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by Dr. David J Schlosz
Project I Am is a podcast dedicated to personal transformation, self-discovery, and mental well-being. In this series, we explore the power of choosing yourself, revisiting your past with fresh perspectives, and crafting a more empowered narrative for your future. Through thoughtful discussions, reflective exercises, and creative tools, each episode offers listeners a space to reconnect with their inner strength and embrace their true potential. Whether you’re on a journey of healing, growth, or simply seeking deeper self-awareness, this podcast will inspire you to reclaim your story and thrive.Disclaimer: While I am a mental health professional and educator, this podcast and the information shared within it are intended solely for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The content discussed does not constitute therapy, counseling, or any form of professional mental health services. It should not be used as a substitute for therapy
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- 6 days ago21 min
Staying on My Own Side: A 20-Minute Meditation on Not Abandoning Yourself
This episode is a little different. No teaching, no notes to take. Just twenty minutes of guided practice, for you.Most of us learned early how to leave ourselves. How to get smaller, quieter, more acceptable. That wasn't weakness. You were not broken, you were adapting. But what was learned for survival can be unlearned in safety, and this practice is where we begin.Through slow, spacious affirmations, you'll practice staying with yourself in three places where self-abandonment likes to hide: in the moment you feel afraid, in the moment you're seen, and in the quiet afterward, when the room empties and the second-guessing begins. That drive-home voice that asks "was that really okay?" This one is for it.A note on listening: this practice invites your eyes to soften and your attention to turn inward, so please don't listen while driving. Save it for a moment when the time is yours.And don't forget to save it. This episode is built to be returned to. It works best the more familiar it becomes, so come home to it as often as you like.Keep becoming.
- 2 weeks ago45 min
Two Things Can Be True - A Conversation with Megan Yale, LMFT-S, LPC-S
What if the two things you've been told to choose between: accepting yourself as you are, and changing, were never actually in conflict?In this episode, I sit down with my longtime colleague and friend Megan Yale, LPC-S, LMFT-S, for a conversation about Dialectical Behavior Therapy that goes far beyond the acronym. Megan trained intensively in DBT at the University of Washington and with its creator, Marsha Linehan, and she tells the origin story most people never hear: how Linehan tried a change-only approach and it failed, tried an acceptance-only approach and it failed, and then built a therapy on the radical idea that two opposite things can be true at the same time.We explore what that dialectic looks like in real life, why DBT is not just for any one diagnosis, and why the goal was never to get rid of emotions but to build a pause between feeling and action. Megan also shares two distress tolerance skills you can practice today (STOP and TIPP), and we wander into her other love, sandtray therapy, where the inner world gets built in miniature and people come face to face with their own truth.Whether you're doing your own healing work or sitting in the other chair as a helper, this conversation holds one message at its center: struggling doesn't mean you're broken. Sometimes you were just never given the skills.Connect with Megan: inlinemind.com where feelings are understood and skills take shape. Megan sees clients online and in person in the greater Austin area and offers Sandtray therapy training for clinicians.
- 2 weeks ago45 min
The Challenge of the Binary - Beyond All Good and All Bad
We like to believe we see ourselves and others clearly. Yet under stress, uncertainty, shame, or relational threat, the mind often reaches for simpler conclusions: good or bad, safe or dangerous, success or failure, worthy or unworthy.In this episode of Project I Am, Dr. David J. Schlosz explores all-or-nothing thinking not merely as a cognitive distortion, but as a survival strategy. Binary labels can create temporary certainty and protect us from disappointment, ambiguity, and grief. Yet they also flatten our humanity, turning behaviors into identities and complicated people into fixed categories.Drawing from psychological research, contemporary culture, and the wisdom of poets including John Keats, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, this episode invites us to make room for a wider truth, one that allows for accountability without shame, compassion without compliance, and firm boundaries without denying another person’s humanity.Perhaps healing does not require us to decide whether we are good or bad. Perhaps it asks us to become spacious enough to recognize that we are complex, unfinished, accountable, and still becoming.
- 3 weeks ago43 min
When Burnout Is Prolonged Self-Betrayal
Burnout is often described as the consequence of doing too much for too long. But sometimes, exhaustion is also the result of repeatedly leaving ourselves behind.In this episode of Project I Am, Dr. David Schlosz explores the idea that burnout, in many cases, is prolonged self-betrayal. This is not an accusation or a suggestion of moral failure. It is an invitation to become curious about the adaptations that once helped us remain safe, useful, successful, or connected, but may now be asking us to disappear.Through reflection, personal storytelling, and a guided somatic practice, this episode examines the distance that can develop between the life we perform and the truth our body is carrying. It explores resentment, exhaustion, boundaries, belonging, and the protective parts of us that learned to preserve connection by silencing our own needs.Recovery may require more than rest. It may ask us to recognize what is no longer sustainable, repair the relationship we have with ourselves, and reorient our lives around greater honesty and alignment.Perhaps healing begins with a simple promise: I will not abandon myself.
- Aug 22, 202653 min
The Contraction After Expansion: When a Dream Makes us Visible.
