Hey news our viewing listeners today we have an interesting guest on the show we're going to talk about trauma and evolution and science and so I just thought we'd just get to the interview but first let me introduce the podcast this is called psychology in Seattle and I'm your host Dr. Kirk Honda

I am a therapist and a professor let's get to the interview.

Hi I'm Mike McCarg I'm an author and a podcaster specializing in the intersection of science, education, and emotional awareness, because I think those two things are more powerful when combined than used separately.

I'm the host of a show called Ask Science Mike that's been running since gosh

2014 and I'm a published author a few times over with my new book coming out now called

You're a miracle and a pain in the ass.

So what a wonderful title to the book. What is the book about?

It's about the gap between what we want to think and do and feel and say

and what we actually think and do and feel and say and what we actually think and do and feel and say I think everyone

knows what I'm talking about if you don't a really easy example is I'm a person who

has had some cardiac health issues and so maintaining a

healthy diet is really important to me and I understand that and I absolutely

love to eat cookies by the handful.

And these two things seem at odds with each other.

How do I both want to have a healthier lifestyle

and eat a lot of cookies?

And that tension is what the whole book is about,

but not just about food,

about a broad look at our behaviors and our feelings.

So just diving into that one a little bit. and our feelings.

So just diving into that one a little bit because I'm guessing a lot of people can relate.

In your book, what's your process or what's your recommendation for people?

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