advice of your medical professional.This podcast is produced by DrTalks.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://drtalks.com/podcast-service/

[REBROADCAST FROM June 1, 2026] Our May 2026 Get Lit book club selection was Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta. The story follows a 13-year-old boy in 1970s New Jersey as he grapples with the loss of his mother. Perrotta speaks with Alison Stewart about the novel from the May Get Lit with All Of It book club event. Cover art courtesy of Simon and Schuster Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Chris and Andy talk about the bizarre marketing rollout of ‘The Uprising' (1:43), the Season 3 teaser trailer for ‘The Pitt' (11:57), and Kate Winslet teaming up with ‘Adolescence' cocreator Jack Thorne for a new Netflix limited series (15:25). Then they discuss the potential return of the weekly release model across television (21:41) before previewing ‘Adults' Season 2 (31:28). Later, they share some late summer recommendations for things they're watching, reading, and listening to (39:01). Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of The Watch and so much more! Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producers: Kaya McMullen and Kai Grady Studio Production: Jason Arreola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to The Mental Breakdown and Psychreg Podcast! Today, Dr. Berney and Dr. Marshall discuss why it is important for teenagers to explore their identity and the risks that are present when they self-diagnose. Read the article from The New York Times here. You can now follow Dr. Marshall on twitter, as well! Dr. Berney and Dr. Marshall are happy to announce the release of their new parenting e-book, Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child Part 2: Attention. You can get your copy from Amazon here. We hope that you will join us each morning so that we can help you make your day the best it can be! See you tomorrow. Visit Psychreg for blog posts covering a variety of topics within the fields of mental health and psychology. The Parenting Your ADHD Child course is now on YouTube! Check it out at the Paedeia YouTube Channel. The Handbook for Raising an Emotionally Health Child Part 1: Behavior Management is now available on kindle! Get your copy today! The Elimination Diet Manual is now available on kindle and nook! Get your copy today! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channels, Paedeia and The Mental Breakdown. Please leave us a review on iTunes so that others might find our podcast and join in on the conversation!

“Safety is found in parents providing those bumpers, but eventually there is a line. I love you enough to know that this is our line right now. And I'm sorry that's hard. And I am here to help you find solutions within those parameters.” Adolescence asks parents to hold two things at once: stay close enough to help, and step back enough to let a teenager grow into an adult. In this episode, therapist Jennifer Jaeger joins us to talk about what that balance actually looks like in practice, from telling the difference between normal teen moodiness and something more concerning, to knowing when to step in and when to let a teen sit with a consequence. About Our Guest Jennifer Jaeger is a therapist with Key Concierge Therapy, partnering with Boulder Psychological Services. She works primarily with adolescents, young adults, and parents navigating developmental challenges and life transitions, with areas of focus that include stress, anxiety, depression, attachment, and neurodivergence, including the transition to college and launching into adulthood. Jennifer is also an equine and animal assisted therapist, incorporating the unique relationship between people and horses, dogs, and other animals into her therapeutic work. She provides therapeutic services in a concierge format to better reach resistant clients, and her work offers parents a valuable perspective on how to support teens while helping them build the confidence, resilience, and independence they need to navigate adulthood. In This Episode, We Cover What teens are struggling with most right now, and the pressures parents may not fully understand Telling normal teen behavior apart from something concerning, including anticipatory anxiety around transitions, by looking at a behavior's recovery time and duration rather than the behavior itself What anxiety actually looks like in teenagers, and the signs parents commonly miss because it doesn't always look like worry or fear How to respond when a teen is struggling, what unintentionally makes it worse, and how to help them recenter Staying emotionally connected and co-regulated when a teen doesn't want to talk, without constantly asking “what's wrong?” Knowing how much to intervene: providing guardrails and bumpers, letting teens face consequences and advocate for themselves, and using the “who cares” strategy so not everything becomes an issue What attachment looks like during adolescence, why it reverts to early childhood patterns under stress, and how it's revisited at every developmental stage Boundaries as “what you are going to do” to manage a situation, and why holding the line builds safety and strengthens attachment Engaging teens who are resistant: holding space, staying flexible on plans, and giving real conversations time What equine and animal assisted therapy reveals about a teenager that traditional talk therapy sometimes can't, and why the horse-human relationship is therapeutically powerful Preparing teens for college and adulthood: the skills they need, and what parents sometimes do that gets in the way Finding your own tribe for parent support, and what “parenting well” looks like during adolescence Resources Mentioned & Related Reading Jennifer Jaeger, LCSW, Boulder Psychological Services: guest's therapist bio and contact page #teens #anxiety #parenting tips #equinetherapy

