#769 Darkest Listener Confessions 2

Our second installment of the darkest surveys filled out anonymously by listeners.  


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#768 The Difficulties (And Gifts) Of Bipolar - Rick Cleveland

Rick Cleveland is a playwright and television writer (The West Wing, Six Feet Under) who shares the difficulties--and the gifts--of living with Bipola...

#767 Self-Harm - Matthew Broussard

Matthew Broussard is a comedian (Hyperbolic) who shares his struggles with mental health and opens up, for the first time, about his experience with s...

#766 Navigating Sex After An Assault - Katie Simon

Katie Simon is a journalist and sexual assault survivor. They talk about the impact that sexual assault can have on your sex life and share resources...

#765 Ali Siddiq - Grief, Incarceration & Friendship

Ali Siddiq is a comedian and writer who shares his stories of abuse, incarceration, grief, and the importance of friendship. Find all of his powerful...

#764 Social Anxiety & Perfectionism - Dr. Ellen Hendriksen Returns

Dr. Ellen Hendriksen is a clinical psychologist at Boston University who specializes in perfectionism and anxiety, with a particular focus on social a...

#763 Listener Secrets With Jen Westcott

Fellow survivor, recovering addict and therapist Jen Westcott joins Paul again to read some Shame And Secrets Surveys filled out anonymously by listen...

#762 - Raised Mormon With An Unstable Mother - Tina Kaye

Tina Kaye, a friend from Paul’s support group, shares her story of growing up with an unstable mother, being raised Mormon, and all of the rage and re...

#761 Validation & Belonging - Dr. Caroline Fleck

Dr. Caroline Fleck is a cognitive behavioral psychologist, an author, and an Adjunct Clinical Instructor at Stanford. She joins Paul to discuss valida...

#760 Escaping The Mormon Church

Sabrina Capper grew up in the Mormon Church. She shares her story of manipulation, generational abuse, and how she finally escaped. Look for her new b...

#759 Why No Episode This Week?

I'll tell you why. Oh, and would love it if you would take an anonymous audience survey for potential advertisers. We did some a while back but they n...

#758 First Responders - Joe Smarro

Joe Smarro is a Marine Corps combat veteran who trains first responders on how to properly manage and de-escalate mental health crises. He talks about...

#757 Chronic Pain - Vanessa Blackstone

Vanessa Blackstone is a therapist specializing in chronic pain and the Executive Director of the Pain Psychology Center. She outlines the success she’...

#756 Clutter, ADHD, OCD - Kayla Hurt

Kayla Hurt is a professional organizer who aims to work with deep empathy and a soft approach. She opens up about her journey to decluttering, includi...

#755 When The Trauma Dam Breaks - Stevie G

Listener (and MIHH Zoom hangout member) Stevie G opens up about her repressed childhood trauma memories and needing outpatient psychiatric care, learn...

#754 Anorexia and OCD - Andrea Jones-Rooy

Andrea Jones-Rooy is a data scientist, speaker, and stand-up comedian. They join Paul to share their struggles with anorexia and OCD, and how they hav...

#753 Myths About The Disabled Parent - Jessica Slice

Author and speaker Jessica Slice joins the pod to share her parenting story as a disabled mother. She discusses misconceptions about disability and pa...

#752 Pure O - Dillon Tucker

Dillon Tucker is an actor and filmmaker who shares the challenges and advantages of his various iterations of OCD and shares his process for the movie...

#751 Best Of: Counseling Predators - Dr David Hirohama

This “Best Of” episode originally aired in 2013 and was voted a listener favorite. David Hiroshima is a 3rd generation Japanese-American psychologist....

#750 Surviving A Shooting - Allen Strickland Williams

Allen Strickland Williams is a standup comedian who shares his struggles with the stress of perfectionism and ADHD tendencies. He also opens up about...

#749 Murder, Grief & Activism - Abby Reyes

Abby Reyes is an author, lawyer, and climate justice leader. She shares her story of activism, the tragic loss of her partner, and the mindfulness tec...

#748 Fundamental Emotional Intelligence - Rachel Kaplan

Rachel Kaplan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who focuses deeply on moving through difficult feelings in order to heal–what she cal...

#747 Bo V - Non Binary & Recovering People Pleaser

Bo V is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who attends Paul’s support group. They talk about the work they’re doing on self-judgment and shame, fi...

#746 Disillusionment - Rich Forer

Rich Forer is a Jewish-American author and activist. He discusses his perspective of growing up Jewish, being a member of AIPAC, and how his perspecti...

#745 Dr Jessica Zucker - The Hard To Talk About

Dr. Jessica Zucker returns to the podcast for her 4th visit, focusing on the importance of talking about hard things: Cancer, miscarriages, perimenopa...

#744 Loss - Financial & Familial - Mark M

Mark M is Paul’s friend from a support group. He visits the podcast to share his story of addiction, growing up entrenched in deception, and how he ev...

#743 Sex Addiction Therapy

#742 Jennifer Westcott Part 2

Jennifer Westcott is a therapist who has shared her story of sexual abuse at the hands of her mother. She returns for her second visit on the pod and...

#741 Sexually Abusive Mothers - Jennifer Westcott

Jennifer Westcott is a therapist who, as an adult, began to recall sexual abuse by her mother. She and Paul both dig deep to talk about maternal sexua...

#740 Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Dr. Blaise Aguirre

Dr. Blaise Aguirre is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) with a pa...

#739 Male Body Images Issues - Ryan Sheldon

Ryan Sheldon (@RealRyanSheldon) is a speaker, a model, an eating disorder advocate, and the author of F*ckboys Are Boring: A Gay Man’s Guide to Dating...

#738 Best Of: Jeanie Bergen - Parentless at 3

This Best Of episode was originally recorded and aired in 2015. Jeanie, a writer, talks about being parentless at 3 and the complex relationship with...

#737 Rebuilding A Life From Scratch - Matt D

Matt D. is a good friend of Paul's who shares his story of starting over after a divorce, a career change, and getting sober—while owning a weed store...

#736 Transgenerational Trauma - Jen Soriano

Jen Soriano is a Filipinx author, musician, and first-generation American. She shares important context about Filipino history and how transgeneration...

#735 Career Transition, Passive Aggression & Inner Critics - Phil Stark

Phil Stark is a former screenwriter (Dude, Where’s My Car) turned marriage and family therapist. He shares why he made this huge career pivot plus he...

#734 School Pressure, Being Gay & Boundaries: Jon-Luc

Paul’s support group friend, Jon Luc, opens up about the ways that school took an incredible mental toll on his life and how being gay in this world h...

#733 The Minimalists

Joshua Fields and T.K. Coleman,(@TheMinimalists) better known as two parts of the popular trio, The Minimalists, join Paul to talk about how all the c...

#732 Paul's Cousin & Their Family Tree - Paul Barnard

We visit the family tree today with Paul Gilmartin’s cousin, Paul Barnard. He shares stories of his past, from losing his baby sister to moving in wit...

#731 Living Well With Bipolar - Dr David Miklowitz

David Miklowitz is a Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA. Dr. Miklowitz’s research focuses on bipolar d...

#730 - Rethinking Our Relationship To Money - Elizabeth Husserl

Elizabeth Husserl (@ElizabethHusserl) is a financial advisor and the author of the new book The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with...