Welcome to Darmapunks, New York. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad I'm here.

Yeah, if you would like to help keep these classes going, I don't charge for anything I do.

All the counseling and teaching that I do online is just supported entirely by donation.

Just starting off, we've all experienced countless times in our life,

frustrating experiences where we're internally torn, caught between thoughts and goals that urge us to do

responsible meeting our obligations, trying to move forward in careers, try to secure financial resources, trying to achieve more, do more,

look better to others.

And then, on the other hand, there's the fast impulses in us that crave pleasure, comfort, and stimulation at all costs.

And so one part of us might say, why aren't you getting up, looking for work, getting dressed, going to the gym, or doing your taxes, or learning a new skill, or dealing, responding

to work emails.

While there's another part that just simply wants to get lost scrolling YouTube clips or

watch internet reels in bed while eating ice cream. It's easy to think that these

kind of conflicts, especially when we find ourselves once again neglecting goals, aspirations,

what we think of as the appropriate behaviors, and instead we find ourselves

once again mired in the sort of automatic, soothing behaviors of online food binging, TV, binging,

social media binging, shopping.

This is not an issue of poor discipline.

It's a residue of early developmental realities, how our early parents and child interactions that happen in our childhood are internalized and stay with us in our adult minds. In childhood, the caregiver is the primary agent of discipline

and long-term goals and safety.

And the child, on the other hand, is the part of us that has little impulse control

in addition to seeking attention.

We seek pleasure, comfort, and just exploration.

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