On the eve of the release of the second season of Mark Gatiss's acclaimed post-war detective drama Bookish, I'm delighted to share my conversation with one of its standout stars, Connor Finch. Connor plays Jack Blunt, a young man recently released from prison who finds employment with Gabriel Book, played by Mark Gatiss. As the series unfolds, the mystery surrounding Jack and his connection to Book becomes every bit as compelling as the murders they investigate together. Bookish is an absolute gem: beautifully acted, full of warmth and humanity, and packed with clever, twist-filled storytelling. Connor is a remarkable talent with a hugely promising future ahead of him. It was a real pleasure to sit down with him for a candid and thoughtful conversation that explores his journey so far, the lessons he took from drama school, his approach to researching and building characters, and the significant mental health challenges that derailed his life in his mid-teens before he found a way back on track. As impressive off-screen as he is on it, Connor comes across as modest, insightful and genuinely lovely company. There are plenty of takeaways in this episode, whether you're an aspiring actor, someone navigating your own challenges, or simply a fan of great television and great storytelling.  Related links Follow Connor on Instagram Bookish Trailer Bandwidth Conversations is proudly sponsored by Klira.  Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

What does it tell you about a company when every single person it hires, in every function, has to pass the same interview about culture?In this episode of Supra Insider, Marc Baselga and Ben Erez set the guest format aside for a conversation Marc started because he noticed something new. After two years of coaching people through interview loops, this was the first time he'd seen Ben genuinely fascinated by one specific interview at one specific company. Ben walks through what he's pieced together about Anthropic's culture interview: the no-exceptions policy, the rapid-fire format of ten or more questions in a single 45-minute slot, and the fact that anyone at the company, from marketing to IT, can be trained to run it.They explore the questions that actually get asked, what Ben believes is being evaluated underneath them, why “why Anthropic” demands more depth than the same question anywhere else, and whether the filter holds as the company gets hotter and more candidates learn to say the right things. Then they turn to the question Ben finds most interesting: why almost no other company does this, and what happens inside a company when employees are calibrated to evaluate culture.If you're preparing for an interview at a frontier lab, thinking about how your own company screens for values, or just curious what a well-designed culture filter looks like from the outside, this episode is for you.All episodes of the podcast are also available on Spotify, Apple and YouTube.New to the pod? Subscribe below to get the next episode in your inbox

