Done With Life and My Podcast History
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/KIRK to get 10% off your first month.
00:00 Are plateaus in life normal?
09:49 Finding true north
14:28 The history of PIS
51:09 Has Dr. Kirk's approach to podcasting changed?
57:35 Have the cohosts changed?
1:08:53 Is there any advice to consider when listening to old episodes?
1:10:37 Have other patrons listened through the archive?
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August 1, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, just our listeners. I thought I would read some of your patron emails. I haven't done that in a while. |
| 0:06.5 | This first email is from annual highest tier patron, good old Jocelyn G. She says, I am 35 and I keep encountering this eerie feeling that I'm done, so to speak, with everything I want to accomplish for myself in this life. |
| 0:26.0 | Have you ever encountered this non-depressed experience with clients around this age? |
| 0:33.5 | So just chime me in here. |
| 0:35.4 | So this eerie feeling that I'm done with everything I wanted to accomplish in life going on. |
| 0:43.6 | I first felt this done feeling at 34 on New Year's Eve, realizing I had no new resolutions, |
| 0:51.3 | no matter how deeply I soul-searched. |
| 0:57.2 | This might be because the first 30 years of my life felt heavily weighted towards accomplishing big milestones, like getting my master's, getting married, |
| 1:03.0 | traveling widely, traveling widely, building a home, settling into my career, speaking at a conference, |
| 1:12.2 | volunteering for a cause, doing lots my career, speaking at a conference, volunteering for a cause, |
| 1:19.4 | doing lots of therapy, navigating fertility, et cetera. Now life feels like something I maintain rather than something I achieve at, such as working, managing a household, budgeting, |
| 1:25.6 | working out, volunteering, cooking, etc. I realize |
| 1:29.1 | society devalues feminine skills, such as maintaining and nurturing, things I do every day, |
| 1:35.2 | versus achievement and success. There may be some internalized sexism, unfortunately, at play. |
| 1:42.0 | While this could be normal, while this could be a normal transitional |
| 1:45.9 | feeling, this feeling of being done with accomplishments, we all, we might face, you know, |
| 1:52.2 | all of us might face this to varying degrees in our 30s and 40s. In spite of this, I miss |
| 1:58.1 | dreaming, lusting, wanting, succeeding. |
| 2:07.0 | Achieving life may involve less of these things moving forward, for me at least. |
| 2:09.7 | It feels heartbreaking if this is true. |
| 2:14.3 | But at the same time, it feels like an opportunity to gain more perspective, more wisdom. |
| 2:16.0 | End of email. |
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