The Intense Mind with Imi Lo

https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2026/08/27/travis/

Many intense people have a high level of moral sensitivity. I wrote about this elsewhere before, but basically, they see something cruel or careless and cannot just move on from it the way other people seem to. They often lie awake thinking about whether they are doing enough, whether what they are doing even counts, and whether there is any point in trying when the world d...

https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2026/07/30/frank/

If you have searched for help with anxiety or overthinking, YouTube has probably offered you ten Stoic principles that will change your life, or Taoism explained as going with the flow, sometimes in an approximation of Alan Watts's voice.

My guest is Frank P. Saunders Jr., a philosopher who works on Chinese thought and who has spent the past couple of years making videos abou...

Full text: https://eggshelltherapy.com/waiting-mode/

Waiting mode describes the inner experience of being unable to do anything because something uncertain, or a future event, is pending. It could be an appointment, an exam result, a medical scan, a conversation that has not happened yet, a text message that may or may not receive a reply.

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 Eric Mathison is a philosopher and bioethicist and a former clinical ethicist. In this conversation, we discuss why the idea that medicine is about healing may be wrong, what the evidence actually shows about the effectiveness of mental health treatment, and what happens when the system has to label you as disordered before it can help you. We talk about diagnostic labelling and neurodiversity, the disturbing variation betwee...

Gordon Smith is a therapist, coach, and creative instructor who has spent over 26 years working with gifted and neurodivergent adolescents and adults. Gordon came to centre giftedness in his practice after pulling out seven years of client notes and realising the people he had done his best work with all had one thing in common: they were intensely, unusually bright. That discovery sent him into his own gifted reckoning.

We talk abo...

https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2026/05/26/grief/

This is one of my favourite conversations I have recorded for The Intense Mind. As I was researching mortality and grief myself, I came across Professor Cholbi's Grief: A Philosophical Guide as a reader. I loved the book so much that I annotated it heavily. To go from reading the book to sitting with the author feels surreal, in a really wondrous way. 

Most of what we ar...

In this episode I sit down with Joey Remenyi, a vestibular audiologist, neuroplasticity therapist, and author of Sensing Ground and Rock Steady. Joey trained clinically at one of Australia's top vestibular clinics before building her own practice helping people with chronic and persistent sensory symptoms using neuroplasticity and somatic approaches.

We talk about what is actually happening in the nervous system when highly sensitiv...

For the full essay, please go to: https://eggshelltherapy.com/guilt/

Persistent guilt is what many intellectually and emotionally intense adults carry without knowing what to call it. It is the feeling of being haunted by a moral failure you cannot quite identify, of replaying conversations and decisions long after they should have settled, of being judged by a voice inside you. This essay traces where that voice comes from ...

Full text: https://eggshelltherapy.com/high-functioning-depression/

(Recorded with human voice)

We can think of the mechanism of high functioning depression this way: At some point in your life, perhaps because the mental burden on you had become overwhelming, your psyche created an internal split to cope.

In high functioning depression, what develops is a division between your "high functioning part" and your "depressed part." The hi...

https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2026/04/22/bodyshadow/

I recently had the immense pleasure of sitting down with Jungian analyst Erica Lorentz to discuss her profound new work, Body is Shadow: Jung’s Method of Embodied Healing. Many intellectually gifted and highly sensitive individuals often live very much “in our heads.” This conversation was a vital reminder of what happens when we bridge that ga...

Time Stamps and more: https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2026/03/29/nadja/


Many of the people I work with are highly intelligent, analytically sharp, and deeply uncomfortable with the idea of play. The word itself can feel faintly embarrassing, associated with self-indulgence. Doing something with no measurable output, no goal, no justification, tends to produce anxiety more than relief.
Nadja Rolli is a child p...

 
In this episode, I speak with integrative psychotherapist Joseph Pawson to explore the territory of his forthcoming book, Dependency and Denial, which examines what happens when our need for others gets exiled from awareness, and what it costs us to keep it there.
We talk about why dependency is not the pathological clinginess most people associate with the word, but something far more universal, the very basis of how ...

Full Transcript: https://eggshelltherapy.com/irritation/

You send articles they never read. You explain things they forget by tomorrow. You correct them even when you know it will start an argument. And you cannot stop, no matter how many times it backfires. This piece is about why.

Read by voice artist Theresa.

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Full Text: https://eggshelltherapy.com/existential-depression/

Sometimes, you have a lingering, niggling sense that says you are capable of more than your life currently reflects.

Perhaps you wake up with a quiet, persistent hum that whispers you are in the wrong city, the wrong company, the wrong room. You function well on the surface, meeting obligations and appearing competent, but underneath there is a constant awareness that you...

Full text: https://eggshelltherapy.com/toxic-relationship/

If you have been in a toxic relationship—whether with a partner, a friend, or a parent—with someone who repeatedly hurts you, gaslights you, or manipulates you, you may be familiar with the feeling of being stuck in a loop: betrayal, apology, forgiveness, then betrayal again. They repeatedly violate your trust in ways that leave you questioning reality itsel...

Full text:  https://eggshelltherapy.com/gifted-trauma/

On the Gifted Trauma of Feeling Humiliated

Today's article is on the gifted trauma of feeling chronically humiliated, even when no one is trying to humiliate you.

You know the feeling in your body before your mind can name it. The heat rising when someone begins explaining something you already know. The sickening sensation in your stomach when an authority fi...

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https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2025/12/05/why-we-still-feel-lonely-with-philosopher-lars-svendsen/

We can be surrounded by people and still feel completely alone. We can have friends, a partner, a full social calendar, and still feel like something is missing.

I spoke with philosopher Dr. Lars Svendsen about loneliness. His work so brilliantly weaves together philosophy, psychology, and decades of cross-cultural ...

SHOW NOTES: https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2025/10/27/deathanxiety/

I sat down with philosopher Tom Cochrane to explore death anxiety, happiness, and how we cope when existential dread surfaces. 

We began with the classic philosophical arguments against fearing death. 

For Tom, ultimate comfort does not require a cosmic designer. It comes from recognizing the world's intrinsic value. He advocates for what he calls ...

Full text: https://eggshelltherapy.com/ai-therapist/

Today’s letter is about the elephant in the room for all of us these past few years: the use of the AI therapist, coach, mentor, partner, friend, confidant, and sounding board. You may be someone who has resisted it with full strength, or embraced it with excitement, or maybe both. Whatever your stance, maybe it is time we talk about what happens when we turn to machines for...