Dr. Patricia Bay - Therapy in a Nutshell

What are your patterns of behavior and how do they affect the quality of your life? This episode will help you identify unhealthy patterns and learn how to change them into healthy patterns of behavior.

We are born into Earth School © for one purpose. Learn what that purpose is and how to manifest it in your life. This comforting lesson can help you find the peace you have been searching for.

Almost everyone lies sometimes. Why? This episode lets you see how the lies we tell are a window into our own emotional development and how we need to grow. Learn why people lie, how to tell if they are lying and how to become more direct and honest yourself.

Your relationship with your mother, good or bad, happy or challenged, is a window into who you are. What things have you adopted? How do you try not to be like her? Take a look at how your relationship with your mom colors your world today.

How aware are you of your own"ME FILTER?" Do you tend to take things very personally or feel obligated to always express your thoughts, opinions or experiences? Does someone you know often feel like a victim? Learn to get outside of yourself and become a calmer person.

Co-dependent behaviors can be viewed in a manner that allows you to change in a healthy way. Why do some people enable others? How do you stop doing those unhealthy things?

Do you drop the F-bomb a lot? In your vocabulary is it a noun, verb, adjective and an adverb? Do you wish you, or someone you care about, would stop swearing so much? Learn how we hide behind the F-bomb.

Compassion Fatigue is another name for stress resulting from treating victims of trauma. First responders, military personnel, therapists, social workers, medical professionals and many others in helping/healing professions can develop different levels of this disorder.

Do you worry that you will be hurt... AGAIN? Many view vulnerability as weakness and they work really hard to stay safe from emotional turmoil and possible pain. Embracing your vulnerability is the path to getting the love you want and releasing your self-doubt.

Do you feel like you are sludging through mud? Have you lost your spark for life? This low level, ongoing depression can zap your energy and suck the joy out of life. The good news is it is highly treatable.

Many people, men and women, have bladder issues for which they never seek help. Bladder control issues and bladder pain issues are often suffered in silence. It can be embarrassing and many feel like they are weak or broken. Often people fear being shamed or ridiculed if they speak up. Many do not know that help is available and can change your life. It can help you get back the life that bladder...

OCD mental health disorder that can range from extremely mild to severe and debilitating. It can affect anyone. This episode will help you understand what OCD is and the help that is available to treat it.

Many people are extremely upset, nervous, disappointed and fearful for our country. Feelings of hopelessness, helplessness and feeling powerless are weighing heavily on many. Know that you are not alone. Hopefully this episode will offer a few coping skills.

What are the things that you are afraid of that keep you from moving forward in your life? Are your phobias harming your health, your relationships or just limiting who you are. This episode will help you learn to ride that dragon.

LONELINESS often creates depression and hopelessness. This episode explores how loneliness can happen, the underlying feelings and how it can take on a life of its own. Learn how to begin to change things and diminish the loneliness in your life.

Special guest, Amanda Nardo, discusses with Dr. Patty the impact of school closures on children and families. This episode will help parents know they are not alone and give you some coping skills.

These political times, as well as CoVid issues, have been stressing people to the max. If you are struggling, know that you are not alone. Listen to others calling in with their own advice as well as Dr. Patty giving you coping skills.

Do you experience the "silent treatment" from someone you care about? Are you the one who does silent treatment on sometimes else? When is this "taking some space" and when is it emotional abuse?

BETRAYAL changes you and alters your life. It wounds your heart and feels like a knife in the gut. This episode helps you understand, and put into words, what betrayal might mean to you. More importantly, learn how to move through betrayal and trust again.

Are you, or someone you care about, the victim of sustained emotional abuse? The absence of bruises and broken bones does not necessarily mean that abuse is not there. This episode will help define this difficult relationship situation and give you some direction to get help.

Do you deal with someone who exhausts you with excessive needs and constant boundary busting? It might be a partner, child, employee or family member. It might also be you that is the high maintenance individual. This show will address these challenging relationships and give you some tools to deal with them. 

Do you, or someone you love, struggle with getting super emotional -- anxious, angry, frustrated, etc-- and do not know how to RE-CENTER and calm down? This episode will help you learn how to RE-CENTER and calm down.

These are chaotic and difficult times. The pandemic, school closures and unusually structured school openings are taking an emotional toll on children of all ages. Wearing masks and dealing with social distancing is also unusual for kids. There has been a big uptake in depression in children.

Do you use a lot of profanity... Swearing... Cussing... Dropping the "F" BOMB? Do people you love and trust talk about your "potty mouth?" This episode explores why we use profanity and what to do if you would like to cut back or eliminate it all together from your communication behavior.

Do you have an addiction to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, sex, food, shopping, gambling, gossiping and/or political hatred? This episode explores those areas of addiction and offers ways to begin to change.