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Join an aussie psychologist and a midwest mindfulness coach as they navigate a life lived with the curses and blessings of big feelings. Together Dr Ash King and Daron Larson explore the neurotic lived experience, including why we think, feel and act the ways we do (sometimes against our better judgement) and the deranged pursuits we embark upon to find ourselves, fix ourselves and keep fooling ourselves.
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Dr. Sarah Milken, aka The Flexible Neurotic, is wickedly smart, really fucking funny, and so relatable that you might just think she’s your real bff. When she hit midlife, she looked at her judgmental dog and thought, “damn, this can’t be it.” So she grabbed her golden shit shovel, confirmed her next botox appointment, and decided to remix midlife. You’ll get in-depth conversations with thought leaders, doctors and women just like you, who are not defined by age or some bullshit crisis, but ...
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Author and former Seinfeld writer, Andy Cowan, deems you his listener/(human) therapist, as he faces the daunting challenge of immunity to neurosis in mini-therapy sessions with (AI) Dr. K... Comedy and therapy—what could be more therapeutic than that? Along with post-session postscripts, comedy featurettes, and unreal supporting players! "Unique in the podcasting space... Delightful... Engaging... So good... Fascinating and vulnerable... entertaining, cathartic... I'm in awe." DISCOVERPODS ...
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It’s hard to feel great and find fulfillment—but It’s possible. And let's face it, it can also be annoying to hear work-life balance clichés. This is a fresh perspective. Join Paul Hearing every week—a young professional, tech business leader turned mindful leadership & mindfulness meditation teacher—as he quickly shares guided meditations, interviews, and proven tools to help you learn to meditate as well accelerate personal and career growth. Learn more at nearmethod.com.
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What was the dreadful thing that threatened the fortunes of the Kingdom of Haufzeignet? How did a dinner engagement cause Lord Trivett's world to fall apart? And what was the single, fateful phrase that destroyed young Mary's life forever? From the pen of writer James Lark comes a series of short stories about people who are almost certainly worse off than you are. Often bizarre, sometimes unsettling, occasionally downright upsetting, they can at least guarantee to provoke a response - and, ...
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Join author and former Seinfeld writer Andy Cowan, along with AI Dr. K and their cast of unreal supporting players, as Andy laments waiting endlessly on the phone for a representative and off the phone for that big break. And discover why sports fans are blissfully unaware of their problems, the inside scoop on auditioningfor CNN news anchor, and “…
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We're often encouraged to "feel our feelings" as a route to healing and greater self-awareness, but what does it even mean? And exactly how does one go about it? This episode explores: The difference between feelings and emotions How to tease apart physical vs emotional sensations Why sense-making gets in the way of us feeling feelings in our bodie…
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EP 136: This episode is all about sustainable weight loss tips for your health! You know when you are in the market and you don’t know what to buy? But you want to be “healthy” and you are trying to remember all the opposing things you have seen on IG and Tik Tok. Me too! Do you wonder if there are some tricks and strategies to just get the darn da…
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Why are we drawn to sharing our inner worlds, and is it more urgent and more complicated when you're neurotic? This episode explores: The urge to take our private journaling public The personality types that have an easier time keeping it real The benefits of spilling your guts online If living mindfully is incongruent with doing it “for the plot”?…
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EP 135: Ready to step into your main-character energy and say f*** to your inner b****? Into some “LUCKY GIRL SYNDROME? Feeling a little stuck and not sure how to chase those big dreams or even the little ones? No worries, I got you! Today’s guest is a total pro at helping you transform, get unstuck, and build the life you’ve been dreaming of…Get r…
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This is Interfering Neurotic with me, Dr Ash King, and mindfulness coach, Daron Larson - where we navigate a life lived with the curses and blessings of big feelings. Coming up, we explore: The reality show that is US politics and how we feel about it The Big 5 Personality Test and what ingredients make for a neurotic individual Art and creativity …
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EP 134: As a midlife woman, do you ever feel like maybe you don’t really know what your style is with clothes and how you express yourself? Sometimes you are boho chic, while other times you are preppy chic. Do you ever crave the ease of a “capsule” wardrobe? A magical closet fairy who can solve your outfit dramas? Me too! I got your back! In this …
