HeyJaredThe Lee Counseling Podcast
The Lee Counseling Podcast explores emotional health, nervous system regulation, and relational healing through a grounded, compassionate lens.
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17. What do you really want? (opens the original)
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Most of us try to change by focusing on what we need to stop: stop overeating, stop drinking, stop scrolling, stop looking at pornography, stop reacting. But there may be a better question: What do you really want? In this episode, Matt explores seven deeper rewards that can motivate meaningful change: sanctuary, authenticity, vibrancy, integrity, intimacy, spirituality, and freedom. Drawing from Laurel Mellin’s Wired for Joy and Emotional Brain Training, Matt explains how joy creates an emotion
16. Practicing a New Way (TT: #026) (opens the original)
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Understanding why you struggle is an important step—but insight alone doesn't create change. In this episode, Matt shares a personal story about anxiety and explores the third stage of growth: conscious competence . You'll learn why healing requires both attention and intention , along with practical tools that can help you respond rather than simply react. To receive the weekly Therapy Thoughts email that inspired this episode, visit https://leecounselingks.com/resources . Time Markers: 0:43 –
15. The Hardest Part of Healing (TT: #025) (opens the original)
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This episode expands on Therapy Thoughts #25: The Hardest Part of Healing. What happens when you finally realize something isn't working—but you don't yet know how to change it? In this episode, Matt continues the conversation on Noel Burch's Four Stages of Competence by exploring the often most difficult stage of growth: conscious incompetence . Whether it's your marriage, family, leadership, or personal healing, awareness can feel painful because nothing has changed—except now you can see it.
14. When you don't know what you don't know (TT: #024) (opens the original)
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What if the patterns keeping you stuck are the very patterns you can’t see? In this episode of the Lee Counseling Podcast, Matthew explores the Four Stages of Competence and how they can help us understand emotional growth, trauma, relationships, and even family or organizational systems. Sometimes growth begins with an uncomfortable realization: I didn’t know what I didn’t know. But awareness isn’t failure—it’s often the beginning of change. This episode expands on Therapy Thoughts , Matthew’s
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