Podcasts about Intense

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在英语中，形容词 “tense”、“intense” 和 “intensive” 拼写相似，而且都可以用来描述某种紧张或高强度的状态。不过，这三个词的含义和使用场景有所不同：“tense” 可以形容人、气氛或局势处于紧张或焦虑的状态；“intense” 着重表达情感、体验或活动的强烈程度；而 “intensive” 则强调一项活动强度高、安排密集，需要投入大量时间或精力。听本期节目，跟主持人步理和 Becca 一起学习如何区分和正确使用这三个形容词。

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W 236. odcinku podcastu opowiadam o tym, czy cukier naprawdę uzależnia tak jak narkotyk, skąd wzięły się te straszące nagłówki i co tak naprawdę stoi za poczuciem braku kontroli nad słodyczami.Posłuchaj odcinka, jeśli chcesz dowiedzieć się:• Skąd wzięły się nagłówki o tym, że cukier uzależnia jak narkotyk i ile jest w nich prawdy• Dlaczego badania na szczurach, na których opierają się te teorie, mogą nas wprowadzać w błąd• Czym tak naprawdę jest dopamina i dlaczego jej wydzielanie nie oznacza jeszcze uzależnienia• Jakie są rzeczywiste kryteria uzależnienia od substancji i dlaczego cukier ich nie spełnia• Dlaczego to, co czujesz wobec słodyczy, może być czymś zupełnie innym niż uzależnieniem• Co się dzieje, gdy próbujesz walczyć ze słodyczami metodami stosowanymi przy uzależnieniachJeżeli masz za sobą wiele nieudanych prób ograniczenia słodyczy i chcesz zrozumieć, co naprawdę za tym stoi, zajrzyj do mojego kursu samopomocowego o kompulsywnym objadaniu się: https://akademia.wiem-co-jem.pl/lp/kompulsywne/Sprostowanie: w badaniu z wyborem między ko*ainą a słodką wodą (Lenoir i in., 2007) szczury nie były głodzone. Głodzenie dotyczyło innego badania (Avena i in., 2008). Wynik tym bardziej pokazuje, że wygrywał słodki smak, a nie sam cukier, bo woda była słodzona sacharyną, która cukru nie zawiera.Bibliografia: Avena, N. M., Rada, P., Hoebel, B. G. (2008). Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 32(1), 20–39.Lenoir, M., Serre, F., Cantin, L., Ahmed, S. H. (2007). Intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward. PLoS ONE, 2(8), e698. Hernandez, L., Hoebel, B. G. (1988). Food reward and cocaine increase extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens as measured by microdialysis. Life Sciences, 42(18), 1705–1712.Westwater, M. L., Fletcher, P. C., Ziauddeen, H. (2016). Sugar addiction: The state of the science. European Journal of Nutrition, 55(Suppl 2), 55–69. Hebebrand, J. i in. (2014). „Eating addiction”, rather than „food addiction”, better captures addictive-like eating behavior. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 47, 295–306. Penzenstadler, L., Soares, C., Karila, L., Khazaal, Y. (2019). Systematic review of food addiction as measured with the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for the food addiction construct. Current Neuropharmacology, 17(6), 526–538.Small, D. M., Jones-Gotman, M., Dagher, A. (2003). Feeding-induced dopamine release in dorsal striatum correlates with meal pleasantness ratings in healthy human volunteers. NeuroImage, 19(4), 1709–1715. Salimpoor, V. N., Benovoy, M., Larcher, K., Dagher, A., Zatorre, R. J. (2011). Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music. Nature Neuroscience, 14(2), 257–262. Kodithuwakku, H., Palihakkara, P., Wasalathanthri, S., Peng, M., Abeywickrema, S. (2026). YFAS-derived ‘sugar addiction symptom scores' are unrelated to BMI or sugar intake. European Journal of Nutrition, 65(3), 92.

Galatians 5:16-26 is INTENSE!

Episode 302In this podcast, New York Times best-selling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all.The astrology of the week of September 28th, 2026, doesn't hold back. Mercury (the planet of communication) moves into Scorpio and pushes us to skip the small talk and get straight to what matters most. Then the messenger planet makes difficult squares to both Mars (the planet of confrontation) and Pluto (the planet of secret power), which only amps up our appetite for difficult conversations and challenges us to learn from any tension that gets triggered. As Venus (the planet of connection) stations retrograde (also in Scorpio), the ways we relate come up for review, and we're called to reconnect with the sides of ourselves that we've tried to sweep under the rug. It's time to be honest about all the aspects of who you are, even if it's uncomfortable. That's where the healing happens.This episode covers:The Sun's trine to Uranus on Monday, September 28thMercury's opposition to Chiron on Tuesday, September 29thMercury's entrance into Scorpio on Wednesday, September 30thMercury's square to Mars on Friday, October 2ndMercury's square to Pluto on Friday, October 2nd Mars' trine to Neptune on Friday, October 2ndThe start of Venus' retrograde in Scorpio on Saturday, October 3rd Mars' opposition to Pluto on Saturday, October 3rdThe Sun's opposition to Saturn on Sunday, October 4thTimestamps:00:00 - Intro04:57 - Saturday's Venus retrograde and the myth of Inanna's descent into the underworld24:28 - Monday's Sun–Uranus sextile24:42 - Wednesday's Mercury in Scorpio ingress, and Friday's Mercury–Mars and Mercury–Pluto squares26:12 - Friday's Mars–Neptune trine and Saturday's Mars–Pluto opposition29:29 - Sunday's Sun–Saturn opposition29:53 - More on Venus retrograde31:51 - Astrology 10137:33 - Weekly wrap-upThis episode was recorded on 9/18/2026.For more, check out your free daily horoscope on the homepage of the CHANI app — now on iOS and Android.Looking for an astrological map, compass, and companion for the coming year? Meet the 2027 Astro Planner. It comes with over 300 pages of rituals, reflections, astro cheat sheets, planetary breakdowns, activities, and daily and monthly calendars to help you plan your year, manifest success, and make the most of 2027's astrology as it unfolds. You can order yours at chani.com, and it now ships internationally to Canada, Europe, and the UK! But don't dilly-dally — it's about to sell out for the 5th year in a row.The music featured in the podcast was created by Latashá.

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Intense fixed T square with Mercury/Mars/Pluto; Venus goes trough

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Pastor Scott helps you understand how powerful and effective the prayers and spiritual warfare against satanism and witchcraft are!

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Immerse yourself in the calming sounds of an intense windstorm roaring through the night, perfect for deep sleep, meditation, and relaxation. Let the natural ambient noise soothe your mind, ease stress, and create a peaceful atmosphere for rest and focus.

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Most of us who live with intensity have spent years being told we are too much. Too emotional, too fast, too deep. And because we heard it so often, we learned to shrink, to soften everything we say in advance, and to treat our own nature as a problem that needed managing.In this episode I am the guest. Diann Wingert, a former psychotherapist turned business strategist for entrepreneurs with ADHD, interviewed me on her show, the ADHD-ish™ Podcast, where this conversation was first released as Episode 332. Diann was identified as gifted in the fourth grade and diagnosed with ADHD late, so she knows this territory from the inside.We talk about what intensity is and why it sits at the centre of ADHD, autism, giftedness, and high sensitivity without being any of them. We get into why intense people burn out and bore out at the same time, what it costs to carry responsibility without authority, why "if that makes sense" is a survival reflex that has expired, the compulsion to correct the people we love, and the Buddhist teaching of the second arrow, which is the suffering we add on top of the pain we cannot avoid.This conversation was first released on the ADHD-ish™ Podcast, Episode 332:https://www.diannwingertcoaching.com/blog/emotional-intellectual-intensityFind Diann at www.diannwingertcoaching.comEggshell Therapy and Coaching: eggshelltherapy.com/Imi Lo:  imiloimilo.comSister Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Zcl8ZUsu4AePugDoWtXcgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/eggshelltransformationsNewsletters: https://eepurl.com/bykHRzDisclaimers: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/disclaimers  Trigger Warning: This episode may cover sensitive topics including but not limited to suicide, abuse, violence, severe mental illnesses, relationship challenges, sex, drugs, alcohol addiction, psychedelics, and the use of plant medicines. You are advised to refrain from watching or listening to the YouTube Channel or Podcast if you are likely to be offended or adversely impacted by any of these topics.Disclaimer: The content provided is for informational purposes only. Please do not consider any of the content to be clinical or professional advice. None of the content can substitute professional consultation, psychotherapy, diagnosis, or any mental health intervention.  Opinions and views expressed by the host and the guests are personal views, and they reserve the right to change their opinions. The opinions of the guest do not reflect the position of this channel or Imi. We also cannot guarantee that everything mentioned is factual and completely accurate. Any action you take based on the information in this episode is taken strictly at your own risk.  For a full disclaimer, please refer to: https://www.eggshelltherapy.c...

