How Predictably You: The Manner in Which Personality Is Constructed

Oct 22, 2025

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Duration: 00:58:17

Shadow Selves & Hidden Scripts

Oct 15, 2025

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Duration: 01:00:23

When Our Models of the World Are Outdated And Need Updating

Oct 01, 2025

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Duration: 00:59:34

Wired for Worry: Why Our Brains Gravitate to Stress and What to Do About It

Sep 22, 2025

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Duration: 00:59:28

Your Mind Is Lying About You!

Aug 20, 2025

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Duration: 01:02:17

From Cave Fires to Instagram Likes: The Ancient Roots of Envy and Jealousy

Aug 13, 2025

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Duration: 00:59:42

Financial Insecurity

Aug 07, 2025

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Duration: 01:00:47

No Future: Don't be told what you want, Don't be told what you need.

Jul 23, 2025

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Duration: 00:55:30

STOP GOING TO THE HARDWARE STORE ... for orange juice.

Jul 16, 2025

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Duration: 00:59:40

Safe Enough to Love: A Journey from Insecure to Secure Attachment

Jun 25, 2025

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Duration: 00:58:47

Gut Reactions—Like Disgust—What They Teach Us

Jun 18, 2025

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Duration: 00:58:48

How Imagination and Feelings Shape Our Behaviors and Also How We Learn

Jun 09, 2025

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Duration: 00:57:29

The Validation Trap: Moving On From the Need for Acknowledgment

May 21, 2025

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Duration: 00:59:03

It's a Mad, Mad World: Mental Health in Neoliberal Capitalism

May 20, 2025

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No One Is Watching — The Damaging Illusion of an Unseen Audience

May 14, 2025

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Duration: 00:58:46

The Dharma of the Absurd: The Nature of Awakening in an Indifferent Universe

May 03, 2025

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Duration: 01:00:21

Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why the Brain Isn’t Built for Truth And Nothing Is As It Seems

Apr 30, 2025

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Duration: 01:00:12

Reparenting Your Mind: Parts Work and Buddhist Practice

Apr 23, 2025

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Duration: 00:58:57

The Roots of Addiction: Contemporary Psychological and Buddhist Perspectives

Apr 21, 2025

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Duration: 01:02:02

When I, Then I'll, or the subtle ways avoidance disguises itself—talk only, meditation didn't record

Apr 09, 2025

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Duration: 00:27:08

The Body, Healing and Love (in person talk in NYC)

Apr 06, 2025

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Duration: 00:59:56

What's Beneath the Flames: Understanding Anger, Uncovering the Vulnerable Emotions It Conceals and the Path to Healing

Mar 26, 2025

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Duration: 01:05:13

EGO DEATH: The State Where We Lose Our Sense of Having a Separate Identity.

Mar 19, 2025

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Duration: 00:58:45

From Chaos to Calm—Ways to Help Others Who Are Emotionally Distressed

Mar 12, 2025

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Duration: 00:57:12

Catastrophizing: Ruminating on the Worst Possible Outcome, No Matter How Unlikely

Feb 18, 2025

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Duration: 01:00:27

Beyond the Hamster Wheel: Stillness in the Time of Acceleration

Jan 29, 2025

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Duration: 00:57:27

On the Purpose and Interpretation of Dreams, What We Can Learn from Them, and Employ in Our Meditation

Jan 22, 2025

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Duration: 00:59:52

NEW YEAR'S DAY TALK 2025: Breaking Free From the Despair of Capitalist Realism

Jan 12, 2025

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Duration: 00:57:26

The Gift of Being Known: Nurturing Our Well-Being Through Authentic Connection

Dec 18, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:06

Addressing and Lessening the Stressing

Dec 16, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:29

Seeing the Suffering Behind the Blowhard's Mask: The Psychology of and Buddhist Approach to Narcissism

