When Our Models of the World Are Outdated And Need Updating
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Wired for Worry: Why Our Brains Gravitate to Stress and What to Do About It
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Your Mind Is Lying About You!
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From Cave Fires to Instagram Likes: The Ancient Roots of Envy and Jealousy
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Financial Insecurity
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No Future: Don't be told what you want, Don't be told what you need.
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STOP GOING TO THE HARDWARE STORE ... for orange juice.
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Safe Enough to Love: A Journey from Insecure to Secure Attachment
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Gut Reactions—Like Disgust—What They Teach Us
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How Imagination and Feelings Shape Our Behaviors and Also How We Learn
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The Validation Trap: Moving On From the Need for Acknowledgment
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It's a Mad, Mad World: Mental Health in Neoliberal Capitalism
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No One Is Watching — The Damaging Illusion of an Unseen Audience
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The Dharma of the Absurd: The Nature of Awakening in an Indifferent Universe
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Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why the Brain Isn’t Built for Truth And Nothing Is As It Seems
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Reparenting Your Mind: Parts Work and Buddhist Practice
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The Roots of Addiction: Contemporary Psychological and Buddhist Perspectives
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When I, Then I'll, or the subtle ways avoidance disguises itself—talk only, meditation didn't record
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The Body, Healing and Love (in person talk in NYC)
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What's Beneath the Flames: Understanding Anger, Uncovering the Vulnerable Emotions It Conceals and the Path to Healing
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EGO DEATH: The State Where We Lose Our Sense of Having a Separate Identity.
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From Chaos to Calm—Ways to Help Others Who Are Emotionally Distressed
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Catastrophizing: Ruminating on the Worst Possible Outcome, No Matter How Unlikely
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Beyond the Hamster Wheel: Stillness in the Time of Acceleration
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On the Purpose and Interpretation of Dreams, What We Can Learn from Them, and Employ in Our Meditation
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NEW YEAR'S DAY TALK 2025: Breaking Free From the Despair of Capitalist Realism
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The Gift of Being Known: Nurturing Our Well-Being Through Authentic Connection
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Addressing and Lessening the Stressing
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Seeing the Suffering Behind the Blowhard's Mask: The Psychology of and Buddhist Approach to Narcissism
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When the Shit Hits the Fan (or Letting Go of What Never Was): The Path of Disappointment and Resilience
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A MUTE BUTTON FOR THE MIND: Quieting Inner Chatter, Self Talk, Rumination
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Breaking Free From Survival Mode: Buddhist Insights into Persistent Childhood Defense Mechanisms
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EMPATHY: When It's Helpful and When It's Not
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Internalizing Shame: The Psychological Tolls of Late Stage Capitalism and How to Protect Our Sense of Self
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Nervous: A Brief Overview of the Autonomic Nervous System and Ways to Regulate Our Stress
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The Buddha: A Revolutionary Who Fought Against the Class System
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In Person at GSHP: Connection, Community and Well-Being (not great audio quality)
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Is Closure Possible?
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Make It Fun For a Change: Imagination, Creativity and Play in Meditation and Spiritual Practice
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Doomscrolling: The persistent draw toward negative news, why its so alluring and how to disconnect
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COULDA • WOULDA • SHOULDA • The Fascinating Implications of Counterfactual Thought
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Cultivating a Secure Base in Adult Life: How We Can Repair Early Attachment Disturbancess To Create a Positive Sense of Self
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Complaining versus Reframing: How to Process Bad Interactions Without Rumination or Lingering Resentments
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RELAX & UNWIND: Addressing the Causes and Conditions That Support Well-Being
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The Ick! An abrupt and unanticipated feeling of disgust toward someone we previously found enjoyable or attractive
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The Unconscious Prcocesses That Choose Our Attachments (And How to Change Them For the Better)
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Is There Really a True Self? Sub-Personalities, Impression Management And the Slippery Sense of Authenticity!
