Everything's Fine
One of the most common responses a psychotherapist will hear from their clients about how they're doing or feeling about a certain event is "fine; everything's fine." This is a podcast by psychotherapists to help listeners learn how to become okay with everything...well...not always being fine. Our times together with be co-facilitated by your host, Bryan Forbes, and his guests, working psychotherapists in the field. Each episode will cover a real, concrete issue (or set of issues) that people face with their mental health, along with relevant and practical tips from the professionals for how to address it.In the end, the hope is that you'll come to learn that freedom and change come when we can finally and courageously admit that everything is, as it turns out, not fine. And that's okay.
Everything's Fine
Episode 5: Why do I keep doing the same things, even when I don't want to? - Dr. Brenda Gesell, LMFT
In this episode, Bryan interviews Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Dr. Brenda Gesell, about the idea of reenactment—that tendency we all experience at some point in our lives to act out or rehearse old ways or patterns of relating to ourselves or others despite how detrimental they may be to us now. Dr. Gesell reviews the notions of enactment and reenactment, and provides a powerful and psychologically deep explanation for why we can find ourselves doing the very things—or behaving in particular ways—that are in deep conflict with our ultimate desires or hopes for ourselves and the way we wish to live.
Dr. Gesell is owner and founder of Gesell Psychotherapy, a group psychotherapy practice based out of Orange County, CA, and is also the Director of Graduate Clinical Psychology at Vanguard University in Southern California. Dr. Gesell graduated from Pacifica Graduate Institute with her Ph. D. in Depth Psychology. To learn more about her work, visit here: https://www.gesellpsychotherapy.com/
To learn more about Forbes Individual and Family Therapy, visit https://www.forbesift.com/
To connect with Bryan directly, you can reach him at bryan@forbesift.com
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