Herpes Cheating, Israeli Expats, and Firing Political Clients
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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00:00 Rebecca's trash situation
08:06 How can I handle my boyfriend's ignorance around oral herpes?
23:20 Books about discernment counseling
28:32 How can I help clients with discernment counseling?
46:43 How can I handle this restless situation as an Israeli expat?
1:09:24 Is it common for therapists to join the profession to work on their own issues?
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September 24, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Rebecca, you sat down and before we started recording, you wanted to tell me about something really disgusting, and I asked you if you want to talk about it in the podcast and you said yes. |
| 0:10.0 | It's so bad. |
| 0:11.0 | What's going on? |
| 0:12.0 | It's so like urban bad. |
| 0:15.0 | So in Seattle, a lot of our trash cans are at the street. |
| 0:20.0 | Like, it's just how things work. So there's a our trash cans are at the street. Like, it's just how things work. |
| 0:22.0 | So there's a very large compost bin at the street. |
| 0:26.5 | Somebody opened many, many large cans of wet dog food and put them in my comp, put the wet, |
| 0:36.2 | just the wet dog food. |
| 0:37.4 | The cans can't be found somebody's asked me |
| 0:39.3 | if i found the cans the answers no many many wet cans of dog food in the compost bin wait so you go |
| 0:48.6 | out to the street and you can smell or see the worst smell okay and're thinking, what is going on on the street? And you investigate, you open up maybe your garbage bin, your recycling bin, and then your compost bin, and you see in there what looks to be like dog food? Because how do you know it's dog food? So true. Could be something else. Oh, my God. Why would you assume it's dog food? Because there's so much of it. But that's such a bizarre thing. Why would someone take... Exactly. So I don't think it's dog food. I'm sorry to say. Well, I... I think it's a lot of shit. It's... That would be like an unbelievable amount of shit. |
| 1:29.9 | Or vomit. |
| 1:30.4 | Well, it's an unbelievable amount of dog food. |
| 1:32.7 | Like, why in the world would someone have wet, if it was dry dog food and it was old, maybe? |
| 1:39.9 | But like, why would someone even bother if it was old dog food? |
| 1:45.0 | Just throw it away. |
| 1:46.3 | Right. |
| 1:46.9 | Why do you feel the need to cut? |
| 1:47.9 | And why would someone use your compost bin? |
| 1:50.6 | Yes. |
| 1:51.5 | Yeah. |
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