Dating a Psychologist with Cerebral Palsy (It’s a Mindf*ck)
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when you’re born with a brain-body communication glitch?. If you’re Dr. Dan, you don't just "manage". You go out and collect a PhD, a Paralympic gold medal in table tennis, and a career as a dating coach just to keep things interesting. This week, the fellas sit down with the legendary Dr. Dan to talk about life with Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy. Dan gets real about the "Super Crip" pressure to be ten times better than everyone else just to be seen as equal. But the real meat is in the mindset. As a psychologist and author of The Confidence Equation, Dan breaks down the "veil of misperception," the toxic trap of Instagram comparisons, and why your self-doubt is actually just a bunch of external voices living rent-free in your head.
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| 0:00.0 | What's the last book you read that you absolutely loved? If you're anything like me, you could |
| 0:05.6 | probably talk about it for hours. You might be wondering what went into the story or why the author |
| 0:11.3 | made the choices they did, and on my podcast bookends, I can help you find those answers. |
| 0:17.7 | Every week, I sit down with authors to get the inside scoop behind your favorite books, |
| 0:22.7 | like how Louise Penny got through five years of writer's block, |
| 0:26.4 | or how RF Kwong feels about Taylor Swift. |
| 0:30.1 | Check out bookends with Mateo Roach wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.9 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | Music This is a CBC podcast. We don't realize how much our mindset and self-acceptance shows up in dating. |
| 0:49.3 | The only liability with being disabled, or at least the primary liability, is having discomfort |
| 0:57.5 | with your disability yourself. And when you bring that into dating, if people are going to |
| 1:02.8 | react to you poorly, I don't think it's because your disability, it's because of your mindset |
| 1:07.3 | and tension you have with your disabilities. It's kind of like, I'm a really short, I'm short as well, I'm like five foot four. So if you're like me and you're like a short guy and you're just like, oh man, women don't like short guys. Okay, I'm going to go into dating and I have to compensate or I have to like, you're already screwing yourself over. Like the best thing you can do. |
| 1:27.9 | Do you hear this, Brian? |
| 1:29.0 | Are you listening to Brian? |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah, well, when I heard him, when I heard him say 5'4, I was like, that's not short. |
| 1:37.1 | Hello, everyone, Jeremy here. |
| 1:39.3 | And another week, another episode of Sick Boy. |
| 1:43.0 | Today, me and the fellas are sitting down with a man who has |
| 1:47.3 | a resume that will make you ask yourself, what the hell have I been doing with all of my life? |
| 1:54.3 | We're talking to Dr. Dan Rosenfeld, a trained psychologist with a PhD, who also just happens to be a |
| 2:03.1 | Paralympic gold medalist in table tennis. And on top of being an elite athlete and a |
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