#230 - How to Feel Like a Person with Aundi Kolber

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m speaking with therapist and author Aundi Kolber. This conversation is a rich exploration of how to start small in finding a therapist, how to care for ourselves when we’re disappointed (like when we think a pandemic is going to be over and it does the opposite), and how the brain works under stress.

Helpful Companion Links

Learn more about Aundi’s work on her website and follow her on Instagram @aundikolber
Get her book Try Softer and grab the Try Softer Guided Journey (releases October 5th)
If you want more resources from Aundi, check out her free companion video series for the Try Softer Guided Journey.
To find a therapist, go to psychologytoday.com and use their filter system to name what matters most about your therapist or to emdria.org for therapists who specialize in EMDR. Aundi recommends choosing three therapists you're interested in and requesting a free 20-minute consultation to see if it's a good fit. Most therapists offer this. If finances are a hindrance, ask therapists if they have a sliding scale.

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0:00.0	Hi there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm
0:05.4	here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the
0:09.1	things that don't. Today is episode 230, How to Feel Like a Person. I'm joined
0:15.2	today by a licensed therapist and author, Andy Colbert. Andy is the author of one
0:20.7	of the best books I've read this year, Try Software, a fresh approach to move us
0:25.0	out of anxiety, stress and survival mode and into a life of connection and joy.
0:29.5	And that subtitle is exactly what this book does. This is one of the richest
0:35.0	conversations ever and I know you'll love it. Andy shares her expertise on how to
0:39.4	start small and finding a therapist like the practical order to do that. She also
0:44.4	gives us the kindest, most helpful scaffolding around this current place we're
0:49.4	in after being in a global pandemic for over a year and a half and kind of
0:54.0	feeling like it was going to be normal and then it's not again. She gives words
0:57.8	to feelings and stressors that we might not have named yet. There is also some
1:02.9	mind-blowing research in neuroscience about what happens to our brains when
1:07.7	we're under stress and it it's literally changed my life. So I'm so excited
1:12.2	for you here this conversation with me and Andy. So here is episode 230, How to
1:17.2	Feel Like a Person with Andy Colbert. I also have an unusual name that can
1:24.1	sometimes get mispronounced. What is your experience of having a name that
1:29.0	people mispronounced? Like truly, yeah, part of like who you are as a person
1:34.3	having to correct or not correct or assert yourself in that like what is it
1:37.8	like to have a name that people mispronounced? Wow, I love that question. So my
1:42.5	full name is Andrea and I grew up literally correcting every single teacher
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