Nov 28, 2024

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Duration: 01:03:10

When the Shit Hits the Fan (or Letting Go of What Never Was): The Path of Disappointment and Resilience

Nov 20, 2024

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Duration: 01:03:48

A MUTE BUTTON FOR THE MIND: Quieting Inner Chatter, Self Talk, Rumination

Oct 30, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:26

Breaking Free From Survival Mode: Buddhist Insights into Persistent Childhood Defense Mechanisms

Oct 23, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:49

EMPATHY: When It's Helpful and When It's Not

Oct 16, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:13

Internalizing Shame: The Psychological Tolls of Late Stage Capitalism and How to Protect Our Sense of Self

Oct 09, 2024

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Duration: 00:55:16

Nervous: A Brief Overview of the Autonomic Nervous System and Ways to Regulate Our Stress

Sep 26, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:00

The Buddha: A Revolutionary Who Fought Against the Class System

Aug 28, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:06

In Person at GSHP: Connection, Community and Well-Being (not great audio quality)

Aug 21, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:06

Is Closure Possible?

Aug 12, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:04

Make It Fun For a Change: Imagination, Creativity and Play in Meditation and Spiritual Practice

Jul 31, 2024

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Duration: 00:57:16

Doomscrolling: The persistent draw toward negative news, why its so alluring and how to disconnect

Jul 26, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:58

COULDA • WOULDA • SHOULDA • The Fascinating Implications of Counterfactual Thought

Jul 17, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:21

Cultivating a Secure Base in Adult Life: How We Can Repair Early Attachment Disturbancess To Create a Positive Sense of Self

Jul 17, 2024

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Duration: 01:01:12

Complaining versus Reframing: How to Process Bad Interactions Without Rumination or Lingering Resentments

Jul 03, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:47

RELAX & UNWIND: Addressing the Causes and Conditions That Support Well-Being

Jun 24, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:57

The Ick! An abrupt and unanticipated feeling of disgust toward someone we previously found enjoyable or attractive

Jun 18, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:16

The Unconscious Prcocesses That Choose Our Attachments (And How to Change Them For the Better)

Jun 06, 2024

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Duration: 01:01:41

Is There Really a True Self? Sub-Personalities, Impression Management And the Slippery Sense of Authenticity!

May 29, 2024

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Duration: 00:57:12

The Blame and Shame Spiral: An Alternative to Fault Finding and Self-Pity After Relationship Ruptures

May 22, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:52

Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: How Emotional Memories Create Obsessive Mental States

May 13, 2024

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Duration: 01:03:14

Retail Therapy: The Destructive Cycle of Relying on Shopping to Auto-Regulate Our Emotions

May 13, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:23

Victim Signaling, Competitive Victimization and the Role of Forgiveness

Apr 24, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:51

If This Were a Pill Everyone Would Be Taking It

Apr 24, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:59

Understanding and Addressing Toxic Shame, Including Practices That Build Our Self-Esteem

Apr 15, 2024

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Duration: 00:58:28

DENIAL (Don't Be In It). Understanding And Addressing Denial From Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives

Mar 29, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:49

The Path of Supporting Others By Listening Without Giving Advice

Mar 15, 2024

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Duration: 00:58:48

Understanding And Appreciating Our Most Challenging Attributes

Mar 15, 2024

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Duration: 01:00:36

Instant Karma, Long Term Karma: Why It Really Matters to Your Well-Being

Feb 09, 2024

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Duration: 01:02:33

Top Down and Bottom Up Processing: How Our Minds Create Our Sense of Self and the World and How to Re-Start the Process

Jan 31, 2024

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Duration: 00:59:06

The addictive Allure of Unreliable Relationships and Trauma Bonding

Jan 24, 2024

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Duration: 00:51:50

Burnout Culture: How the ‘Always On’ Digital Landscape of Connectivity and Convenience Inevitably Leads to States of Exhaustion; the Role of Meditation and Contemplation in Restoring Balance to Life