Middle school changes kids in ways that can feel unrecognizable. Dr. Russell Ledet, child and adolescent psychiatrist and father of two Black girls, joins Dr. Joy to explain why. They walk through the psychological stages driving adolescence, industry versus inferiority giving way to identity versus role confusion. They talk through what's actually happening in the brain as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex develop on different timelines, a combination Dr. Ledet argues isn't cruel so much as an opening for parents to grow alongside their kids. Dr. Ledet talks through how friendships form in middle school and what anxiety can look like when it doesn't announce itself. He offers real-time guidance for common flashpoints, a first physical or verbal fight and a first heartbreak, along with how to tell the difference between normal adolescent worry and something that needs more support. He closes on the one thing he thinks most parents get wrong about middle schoolers. They assume kids aren't thinking things through, when really they are thinking about everything at once and mostly need to be heard. Resources & Announcements Want to reflect on this conversation in community? Join us inside our Patreon community where we’re unpacking this episode together. You can now catch episodes of the Therapy for Black Girls podcast on YouTube. Be sure to subscribe to get new episodes every week. Did you know you can leave us a voice note with your questions for the podcast? If you have a question you'd like some feedback on, topics you'd like to hear covered, or want to suggest movies or books for us to review, drop us a message at memo.fm/therapyforblackgirls and let us know what’s on your mind. We just might share it on the podcast. Grab your copy of Sisterhood Heals. Where to Find Our Guest Instagram LinkedIn Website Stay Connected​ Is there a topic you'd like covered on the podcast? Submit it at therapyforblackgirls.com/mailbox. If you're looking for a therapist in your area, check out the directory at https://www.therapyforblackgirls.com/directory. Grab your copy of our guided affirmation and other TBG Merch at therapyforblackgirls.com/shop. The hashtag for the podcast is #TBGinSession. Make sure to follow us on social media: Instagram: @therapyforblackgirls Facebook: @therapyforblackgirls Our Production Team Executive Producers: Dennison Bradford & Gabrielle Collins Director of Podcast & Digital Content: Ellice Ellis Producer: Ndeye Thioubou Production Assistant: Bria MosleySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Sunday 19 October at Church House, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION Netflix's hit series Adolescence seemed to capture the current anxiety surrounding young men and what they might be getting up to online. The show tells the story of a teenage boy who, seemingly out of the blue, stabs and kills his female classmate after she calls him an ‘incel' online. The message of the show points to influencers like Andrew Tate and the so-called ‘manosphere' as the cause for the boy's violent tendencies. For the uninitiated, the manosphere is a term which incapsulates the various YouTube channels, chat forums and other corners of the internet where men can get advice on everything from parenting skills to relationship advice – often with a sexist twist. Many took the message of Adolescence and ran with it. The UN has ‘sounded the alarm over online misogyny'. Politicians even argued that the show should be compulsory viewing for school-age children. But others are worried that the Adolescence effect has caused something of a moral panic. Figures like Tate might enjoy online popularity, but that doesn't necessarily mean that young men are all turning into misogynists. In fact, the finger-pointing around discussions about toxic masculinity and what boys should and shouldn't do has, some argue, pushed young men into the hands of Tate and his contemporaries who preach pride instead of shame about being a man. As one person interviewed by the Manchester Evening News put it, some kids have never heard the word ‘masculinity' without the word ‘toxic' added to it. Critics also argue that relationships between men and women have, in many ways, never been better. Sexism used to be the social norm for our mothers and grandmothers, but is increasingly becoming an anomaly. Do we need to reassess what we mean by misogyny and toxic masculinity? Are we in danger of writing off all young men and boys as having a problem with women that needs fixing? Or is the new world of identity politics and online content influencing men to behave in a way that is unacceptable, whatever you term it? What is really going on with how men feel about women in the real world, away from laptop screens? And if we've failed to succeed up until now, how can we change how we talk to our sons about what kind of men we want them to be? SPEAKERS Julie Bindel journalist; author, Lesbians: Where are we now?; feminist campaigner; podcast host, Julie in Genderland Dr Az Hakeem consultant psychiatrist and medical director, Psyche Clinic; author, Trans and Detrans Nina Power writer and philosopher; author, What Do Men Want? Masculinity and its Discontents Dr Stuart Waiton senior lecturer, sociology and criminology, Abertay University; author, Scared of the Kids: curfews, crime and the regulation of young people; chair, Scottish Union for Education Dr Joanna Williams academic; author, How Woke Won and Women vs Feminism CHAIR Ella Whelan co-convenor, Battle of Ideas festival; journalist; author, What Women Want

This is an interesting show, because the person who really championed the read this week was Arlene Gibson, the matriarch of the Gibson Family. A lifelong school teacher and administrator for girls' schools, she fell in love with Paradise Pawn by Meg Richardson. And when Arlene tells us to do something, we do it. Paradise Pawn in the story from the perspective of a young 14 year old girl named Jackie who works in a Pawn Shop in Florida. Full of humor, heart and an adolescent voice that is sincere and true to a very difficult age, this is a great book. If the age of young teenagers confuse you (maybe you are a mom, dad, caregiver or yourself a 14 year old girl) this book is an eye opener and a heartbreaker. We talk to both Arlene and Meg. Join us! Find books mentioned in The Book Case: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this episode: Paradise Pawn by Meg Richardson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today I get a chance to speak with Oliver Mertz for the new Hardcover Graphic Novel- A Ghost Arm made of Angry Ghosts for Oni Press. Ari Ackerman is a teenager in love with the DC punk scene with the likes of Fugazi and Jawbox, but also dealing with his Cancer stricken father. Adolescence has him still figuring the world out and in this world there are Super powered beings throughout the world that cause a state of confusion as he must lean on more grounded friends to aid him on this new found journey of grief. All the while, a murder has surfaced in town and with the help of his friend Maya they must navigate a turbulent world.Written and colored by Oliver MertzPencils and Inks by Alex DiottoLetters by Taylor Esposito

