The Existential Coach

Interrupting Anxiety

In this episode I talk about interrupting anxiety and how, paradoxically, we can create more anxiety in an attempt to never feel anxious again. 

Constructing Identity

In this episode I explore how we construct identify and wonder: what’s behind the identities we create?

Going Grey

In this episode I talk about “going grey” in conjunction with the recent termination of Canadian CTV New anchor, Lisa LaFlame. I ask, how is it that something we all do; i.e., aging and going grey, can be used to divide us, given it’s something we share? This leads to questions of oppression and alienation. Drawing from such writers as Simone de Beauviour, Shoshana Zuboff and Byung-Chulhan Han, I explore how lazy conceptual outs (like saying, “It’s a business decision”) reflect the underlying structures of entitlement that lead us to condemn rather than understand.  

What about hypnotherapy?

In this episode I talk with Lesley Mitchell-Clarke about her work as a hypnotherapist. My understanding of hypnotherapy was limited to TV and movies, which is in no way connected to what hypnotherapy is and how helpful it is in people’s lives. Lesley talks about how the control is always with the client and how hypnotherapy can interrupt behaviours the client wants to change.

 

You can reach out to Lesley at: https://lightworkhypnosis.com

Violence and Shadows

In this episode I explore the way we may think about violence in relationships, and how avoiding the experiences of others sustains our way of understanding ourselves in the world. Do the shadows we cast create and perpetuate violence? 

 

www.jordanoconnor.com

Silence and Angst

In this episode I explore how we are culturally (and personally) influenced as to what silence is and how we should (or should not) act. Is there more to silence?

Overwhelmed (Part Two)

In part two, I continue to explore the experience of being overwhelmed. Drawing upon the book “Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues” by Koichi Togashi, I explore the way our perspectives both create our understanding of the world and interrupt our understanding of each other. Is there more to being overwhelmed? 

Overwhelmed (Part One)

That we are overwhelmed is obvious. That there is too much in our lives to process is also obvious. Given feeling overwhelmed is something that is so ubiquitous in our lives, can we look, not for solutions or reasons, but at the feeling of being overwhelmed itself?

Embodied Choice

Drawing from the Rumi line about the pot and how it is the space within the pot we use, I explore how choice emerges from our felt—embodied—experience. 

 

Bullying and Voting

In this episode I explore two seemingly unrelated topics and how they are, in fact, very much related.