Jan 14, 2024

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Duration: 00:56:34

New Years Intention Setting Talk, Meditation and Ceremony for 2024

Jan 08, 2024

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Duration: 01:11:30

Balancing Comfort and Ease with Our Accountability to Others and the World

Dec 28, 2023

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Duration: 01:04:15

Accepting Versus Trying to Change Others in Core Relationships

Dec 18, 2023

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Duration: 01:00:05

The Hidden Allures of Suffering and the Ways Out of the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Despair

Dec 03, 2023

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Duration: 00:57:23

Being Seen In the Eye of the Other: On The Importance of Feeling Understood

Nov 26, 2023

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Duration: 01:00:26

DPXnyc Live: Relieving Overburdened Defenses & Establishing Harmonious Coping Strategies.mp3

Nov 15, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:58

The Fear of Death: What exacerbates It? Practices to Alleviate the Dread & Anxiety.

Nov 01, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:44

Living with the Unknown, or Ways to Respond WHen Life Ambushes Us With the Unexpected

Oct 27, 2023

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Duration: 01:00:05

The Addictions of Everyday Life: Common activities can produce bursts of dopamine in the brain that bring short term pleasures and longer term suffering

Oct 18, 2023

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Duration: 01:00:00

Insights & Meditations to Develop Secure Relationships (Dharma Punx NYC live)

Oct 12, 2023

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Duration: 01:03:08

Distress Tolerance Tools part 2: Reframing Life in Terms of Our Core Values

Oct 10, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:59

Distress Tolerance Tools part 1: Effective Engagement versus Avoidance Coping

Sep 27, 2023

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Duration: 01:00:50

Dharma Punx NYC Live in Williamsburg: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Sep 20, 2023

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Duration: 01:01:56

understanding and attaining transcedent non-dual states of mind via early buddhist meditation strategies

Sep 11, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:50

Complicated Grief talk & meditation. Please note: the meditation might be painful for those with cPTSD or attachment traumas, so don’t practice if you feel vulnerable.

Sep 06, 2023

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Duration: 00:53:51

Memory Reconsolidation: Rewriting the Unconscious Emotional Beliefs That Activate Fast Automatic Bevahiors

Aug 31, 2023

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Duration: 01:05:04

Basics of Neurotransmitters And Their Role in Mood Disorders and Natural Ways to Address Imbalances

Aug 22, 2023

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Duration: 01:13:39

The Universe as a Simulation: The brain lacks direct access to the outside world, so it must guess what’s out there. How can we change the predictive models we live in?

Aug 07, 2023

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Duration: 01:04:10

Anger Mgmt: How to Process and Safely Metabolize Frustration, Resentment and Rage

Aug 05, 2023

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Duration: 01:03:48

FAWNING: The fourth “F” of threat reactions: Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn; Accommodating, Appeasing and Deferring to Those Who Have Harmed Us

Jul 23, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:59

When Work Isn’t Worth It

Jul 13, 2023

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Duration: 01:02:16

Setting Boundaries to Maintain Relationships: An Overview and Strategies

Jun 28, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:59

How Right Effort in Buddhism Overlaps with Metacognition and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; How Changing the Way We Frame Experience Changes How We Feel and Addresses Our Moods

Jun 14, 2023

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Duration: 01:09:03

Conflict Avoidance: Addressing maladaptive tendencies, moving forward to face our fears and disclose needs authentically

Jun 07, 2023

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Duration: 01:00:00

Addressing Unresolved Buried Memories and Feelings from the Forgotten Past

May 31, 2023

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Duration: 01:00:54

You’re not who you think you are, nor is anyone else: The biases that distort our sense of self and others

May 23, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:55

Practicing Contentment: Positive Psychology and Tools for Peace of Mind

May 09, 2023

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Duration: 01:03:44

Emotion Contagion: What It Is & How to Limit the Influence of Other People’s Anger, Anxiety & Gloom