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The Blame and Shame Spiral: An Alternative to Fault Finding and Self-Pity After Relationship Ruptures
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Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: How Emotional Memories Create Obsessive Mental States
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Retail Therapy: The Destructive Cycle of Relying on Shopping to Auto-Regulate Our Emotions
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Victim Signaling, Competitive Victimization and the Role of Forgiveness
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If This Were a Pill Everyone Would Be Taking It
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Understanding and Addressing Toxic Shame, Including Practices That Build Our Self-Esteem
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DENIAL (Don't Be In It). Understanding And Addressing Denial From Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives
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The Path of Supporting Others By Listening Without Giving Advice
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Understanding And Appreciating Our Most Challenging Attributes
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Instant Karma, Long Term Karma: Why It Really Matters to Your Well-Being
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Top Down and Bottom Up Processing: How Our Minds Create Our Sense of Self and the World and How to Re-Start the Process
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The addictive Allure of Unreliable Relationships and Trauma Bonding
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Burnout Culture: How the ‘Always On’ Digital Landscape of Connectivity and Convenience Inevitably Leads to States of Exhaustion; the Role of Meditation and Contemplation in Restoring Balance to Life
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New Years Intention Setting Talk, Meditation and Ceremony for 2024
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Balancing Comfort and Ease with Our Accountability to Others and the World
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Accepting Versus Trying to Change Others in Core Relationships
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The Hidden Allures of Suffering and the Ways Out of the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Despair
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Being Seen In the Eye of the Other: On The Importance of Feeling Understood
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The Fear of Death: What exacerbates It? Practices to Alleviate the Dread & Anxiety.
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Living with the Unknown, or Ways to Respond WHen Life Ambushes Us With the Unexpected
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The Addictions of Everyday Life: Common activities can produce bursts of dopamine in the brain that bring short term pleasures and longer term suffering
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Distress Tolerance Tools part 2: Reframing Life in Terms of Our Core Values
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Distress Tolerance Tools part 1: Effective Engagement versus Avoidance Coping
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Dharma Punx NYC Live in Williamsburg: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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understanding and attaining transcedent non-dual states of mind via early buddhist meditation strategies
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Complicated Grief talk & meditation. Please note: the meditation might be painful for those with cPTSD or attachment traumas, so don’t practice if you feel vulnerable.
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Memory Reconsolidation: Rewriting the Unconscious Emotional Beliefs That Activate Fast Automatic Bevahiors
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Basics of Neurotransmitters And Their Role in Mood Disorders and Natural Ways to Address Imbalances
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The Universe as a Simulation: The brain lacks direct access to the outside world, so it must guess what’s out there. How can we change the predictive models we live in?
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Anger Mgmt: How to Process and Safely Metabolize Frustration, Resentment and Rage
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FAWNING: The fourth “F” of threat reactions: Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn; Accommodating, Appeasing and Deferring to Those Who Have Harmed Us
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When Work Isn’t Worth It
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Setting Boundaries to Maintain Relationships: An Overview and Strategies
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How Right Effort in Buddhism Overlaps with Metacognition and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; How Changing the Way We Frame Experience Changes How We Feel and Addresses Our Moods
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Conflict Avoidance: Addressing maladaptive tendencies, moving forward to face our fears and disclose needs authentically
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Addressing Unresolved Buried Memories and Feelings from the Forgotten Past
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You’re not who you think you are, nor is anyone else: The biases that distort our sense of self and others
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Practicing Contentment: Positive Psychology and Tools for Peace of Mind
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Emotion Contagion: What It Is & How to Limit the Influence of Other People’s Anger, Anxiety & Gloom
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Addiction and Recovery: An Overview of Insights and Tools for Sobriety
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Managing Stress: A Set of Tools to Reset Your Alarm System
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The Mind & The Body: How physiological changes in both body and brain states guide our choices and behaviors
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Cultivating Feelings of Safety in Our Core Relationships
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Denial and Acceptance: How the Mind Can Hold Two Contradictory Beliefs and Perceptions at the Same Time
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Altered States: How We Create What We Experience, Spiritual Endeavors, Meditation, Plant Medicine
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Mind Over Matter: Rituals and Placebos, Some of the Science Behind the Magic
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Confidence with Humility
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The Revolution Within: Some of the Ways Capitalism Colonizes the Mind And the Tools For Liberation
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Sleep, Dreaming and Insomnia: A Concise Overview
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The Simulation of Reality We Live In And The Aha! Moment of the Experiential Shift
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Radical Buddhist Intentions for the New Year (2023)
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