Patty Dirilten

Insight and Connection

Health EN ↓ 14 episodes

Insight and Connection is hosted by Patty and Kam Dirilten. Patty and Kam are psychotherapists and have been married for 25 years. They have two children. The goal of the podcast is to bring common everyday issues to a deeper place of understanding through humor, research, experience and discussion.

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Patty Dirilten

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Addiction as a Family Disease-Part 3 19.06.2026 58:19

Addiction as a Family Disease Part 2 06.05.2026 59:29

Part 2 of Addiction as a Family Disease. Visit our Website and Follow us on Instagram! website: https://www.insightandconnection.com/ instagram: @centerforinsightandconnection Mixed & Edited by Next Day Podcast info@nextdaypodcast.com

Addiction as a Family Disease 20.04.2026 59:21

Therapist couple Patty and Cam explore addiction not just as a substance problem, but as a whole-family disease rooted in attachment wounds and generational patterns. Using a fictional family — John (alcohol use disorder), his wife Sally, and their two kids — they walk through John's story using three frameworks: The Laundry List (Adult Children of Alcoholics' 14 traits) Attachment Theor...

Life Through the Eyes of Young Adults: A Group Reflection 12.03.2026 57:15

Understanding Depression 13.01.2026 58:24

Why the Hate? 06.11.2025 59:00

Trauma: Widening the Lens 29.08.2025 59:51

Episode 6: What is Recovery? 16.07.2025 54:50

Episode 5: Learning Boundaries and Effective Communication Through our Relationships with Animals 16.05.2025 55:41

Episode 4: WHY AM I SO ANGRY? 04.04.2025 1:01:14

Episode 3: Understanding what Drives Conflict Between Partners and How to Connect More Deeply with the Ones We Love 20.02.2025 55:47

Patty and Kam promote a deeper understanding of how couples trigger one another and trap themselves in a never ending cycle of triggered responses. They discuss a feasible solution that they as therapists and partners have used to unlock the prison that these triggered responses can create. Visit our Website and Follow us on Instagram! website: https://www.insightandconnection.com/ instagram: @cen...

Episode 2: Bringing the State of Anxiety to a Deeper Understanding 31.01.2025 54:45

A discussion between therapists about how prior experiences drive anxiety, and how EMDR can work to heal these experiences to get cognitive, emotional and somatic shifts so that there are less anxiety symptoms to manage with traditional coping skills. Visit our Website and Follow us on Instagram! website: https://www.insightandconnection.com/ instagram: @centerforinsightandconnection

Episode 1: Understanding What Drives Addiction 13.01.2025 57:07

A discussion between addiction therapists about what drives addiction and how a deeper understanding of this drive can help to develop more comprehensive treatment. Visit our Website and Follow us on Instagram! website: https://www.insightandconnection.com/ instagram: @centerforinsightandconnection

Insight and Connection - Official Trailer 20.12.2024 1:03