We have a very special podcast crossover episode for you this week! Friend of the show and fellow NCFCA Film Critic Lindsey Dunn invited us to collaborate on an episode with her podcast, 1 OF MY STORIES.William Golding's iconic novel LORD OF THE FLIES was recently given the miniseries treatment on Netflix, developed and directed by Jack Thorne (of Adolescence) and starring a host of young talent like Winston Sawyers, Lox Pratt, David McKenna, and Ike Talbut. The story paints a bleak and harsh portrait of a decaying civilization when a handful of adolescent boys crash land on a remote island, where their superstitions, prejudices, and fears foster a downward spiral into chaos and violence.In this week's episode, Reed joins Lindsey -- alongside fellow guests Aaron Jones and Anna Gonowon -- for a hearty discussion of the show's central themes, cultural significance, and with a particular focus on its four primary characters. It's a robust and thoughtful analysis of what makes a leader, what makes a coward, what makes a society, and what makes us human.We're very proud to present this episode simultaneous with 1 of my Stories and we really hope you enjoy it.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tamara Cook grew up poor in a small Texas town with eight siblings, a mother struggling to hold everything together, and a biological father who was never in the picture — and when her babysitter started abusing her at just seven years old the life she deserved was already being taken from her before she was old enough to understand what was happening. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, she shares how her mother fell into addiction and began pimping her out, how her parents splitting sent everything into further chaos, how she eventually started selling drugs herself and ultimately became a pimp — the exact monster she had always been afraid of and never wanted to become. She opens up about her own addiction the relationships the multiple children she was raising in the middle of everything, and what a seven year sentence in the Texas Department of Corrections finally did to give her back the life that started being taken from her when she was seven years old. _____________________________________________ #womeninprison #TrueCrime #redemptionstory #prison _____________________________________________ Connect with Tamara Cook: YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tamarasherrell87?si=0laBG70KXTx69hZI TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nobodybby87?_r=1&_t=ZP-98ZtlRlPlcc _____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Tamara Cook Introduction 00:21 Growing Up in Amarillo 02:02 Early Family Life & Childhood Memories 06:46 Life Changes at Age Seven 09:05 Abuse and Family Struggles 13:17 Mother's Addiction Begins 20:28 Role Reversal: Becoming the Caregiver 23:12 Trauma, Betrayal & Survival 27:01 Deeper Into Abuse and Neglect 33:32 Adolescence in Chaos 39:00 Survival and First Crimes 43:43 Turning to the Streets & Dealing 49:57 Dealing Drugs and Gang Life 58:00 Solo Survival and Criminal Hustle 01:05:30 Becoming a Dealer and a Pimp 01:14:00 Running Operations and Family Fallout 01:26:02 Violence, Survival & Self-Defense 01:35:29 From Teen Mom to Emancipation 01:46:06 Trying to Be a 'Normal' Wife & Mother 01:56:02 Losing Children and Hitting Rock Bottom 02:05:40 Falling into Addiction 02:11:00 Deep Addiction, Homelessness & Jail Time 02:24:00 Year Under Investigation & Final Arrest 02:33:50 Prison: The Breaking Point 02:46:00 Life Changing Years Inside 03:02:00 Release, Recovery & Faith 03:14:00 Domestic Violence and New Beginnings 03:18:00 Career, Ministry, and Healing 03:26:00 Mother's Redemption and Passing 03:33:00 Forgiveness, Recovery and Purpose 03:35:51 Reflection & Message of Hope _____________________________________________ To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/LockedInWithIanBicka

After regaling you with sordid tales of my bedroom posters from adolescence, Lucy and I talk about this story that breaks our hearts ... which probably should have stopped us from laughing about it at times ... 

Originally aired November 8, 2023.In this episode, Melanie has a very special guest—her daughter, Melissa! In this episode, we will hear how Melissa feels about growing up without social media or a smartphone. They discuss an overview of teen brain science, what makes social media irresistible for teens, the risks for teen girls, and end with some practical tips for parents. You will enjoy the candid nature of this conversation and will be inspired to make some changes in your home!Support the showDon't forget to subscribe, rate, and leave a review if you enjoy the episode. Your feedback helps us bring you more of the content you love. Stay Strong!Get your copy of the BRAND NEW Adventures of Super Brain book!Start your ScreenStrong Journey today!Check out our Kids' Brains & Screens products.Want to help spread the ScreenStrong message to your community? Consider becoming a ScreenStrong Ambassador!ScreenStrong Tech RecommendationsCanopy—Device Filter (use code STRONG for discount)Production Team:Host: Melanie HempeProducer & Audio Editor: Olivia Kernekin

John Taylor Gatto argues that "adolescence" as we know it is a modern invention, not a biological reality. This episode looks at what changes when we stop treating our teens like they need to be sheltered from responsibility, and start treating them like they're capable of it. Show notes are at https://www.4onemore.com/359

