923: Gym Rat, Airplane Survival, & Love at First Sight
The Brain Candy Podcast
Susie Meister PhD & Sarah Rice AMFT
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today we hear about an incident Susie had at the gym with a man claiming a machine she was using, and she wonders if other women have experienced something similar. We find out why young people are increasingly believing in love at first sight. And Susie explains why therapy culture might be leading to childlessness. Tons of great mental health content in this episode!
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5:00 Susie's new worst enemy at the gym.
11:00 Plane crash with only one survivor! How is this possible?!
12:14 Sarah explains the plot of Final Destination.
13:56 Survivor Guilt, Mental Health, Sarah's EMDR Passion.
15:41 What allowed plan crash survivor to cheat death?
16:51 Do You Believe In Love at First Sight?
17:50 Sarah & Susie's love fest, touching, emotional cry fest.
20:57 Study shows a surprisingly high increase in people's belief in love at first sight
21:59 What could have caused a 30% increase in people's belief in love at first sight? What happened?
24:57 British Lesbian dating reality show, "I Kissed A Girl"
27:34 What to consider, what is love? and what is first sight?
28:22 Mutual Positive Projection, Twin flames, and society's hope for love.
34:36 Could it be that our shifting and often skewed societal expectation of love is what causes this statistical change?
35:40 Improve your financial understanding, management and organization with Susie's favorite app. Rocket Money.
39:37 The connection between childlessness and therapy culture. New York Times article discussion.
43:47 Emotional regulation is what therapy tries to teach you. Looking at the lives of monks is a great example.
46:18 Pain times resistance equals suffering.
47:33 Going no contact with parents.
54:29 Therapy content creators are influencing what society considers as being actual "trauma".
55:56 How to live life through our deep down wise mind?
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| 0:00.0 | Brain Candy Podcast. |
| 0:14.6 | Episode 9, 2, 3. |
| 0:17.5 | Oh, that was like a jingle. |
| 0:21.7 | Right, like a local commercial for like a lawyer. Yes, that was like a jingle. Right, like a local commercial. |
| 0:23.6 | Yes, that's what it sounded. |
| 0:24.9 | I was going to say local radio station like that said. |
| 0:27.8 | Episode nine, two, three. |
| 0:29.7 | That's good. |
| 0:30.2 | That's good. |
| 0:30.6 | That's good. |
| 0:30.9 | That's good. |
| 0:31.2 | Thanks, Sarah. |
| 0:32.3 | How are you? |
| 0:33.5 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:35.5 | I can't complain. |
| 0:37.4 | I spent the day a while, maybe it was like a few days ago, like putting, re-trellising and doing all the work to like, juz all the plants, you know, they get a little overgrown and they start getting like, and then you just put |
| 0:54.6 | all the trellises out, you put all the posts up, you know, re like attach them. Yes. And they're |
| 1:01.4 | just sitting taller. And I'm like, oh my God, I should have got you guys a long time ago. I didn't |
| 1:06.9 | know you were in such bad shape. It's always like that. The day that you turns into a jungle. |
| 1:11.1 | Yeah, the day that you dive into your plants and sort it all out, you're like, oh, sorry, guys. |
| 1:16.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.9 | And then I learned this little thing on, like, Instagram or, you know, where this, you know, because I get a lot of plant content. |
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