ALL EPISODES

If you cannot stand to be apart from them, you're not in love.  You are infatuated or maybe just dependent. The difference between actually being in love or not is the difference between feeling pain when you aren't around them and having no place that you'd rather be. Romantic relationships have a way of being a kind of band aid for a lot of our insecurities. They make us feel less alone. They can bring some excitement to our lives. They bring pleasure to our lives. They

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on...

Have you ever felt like other people got a head start in life, like they were born taller, richer, smarter, more connected? Well, maybe they were, but even with all of those advantages, they're still not guaranteed to win, and neither are you unless you stop playing their game. So, you can play your own game. So, someone was telling me a story recently about this guy that was born with a disease that made his spine form abnormally, and the effect was he didn't grow very tall,

I think as much as the typical man wants to project an image of rugged independence and toughness, what he really wants out of a relationship with a woman is to be mothered. There are two distinct differences between men and women, as I see it, and one obviously is biology, but the other I would say is nature. The differences between our nature's, is that generally speaking, men are tuned into things and women are tuned into people. You won't find nearly as many women as m

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on...

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on...

It is easier to see bad things than it is to see good things. Catastrophe and destruction suck up our attention like a vacuum. It isn't uncommon for the first thing we notice about someone else to be something we don't like. On the other hand, appreciating things that are beautiful and good. Takes a little focus. Unless of course you happen to be a man and you're looking at a woman, but generally speaking, beautiful things like flowers,

Humanity likes to fool itself into thinking it knows the world it lives in, but we don't. We are surrounded by darkness so thick that even the light we shine doesn't go very far. But there's a kind of comfort that we can take from living in the darkness because that same darkness gives us permission to stop thinking so hard about what is.

If we had a metaphorical cup that needed to be filled up to feel contentment, what would we have to fill it with? I know what we try to fill it with. I know we try to fill it with all kinds of things, but sometimes I think the real problem isn't that we don't have things to put in the cup, but rather that the cup has a hole in it.

Everybody starts out in life as a bully. I'm not sure if you've noticed, but children are savages. I find it amusing sometimes to watch my kids pick on each other. They are masters of poking at each other's insecurities. The funniest to watch is my three-year-old, who likes to tease my six-year-old. She is three, and she already knows how to get her brother to hyperventilate.

The reason words matter is because when we cannot accurately name or describe a thing, we are powerless to take action. How could we? Without a name for that which we are experiencing or seeing, we do not even know the thing that needs to be acted upon. When we are afraid, if we can learn the source of this fear and put a name to it, that fear often goes away, or at the very least, it's weakened.

Our pride is tied up in the picture we create of ourselves. It's what we see when we look into the mirror of the mind. But in truth, the whole thing is made up. We are not the person in our imagination. If we could eliminate this perception of ourselves, we would be free of pride. And pride is effectively the fence we build up around us.

When I'm watching a movie and something bad happens to a dog or a baby or a little girl or boy, or even a grown woman. I feel pretty sad for them. But you know who, I don't feel bad for almost ever. Men, typically. I'm just waiting for them to suck it up and move on to trying to fix the problem. Watch.

I love the old Shaker song, Simple Gifts. I don't entirely know why the idea of being simple resonates so much, but I thought it might be an idea worth exploring. Maybe it's a gift to be simple. Because if you can be satisfied while living simply, then you've found contentment. Speaking as a person that feels they have a complicated life, the very idea sounds like relief from the hustle and bustle of the day.

What in life deserves our time and attention, and what things don't? I hope that as we consider that question, along with other topics...

I don't like the word vulnerability. To me, it strikes a tone of weakness. I think I understand what people are getting at when they say that we need to be vulnerable. The problem with vulnerability is that the word actually means that you are susceptible in some way to an attack from someone or something.

Sometimes things happen to us that are so terrible, that in a moment, everything in our world changes. There may be well-wishers and concerned friends and family, but as time moves forward, things will slip back into their normal pattern while you are left standing still. When you lose someone in your life that you loved.

.When I was younger, I used to watch a popular Japanese anime movie called "Spirited Away." I'm not generally a fan of that genre, but this particular film is a standout for me. It's steeped in Japanese cultural references from the past and has themes of childhood, modernization, gluttony, and more. The artwork alone is really quite striking.

My kids like to tell me what they can't do a lot. And sometimes it's trying a new food or doing some little thing that they're afraid of. As a parent, it can get frustrating when you know how easy it would be for them if they'd just do it. Usually when my kids are with me, I'll let them have a small dessert, like a little popsicle or something, if I can tell that they've made an effort to eat their food.

As I've gotten a little older, I've begun to notice all the small signs of aging beginning to show. I see the faint wrinkles starting to form and the rough skin that has seen way too much sun. When I began to notice these imperfections, I think it bothered me at first because I wasn't ready to accept that I was becoming middle aged.