The Intense Mind with Imi Lo
80 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHave you been told you ‘see too much’, ‘hear too much’, ‘think too much’, ‘feel too much’? The Intense Mind is a podcast dedicated to people who are exceptionally intense, gifted and intuitive. In this podcast, we talk to intense humans and experts from around the world. We will learn how to bounce back from trauma and shame; how to cultivate resilience and authenticity; how to be the most creative and productive we can be, and how to find our tribe. Together, we go from healing to thriving.
About Imi: imiloimilo.com
Eggshell Therapy and Coaching: eggshelltherapy.com
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Episodes
A Deep Dive Into BPD, Splitting, Projection, Anxiety and Therapy - Jon Frederickson and Imi Lo
April 02, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBFULL TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2021/04/02/jonf-2/ Today, we are talking to Dr. Jon Frederickson. He is a therapist with over 25 years of experience, especially specializing in working with people with personality disorders. Jon is also the founder of Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. It is based on psychoanalytic ideas such as transference and defense mechanisms but is renewed into a much more active and pragmatic format than traditional psychoana...
Have you Been Subjected to Narcissistic Abuse? - with David DeMars
March 19, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBFULL TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/?p=7201&preview=true Hi friends, Today we are touching on the sensitive subject of narcissistic abuse. I am talking to David DeMars, who is a coach and a video producer based in Las Vegas. He is a survivor of Complex Trauma and abusive relationships, and he now specializes in toxic relationship recovery and he helps people heal from Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by emotional abuse. We will address the following question...
Five Ways of Being Intense— A fun chat about overexcitabilities, giftedness, and more
February 25, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode, we have Jessie L. Mannisto, the Editor in Chief of the Third Factor magazine, a thought-provoking magazine that helps the creative, the quirky, and the gifted understand themselves. It is a magazine for those who experience life intensely, those who are teeming with complexity, complex feelings, and abundant mental activities. In this episode we cover: — A deep, detailed dive into exactly what the five excitabilities may look like — How Jessie meanders a world where people...
Five Ways of Being Intense— A fun chat about overexcitabilities, giftedness, and more
February 25, 2021 13:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBIn this episode, we have Jessie L. Mannisto, the Editor in Chief of the Third Factor magazine, a thought-provoking magazine that helps the creative, the quirky, and the gifted understand themselves. It is a magazine for those who experience life intensely, those who are teeming with complexity, complex feelings, and abundant mental activities. In this episode we cover: — A deep, detailed dive into exactly what the five excitabilities may look like — How Jessie meanders a world where people...
Do you Have Thin Skin? What Does That Mean for Your Health, Relationships and Spirituality?
November 27, 2020 15:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MB***Click to access FULL SHOW NOTES AND TRANSCRIPT*** Today we have Michael Jawer, a writer and researcher whose works explore emotion as the foundation for personality, health, and spirituality. I knew of Mike’s work from the beginning of my career a decade ago. In his newest work, Sensitive Soul, he continues his exploration of why different people process their feelings differently. He talks about how ‘thin boundary people’ differ from ‘thick boundary people, and what...
Deconstructing Anxiety: What is Your Core Fear That Underlies Everything?
September 12, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBFULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/09/21/toddpressman/ In this wonderfully unique and useful conversation, we are speaking with Dr. Todd Pressman about deconstructing anxiety. Dr. Pressman’s work first caught my attention for he has some rather radical ideas about anxiety: Firstly, he proposes any negative experience we have is really a fear in disguise; so all our emotions, from anger to guilt, all find their roots in fear. Then, he suggests we can all re...
Listen to The Words of Your Soul: a Poet’s Guide to the Artist’s Block - with Julia Fehrenbacher
July 31, 2020 16:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBFULL TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/08/03/julia-fehrenbacher/ Today’s episode is very special and a little different than usual. If you are someone who is sensitive, emotionally intense, If you have a desire to express yourself through any art form, If you have creativity blockages, If you believe in the power of words and poetry, this conversation is for you. Today we are talking with artist and poet Julia Fehrenbacher. I was introduced to her ...
