Buddhism says that humans must be fearless to live in a world often ruled by ignorance and afflictive emotions. This episode explicates a type of fearlessness borne from wise view, wise intention, non-referential compassion, and wise action. This fearlessness is critical for any Buddhist practitioner engaged in resistance and protest to protect our democracy from autocrats and would-be dictators.Join the conversation on the Integrative Psychotherapy Substack. For more information on Lisa Dale Miller’s clinical work visit her website This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisadalemiller.substack.com
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Virtuous Activism
Virtuous conduct is not contrary to making change happen or protesting. Buddhist psychology has a recipe for skillfully navigating distress and impending loss by calling out injustice and wrongdoing from the principles of wisdom and compassion. Lisa discusses how to manage the current onslaught of chaos with purposeful coping and virtuous activism.Join the conversation on the Integrative Psychotherapy Substack. For more information on Lisa Dale Miller’s clinical work visit her website This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisadalemiller.substack.com
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Co-creating An Intentional Ending
Because psychotherapy is mostly a relational undertaking ending psychotherapy well is very important. I am a big fan of intentional endings. This episode describes what makes an ending intentional and how to successfully co-create one with a patient.Join the conversation on the Integrative Psychotherapy Substack. For more information on Lisa Dale Miller’s clinical work visit her website. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisadalemiller.substack.com
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Emptiness and Identity Confusion
This episode explores two fundamental Buddhist psychological concepts—emptiness and identity confusion. While most clinicians think emptiness is ‘feeling empty’, it is actually a profound doorway to radically understand self and world as it truly is. Surprisingly, the Buddha had a lot to say about identity and identity confusion and often pointed out how human minds fixate on identity in ways that largely serve to separate us from each other.Join the conversation on the Integrative Psychotherapy Substack. For more information on Lisa Dale Miller’s clinical work visit her website. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisadalemiller.substack.com
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Activist Buddhist Psychology
Lisa invites clinicians to join her on the activist side of Buddhist psychology. Western psychotherapy has never been big on collective healing. A large methodological defect left unaddressed for a century or more. The frightening changes happening around the world demand psychotherapists renounce complacency, convention, denial and cowardice, and commit to sustained social activism. This deluded world needs us to become warriors for clarity, tolerance, and collective care. To devote our work to rooting out delusion wherever it arises and fearlessly light the lamp of non-suffering in a world of dark, intense suffering.Join the conversation on the Integrative Psychotherapy Substack. For more information on Lisa Dale Miller’s clinical work visit her website. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lisadalemiller.substack.com
This podcast is a vehicle for teaching Buddhist psychological frameworks and interventions to clinicians and the public at large. Buddhist psychology has a rich tradition of source material and effective mind training practices for cultivating genuine mental health and well-being. This podcast is also an opportunity to interest mental health professionals in pursuing their own Buddhist practice—the penultimate form of self-care. lisadalemiller.substack.com
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