Words With Myself

This episode opens with a dedication to Brenda Bude — a woman who taught the host what it means to live a spiritual life through living itself. Rather than a lecture on doctrines or a list of practices, the episode unfolds like a remembered conversation, full of small, human details that reveal a soul who loved loudly, failed bravely, and never mistook holiness for perfection.

We begin by confronting the image many of us carry of s...

We begin with a simple sentence: "The term be present gets thrown around a lot." It sounds familiar until you try to do it. In this episode, a voice takes you on a morning: the rushed shower, the half-eaten breakfast, the train that’s late, the inbox that never sleeps. You feel the pulse of a system that measures value by output, and suddenly presence is not a practice but a luxury you can’t afford.

Through concrete images—cheap ne...

Stress gets a bad reputation. Like it’s only ever the villain in the story.

In this episode, it’s reframed as something far more honest: stress is currency.

Every demand you meet, every risk you take, every meaningful thing you build or love costs something. Your nervous system is the bank. Whether your life is quiet or chaotic, whether your baseline is high or low, you are always spending. On work, learning, relationships, ambitio...

When it feels like the universe is out to get you, the question hangs in the air: Why me? This episode opens with that ache—the quiet, furious unfairness of bad things falling on good people—and follows it like a thread through a life that refuses tidy explanations.

We step into scenes of frustration and longing: the well-intentioned efforts that go unrewarded, the moral ledger that seems balanced against you, the sting of watchin...

Imagine walking into a crowded restaurant, the clatter of plates like distant thunder, a laugh that should have been bright but felt dull in your chest. You describe the night in three tidy words—good atmosphere, cheap, friendly service—and tuck that snapshot into memory. This episode pulls that snapshot apart. It follows a listener who has spent a lifetime translating every tremor of the body into neat labels, and in doing so, has...

Picture a dinner table where voices rise and then retreat into separate rooms—one partner joins friends to complain, the other seeks kinship in a different circle—and the argument doesn't end, it multiplies. In this episode, we begin not with policy or pronouncements but with that private scene, the quiet echo of a dinner argument refracted back into the self.

Rather than debate what masculinity or femininity should be in the worl...

Step into a conversation that quietly pulls the rug out from under everything you think you know about strength. In this episode of Words With Myself, the host sits with a simple but radical idea: strength is not measured in muscle or menace, but in the steady courage of the gentle. Through vivid contrasts and intimate reflections, the episode opens with the image of the loud, imposing figure—someone who looks strong until you see ...

Imagine waking one morning and realizing you are not where you thought you’d be. That small misstep — a lost job, a harsh word, an unexpected grief — nudges a scale that keeps tipping. In this episode, we follow a life tilted by momentum: how one event becomes a cascade, how decisions made from pain deepen the fall, and how that same force can lift you back, stronger than before.

Through vivid examples — the unemployed person who ...

This episode explores where feelings come from, how they differ from identity, and why emotions are not absolute truth but valid signals about our experience.

It examines how perspectives, empathy, and past stories shape emotions, and why empaths may struggle to separate their own feelings from others'.

Ultimately it offers a reminder that feelings are temporary and you can choose who you are by changing the narrative and how you r...

This episode explores how the Dunning-Kruger effect and self-deception lead us to overestimate abilities and build fragile identities. It explains why projecting an idealized self creates anxiety, depression, and a fear of being exposed.

The host argues that real confidence comes from honesty and alignment between who you are and how you act, not from maintaining flattering illusions. Authentic change requires deep introspection, t...

This episode explores how severe depression and suicidal thoughts often come from a longing for spiritual or ego death rather than a wish to end life. It explains how rigid identities, shame, and unprocessed trauma can trap people and make suffering feel permanent.

The host argues that simply telling someone "don't kill yourself" is not enough and offers a path forward: face the darker parts of yourself, understand and forgive the ...

Do you believe that magic is real? Do you believe that God is real? Do you believe that numerology is real? Whether you believe all of those things or none of those things, what you decide your belief is, is what will dictate what you perceive.

Target fixation is a term used to describe when you focus on a certain point and it draws you closer towards it. If you focus on the negative, you will perceive the negative; if you focus on...