Can't Afford Therapy

A snapshot from this week's episode, When Therapy Language Becomes a Weapon.
What actually counts as gaslighting — and what's just a disagreement? SaVon, Antoinette, and Josh break down how therapy words get weaponized, why only 2% of people actually have NPD, and what it really feels like to get called a narcissist mid-argument. (Hint: it hurts worse than being called broke.)
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INTRODUCING The Waiting Room... where the crew gets into whatever's on their mind before the real session starts.
This time: what starts as a debate about the Jaylen Brown trade turns into something real — what happens when someone more talented walks into your space and you have to make room. SaVon, Antoinette, and Josh get into the ego, the humility, and the quiet fear underneath it ("this was my team"), and how it plays out at work, in dating, and anywhere the old guard gives way to the new.
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SaVon, Antoinette, and Josh unpack how therapy language — gaslighting, narcissist, boundaries, love bombing — got pulled out of the therapist's office and turned into weapons we use to win arguments. They get honest about misusing these words themselves, and what it costs when naming something replaces actually feeling it.

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A snapshot from this week's episode, The "Go With the Flow" Lie: "When Your Partner Becomes a Passenger."
What happens when you become the parent in your own relationship? SaVon, Antoinette, and Josh get into defaulting to the parental role, overcompensating when nobody's defined who does what, and the quiet loneliness underneath it all — planning every meal, filling every gap, and still wondering "where are you? who are you?"
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Being easygoing sounds like a green flag — until it isn't. In this episode, SaVon, Josh, and Antoinette dig into what it really means when one partner consistently defers to the other, and why that dynamic quietly transfers the full mental and emotional load of a relationship onto one person. They get honest about their own patterns — the ones they've created, not just fallen into — and explore how unspoken roles, uneven decision-making, and the pressure to keep the peace can leave both partners feeling unseen, lonely, and stuck in a dynamic that looks like harmony from the outside.
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