The Intense Mind with Imi Lo

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When Doing Good Feels Pointless: For People Worn Out by Their Own Conscience - with Philosopher Travis Rieder

2026-08-2701:04:33

https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2026/08/27/travis/ Many intense people have a high level of moral sensitivity. I wrote about this elsewhere before, but basically, they see something cruel or careless and cannot just move on from it the way other people seem to. They often lie awake thinking about whether they are doing enough, whether what they are doing even counts, and whether there is any point in trying when the world does not seem to care whether they try or not. They hold thems...

Alan Watts, Wu Wei, and McStoicism: What Popular Philosophy Gets Wrong - with Frank Saunders Jr.

2026-07-3042:33

https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2026/07/30/frank/ If you have searched for help with anxiety or overthinking, YouTube has probably offered you ten Stoic principles that will change your life, or Taoism explained as going with the flow, sometimes in an approximation of Alan Watts's voice. My guest is Frank P. Saunders Jr., a philosopher who works on Chinese thought and who has spent the past couple of years making videos about philosophy and public philosophy. We began with McSt...

Waiting Mode, Anxiety, and Intolerance of Uncertainty (Audio Essay)

2026-07-1513:15

Full text: https://eggshelltherapy.com/waiting-mode/ Waiting mode describes the inner experience of being unable to do anything because something uncertain, or a future event, is pending. It could be an appointment, an exam result, a medical scan, a conversation that has not happened yet, a text message that may or may not receive a reply. Eggshell Therapy and Coaching: eggshelltherapy.com/ Imi Lo: imiloimilo.com Sister Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Zcl8ZUsu4AePugDoWt...

Imi Lo Who Decides What Is Wrong? Neurodiversity, Diagnosis, and Patient Autonomy - With Dr. Eric Mathison

2026-07-1254:00

Eric Mathison is a philosopher and bioethicist and a former clinical ethicist. In this conversation, we discuss why the idea that medicine is about healing may be wrong, what the evidence actually shows about the effectiveness of mental health treatment, and what happens when the system has to label you as disordered before it can help you. We talk about diagnostic labelling and neurodiversity, the disturbing variation between doctors’ subjective judgement, and whose voice actually coun...

Intense and Gifted: The Cost of Performing Normal - Gordon Smith, Imi Lo

2026-06-2701:01:22

Gordon Smith is a therapist, coach, and creative instructor who has spent over 26 years working with gifted and neurodivergent adolescents and adults. Gordon came to centre giftedness in his practice after pulling out seven years of client notes and realising the people he had done his best work with all had one thing in common: they were intensely, unusually bright. That discovery sent him into his own gifted reckoning. We talk about what giftedness actually looks like when you pull it out o...

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