What if therapy is not about fixing what’s broken… but about retrieving what was lost?

In this deeply reflective episode of the Project I AM Podcast, David explores the idea that therapy is a modern form of soul retrieval, the gentle, relational process of helping clients come back into connection with the parts of themselves that had to go into hiding in order to survive.

Drawing from the work of Irvin Yalom, Carl Rogers, and Lawrence Heller (NARM) — alongside the wisdom of poets and mystics like John O’Donohue, Rumi, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Ávila, Mary Oliver, and David Whyte, this episode weaves psychology, spirituality, neuroscience, and lived experience into one powerful truth:Healing is not becoming someone new. Healing is becoming someone true.

Whether you are a therapist, a student, or someone on your own healing journey, this episode invites you to reconsider what growth really means — and what it feels like to finally come home to yourself.

If you’ve ever felt successful but not fully alive… connected but not fully known… this conversation is for you.

Welcome home.

Most of us move through life solving, fixing, performing, and managing.

We answer emails. We check boxes. We handle problems. We get things done.

But somewhere along the way… we forget how to truly meet each other.

In this reflective and deeply human episode of the Project I AM Podcast, David explores the work of philosopher Martin Buber and his timeless idea from I and Thou: that there are two ways of relating in the world.

I–It: where people become roles, problems, or tasks to manage. I–Thou: where we slow down and encounter each other as whole, sacred human beings.

This is an invitation to slow down. To soften. To listen differently. And to remember that healing often happens not because we said the perfect thing… but because we stayed.

Come sit for a while.

Because sometimes the most powerful words we can offer another person are simply:

I’m here.

In this Project I AM episode, David slows everything down and brings you back to one of the most life-changing practices you can learn: living and healing in the here and now. So much of our suffering comes from getting stuck in the past or bracing for the future. In this conversation, you’ll learn how to recognize the subtle moments when your system shifts into protection, like shutting down, speeding up, people-pleasing, numbing out, overthinking, or trying to control. And you’ll learn how to come back to yourself with compassion.

If you’ve been feeling anxious, disconnected, or stuck in patterns you can’t think your way out of, this episode will bring you back to what’s real, what’s here, and what’s possible.