Traumatizing a Friend, Therapy Charlatans, and Podcasting Tips
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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00:00 Did I traumatize my friend?
24:13 Is Terry Real's relationship grid useful?
40:04 Podcasting tips
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deserving listeners. I thought I would answer some of your emails. This first email is from |
| 0:07.0 | annual middle-tier patron Louisa from Switzerland. She says, hello, Kirk. I really enjoy listening to |
| 0:13.1 | your deep dives and your answers to emails, and I've learned so much through your podcast. I work in |
| 0:20.4 | a psychiatry-related field, and a lot of what I've |
| 0:24.3 | learned about psychology is through you for personal purposes and professional purposes. So thank you. |
| 0:29.9 | I really appreciate your content about trauma and PTSD and how to treat trauma, and it gave me hope |
| 0:35.6 | to start my own trauma therapy. |
| 0:39.5 | Well, just chiming in, Louisa, that is great to hear. |
| 0:45.2 | Honestly, just wonderful to hear that you're getting the help that you deserve. |
| 0:48.7 | And I'm sorry you went through the trauma to begin with. |
| 0:49.6 | All right. |
| 0:54.8 | So getting back to your email, Louisa from Switzerland, you say, this leads me to my question. |
| 1:01.1 | Recently, I was talking to a friend, and she started opening up about past traumas of hers, |
| 1:06.2 | and she told me some things that had happened to her, not with a lot of content details, |
| 1:12.1 | but about several traumatic moments in her life. We had talked about the trauma before, so that was nothing new. After telling me all of this, she said she was glad she told me, but she also said |
| 1:17.5 | that she now felt very disregulated and triggered, and that she did not expect those memories |
| 1:22.7 | to affect her that much. We then found some strategies for her to calm down and approve her day on the phone. |
| 1:29.6 | Again, she said that she is thankful for my help and did not blame me for anything since I was |
| 1:34.6 | apologizing. Later that day, I checked in with her how she was doing and she said she's good. The next day, |
| 1:40.5 | she texted me saying she doesn't want to see me again and she blocked me. Wow. The next day she texted me saying she doesn't want to see me again and she blocked me. |
| 1:45.4 | Wow. |
| 1:45.8 | The next day she texted me saying she doesn't want to see me again and she blocked me. |
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