Overthinking About Therapy-Speak

Magical Overthinkers

Amanda Montell & Studio71

Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.3 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We’re all “holding space,” “setting boundaries,” and “doing the work”, but when does the language of healing start to feel like another script we’re performing? This week, host Amanda Montell is joined by writer and therapist Joe Nucci (@joenuccitherapy) to overthink therapy speak, the vocabulary of mental health that’s seeped into everyday life and the internet alike. Together, they explore how this language can empower us to name our needs, but also how it can flatten complex emotions, mask avoidance as self care, and turn genuine vulnerability into content. A soft spiral about self-awareness, semantics, and the messy truth hiding underneath all those polished words for pain.Further Reading: Psychobabble: Viral Mental Health Myths & the Truths to Set You Free by Joe Nucci, LPC - Join the "Magical Overthinkers Club" by following the pod on Instagram @magicaloverthinkers.- To access early, ad-free episodes and more, subscribe to the Magical Overthinkers Substack.- Pick up a hard copy of Amanda's book The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality, or listen to the audiobook. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://SHOPIFY.COM/magical Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Overthinkers. It's your host, Amanda here with a very exciting something extra to tune into this week.
0:08.1	My beloved husband and I were guests on the starter marriage podcast, hosted by my friends, Alison Raskin and John Blake's Lee.
0:19.2	In this episode, I got more personal about my real life than I ever have, ever on a microphone. In fact, my husband Casey is here right now. Say hello. Hello, everyone. He's new to podcasting. But in the episode, we talked about our engagement story.
0:37.8	Why the hell should a person get married?
0:40.4	We talked about how we met, how he dumped me when we were in high school on AIM.
0:46.5	We spilled the tea on what we think makes our marriage.
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