Over the course of his career, no other director has documented the passage of time better on screen than writer-director Richard Linklater. The Texas filmmaker, synonymous with being one of the vital voices of the independent film movement of the 1990s, has used his filmography to record the most vital parts of our lives, and how those moments from our past and present can shape our future. Whether it's our first love and the long romantic journey with that person (the Before Trilogy), the magic of his childhood (School of Rock, Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood), the glory of high school and college (Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!), the evolution of artistic expression (Me and Orson Welles, Blue Moon, Nouvelle Vague), Linklater has looked inward at the human condition expertly for close to forty years, but none more so perfectly than he did with his 2014 masterpiece, Boyhood. Originating as an idea in his mind over two and a half decades ago, Linklater assembled a cast and crew to go on a twelve-year journey of filming that would chronicle the life of a young boy from the age of six all the way to eighteen, from kindergarten to the end of high school. From the early 2000s to the mid-2010s, Linklater tinkered in the editing room with footage from limited days to shooting with his actors, sometimes even without a finish script, and sprung out a one-of-a-kind film that serves as a memory box for generation within its specific look at a boy growing up in South Texas as he's discovering who he wants to be, living with his mother and sister and occasionally spending time with his father when he is in town. In symbolic nod to the years, it took to make Boyhood, it returns to theaters for a run of anniversary screenings nationwide for its twelve-year celebration to re-explore the evolving yet universal themes Linklater concluded about adolescence, parenthood, siblings, and learning that the road to becoming the person we want to be takes exactly one thing Linklater has become known for, time. In a recent conversation, Linklater and I spoke about the origins of the project, collecting the music that made up the character's world, the evolving nature of the project, and retooling the film's narrative to fit the film's star Ellar Coltrane's life and interests. We also spoke about working with Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke, their growth within these characters as parents and how Arquette's role mirrored the life of Linklater's mother. Our discussion continued with what it was like to film eight other films while creating Boyhood, why San Marcos, TX was a great location to shoot the majority of the film (he continued to use this location for Everybody Wants Some!!), his optimism about the future generations on the whole as well as within the confines of artistic expression. In our final moments, Linklater teased his latest expansive project he's doing right now, an adaptation of the musical Merrily We Roll Along, this time with the film commencing over the course of twenty years to complete the time period of this celebrated work from Stephen Sondheim. While it seems like a daunting task, only Linklater would have the trust from audiences to deliver again once we are able to see the film in the years to come. But until then, the director, much like when he was making Boyhood, will continue to create great work that reminds us of his artistic super power; that by looking inward, we discover the value of our place, our time, and the skin we live in. Boyhood will receive a 12th anniversary theatrical re-release from Independent Film Company (IFC) on July 31.

