Episodes

What do you do or what do you stop doing when it feels likethe world is burning? Regardless of ideologies and political positions, most would agree that things seem mighty rough "out there" right now. So many people are feeli...

We again use a Ted Lasso quote to get the conversation started. We wonder what optimism is including can one who has their "head in the sand" and denies reality truly be optimistic. Do optimists take more risks? Is this a wis...

One of the many things the great Ted Lasso told us is that "happiness is a choice." But is it really possible to be happy in this crazy world? Is it possible to be happy while being fully aware all the things around that are ...

Everyone knows the word mindfulness and pretty much what it means. Still, something counselors and therapists often see while working with people is that what is known and what is actually practiced is not always the same. Li...

We are born being curious about everything! But it seems that over time, many people grow comfortable with what they already know and what makes them feel safe andin control. But is it not true that when we stop learning, we...

We generally think of trauma and PTSD in relation to people like soldiers and survivors of other horrific events. This is certainly true, but it is also true that our world, society in general, politics, international war and...

Most of us were taught to have humility as a foundational value. But what if we work so hard to remain humble and not come off as conceited that we limit what we are capable of doing and downplay who we are capable of being? ...

The industrial revolution began around 1900. As nuclear families began to move away to larger cities for work, one of the major consequences was some loss of thecentrality of the extended family. How can we as a society recl...

What roles do the lives, histories, and stories of the older generation play in the lives of the younger generation? Have we lost something important by not rememberingthe wisdom of our elders or are their stories no longer ...

We continue our discussion on the subject of trust. We talk about those people and those larger agencies that have done things that have created a lack of trustand how the loss of trust can be used to manipulate. Can we forg...

Who doyou trust? Who do you not trust? Who have you lost trust in? How important isit to have trust in relationships and also with entities like the medicalcommunity and so on? These are the questions that Ken, Larry, and Ra...

In this episode, James Fowler's and Lawrence Kohlberg's theories on the development of moral reasoning set the frame around our discussion of how thinking and moral constructs change over time - or not! Is growth/change inevi...

In his song The Secret of Life, James Taylor wrote that"It's okay to feel afraid but don't let it stand in your way." Inthis episode of Exploracast, we acknowledge and discuss the fears that are inall of us and those that ...

This talking stuff can be hard! In this episode, Ken, Larry and Raleigh deal with some of the necessary components of genuine civil discourse. They discuss how to create safe spaces for being vulnerable and the necessary cour...

I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they don't communicate with each other, and they don't comm...