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Identity After Stroke: Who Are You When Your Career Is Gone? Cassie Jewell got back from Iceland on a Monday. On Wednesday, she was demoted from the job she had built her life around. On Friday, she was in an ambulance with a stroke. She was 42, a licensed counsellor supervising behavioural health programs inside a US jail. She loved working with inmates and took two or three extra hours of work home most nights. “My entire identity was my career,” she told me. Within a single week, she lost the role and nearly lost her life. Her story shows something many survivors struggle to name: identity after stroke isn’t only about what your body can still do. It’s about who you are when the roles you relied on are gone. The Week Everything Changed On the Thursday night after the demotion, Cassie stayed up writing a book, determined to prove she still mattered. As she typed, her left hand stopped working. She put it down to tiredness and went to bed. She woke the next afternoon knowing something was wrong but not what. She decided it was a panic attack. Then she remembered her hand. She texted her mum, a nurse practitioner, who told her to call 911 and ask for a hospital with a stroke centre. When the paramedics arrived asking for the stroke patient, Cassie was the one who had answered the door. One side of her face was drooping and her left side was weakening. The diagnosis was an ischaemic stroke in the right basal ganglia, a deep brain region involved in movement, balance and, as she discovered, emotional regulation. If you want to understand this area of the brain better, our episode on lower basal ganglia stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/lower-basal-ganglia-stroke/) goes deeper. Her doctors told her stress contributes to stroke rather than causing it directly, and her cardiologist is still monitoring her heart rhythm. Cassie has her own view: “I was literally burning myself to the ground… and then my brain was like, okay, we’ve had enough. We’re gonna stop you.” It’s a theme we’ve explored before in stroke and stress (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/stroke-and-stress-darren-walker/). When Your Brain Tells You You’re Fine The day after her stroke, Cassie tried to go to work. Her mum stopped her. Later, before she was cleared to drive, she got behind the wheel and bumped another car on her first day out. There’s a name for part of what was happening: anosognosia. It describes reduced awareness of your own deficits after a brain injury, and it’s more often associated with right-hemisphere strokes like Cassie’s. It isn’t stubbornness or denial; it’s a symptom of the injury itself, which is why a survivor can sincerely insist they’re okay while the people around them can see otherwise. Cassie summed up that period in one line: “It’s fine, it’s gonna be fine, even though it clearly, you know, wasn’t fine.” For families, understanding it can turn an argument into patience. Why Identity After Stroke Hits So Hard Identity is built from what we do, the roles we hold, and the stories we tell about ourselves, and a stroke can remove several at once. The more tightly your sense of self is tied to a single role, the larger the gap it leaves. “I lost my career and myself at the same time,” Cassie said. Her first job after returning to work didn’t last. She found she wasn’t as quick as she used to be, and that raised a harder question: “When you measure your self-worth in the things that you do… and then all of a sudden you don’t have your career anymore, who are you?” I recognised that question. Before my own strokes, I was a business owner and a dad, and I couldn’t have told you anything about myself beyond those labels. I didn’t have the vocabulary for identity loss. Guests such as Adam Wolfers (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/cerebral-vasculitis-stroke-identity-change-adam-wolfers/) have described the same collision between who they were and who they now are, and anyone weighing up work decisions may find our episode on changing career after stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/change-career-after-stroke/) useful. The emotional side can catch even a professional off guard. “You’d think as a therapist I would be good with it,” Cassie said, “but I’d prefer to deal with other people’s emotions, not my own.” Our conversation about emotional changes after stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/emotional-changes-after-stroke-sam-hanes/) explores this further. Choosing Who You Become Eighteen months on, Cassie doesn’t have an elevator pitch for who she is. She’s clearer about who she isn’t: someone driven by work. She values free time, her partner, and her dogs. She works full time doing intake assessments and sees private clients, and she describes herself this way: “I’m not as sharp as I was before, but I think I’m kinder.” A stroke, she says, “strips away everything else so you have nothing left but yourself,” and then “you can also choose what your new identity is gonna be.” That choice matters most. For most of my life I did what I’d been trained to do; it took a stroke to show me I could choose differently. Researchers Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun called this post-traumatic growth: positive change that comes from the struggle with a traumatic event, not from the event itself. Cassie put it in her own words: “It’s not about the stroke. It’s about, okay, what am I gonna choose to do now?” It’s the idea at the centre of my book, The Unexpected Way That A Stroke Became The Best Thing That Happened (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/book). Practical Ways to Rebuild Identity After Stroke Drawing on Cassie’s story, here are a few starting points: Separate what you do from who you are. Write down your values, not your job titles. Values survive a stroke better than roles do. Give it time. For me, it took a few years before I could say I liked the person I’d become. Early recovery is rarely the time to decide who you’ll be forever. Let people you trust be your early-warning system. Cassie’s partner noticed her overwork long before she did, and her mum recognised the stroke symptoms. With anosognosia in the picture, other people’s observations matter. Replace old coping habits, don’t just remove them. Recovery is a chance to swap quick fixes for stress for ones that last. Use time as a lens. Cassie is reading Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and aims to visit all 195 countries. Find people who understand. Other survivors often give you the words for your experience. Our episode on finding purpose after stroke (https://recoveryafterstroke.com/finding-purpose-after-stroke/) is a good next listen. Listen to Cassie’s Full Story Watch or listen to the full conversation with Cassie Jewell. You can find more of her work at cassie-jewell.com (https://cassie-jewell.com). If a stroke has left your world feeling smaller, my new book, Your World Doesn’t Have to Stay This Small (https://mybook.to/yourworld), is a practical guide to rebuilding your life after trauma, even when you’re not ready. 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. Losing My Career and Myself, Then Choosing Who I’d Be – Cassie Jewell (Interview) A stroke at 42 took Cassie Jewell’s career and the identity built on it. What she found underneath changed how she works, loves, and travels. Highlights: 00:00 Introduction – Cassie’s Identity After Stroke01:08 Life Before the Stroke09:35 The Day of the Stroke23:02 Aftermath and Recovery28:41 Hospitalization and Rehabilitation Journey32:04 Dissociation and Identity Post-Stroke38:12 Life After Stroke: Adjusting to New Realities50:32 How Stroke Forced Me to Discover Who I Really Am01:02:14 The Dual Nature of Stroke Experiences Transcript: Introduction – Cassie’s Identity After Stroke Bill Gasiamis (00:00)Hi everyone, welcome back to Recovery After Stroke. I’m Bill Gassiamis. My guest today is Cassie Jewell, a counselor and author from the United States, who in February of 2025 at 42 had an ischemic stroke in the right basal ganglia. In the same week, she was moved out of the role she had built her whole identity around. We talk about perfectionism and the overwork loop that’s so hard to step out of. Why she tried to go back to work the day after her stroke, a condition called anosognosia. And the question at the heart of this episode: who are you when your career is gone? Now, if stroke has made your world feel smaller, my book is written for you. 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. Search for it on Amazon or tap the link in the show notes. And if this show has helped you, you can support it at patreon.com/recoveryafterstroke. And a massive thank you to everyone who already supports the show. You’re the reason these conversations keep happening. And now it’s time for the interview. Life Before the Stroke Bill Gasiamis (01:08)Cassie Jewell, welcome to the podcast. Cassie (01:10)Hi, how are you? Bill Gasiamis (01:12)I’m well. Thank you. Great to see you here. I really appreciate you joining me. I want to ask you a little bit about what your life was like before the stroke. What did you get up to? How did you occupy your time? Cassie (01:26)So my life was out of control before the stroke. I was working at a jail and it was a super stressful position. it was just stress all the time. I had a really bad supervisor too, a micromanager. but I also that wasn’t the only part of my life. I traveled a lot. I don’t know. It’s hard to even think about it now, honestly. Bill Gasiamis (01:54)How long ago was the stroke? Cassie (01:57)So the stroke was it’s been about a year and a half. It was February twenty first, twenty twenty five. Bill Gasiamis (02:02)Mm-hmm. w were you in a relationship? Were what’s the living arrangements like? What were you doing like personally? Cassie (02:12)Yes, I was in a relationship. I’m still in the same relationship. but I guess I was talking about work first because that was my entire life. It like revolved around my job. And I actually loved my job. It was just some of the stress part that I didn’t love. Bill Gasiamis (02:29)You loved your job, so you’re working in a jail with inmates? Cassie (02:33)Yes, I’m a therapist. Bill Gasiamis (02:36)okay. Cassie (02:38)And so I was working as a behavioral health supervisor at the jail. I didn’t have a lot of client contact, but when I did, those were the good days. But a lot of it was just inputting data, which was not fun. Bill Gasiamis (02:54)just all about reporting things to the bodies governing the jails or to Cassie (03:00)Yes. So specifically I worked with the when I say MAT, do you know what I mean by that? Medication Bill Gasiamis (03:06)No. Cassie (03:07)assisted treatment. So for the inmates who had opioid use disorders, they would start taking medication to help with that. It’s called Suboxone or buprenorfin is the name of the medication. Suboxon is the brand name. Bill Gasiamis (03:24)Mm-hmm. Cassie (03:25)But it helps with cravings, so a lot of the inmates were on the medication. My role was to track all of the inmates who were on medication. And so that was the data piece, like spreadsheets and just that was a lot. I kind of Bill Gasiamis (03:42)So you Cassie (03:43)sorry, go ahead. Bill Gasiamis (03:44)I was gonna say you became a counsellor or a therapist to have one-on-one contact with people, but you’re finding Cassie (03:53)Right. Bill Gasiamis (03:53)yourself in a situation where it’s all about statistics, data and a whole bunch of other things that you really w didn’t sign up for when you first started out to be a therapist. Cassie (04:03)Exactly. Like it was a good day if I got to spend time with clients or inmates. And a bad day would be me just at my desk, like hunched over till my neck was aching and just like I said, spreadsheets and data. Bill Gasiamis (04:18)Your world kind of revolved around work. How many hours a a week did you work? Cassie (04:24)I mean technically I was supposed to work forty hours, but I would stay late and I would work from home. So like that’s the worst thing about, you know, since the pandemic everybody works from home. I was able to bring it home with me, so if I didn’t finish something at work, I would just I’d be sitting on my couch make Bill Gasiamis (04:45)Is it that the workload was too too high or was it just the nature of the job? Cassie (04:51)So to be honest, well the workload was definitely too high and I I’m sharp enough to know like if it was or wasn’t and it definitely was, but at the same time I’m a perfectionist and I wanted things to be perfect and so that played a lot into it. And this is what I realized in hindsight, ’cause at the time I would have told you that the workload was ridiculous and like I didn’t play any role in it, but I did. Bill Gasiamis (05:20)Wow. So that’s an awareness Cassie (05:21)I wanted it. Bill Gasiamis (05:22)you’ve had recently. The perfectionism thing is a real what is it like a real barrier? Cassie (05:30)Yeah, it’s I’ve dealt with it my entire life. But when it comes to employment with certain things, you can’t be a perfectionist ’cause it’s just going to kill you eventually. And for me it almost did. Like I believe my stroke was in part caused by stress because that was the only thing in my life that was like different. I’m a pretty healthy person. Bill Gasiamis (05:56)Yeah. At home, when you were working at home, how many additional hours would you be doing if you had a regular day at work and then came home? How much additional time would you be spending? Cassie (06:06)Like two or three. Bill Gasiamis (06:08)Yeah. Okay. And then are your employers noticing? Are they going, Well, congratulations, you’ve got the best notes in the world or the best statistics or data? Cassie (06:17)Nope, nobody noticed. My manager also worked from home and I know this because she would send emails like at ten PM and be like she’s doing the same thing because I think it’s probably in America like jails are not well staffed and not well run. And it’s probably just widespread. You have people who are overworking and no wonder nobody wants to work in a jail. I loved it though. I loved the like I said, I loved working with the inmates. I like people. Bill Gasiamis (06:49)Yeah. Cassie (06:50)I like working with people. Doesn’t matter if they’re an inmate or not an inmate, like that’s why I became a therapist. Bill Gasiamis (06:57)Yeah. Ideal candidates for support therapy, Cassie (07:00)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (07:01)learning new skills, understanding how their behavior impacts their life and other people and all that type of thing. And maybe some of the first times that they’ve ever come across a therapist, would you say for s for a lot of the people that end up in jail? Cassie (07:17)Possibly. And a lot of the people who were addicted to opiates or they maybe h not b have been addicted, but who used opiates didn’t even recognize how deadly it was. They Bill Gasiamis (07:30)Mm-hmm. Cassie (07:30)had just been like they were young, like I said, children is how I see it. Like I’m in my forties now, but so everybody’s a child to me, but you know, eighteen, nineteen year olds in jail because Bill Gasiamis (07:42)Yeah, they yell. Cassie (07:43)they were using with a friend or something and they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. Bill Gasiamis (07:47)No, that’s perfectly fine. They’re children. in my mind as well, I know they’re technically an adult, but it’s such a small gap between childhood and adulthood when you’re eighteen. Like I Cassie (08:01)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (08:02)mean, as if there’s a a year when it’s definitely an adult now. I know that the law is a little more kind of restri harsh on that definition, but The truth Cassie (08:15)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (08:15)is is this is very hard to kind of fit people into. Cassie (08:18)Their brains are still developing. Bill Gasiamis (08:19)Yeah, till twenty five or something, like many Cassie (08:22)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (08:23)of the lobes haven’t come one of the lobes at least hasn’t come online. I think it’s the frontal lobe. Cassie (08:27)That I don’t know, but I’m sure Bill Gasiamis (08:28)Yeah. Yeah. I might be wrong, but that’s okay. so life was pretty hectic, pretty full on, lots of work at home as well as at the office or in the jail. And then Cassie (08:41)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (08:42)how is that impacting kind of your just regular life in that switching off part, that doing things that you loved, or going out with your partner, or taking the dogs for a walk? How did it affect that part of it? Did it eat into that? Cassie (08:57)It did. I was not a great person to be around ’cause I was cranky all the time. I was tired all the time and thinking about work all the time. But I’ve always traveled and so I made a point to travel still. So I was still traveling the world. so that piece was good. Bill Gasiamis (09:14)Like the circuit breaker that you at least always did for a period of time. How long would those trips last? Cassie (09:22)I travel whenever I can, so sometimes it would be like a three day trip, sometimes it would be like a ten day trip. Bill Gasiamis (09:29)Uhhuh. So squeeze in whatever you can just to get out and about. Cassie (09:32)Mm-hmm. Yep. The Day of the Stroke Bill Gasiamis (09:35)So what happened on the day of the stroke? Do you have any recollection of that, any awareness of the lead up to that? Cassie (09:43)So I can tell you the story. There’s not like a anything that seemed to lead up to it. It was just living my life as normal. I had just gotten back from Iceland, but you know, like I said, that was travel was my norm. And So this is still hard for me to talk about. This was like a horrible thing that happened to me. This is like sometimes I think it’s worse than the stroke. I don’t know. If it is or not, but I was demoted from my position. And so this position is, you know, it’s everything. And then at the same time, it’s like the worst thing in the world because I’m so I’m overworked. I’m exhausted. I have a a manager who’s not supportive. And I could almost see it coming, but I was still still shocked and like. I put my like everything into my career. Like that’s who I am. Like my entire identity was my career. And so being demoted was was is maybe the worst thing that has ever happened to me. And so that happened on a Wednesday and then the stroke happened on a Friday. So it was a very busy week for me. And I had gotten back from Iceland on a Monday. So it was in one week that all these things happened. Bill Gasiamis (11:07)Intense so you’re back at work after traveling, jet lag, you know, holiday mode, all those things. Then two days later you get called into the office, you get demoted from the role that you’re in into a different position. You take Cassie (11:22)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (11:22)a bad lib by the sound of things. Cassie (11:25)I think I was very professional when it happened but it was absolutely like devastating. It’s Bill Gasiamis (11:31)Yeah. Cassie (11:32)not something I talk about because it’s still like very painful. Bill Gasiamis (11:35)Raw. Yeah. And then two days later, what happens on the Friday? How does that play out? Cassie (11:43)So it was Thursday night and I was I had just stayed up and been writing. I was working on a a book that I never ended up publishing, but it was a book that I was working on. And it was kind of like a well, let me show that I still matter, that I’m still worth something by I’m gonna write this book and so I was just driven by like spite and like my whatever, who knows. So I hadn’t gone to sleep at all, and it’s Thursday night, and I’m still up and I’m still writing, and I’m drinking wine and I’m on the couch. so leading up to it was the demotion, and had been traveling, and then I’m typing, and as I’m typing, like my left hand just stops working, and I didn’t think anything of it. I was like, that’s Weird. This is weird. And I was like, I’m gonna go to bed. I’ve had too much to drink. And so like I get up and just kinda stumble to bed. And it’s not until the next morning, well it’s a afternoon by then, when I finally wake up or I get up and I know that something’s like wrong and I don’t know what’s wrong. I’m just like I can tell that something is off with me. And I’m saying this to my partner. He’s like in the other room, but I’m still in bed. I’m like, something is wrong with me. Something is wrong with me. And I just keep on repeating that over and over again. And I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. And I was like, I decided that I was having a panic attack because I’m familiar with that. And it fit because I felt like I was dying, but I knew I wasn’t actually dying. And then I remembered, I was like, wait a minute. Last night was weird. That was weird. That thing happened. And so I don’t call 911. I text my mom. And I’m like, mom, this happened to me. My mom is a nurse practitioner, so it makes sense that I texted her instead of calling 911. And she was like, Those are stroke symptoms. Call 911 now and ask me to take you to a stroke center or to a hospital with a stroke center. So my partner ends up calling. He makes the phone call. I don’t know what I’m doing at that point. And he’s like, Yeah, maybe you should get ready. And I don’t know how I did because apparently I’m paralyzed on my left side. I don’t know when that actually s like settled in, but I was able to function enough until the ambulance arrived. And they’re like, Where’s the victim? Where’s the stroke victim? And I’m like, it’s it’s me. Cause I’m still standing, I answered the door and everything. But my Bill Gasiamis (14:21)Wow. Cassie (14:24)And I don’t know this of course, but like later I’m told one half of my face is drooping. So it was obvious, even though I’m still like walking and talking. Bill Gasiamis (14:34)And there Cassie (14:34)And I had I had pictures of it, like how bad it was, like how pronounced it was, but I deleted them all because I’m very vain and I don’t want anybody to ever see how awful it looked. Bill Gasiamis (14:44)Wow. Cassie (14:44)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (14:45)Do you prefer that you hadn’t deleted that now or are you happy that they’re gone? Cassie (14:51)I have there’s one picture left. Somebody else took the picture actually. And like looking back on it’s just I mean, I probably it probably would be good to have those pictures because I would be able to like remind myself of how far I’ve come, but it’s also like really d uncomfortable and disorienting to see yourself look like that. I don’t know if you Bill Gasiamis (15:13)Mm-hmm. Yeah. Cassie (15:15)if you have that experience if there were pictures taken of you after your stroke. Bill Gasiamis (15:20)There was, not a lot of them, only because it wasn’t the first thing on our mind. Cassie (15:26)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (15:27)but I had pictures taken when I was in the rehab facility where w I was strapped in and I was attached to the ceiling and I was walking along trying to rehabilitate my leg Cassie (15:39)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (15:40)like like a marionette. so that’s about it. And I’ve got some pictures of my scar, which were pretty epic. The surgery scar was pretty epic. Cassie (15:52)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (15:54)and and then that’s about it. and they’re Cassie (15:58)So how do you feel when you look at those pictures? Bill Gasiamis (16:01)The thing, Cassie, with me is I don’t relive the experience when I talk about it. Whereas I know people who have had something challenging happen to them that th when they’re re expi when they’re talking about it, it’s like they’re reliving it. So I kind of really understand why it’s difficult for them to talk about it or to see a photo. And when I talk about that, there’s a disassociation with it. And it’s not a disassociation that I’ve made from the perspective of I don’t want to think or remember or etc. It’s just that I I’ve spoken about it so much that it’s like I’m telling a story about somebody else. Now, Cassie (16:44)Yeah, that’s healthy. Bill Gasiamis (16:45)yeah, it’s me, but it’s not really. Cassie (16:48)Right. Bill Gasiamis (16:48)I see the pictures, but it’s 12 years since brain surgery. Like I don’t connect me to that. day, even though it’s definitely me and I have the deficits and I live with the, you know, injury and all the things that it did to me. Like, I don’t know, like I I don’t get triggered by in a negative way, but I understand when I’ve seen people talk about experiences that they get triggered by, it’s because they’re reliving it and that somehow they haven’t separated their current self to the the self that went through that part of the experience. Cassie (17:25)I also think that just the passage of time helps with it, like ’cause you’re so far removed from it. It’s Bill Gasiamis (17:30)Indeed. Cassie (17:31)like I believe that people change, like almost every decade we become new people. Not like every decade on the, you know, like at right at thirty and then forty, but like approximately every decade we become relatively Bill Gasiamis (17:44)Yeah. Cassie (17:44)different people than we were before. And so it’s like looking back Bill Gasiamis (17:49)I agree. Cassie (17:49)at a different person almost when you see that. Bill Gasiamis (17:52)I I agree. And a different person in many ways. Like not a podcaster, not an author, you know, not a speaker. a very different person, you know, and That one that the person that I was was just basically a guy not dissimilar to what you described, just getting through, you know, like working as much as possible, at home, at work, too many hours, the phone always on, people reaching me any time of the day. It was mental. and it was the best time and the worst time. I’m gonna interrupt you for a second ’cause I’m expecting a phone call. From my dad’s appointment at the hospital. One moment, please. Hello. Hey, is that Bill? Yes. Yeah, he’s done with that injunction. He’s ready to be collected. Okay. well we’ll get there as soon as we can if that’s all right. Yeah, sure. Shouldn’t be too late. Okay, no worries. I’ll just organise someone. Thank you so much. Bye bye. My dad had a little procedure. Cassie (18:58)Si okay. Bill Gasiamis (18:59)Yeah. And he just needs to get picked up. And of course I bet you’ve his grandson who was meant to pick him up has forgotten. And we’ll edit all this out anyway, so Let’s see what it says. All right. let’s see what it says. Awesome, he’s going now. yeah, so as I was saying, so I I I I put a lot of work into being a different person as well. Like that was important. I couldn’t be the same guy that came out of all of that stroke stuff because that guy was not heading in the right direction. He was gonna be unwell again. Right. And and what you said kind of reminds me of how I was. perfectionism might not have been my thing, but it was there was a thing, you know, that I bought into that I needed to do that I couldn’t do any other way, that if it didn’t happen like that it was gonna be wrong. You know? And it was for me it was I can’t outsource it to anyone else because nobody’s ever gonna do what I do, how I do it, make the customer happy so we can get paid. It yeah, it’s kind of it kind Cassie (20:08)That’s perfectionism, maybe. In a sense. Bill Gasiamis (20:11)of is. Yeah. I see perfectionism in my wife differently ’cause she described what you described at her cause she’s a she’s studying and just finished her masters in psychology. Yeah, and she does Cassie (20:27)good. It’s awesome. Bill Gasiamis (20:28)case notes and my gosh. It’s like you’ve done a day’s work. Yeah, I honestly like she does a day’s work. And then I’m like, how long did it does it need to take to do case notes after a day’s work? And she’s like, as long as it takes. And I’m like, Well, it as an outsider, somebody who doesn’t understand what you’re doing. It seems like it’s taking way too long after the session with your client to d to do the case notes. It’s it’s what it seems like to me. And and she’s not denying it, but she is kind of saying, Well, I’m early on in my career and I have to make sure that the case notes are done well, et cetera. And I’m like, How have you ever compared them to other people’s case notes to know what’s good enough or acceptable? And that’s kind of what I didn’t do either. Like I never understood that when you’re delivering a painting project to a client, ninety percent is good enough. If the client says it’s a pass, it’s a pass. And then you get paid. Trying to overdeliver to ensure payment, because I was concerned. I think it it was more for me, it was about getting paid rather than me being a stickler for perfection. It was about if I don’t do it. To the client’s expectation, then I won’t get paid. And that was kind of what it was. But it’s a similar ailment, you know, like it gets in the way of spare time and hours for me to do something other than work, but I I didn’t know it at the time. It was just the way that it was. Cassie (22:10)Yeah. Well it’s hard to know when you’re in the middle of it also. And my partner would point it out like how insane I was being and I didn’t see it. Like I said at the time I just I didn’t well Bill Gasiamis (22:26)Yeah. Cassie (22:27)I did to an extent, but not enough to make me stop. Bill Gasiamis (22:33)Yeah. And you then have maybe the exit part of the loop. Like, where do I get off the loop? You know, like how do I jump out of here? I know he’s told me, and I know somebody else might have mentioned it. And I know I’m working too many hours, but like how do I get out of it? Like what’s the the exit? I get that too. That’s kind of how I was. The stroke became that for me. Is that how you kind of experienced your stroke afterwards? Was it a circuit breaker as well as this illness? Aftermath and Recovery Cassie (23:02)Yeah, I feel like that, like the way you said it. Like I feel like I was literally burning myself to the ground, like I was burnt out and just wasn’t gonna stop and was gonna keep on going and going and going. And then my brain was like, Okay, we’ve had enough. We’re gonna stop you. And I had a stroke. Bill Gasiamis (23:21)Mm. Cassie (23:22)And they say that stress doesn’t directly cause strokes, like it contributes to it. But like I mentioned, like I’m pretty healthy. And I was I’m forty three now. I was only forty two. And that’s not normal. Like it’s usually age sixty five and older that have the strokes. Definitely Bill Gasiamis (23:42)Yeah. Cassie (23:42)wasn’t expecting it. Bill Gasiamis (23:44)What kind of a stroke was it? Cassie (23:46)It was an ischemic stroke. It was a right hemisphere stroke in the basal ganglia, which I didn’t know what they were. I learned about