Listening to "Unlearn — Cal Callahan on Letting Go of Who You Never Were" at buzzsprout.com/2600001/episod…
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Brooks Coleman
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Brooks Coleman
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Father. Husband. Coach. 🎙️ nothing is wrong podcast
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The Science of Stress — Jim Poole on Why Your Brain Works Against You and What Actually Fixes It
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@Grimhood our GOAT 🙏
99.99% of people are trying to manage their experience away as a problem to be solved.
Using tools to feel MORE of this experience while we're here is where it's at.
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@kylejunlong @jonnym1ller @hubermanlab 100% meeting people where they are and Trojan Horsing it is key.
Unfortunately on average, the people most capable of helping people make lasting change are the least likely to use the language up front to actually get people in the door lol.
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@HealthHodler @jonnym1ller @hubermanlab this is probably the main bottleneck in marketing somatic/emotional work, because stepping away from the control-based language matters and at the same time nobody immediately sees the value in learning how to "welcome" the very emotions they've spent their entire life avoiding
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It's wild that this two-hour conversation between @hubermanlab + @drmarkbrackett about emotions did not once mention interoception, somatic work or how to feel them in your body.
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Why is this an issue?
Yes emotional management tools are effective (and at times essential) in the short-term... but months or years of regulating without feeling will accumulate emotional debt.
This is the 'self-regulation paradox' and I wish it was better understood by podcasters, authors + researchers with large platforms.
In the beginning, self-regulation protocols (cognitive-appraisal, breathwork, physiological sigh, humming etc.) are game-changers for those who otherwise would be totally overwhelmed by their emotions.
The moments of intense anxiousness, fear, and overwhelm can be effectively managed, and in the short term, life improves (you're able to function).
However, frameworks like RULER are not the end-game. If every time that you notice anxiety or irritability, you just self-regulate it away without feeling it, you are adding to the backlog.
The skill of self-regulation is very different from emotional completion/metabolisation. And this is where the paradox comes in.
It’s crucial that you feel safe and grounded enough in the moment (which often requires co-regulation with another) – but then, at some point, you inevitably need to feel and welcome the feeling.
Not just the cognitive idea of the feeling but the uncomfortable interoceptive sensations that arise.
Different emotions have different completion reflexes and arcs, and it takes practice to learn how to unclench our protective strategies, to allow the emotions to run fluidly.
I see this with our five-week-old daughter right now, she is unable to self-regulate, and instead of soothing, we are holding her and allowing the emotional arcs to complete (which they typically do in a few minutes).
So sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but no amount of reframing, labelling or mindful breathing alone is a substitute for genuinely welcoming and allowing the emotions to move.
^^ feedback, critique + discussions welcome. This is an important topic and I really care about it entering the mainstream dialogue
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab
The new Huberman Lab episode is out: How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc Brackett (@drmarcbrackett) 0:00 Marc Brackett 2:55 Emotion Regulation 5:53 Emotion Mindset, Anxiety; Good or Bad Emotions? 11:25 Sponsors: Joovv & Lingo 13:54 Permission for Happiness; Gender, Emotion Suppression 22:13 Young Men, Vulnerability, Incapable; Gay Men 31:00 Boys & Men, Crying; Emotion Socialization 37:34 Sponsor: AG1 38:58 Physical Interaction; Rough/Tumble Play, Teaching Emotion Regulation 46:47 Emotion Calibration, Tools: Leaders & Being a Role Model; Meta-Moment 56:15 Meditation & Stress Tolerance, Tool: Label Emotions; Childhood 1:03:12 Sponsor: LMNT 1:04:32 Understand Your Assumptions, Tool: Intentional Co-Regulation 1:12:09 Vocabulary & Rethinking Emotion, Tool: Reframing 1:15:49 Emotional Intelligence Training, Self-Evaluation 1:22:15 Living with Discomfort & Emotional Intelligence 1:27:01 Marc's Work & Criticism; Emotion "Leakage" & Switching Mindset 1:34:19 Sponsor: Rorra 1:35:32 Excitement, Positive Emotion; Modern Concerns, AI & Disconnection 1:45:11 Major Societal Challenges & Everyday Progress 1:54:38 Physical/Emotional Identity & Envision Best Self, Tool: Meta-Moment 2:05:33 Emotional Intelligence 2:12:46 Curiosity & Compassion; Reflection, Identity 2:19:32 Point of Connection Game 2:25:02 Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow, Reviews & Feedback, Sponsors, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Includes paid partnerships.