Listen to The Words of Your Soul: a Poet’s Guide to the Artist’s Block - with Julia Fehrenbacher
July 31, 2020 16:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBFULL TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/08/03/julia-fehrenbacher/ Today’s episode is very special and a little different than usual. If you are someone who is sensitive, emotionally intense, If you have a desire to express yourself through any art form, If you have creativity blockages, If you believe in the power of words and poetry, this conversation is for you. Today we are talking with artist and poet Julia Fehrenbacher. I was introduced to her ...
*SPECIAL EPISODE* Existential Crisis, Dreams and Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life - with James Hollis and Imi Lo
June 27, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBFULL TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/06/27/james-hollis/ Today’s episode is, on a personal level, deeply meaningful to me. Some time ago, I went through what I now know was a crisis of the Soul. As always, I went and search for answers in books and philosophies. That was when I found Dr James Hollis’s work on Jungian Psychology. Dr Hollis is a Jungian psychoanalyst and the author of sixteen books, his work is incredibly extensive and accessible. In today’s lo...
Existential Crisis, Dreams and Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life - with James Hollis and Imi Lo
June 27, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBFULL TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/06/27/james-hollis/ Today’s episode is, on a personal level, deeply meaningful to me. Some time ago, I went through what I now know was a crisis of the Soul. As always, I went and search for answers in books and philosophies. That was when I found Dr James Hollis’s work on Jungian Psychology. Dr Hollis is a Jungian psychoanalyst and the author of sixteen books, his work is incredibly extensive and accessible. In today’s lo...
All About Fear, Anxiety and Panic - Karla McLaren with Imi Lo
June 09, 2020 14:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBFULL SHOW NOTES AND TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/06/09/all-about-fear-anxiety-and-panic/ I am very excited to bring back a past guest, pioneer in the field of studying empath, empathy and emotional intelligence Karla McLaren. In the last episode with Karla, we discussed hyper empathy and she offered us some great tips on setting emotional boundaries. Today we will talk to Karla about her new book Embracing Anxiety, which feels like what we all need to l...
All About Fear, Anxiety and Panic - Karla McLaren with Imi Lo
June 09, 2020 14:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBFULL SHOW NOTES AND TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/06/09/all-about-fear-anxiety-and-panic/ I am very excited to bring back a past guest, pioneer in the field of studying empath, empathy and emotional intelligence Karla McLaren. In the last episode with Karla, we discussed hyper empathy and she offered us some great tips on setting emotional boundaries. Today we will talk to Karla about her new book Embracing Anxiety, which feels like what we all need to l...
On Emotional Eating, Perfectionism, Nice Boys/ Gals Syndrome- Karen Koenig with Imi Lo
March 14, 2020 03:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBSHOW NOTES: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2020/03/14/karen_koenig/ Do you sometimes eat even when you are not hungry, but just feel bored, angry or empty? Are you chronically stressed because you try to be perfect all the time? My conversation with emotional eating expert Karen Koenig ends up being not just about eating, but our deeply unconscious patterns and personality tendencies that hold us back, such as perfectionism and what she calls nice boys and girls syndrome. T...
*SPECIAL EPISODE* What if Normal Therapy Doesn't Work? Should You Try to Control Your Emotions? Steven Hayes with Imi Lo
January 04, 2020 11:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBThis is an incredibly rich conversation, in which you will hear: What you can do if conventional therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) don’t work for you; Why panic is what you feel when you are trying not to feel anxious, and depression is what happens when you refuse to feel sad; How you can gain ‘real control’ over your emotions; and Why psychedelics help some people but not all. Finally, Steven leads us through a guided exercise that you can do right now. I am sure yo...