it after my stroke. Bill Gasiamis (23:55)And did they have Cassie (23:55)They apparently do a lot with like has to do with your motion and balance, but also emotional regulation, which that was a huge thing when I was recovering, like having to deal with emotions. You’d think as a therapist Bill Gasiamis (24:10)Just crying. Cassie (24:11)I would be good with it, but I’d prefer to deal with other people’s emotions, not my own. Bill Gasiamis (24:16)And you’re human as well, right? So yeah. Just because you Cassie (24:17)yeah, I forgot about that. Yes. That too. Bill Gasiamis (24:20)learnt about it doesn’t mean that you’re the epitome of the perfectly emotionally regulated human just because you learned about it or studied it. Cassie (24:28)Yeah, absolutely not. Bill Gasiamis (24:31)Yeah. and do they know what the underlying cause of the ischemic stroke was? Was there an underlying cause? Cassie (24:40)They still I have like a little heart thing in still. It’s they’re like, maybe it was AFib and I told my cardiologist I was like, it’s not, it’s stress. I know it was stress. And he was like, it might be AFib. We’re gonna still check for this. So it’s like it can stay in for up to four years. I don’t know when they’re gonna take it out. but so far no AFib, which kind of doesn’t mean that my theory is correct, but it seems more plausible that there was they can’t figure out Anything else? I probably drank too much. I was drinking the night of my stroke, but they said that didn’t cause it. Who knows? Combination of Bill Gasiamis (25:16)Hmm. What Cassie (25:18)alcohol and stress. Bill Gasiamis (25:20)Yeah. Or when you say you drink too much as in what are you doing, a bottle a day or just a couple of glasses or Cassie (25:28)So before my stroke I was probably drinking more than a bottle of wine a day. Bill Gasiamis (25:33)Okay. Yeah, that’s too much. Cassie (25:34)So that’s like four to five drinks. And for women, you shouldn’t have more than one drink of alcohol per day. Bill Gasiamis (25:43)Yeah, it is too much for any person really. Yeah. Cassie (25:46)It is. That was my way of coping with stress. Bill Gasiamis (25:51)Yeah, takes the edge off, right? Cassie (25:53)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (25:53)Yeah. It’s not uncommon. Like it’s so many I’m not hearing anything new here, you know, like it’s Cassie (26:00)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (26:00)we’re all the same pretty much everywhere. It doesn’t matter where you live. And everyone needs a way to cope. And sometimes the easiest thing is whatever’s at arm’s reach. And it could be for it could be a piece of bread. It could be a piece of you know, sweet cake or whatever, it could be alcohol. There’s so many ways that we Cope and it’s really useful, especially if you can cope. Yeah. If you Yeah. Yeah. The problem Cassie (26:25)It works so well it just kills you at the same time. Bill Gasiamis (26:30)is it’s short lived coping and it’s not learning or teaching you how to cope ongoing and without it. And that’s the the challenge, right? Is how do we cope with that? I used to smoke. And I would tell you still today that I loved smoking. It was one of the most amazing, most enjoyable things to do. It also came with alcohol and it came after a meal and it came with a coffee. Like all the things I loved to do happened together and smoking was one of them. And I’m sure, I’m certain it was, you know, the nicotine hit and all the things that you get from a cigarette, good, bad, were all contributing to my coping mechanism. But I also was creating the perfect storm for being unwell and Cassie (27:17)Right. Bill Gasiamis (27:18)stress at work, Not enough me time, always thinking about the job, the phone always being on, all that kind of stuff. And then it’s like, okay, well, what do I need? What do I need? What do you I know what I need? I need another coffee and a cigarette. Let me go and grab one. That’s gonna make things better. And it did, like just for that small amount of time. But not enough to be use supportive or not enough to be healthy. It was not healthy, but that’s okay. I learnt and I don’t do that anymore. I don’t smoke anymore. Although I love walking past people who are smoking. Cassie (27:57)That’s funny. I hate the smell of I think a lot of people do, the smell of cigarettes. Bill Gasiamis (28:01)Yeah. I love the smell of cigarettes. Not in the ashtray part, just in the air, kind of wafting around. You know, there was nothing better than being at a really smoky club or whatever. I don’t like the smell in my clothes the next day. But I’m old enough that when we were smok when we were going out to nightclubs and dancing and all that kind stuff, smoking was still allowed indoors in Australia. Whereas now it’s not. it was so cool. man. so how long did you end up in hospital for and how did you manage to deal with the deficits that it was causing before you went home? Hospitalization and Rehabilitation Journey Cassie (28:41)So I was in the like the actual hospital, like in the hospital on the stroke unit for a week. And then they moved me to inpatient rehab for a little over a week. So altogether it was a little over two weeks, so not that long. I was paralyzed for about a week, although it’s crazy, I barely remember it. you’d think like something huge like that you would remember, but I just remember the doctors coming in and being like, Okay pull on my hands, now push on my hands or do this, do that and like I just remember my left hand wasn’t working as well, but it didn’t it didn’t feel like being paralyzed, but I don’t guess I don’t know who would know what that feels like if you’ve never been paralyzed, or you wouldn’t Bill Gasiamis (29:23)Mm-hmm. Cassie (29:24)feel anything, I guess. Bill Gasiamis (29:25)Mm-hmm. Cassie (29:26)And I was able to walk, so my rehab wasn’t that like intensive. It was focusing on I had this weird like kind of like lean where I would like lean left and like veer off to the left. Like if there was nobody to direct me, I would have just like walked off into the walls. so two weeks and then for a month I did like outpatient OT and PT. But I also like I took a look at my drinking and I was like, I need to stop drinking. And so I went to treatment like a month after my stroke, or it was like six weeks after my stroke. So that interrupted my OT and PT. But two weeks to answer your question about two weeks in the hospital and in rehab, which was they were basically the same thing. I was in a bed, an alarmed bed, because I was a fall risk. Which was awful ’cause I’m super independent, so having that taken away from me was like I couldn’t I wasn’t even allowed to get up. I would get scolded like a naughty child when I did. It didn’t stop me from getting up, but I got some scoldings. The nurses I was not a favorite among the nurses, I suspect. Bill Gasiamis (30:38)Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, they were looking up for you. Yeah. They were they were looking out for you but they needed to get the point across as much as possible. I I kinda get it, but yeah, it’s also not nice to be told you shouldn’t do something. but when you can’t do it and it’s a risk to your health, then maybe it’s maybe it’s all right to be told don’t do that in no uncertain terms. Cassie (31:13)They so they taught my partner how to like unarm the bed. And I have to give him credit here because I like begged him to teach me the trick to unarm it and he never did. Yeah. Which was I didn’t care for it at the time, but he realized that maybe I might hurt myself, so Bill Gasiamis (31:26)Ha ha ha. Cassie (31:35)didn’t let me have my way on that. Bill Gasiamis (31:38)I’m gonna have to interrupt us again, my dad’s calling. Cassie (31:41)Okay. Bill Gasiamis (31:44)I don’t like cancelling appointments when we’ve made a a appointment for a podcast. So anyhow I’ll get this Dissociation and Identity Post-Stroke Bill Gasiamis (32:03)to that. Bill Gasiamis (32:12)Is He’s just went in for a little procedure where they injected some cortisol into his back ’cause he’s got some pain. And they put him under so they need him to be picked up. And he’s getting picked up, but he just doesn’t know it and w now we’re going backwards and forwards between between us and the nurses, but I did tell him and he does know but he’s eighty two and he doesn’t listen. If he rings back I’ll just interrupt us again. I’m so sorry. Cassie (32:46)No, it’s fine. Bill Gasiamis (32:49)so Your time in hospital other than being scolded. How do you come to terms with what has happened? Do you come to terms with it? Are you thinking about what this means for you now? Cassie (33:06)Not once. It didn’t even cross my mind. My world like when I look back on it, like my world shrank just to like the hospital bed in the room that I was in. And it just that was the only thing that existed. I didn’t think about, well, how is this gonna impact me long term? Am I gonna be able to go back to work? Like they gave me they told me I couldn’t go back for four months. But I actually tried to go back to work. I was Bill Gasiamis (33:19)at work, Cassie (33:34)working overtime, I was also working at a different location, doing like some overnight shifts. And the day after my stroke I tried to go to work. I was going to just go and not tell anybody and then come back. But they found out my mom was there. She found out. She’s like, Cassie, you can’t you can’t go. You can’t work. You can’t even walk. And I was like, I mostly would just sit at a desk. It should be fine. I’m sure it will be fine. That was kind of my motto the entire time, like, it’s fine, it’s gonna be fine, even though it clearly, you know, wasn’t fine. Bill Gasiamis (34:09)just there was that stroke brain? N like normal Cassie wouldn’t do that. You would know not to do that normally, would wouldn’t you? Like somebody is unwell, that’s not what we do when we’re unwell. Or was it just Cassie (34:21)I don’t Bill Gasiamis (34:21)the stroke playing up on you? Cassie (34:24)So it’s both. Like I didn’t feel unwell for one thing. Like I felt or I thought that I was normal. I thought I was still myself then. But then with right brain stroke especially, there’s I forget the word for it, but you become overconfident in your abilities and you think that you can do things that you can’t do. And so Bill Gasiamis (34:47)Wow. Cassie (34:47)that was a part of it too. I do you know the word for that? Bill Gasiamis (34:51)I don’t. Cassie (34:52)There’s like a very specific word for it. It also happens to people with severe mental illness where they think that they’re okay when they’re not. But it’s specific to right brainstroke. And so I thought it was fine. And then also like me, I’m pretty stubborn and think Bill Gasiamis (35:06)Yeah. Cassie (35:13)I know better than doctors. So there was that too. Bill Gasiamis (35:20)I’m gonna check what it is. I wonder if I can ask Chat GPT what it is, w what is it when somebody’s overconfident after a brain injury or a stroke, right? Is that’s kind of what the search will be. Let’s see what Cassie (35:32)Probably starts with an A. Bill Gasiamis (35:36)wonder what Chat GPT’s got to say about it. Yeah. Cassie (35:39)But it’s being completely unaware of your Bill Gasiamis (35:44)Anosognosia. Anosognosia. It’s a Greek word by the sound of it. from my background. And it is the Cassie (35:45)That sounds familiar. Bill Gasiamis (36:00)Anosognosia is impaired awareness of one’s neurological deficits following brain injury or a stroke. A person may genuinely not recognize or may substantially underestimate. their problems with movement, cognition, communication, behavior, or other abilities. Does that sound like it was your thing? Yeah, wow. Cassie (36:19)That’s exactly what it was. And But then that kind of like followed me after my stroke. Like I was like, wait a minute, am I completely like disabled and I just have no idea? Like so that was difficult. That piece of it, like where I felt like I was doing okay. I mean I was walking and talking still, you know, after my stroke. Bill Gasiamis (36:37)Mm-hmm. See? So you have cognitive awareness of the deficit, but yet the deficit still plays out. This overconfidence in your ability still played out, but you’re still kind of have awareness of it somehow. Cassie (37:06)Yeah, but I don’t know like to this day, like I don’t know, maybe I was completely not functioning at all and I have a memory that I was, who knows. It’s really weird, it kinda messes with your head. Bill Gasiamis (37:18)Yeah. How we it is it’s so weird. I know. I I remember being in all s sort of weird out of brain spaces and experiences and trying to work out w is this actually happening or am I imagining this happening? Is this reality or is it a dream? Like what is it? had a lot of those moments and then people observing me doing that was the most interesting part ’cause then I had to explain to them what I Cassie (37:35)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (37:47)what I was ha happening to me and I was like I was unable to even you know verbalize that like how do I explain that to them when I don’t even know what’s going on. It was just really freaky. and then you ended up going home at some point and what was that like? What was the transition from rehab and care like when you ended up home? How do you manage that? Life After Stroke: Adjusting to New Realities Cassie (38:12)It was really underwhelming. Like I had to do training beforehand. They’re like, Okay, you have to learn how to get in and out of the shower and in and out of a car. So I had to do like training for that, which was silly because Well, like I said, I thought I was functioning fine. But I’ve never fallen once, not once, which I think says that maybe I was functioning to an extent. The physical disability was never really that big of an issue. It was more like the the cognitive stuff and then like the emotional piece. That was what was my big struggle. But yeah, they I had to they had to put me in a wheelchair to leave the hospital, even though I insisted I was fine. They were like, No, we don’t just let people get up and go, you have to do this. So they wheeled me out and my sister picked me up and took me home and that was it. And then I was home and I expected life to go back to normal, but it did not. Like that was probably I guess being home was like the wake up call when I was like, my life is gonna be different now. Very different. Bill Gasiamis (39:25)Yeah. Cybering. Cassie (39:28)Exactly. Bill Gasiamis (39:30)Hm. You weren’t working. Were you allowed to drive or go out and about were you up to that? Cassie (39:36)You know what? I was really, really, really tired for I’m still tired all the time, but like so I wasn’t like really up to doing anything. I wasn’t allowed to drive for six months, but I did. I got into an accident, I think, my first my first day behind the wheel. It was just a tiny little accident. I just tapped somebody’s bumper and they got very upset about it. They were overreacting, I think. Bill Gasiamis (40:07)People tend to do that with car. Cassie (40:09)They do. Bill Gasiamis (40:10)Yeah. I don’t know why. Cassie (40:12)Yeah, she was upset. Bill Gasiamis (40:14)you wouldn’t it how how we act in a car when we’re in the car, when somebody Cassie (40:21)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (40:22)does something minor on the road, we would never act outside of the car in the real world in public when somebody crossed our Cassie (40:29)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (40:30)path or bumped into us or whatever. It’s just strange what happens when people get in a car. Yeah. Cassie (40:34)wild. Same thing online, people act w in ways they never would in real life. Bill Gasiamis (40:40)Yeah, it’s a little bubble of false sort of bravado or security or something, I don’t know what, and people just change their behavior. I’ve become aware of that recently and I’ve made a massive effort to not be that way. And I did a lot of work around actually not reacting when I’m in the car to Cassie (41:00)That’s amazing. Bill Gasiamis (41:01)yeah, incidences that are so insignificant because every time you drive there is an insignificant incident and if you’re just freaking out about it all the time, all you’re doing is making yourself unwell. It’s just another negative Cassie (41:13)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (41:13)thing that you do, right? So I’ve made a concerted effort about a year ago to make sure that I do not react by yelling and screaming to people in a car when they’re just driving on the road. I’m doing exactly the same thing. I don’t know where I get off being the guy. who thinks that my driving is so much better that that I I am if within my rights to be aggressive or act out or yelling or screaming at the person in the other car who actually can’t hear me anyway and doesn’t even know what they did wrong. Cassie (41:56)That’s so one thing that like I could be a bit of a jerk before when driving. Not that anybody would know. I was just in my car yelling and cursing, but you know But since the stroke I’ve actually I have more patience because I’m much I’m slower and that’s just in like life in general, but also behind the wheel. I’m I’m much slower. And Bill Gasiamis (42:07)Yeah. Cassie (42:21)so then when somebody starts tailing me, I get super frustrated with it, but I’m like when I think somebody’s going too slow, now I’m like, Well, there’s probably a reason for that so I can chill and just drive slow. I probably need to anyway. So Bill Gasiamis (42:36)awareness, yeah. Like it’s like maybe they’re recovering from something, maybe they’re just more careful. Maybe they have a you know, more more kind of anxiousness about them and they want to make sure that they’re paying more attention, you know, it’s all all sorts of things going on. And judging people without having any idea was s so getting in the way of my just five minute trip down the road, you know, to pick up something. What’s the point of going for a drive and being angry for no reason? Like it’s ridiculous. Cassie (43:05)Yeah. The wild thing is is I had all these skills before my stroke. Like I could have I’m a therapist, you know. I understand these things. I empathize with people, but I would get so mad at other drivers. But now I I’m just like, somebody they’re probably like me. And that’s in not just in driving, in like all areas of my life. I’m more empathetic. I think I’m a better therapist in some ways. I’m not as sharp as I was before, but I think I’m kinder. Bill Gasiamis (43:40)You have more insight. Cassie (43:42)More insight, yes, for sure. Bill Gasiamis (43:43)more life experience. Cassie (43:47)Yeah. Exactly. Bill Gasiamis (43:50)Yeah. so did you kind of find a way back to work? Are you working again? Cassie (44:00)I’m working I’m working at a very different like paced job. I’m doing intake assessments now, so it’s Bill Gasiamis (44:08)manage to deal with the deficits that it was causing before you went home? Cassie (44:12)I get more like FaceTime, which is nice, but it’s also it’s not a very challenging job. And before it was the work was very challenging. So it’s different pace of life. But I’m back to work. I’m working full time. And then I see clients on the side and my and it’s not my practice, it’s a group practice, so private practice clients too. Bill Gasiamis (44:36)Sounds like it’s more alig aligned with the whole intention of becoming a counsellor, a therapist, like at the beginning. Cassie (44:42)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (44:44)Yeah. Less statistically based and more client focused. Cassie (44:49)Yeah. I do miss the population ’cause like I really liked working with the inmates. But Bill Gasiamis (44:55)Yeah. Cassie (44:56)I just I wouldn’t go back into that environment. Bill Gasiamis (45:00)Yeah. E especially when you’re you know, the people you’re reporting to are also maybe, you know, a bit difficult to handle as well or highly, you know, tense or whatever. They’re we’ve got to also understand like they’re living in a environment where they’re working in a jail as well and God knows Cassie (45:18)Yes. Bill Gasiamis (45:19)what they’re dealing with and putting up with as well and how they’re able to personally manage it. And if everyone’s kind of dysfunctional, you wanna not Cassie (45:27)Mm. Bill Gasiamis (45:28)be there, even though that’s where people are needed, you need to kind of do your time and get out. Cassie (45:35)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (45:36)’cause ongoing dysfunction just becomes traumatic for everybody who’s involved, even though you’re going there to do good work, you’re coming out and then you’re not well, you’re not healthy, and it leads to illness and what’s the point of that? your website is cassiejewell.com and there’s a couple of things on there that you talk about and promote and There’s a very cool photo of you on the home page. Like I love that photo. It’s Cassie (46:03)Hello, thanks. Bill Gasiamis (46:05)so cool. and it says Cassie Jewell is a counselor and an author exploring psychology of change, resilience, regret, and identity. Cassie (46:14)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (46:15)Change, resilience, regret, and identity. Huge. Cassie (46:18)That’s all from my stroke. Bill Gasiamis (46:20)Huge words. Okay. I was gonna ask you whether that may have been on there previously or whether that is the new thing that you’re interested in. Cassie (46:28)That is something I’ve definitely focused on more since the stroke, especially identity. because before I identified just completely like with my career, or more so with my job, not my career, but my job. But that I was just completely wrapped up in that. And now I’ve had to well, I went through I had another job when I first started back to work, that didn’t work out. It’s ’cause I’m not as competent as I used to be. It’s really hard. I’m still dealing with that. But when you measure your self-worth in the things that you do, like in your career, and then all of a sudden you don’t have your career anymore, who are you? I had to figure that out. And I like who I am now. I think Or I I don’t know if I’m the same person or if I’m a different person. It’s hard to gauge that. I think I it took me some time, but I think I finally just adjusted to who I am now and I’m choosing to like who I am now. I’m a Bill Gasiamis (47:37)Yeah. Cassie (47:37)different person, probably, but I’m the only you know, this brain is the only one I’ve got, so I might as well invest in it and like it. Don’t Bill Gasiamis (47:47)Yeah. Cassie (47:48)have any other choice. Bill Gasiamis (47:50)No. and yet i your your identity, like do you i if I was to ask you what it is or how would you like what how do you identify? Like how can do you have a elevator pitch? Can you say that to to me now? Cassie (48:10)I do not have an elevator pitch. I have no idea. I don’t know how to describe it. I just I know more what I’m not and I’m not driven by work. Like I value free time more in my personal life and my loved ones, my dogs. I don’t have kids, I have dogs. They’re my kids. Bill Gasiamis (48:30)Yeah. Yep. Cassie (48:34)and like I would be okay if I didn’t have my career. I would still know who I was without my career. Where before I didn’t, and so losing that was like losing everything. That’s why the stroke hit so hard is because I lost I lost my career and myself at the same time, almost my life, but it was more the losing of like my identity and so My new identity is part like having lost that I’m no longer that career woman that I was and then also who I am since the stroke. So Bill Gasiamis (49:11)Mm-hmm. When I was younger, I didn’t have an opportunity to work out my identity. I just got stuck into the tasks that I needed to do. Cassie (49:21)Mm-hmm. Bill Gasiamis (49:21)To pay the bills, to feed the kids, to put through school, to pay the mortgage, to do all that stuff. And it was never a conversation like, how do I who am I, who do I identify as? Or if somebody asked me the question, I wouldn’t even know what it meant. Like they’d what are you talking about? Like, I just go to work and I do all these things. You know, but beyond what you do, who are you? That’s such a bizarre thing to have to contemplate. I think that’s what I found difficult about it as well, was that not only did I lose all those things that I did who I thought I was, I actually didn’t have the vocabulary or the insight about the topic or anything. I had nothing. And I’m starting from completely scratch. And that would have been the hardest question in the world for somebody to ask. Now I stumbled into identity loss and all that kind of stuff just by interviewing people and realizing that other people are going through that and they had a word for it. But before that, if I if I was asked, I wouldn’t have a clue how to begin a conversation with that. I wouldn’t be able to get off telling somebody that I was a business owner and I was a dad and it was all about other people. Cassie (50:35)Do you feel like did it take you a long time to like yourself, like your new self after the stroke? How Stroke Forced Me to Discover Who I Really Am Bill Gasiamis (50:42)A a few years, yeah. I think I realized Cassie (50:44)Few years. Bill Gasiamis (50:45)that so my whole thing started in twenty twelve and then out I was at home out of surgery in twenty in December twenty fourteen. And then I was at home alone from late December twenty fourteen for the first five or six months of the following year, twenty fifteen. Twenty fifteen, around twenty fifteen is when I started the podcast, but there was only a few episodes. And they were intermittent and I wasn’t well. I had fatigue. I was dealing with and all the things. And then by around early 2016, maybe middle of the year, something like that, would have been the first time when I said, I think stroke was the best thing that happened to me. And and it you know what why I said that. It wasn’t because I I loved the experience of being unwell, nearly dying, brain surgery, all of that. It’s because I realized that I had grown as a person. And that my identity had shifted from somebody who was caught up in all the labels and all of the what is it like all of the barriers that I put up in between, you know, from in my own way that I created in my own mind about myself. And then I realized I was on a podcast interview and I said that with the the person who I was interviewing. I think stroke’s the best thing that happened to me, and they said the same thing back. And then it’s like, wow, how did you get here? And I realized how I got there was I how I was speaking on a stage, sharing information about stroke awareness. I was meeting stroke survivors who I really got along with and we understood each other and we were able to appreciate what what both of us had been through. I felt understood for the first time. you know, so I was doing all these things that were different that were actually bringing a different kind of joy into my life. Cassie (52:36)Yeah, fulfillment meaning. Bill Gasiamis (52:37)Yeah. Purpose, meaning. And I never knew those things existed before that. I didn’t know that my purpose and meaning needed to be refined and it shouldn’t have been about making as much money as possible as quickly as possible. Because apparently my kids needed the new pair of sneakers or, you know, the new console or whatever it was that they needed. And I thought I should work harder to make possible for them. So yeah, it was Cassie (53:08)I think it kind Bill Gasiamis (53:08)Unbelievable. Cassie (53:09)of I’m thinking about it now, like it strips away everything else so you have nothing left but yourself and you have to take a look at yourself and then that’s when you can really decide who am I and am I gonna choose to like this person? And you can also choose what your new identity is gonna be. Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (53:28)That’s the best part about it. Choice. I never had that before. Well, I did, but I didn’t think I did. Cassie (53:35)Right. Bill Gasiamis (53:36)I did what my parents told me to do. I did what other people told me to do. I never did what I wanted to do. I was always doing stuff that I’d been trained my entire life to do. You know, you go to school, d do X amount of hours Monday to Friday for your primary years and then your secondary years doing a certain amount of hours. 13 years later, you’re spat out. And it’s like, okay, what else do you guys want me to do? Okay, I’ll just do that. And I envy Maybe envy’s not the word ’cause it’s a little bit harsh, but I I kind of I maybe it is envy and jealousy. Like of people who were twenty or eighteen or nineteen and knew what they wanted to do somehow. And they just went and did it. Now I know they’ve got their own issues and they’re probably struggling in other ways. Yeah. Maybe maybe. Cassie (54:20)They probably didn’t know. I don’t think anybody does. I think you have to have something like a stroke happen to you to really know what you want and to be able to have this different perspective on life. So I get how like it can be it can be the worst thing that’s happened to you and the best thing that’s happened to you at the same time because it’s not about the stroke. It’s about okay, what am I gonna choose to do now? And you can do anything. Bill Gasiamis (54:48)Yeah. And that was Cassie (54:49)And that’s amazing. Bill Gasiamis (54:51)such a gift. Cassie (54:52)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (54:53)And it came from this Crappy path, like whatever. Like such a massive, difficult thing. I have a couple of people who I coach through stroke recovery and whatever. Like I I’m not not not in a doctor way, just like we talk about things that they perhaps don’t get to talk about with other people who are not stroke survivors, right? And one of the things that really happened to me recently was the person who I’m coaching at the moment just came on on board, signed up, and their first session. The person’s still in rehab. And they’re very emotional and it’s very challenging and very difficult. And it’s so fresh between having gone from their regular life to what their life looks like now. Cassie (55:37)Yeah. Bill Gasiamis (55:38)And that was in my mind a little bit triggering in that, I had forgotten that feeling. Now I remember what that was like. And then it’s trying to keep somebody in a space of remain calm, you know, be What Bruce Lee used to say, you know, be the boat on the wave, you know, like just go with the flow and all that kind of stuff. And it’s the time to practice all those things, but it’s also the most difficult time to practice all those things because you’ve had a stroke and your brain is not working optimally and you know, there’s yeah. Cassie (56:12)It’s so traumatic and like it’s great too. Bill Gasiamis (56:15)It’s traumatic, it’s grief, it’s identity, it’s loss, it’s everything all together, all in one lump sum. And then I&#

