Ep 843 – Gestalt Theory in Action P3: Self Love and stuff

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Where does the self begin and end? Where does love begin and end? When will all of the questioning end? What if nothing ends? What if these are all just words? What if? Yeah, what if.
Glenn sits down once again with psychotherapist Josh Neal to discuss the importance of self love from the perspective of a gestalt therapist.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Glenn, and today on Infants on Thrones, I sit down once again with psychotherapist
0:05.3	Josh Neil.
0:06.3	We often suffer more in imagination than in reality.
0:10.2	To continue a series of reflective discussions about what our ongoing experience with the
0:14.4	Mormon faith crisis has been teaching us about our own mental health, vulnerability, authenticity,
0:20.8	acceptance of reality, and the power that we all have to create emotional well-being
0:25.6	through all of it. And it's arbitrary and it is constructed and it is not
0:30.3	total because the boundary between self and the environment is porous
0:36.2	porous.
0:39.2	Love for me is finding the beauty and the totality of the universe and all the colors it
0:44.1	paints with. The goal of the stoic life which is tranquility. When we look at
0:51.8	tranquility we say is it possible to live with these things having happened to me and
0:57.8	still achieve tranquility can anything prevent that and the answer for them is no it is my decision to create and
1:04.5	generate that tranquility and that I still have that ability to do that with all of
1:08.9	these things that are a part of my life that are the difficulties that I
1:11.6	bear and that I don't have to add to them, but it is necessary in life to bear certain difficulties.
1:18.0	And so it's that kind of clarifying point that lets you determine what is and what is not harm and for them what cannot
1:26.4	harm or what can harm tranquility is only the self it's only you.
1:31.3	Now if you find yourself on a similar journey and you're
1:34.0	looking for someone to help you along the way you can find Josh at
1:37.3	capital hill therapy in Seattle Washington and you can find me right here at
1:41.8	infants on thrones at gmail.com.
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