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Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
19 minutes
English
United States
15 episodes
since July 20, 2026
episodic

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After a serious health crisis leaves a listener mourning who she used to be and uncertain how to begin again, Gary unpicks the story she believes is simply a description of what happened. This episode explores how language creates the world you experience—and why your future must begin with possibi…

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You can’t create a future relationship while remaining organized around the past. Gary explores who you’ve been, who you now say you are, and what it takes to live with integrity when old patterns return. 
You say you're over it, you're past it, maybe even that it made you who you are. Or did it? This episode takes on the incompletions you’ve learned to live with, the rightness that keeps them alive, and the choice between being right about your past and being free to live your life.
You say you want to reconcile. But what exactly are you trying to get back? This conversation might change everything you think you know about putting a relationship back together. 
Acceptance isn't approval, surrender, or saying it was okay. It's confronting what happened without everything you've added to it—and finally taking responsibility for what happens next.
Resentment has a payoff—and that’s part of why you keep feeding it. This conversation gets underneath the righteousness, resistance and indulgence that keep resentment alive—and confronts the things you do to keep yourself trapped there.
When the past becomes the thing holding your life together, calling it bullshit won’t set you free. In this episode, Gary responds to a listener who can see the old explanation no longer works, but is now confronted by who she has become. A raw conversation about ontology, self-deception, vulnerabi…
It's much easier to justify yourself than deal with yourself. This week, we get into why we do it, how those justifications follow us long after the damage is done, and what it actually takes to clean up the self-imposed messes we make.
 What happens when the life you built no longer works? In this episode, Gary explores the crisis that comes when relationships, careers, purpose and the things through which we've known ourselves run out of road—and why what looks like the bankruptcy of self might actually be the greatest possibili…
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