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@DanielCohrsMD @RCarhartHarris Yep. No surprise they're equal in preventing depression, but what's the story look like if we consider actually creating positive emotion and a joyful life? If you blunt it all, it's not much "better"...and happiness is not simply a lack of depression.
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This is great work! But I fear that the headlines will lose important parts of the plot (as the below headline suggests). As @RCarhartHarris points out in the below thread, psychedelics both avoid the side effects of standard antidepressants, and (1/n)
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Balázs Szigeti@psybalazs
🚨MAJOR NEW PAPER 🚨 just out in @JAMAPsych : Psychedelic Therapy vs Antidepressants for the Treatment of Depression Under Equal Unblinding Conditions (tinyurl.com/yu2rbtaf). I am very proud of this one, was a lot of work for me - both co-first and last author! Eternal gratitude to co-first @QuantPsychiatry and twitterless Hannah Barnett! The premise is that it is biased to compare open-label trials (=where patients know what treatment they are getting) to blind trials (=where patients do NOT know what they are getting). Open-label trials would gain an unfair advantage by higher placebo response. Even formally blinded psychedelic trials are practically open-label as its obvious to distinguish placebo from 25mg of #psilocybin. In contrast, traditional antidepressants (SSRIs/SNRIs) trials are are close to be truly blind (Lin 2022). Given the bias of open-label vs. blinded comparison, we compared the efficacy of psychedelic-therapy (which is practically always open-label) vs. open-label antidepressants for the treatment of major depression. We tested 3 prior hypothesis: - There will be a significant difference between psychedelic-therapy vs. open-label antidepressants, favoring psychedelic-therapy. - There will be a significant difference between blinded and open-label antidepressants trials, favoring open-label. - There will NOT be a significant difference between blinded and open-label psychedelic-therapy, as practically they are always open-label. In contrast with our prior hypothesis, we did not find psychedelic-therapy to be more effective than open-label antidepressants (H1). Not only was the difference not clinically meaningful, but practically there was no difference at all. This finding means that antidepressants administered knowingly to patients, which is the case in real-life medical practice, is as effective as psychedelic-therapy. This result was robust across variations in study selection, including when we removed psychedelic-therapy trials on treatment-resistant depression. We also assessed the impact of blinding in both psychedelic-therapy and antidepressants trials. We found that for antidepressants (H2), but not for psychedelic-therapy (H3), open label is associated with better outcomes than blinded treatment. However, even in the case of antidepressants, the difference was practically small (~1.3 HAMD units). How come hypothesis 1 failed, i.e. that psychedelic-therapy is no ore effective than open-label antidepressants, given that antidepressants trials are famous for small drug-placebo difference (~2.4 HAMD units), while psychedelic-therapy trials reported large effects (~7.3)? The key factor is that in psychedelic trials the placebo response is about 50% relative to antidepressants, ~ 4 vs 8 HAMD units (Hsu 2024, Hieronymus 2025). This suppressed placebo response leads to an inflated between-arm difference, as the treatment arm is measured against a lower floor. The suppressed placebo response in psychedelic-therapy trials is likely attributable to the ‘know-cebo’ effect, i.e. the disappointment when patients realize they are in the control group. In psychedelic-therapy trials, this placebo suppression accounts for 4.0 / 7.3 ~ 55% of the specific treatment effect. In other words, ~55% of psychedelic-therapy’s effect is not explained by patient improvement after the treatment, but rather by the lack of improvement in the placebo group. In summary, we found that for the treatment of depression, psychedelic-therapy is no more effective than open-label SSRIs/SNRIs. Our results for psychedelics are twofold: psychedelic-therapy demonstrated a robust and large therapeutic effects (~12 HAMD units), which justifies optimism. On the other hand, psychedelic-therapy’s lack of superiority compared to open-label SSRIs/SNRIs highlights the influence of blinding integrity and argues against overly optimistic narrative's about psychedelic-therapy's potential.
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The "gotcha" vibe here isn't what you think it is.
This is a feature, not a bug... many of these trials are ONE dose of psychedelics on one day, being compared to a lifelong drug commitment....
