487. Can we feel unbreakable in a shaky world? Therapist Joe DeNicholas believes that we MUST and shows us how.

487. Can we feel unbreakable in a shaky world? Therapist Joe DeNicholas believes that we MUST and shows us how.

June 28, 2026 · 1h 8m · Episode 487

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Therapist Joe DeNicholas discusses how to cultivate a sense of 'ok-ness' in a challenging world.

“Stop and smell the roses” is a familiar phrase, yet today’s guest challenges us to make the “roses” our default mode rather than something we try to remember to do.  Say What?  So… If you feel like you’re trying to stand still on ever-moving ground… Or perhaps, you feel like, on paper, what you’ve achieved should ‘feel more satisfying and less exhausting or lacking’, or that you perhaps don’t deserve to feel content or happy in today’s world, and you find yourself worrying about ‘everything’, then this show is a recommended prescription.  I recently came across Joe DeNicholas, MBA, LCSW, whose work bridges the worlds of science, secular spirituality, and psychological healing.  Joe believes it’s not only possible but essential to cultivate and connect more often to our ‘ok-ness’ and so he helps people to do that in his work every day and in his book Unbreakable Wellbeing.  I felt truly challenged by the idea of even deserving to work on connecting to my ‘ok-ness’ more often before my conversation with Joe; ‘whattabouting’ all the things I find gravely unjust, and worried it would come across as spiritual bypassing to air a show like this, but it turns…

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