Coucou les filles ! Mon programme des grandes vacances ? Cop's, glaces, chill… tout ça, à volonté ! Le truc, c'est que vous nous manquez de ouf, alors mes BFF et moi, on vous a préparé une collection d'épisodes XXL à retrouver pendant tout l'été. Trop bien, non ?On commence par le « Top 5 » de nos épisodes préférés sur le corps et l'adolescence ! Je transpire beaucoup et ça me gêneAvoir mal pendant les règles, c'est normal ?Comment trouver mon style ?J'ai des pertes blanches, c'est normal ?Les seins : trop ou pas assez ? On se retrouve le 31 juillet pour un TOP 5 sur l'amour ! CréditsDirection éditoriale : Malicia Mai-Van-Can. Scénario : Sarah Barthère. Réalisation : Qude. Avec les voix de Candice Sansano, Margaux Rinaldi, Augustine Pouplin et Alexia Neveu. Création visuelle : Emma Tissier. Responsable marketing : Jean-Luc Monchy.Un podcast de Milan presse 2026. Droits réservés.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Playwright Bubba Weiler and actor Stanley Simons talk their new play "The Saviors," in which two altar boys navigate the changing tides of their faith and friendship after a lost man takes shelter in the church. "The Saviors" is now playing at the Atlantic Theater through August 8, 2026. Production photo by Ahron R. Foster Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode, returning guest Allison Beck, a psychotherapist and parent coach specializing in reproductive psychology and anxiety, joins us to discuss the powerful concept of how "doing less is more". In an era dominated by an abundance of conflicting social media advice, the parenting pendulum has swung toward an exhausting state of over-parenting. Allison explains how this constant pressure to manage, fix, and perfectly execute every interaction can actually block the essential experiences and manageable doses of discomfort that children need for healthy development.The conversation dives deep into the psychology of childhood anxiety and a phenomenon Allison calls "yellow lighting". She explains how well-intentioned parents often inadvertently speed up or escalate a child's emotional distress by either over-demanding or over-accommodating their feelings. Instead of swooping in to fix the problem, the most effective strategy, recognized as a gold standard for treating childhood anxiety and OCD, is to offer a brief supportive statement and then literally do less. Allison also emphasizes the crucial difference between parental agency and control, reminding listeners that parenting behaviors cannot completely override a child's genetics or natural development.Finally, Allison unpacks the practical steps parents can take to sit with their own discomfort and regulate their nervous systems. She highly recommends meditation as a tool to build the neurological skill of observing without reacting, which directly translates to calmer, more flexible parenting. By redefining what it means to be a "good parent", and accepting that calmly and accurately responding to your child's needs just 20 to 30 percent of the time is a massive success, parents can finally let go of perfectionism. Tune in to learn how to parent more intuitively and find out more about Allison's one-on-one coaching and therapy offerings.Allison has served as an advisor and written contributor on perinatal mental health, child development and parenting for various professional service providers and organizations. She received a BS in Human Development with a dual concentration in Early Childhood and Adolescence from Cornell University and an MSW from NYU. Allison has been supporting individuals and families as a Psychotherapist and Parent Coach in NYC agencies, hospitals, and in private practice for over a decade.Connect with Allison: allisonbeck.com@_allisonbeckCheck out her past episode here: “Tackling Anxiety & Depression: One Thought At A Time”Click here and use your exclusive 20% listener discount (Code: Fit20) to enroll in Master Your Pelvic Floor, our signature self-paced course that will change the way you understand and care for your body.

Leslie Tyler is the Director of Parent Education at Pinwheel, where she's also known as the Chief Mom, and the editor of Your Healthy Tech Playbook. She co-hosts the Technically Parenting podcast, collaborates with leading researchers to build practical tools for families, and previously took an edtech company from startup through acquisition by GoGuardian. She's also a mom of two teenagers doing this work in real time. This conversation gets into what most parents are missing: the body image and hyper-masculinity content quietly targeting boys, why the bully now follows your kid into his bedroom, what AI is actually doing to kids' thinking and relationships, and how to teach self-regulation without setting your kid up to fail. If you've ever thought "he's in his room, what could go wrong," this one's for you.   Timeline Summary [1:02] – Why boys get lost in the conversation about social media risk [2:20] – Looksmaxxing, jawlines, and the body image content aimed squarely at boys [3:52] – What the Netflix series Adolescence revealed about hidden bullying [7:43] – Comparison versus inspiration and why kids can't tell the difference [9:17] – That photo wasn't their first take, and adults know it but kids don't [13:25] – How to interrupt the gut reaction when your son sees an idealized image [14:51] – The cupcake story and giving your kid grace [19:19] – Why exposing your own vulnerability opens the door to connection [20:24] – Middle school as the hardest age and where the filter disappears [22:48] – School used to end at the door, now the bully is in the bedroom [24:14] – Text monitoring as a window into your kid's friends' real character [29:22] – The story of a dad who said nothing and changed everything [31:25] – Leslie on losing her father and what her kids remembered about him [33:00] – The AI frontier: what's real, what isn't, and why critical thinking matters more [36:32] – AI is not your friend, it's a sycophant programmed to please [41:01] – Let kids fail when the stakes are low so they don't fail when they're high [42:42] – A practical path to self-regulation that starts with the parent [49:48] – The hallway phone is back, and why kids need a landline again   5 Key Takeaways Boys Are Being Targeted Too — Looksmaxxing and hyper-masculine content hits boys just as hard as thinspo hits girls, but there's no counter-message, so boys internalize it silently. The Bully Followed Them Home — Kids used to escape their tormentors when the school bell rang. Now the device sits in the bedroom and the bully is in there with them. Vulnerability Is the Doorway — When your kid feels inadequate, don't lecture. Admit you feel the same thing sometimes. That's the moment connection actually happens. AI Is Not a Friend — It's programmed to tell kids what they want to hear, and there's no give and take. That one-way sycophancy is the biggest AI risk facing children right now. Self-Regulation Is Taught, Not Assumed — Start with the parent setting limits and explaining why, then loosen them gradually. Kids will fail, and that failure is the actual lesson.   Links & Resources Episode shownotes: https://thedadedge.com/1505 Join the Dad Edge Alliance: https://thedadedge.com/join Bark (Dad Edge listener discount, 10% off): https://thedadedge.com/bark Dad Edge Boardroom Goal Setting Intensive: https://thedadedge.com/goals Pinwheel: https://pinwheel.com    Enjoyed This Episode? If the line about the bully sitting in your kid's bedroom stopped you cold, don't let it end there. Send this episode to a parent who's still telling themselves their kid is safe because he's upstairs, and go have one honest conversation with your son this week about what he's actually seeing on that screen. If the show keeps delivering, follow, rate, and leave a review so more parents can find it.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comDavid is a historian and perhaps the greatest living film critic. He's the author of more than 20 books, including biographies of David O. Selznick and Orson Welles, and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. His new book is called A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies. It's a wonderful extended rant in some ways, a love letter and a searing indictment of cinema. I was a little intimidated talking with him, but it was a lot of fun.For two clips of the episode — on the uptight genius of Hitchcock, and the authoritarian nature of cinema — head to our YouTube page.Other topics: born in South London in 1941 and his home damaged by the Blitz; his father leaving when he was born; his boyish mix of fear and delight at the cinema; the shower scene in Psycho; how film denies you the chance to stop and think; the directors who relish white space (e.g. PT Anderson); Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will; newsreels before TV; real nuke explosions on screen; Oppenheimer; from communal theater viewing to solo smartphone viewing; Game of Thrones and the insane production value of TV these days; Breaking Bad; Trump the ultimate product of TV; his telegenic Cabinet; the danger of deepfakes; Paul Schrader's First Reformed; the audience's love of car crashes and villains; Godfather I and II; contrasting Hitchcock and Malick; Tree of Life; nature in Thin Red Line; Fincher's Seven; Robert Bresson's religious films; Scorsese's Silence and Last Temptation of Christ; the vulgarity of Spielberg (e.g. the red dress in Schindler's List); ep. 3 of Adolescence; and Nolan's new Odyssey.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy. Coming up: John O'Sullivan on conservatism, Azam Ahmed on terrifying new drugs, Robby George on natural law, and Megan McArdle on pretty much anything. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