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In this episode, Dr. Jeffrey Gladden and psychiatrist Dr. Matt Bernstein discuss the evolving landscape of mental health treatment. Bernstein shares his extensive experience in psychiatry, particularly with serious mental health conditions, and highlights the limitations of traditional medication approaches. He advocates for a more holistic view that considers metabolic health and mitochondrial function as critical components in understanding and treating mental health issues. The conversation also delves into the benefits of the ketogenic diet, cognitive flexibility, and the complexities of medication management in psychiatric care. In this conversation, Dr. Gladden and Matt Bernstein explore the intricate relationship between mental health, metabolism, exercise, and the role of psychedelics in therapy. They discuss the negative metabolic impacts of psychotropic medications, the significant benefits of exercise for mental health, and the importance of understanding individual genetics in managing depression. The conversation also delves into the role of lactate in brain health, mitochondrial function, and the potential of psychedelic therapies for personal transformation. Ultimately, they emphasize the need for a holistic approach to health that encompasses physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. For Audience Join the other 20,000+ high-performers getting weekly insights on biological reversal, exponential strategies, and Life Energy optimization→ https://start.gladdenlongevity.com/subscribe If you're ready to measure your 60+ biological ages and build a personalized reversal plan, apply for a discovery call here → https://start.gladdenlongevity.com/apply-now   Use code 'Podcast10' to get 10% OFF on any of our supplements at https://gladdenlongevityshop.com/!    Takeaways ·       Matt Bernstein has 26 years of experience in psychiatry. ·       He works with serious mental health conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. ·       Traditional psychiatric medications often lead to metabolic and neurological side effects. ·       Anhedonia is a significant issue in mental health, meaning a lack of pleasure. ·       There is a need for a fresh perspective on mental health rooted in metabolism. ·       Mitochondrial dysfunction is linked to serious mental illnesses. ·       The ketogenic diet can be an effective intervention for mental health. ·       Cognitive flexibility is crucial for managing mental health conditions. ·       Medication management is complex and requires careful consideration. ·       Not all patients can or should stop their medications completely. Psychotropic medications can negatively impact metabolic health. ·       Exercise has a greater effect on depression than antidepressants. ·       Intense exercise is crucial for mental health benefits. ·       Genetics play a significant role in individual responses to depression. ·       Lactate production during exercise is beneficial for brain health. ·       Mitochondrial health is essential for longevity and mental well-being. ·       Stress affects both neurological and hormonal health. ·       Psychedelic therapies can provide transformative experiences for some individuals. ·       Social connectedness and purpose are vital for longevity. ·       Holistic approaches to health should integrate physical, mental, and spiritual aspects.   Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Mental Health Perspectives 02:58 The Limitations of Traditional Psychiatry 05:54 Exploring Root Causes in Mental Health 09:05 The Role of Metabolism and Mitochondrial Function 11:54 The Ketogenic Diet as a Therapeutic Approach 14:59 Cognitive Flexibility and Mental Health 17:56 Medication Management in Psychiatric Care 23:24 Impact of Psychotropics on Metabolism 24:49 The Role of Exercise in Mental Health 27:53 Genetics and Personal Insights on Depression 29:32 Lactate Production and Brain Health 32:46 Mitochondrial Health and Longevity 36:30 Mind-Body Connection and Stress Management 39:08 Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies 45:07 Optimizing Longevity and Health Span To learn more about Dr. Matt Bernstein:Website: www.accordmh.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mattbernsteinmd   Reach out to us at:    Website: https://gladdenlongevity.com/     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Gladdenlongevity/    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gladdenlongevity/?hl=en     LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gladdenlongevity    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5_q8nexY4K5ilgFnKm7naw    