Apr 29, 2023

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Duration: 01:01:12

Addiction and Recovery: An Overview of Insights and Tools for Sobriety

Apr 19, 2023

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Duration: 01:05:38

Managing Stress: A Set of Tools to Reset Your Alarm System

Apr 12, 2023

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Duration: 01:02:39

The Mind & The Body: How physiological changes in both body and brain states guide our choices and behaviors

Apr 05, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:55

Cultivating Feelings of Safety in Our Core Relationships

Mar 27, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:53

Denial and Acceptance: How the Mind Can Hold Two Contradictory Beliefs and Perceptions at the Same Time

Mar 19, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:42

Altered States: How We Create What We Experience, Spiritual Endeavors, Meditation, Plant Medicine

Mar 19, 2023

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Duration: 01:03:16

Mind Over Matter: Rituals and Placebos, Some of the Science Behind the Magic

Feb 16, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:09

Confidence with Humility

Feb 13, 2023

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Duration: 00:59:31

The Revolution Within: Some of the Ways Capitalism Colonizes the Mind And the Tools For Liberation

Feb 08, 2023

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Duration: 01:00:01

Sleep, Dreaming and Insomnia: A Concise Overview

Jan 29, 2023

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Duration: 01:04:13

Dharmapunx NYC

Episodes

How Predictably You: The Manner in Which Personality Is Constructed

Shadow Selves & Hidden Scripts

When Our Models of the World Are Outdated And Need Updating

Wired for Worry: Why Our Brains Gravitate to Stress and What to Do About It

Your Mind Is Lying About You!

From Cave Fires to Instagram Likes: The Ancient Roots of Envy and Jealousy

Financial Insecurity

No Future: Don't be told what you want, Don't be told what you need.

STOP GOING TO THE HARDWARE STORE ... for orange juice.

Safe Enough to Love: A Journey from Insecure to Secure Attachment

Gut Reactions—Like Disgust—What They Teach Us

How Imagination and Feelings Shape Our Behaviors and Also How We Learn

The Validation Trap: Moving On From the Need for Acknowledgment

It's a Mad, Mad World: Mental Health in Neoliberal Capitalism

No One Is Watching — The Damaging Illusion of an Unseen Audience

The Dharma of the Absurd: The Nature of Awakening in an Indifferent Universe

Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why the Brain Isn’t Built for Truth And Nothing Is As It Seems

Reparenting Your Mind: Parts Work and Buddhist Practice

The Roots of Addiction: Contemporary Psychological and Buddhist Perspectives

When I, Then I'll, or the subtle ways avoidance disguises itself—talk only, meditation didn't record

The Body, Healing and Love (in person talk in NYC)

What's Beneath the Flames: Understanding Anger, Uncovering the Vulnerable Emotions It Conceals and the Path to Healing

EGO DEATH: The State Where We Lose Our Sense of Having a Separate Identity.

From Chaos to Calm—Ways to Help Others Who Are Emotionally Distressed

Catastrophizing: Ruminating on the Worst Possible Outcome, No Matter How Unlikely

Beyond the Hamster Wheel: Stillness in the Time of Acceleration

On the Purpose and Interpretation of Dreams, What We Can Learn from Them, and Employ in Our Meditation

NEW YEAR'S DAY TALK 2025: Breaking Free From the Despair of Capitalist Realism

The Gift of Being Known: Nurturing Our Well-Being Through Authentic Connection

Addressing and Lessening the Stressing

Seeing the Suffering Behind the Blowhard's Mask: The Psychology of and Buddhist Approach to Narcissism

When the Shit Hits the Fan (or Letting Go of What Never Was): The Path of Disappointment and Resilience

A MUTE BUTTON FOR THE MIND: Quieting Inner Chatter, Self Talk, Rumination

Breaking Free From Survival Mode: Buddhist Insights into Persistent Childhood Defense Mechanisms

EMPATHY: When It's Helpful and When It's Not

Internalizing Shame: The Psychological Tolls of Late Stage Capitalism and How to Protect Our Sense of Self

Nervous: A Brief Overview of the Autonomic Nervous System and Ways to Regulate Our Stress

The Buddha: A Revolutionary Who Fought Against the Class System

In Person at GSHP: Connection, Community and Well-Being (not great audio quality)

Is Closure Possible?

