Discomfortable
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Discomfortable
A Humorous Podcast About Shame
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100 episodis
Getting Discomfortable with Jen Lumanlan
In this episode, I’m joined by researcher, parenting coach, and author Jen Lumanlan to discuss her new book, Parenting Beyond Power: How to Use Connec...
Getting Discomfortable with Impermanence
One of the ways that I define toxic shame, is that it is an interpretation of the feeling of shame (shame affect) as something global, permanent, and...
Getting Discomfortable with Rupture
Lately, I’ve noticed a particularly insidious message hidden in my shame. Not only do I tend to go into shame when I make a mistake (as I’m sure most...
Getting Discomfortable with Viral Memes
In episode 101, I put forth a provocative analogy for toxic shame that I think captures the slippery and insidious way that it spreads from one genera...
Getting Discomfortable with Shame and Wisdom
After a long hiatus, the podcast is back with episode 100! In this special episode, I share a conversation I had a few months ago with my friend Virab...
Getting Discomfortable with Authenticity
Episode 99 is a weird and special exploration of authenticity that upended my entire notion of what this podcast is and what I want it to be!
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Getting Discomfortable with Circling
In Episode 98, I describe one of my favourite practices, Circling. Circling is an interpersonal relational modality that I’ve been playing with and tr...
Getting Discomfortable with Shame Affect
In Episode 97, I tackle some common questions that people confront when they begin exploring their shame: what does shame actually feel like? And how...
Getting Discomfortable with Paloma Medina
In Episode 96, I interview TEDx speaker, educator, coach, and entrepreneur Paloma Medina. I first met Paloma when I took her masterclass The Neuroscie...
Getting Discomfortable with Hopelessness
Hopelessness is one of those tricky emotions, like shame, where the unpleasantness of feeling it is amplified by the fact that I don’t want anyone to ...
Getting Discomfortable with Sally Adnams Jones
In Episode 94, I interview author, educator, counsellor, and artist Sally Adnams Jones. Sally did her PhD in Arts Education with a focus on transforma...
Getting Discomfortable with Judgement
In Episode 93, I come clean about the fact that I’m a pretty judgemental person. Of course, we all naturally make judgements all the time, that’s part...
Getting Discomfortable with Susan Campbell
In Episode 92, I interview clinical psychologist and best-selling author Susan Campbell. I first heard about Susan because of her book Getting Real, w...
Getting Discomfortable with Nathan Vanderpool
In Episode 91, I interview Nathan Vanderpool. Nathan has a background in psychology, cultural and religious studies, and he did his PhD in sociology....
Getting Discomfortable with Peter Limberg
In Episode 90, I interview Peter Limberg, the steward of The Stoa. Almost a year ago now, on March 21st, 2020, as the pandemic arrived in North Americ...
Getting Discomfortable with Michaële Antoine
In Episode 89, I interview Michaële Antoine, creator and founder of Curios Consulting, a learning studio that equips teams and communities to have bet...
Getting Discomfortable with Arran Rogerson
In Episode 88, I interview Arran Rogerson, a podcaster, facilitator, and coach whose work has quickly become synonymous with the concept of the shadow...
Getting Discomfortable with Noah Malcolm
In Episode 87, I interview Toronto-based singer-songwriter Noah Malcolm about his decade-long journey from literally being silenced by shame to releas...
Getting Discomfortable with Sarah Peyton
In Episode 86, I interview author, speaker, and neuroscience educator Sarah Peyton about the brain science of shame and what she calls “alarmed alonen...
Getting Discomfortable with Partisanship
In Episode 85, I look at the recent election in the United States and the political partisanship that seems to be tearing the country in two. The dict...
Getting Discomfortable with Savouring
This week I talk about an ongoing experiment I’ve been engaged in during the pandemic in an effort to enjoy myself in spite of being alone virtually a...
Getting Discomfortable with Cancel Culture
The podcast is back after a little hiatus (more on that in the next episode), to tackle an issue that has been coming up in the news a lot lately and...
Getting Discomfortable with Hierarchy
Shame is an unpleasant sensation in our body triggered by moments of social rejection or isolation that naturally pressures us to conclude that someth...
Getting Discomfortable with Racism
This episode is difficult to listen to and was even more difficult to record.
My touchpoint for racism is homophobia. One of the fascinating asp...
Getting Discomfortable with Trauma
Trauma is something we have all experienced to some degree or another, and it’s something that we are all probably going through right now during this...
Getting Discomfortable with Productivity
Though logically I am completely on board with the growing sentiment that needing to be busy all the time and measuring my worth against my productivi...
Getting Discomfortable with Isolation
When the self-isolation measures of the pandemic first began, digital technology, and especially video conferencing, felt like a lifesaver. There was...
Getting Discomfortable with Death
We’re all thinking and talking and speculating and worrying about the COVID-19 pandemic. But really, deep down (or not so deep down), I think one of t...
Getting Discomfortable with Uncertainty
In these uncertain times, I find myself going back to a micro-ideology I came up with a few years ago, basically reminding myself, “Everything works o...
Getting Discomfortable with PANIC
What is the correct way to feel about waking up one day inside a surreal dystopian science fiction film? There’s no right answer, of course. But if yo...
Getting Discomfortable with Narcissism
Contrary to popular belief, narcissism isn’t really just about self-obsession. Nor is narcissism synonymous with sociopathy. Narcissism is a specific...
Getting Discomfortable with Sex Addiction
As promised in the last episode, this week I look at the way many of us conflate sex and attraction with connection and belonging. I think this explai...
Getting Discomfortable with Proto-Friends
Inspired by another recent Twitter conversation, this episode looks at the concept of a “proto-friend”, someone you feel certain you would really conn...
Getting Discomfortable with Crying
If you’ve been listening to the podcast regularly, you’ll probably know that learning to cry has been one of my goals over the last year. I had some l...
Getting Discomfortable with Boundaries
When I first encountered the term “boundaries” a few years ago, I had no idea what it meant. Most of the references to “boundaries” in the self-help b...
Getting Discomfortable with Liv Larsson
Last summer, I attended a 9-day International Intensive Training in Nonviolent Communication on an island off of Stockholm, and to my lucky surprise,...
Getting Discomfortable with the Interpersonal Bridge
While studying shame over the last few years, I kept coming across clinical psychologist and shame pioneer Gershen Kaufman’s definition of shame, “The...
Getting Discomfortable with Call-Outs
A few months ago I attended a symposium called The Problem of Shame put on by the Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas. With speakers like Brené Brown a...
Getting Discomfortable with Non-Monogamy
I met Emma (not her real name) at World Domination Summit this year and as usual, I brought up the topic of shame and it led into a discussion...
Getting Discomfortable with Microaggressions
This episode looks at the concept of Microaggression and how this phenomenon has shown up in my life in both big and small ways. Given that most micro...