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To his three daughters, Jeff is just "there" — a treasured family heirloom, the silver platter that lives on the shelf and rarely gets used. In this episode, Jeff surfaces from five delirious days of stomach flu, his girls recording TikTok dances around his sickbed, and uses the quiet to trace the unglamorous work of fathering: dawn walks through Williamsburg with a baby zipped against his chest, bedtime reading marathons that ended only when sleep finally won, and the slow shift from carrying his daughters to chauffeuring them. Schuyler joins to talk about what remains when influence gives way to presence, and why the thing that matters most may be the least visible — showing up every day and asking nothing in return. This is the 5th episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go. Order Diaries of a Dance Dad audiobook & hear the tales that bookend my paternal journey from cradle to empty nestdom at onecommune.com/dancedad This episode was made possible by: CocoaVia:. Use code COMMUNE2026 for 25% off at CocoaVia.com Stemregen: Get 20% off your first order at stemregen.co/commune with the code COMMUNEPOD Vivobarefoot: Try Vivobarefoot risk-free with a 100-day return guarantee, and get 25% off your order at vivobarefoot.com/commune. Stripes: Visit stripesbeauty.com and use the code COMMUNE20 for 20% off our entire product line. LMNT: Get a free 8-count Sample Pack of LMNT's most popular drink mix flavors with any purchase at drinklmnt.com/commune.

Well, we did it. We made our way through the entire manga collection, including Adolescence of Utena (1999) and After the Revolution (2017). Some of us even read the side stories. Wow, pretty amazing how a story made side-by-side to the anime could turn out so different in manga format. Better? Not really. Prettier? Oh yes! We recap the changes in the manga and talk about if the ideas are really all that revolutionary. Are princes good? Do men know more about women than they do about themselves? Should Juri be gay? These questions and more are explored in this almost two hour podcast.

