HeyJaredHumaning with Rick Watson
Welcome to Humaning - a collection of conversations about the imperfect art of being human. Each episode is a real conversation about the human stuff we don’t always talk about... sneaky shame, stuckness, repeating patterns and the lessons we learn along the way.
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#50: Permission to not have it figured out with Kate Johnson (opens the original)
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Sometimes in life, we can get a bit paralysed from making a decision out of the fear of getting it wrong. In this episode, I chat with Kate Johnson and what her version of this used to look like and what she did about it. We also chatted about her old perfectionist and fixer parts like to jump in on the act with the best of intentions. Kate has a number of really practical examples of how she has found new ways to hang with these old parts. What we talked about in this episode: The four types of
#49: Learning who I am all over again with Mark Achermann (opens the original)
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Mark lost his business and his wife in the same week and life as he knew it turned upside-down. What followed was three months alone, hiking through New Zealand with no plan and a hell of a lot of space to feel. This episode isn't really about what happened to Mark, it's about what's happened since. We talk about self-sabotage he still can't fully explain, the mask he puts on to be liked and the strange, uncomfortable in-between of not being who he used to be but not quite knowing who he's becom
#48 Getting closer to yourself and not taking it so seriously (opens the original)
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Gracie Brown - Gestalt therapist, musician and artist known as Kalakari - joins me for her first ever podcast. We talk about what it means to get closer to yourself: the parts you perform, the parts you protect and what starts to shift when you stop treating all of it like something to fix. We get into calling yourself pathetic and what's actually underneath that - the strange kind of safety in staying small and what it costs to keep proving your own worst story about yourself right. We talk abo
#47: A practical way to understand yourself instead of fixing yourself (opens the original)
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If you've ever caught yourself wondering why you keep repeating the same patterns, why you shut down emotionally when things get hard or why you keep self-sabotaging even when you know better, this episode is for you. Rick explores the difference between fixing or shaming yourself and actually understanding yourself and why that distinction changes everything about how we relate to our own repeating patterns. Using his own tendency to withdraw and go quiet under pressure as a live example, he wa
#46: Grief, love, and what I've learned about emotional honesty (a six month update) (opens the original)
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It's been months since I recorded an episode. Jo's dad got sick, then really sick, then he passed. Somewhere in the middle of all that, I lost the desire to sit down and talk into a mic. This episode is me picking it back up, unscripted, on a day it finally felt good to do it. I talk about what it looked like to let ourselves feel everything during that time instead of managing it - the grief, but also what showed up on the other side of it: gratitude, love and eventually a proposal. I get into
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