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Author Archives: Benjamin
Episode 98: Training with Resistance Bands
If you’ve been listening to the podcast all year, you’ve heard Jerry talk about the work he’s been doing with resistance bands. He’s mentioned several times that he’s been exploring resistance bands as an effective means of working out at home, and that he’s been really excited about what he’s been developing. At the end …
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Episode 97: Training Tiger Woods
A few days before we recorded this episode, I watched the final few holes of the final round of the Masters golf tournament. As I watched, I found myself thinking that what was most notable about this year’s tournament was the absence of Tiger Woods. Tiger burst into the world’s consciousness back in 1997 with …
Episode 96: Transitions
Earlier this spring, I was facing a few major transitions. The end of ski season meant I’d soon be out of a job, which meant both that my daily patterns would change and also that I would need to figure out how I was going to spend the skiing off-season. I was also going to …
Episode 95: Dealing with Persistent Blocks
Sometimes we find ourselves deeply blocked about things we know we really should do. When that happens, what do we do? How do we deal with blocks that seem to persist in our behavior despite strong intentions, that seem to defy our willpower? How do we move past blocks like that? Moving past those blocks …
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Episode 94: Cancel Culture as a Lens on Resistance to Change
A few weeks ago, Jerry reached out and said that he wanted to do an episode on cancel culture, that he thought there were aspects about that debate that are relevant to the work we do. In his view, the debate around cancel culture was not a demand for change on the one side and …
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Episode 93: Jenn Cullom on the Value of Therapy
Therapist and friend of the show Jenn Cullom reached out after Jerry and I spoke of our reservations about therapy in a couple of episodes earlier this year. She felt our characterizations about therapy were narrow and not very accurate. So we invited her onto the show to talk about what she saw as our …
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Episode 92: On Skillfully Meeting the Discomfort of Change
The process of change isn’t comfortable. Our comfort zone is the place we already are, and to change ourselves requires leaving that comfort zone. In this episode, we talk about some areas in which Benjamin has seen his practices begin to come to fruition, and the feelings of discomfort that accompanied those practices along the …
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Episode 91: Calling in Hope at the Vernal Equinox (A Better Story)
It’s our second COVID spring, but this year at the equinox, there is reason to feel hope for the new world that we are building. The vernal equinox is a good time to reflect on hope: springtime, after all, is a time for renewal, rebirth, the planting of seeds. In this episode, Benjamin speaks of …
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Episode 90: Jerry Got His First Vaccine Shot
Jerry got his first vaccine shot and found that it brought up a lot of interesting feelings. We start our conversation this week by talking about those feelings, and from there range into topics as varied as our responsibilities to others, the way two different cultural responses to COVID seem to be entrenching, and even …
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