Conversation With Alanis Morissette – Details, episodes & analysis

Alanis sat with relational experts Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman and discussed love in all its forms, as well as consistent challenges that can plague our relationships and how to work through them together.  In this conversation, they dive into topics ranging from the importance of maintaining curiosity with others to how to maintain a connection when things get hard. etc join us as we go for it. love you

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In this current episode, Alanis has a deep dive conversation with Dr. Ramani Durvasala about narcissism and personality disorders, and their effects on relationships and culture. 

In this episode, Alanis talks with Bryan E. Robinson Ph.D. about work addiction.

Below are some books by Bryan E. Robinson Ph.D.: 

Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children, and the Clinicians Who Treat Them

Overdoing It: How to Slow Down and Take Care of Yourself

Work Addiction: Hidden Legacies of Adult Children

The Smart Guide to Managing Stress

Sites mentioned in the podcast:

Work Addiction Risk Test

Workaholics Anonymous

Workaholics Anon

In this episode, Alanis talks with Dr. Elaine Aron about highly sensitive people.

Below are some books by Dr. Elaine Aron:

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them

The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook

The Highly Sensitive Person in Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You

In this episode, Alanis talks with Howard Gardner about his theory of multiple intelligences.

Below are some books by Howard Gardner and outlets which are referenced in the podcast:

The Good Project

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter

The App Generation

In this episode, Alanis talks with Karen Kleiman about postpartum depression and all the activity that it entails from depression to anxiety to stress.

Below are books by Karen Kleiman which are referenced or discussed in this podcast:

This Isn't What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression

The Art of Holding in Therapy: An Essential Intervention for Postpartum Depression and Anxiety

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Perinatal Distress

Therapy and the Postpartum Woman: Notes on Healing Postpartum Depression for Clinicians and the Women Who Seek their Help

Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts: Breaking the Cycle of Unwanted Thoughts in Motherhood

Moods in Motion

Tokens of Affection: Reclaiming your Marriage After Postpartum Depression

The Postpartum Husband: Practical Solutions for Living with Postpartum Depression

What Am I Thinking?: Having a Baby After Postpartum Depression

In this podcast, Alanis talks with Richard Schwartz about his Internal Family Systems which he developed in response to clients' descriptions of experiencing various parts–many extreme–within themselves.

Below are references discussed in this podcast:

The Mosaic Mind

Metaframeworks

Internal Family Systems Therapy

You Are The One You've Been Waiting For

Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model

The Center for Self Leadership

Chart mentioned in the podcast

In this podcast, Alanis talks with Dr. Peter Levine about stress and trauma recovery, resilience, Somatic Experiencing, and more.

Below are the references discussed in this podcast:
In an Unspoken Voice
Waking the Tiger
Trauma and Memory
Healing Trauma
Trauma-Proofing Your Kids
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
Freedom from Pain
The Polyvagal Theory —Stephen Porges
SIBAM—five core components of Somatic Experiencing
Resolving Trauma in Psychotherapy: A Somatic Approach

In this podcast, Alanis talks with Dr. Sue Johnson about bonding, attachment, and adult romantic relationships.

Below are the references discussed in this podcast:

Hold Me Tight
Love Sense
The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy with Trauma Survivors

In this podcast, Alanis talks with Dr. Dan Siegel about mindfulness, parenting, relationships, neurobiology, and more.

Below are the references discussed in this podcast:

The Developing Mind
The Mindful Brain
The Mindful Therapist
Mindsight
Brainstorm
Parenting From the Inside Out
No-Drama Discipline
Alanis' Tattoo
Center for Culture, Brain & Development
Wheel of Awareness