What Your Therapist Wants You To Know About Motivation

Summer Book Series: Attached

Join Josh and Crystal as they discuss the first book in the summer book series! In this episode, they discuss the book Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller. They define the three primary attachment styles: secure, anxious, and avoidant. They explore common relationship patterns, including fear of abandonment, emotional distancing, mixed signals, and the pursuit-withdraw cycle that many couples experience. Most importantly, they talk about the hope found in developing greater self-awareness and moving toward more secure relationships. Whether you're dating, married, healing from a breakup, or simply curious about your relationship patterns, this conversation offers practical insights from the book and a therapeutic perspective on connection. Stay tuned until the end to hear the next book in our summer book series!

Announcement of Summer Book Series

Crystal gives a brief intro for our summer book series. Join us as we work through 6 popular self-help books this summer and discover what we like and find helpful. Read along with us or just join us for the discussion on each episode!

What Your Therapist Wants You To Know About Motivation

In this episode, Josh and Crystal discuss the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, how perfectionism and overwhelm can quietly drain your energy, and why waiting to "feel motivated" often keeps people stuck. Sometimes the goal isn't pushing harder, it's identifying what's emotionally weighing you down, reconnecting with your values, and learning how to take small, sustainable steps forward. They end with reminding you that action precedes motivation and to remember that motivation always ebbs and flows.

What Your Therapist Wants You To Know About Your Relationship To Food

In this episode, Josh and Crystal interview Mallory, a local dietician who runs The Gut Edit, who helps us set the framework for our relationship to food. We explore what it really means to build a healthy relationship with food--not through guilt, restriction, or perfection, but through curiosity, balance, and self-compassion. She helps us unpack the diet culture, which often shapes the way we view our bodies and why so many people feel stuck in cycles of shame around food. This conversation offers a therapeutic perspective on learning to listen to your body, honor your needs, and separate your worth from what you eat. Whether you struggle with emotional eating, food guilt, all or nothing thinking, or simply want more peace around meals, this episode is a reminder that healing often begins when we examine our rules and adjust accordingly.

What Your Therapist Wants You To Know About Graduation and Grief

Graduation is often described as a joyful milestone filled with celebration, accomplishment, and anticipation for the future. But in this episode, Crystal and Josh explore the quieter side of graduation that many people experience but rarely talk about: grief.  Whether it's leaving behind friendships, saying goodbye to familiar routines, grieving unmet expectations, or navigating major life transitions, graduation can bring a surprising mix of emotions. Listeners are reminded that grief is not limited to death or tragedy-it can also emerge during moments of growth and change.  This episode emphasizes importance of acknowledging emotions rather than minimizing or ignoring them. Crystal and Josh reframe graduation not simply as an ending or beginning, but as a complex emotional transition that deserves compassion, reflection, and support.