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Lyn is joined by psychologist Dr. Maria-Elena Lukeides to examine the psychological undercurrents of intense romantic attraction. Drawing on decades of developmental attachment research and clinical practice, Dr. Lukeides unpacks how early childhood caregiving dynamics shape adult partnership choices, often driving people to mistake the familiar friction of past emotional wounds for true romantic sparks. The discussion explores the push-and-pull between anxious and avoidant attachment styles, provides practical insight into breaking unconscious relationship cycles, and emphasises why identifying the exact dynamic you want day-to-day matters far more than obsessing over surface-level traits. KEY TAKEAWAYS Attachment styles formed between infants and primary caregivers track longitudinally into adulthood, deeply shaping how individuals select and relate to romantic partners. People with anxious attachment styles and avoidant attachment styles are routinely drawn to one another, sparking an intense cycle of mutual attraction followed by repulsion. Intense "chemistry" is often an unconscious attempt to re-enact and resolve unmet emotional needs or unavailable dynamics experienced in childhood. Choosing a healthy long-term partnership requires focusing on the daily operational dynamic of the relationship rather than relying solely on charismatic traits or reactive passions. BEST MOMENTS "It very much reminded me of what Freud would say about relationships, which is that we repeat to repair." "If I think I'm the problem, then I'm the red flag—I'm just going to try and make myself green and work on myself, which means that I'm not actually constructing the boundaries." "Even if you win... you're reinforcing that yes, it was your fault. So even mastery is a loss here." "Love yourselves as if your life depends on it, because it does." ABOUT THE HOST Lyn Smith – (The Queen of HEARTS) – Love, Dating & Relationship Expert Lyn's personal story is a very inspirational and harrowing one of how she went from having unhealthy and unfulfilling relationships with men (on the back of several serious traumatic sexual assaults in her teens) to now feeling safe, fulfilled, alive, full of passion and having inner peace. She has a proven track record as a Love Solutions - Relationship Expert/ Trainer/ Inspirational Speaker and Best-Selling Author based upon her own vast personal research, experiential learning and training with the world's leading industry experts. Lyn makes a difference by helping you make a difference; she has a vision of contributing back on a global scale. Contact Method lyn@hearts-entwined.com This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media. ⁠https://disruptivemedia.co.uk/

