Adapting to Challenges: "well, you use script b. And that's the entirety of my preparation."

Understanding Human Behavior: "if you have a dog phobia and you're walking on the street and you're in your normal state of mind and then you see a dog, your unconscious catapults you into this trance state in order to direct your behavior in the way that it thinks best. So it gets you to, you know, attack the dog, run away from the dog, or freeze in the presence of the dog."

Cultural Impact on Self-Perception: "And I think, ultimately, what people are mainly suffering from is their relationship to themselves. They have a poor relationship with who they think they are. And that's because I think we live in a toxic culture, which from the very beginning tries to tell us that there's something wrong with us. So they can sell us a cure, whether it's the right car, the right perfume, the right job, the right school, for our kids. All these these badges sick of success we have to wear in order to be okay. Whereas, the truth is, we are okay. And any any belief that we're not is just rubbish that our culture throws at us to try to keep us on the straight and narrow of being good citizens, which means, like the matrix, being bad choice for us to be exploited from."

Understanding Control and Emotional Responsiveness: "Now our culture wants us to be eloc. It wants us to say, I didn't feel good today. What can I what can I what can be done for me to make me feel better? Yeah. What what pie can I eat? What chocolate? What what thing can I buy in a shop? All the different remedies that we are sold rather than actually saying, what can I do today to be in control of my responses? Because no one can make you angry or sad or unhappy. It's a choice your unconscious mind is making in response to what's happening to you."

Personal Empowerment in Daily Life: "It's not what happens to you, it's what you make of it."

Disconnect in the Digital Age: "We're the most electronically connected people who've ever lived, yet the most personally disconnected who've ever lived probably."

Embracing Indigenous Wisdom in Child Rearing: "I think that I've learned from my studies over the last 5 years into shamanism and indigenous truths is that is that that's pretty much been how indigenous cultures raise their children that however you are when you're born is perfect for the tribe, and it's the tribe's purpose to find your place within it."

Reconnecting with Nature: "I see we met we met a young lad walking dogs yesterday in in the, in the woods. And we just stopped and had a chat with him, and he's probably early twenties, and he was brilliant, you know, in his connectedness to things and to and to his dogs."

Therapy as Social Activism: "It's why I really think, and I've been preaching this a lot just recently to my students, that therapy or being a therapist is social activism. Because if we can help the clients who come to us who are unhappy with their life to realize that that unhappiness comes from this learned unhappiness about themselves being not okay. And if we can get them to become more eye lock, then in a way just like Neo in the matrix, you can start unplugging yourself from the battery track that society wants you to be and say, what do I wanna choose my life to be like? And I think I'll have that from society, but I'm not gonna have that or that or that. And if enough people unplug, then society has to change. It will no longer function in the way that it does. And maybe we can just invert it a little bit and stop this drive for inequality that is, at the moment, seems endless and that's gonna kill us all. That's, you know, changing the world one person at a time, I think, is the best that we can hope for as therapists."

Discussing Trans Rights and Societal Change: "You know, the moment, the the whole discussion around trans rights is the latest flashpoint. But it's just I think it's still just a sign of progress that whenever the pendulum moves, there's always a pressure to try to move it back from those people who are scared by what it represents to them. And only scared because they've been taught that it's scary. And if they can only open up their eyes to see, you know, difference is the only thing that unites us, we're all different, and that's gotta be okay. And we can use it to unite us instead of it instead of using it to other other people Because that's what the elites are trying to do."