Brain Damage with Scott

People fear authenticity, vulnerability, and transparency because they worry about judgment, rejection, or being misunderstood. Opening up risks exposing flaws or emotions that others might criticize or exploit, especially in a world where social media and public scrutiny amplify every misstep. Many feel safer hiding behind a curated image to protect their ego or avoid conflict. Trust issues also...

How can we become a healthy person and have healthy relationships? Most psychotherapists are nuts: lots of unresolved mommy and daddy issues. Is there still such a thing as a nuclear family? Is everything redefined about family? Don't we still need two parents to help us learn and grow into maturity? Where are we headed? Why are things so messed up? How do we handle our trauma? Where is the hope?...

A lot of people love four letter "F" words; well, maybe just the main one. But this one; FEAR, is a huge problem and probably behind many of the uses of the other "F" word. Join us as we explore a bunch of the problems Fear cause, create, and combust. There will need to be follow up episodes to deal with more aspects of this problem that often overwhelms many a soul and locks folks up in prison ce...

What is normal? Who is normal? What does the word normal mean? Does it have any relevance anymore? Let’s dig in and wrestle with some wild concepts. Maybe we need to change how we think and the way we think and behave. Because we all be brain damaged!

Why am I doing this? What are my motives? What are we talking about? Why does any of this matter? Who cares? Who or what are the problems? How are we all brain damaged? Why is this rated R? Don’t tell my mom. Let’s figure out how to discover truth amidst all the lies we have been programmed to believe are The Truth. We will address health, fitness, nutrition, doctors, medicine, health care, politi...

I spent 30 years in the evangelical church world in the USA. Most of that was under the influence of Reformed Calvinist theology. I struggled with the teaching about Father God being angry, judgmental and punishing. If Jesus Christ is perfect love and 1 John 4 states Father God IS Love; how could the Hebrew scriptures really teach the angry Zeus and Janus-like god in the sky? What is God truly lik...

Part 1 of figuring out what is wrong with us and why. We all struggle with relationships. Why? Is everyone in this mess? Or just me? Is there help? Or do I alone struggle? I hear many people complain about relationship and marital strife, struggles, dissatisfaction. This is a first piece of explaining the problems and offering some steps to growing, maturing, and resolving issues and traumas.

Here is the basic analogy: when two people get married, they are often blindly and madly in love overlooking many negatives to focus on the connection and what draws them together. When conflict happens which ends in divorce, many times these two can no longer agree on anything and become vilifying enemies... much like how current democrats and republicans [lower case on purpose] nastily treat the...

Shame is a good thing in cultures where people have the best in mind for their fellow group members. Maybe?! Here in the USA, I am convinced shame is used primarily in a bad and very negative way to attack the person; not merely their behavior. It is a type of condemnation against those who violate the principles of the one in power. How dare you? How could you do that to me? Shame makes people fe...

Background for what the heck I am doing this podcast. We all have traumas and crazy life events that led us to believe absolute nonsense and garbage. When we grow into adult bodies, often we have so much childhood gunk that we are NOT mature emotionally or relationally. How did we become psychotic, mean, angry, crazy people? Oh, let's throw in the problem of "Good / Evil" to start wrestling with h...

A teaser intro into why we are doing this podcast. What the Heaven / Hell is life about? Be patient. This is going to take a LONGGGGGGG time. Have fun learning and re-thinking most of what you believe. Crappy beliefs lead to crappy thinking and behaviors. Does God love ALL of us? Can you get fit, healthy, and strong after turning 50 years OLD? Let's also do some analysis of USA Christianity and pu...