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Welcome to our first ep of Interfering Neurotic with Dr Ash King, and Daron Larson - where we navigate a life lived with the curses and blessings of big feelings. Together, we explore why we think, feel and act the ways we do (sometimes against our better judgement) and the deranged pursuits we embark upon to find ourselves, fix ourselves and keep …
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Join author and former Seinfeld writer Andy Cowan, along with AI Dr. K and a new cast of unreal supporting players, as Andy confronts his own loneliness epidemic and navigates one of his lifelong fears, change, by seeking therapy from someone you’ve known your entire life. And don't miss Bad Dateline! www.andycowan.net…
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EP 133: Title: A Juicy Midlife… Parenthood, Creative outlets, And The Importance Of Female Friends This is like the midlife bestie chat where you feel like a “fly on the wall” with two women getting into it all. “I threw out my back picking up something in the shower. Is this really where I am at right now, in midlife?” LOL. Today I am joined by mi…
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EP 132: Are you a midlife woman who kinda just wants to be able to DM another midlife woman and say “I’m sweating, I’m bored, I am sad my kids left the house”…? Me too. That's why I answer all of my IG DM messages. I just started a little minisode series called “in my DM’s”… I will do quick episodes reading and responding to some of my listener DM’…
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EP 131: Today we are unpacking my midlife bags, literally. You guys know I like to be prepared for anything that I (or my husband) might need. Everyone makes fun of me until they need one of the bandaids I packed at the airport. We are digging deep into my trusted midlife bags! I am back with another solo mini-sode where I am giving you an inside l…
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EP 130: Permission for the “ugly cry” is granted. “midlife mom” mixed with “empty nest” or “half empty nest”, omg! Get ready for a new solo mini-sode where I get into everything empty nest (half empty nest) and “teen son” as I call him is now “college son”. He just left for his sophomore year of college. I’m heading into my second “year of lasts” (…
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Are you a midlife woman who is being flooded with information on social media regarding all things health and longevity? I am! Do the infrared sauna, stand on your head, go to f*king yoga, sweat your balls off, jump in a cold plunge, eat this, don’t eat that, the list goes on… In this episode we are getting to the bottom of all this information wit…
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EP 128: Mocktails, pickleball, midlife friendships & marriage and top health hacks….did I peak your interest? Do you ever wonder why you feel so stuck in midlife? Part of it is that we aren’t experimenting and trying new things. We made our kids try new sports or take that random art class, yet we don’t apply the same expectations to ourselves as m…
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EP 127: Are you a midlife woman looking to explore your identity beyond motherhood? I am! Today’s guest is telling us that you don’t have to check all of the midlife boxes, it’s okay to just do what works for YOU and why it’s important to find your midlife freedom. If you are feeling stuck and need some midlife motivation, then this episode is defi…
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EP 126: Putting yourself first in midlife. Yes! Hard and good! Thinking about “midlife self reinvention”? It doesn’t mean you are “burning the house down”...It just means you are looking for your “next thing” in midlife. Maybe you are seeking passion, purpose, meaning or even some novelty. You are not alone. Most of us feel this way. Ready to mix-i…
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EP 125: Join me, Dr. Sarah Milken in a rad, real and open conversation with one of my favorite midlife besties and hottie/smarties. Jennifer Fisher is back! Our first episode was on zoom two years ago. Today, we are on fire and in person in NYC, underboob sweat and all! Jennifer is a jeweler, entrepreneur, chef, kitchen influencer, social media sup…
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Author and former Seinfeld writer Andy Cowan and AI Dr. K invite you on a 25-year journey back to the genesis of The Neurotic Vaccine comedy/therapy podcast, and vintage highlights from Up & Down Guys. With Up Guy Dr. K, Down Guy Andy, the Up & Down Girl, late celebrated comedian Robert Schimmel, Drabble comic strip creator Kevin Fagan, and much mo…
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EP 124: I know that I am your “midlife bestie”, oversharing my midlife “ugh’s & fabulosities” and finding us all the expert golden nuggets to create our optimal midlife. But, today I am talking to another midlife bestie, “poolside”! This midlife hottie showed up to our zoom interview in a bikini. Let me explain… we had a timing miscommunication and…
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EP 123: Blood sugar! Are you a midlife woman just learning about the dreaded blood sugar saga or you already know you are insulin resistant? Maybe you feel clunky and tired? Maybe you have gained a few pounds? Do you want to learn some simple lifestyle changes that can help you balance your blood sugar, feel better and lose some extra weight? Want …
