Think Act Be Podcast

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• 264: Coping with Anticipatory Anxiety

  August 5, 2026 · 56 min

  Why is anxiety so common as you look to the future? Why do we tend to worry about things even though we know that worry is useless? And how can we stop dreading the future and start living more in the present? Joel and I explore these…

• 263: How to Improve Your Self-Talk

  July 1, 2026 · 46 min

  How do you tend to speak to yourself—more like a friend or your worst critic? In this episode Joel and I explore why self-talk tends to be so negative, techniques for speaking to yourself more kindly, why it’s often hard to change negative…

• 262: New Developments in Getting Off of Psychiatric Medications

  June 10, 2026 · 48 min

  It's often easier to start taking a psychiatric medication than to get off of it, or even to know when it's OK to stop. The Make America Healthy Again movement has highlighted this issue, which has long been neglected by the field of…

• 261: Free Yourself from Mental Health "Shoulds"

  April 29, 2026 · 38 min

  Learning techniques for managing your mental health can sometimes be a double-edged sword. As helpful as they might be, they can also become a kind of burden, especially when they get wrapped in “shoulds” and “have-to’s.” For example…

• 260: Reclaim Your Life From Social Media

  April 15, 2026 · 48 min

  Social media is great, except when it isn’t. Most of us enjoy what these platforms offer for entertainment and connection, and also find them hard to use in moderation. In this episode Joel and I explore what makes social media so…

• 259: Free Yourself From Unnecessary Guilt

  March 18, 2026 · 44 min

  Guilt is a normal human emotion that everyone deals with at times, and it’s not a problem by itself—it can actually be quite helpful. But excessive guilt can take on an oversized role in your life. Maybe you feel guilty even when you did…

• 258: Surprisingly Effective Ways to Manage Anxiety

  February 19, 2026 · 44 min

  Anxiety can be hard to manage, and many of our best attempts to reduce anxiety end up having the opposite effect. In this episode Joel and I explore surprisingly effective ways to deal with anxiety, from agreeing with your worries to…

• 257: Dealing with Heartbreaking Current Events

  February 4, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

  Disturbing recent events have left many of us reeling, especially the violence and killings in Minneapolis. In this episode Joel and I explore the coarsening of our public discourse, the distorting effects of elevating political allegiance…