The Tarot Diagnosis

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we embrace the idea of Chasing Newness . As humans we are all pulled towards new experiences, new things, new people, or new adventures (granted- some us us more than others). But how do we know when this draw has become an unhealthy compulsion? How capable are we of finding that line between our own instinctual need to personally evolve, and also recogni...

Finding Your Voice is the idea we dive into this week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , and as we expected, it turns out this is a complex and rich idea to explore. Our starter cards of Six of Swords and Knight of Pentacles felt really challenging at first, but as we sank deeper and deeper into the discussion, and unpacked Eight of Swords , The Moon , Seven of Cups , and seemingly alllll of the cou...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we enter the slightly taboo world of money work by asking about Money’s Impact on Relationships. We make quick work of unpacking how tightly linked our personal relationship with money is with our relationships with others - be that our partners, our family, our friends, or our community. And we discover that there are no easy answers here, but we do disco...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we tackle the age old question, what does it mean to be a good person? Or perhaps more importantly, "Am I a good person?" We begin with The High Priestess and end with the Queen of Cups . Along the way spend time with (weirdly) a whole bunch of pentacles. We also geek out on some psychological theory and get into not only how we might define a good person...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we decide to get creative and talk about The Art of Unlearning . In the spirit of this topic, we began this episode not entirely sure what direction we were going to go. We were surprised to discover all of the twists and turns we came across along the way, including how much this topic related both to therapy and tarot . Get your Page energy ready and jo...

In this week’s episode of The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we get down to business in talking about a subject near, but not-so-dear to our hearts: Hustle Culture . It’s unavoidable in today’s world to go untouched by the draw and push to engage in hustle culture . So, we wanted to step back and ask ourselves (and tarot), what is this really all about?  We started with Judgment and Knight of Wand...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we talked about a topic you are definitely not going to want to miss (small joke intended)- FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out. This is a phenomenon everybody has experienced at least once or twice in their life. The strong sensation that somehow, we are being left out of something, or missing something very important, And it makes us a uncomfortable to think ab...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we get into the a topic that feels really pertinent right now: Starting Over . It’s not just in our own lives (although- for sure it is), this also seems to be an idea that is circulating a lot in our collective communities right now. There seems to be a pull towards it being time to scrap what we have and begin again. Sometimes we go into this idea kicking...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we decide to have a little fun with the concept of… synchronicity. This is an idea originally discussed by Carl Jung to describe the phenomenon of when a random event happens that seems to be filled with meaning - so much so that we feel a little blown away. As therapists who love tarot cards, we find this idea fascinating, and love trying to walk the ver...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we realized that we’ve been doing a series unintentionally. So, we decided to start doing it on purpose. In our episode last week , we started talking about the idea of cognitive distortions - which are habitual thought patterns that people commonly fall into that distort reality. There are a ton of different cognitive distortions that we as therapists ca...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we take on an emotion we all have experienced: regret .  If you think about it, it’s such an fascinating thought pattern. We do something, it’s over, (or maybe we don’t do something) and yet- it stays with us, along with all sorts of imaginary realities about what *might* have happened if we had done something else. That’s a strange thing we humans do....

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we tackle a topic that’s been on our list for a very long time: Difficult People . We start with Wheel of Fortune and Seven of Wands , and then quickly discover that talking about people being difficult is hugely complicated… because sometimes we are the difficult person. But sometimes we aren’t - and the difficult people in our lives keep telling us we are...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we thought we might lighten things up a bit and talk about the purpose and need we have for play and to have fun. “Talk about play” we thought, “It’s going to be so cheery!” Enter Page of Cups Reversed, Page of Pentacles, Five of Wands, The Emperor, The Devil, and Three of Swords as the first cards we pull… Okay, so talking about having fun turns out to b...

Self-awareness is one of those things that’s really good to have, right? Yes… and… You would think that as therapists this is something that we would be actively promoting – and while we very much do promote this - the truth is, there can be a real shadow side to self-awareness. And that is what we ended up talking about this week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast. We began with reversed Justice and...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we talk about something we all (unfortunately) can relate to - Rejection . Whether it be professional, romantic, friendship, or familial , feeling rejected is a terrible experience. Join us while we tackle the topic of rejection with tarot and explore what we can do to cope when the inevitable happens. We go back to MySpace Top 8 days, to what happened in 8...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we do our best to answer a listener question that we thought was super relatable right now. Our listener asked: “Would you consider doing an episode on overwhelm? It seems like a lot of us feel overwhelmed when contemplating large scale issues like war, poverty, climate change...the list is long. The problems are so massive that thinking about them can shu...

It seems like it’s dumpster fire season for so many of us. Both of us have been having some Tower card moments lately, so we decided to unwrap the experience of anticipating the Tower, being in the Tower, and the aftermath. The conversation was more than we had anticipated and had us pondering days later. Even if everything in your life right now is smooth sailing (anyone?), this is a topic that w...

This week on the Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we take on a topic that everyone can relate to: confidence . And this is such a Goldilocks emotion. Too much is a bad thing too little is a good thing, when it comes to confidence we need to get it just right. In the end, as one of our favorite professors in graduate school used to say, “That’s easy to say, and hard to do.” We dive deep with a look at Pages...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast, we tackle the topic of perfectionism – what it is, why we experience it, and most importantly, what on earth we should do with it.  We’ve all known a perfectionist, or been one ourselves, and although perfectionism isn’t technically a diagnosable disorder - we all know how debilitating it can be. The truth is, it’s hard to be a perfectionist and it’s...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis, we venture into the complicated landscape of forgiveness. It’s a topic we’ve thought about addressing for a long time, but it’s a tough one to wrestle with because there’s such a huge variation of situations to consider when talking about forgiveness.  Is forgiveness even an appropriate response in some circumstances?  Are there times when forgiveness is...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis we get down and dirty with the cringe worthy topic of… embarrassment . It’s a human emotion we all have, but it’s one most of us prefer not to think about. But, it turns out that taking the time to really deconstruct the sensation of embarrassment is actually quite enlightening. From Nine of Swords to King of Cups, we go deep not only on what embarrassment is and w...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast , we decided to talk about something we found interesting… but didn’t really know how to talk about it. It began with a simple phrase - “living intuitively.” We both loved the way that sounded. How great would that be? (Cue images of self dancing on a beach in a gauzy dress at sunset) It only took a few seconds to realize that we didn’t actually know what t...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis, we spend some time with the idea of Responding vs. Reacting - which really is a conversation about how to live our lives in a more mindful and purposeful way. We all experience that knee-jerk reaction from time-to-time, but what happens when we become more aware of that inclination and shift away from reactivity? We start the discussion by realizing this is essent...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis Podcast we decided to spend with a topic that we tackle A LOT in our clinical practices: negative thinking. Some very smart people who came before us did us all the favor of studying and categorizing different types of negative thinking. The few we are exploring this week include: mental filtering, personalizing, catastrophizing and polarizing. Having this way of t...

This week on The Tarot Diagnosis we boldly tackle a topic that we’ve been thinking of discussing for a while but honesty kept avoiding: To Parent or Not to Parent . We had a listener reach out and ask us to explore their feelings of needing to create something - but they weren't sure if that was a human life with their partner or something else. From the get-go, we just could not find common groun...