Motor City Hypnotist
Episodes
350 episodes
Nervous System Reset For Anxiety part 4: What If Coping Is The Trap?
Your brain can be brilliant and still hit the panic button at the worst time. We get blunt about why that happens and why so many “best practices” for anxiety relief accidentally keep people stuck in a lifetime of coping, avoiding, and white kn...
Nervous System Reset For Anxiety part 3: Stop White Knuckling It Through Anxiety
Your heart races, your stomach drops, your hands sweat, and your brain decides something is wrong, even when you are “fine.” That experience can make anxiety and panic feel like a character flaw, but we see it differently: your nervous system i...
Nervous System Reset For Anxiety part 2: What If Anxiety Is A Miscalibrated Alarm?
Panic can hijack your body in seconds, and the worst part is how convincing it feels. We pick up Nervous System Reset Part Two by getting specific about what’s really happening during anxiety and panic attacks and what to do about it. I walk th...
Nervous System Reset For Anxiety part 1: What If Curiosity Beats Calm Every Time
Anxiety can hijack your body in seconds and the worst part is you didn’t choose it. We talk about why that happens, what your amygdala is really doing when panic shows up “out of nowhere,” and how the stress hormones behind the racing heart, di...
Road Rage To Wall Punching: What Is IED Anyway (part 1)
Anger can be normal. What’s terrifying is when the anger shows up like a switch flip, blows past logic, and leaves damage behind. We dig into Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED), a DSM-5 diagnosis defined by repeated episodes of impulsive agg...
Recovery Tools For Intermittent Explosive Disorder (part 2)
Anger can show up in an instant, but the damage can last for days, years, or an entire relationship. We pick up our conversation on intermittent explosive disorder (IED) with the part people crave most: how recovery works when it feels like you...
Parenting Teens With Oppositional Defiant Disorder With Consistent Boundaries (part 4)
Defiance can look like disrespect, but up close it often looks like a teen who is flooded, stuck, and missing a few key skills. We wrap up our oppositional defiant disorder series by getting very practical about what helps and what makes things...
ODD In The Teen Years (part 3)
Teen defiance can be loud, relentless, and personal, especially when oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is in the mix. We pick up our ODD series with a clear focus on adolescence and family dynamics, because the teen years add jet fuel to conf...
ODD Is Not Just Bad Behavior And Here Is Why (part 2)
Defiance can look like disrespect, but what if it is really stress, shame, and a nervous system that cannot downshift? We pick up our series on oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) with a clear, parent-friendly breakdown of what ODD is, how comm...
Oppositional Defiant Disorder Is Not Just Bad Behavior (part 1)
Defiance gets blamed on attitude, laziness, or “bad parenting,” but what if the real issue is a nervous system that can’t calm down fast enough? We dig into oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in a clear, practical way, breaking down what the d...
Jedi Calm And Sith Passion Through Real Philosophy: Finding Balance In The Force (Part 2)
Star Wars is fun, but the Force hits harder when you treat it like a map of your own mind. On May the Fourth, we go beyond fandom and use the Jedi and Sith as two competing philosophies of how to live with emotion, power, fear, and desire. If y...
Star Wars Wisdom For Real Life Balance: The Force And The Mind (Part 1)
May the Fourth is a fun excuse to talk Star Wars, but we take a sharper turn: what if “the Force” is really a map of the human mind? We use the language of Jedi and Sith to explore themes we see every day in therapy and hypnosis work: emotional...
Autism Without The Myths (Part 2)
Autism is one of those words that everyone thinks they understand until you start talking about how it actually feels day to day. We get into the lived reality of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including why sensory overload can turn ordinary ...
Autism On The Spectrum (Part 1)
A lot of adults walk around with the same quiet question: why do certain sounds, textures, routines, or social moments hit me so much harder than everyone else? We get that question constantly, so we finally sat down to talk about autism spectr...
Mental Health Trends That Matter - Part 2
A mental health label can be a lifeline, or it can quietly become a cage. We get real about what mental health trends and statistics actually mean once they hit the therapy room, especially when someone walks in convinced a diagnosis from 20 ye...
One In Five Adults Lives With Mental Illness Today; Mental Health Trends In 2026
One in five US adults is living with a mental illness, and the odds are high that someone in your family, workplace, or friend group is quietly carrying it. We take a hard look at mental health trends in 2026, including what the latest stats sa...
Microaggressions After The Fact (part 2) (EP325)
A tiny comment can hit like a gut punch, and the worst part is how easy it is to doubt yourself afterward. We pick up Microaggressions Part Two by focusing on the person on the receiving end: what you feel, what your nervous system does in real...
Microaggressions Add Up Like Daily Paper Cuts (part 1)
A compliment that makes your stomach drop is still a problem, even if the speaker “meant well.” We unpack microaggressions, those subtle comments and behaviors that communicate bias, and we explain why they’re called micro even though the impac...
Top 10 United States Olympic Moments That Sparked Controversies
Some Olympic controversies are loud for a week. Others echo for decades and make you question the whole idea of “the best athlete wins.” We sit down with pizza and a drink and build a Top 10 list of controversial United States Olympic moments, ...
Top 10 U.S. Olympic Moments
The Olympic moments we never forget are rarely just about the score. They are about nerves, timing, pressure, and the weird way one perfect run or one impossible upset can turn into a lifelong memory you can replay on demand.We’re back ...
Loneliness Fixes (part 2)
Loneliness doesn’t always look like being alone. Sometimes it looks like scrolling, posting, and still feeling invisible. We get real about the loneliness epidemic and the traps that make it worse, especially the way social media trains us to c...
Loneliness Is A Signal (part 1)
Loneliness can be brutal because it doesn’t always look like isolation. You can have a relationship, coworkers, family dinners, even hundreds of social media friends and still feel that hollow disconnect that nobody really sees you. We get hone...
Anxiety Meds, Explained Clearly - Part 2
Anxiety can feel like an engine stuck at redline—your thoughts race, your chest tightens, and logic gets drowned out by adrenaline. We’re breaking down what actually helps. From fast-acting benzodiazepines for crisis moments to long-term SSRIs ...