Join Maverick and Goose (aka Cody and Dan) as they explore attachment theory. Maverick and Goose look at the definitions of attachment theory, introduce John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth as early developers and contributors, define the various attachments styles, and summarize how to utilize your awareness of your attachment style.

Helpful Attachment Quizzes:
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079587715/whats-your-attachment-style-quiz

https://www.verywellmind.com/attachment-style-quiz-7562460

Resources:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9547888-attached

Join Click and Clack (aka Cody and Dan) as they explore the difficult topic of grief to open up 2024. This episode has special guest Dorrie Beckley, LPC, join Click and Clack to provide clinical examples and expertise. The history of stages of grief, ideas about meaning making, and strategies for coping with grief are introduced. Lastly, don't tune out too quickly as Dorrie concludes this episode with a poem entitled "December, Good Company"

December

On the days when it all feels heavy
When the inner swirl matches the December bleak
I feel adrift
My gaze,
untethered.

Although not alone,
And often in good company,
gratitude will not bring back the things that have disappeared.
When grief and loss are real, too
What then?

I walk along the forested path
of tall straight Ponderosa Pines.
I come upon a slanted one
maybe 15° off a direct line to the sky.

I approach this slanted tree
Like an old friend
With a smile and a longing.

I lay my weary bones to it.
As my belly softened to the butterscotch bark
I turn my cheek to rest,
and my ears to listen.

Of course this tree here does not speak,
but we understood each other.
Maybe words fail anyway,
when it comes to grief.
And perhaps being simply held
here
today
On this gray, breathless morning
is the language of love and loss.

I smile again.
I hear the birds and squirrels scuffling about
More good company.
The mourning dove takes flight
again.

Dorrie Beckley, 2023

Join Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael Key (aka Cody Bayles and Dan Phillips) as they discuss defense mechanisms, the often unconscious strategies people use to protect themselves from distressing thoughts or feelings. Jordan and Keegan explore the early history of concepts around defense mechanisms, different types of commonly used defense mechanisms, and strategies for becoming aware of our defense mechanisms and how to use that information.