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S7 Ep 74 Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking Part II-Patterns of Attention

Part II of Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking examines what my highlights revealed about how I tend to think. Reading is never passive; what we attend to discloses our values, fears, and assumptions long before we put them into words. In this podcast, I explore patterns of attention around responsibility, coherence, suffering, sentimentality, and the search for meaning. This isn’t about self-analysis for its own sake, but about modeling a discipline of orientation; learning to observe how thinking forms over time. #untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #EMDR #prolongedexposure #PTSD #GAD #therapythatworks #datadriven #Georgiacounselor

S7 Ep 73 Bearing Reality

Bearing Reality: Thinking About ThinkingThis episode introduces Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking, a short series exploring how we examine our own thinking when certainty is tempting, but truth requires more discipline.Rather than offering conclusions or advice, this episode focuses on orientation: how patterns of attention form, how blind spots emerge, and why examining how we think matters as much as what we think. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, theology, and lived experience, this series models a process of reflection I often ask clients to engage in themselves.This episode sets the foundation for the series by explaining how it began, why the raw material is presented without interpretation in the first blog post, and what it means to approach thinking as something that can be examined, tested, and integrated rather than defended.If you’re interested in work that respects human limits without abandoning responsibility, and that values clarity over comfort, this series is an invitation to slow down and orient your thinking more deliberately.#untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #EMDR #prolongedexposure #PTSD #GAD #therapythatworks #datadriven #Georgiacounselor

S6 Ep 72 Reflection Over Resolutions: A Different Way to Close the Year

As the year comes to a close, many people rush toward New Year’s resolutions without ever pausing to reflect on what actually happened and how they responded to it. In this year-end episode of Untangled Mind, Piper Harris reflects on why honest review matters more than goal-setting and why meaningful growth requires clarity rather than motivation. This conversation explores the balance between self-congratulation and self-flagellation, the value of examining painful or uncomfortable moments, and how reflection can become a formative practice rather than a judgment exercise. Piper also shares a brief year-end review of Untangled Mind and offers a grounded framework for conducting your own reflection with honesty, restraint, and purpose. This episode marks the close of Season 6, landing on Episode 72. If you’d like a structured way to reflect on the year, you can download a complimentary Year-End Reflection Packet here:https://www.untangledmind.net/the-untangled-life#untangledmindllc #integrativecbt #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #endof2025

S6 Ep 71: 39 Shifts Toward Hope

As the world counts down to Christmas, many feel excitement, others feel dread, and most never stop to consider what they could be counting toward instead. In this episode, Piper Harris invites you into a different kind of countdown: thirty-nine days of intentional shifts that move you toward clarity, resilience, and genuine hope. Drawing from cognitive-behavioral principles, neuroscience, and deep human insight, Piper walks through thirty-nine practical, grounded shifts, each one designed to interrupt unhelpful patterns and redirect you toward steadiness and growth. These are not affirmations or resolutions. They are small, deliberate pivots that shape the trajectory of your life. The episode concludes with a fortieth shift, pointing to the true source of lasting hope, especially for those who feel they have nothing left to pull from internally. If you’re tired, overwhelmed, or walking through a season where healing feels slow, this episode becomes a guide, a challenge, and a reorientation. Thirty-nine days. Thirty-nine shifts. And one true hope that anchors them all. #untangledmindllc #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounselor #Holidays #countdown #Hope #JesusChrist

S6 Ep 70: The Industry Mirror — Eating Soup with Chopsticks

In this fifth installment of the Empathy Series, Piper Harris turns the focus inward to the counseling profession itself. Our field has long celebrated empathy as its highest virtue, but what happens when feeling becomes the only tool in the box? Through clinical insight, CBT framing, and a touch of Shel Silverstein’s wit, Piper explores how the industry keeps “eating soup with chopsticks”, recycling emotional tools that look noble but leave both clients and clinicians hungry. She traces the historical swing from William James’s pragmatic psychology to Carl Rogers’s humanistic empathy, showing how good intentions evolved into burnout culture. You’ll hear how unmanaged empathy activates the brain’s threat system, why depletion is not proof of devotion, and how ethical, data-driven compassion offers a sustainable path forward. The Industry Mirror challenges counselors and anyone devoted to helping others. to trade performance for precision, sentiment for structure, and to finally pick up the spoon.