On Purpose: The Heidi Stevens And Dr. John Duffy Podcast
Summary: Balancing Act columnist Heidi Stevens and family therapist John Duffy sit down once a week to discuss the news and topics that are weaving their way into our parenting, our marriages, our friendships, our dinner conversations, our Facebook feeds. They’ll bring together Heidi’s columns, John’s insights from both his training and his clients and offer up a weekly half hour of questions, answers and perspective that will help all of make sense of daily lives and the relationships that so profoundly shape them.
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Hillary Clinton retweeted Heidi! I REPEAT...Hillary Clinton retweeted Heidi! So this week, we're throwing a virtual ticker-tape parade via Skype that you won't be able to see at all since, ya know, podcasts are inherently an audio medium and all that. We'll also get around to discussing the ins and outs and what-have-yous of women's fashion on the campaign trail, the most recent Democratic debate, the verdict in the Harvey Weinstein trial, and more!
Breaking news! A new study shows that same-sex marriages tend to be happier than traditional ones. So this week, we're breaking that down and diving into what you can learn and considering what we all can learn about relationships by loosening gender norms and stereotypes.
J-Lo & Shakira sang a few songs on TV this week, and it was so controversial that they had to put half a football game before and after it. But was it really that big of a deal?
This week, we're talking about how creating in-jokes is an absolute must for keeping your relationships fresh, fun, and alive. A good in-joke also has the power to craft resilience in a relationship over time, and just make the harder stuff a little less hard. Also, an in-depth review of Gwyneth Paltrow's new $70 vagina candle.
In this week's episode, Heidi shares some surprising insights from her chat with Peggy Orensetein, author of the new book, "Boys & Sex." Also, in the fallout of the most recent presidential debate during which Bernie Sanders questioned whether or not a woman could actually get elected president, we ponder that very thought.
We're back! In the first episode of 2020, we're talking about how consent and improving communications often pays massive dividends in the relationships of young people, as well as some startling insights from Peggy Orenstein's new book, "Boys & Sex." We don't talk about porn. Or horses.
In light of a certain piece of headline news and divisiveness surrounding it, it can be easy to plant yourself firmly in one camp or another without considering the humanity of those on the other side. So that's what we're talking about today. It's important to remember that we're all just humans.
This week we're talking about Heidi's weird Thanksgiving that ended up at a Boston Market of all places, which gets us reeling on the idea that there is basically no such thing as "normal," except for the weird kind. Enjoy!
This week we're diving a little bit into the relationship between work, self-worth, and purpose. Just how much are all these things interconnected, and how possible is it to separate them? And what's this work-life balance thing all these dang millennials keep hollering about???
In this week's episode of On Purpose, we talk about an article that caught Heidi's attention recently about the three battles you should stop picking with your teenager, and consider the pros and cons of these common areas of contention.
Before you listen to this...take five minutes to yourself. No phone. No email. Maybe just a cup of coffee. Then...make sure you listen to this, because we're talking about all kinds of stuff, like the Chicago teacher's strike, why men don't bring their kids to therapy, and how integrating masculine energy into a healthy family dynamic results in a win for everyone.
It's true! Our playbook is outdated, and we just don't get it! Nevertheless, this week we're talking about a bunch of things - what John and Heidi have been up to recently, why you don't have to be flawless to be gutsy, some interesting insights into the transgender bathroom debates, whether bullying is still prevalent amongst teenagers, and more!
In this week's episode, Heidi and John discuss the tragic story of Channing Smith, who died by suicide after his intimate conversations with another boy was made public. It's extremely important for parents to understand that the teenage mind does not have enough life experience yet to understand resiliency, that life goes on, and that they will indeed recover from instances like this. So what can we parents do to prevent something like this from happening to our own loved ones? We can start by leading from a place of empathy.
On a great note, John's new book, "Parenting The New Teen In The Age Of Anxiety," is finally out! On the other hand, Heidi's column this week was about the shocking new study claiming that the first sexual experience of 3 million women in America was rape. So...this episode meets those two notes somewhere in the middle and gets to the heart of how we can work to address issues like these, and it starts with taking the initiative to talk to your kids much much sooner about topics we'd probably rather not. This episode is a little heavier than our usual conversations, but it's for good reason. We promise to return to our regularly scheduled upbeat demeanor after this one!
Are parenting apps that monitor our kids' every move robbing them of something very valuable? In this week's episode, we're talking about the pros and cons of being constantly aware of their grades, social media usage, and even if they're speeding or not — and how all of this information is affecting their ability to be in touch with their own feelings and emotionally regulate themselves.
