the tara bixby podcast

In a world obsessed with appearances, it's not surprising that body dysmorphic disorder, also known as BDD, has manifested itself as a troubling and relatively common problem for many individuals. Dr. Katherine Phillips is the world's leading expert on body dysmorphic disorder. She is a physician, educator, and scientist who has spent her career caring for patients, mentoring/teaching, and conduct...

100 episodes! I seriously can't even believe it. That's 100 conversations with 100 amazing humans, all in the comforts of my closet (Yup, I record in a closet). This is cause for celebration, my friend! To celebrate this major milestone, I'm sharing clips from the top 10 most downloaded episodes on The Courageously.u Podcast. These are the most listened to and most game-changing episodes over the...

Dr. Sherrie Campbell is a Licensed Psychologist, author, and toxic-family survivor with over two decades of clinical training experience providing counseling and psychotherapy services to residents of Orange County, California. She specializes in psychotherapy with adults and teenagers, including marriage and family therapy, grief counseling, childhood trauma, sexual issues, personality disorders,...

David Gandelman is on a mission to awaken souls on their path of growing into being human and living an enlightened, purpose-driven life. David Gandelman is a spiritual teacher, author, and guide. He is the founder of the Meditation School app, and host of the Meditation School, Energy Matters, and Grounded Sleep podcasts.  We talk about... What soul energy is What spirituality looks like The role...

Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses and today Sarah Fay joins us on the show to discuss what it's like to live with those diagnoses.  We talk about... Sarah's mental health journey and her history of identifying with her diagnoses Why she chooses not to know her current diagnosis The events that led to Sarah living with anorexia What withdrawal from S...

Bethany is a writer, international speaker, transformational coach, and author of the must-read book, Discovering the Inner Mother. She is considered the global expert on healing the mother wound, something we inherit to varying degrees as women living in a patriarchy. She started blogging in 2013 about the Mother Wound and quickly experienced worldwide demand for her work. Through blending resear...

Dr. Kevin Gilliland is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, executive director of Innovation360, and host of the Struggle Well, Live Well, Worry Less podcast. Over the past twenty years, Kevin has mentored countless individuals and couples, participated in research trials, and lectured across the country. He currently teaches in the Counseling Department at Southern Methodist University in Da...

Dr. Ellen Vora is a board-certified holistic psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health - considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root rather than reflexively prescribing medication. Ellen received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University. In her just-launched book, The Anatomy of...

Today's guest is a champion of the Enneagram and an awakener of people. Ian Morgan Cron is a best-selling author, psychotherapist, Enneagram teacher, Episcopal priest, and the host of the wildly popular podcast, "Typology." He is a pioneer in the contemporary Enneagram movement and a highly sought-after speaker.  Known for his transparency, humor, and depth of insight into the inner workings of th...

Nancy Mae has helped people from all walks of life improve their lives in a wide range of ways: from getting pregnant to overcoming pain to making important shifts in their lives. She is a Hay House award-winning author who went from being in both physical and spiritual pain to healed through the power of alternative therapies. Her transformational experience inspired her to radically change profe...

After the birth of her first son, Antonia Schachter began to struggle with an increase in anxiety. She was waking up in the middle of the night hyperventilating and in panic. Desperate for relief, she sought help through medications. Thirty years later, with many different medications, a hospitalization, suicidal thoughts, and an additional diagnosis, Antonia is still trying to taper off her psych...

Nicole Lohse is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Feldenkrais and Yoga Practitioner. She supports people in recognizing their own innate ability to move past the blocks that are stopping them from living fulfilling lives. She addresses patterns that stem from trauma - including shock, developmental, inter-generational, and really anything that involves the need to survive. Her style of work...

Dr. Martha Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every aspect of their lives. Her written work includes several New York Times and international bestsellers, as well as over 150 magazine articles. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called...

Dr. Erica Matluck is trained as a Naturopathic Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, Reiki Master, massage therapist, and vinyasa and kundalini yoga instructor. She has extensive training and experience in both conventional and alternative approaches to healing and has studied with masters from various traditions around the world. Erica offers a uniquely holistic lens and a variety of therapeutic modalities...

Sean Gunderson is a survivor of nearly two decades of psychiatric detention. He found solace during those times by engaging in a daily spiritual practice rooted in meditation. Now free of the psychiatric system that detained him for his entire youth, he offers his insights on the mental health system in hopes of transforming it into what it is intended to be: a system where people who need help ca...

Dr. Holly Richmond is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified sex therapist, and she holds a Ph. D. in Somatic Psychology. This unique combination of professional credentials enables her to focus on clients' cognitive processes as well as their somatic (body-based) health. Dr. Holly is one of North America's leading sex therapists, serving women, men, couples, and gender-diverse indivi...

Wendy Behary specializes in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. With 25+ years of professional experience and advanced level certifications, Wendy is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She has been treating clients, training professionals, and supervising psychotherapists for more...

Twenty-two years on a psych med! What?! Join me inside an all-new Closet Conversations where I process how one Instagram post left me feeling overwhelmed with emotion. I also discuss my intentions with speaking against the mental health model. At the end of the day, I just want you to be informed, my friend. If you love today's episode, I hope you'll consider following the podcast and giving it a...

David Healy is a psychiatrist, scientist, psychopharmacologist, and author. Before becoming a professor of Psychiatry in Wales, and more recently in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Canada, he studied medicine in Dublin, and at Cambridge University.  He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed ar...

Aimee Raupp is a renowned women's health & fertility expert, celebrity acupuncturist, and coach. She's also the best-selling author of the books Chill Out & Get Healthy, Yes, You Can Get Pregnant, Body Belief, and The Egg Quality Diet: A clinically proven 100-day fertility diet to balance hormones, reduce inflammation, improve egg quality & optimize your ability to get & stay pregnant. Aimee works...

If you grew up with an emotionally immature parent, you may still struggle with anger, sadness, self-doubt, or shame. As a child it's likely most of your emotional needs weren't met, your feelings dismissed, and you took on adult levels of self-restraint to deal with your parent's behavior. Somewhere along the way, you lost your sense of self. And without this strong sense of self, you may now fee...

David Carmichael made headlines when he was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 11-year-old son, Ian.   On July 31, 2004, in a London, Canada hotel room, David crushed up sleeping pills, sedated his son, and strangled him. At the time of the murder, David was experiencing an adverse reaction to the prescription Paxil, which he had begun taking three weeks prior.  While others beli...

Dr. Ian Kerner likes to call himself the Sherlock Holmes of the bedroom and is one of the most recognizable voices in clinical sex therapy. He is a licensed psychotherapist and nationally recognized sexuality counselor who specializes in sex therapy, couples therapy, and working with individuals on a range of relational issues that often lead to distress.  He approaches psychotherapy from an integ...

Russ Harris is a doctor, therapist, father, trainer of health professionals, and author of The Happiness Trap ( plus eight other must-read books ). He started his career as a newly-graduated doctor back in 1989 and soon discovered that most of his patients were expressing a significant degree of dissatisfaction in life. He was no stranger to their struggles as he was also experiencing something si...

Dr. Colin Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author, and lecturer in the field of dissociation, and trauma-related disorders. He is the founder and President of The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma. Colin completed medical school at the University of Alberta and his psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba. He is a Past President of the Internationa...