What happens after you do the brave thing?You send the proposal, share the idea, apply for the position, set the boundary, or finally allow yourself to be seen. For a moment, it feels like expansion. Then the adrenaline fades, doubt rushes in, and a familiar voice asks, “Who do you think you are?”In this episode of Project I Am, I share a recent experience of putting something into the world and the internal collapse that followed. Together, we explore why courage can be followed by contraction, why being perceived can feel so vulnerable, and how growth may awaken old fears about criticism, failure, success, belonging, and the relationships we could disrupt by becoming more fully ourselves.We also examine the difference between fear and wisdom, between disappearing and setting a healthy boundary, and between protecting ourselves and abandoning ourselves. Rather than treating contraction as proof that we made a mistake, what if we approached it as a protective response deserving curiosity and compassion but not always authority?Perhaps we do not need to eliminate fear before moving forward. Perhaps a different kind of confidence becomes possible: not the certainty that nothing difficult will happen, but the trust that we will remain in relationship with ourselves when it does.
- Jul 26, 202631 min
Living in the Realm of Possibility: Dreaming at the Size of Your Self
Nobody dreams bigger than their relationship with themselves will allow. In this episode, Dr. David Schlosz explores why the size of our dreams is a measure not of imagination but of self-concept, the quiet, adaptive answer we carry to the question who am I allowed to be? Drawing on NARM's insight that we disconnect from ourselves to stay connected to others, Carl Rogers' conditions of worth, the possible-selves research of Markus and Nurius, Bandura's work on self-efficacy, and Snyder's hope theory, this episode reframes small dreaming as an old act of protection and shows where present-moment agency lives. For clinicians: what it means to hold a client's possibility in trust until their self-concept can hold it themselves. For everyone: a guided somatic practice called Breathing Room, making a quarter-inch more space in the self.Referenced (as attributed paraphrase): Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander, Laurence Heller (NARM), Carl Rogers, Hazel Markus & Paula Nurius, Daphna Oyserman, Albert Bandura, C.R. Snyder, Judith Herman, D.W. Winnicott, Murray Bowen, Parker Palmer, Rilke, Desmond Tutu (Ubuntu).
- Jul 19, 202640 min
An Interview with Kim Fry: The Therapist's Greatest Tool - Bringing Your Whole Self
What if the most important thing a therapist brings into the room isn't a technique, intervention, or perfectly timed question, but themselves?In this deeply personal conversation, I sit down with licensed marriage and family therapist Kim Fry to explore how our relationship with ourselves shapes every relationship we have with others. Together we talk about the transformative power of curiosity, why therapists don't heal people by fixing them, and how our own unresolved stories inevitably show up in the therapy room.Kim shares the profound story of a single voicemail from her own therapist that forever changed her relationship with anger, authenticity, and what it means to truly be seen. From there, our conversation unfolds into an exploration of presence, supervision, vulnerability, and why healing begins when we stop performing and start showing up as fully human.Whether you're a therapist, helping professional, or simply someone longing to live more authentically, this episode is an invitation to consider a different question:What if your greatest gift to another person is not having the answers—but being fully present with them?In this episode, we explore:Why the therapist's relationship with themselves matters more than any interventionHow curiosity creates the conditions for healingThe difference between fixing someone and being with someoneWhat anger can teach us about ourselvesWhy authenticity is often our greatest challenge, and our greatest giftHow therapists can cultivate a more sustainable and deeply human practice
- Jul 9, 202625 min
The Well (3 of 3): Offering the Cup.
An invitation to stay with yourself.We've spent two episodes digging the well and learning how to draw water.Now it's time to drink.The final episode in The Well series is unlike any previous episode of Project I Am. Rather than another teaching, this is a guided experience, a gentle invitation to slow down, and reconnect with your body.Through reflection, visualization, and somatic awareness, Dr. David Schlosz guides listeners back to the place where healing begins, not by becoming someone different, but by finally learning how to stay with themselves.You don't have to earn rest.You don't have to earn compassion.You don't have to become perfect before you deserve love.The deepest wells are not filled by striving.They're filled by relationship.They're filled by grace.They're filled by the courage to keep coming home to yourself.If you've journeyed through Parts One and Two, this final episode brings the series to its emotional and spiritual conclusion.Take a deep breath.Come to the well.The water is waiting.
About Project I Am
Project I Am is a podcast dedicated to personal transformation, self-discovery, and mental well-being. In this series, we explore the power of choosing yourself, revisiting your past with fresh perspectives, and crafting a more empowered narrative for your future. Through thoughtful discussions, reflective exercises, and creative tools, each episode offers listeners a space to reconnect with their inner strength and embrace their true potential. Whether you’re on a journey of healing, growth, or simply seeking deeper self-awareness, this podcast will inspire you to reclaim your story and thrive.Disclaimer: While I am a mental health professional and educator, this podcast and the information shared within it are intended solely for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The content discussed does not constitute therapy, counseling, or any form of professional mental health services. It should not be used as a substitute for therapy
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