Finding You: with Dr. Brad Reedy

Addiction and Self-Medication - Ep 596 by Dr. Brad Reedy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions from the audience on the process of wilderness therapy, how to support a family member in treatment, the new book "Bad Therapy," and how to model the change you want to see in your children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy talks about how myth and stories provide a template for the heroic journey inward to discover ourselves. He uses this idea to show that our stories and out myths are invitations to look at the lost parts of ourselves so that we can heal and become who we are. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy answers a question about finding hope and worth after an affair. He talks about how to make a repair with a child who doesn’t want to engage anymore. He explains that our context can be internalized and the way to healing is to spend time with a patient, empathic Other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy talks about what to look for in a therapist. He talks about how to recognize a mature therapist who is capable of holding you with compassion and patience. He explains that "the way a therapist is with you" is the medicine. He talks about characteristics of the adequate or "good enough" therapist. He emphasizes that the therapist must first model being human since that is the task in therapy. He explains that if the therapist can hold your anger, frustration, and resistance with love, you have found a therapist worth keeping. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions from the audience. He talks about defenses, where and why they happen, what it feels like when we encounter the defense in ourselves or the Other, and what healing looks like so we don’t need the protection of the defense. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy provide an overview of The Eden Project by James Hollis. He explains how the early stages of romantic love are fraught with pitfalls of projection, blame, and the working out of the unconscious, unexplored parts of ourselves. He talks about the responsibility to live our own life and cease abdicating our chief responsibility – to individuate and become more whole, more conscious as the pathway to greater intimacy and love in marriage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions from the audience on loving our children when they are hurting themselves and on finding the right kind of therapist for ourselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Teen Whisperer: An Interview with Kirsten Cobabe - Ep 588 by Dr. Brad Reedy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Reedy talks about the value and limitations of skill-based work and therapy. He talks about how the development of the self is the foundation for deeper change and how that can be accomplished. He posits that the outcome of therapy is that we become who we are. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.