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Before We Dive InWriting and Recording this on September 10th — the day of the new moon, in the dark. I have absolutely no get-up-and-go. The aspects this week are going to pick that up. But right now: very on-brand for the dark moon that I am recording in it.A few important things before we get to a week that is genuinely significant.Venus Retrograde: Heroine's Journey — I need to say something I've been sitting with. This is the seventh time I've run this class since 2017. Seven Saturn squares, seven chakras. It feels like a completion cycle, and there's a real possibility this is the last time I run it in this form. I feel immense shifts happening within me and within my work. If you have been thinking about joining, please do not wait. This one is particularly potent. I am working on the slides right now. The last time we had a Retrograde in Scorpio was 2028. That was my second class and I remember it as life changing for me and attendees. louiseedington.com/VenusRetrograde2026What you get: seven weeks, eight calls (all recorded), a course portal with pre-work videos, slides in color and black-and-white, materials you can keep. And the class itself is not just astrology — it's a heroine's journey, guided meditations that retrieve lost parts of yourself, a regeneration journey, healing tools. We follow the myth of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades, alongside Inanna, through the Venus cycle. This is the last Scorpio Venus Star Point in our lifetimes. We start October 1st.Dragon Rider tier adds a year's membership in my Spiral Codex community (beginning after the class), a 30-minute one-on-one session with me, and a personalized gift from Otter Spirit chosen based on your chart energy.Price stays at $397. I had been considering raising it — I'm not.For other presentations please see the end of the email. The Overall EnergyWe are in the week following the Virgo New Moon, the Venus sign change, the Mercury sign change, and Uranus stationing retrograde — all of which happened on September 10th. The nodes are still parked at 29° Leo/Aquarius until October 9th. The entire Aries stellium remains retrograde: Neptune, Manwë, Saturn, Pallas Athena, Eris, and Vesta. And Chiron — who has been visiting Taurus — returns to Aries on Thursday.Venus has passed the Star Point degree of 0° Scorpio that she will return to at the Cazimi on October 23rd. She is heading into the underworld, and this week's occultation — the last Moon-Venus gate before she goes retrograde — is the pivotal moment.The Cards — A First GlanceFrom the Red Seeds Tarot by Linda Hill (Etsy, UK) and the Witch Oracle by Angie Sullins: Death (I Am Transition), Three of Torches, Seer of Torches reversed, and Lady of Perpetual Rebirth.The Death card and the Lady of Perpetual Rebirth bookending the week, with the Three of Torches (enthusiasm picking up) and the Seer reversed (not yet feeling your inner divinity, but the reminder to look) in between. Perfect for a week whose centrepiece is a Venus occultation at 2° Scorpio conjunct Haumea. More at the end.Day by DaySunday, September 13 — Moon in Libra. Air Grand Trine. Pallas Athena and Asteroid Lilith Square Off.We open the week with the Moon in Libra — balance, justice, how we relate, the scales.The Moon sextiles Jupiter in Leo. Jupiter was occulted by the Moon just last week at 15° Leo — the king hidden behind closed doors for transformation. Now the Moon, having moved all the way to Libra, reaches back with this fire-and-air sextile. A few more leaders with overblown egos will fall. It's time to rule from the heart. Jupiter will go retrograde in Leo and pass back over that territory. The transformation of what Jupiter represents is ongoing.The Moon squares Asteroid Lilith — who is being overtaken by Mars (in Cancer, moving forward) but is not finished. She is saying clearly: we are not going back. We are starting to move into the new paradigm. Things are starting to change.The Moon opposes Pallas Athena — the pattern-seer, the wise strategist, whose grey eyes see everything and nothing escapes them. We are starting to see the patterns more clearly now. And then Pallas Athena squares Asteroid Lilith directly — these two warriors in conversation. Pallas Athena with her strategy, Asteroid Lilith with her original equality: I was created from the same dirt. Equal. And it's time we worked from that. Restore balance.The Moon squares Mars in Cancer (more things falling or collapsing, the Libra Moon pressing for action and balance through cardinal signs) and then Ceres is opposed by Black Moon Lilith — the Great Mother and the shamed, hidden, elemental feminine in tension. Ceres is saying: move within. Take care of all your needs, met and unmet. Find what genuinely feeds you. Restore wholeness. And from that wholeness, you are more able to help create the new paradigm we're moving into.The Moon then makes a beautiful air grand trine to Hekate and Chariklo in Aquarius — the torchbearer and the cosmic doula, the way-shower and the grace-spinner, both in the sign of the future, the collective, the innovative. Ideas, new patterns, communication, social interaction — all of these weaving the new story. The path forward is through integration, through the Aquarian future, through humanitarianism and genuine care for each other.The Moon squares Juno (about to station direct — more on that Wednesday) and opposes Eris and Vesta — table-flipping and inner flame in tension with the scales of balance. Flip the inner tables first. And finally: Mars in Cancer trines Nessus — a water trine, leaching out the ancestral poisons, the old toxic patterns. Like bloodletting: get rid of them. They are holding us back.Mercury in Libra trines Uranus — an air trine at degrees very close to the first basket peak in July. Innovative new ideas. New thought, new inventions, aha moments. We are having collective awakenings in multiple ways simultaneously.I've been reading Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra. His “God is dead” was not triumphalism; he meant that we, collectively, have killed the concept. And I find I'm glad we're moving away from the monotheistic, external, patriarchal God toward finding divinity within — moving away from intercessories. Which connects directly to the Hierophant reversed we had last week. The contracting is happening at every level.Monday, September 14 — The Venus Occultation. The Last Gate. The House-Raising Party.This is the day I most want to give space to.The Moon enters Scorpio and first opposes Chiron in Taurus before Chiron returns to Aries on Thursday. Scorpio digs deep; Chiron shows where the light gets in — the wounds around greed, materialism, our severed relationship with the senses and the earth. What does it mean to restore that balance? This is an ongoing excavation.The Sun in Virgo sextiles Mars in Cancer — Earth and water together, an opportunity for the guardian energy, the protective energy, the slow-and-meaningful energy to align with the Sun's call to purposeful, humble, stewardship-oriented action.And then: the Moon occults Venus.An occultation is like an eclipse — the Moon passes directly across the face of a planet, hiding it from view. We had the Jupiter occultation last week. Now Venus. And this is the last Moon-Venus conjunction (gate) before Venus goes retrograde — the last gate of this descent cycle.It happens at 2° Scorpio. Two is the number of the divine feminine: grace, cooperation, the receptive, the relational, the most powerful intuitive energy.Venus is conjunct Haumea — the Hawaiian creatrix goddess, the handle of Barbault's Basket, pure regeneration and rebirth. The Death card arrived in the cards this week. This is why.Venus is also square Pluto — death and rebirth energy, the shadow excavated for the buried treasure — and quincunx Neptune retrograde in Aries, making an aspect of adjustment: how have we lost connection with something essential in this long Martian-dominated era?That last point matters. The last Venus Star Point was at 2° Aries. This one is at 0° Scorpio. These are both Mars signs. And after this Scorpio Star Point — the last in our lifetimes — the Venus Star Point moves into Libra for over a hundred years, and then Pisces. Both Venusian signs. We are genuinely leaving a Martian era and entering a Venusian one. This occultation is a massive reset right at that threshold.The occultation runs from approximately 9:26am to 1:42pm Universal Time — check your local time equivalent, or simply look for when Moon and Venus are conjunct in your app.The Sabian symbol for 3° Scorpio (rounding up from 2°):A house-raising party in a small village. The village gathers not for entertainment but for the practical work of creating shelter. Many hands apply themselves to a single essential task, and the structure rises through coordinated effort. The image is purposeful and warm — a portrait of community focused on something that genuinely matters.The theme of this degree is collaborative intensity. The capacity to mobilize shared energy around a genuine need. The recognition that some structures require more than one person to build. There is a maturity here — in accepting support, and in offering it — so that what gets made is sturdy enough to last.Think of that in collective terms. Think of the Venus class. Think of community and what we're building together.The Omega symbol (Sandbach): A mysterious food, a small piece of which will satisfy hunger for days. Governed by the angel Rochel — lost and found, restitution. This degree possesses innate knowledge of what is needed to sustain life, versus what may be desired based on fantasies or addictive needs. There is something highly concentrated about this energy, so that what it may seem to be at first may be quite different from how it's experienced as it unfolds over time. It's hard to get to know, hard to assimilate, but any attempts to do so are well worth the effort.The Chandra symbol: Pigs being fed. Scorpio is the sign of desire. Overeating is often an attempt to fill what has been denied in other areas. At its best, this degree revels in what is taken in — love, a beautiful painting, a sunset, a bowl of mac and cheese. If not in deep and sincere touch with its true soul desires, it may binge chronically in an attempt to get something it never quite gets.This is the invitation of this occultation: what do you truly desire? What genuinely feeds your deepest needs? Not the addictive filling, not the binge seeking what it never quite gets — but the mysterious food, a small piece of which satisfies for days.I've been speaking with a friend about integrating Internal Family Systems work with astrology. The 8 C's of the Self: compassion, creativity, curiosity, confidence, courage, calm, connectedness, and clarity. And 5 P's: presence, persistence, perspective, playfulness, and patience. All of these are about coming into the Self — understanding yourself, accepting yourself, loving yourself — and from that place, bringing a completely different energy into the world. Rather than filling the hole. Rather than seeking from the outside what can only be found inside.After the occultation: the Moon conjuncts Haumea and squares Pluto. Then Venus conjuncts Haumea directly — the goddess of love meeting the goddess of regeneration at this threshold degree, in the deep water sign.We are being reborn.Tuesday, September 15 — Moon Gaining Light. Water Grand Trine. Neptune-Pluto Sextile.The Moon in Scorpio is gaining light now — we are past the new moon and entering the action phase. The Moon makes a water trine to Ceres — feeling our deepest needs, going very deep into our emotional world. Intense, but real.Venus at 3° Scorpio squares Pluto — she is moving into the underworld journey now. This is exactly what we'll track together in the class: Venus descending, confronting the shadow, finding the inner gold.A water grand trine forms: Moon in Scorpio, Asteroid Lilith in Cancer, Mars in Cancer, and Nessus in Pisces all in flowing conversation. Step into the interconnectedness. Wash away the old toxic patterns. These inherited poisons have been holding us back, and the water is dissolving them.Neptune and Pluto perfect another exact sextile — this ongoing aspect of collective transformation toward something more spiritual and interconnected. The building of something genuinely different is happening at the largest possible timescale, whether or not it's visible from inside the noise.The Moon squares Chariklo (helping write the new story) and sextiles the Sun — the first major Moon-Sun aspect since the new moon on the 10th. Earth and water. Creative energy coming from the depths.Wednesday, September 16 — Juno Stations Direct. Moon into Sagittarius. Hekate at the Crossroads.Venus is sextiled by Black Moon Lilith — the goddess of love and desire receiving support from the energy of the shamed and hidden wild feminine. Do the shame-and-vulnerability work. Brené Brown territory. What has been hidden in you? What has been shamed? That's what we're starting to surface as Venus approaches her retrograde.The Moon in Scorpio squares Hekate — so much retrograde energy in Aries, Hekate saying: we're not quite ready yet. The path forward involves the retrogrades. Venus and Mercury are both about to go retrograde through the same territory. After that, things will start to change in a big way — next year. But this is quite the process.The Moon reaches the anaretic 29° Scorpio and squares the Nodes at 11:48am Eastern — activating both eclipse points simultaneously. Purging more of the old attachments: to rules, to people, places, things, to the way things were. We cannot create the new until we've let go of a lot of the old.And then: the Moon enters Sagittarius. You may start to feel the shift — a little more get-up-and-go, a little more vision, a little more optimism. About time. The Sagittarius Moon shoots its arrows toward the future.Right after the ingress: Mercury in Libra squares Pholus — more things being revealed, the Pandora's box of our institutions still open. All the infighting globally, all the extremes — I genuinely believe we had to see all of this before we could create the new. The new is coming up underneath. It's just not visible from inside the chaos.The Sagittarius Moon opposes Sedna in Gemini (adapt or transform; communities renegotiating how they survive), trines Neptune, sextiles Pluto — the big agents of change, activated again.Juno stations direct. Her retrograde back into Capricorn has been reviewing our contracts with man-made laws, institutions, and structures — looking at what's out of balance, what needs to change. Now she starts moving back into Aquarius. New contracts. More meaningful ones. This is actually a significant shift.Thursday, September 17 — Chiron Returns to Aries. Moon Gains Light. Few Aspects.A quieter day in terms of number of aspects — but not in weight.Asteroid Lilith activates the water grand trine that has been building through the week — still washing out, still leaching the poisons, still saying we are not going back.The Moon in Sagittarius sextiles Mercury — opportunity for new ideas, new ways of thinking and communicating. The Moon is gaining light fast now.The Moon trines Saturn retrograde in Aries — what more old structures and self-limiting beliefs need to be released?And then, at 9:52pm Eastern: Chiron goes back into Aries. He'll be there until early 2027, revisiting territory he needs to complete before returning to Taurus for the longer stay.What does Chiron in Aries re-excavate? Wounds around the individual self, around identity, around who we are in ourselves. The message we received from the culture about what strength and individuality mean — rugged, power-over, domination — and the medicine of finding what genuine individual power actually looks like: coming from within, not over. We've been starting to find it. Chiron is going back to gather whatever bits need to be dug out before Taurus calls him back.Friday, September 18 — Venus Day. Ceres Squares Saturn. First Quarter Moon. Venus at the Basket Degree.Venus Day. And it delivers.Black Moon Lilith oscillates back into Sagittarius — freedom-restriction-freedom. The oscillating tension between the institutions' grip on us and the wild elemental self.Mercury in Libra squares Ceres in Cancer — what genuinely feeds us? What are our needs, and how do we take responsibility for meeting them? Not waiting for others to do it. This is the thesis of my Ceres book.Vesta and Eris meet again — devotion and focus meeting the original table-flipper. The most important place to flip the tables first is within. Those attachments to old rules, to needing someone else to tell you what to do or what to believe. You can have support. But being told what to think is different from being helped to understand.Mercury opposes Saturn — words and thoughts facing the structures and rules. The mythology of rugged individualism, manifest destiny, the hero's journey as the only journey. Write something new. Something more harmonious for everyone.Ceres squares Saturn at 13° Aries/Cancer — and this is an echo worth noting. When Ceres was discovered on January 1st, 1801, she was square Saturn in Leo — the sign of kings. I have always felt that her discovery chart encoded the eventual fall of kings and dominant leaders: Ceres, the Great Mother, at odds with the rules of the king. Now they square each other again, in cardinal signs. Ceres in Cancer: family, home, ancestors, the needs of the people. Saturn in Aries: rugged individualism, the old rules. Cardinals square: initiating something new. You may see another fall from grace around this day. The echo aspects are potent.The Sun in Virgo trines Juno at her station point — the Virgo Sun, wanting to do the right thing, in flowing conversation with our sacred contracts. More meaningful contracts are possible. This is the energy of building something sturdy.And: Venus is at 4° Scorpio — the first peak degree of Barbault's Basket. She is exactly at the degree where all four outer planets gathered in July. Venus leading the way, as always, into what's next.The day closes with the First Quarter Moon at 25° Sagittarius, squaring the Sun in Virgo. The action phase beginning in earnest. The crossroads.The Sabian symbol (26° Sagittarius): A flag-bearer in battle. This degree represents courageous dedication to principles bigger than yourself. The flag is not a tool of devastation — it's a symbol of shared values. Immutable signs with the Sun in Virgo: what is more meaningful? What is more useful? How do we create the future together around these bigger principles? Courage under pressure. Commitment to values. And the oxygen-mask wisdom: put yours on first, then put some personal wants aside for the greater good.The Omega symbol: A candle mysteriously undisturbed by wind. Sandbach titles this degree Beyond Mind. Thoughts are like wind — they push against everything and create turbulence. When you gain the power to detach from busy mind, there is an increasing steadiness that brings you closer to spiritual clarity. This degree carries a creative vision that is impervious to the agitations of inner voices.The Chandra symbol: Climbing the steps of the Pyramid of the Sun. To ascend — not by flying, but in a more substantial way, with something solid under your feet. This is about finding meaning and purpose and following the highest and clearest vision of it. Getting beyond what is shallow, superficial, and trivial can be arduous — but this meets the challenge with steadiness and purpose.Steadiness. Solid ground. A vision impervious to wind. A commitment to something bigger than yourself.That is your First Quarter Moon.Saturday, September 19 — Moon into Capricorn. Venus Receives the Moon's Grace. The Week Closes.The Moon moves into Capricorn overnight and closes the week with its early morning aspects.After the First Quarter, the Moon makes a fire trine to Chiron in Aries — just returned. Visionary, purposeful, the Sagittarius spirit meeting the medicine. What medicine do you need to create this vision? What healing is required for the steadfast purpose beginning to form?Juno has moved exactly one minute forward from her station — barely, but she's moving. New contracts are beginning.The Moon squares Eris and Vesta early — the tables are being flipped again, the inner flame is being tended. We are creating new structures. More revelations may surface today, including possibly the Epstein files re-emerging.In Capricorn, the Moon squares Neptune (retrograde in Aries) early in the morning — Neptune saying let go of the me-first attitude, the power-over energy. Create something genuinely new from here. And then the Moon makes a lovely unbroken flow trine to Venus — the Moon and Venus in earth and water, in gentle supportive conversation. All of this moving toward the retrograde. All of it connected.The Cards in DetailDeath — I Am Transition:A time of endings. Old lives, shared and beloved, are changing or gone. There may be some loss and pain this week — personally, culturally, collectively. Death and mourning is a process. Acceptance builds slowly as we lament and grieve for what was. But transformation beckons.Soon, you will start to feel the blood in your veins, and know that you are alive and have this big life journey to complete. In these extraordinary times that we are in.The Death card arrived at the same time as the Venus occultation conjunct Haumea. Regeneration, rebirth, the creatrix goddess. One cannot be separated from the other.Three of Torches (Wands) — I Am Enthusiasm:The Sagittarius energy is coming. You can feel it building from Wednesday onward — the arrow being drawn back, the vision beginning to form. The Three of Torches is that moment: enthusiasm. Grabbing it by the horns. You may feel less like lying on the mat in a quiet room — the life force returning.Seer of Torches, reversed — Reminder of Inner Radiance:Upright, the Seer of Torches is I Am Divine — the knowing that you are a divine being having a human experience, the natural inner radiance that doesn't need external validation. Reversed this week: you're probably not quite feeling this inner selfhood yet. You're not quite there yet with that inner divinity. That's okay. This is just a reminder: it's there. Look within. Notice your inner radiance, even just briefly. It hasn't gone anywhere.Lady of Perpetual Rebirth (Witch Oracle by Angie Sullins):Death comes for all of us — but this isn't a death card. It's a rebirth card.It's an invitation to clean and clear what needs to end, in order to welcome the new. What ideas or beliefs have become weighty, overwhelming, outdated? What thoughts no longer fit you? What convictions cause exhaustion or even illness when you embody them?Our Lady of Perpetual Rebirth is here to usher out the old and midwife the new.Pay special attention to your dreams. There are signs and symbols showing themselves to you right now that will indicate what wants to be loosened and released. The new vision, new awareness, new life that is circling you will also send out strong signals. Pay attention. Listen. Watch. Observe.This is the time to let go of what no longer serves.A witch can welcome death with the same enthusiasm a moth displays when flying into fire. She hurls herself towards her own endings, knowing her next beginnings live inside the fire of her passion — the heat of longing, calling her forward.Summing UpThe last Venus Gate before the retrograde — an occultation at 2° Scorpio, the divine feminine number, conjunct Haumea the regeneratrix, square Pluto, adjustment to Neptune. A house-raising party. A mysterious food that satisfies for days. Pigs being fed, or not, depending on whether they're in touch with their true soul desires.Juno stations direct. Chiron returns to Aries. Ceres and Saturn square at the echo of her discovery chart. The First Quarter Moon at the flag-bearer degree, the candle undisturbed by wind, the climbing of the pyramid with solid ground underfoot.And four cards that say: something is ending. The enthusiasm is coming back. Your inner radiance is there, even if you can't feel it yet. And the witch hurls herself toward her own endings, because she knows her next beginnings are already inside the fire.See you at the retrograde. Join me in the Heroine's Journey. You will not regret it. https://www.louiseedington.com/VenusRetrograde2026— LouiseAtlanta Astrology Association (MAAS) — September 17th: I'm presenting on Ceres and my book. First-time attendees can come free. Email me at louise@louiseedington.com if you'd like to attend.OPA Live — September 20th: A panel of three astrologers on the Venus retrograde. A wonderful preview if you're deciding whether to join the class.London School of Astrology Chiron Weekend — October 17th–18th: On Zoom, $99 (mostly to charity), recommended by Melanie Reinhart and Brian Clarke. I'll be covering Chariklo as part of my Chiron presentation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cosmicowlastrology.substack.com/subscribe