Make It Fun For a Change: Imagination, Creativity and Play in Meditation and Spiritual Practice

Doomscrolling: The persistent draw toward negative news, why its so alluring and how to disconnect

COULDA • WOULDA • SHOULDA • The Fascinating Implications of Counterfactual Thought

Cultivating a Secure Base in Adult Life: How We Can Repair Early Attachment Disturbancess To Create a Positive Sense of Self

Complaining versus Reframing: How to Process Bad Interactions Without Rumination or Lingering Resentments

RELAX & UNWIND: Addressing the Causes and Conditions That Support Well-Being

The Ick! An abrupt and unanticipated feeling of disgust toward someone we previously found enjoyable or attractive

The Unconscious Prcocesses That Choose Our Attachments (And How to Change Them For the Better)

Is There Really a True Self? Sub-Personalities, Impression Management And the Slippery Sense of Authenticity!

The Blame and Shame Spiral: An Alternative to Fault Finding and Self-Pity After Relationship Ruptures

Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: How Emotional Memories Create Obsessive Mental States

Retail Therapy: The Destructive Cycle of Relying on Shopping to Auto-Regulate Our Emotions

Victim Signaling, Competitive Victimization and the Role of Forgiveness

If This Were a Pill Everyone Would Be Taking It

Understanding and Addressing Toxic Shame, Including Practices That Build Our Self-Esteem

DENIAL (Don't Be In It). Understanding And Addressing Denial From Buddhist and Psychological Perspectives

The Path of Supporting Others By Listening Without Giving Advice

Understanding And Appreciating Our Most Challenging Attributes

Instant Karma, Long Term Karma: Why It Really Matters to Your Well-Being

Top Down and Bottom Up Processing: How Our Minds Create Our Sense of Self and the World and How to Re-Start the Process

The addictive Allure of Unreliable Relationships and Trauma Bonding

Burnout Culture: How the ‘Always On’ Digital Landscape of Connectivity and Convenience Inevitably Leads to States of Exhaustion; the Role of Meditation and Contemplation in Restoring Balance to Life

New Years Intention Setting Talk, Meditation and Ceremony for 2024

Balancing Comfort and Ease with Our Accountability to Others and the World

Accepting Versus Trying to Change Others in Core Relationships

The Hidden Allures of Suffering and the Ways Out of the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Despair

Being Seen In the Eye of the Other: On The Importance of Feeling Understood

DPXnyc Live: Relieving Overburdened Defenses & Establishing Harmonious Coping Strategies.mp3

The Fear of Death: What exacerbates It? Practices to Alleviate the Dread & Anxiety.

Living with the Unknown, or Ways to Respond WHen Life Ambushes Us With the Unexpected

The Addictions of Everyday Life: Common activities can produce bursts of dopamine in the brain that bring short term pleasures and longer term suffering

Insights & Meditations to Develop Secure Relationships (Dharma Punx NYC live)

Distress Tolerance Tools part 2: Reframing Life in Terms of Our Core Values

Distress Tolerance Tools part 1: Effective Engagement versus Avoidance Coping

Dharma Punx NYC Live in Williamsburg: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

understanding and attaining transcedent non-dual states of mind via early buddhist meditation strategies

Complicated Grief talk & meditation. Please note: the meditation might be painful for those with cPTSD or attachment traumas, so don’t practice if you feel vulnerable.

Memory Reconsolidation: Rewriting the Unconscious Emotional Beliefs That Activate Fast Automatic Bevahiors