I'd also be curious to view how they compare when looking at more than just the absence of negative symptoms.
We know antidepressants can be extremely effective at getting rid of negative feelings, the problem many report is inability to access positive feelings because it's blunting all emotional experience.
Very intrigued to hear about the seemingly "equal" outcome when looking at positive life experiences.
Happiness isn't simply the lack of depression.
It's access to joy.
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter
News study finds that for all their hype, psychedelics don't beat antidepressants "These results argue against highly optimistic narratives surrounding [psychedelic-assisted therapy] and highlight the importance of blinding integrity."
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Fitness hack:
Get a super high energy dog that haunts you if it doesn’t get an hour of walking every day.
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"There is 'zero likelihood' self-driving cars will replace human drivers in any reasonable timeframe"
- Lyft's CEO 2 months ago 😂
TSLA99T@Tsla99T
I am in a robotaxi without safety monitor
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@psu_outsider @HealthHodler @paulsaladinomd He does not know anything.
High blood pressure medication like Thiazide depletes your electrolytes and thus leaving patients dizzy , hypokalemia ( low potassium ) and the list goes on….
Medications are not made to heal or treat people they are making conditions worse.
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Respectfully disagree. I've met hundreds if not thousands of people who have reversed medical conditions they had been told were "incurable" simply by improving the quality of the foods they eat. Modern medicine is great at acute care, horrible at prevention and understanding root cause. Eating real food is incredibly powerful.
Jeff Nippard@JeffNippard
The idea that there are special “real” foods that have healing abilities is dangerous because it creates a health halo. This can lead people to think that if they just eat the “right” foods, modern medicine is unnecessary.
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@Pharaon1844 @paulsaladinomd Yeah I also agree with that. They literally just said eat real food, how can we not all support that?
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@HealthHodler @paulsaladinomd Agree but that was a weird place for Jeff to make that post. Like does he prefer the old food pyramid?
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Stop asking how to get what you want.
Start asking how to get the feeling you think it will give you.
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There's a lot to unpack here, going to do my best fwiw.
I don't have everything figured out but I'm just replying as if this was to myself 10 years ago.
Number 1 - you're incredibly identified with the voice inside your head (thoughts).
Very normal, but that alone causes this entire cycle to be 10x worse.
Meditation practices, mindful breathing practices, yoga, etc can help you start to get distance from this mental gauntlet going on.
Number 2 - Because of that identification with thought, you're very self absorbed on yourself.
Notice the circle going on "I don't want to do this, I want to work, I feel guilty about not wanting to do this, am I a terrible person? I am going to look back and regret this. I I I I I I I. Me me me me me me"
Also normal, but it's the cause of all suffering.
As you build distance from the voice in your head (that "I" you are obsessing over and making sure is okay) you'll stop thinking about yourself as much and start doing what needs doing and allowing yourself to be fully absorbed in the activity in front of you and with your kids.
And when you slowly stop relating everything back to this "I" in your head and making sure it's taken care of (which isn't actually real btw but that's another conversation) you will find just as much meaning and fulfillment throwing a football that you do in your work currently because you're no longer doing things for you but just being where you are.
Number 3 - This entire statement is very full of statements that you feel your experience is set in stone and cannot change.
This is just how it is, this is how it will always be, it's just how you are.
That is dangerous, and it's a belief that can lead you to NOT work on these things to eventually enjoy life wherever you are.
Number 4 - Get into your body.
Your blood starts to boil - when that happens, direct your consciousness away from the thoughts in your head "I don't like this, I just want to finish my coffee, I should be working, I'm missing out on accomplishing things, what's wrong with me?" and direct it to the ACTUAL FEELING inside of your body - where do you feel your blood boiling? Feel it fully. Allow it. That's uncomfortable, and that's the point. If you don't feel these things they will continue to be triggered and run your life.
Staying in your head and trying to understand why this is, what it means about you, etc gets you nowhere.
Getting into the body actually moves things in the direction you want to be going.
Right now you at some level do not feel whole or complete, and your work and accomplishment is making you feel that way...
But it doesn't have to be that way.
We're all already whole, we've just had experiences that stuck with us and provided blocks that we now avoid feeling, and certain activities (working) help us feel whole again.
