Most men who eat when they are already full have decided the problem is willpower. Dr. Jason Linder spends this episode taking that explanation apart and handing back something more useful.

Jason is a bilingual trauma and relationship therapist in San Diego, an EMDR Certified clinician and EMDRIA-Approved Consultant, and an adjunct professor at Alliant International University. In his clinical experience, almost every addictive pattern he has treated — substance or process — sits on top of two things: not enough high-quality human connection, and unresolved past experience that still has a pull on the present. The quantity of relationships is beside the point. One person can bring grief, vulnerability and overwhelm to change the picture.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:

1. Why compulsive eating sits on top of connection and unresolved experience rather than a lack of discipline
2. The three things most men were never given permission to bring to anyone — grief, vulnerability and overwhelm — and what it costs to carry them alone
3. How short sleep raises hunger signalling, and why evening cravings tilt toward sugar, salt and fat
4. How to tell nutritional hunger from emotional hunger, and what the emotional kind is actually asking for
5. What urge surfing is, plus four small mechanics that change a meal: chew fully, set the utensil down, no screens, stop earlier in the evening

CONNECT WITH DR. JASON LINDER
• Alliant International University faculty page: https://www.alliant.edu/faculty/jason-linder
• Writing at Psychotherapy.net: https://psychotherapy.net/blog/author/jason-linder-lmft
• Therapy practice — San Diego, California clients only: https://dr-jason-n-linder.clientsecure.me
• Instagram — @drjasonnlinder
• Linkedin — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-n-linder-psyd-8871a68b/

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You do not have to have kicked in a door overseas for this conversation to land. Training alone carries a heavy physiological burden and the injuries it leaves behind have a name.

Dr. Chris Frueh is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii–Hilo with more than 30 years working alongside combat veterans, special operators, contractors, and first responders. He was lead author on the 2020 medical paper that coined the term “operator syndrome,” and his book of the same name is written for operators and their families rather than for clinicians. Dr. Mark Gordon introduced him to Jon, and this episode pick s up exactly where the Gordon conversation left off. Chris explains what operator syndrome actually is and how it differs from PTSD, gives the fullest public account we’ve heard of what Secretary Hegseth’s July 15 announcement and follow-up memo actually said, and lays out a genuinely hopeful recovery path — starting with tests almost anyone can get. As he puts it: this is not a life sentence of horrible misery.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:
1. What operator syndrome is — and why PTSD is only one possible piece of it
2. How the same symptoms get called depression when the real driver may be hormones, sleep, or inflammation
3. What the Hegseth July 15 announcement and one-page memo actually said — including the context most coverage missed
4. The first moves in a recovery plan: hormone and cardiometabolic panels, a sleep study, and lowering inflammation
5. Why bringing your partner into the process changes the outcome — and how to start that conversation

More about Dr. Chris Frueh:
1. Website: https://www.chrisfrueh.com
2. Book: Operator Syndrome (Ballast Books) — available on Amazon and via his website
3. The original 2020 Operator Syndrome paper is free to download from chrisfrueh.com
4. Instagram: @drchrisfrueh

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Out of every punctuation mark in every language, Vaisesika Dasa argues the question mark is the most powerful. Why, because a question is a hook that pulls the answers already around you closer.

Vaisesika Dasa left an ordinary path at 15 to become a monk, chasing questions most people never stop to ask. He has spent his life studying a traditional line of Vedic teaching and translating the Bhagavad Gita into something genuinely usable for professionals and seekers in the modern world. His book, The Four Questions: A Pathway to Inner Peace, distills it into four questions anyone can carry: Where am I investing my attention right now? What is the lesson? What is my purpose? And how can I be of service? In this conversation with Jon and Will, he makes the case that attention is our only real asset, that life is a schoolhouse rather than a bed, and that the fastest way to feel connected to your own life is to serve something beyond it.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:
1. Why your attention is your most valuable asset — and how to get a real return on it
2. The one-question practice that pulls you back into the moment when you drift
3. How to turn setbacks into lessons by changing the question you ask
4. A simple exercise for getting clear on your purpose and writing your own personal constitution
5. The hierarchy of service — and why serving out of love outperforms serving out of fear or gain

More about Vaisesika Dasa:
1. Book: The Four Questions: A Pathway to Inner Peace — https://www.thefourquestionsbook.com
2. Website: https://www.vaisesikadasa.com
3. Published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust — also available on Amazon

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