Where Did Your Mind Just Go?

This episode is about grief and death, including parents who lost a child to cancer. Nothing is described in detail. Please take care while listening. Why is grief so hard to sit with, even though every one of us will go through it? In the first episode of The Village Shrink , a spinoff series of Where Did Your Mind Just Go? that goes behind the scenes of how therapists think, Dr. Gabriel Lowe sit...

This episode touches on PTSD, betrayal and relational trauma, child trafficking and genocide. Nothing is described in detail. Please take care while listening. Is trauma everywhere now, or are most of us underselling what happened to us? In this episode of Where Did Your Mind Just Go? , Dr. Gabe Lowe sits down with Dr. David Wang, the Cliff and Joyce Penner Chair for the Formation of Emotionally H...

This episode touches on religious abuse, informal conversion therapy and sexual violence. Nothing is described in detail. Please take care while listening. What if the place that hurt you is also where your best childhood memories live? In this episode of Where Did Your Mind Just Go? , Dr. Gabe Lowe sits down with Cheyenne Garstad, LCSW, a licensed clinical social worker who works with LGBTQ+ and...

Babies notice race by six months. Most parents wait years to say anything about it. In this episode of Where Did Your Mind Just Go? , Dr. Gabe Lowe sits down with Anjali Ferguson, PhD, a culturally responsive clinical psychologist, founder of the nonprofit Parenting Culture, and co-author of the picture book An Ordinary Day . Raising two Black and Indian kids with her husband, she has plenty of pr...

What happens when the complexity of psychology meets the speed of social media? In this episode of Where Did Your Mind Just Go? , Dr. Gabe Lowe reconnects with friend and fellow psychologist Christopher Schadt, PsyD, who shares candidly about his own experience creating psychology content online, and why he's stepped away from it. Together, they explore the pressure to create content that per...

This episode includes discussion of suicide and suicidal thinking throughout. Please take care while listening. If you are struggling, you can call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, any time. Why is it so hard to say the word out loud — and what changes when the person across from you isn’t afraid of it? Dr. Gabriel Lowe sits down with Dr. Kerry Horrell to talk about suic...

What does it really mean to be a “good” mother, partner, professional, and person when every role seems to demand more than you can give? Dr. Gabriel Lowe sits down with Dr. Christina Lee Kim to talk about motherhood, faith, ambition, cultural identity, mental labor, burnout, and the pressure to hold everything together. Dr. Kim is a licensed clinical psychologist, Associate Dean and C...

Dr. Gabriel Lowe sits down with clinical psychologist Dr. Joseph Kelly for an exploration of gender, sexuality, identity, and the ongoing process of making sense of who we are. Drawing from Freud, Jean Laplanche, and Avgi Saketopoulou, Joseph challenges the idea that healing always means arriving at a perfectly clear, fixed, and integrated identity. Instead, what might become possible when we make...

Dr. Gabe Lowe is joined by Dr. Carly Claney, licensed clinical psychologist, founder of Relational Psych in Seattle, executive coach, and host of The Relational Psych Podcast. Together, they explore the emotional side of money: how our families, relationships, culture, and life experiences shape the way we earn, spend, save, and give. It's a thoughtful conversation about moving beyond shame a...

What does it mean to be an everyday hero? Episode 3 of Where Did Your Mind Just Go?, Dr. Gabe Lowe sits down with Joshua Fort, TED speaker, nonprofit advocate, with a background in philosophy and an obsession with superheroes. Together, they explore heroism, hope, and the power of choosing to do good, even in small ways. 🎙️ Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and as always, keep wandering. Wher...

How do we lead with hope as parents when the future looks uncertain and scary? How do we help our children grow and achieve without losing ourselves along the way? Nicole Knutsen is a mother of three, writer, and creative, and who brings the lessons she's learned about guiding kids without controlling them, making space for their questions, and becoming a safe place for them to land when life...

Can AI tend to our mental health? How does change really happen in therapy and can AI do the same thing? Episode 1 of Where Did Your Mind Just Go? explores the future of psychotherapy, artificial intelligence, and how we experience healing as human beings. Join us as we sit down with one of the owners of Coastal Therapy Group Dr. Reid Kessler to wrestle with one of the biggest questions in the fie...