When you stop trying to change the outer world to make you feel whole (working), and start releasing the stuckness inside that's blocking the wholeness that's already there, you can start feeling the way you do when you work ALL THE TIME, NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE OR WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
For more I'd recommend...
Letting Go - David Hawkins
Living Untethered - Michael Singer
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
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Am I just a monster? It's been 4 years since I became a father and I'm beginning to fear for my soul. The truth is I just don't like being around kids for very long. Historically, this is not uncommon among fathers, but today it feels almost illegal. It's causing me a lot of confusion and anguish.
The ideal amount of time I would like to spend playing with my kids is probably about 70-140 minutes a week—roughly ten minutes each day, maybe 2x/day, taking breaks from work. My feelings of love toward them are perfectly strong, but if I have to watch them or entertain them for more than about 10 minutes my blood starts to boil. I just want to be working, or accomplishing something. I try to be grateful, but it doesn't work.
It's 9 AM this morning, Saturday, January 3. It's a sunny, warm day here in Austin, and my four-year-old son is begging me to play catch in the street. I was drinking coffee, still waking up, so I didn’t really feel like it, but at this age his desire to play is insatiable. He begged and begged, so I conceded, and with a smile. I have no problem being a kind and loving father, the problem is only that I do not enjoy it. It's not that I'm trying to maximize my personal pleasure; it just seems wrong that I experience so little delight when my dad friends all claim to experience so much.
It was beautiful. We live on a picturesque, tree-lined block. I am even relatively relaxed from the holiday rest. Playing catch with your son is supposed to be an iconic, peak experience. Yet for every single minute, on the inside, I just don't want to be there. I want to be drinking my coffee in peace. Then I feel guilty and absurdly ungrateful, and ashamed, when we're done. I know that when he is a teenager, I'll long to have these days back. I have all of this perspective rationally, and I've been very patient and steadfast trying to digest it, but nothing fixes me emotionally.
Am I a terrible person? Or is my feeling within a certain range of historically normal and it's modern parenting norms that are off? Whether it's my fault or not, I don't even care, I just want to figure this out. Something is wrong and I no longer have the excuse of being new to this.
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@0xexpt @PGC1a_RB @tryspikehealth FINALLY a formulation with a potassium:sodium that makes sense. It’s insane it’s taken this long.
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Guess which mineral blend has lithium?
Right, we do @tryspikehealth
Louisa Nicola@louisanicola_
Could a Tiny Mineral Be Missing in Alzheimer’s Disease? New research asks a bold question: Does lithium deficiency play a role in Alzheimer’s? Here’s what science suggests 👇 Key points from Nature & PubMed (2025): 1. Lithium is not just a psychiatric drug At low levels, lithium supports brain plasticity, synapse health, and neuron survival. 2. Brain lithium levels may matter Emerging evidence suggests insufficient lithium could weaken pathways involved in memory and learning. 3. Protective signaling pathways Lithium influences Wnt signaling, GSK 3 beta, and inflammation, all linked to Alzheimer’s pathology. 4. More than amyloid This supports a shift away from amyloid only thinking toward metabolic and mineral balance in the brain. 5. Not about high doses The hypothesis focuses on trace or microdose lithium, not clinical bipolar doses. 6. Still early, but compelling Researchers are calling for deeper studies into lithium as a modifiable risk factor. Why this matters: If confirmed, Alzheimer’s may partly reflect a preventable deficiency, not just degeneration. Alzheimer’s might not only be about what builds up in the brain. It may also be about what quietly runs out.
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@AbudBakri Nice validation things are in a good place.
Def going to be using with clients who aren’t quite there with routine.
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@HealthHodler For people who are dialed in, less is to be expected given these are peptides that restore baseline rather than promote supraphysiologic
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And so it begins..
First noticed it in myself using this combo... then tested it on everyone around me.. most started having the same effects. Some had no effects..
But these two have the potential to change the sleep game
Wait till the circadian light + epithalon protocols
Chad Buffmore VI@MustGetBiggr
First night of sleep recorded after 2 days of 1 mg pinealon in AM and 3 mg epithalon in PM. Deep sleep on this is REM and deep sleep combined. Biostrap claims bands aren’t reliable to differentiate the two. 🤷♂️ Regardless, I’ve never had anywhere close to that much total REM and deep sleep.
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