Welcome to Multiverse News, your source for information about all your favorite fictional universes.Supergirl, the DCU's second film, hit theaters last weekend and its likelihood to turn a profit is already an uphill battle. The film, which stars Milly Alcock in the title role, and was directed by Craig Gillespie, of I, Tonya fame, raked in a cumulative $68 million at the worldwide box office. With a reported budget of $170–186 million, the film needs to earn upward of $300 million just to break even. Compounding those figures, the movie currently holds a 54% average on Rotten Tomatoes and a B- Cinemascore with audiences.  The 2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival took place last week and with it came announcements for a bevy of animated films and series.  DC and Warner Bros Animation particularly stood out for a number of upcoming Batman projects. The first is a series adaptation of Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta's best-selling comic series, Absolute Batman, which Warner Bros Animation is partnering with DC Studios to develop. Joker: Laughing Riot was also announced as an adult anime series that explores the Joker in a world where Batman has been killed and will be directed by LOTR: War of the Rohirrim animator Yasuhuro Aoki. If that wasn't enough animated Batmen for you, a trailer for the movie Batman: Knightfall Part One has been released and attendees of the festival were able to see and review the film ahead of its currently undated release later this year. Finally, a kid-friendly series focusing on Krypto was also confirmed to be in the works.Prime Video has renewed animated superhero series Invincible for a sixth season. The trailer debuted for Robert Eggers' anticipated return to period piece horror with Werwulf, starring Aaron Taylor Johnson, Lily Rose Depp, and Willem Dafoe.Dreamworks Animation has announced a Shrek prequel titled Donkey that has a release date of June 30, 2028. Eddie Murphy will reprise his voice role and Charlie Bean who directed the Lego Batman Movie and the live action Lady and the Tramp will direct. Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to a father-daughter espionage thriller starring Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour from Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne and A24. It and Annabelle writer Gary Dauberman has been tapped to write the third installment of Five Nights at Freddy's for Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal. A trailer for the Timothee Chalamet and Selena Gomez animated alien film we mentioned last week, Not Alone, debuted. The film comes from Illumination.Kane Parson's debut film Backrooms is getting an extended cut that will be available in theaters this Friday featuring 16 minutes of brand-new footage and will be titled Backrooms: Everything Must Go.The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, from Illumination, Nintendo, and Universal, will hit Peacock on July 30, following a 120-day theatrical-to-streaming window.Rockstar opened GTA VI pre-orders June 25, pricing the standard edition at $79.99 and Ultimate at $99.99. Pre orders reportedly topped 39 million units and $3 billion, even as Take Two stock dipped on pricing concerns and no day one online mode. Fans criticized the lack of a disc version and steep price hike from GTA 5. GTA 6 launches November 19.

The new play "Dad Don't Read This" explores the lives of four teenage girls as they gather for a slumber party in suburban Ohio. Playwright Eliya Smith and actor Amalia Yoo discuss the show, which is running now at the Greenwich House Theater after a sold-out premiere at St. Luke's Theatre. Photo by Maria Baranova Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Pam King is back, and this conversation moved at the pace it wanted to. She runs the Thrive Center at Fuller Theological Seminary, and the framework she has built there is the most useful integration of psychological science and Christian theology I have come across — six facets that spell THRIVE, with a telos she calls the reciprocating self. We started with Stanford and seminary and ended with how the church is asking nine-year-olds to defend their interpretation of Torah when what they actually need is a fifth adult who knows their name. In between: the difference between flourishing and thriving, the Altadena fires Pam watched from her office window, how Winnicott's good enough mother maps onto how children come to relate to God, what Mark Labberton's seminary depression taught him about liturgy, why I rebuilt our confirmation class around questions instead of doctrines, and the prayer I have been praying with my daughter Khora since she was an infant. You can check out her previous visit on the podcast here. Books we touched on: The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in Theological Perspective, with Jack O. Balswick and Kevin S. Reimer. Her foundational telos book. Thriving with Stone Age Minds: Evolutionary Psychology, Christian Faith, and the Quest for Human Flourishing, with Justin L. Barrett. The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence. Join our online class – THE FUTURE OF RELIGION⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Tripp and Ilia Delio are teaming up for a brand-new four-week online class, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Future of Religion ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠— for everyone who's read the books, asked the questions, and realized the faith they inherited doesn't quite fit anymore. Together they'll trace religion's evolutionary arc and map what's emerging on the other side. Includes 4 video lectures, 4 live Q&As (replays available), and a community of fellow travelers. Donation-based, pay what you're able (including $0). Live sessions start this month — register at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.thefutureofreligion.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This podcast is a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Homebrewed Christianity ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠production. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the Homebrewed Christianity⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Theology Nerd Throwdown⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Rise of Bonhoeffer⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack - Process This!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get instant access to over 50 classes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.TheologyClass.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow the podcast, drop a review⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, send ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠feedback/questions⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or become a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠member of the HBC Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices