When anxiety takes over, even small decisions can feel impossible. This episode explores how anxiety controls your energy, keeps you stuck, and convinces you that you are the problem — and why that isn’t true. You are not your anxiety.

Trauma isn’t healed through insight alone. Many people understand their trauma deeply, sometimes even more than their therapists, yet still feel stuck. That’s because understanding isn’t the same as healing. Healing happens when the nervous system finally experiences safety. When the body no longer has to rely on avoidance, protectors, or survival strategies just to get through the day. This episode explores why trauma isn’t something you think your way out of, but something you feel your way through, and how learning to safely feel what was once unbearable allows the body to release what it’s been holding and do what it already knows how to do: heal.

Why do we feel like we’re never enough, no matter how much we achieve? In this episode, we unpack the exhausting cycle of hustling for worth and why doing more never leads to feeling fulfilled. When effort doesn’t change how you feel inside, it’s not failure, it’s feedback. True growth doesn’t come from grinding harder or chasing approval through achievement; it starts with understanding who you are and building your life from a solid foundation of identity.

In this podcast, Kussi and Yossi have an open and candid conversation about when someone should consider seeking therapy. They explore the signs that indicate it might be time to reach out for professional help and discuss the important interplay between Judaism and mental health. With thoughtful insights, they delve into how religious values and therapy can coexist, offering listeners a deeper understanding of the balance between spiritual and emotional well-being.

Yossi Winner is a marriage and family therapist, specializing in supporting couples, individuals, and teens.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/yossi-winner-boca-raton-fl/1192147

Kussi Lipskier is a marriage and family therapist, specializing in supporting couples, individuals, and teens.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/kussi-lipskier-tuscaloosa-al/1251129

Research has shown that practicing gratitude can have numerous benefits for physical, emotional and mental well-being!

What does it take for someone to change? What is therapy?

In this Mini-episode we delve into the difference between healing and fixing.

There's a time to fix and there's a time to heal.

Welcome to Season 1 of Talk Therapy With Yossi Winner.