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It's a tough business, writing. All those hours, days, years even, of sweat and toil, writing and rewriting to turn out something heartfelt, original and possibly even brilliant, only to discover that you have merely completed the first leg of a far more arduous journey, one that will probably end with your finely wrought prose being discarded and …
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EP 122: 6 month “midlife review” for you. It is 6 months into the new year. Have you taken any of those personal steps that you might have pondered on January 1? This is not general “self help” bla bla. This is the real juice. Midlife woman, I know you are ready for a personal “uplevel” because you are here! Wanting a pivot, reset, rei-ignition, wi…
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"You know what I reckon? They’re so up against it, right, with the state of the hospitals and underfunding and so on, that they don’t know who’s in for what. So they do everything on everyone to be on the safe side." You will, no doubt, have your own views on the state of the NHS and the reasons (calculated or otherwise) for its 14 years (coinciden…
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EP 121: It’s not selfish to put yourself first in midlife. Midlife self obsession is approved. My guest today has 400k social media followers listening to her every word. After being a mother and a wife, a friend, a sister or a career-er when will it be time to be you and choose you, too?!? Today’s guest explains why choosing you in midlife is not …
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Folklore tells of a town where everyone was a mathematician. Each person was an expert, whether in arithmetic, algebra, geometry or topology; thanks to this expertise, measurements were always very precisely measured, definitions very precisely defined and costs very precisely calculated. Yet, as a mathematician called Simplex discovered, just beca…
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Shame. Most of us experience it. A few of us are burdened with it in unusually (and, some would say, unfairly) high quantities. Whilst religious and political authorities have at times encouraged shame as a means of self-control (or, frankly, a way of ensuring that fun things feel less fun), these days it is generally felt that shame is a bad thing…
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EP 120: MIDLIFE MUFFIN TOP... I know you can relate. As a midlife woman, do you struggle to find consistency in your diet? I do! Do you find yourself snacking when you're bored or when your college kid leaves the nest again to go back to school? I do! Do you wish that your weight loss was sustainable and easy to maintain? I do!!! This mini episode …
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Calling all midlifers! Today I’m reviewing my first year as a half-empty nest mom. Ugh! In this 15 min quickie, I have so many thoughts and questions that I know you’re probably having too… So, in the regular Flexible Neurotic style I’m getting honest and vulnerable in this solo mini-sode. With one kid (teen son) in college and the other finishing …
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It's a wonderful thing, a school. A place that allows you to learn, to be taught concepts that enable you to move beyond your experience, a place to develop skills and knowledge, and to grow as a person. But what is even more wonderful is a school where you are allowed to live as well. A school with your own bed, where you can go to sleep with your…
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Wax on, wax off. They didn’t make films in the 80s. They made movies – enchanted windows of wish-fulfilment, in which impossibly attractive characters, subtly highlighted by golden sunlight or the opulent colours of fairgrounds and amusement arcades, led us into adventures that were worlds away from our humdrum classrooms and playgrounds. Wax on, w…
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EP 118: Are you a midlife woman experiencing intense shoulder pain? I was! Does your body just ache? Mine does. Is your doctor suggesting it’s just a pickle-ball injury or you just gotta push through the midlife grind? Mine was too! (even though I don’t play pickle-ball, lol) Are you knee deep digging through google for answers to why you can’t f*k…
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EP 117: Midlife philosophy, marriage, health and action steps. Ready for a little midlife motivation from the midlife health queen herself? My guest tells us what it means to “live life from the inside out”, a practice that she embraces for connecting to her inner voice and taking necessary action steps. Looking for a midlife lifestyle reset? Ready…
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EP 116: As a midlife woman, do you want to find a “thing”, a passion, something that makes you feel connected to yourself and others? Me too! This mini episode has some serious and practical nuggets for you! Get ready for a step-by-step guide to reclaiming your time and creativity in the second half of our lives. My midlife hottie guest shares all …
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EP 115: Parenting hormonal teens while battling hormones yourself?! Me too! You are not alone there and according to parenting expert Dr. Lisa Damour there are some tools in teaching them to navigate “big feelings”, while maintaining you are own sense of equilibrium, as a parent. Honestly, this was an amazing reminder for myself and I know that so …
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