Honestly, it's kind of appropriate this episode is coming two weeks into January. I'm not too great with the whole "resolution" thing exclusively on January 1st.

We can place a lot of pressure on starting over in the New Year. But what actually creates sustainable change in our lives? Sure, temporal landmarks help. But new beginnings are psychologically complex.

A new beginnings doesn't mean rejecting your past self. It's about integrating it.

Chapters

00:00 The Psychology of New Beginnings

03:41 Understanding Narrative Identity

08:54 Common Pitfalls of New Beginnings

12:40 Sustainable Change and Agency

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Yoga is a state of being. People are drawn to the practice for deeply personal reasons, often carrying grief, trauma, or a sense that something in their life is no longer working.

At its core, yoga is a practice of confrontation: with suffering, with illusion, and with the identities we cling to in order to feel safe. In everything I just said, I’m talking about yoga. Western yoga, on the other hand, is it’s own beast. Western yoga culture has developed into something else entirely.

In this episode of Hint of Trauma, I’m joined by Keith Partington and Sydney Richter, founders of Weaponize Yoga, to examine how a practice oriented toward self-knowledge became embedded in a commercial system that often reinforces avoidance rather than transformation.

We discuss identity, suffering, and the importance of community in yoga, while also looking at Keith and Sydney's vision for a new approach to yoga that emphasizes personal transformation and liberation from societal constructs.

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No, you're not just crazy.

We're told that the right relationship makes us feel calm and at complete peace. Well, psychoanalytic frameworks have some hot takes on that.

Here, we'll explore the complexities of love through a psychoanalytic lens, discussing how love can destabilize our sense of self and the implications of visibility and recognition in intimate relationships. Drawing on theories from Freud, Lacan, and others, we'll the relational nature of identity and the ethical dimensions of love.

Maybe love is not a solution to our vulnerabilities but a way to navigate them together.

Chapters

00:00 The Nature of Love and Insanity

03:16 Psychoanalysis and the Formation of Self

07:21 Visibility and Recognition in Love

11:47 The Ethics of Love and Visibility

16:01 Transitional Spaces in Love

19:10 Living with Vulnerability in Love

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