What if Normal Therapy Doesn't Work for You? Should we try to Control Our Emotions? Steven Hayes with Imi Lo
January 04, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThis is an incredibly rich conversation, in which you will hear: What you can do if conventional therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) don’t work for you; Why panic is what you feel when you are trying not to feel anxious, and depression is what happens when you refuse to feel sad; How you can gain ‘real control’ over your emotions; and Why psychedelics help some people but not all. Finally, Steven leads us through a guided exercise that you can do right now. I am sure yo...
What if Normal Therapy Doesn't Work? Should You Try to Control Your Emotions? Steven Hayes with Imi Lo
January 04, 2020 11:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBThis is an incredibly rich conversation, in which you will hear: What you can do if conventional therapies like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) don’t work for you; Why panic is what you feel when you are trying not to feel anxious, and depression is what happens when you refuse to feel sad; How you can gain ‘real control’ over your emotions; and Why psychedelics help some people but not all. Finally, Steven leads us through a guided exercise that you can do right now. I am sure yo...
‘Too Much and not Enough’— Embracing Intensity, ADHD and Giftedness with Aurora Holtzman
December 18, 2019 12:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBToday we will talk to Aurora Holtzman, she came on my radar as one of the very few people out there who talks about ‘intensity’. In fact she has a podcast called ‘Embracing Intensity’! After years of feeling “too much,” Aurora finally realized that intensity, in the form of excitability, is the source of her greatest power. Now instead of beating herself up about not measuring up to her own self-imposed standards, she is on a mission to help outside-the-box thinkers befriend their brains an...
Processing Intense Emotions with Arts - Conversation With Artist Alessia Camoirano Bruges
December 02, 2019 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBToday, we will talk to Alessia, a gifted artist and creator. In this podcast, I interview not only subject experts and psychologists but also emotionally intense people from all walks of lives, those who have been through unthinkable trauma and have turned their pain into art and meaningful work. To Alessia, each of her painting is an intense emotional reaction to experiences. Through her abstract paintings, she explores identity, existence and anxiety. In this conversation, we talked ab...
I was Love Addicted and Here is What I did - Conversation With Artist Alessia Camoirano Bruges
December 02, 2019 15:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBToday, we will talk to Alessia, a gifted artist and creator. In this podcast, I interview not only subject experts and psychologists but also emotionally intense people from all walks of lives, those who have been through unthinkable trauma and have turned their pain into art and meaningful work. To Alessia, each of her painting is an intense emotional reaction to experiences. Through her abstract paintings, she explores identity, existence and anxiety. In this conversation, we talked ab...
What If You Are An Empath? What Are Your Emotions Telling You? Imi Lo with Karla McLaren
November 02, 2019 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBWhat does being an Empath mean? Are some people born more empathic than others? How can we manage emotions overwhelm? How can we set better boundaries? What is anger there to teach us? How do we work with shame? In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Karla McLaren, and to download her wisdom regarding Empaths, empathy and emotions. I am amazed by how much I have learned from this short conversation and I think you will too! I have created a transcript and or...
Being Uncommon: How Your MBTI Personality Type Changes The Experience of Giftedness- with Willem Kuipers
October 03, 2019 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn today’s conversation, we talk to Willem Kuipers. Willem is the author of the book Enjoying the Gift of Being Uncommon, where he explores the gifts and challenges of being a highly intelligent, highly intense and sensitive person, and introduces three practices to become more effective in work and private life. Recently, Willem has published an article about how extra intelligent people with different MBTI personality types experience their intensity. We will hear Willem tell us about h...
Being Uncommon: How Your MBTI Personality Type Changes The Experience of Giftedness
October 03, 2019 17:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBIn today’s conversation, we talk to Willem Kuipers. Willem is the author of the book Enjoying the Gift of Being Uncommon, where he explores the gifts and challenges of being a highly intelligent, highly intense and sensitive person, and introduces three practices to become more effective in work and private life. Recently, Willem has published an article about how extra intelligent people with different MBTI personality types experience their intensity. We will hear Willem tell us about h...
