Never Perfect

In this episode, Beth interviews Kirk McDermott, a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, about his approach to helping individuals with sex and porn addiction using a trauma based approach. Kirk has found that many individuals don’t recognize their trauma when it is chronic and sometimes subtle, rather than acute. Kirk often uses EMDR in his work with addicts to help them recover from trauma rather t...

In this episode, May, a college student, shares her journey with social anxiety, worry, and physical anxiety (somaticizing) and what she learned in therapy before going off to college. May shares some of her favorite tips for reducing anxiety, including changes in her thinking and behavior.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One question we should all ask ourselves: are we using healthy or unhealthy coping mechanisms to deal with the pain and stress in our lives? Sometimes the desire to numb pain results in unhealthy coping habits, such as drugs or alcohol. In this episode, Ema, one of Beth’s clients, is willing to share her mental health journey, battling depression and anxiety, and even being on the brink of suicide...

What is your Big Self? The idea that Big Ideas + True Self = Big Self is one of the biggest philosophies espoused.at the Big Self School, which was founded in 2020 by Dr. Shelley Prevost and her husband Dr. Chad Prevost. They are “champions of self knowledge, practitioners of vulnerability, and guardians of the soul.” In this episode, Shelley talks with Beth Capecchi about some of her favorite phi...

What if some of your greatest struggles could help you discover your calling? In this episode, Beth hears the story of Shannon Morgan, a Recovery Court Coordinator (and licensed clinical social worker) who developed addiction as a teen. Shannon shares her story of recovery and treatment, and how it lead her to a career path she is incredibly passionate about: helping others who are battling addict...

Many people’s number one fear is living a meaningless life. We long to spend our waking hours engaged in work that truly matters driven by a deep sense of calling and purpose. But most Americans lack this sense of calling and purpose in their work because their natural abilities are misaligned with the work itself.  In this episode, Beth interviews Lane Ford, an executive coach and business consul...

Many of you are a loss smarter than you think you are. This episode is about rethinking intelligence; it was created to encourage listeners to think differently about their own intelligence and the construct of intelligence in general. So many people go through life underestimating their intelligence and their giftedness. Albert Einstein said, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge your fish by...

In this episode, Beth interviews Dr. Allen Coffman, a seasoned and well loved pediatrician to get us some of his favorite advice on healthy parenting and tough love. Dr. Coffman talks about how parenting is an adventure, not a destination and how we need to love our kids for who they are and not a fantasy of who we assumed they would be. He provides numerous tips and nuggets of wisdom on how paren...

In this episode, Beth interviews Dr. Carol Stoney, a relationship expert who specializes in helping couples learn healthier ways to communicate and relate to one another. She shares some inspiring ideas and mind blowing discoveries from favorite experts and therapeutic training programs, including Stan Tatkin, John Gottman , and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Here are a few questions to whet...

Very few of us fully understand the power our brain and our body have to help us heal and what they can tell us if we know how to listen. In this episode, Christy Tittsworth, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, describes the brain as a compensatory system and explains how it can help us heal by providing feedback. She explains different brain waves and how they affect our levels of anxiety and energ...

One of the healthiest things we can do for ourselves and others is to discover our unique strengths and weaknesses. This is part of our package deal in life, and a big part of discovering our distinctive user guide. Life is so much easier when we understand ourselves and others. The Enneagram is one of many tools that can be used to understand and explore our gifts, our passion, and our triggers....

How do you understand the impact of ADHD in your life, including both the superpowers and the obstacles?? How might it impact your relationships and your priorities? In this episode, Beth Capecchi and Tammy, a former client, have a lively discussion about how they have come to understand and manage ADHD in their own lives. Undiagnosed ADHD can lead to mental health issues and relationship problems...

In this episode, Beth and yoga instructor Lauren Aune take a compassionate look at the subject of addiction and substance use disorders. Lauren shares her own story of addiction and recovery and how she uses her experience to help others. She believes that addiction is a coping mechanism developed in response to pain and trauma and urges addicts and the ones that love them to use a lens of compass...

Originally intended to be a discussion on mentoring, this episode became a much broader discussion on the topic of coming alongside others, whether strangers, employees, friends, or the homeless. Beth interviews Emerson Burch and Amanda Tarr about their experience of channeling their own childhood pain into a passion for helping others who are struggling and providing them with a sense of family a...

In this episode, Beth has a discussion with Therapist Erin Rayburn about healthy ways to approach dating and questions you can ask yourself before getting into a dating relationship. This episode is really good to introduce to teens as well as adults. Beth and Erin share some of their favorite tips and philosophies on dating.  Learn more about me and the podcast here: https://www.neverperfect.org...

Beth and her husband Remo and discuss the importance of using conflict to enhance intimacy and closeness and relationships. They talk about their own patterns in communication. Beth shares her assertiveness scale and clinical examples.  Learn more about me and the podcast here: https://www.neverperfect.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Beth has a discussion with Leah True Salerno on the importance of struggling together as we navigate losses in life, specifically her husband‘s health crisis. Leah shares how she coped and used her experience to build community and help others. Social support is one of the most important factors for recovery from trauma and loss. Sharing our struggles with others helps us band tog...

In this episode, Beth shares part of her own ADHD story and how she diagnosed herself. She also shares some of the strengths and weaknesses associated with ADHD, along with some groundbreaking findings from William Dodson, a psychiatrist who specializes in ADHD.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this 10 minute episode, Beth does an impromptu discussion on the powerful and therapeutic impact of journaling after a client shares his recent experience of trying journaling for the first time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is part one of a series of conversations on the topic of ADHD. This segment includes an overview of the disorder and the symptoms used to diagnose it, including clinical examples and some of Beth’s personal examples. The next episode on ADHD will include more clinical examples and some of the strengths associated with ADHD.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

In this episode, Beth and Remo discuss the challenges all couples face in trying to stay connected. Couples with children especially seem to struggle, mostly because of the never ending “to do list” and exhaustion that comes with raising children. Beth and Remo discuss the languages of love and some ideas for staying connected.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this short episode, Beth tells the story of a client who didn’t receive much emotional validation growing up. No childhood is ever perfect, but we all thrive best when we have at least one parent who “sees” us and understands us and responds well to our emotions. The client in the story is on a quest to give her children what she never received. She read a book on “emotion coaching” (A principa...

This is a short episode with Beth sharing some reflections immediately following a classic counseling session. Classic in the sense that a variety of common issues were covered in the session, including healthy relationships with oneself and how this impacts the choice of a dating partner, education on types of depression, healthy habits and behaviors that can prevent or decrease depression and an...

Most of us find that parenting is harder than expected. In this episode, Beth interviews 3 working mothers who are driven and battling perfectionistic expectations. They share their Journey of lowering the bar for themselves as they come to the following realization: you can’t do it all. And figuring out what matters most as mothers  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Beth and her husband Remo have a practical, lighthearted and personal conversation about healthy communication and how it enhances connection in relationships. Beth shares some of her favorite counseling tips on this subject, and they both describe their own communication style, as well as how their families and cultural backgrounds influence them.  Learn more about your ad choice...