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A Psychology & Psychotherapy podcast. Get a therapist's perspective on a variety of topics, some silly and some self-helpy. the Broken Brain is an organized panel discussion, an hour (ish) of therapeutic POV for you.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Broken Brain makes emotional patterns legible by connecting personal behavior with family expectations, identity, culture, and recovery.
Dwight treats psychology as a conversation between private feelings and the systems surrounding them. Guest interviews and a live overdose-awareness broadcast move through addiction, shame, crying, religious and social trauma in queer patients, and the expectations placed on…
Dwight has a better question for your crying spell than how to make it stop.
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A thriller chat that keeps circling motive, destiny, and what people mean from the outside.
Bill Combs' The Quantum Gate is presented as a paranormal thriller, but the discussion leans into motive, destiny, and how easily people can be judged from the outside.
A body-centered chakra conversation built from lived experience and repeated observation.
This episode treats chakras as a practical way to read emotion through the body, and it keeps returning to lived experience instead of doctrine.
A thoughtful film conversation about survival, identity, and the cost of being defined by others.
Shyam Madiraju's film 55 opens onto a conversation about culture, art, and the way survival can press people into telling their own lives differently.
A reflective conversation that treats shame as something to work with, not wield.
The Broken Brain opens with an International Overdose Awareness Day invitation and a live, call-in style broadcast, then settles into a conversation with MJ Renshaw about shame, self-acceptance, and why punishment is a thin way to push for change.
A careful look at how faith-based messages about identity can become trauma.
Anne Russo and Sam spend the episode on how faith-based messages about identity and sexuality can turn into trauma. The strongest parts are the plain ones: a person can be taught, directly or by implication, that heterosexual marriage is the only acceptable path, that their…
A live International Overdose Awareness Day conversation about engagement, avoidance, and what healthy care looks like.
This live International Overdose Awareness Day stream treats overdose awareness as a question of how people stay engaged with life, not only how addiction can become avoidant.
A calm, thoughtful look at who gets to frame youth stories on screen.
Broken Brain looks at how young people are framed in film and media, and it keeps circling back to a basic question: who gets to tell those stories in the first place?
A plainspoken look at how avoidance can keep addiction in place.
Dwight Hurst's Monday Mental Health Tip treats addiction as a way of avoiding what feels hard, and that keeps the discussion focused. The piece draws a useful line between a quick break and a habit of checking out, then shows how that habit can cost people time, chances, and the…
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain one topic per episode, from the bicameral mind to Boeing's MCAS.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins dissect Oscar races, new releases, and Hollywood news.
Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen debate new releases, classics, and their own film rankings.
Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas argue their way through terrible movies.
Host Dwight interviews MJ Renshaw, a breathwork facilitator and author, about healing trauma through somatic practices like breathwork and crying.
This episode features a live stream for International Overdose Awareness Day, where host Dwight Hurst and guests Isabel Teran and Mike Lunsford discuss addiction through the lens of engagement versus avoidance.
Host Dwight discusses the mental health tip of 'doing things poorly' to overcome perfectionism, tying it to his recent overdose awareness live stream and sharing stories about adoption and anxiety.
Dwight interviews Mallary Tenore Tarpley about her book 'Slip,' which explores the messy middle of eating disorder recovery.
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Dwight discusses the psychological dynamics of engagement versus avoidance in addiction, explaining how unhealthy coping mechanisms pull people toward avoidance while healthy engagement involves tackling both enjoyable and difficult aspects of life.
Host Dwight interviews Dr.
Therapist Ann Russo discusses the intersection of religious trauma and queer identity, exploring topics like conversion therapy, spirituality vs.
Host Dwight interviews Dr.
Host Dwight Hurst interviews author Bill Combs about his novel The Quantum Gate, exploring its blend of paranormal thriller elements with real-world inspirations like Edgar Cayce and secret societies.
Host Dwight interviews filmmaker Shyam Madraju about his new film 55, exploring themes of identity, redemption, and classism in Mumbai.
Host Dwight interviews an independent filmmaker about the film Born to Lose during the CineQuest Film Festival.
The host introduces a charity and then begins an interview with filmmakers about their new film, exploring the intersection of psychology and culture.
Dwight shares a mental health tip and promotes a charity that uses art to help children with cancer.
Host Dwight interviews filmmaker Rich Ho about his 12-year independent sci-fi film project, discussing the creative process, emerging tech, and personal journey.
The host introduces a nonprofit organization, LearningWorks, and discusses its mission to help youth with after school and summer academic programs.
Host Dwight interviews filmmaker Nick Beaulier about his documentary 'My Omaha,' which explores racial justice and his relationship with his Trump-supporting father diagnosed with cancer.
Host Dwight interviews the writers and directors of the independent film 'Rockies' about their movie and filmmaking process.
The hosts react to and discuss the first official Marvel trailer, blending comedic banter with film analysis.
Host Dwight interviews biology professor Nathan Lentz about his book on the 500-million-year evolution of sex, gender, and mating and how culture has narrowed our expression of these traits.
The host introduces a conversation with Chad Foster, an expert in accomplishment and innovation who overcame blindness, tying into New Year's goal-setting.