Does it feel like life has been coming at you from every direction lately? Just when you handle one thing, something else surfaces. Old patterns are coming back up, relationships are shifting, emotions feel heightened, and even people who are doing the work are asking, “Why does everything feel so intense right now?”In this episode, we talk about how to stay grounded when life feels compressed and what you can actually do when everything seems to be happening at once.⏰Timestamps:00:00 Welcome & Special Guest (Milo)02:00 Why everything feels so intense right now03:00 Acceleration and why lessons can surface faster04:00 When life feels like one tidal wave after another05:00 Why the “old normal” may no longer work06:00 Accelerated growth and compressed lessons07:00 Is the world darker, or is our own stuff surfacing?08:00 Cleansing, healing and allowing yourself to receive support09:00 Schumann resonance, grounding and staying curious10:00 Finding the root cause beneath what keeps happening11:00 One pattern can show up as five different problems12:00 Using spiritual practices to regulate, not escape13:00 Healing and becoming clearer, steadier and more discerning14:00 Closing thoughts

PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous. ACT ONE Overton High is chaos in a controlled environment. The mascot smokes. The journalist thinks she’s breaking Watergate. The nicest bully in school politely refuses lunch money. And then there’s PV. Brilliant. Intense. Completely uncompromising. She doesn’t want to start a band. She wants to build something real. Franny Blevins just wants to be part of it. What begins as an awkward coffee shop encounter quickly turns into a partnership built on music, rules, and one very firm boundary: No romance. Ever. Which becomes a problem almost immediately. As Franny gets pulled deeper into PV’s world, her music, her logic, her investigations, and her completely upside-down way of seeing everything, the stakes escalate in the most unexpected ways. A hate note that isn’t hate. An audition that turns into an interrogation. A band that starts to feel like something much bigger… and much messier. Act One is the beginning of the band, the beginning of the obsession, and the moment everything starts to spiral just slightly out of control.

