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Project I Am is a podcast dedicated to personal transformation, self-discovery, and mental well-being. In this series, we explore the power of choosing yourself, revisiting your past with fresh perspectives, and crafting a more empowered narrative for your future.
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Staying on My Own Side: A 20-Minute Meditation on Not Abandoning Yourself (opens the original)
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This episode is a little different. No teaching, no notes to take. Just twenty minutes of guided practice, for you. Most of us learned early how to leave ourselves. How to get smaller, quieter, more acceptable. That wasn't weakness. You were not broken, you were adapting. But what was learned for survival can be unlearned in safety, and this practice is where we begin. Through slow, spacious affirmations, you'll practice staying with yourself in three places where self-abandonment likes to hide:
Two Things Can Be True - A Conversation with Megan Yale, LMFT-S, LPC-S (opens the original)
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What if the two things you've been told to choose between: accepting yourself as you are, and changing, were never actually in conflict? In this episode, I sit down with my longtime colleague and friend Megan Yale, LPC-S, LMFT-S, for a conversation about Dialectical Behavior Therapy that goes far beyond the acronym. Megan trained intensively in DBT at the University of Washington and with its creator, Marsha Linehan, and she tells the origin story most people never hear: how Linehan tried a chan
The Challenge of the Binary - Beyond All Good and All Bad (opens the original)
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We like to believe we see ourselves and others clearly. Yet under stress, uncertainty, shame, or relational threat, the mind often reaches for simpler conclusions: good or bad, safe or dangerous, success or failure, worthy or unworthy. In this episode of Project I Am , Dr. David J. Schlosz explores all-or-nothing thinking not merely as a cognitive distortion, but as a survival strategy. Binary labels can create temporary certainty and protect us from disappointment, ambiguity, and grief. Yet the
When Burnout Is Prolonged Self-Betrayal (opens the original)
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Burnout is often described as the consequence of doing too much for too long. But sometimes, exhaustion is also the result of repeatedly leaving ourselves behind. In this episode of Project I Am, Dr. David Schlosz explores the idea that burnout, in many cases, is prolonged self-betrayal. This is not an accusation or a suggestion of moral failure. It is an invitation to become curious about the adaptations that once helped us remain safe, useful, successful, or connected, but may now be asking us
The Contraction After Expansion: When a Dream Makes us Visible. (opens the original)
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What happens after you do the brave thing? You send the proposal, share the idea, apply for the position, set the boundary, or finally allow yourself to be seen. For a moment, it feels like expansion. Then the adrenaline fades, doubt rushes in, and a familiar voice asks, “Who do you think you are?” In this episode of Project I Am, I share a recent experience of putting something into the world and the internal collapse that followed. Together, we explore why courage can be followed by contractio
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