ADHD And How to Thrive When You Are Out-Of-Sync With The World- with Rebecca Champ
September 12, 2019 22:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBFULL SHOW NOTES/ TRANSCRIPT: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2019/09/12/adhd-rebecca-champ/ Today’s episode is special. Usually, I talk to guests who I have never met in person before. Today, we will interview Rebecca Champ, one of my most important friends. I have known Becca for 8 years now, I would like to share with you her energy, intelligence, compassion and humility. In the first part of the show, Rebecca teaches us everything we need to know about ADHD. But this epis...
Surviving Adversity With The Power Of Now - With Corrie Lo
August 18, 2019 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBIn this episode, we hear from Corrie about how she survived one trauma after another, including her boyfriend taking his own life, what it means to be resilience, why focusing on the present moment is the best coping mechanism and the wisdom of remembering that life is about constant changes. I have found this conversation with Corrie Lo to be tremendously beautiful and vulnerable. Corrie’s strong spirit is revealed in every line she uttered, yet you cannot help but feel moved by her vulner...
Have You Been Harmed By Cruel Parenting? Conversation with Eric Maisel
July 28, 2019 11:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBI have the honour of talking to Eric Maisel. Eric is the author of more than 50 books and is widely regarded as America's foremost creativity coach. His most famous books include Fearless Creating (1995), The Van Gogh's Blues (2002), Coaching the Artist Within (2005), and The Atheist's Way (2009). In this episode, we talked about the wounds of being children of authoritarian people, how we can liberate ourselves, and Eric's advice on parenting. We also address what it means to live an auth...
Why Do Sensitive and Creative People Get Depressed? Conversation with Douglas Eby
July 18, 2019 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this episode, we discussed what Douglas Eby did when years ago he could not find any information on high sensitivity and intensity. We see what we can learn from actors who are emotionally intense. We will answer the question: Why sensitive people are more prone to depression and it might not be a bad thing. Finally, we explore what constitutes exceptional creativity and why gifted women have a hard time accepting their talents. Full Shownotes and Transcript: www.eggshelltherapy.com/pod...
How To Thrive As A Creative Introvert? Conversation with Cat Rose
July 18, 2019 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBIn today’s conversation, we discussed why introversion does not equal shyness, the importance of fun in building a career and life. We will hear Cat Rose’s advice to a sensitive and creative person who wants to make it as a successful entrepreneur. She told us how she managed to do things that terrify her, the importance of personal connection and why ’Introvert needs people too’. Full Shownotes and Transcript: www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast Resources: Susan Cain: Quiet Power Jess Live...
How To Thrive As A Creative Introvert? Conversation with Cat Rose
July 18, 2019 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBIn today’s conversation, we discussed why introversion does not equal shyness, the importance of fun in building a career and life. We will hear Cat Rose’s advice to a sensitive and creative person who wants to make it as a successful entrepreneur. She told us how she managed to do things that terrify her, the importance of personal connection and why ’Introvert needs people too’. Full Shownotes and Transcript: www.eggshelltherapy.com/podcast Resources: Susan Cain: Quiet Power Jess Live...
I Was Born Intense and Sensitive. Now What? Conversation with Melissa Schwartz
July 17, 2019 22:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this conversation, we will come to hear why Melissa thinks sometimes having a diffused vision is a relief. We will learn how to ourselves even amongst busy travel schedule, crowds and bright light. We talked about what sensitive children need to hear. She shared how she turned her relationship with her mother around and helped her to understand and accept who she is. Finally, we touched on the power of EMDR therapy. Resources mentioned Far From the Trees by Andrew Soloman The Highly Se...
Welcome to Eggshell Transformations! - A Teaser
July 15, 2019 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MBIn this teaser, you will hear snippets from the upcoming three episodes, where we talk to intense people and experts around the world. We will hear their stories and lean life strategies from: Melissa Schwartz, the co-creator of Leading Edge Parenting, co-author of Authentic Parenting Power and author of soon to be released, Under the Hood: A Manual to Understand the Inner Workings of Children. She is an internationally acclaimed author, coach and public speaker bringing a new perspectiv...