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32 Life Optimization and Guided Life Analysis Follow-up with Dr. Lindsay Sewall and Zac Erickson

Dr. Lindsay and Zac get together for the second episode in the two part series on life analysis. If you did not listen to episode 31 or do the workbook from the previous episode. To guide you through some of these questions, we’ve developed this resource to help you kick your quarantine blues and develop a strategy…

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31 Life Optimization and Guided Life Analysis with Dr. Lindsay Sewall and Zac Erickson

Dr. Lindsay and Zac discuss some tips and tricks for you to follow as you go through your own Life Analysis. Feel free to follow along with the podcast or just go through the resource at your own pace. You can even just listen to the podcast on it’s own. Whatever works for you. To…

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026 That Pesky Lizard Brain with Andrea McTague and Zac Erickson

On this episode, The Shift Show enters the world of evolutionary psychology, and how the oldest parts of our brain impact how we think, feel, and behave. Andrea McTague and Zac Erickson take us WAY back, discussing the origins of the human brain. In understanding the difference between the “lizard brain” and the more primate…

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024 ADHD: Where’s the Deficit? Olga Yakovlyeva joins Zac

Zac discusses being able to understand some of the symptoms that his ADHD created in childhood. Not being able to sustain mental effort in early assignments in school.

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023 Toxic Parents: Dealing with the fallout

Covering general patterns of toxicity rather than specific “Big T” Trauma. Focusing on doing what it takes to take care of yourself when you have had some of these non-nurturing elements early in development.

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022 Remembrance Day Special: Life as a Military Family

In honour of Remembrance Day, Zac interviews CPT Matthew Dudley, Human Resources Officer of the United States Army, and his wife, Shannon. When Shannon and Matthew first met, he was deployed to Iraq. Five months into his time there, Matthew came home for two weeks, and they got married. He then left for another seven…

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020 Appetite for Life Halloween Special: Fear at Deadmonton

Kristi and Olga talk to Zac about their visit to Deadmonton. Why is it fun to be scared? What does fear do to our brain? After visiting Edmonton’s scariest Haunted House and being forced to face their fears, Kristi and Olga psychoanalyzed their experience. This interesting discussion covers the multi-dimensional and emotional aspects of fear….

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