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One of the most common complaints from high-performers? “I can’t turn off my brain.” So we turn to doomscrolling, alcohol and other substances. Tara Schuster used weed to cope — until she blacked out and left a terrifying voice message for her therapist. [Episode 26]
Tara is a former executive at Comedy Central (Key and Peele, David Spade) and 2x best-selling author.
This episode discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or visit988lifeline.org
LEARN MORE ABOUT TARA
- Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There
- Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way
- Substack
REFERENCES FROM THE SHOW
- No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz
- Self Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness Using IFS, A Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy by Jay Earley
- Affect labeling
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