Katherine Woodward Thomas is a therapist and author of Conscious Uncoupling: Five Steps to Living Happily Even After. She and Polly engage in a spirited discussion about attachment, separation, and grief that are involved in uncoupling. Does your ex-partner have to be your enemy? The resistance and reality of using Katherine’s model and embracing the stages of uncoupling in a conscious manner.
Pay Attention Interviews: David Jobes: A Deeper Look at Suicide Prevention
David Jobes is an internationally recognized suicidologist, professor, and researcher. He talks with Polly about his Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) assessment method which gives people who are suicidal hope, skills, and insight into dealing with their profound suffering. They talk about shame, despair, and the tools needed to help teens and young adults with suicidal ideation.
Conscious Parenting in Troubling Times: An Interview with Aliza Pressman
Aliza Pressman is a child development and parenting expert, developmental psychologist and the host of the weekly podcast Raising Good Humans. She talks with Polly about her own experiences of having moved across the country during the pandemic, changing schools and neighborhoods, with her two children, one a teenager and the other a preteen. Polly and Aliza discuss the problems of today’s parenting when you feel like a “peer” to your kids because they can’t see friends, and so you’re trying to be a “friend.” Aliza talks about what parents can do to structure the day with kids at home so much, and together Polly and Aliza describe how parents create the “emotional weather” in the kids’ lives growing up.