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Nicole Parker, contributor for Fox News & former FBI agent, joined us on the Guy Benson Show today to discuss her 9/11 experience. Parker, who used to work for Merrill Lynch, worked in the World Financial Center that morning—and witnessed the first plane hit the north tower. She went into detail with Benson about the chaos and desperation that she saw, her escape from the city, a spiritual moment she experienced, and the vow that led her to join the FBI. Listen to the full interview with Parker and Benson below! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PSR Podcast is a listener supported outreach of Be Broken Ministries. Partner with us through giving at BeBroken.org/donate. Thank you for your support!----------In this episode, Stephen Cervantes and I dig into why we react so quickly with anger during conflict. We explore how fear often hides beneath our anger — fear of being seen as weak, invisible, or unworthy. Stephen shares practical tools for building self-awareness, like pausing to ask yourself, "What am I really afraid of?" or explore the reasons that certain emotions arise when particular triggers are present.We also talk about finding peace in God's unconditional love, so we don't need others' approval to feel worthy. This is a truly eye-opening conversation about emotional growth and healthier relationships! To get more thoughts and insights from Stephen, visit DoctorMarriage.org. Topics Covered in this Episode:Emotional growth in relationshipsHandling conflict and angerThe role of fear in emotional responsesSelf-awareness and its importance in managing emotionsUnderstanding personal triggers and emotional patternsThe impact of past experiences on current reactionsThe significance of patience and dialogue in emotional transformationThe relationship between anger and care for othersThe value of seeking support from counselors or spiritual guidesEncouragement to explore feelings and foster curiosity about emotional responsesMore Resources: Do You Fight (And Argue)? (blog post from DoctorMarriage.org)Untangling Emotions* by Groves and SmithDealing with Conflict Podcast BundleRelated Podcasts:How to Turn Emotional Triggers Into Opportunities for GrowthThe Harms of Negative TalkingAssumptions vs. Communication: The Battle for Relational Harmony*This is an affiliate link. Be Broken may earn referral fees on purchases through this link.----------Please rate and review our podcast: Apple and SpotifyFollow us on our Vimeo Channel.

Your host recounts his INTENSE work schedule to kick off today's episode. It's a sleepy August afternoon for ol' Michael as he unspools his thoughts on the impending demise of one Clyde Griffiths whose very soul hangs in the balance. His new friend, the good Reverend Duncan McMillan, is beseeching him to confess his sins. Can young Clyde bring himself to admit a full accounting of his many wrongdoings before he meets his maker?Support Obscure!Read Michael's substackFollow Michael on TwitterFollow Michael on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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We've all watched a kid "check out" and assumed they weren't trying — or weren't smart enough. This week, Teresa and Mark Lubovich blow that up. They run a learning center built on one radical tagline: connection before content. Their students don't get better at math because they get smarter; they get better because they finally feel safe enough to think. Glenn connects it straight to the Connection Codes protocol — intense emotion shuts down cognition, unprocessed emotion hinders it, and then gets honest about his own story of being called "dumb" as a kid and carrying that fear into his sixties. If you're a parent, grandparent, teacher, or just someone who's ever felt like you were "doing it wrong," this one names something you've felt your whole life.In this episode:•Why "connection before content" changes everything about how kids (and adults) learn•The "ladder" of learning: core, processing, and executive function (and why we start at the bottom)•Primitive reflexes and the Moro (fight-or-flight) response — the kids who look fine but are holding their breath inside•How curiosity and identity get lost between age two and age ten — and what brings them back•Glenn's own story: fear of failure, fear of judgment, and the exhaustion of learning something new.About Teresa & Mark Lubovich: Teresa and Mark run a learning center that partners with students and families across the country and internationally, using assessments and directed programs to build the foundational skills: regulation, processing, executive function — that traditional tutoring can't reach. Longtime friends of Connection Codes, they've woven the Core Emotion Wheel into how they work with every student and family. Their guiding belief: program or not, kids need connection, regulation, and safety first.Resources mentioned:Teresa & Mark's website → https://brightheartlearning.com/Teresa & Mark's email: info@brightheartlearning.comTheir "ladder of learning" chart → https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M6DJqiTZArA6WqJtYkYDCPXcpPXe07S9/view?usp=sharingThe Core Emotion Wheel (free download) → https://connectioncodes.co/cew

Watch the full coverage of the live stream on The Emily D. Baker YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/E9560lA271A  This Case Brief highlights a legal charging conference where the judge and attorneys debate and establish over 50 jury instructions. The proceedings focus on crucial, fact-based instructions including the voluntariness of the defendant's statement, corpus delicti and its relation to confession corroboration, and the law of self-defense. While the defense successfully fights for a voluntariness instruction, the corpus delicti debate culminates in a modified instruction clarifying that a defendant's confession—if believed—does not require further corroboration as long as independent evidence proves the victim's death was caused by a criminal act. Ultimately, the judge plans to pre-read these instructions to the jury before closing arguments begin on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just as soon as the news emerged that Meghan Markle had been offered a role in an upcoming season of Guy Ritchie’s “The Gentlemen," a new headline now that the offer has been taken back over online outrage. Longtime journalist and magazine editor Tina Brown says she’s confirmed the backlash was so intense in the UK, that the production pulled their offer to the Duchess. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.