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Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Jeremy Schumacher
129 episodes
1 day ago
This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window not through arguments, but through vibes, repetition, and algorithmic adjacency. We look at what gets framed as “reclaiming” language or pushing boundaries and how it actually functions as desensitization to train audiences to suppress empathy and mistake numbness for nuance. We also look at the billionaire buyout of our attention span and how thei...
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This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window not through arguments, but through vibes, repetition, and algorithmic adjacency. We look at what gets framed as “reclaiming” language or pushing boundaries and how it actually functions as desensitization to train audiences to suppress empathy and mistake numbness for nuance. We also look at the billionaire buyout of our attention span and how thei...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 129 - Comedians Manufacturing Consent for the Culture War
This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window not through arguments, but through vibes, repetition, and algorithmic adjacency. We look at what gets framed as “reclaiming” language or pushing boundaries and how it actually functions as desensitization to train audiences to suppress empathy and mistake numbness for nuance. We also look at the billionaire buyout of our attention span and how thei...
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1 day ago
36 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 128 - Are Right Wingers Okay?
Lolz, obviously not. This week Jeremy takes a deeper look at the inevitable and terribly unsurprising turn of right wing media grifters and tech fascists to religion! Joe Rogan thinks AI is Jesus, and Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist. So, we look at the general unwellness of their thought processes, as well as the remaining utility of religion as opium for the masses. It’s a good time! Struggling to set boundaries with your local tech fascist? Finding yourself stuck in a bu...
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1 week ago
46 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 127 - Holiday Q&A
The internet has questions about holidays and boundaries, and I have …thoughts! Individual usage on these answers may vary! Jeremy answers questions this week about how to navigate the holidays, how to be better about boundaries, and why family gatherings are always a topic of conversation in therapy. Struggling with your own boundaries? Finding yourself stuck in a burnout cycle? Join Jeremy for the “Burnout to Boundaries” retreat February 6th-8th in Princeton, WI! We will learn how to effect...
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2 weeks ago
52 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 126 - What My Mental Health Looked Like This Year
Jeremy sits himself on the couch to reflect on what he did this year for his own mental wellness. As always, Jeremy has all his practice info at Wellness with Jer, and you can find him on Instagram and YouTube. To show your love for the show you can pick up some merch! We appreciate support from likes, follows, and shares as well! None of my online work would be possible without my media maven Kenny, so check out their work as well at kenlingdesign.com ----- Podcasts about therapy do no...
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3 weeks ago
34 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 125 - Witchcraft and Wellness Without the Bullsh*t with B from What the Hex
Jeremy is joined this week by B, owner of Tres Ojos and co-founder of What the Hex. They discuss the rise of modern witchcraft, emphasizing B’s “no-bullshit” spirituality grounded in ethically sourced, non-hierarchical practices. They explore how people leaving organized religion seek ritual and community, and how commercialized spirituality and wellness cultures can replicate the same harms as organized religion when left unchecked. The episode closes with a look at the What the Hex markets ...
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4 weeks ago
42 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 124 - 'Tis the Season of Moral Injury
This week Jeremy follows up on last week’s holiday themed episode with the concept of moral injury and how the holidays often force us into rituals, traditions, and family dynamics that violate our core values. We unpack the psychological and somatic cost of participating in celebrations rooted in colonialism, religious harm, or identity erasure, and why “forced cheer” can feel like a betrayal of self. Finally, we explore practical strategies for navigating holiday gatherings with integrity, ...
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1 month ago
48 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 123 - Healthy Holiday Boundaries with Emily Aleksy
In this episode, Jeremy and Emily dig into the realities of setting and enforcing holiday boundaries, especially when family dynamics, guilt, and old patterns collide. They explore why boundaries are for the self and not other people, and discuss how unclear limits, people-pleasing, and differing needs make the holidays a pressure cooker for emotional and moral conflict. Together, they offer practical strategies like escape hatches, clear enforcement, self-kindness, and values-aligned decisio...
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1 month ago
50 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 122 - These Books are for Everybody with Cree Myles
In this episode, Jeremy gets to chat with all around awesome human and book influencer Cree Myles about her journey into book advocacy. They explore how literature, hip-hop, and good mentors in higher education shaped Cree’s worldview. They talk about how great Ursala K Le Guin is, how content creation under capitalism feels gross sometimes, and how hard it can be to find time to read as a parent. The conversation also covers the importance of building values-aligned communities, how racism l...
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1 month ago
58 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 121 - Grounded in the Wilderness with Hatie Parmeter
This week Jeremy talks with Hatie Parmeter, soon-to-be licensed therapist and current communications director for the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America, about her journey from fashion journalism and outdoor guiding to finally landing in mental health. They explore the mental wellness needs of guides and first responders, the idea that connection is the correction, and the overlap of climate anxiety, systemic issues, and mutual aid. The conversation closes with both reflecting on se...
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1 month ago
55 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 120 - Conversion Therapy Is, Was, and Always Will Be Harmful
Jeremy talks about his least favorite topic this week, the Supreme Court. The christofascists on the court are going to overturn a Colorado ban on conversion therapy in Chiles v Salazar. I’m not a political prognosticator, but they are, because it’s part of Project 2025. And Jeremy breaks down why the court will do this for much larger purposes than just to harm LGBTQ+ kids. F*ck the court. F*ck bigots. F*ck fascism. No good therapists will be doing conversion therapy, regardless of a legal s...
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2 months ago
28 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 119 - How Neurodivergent Brains Survive High-Control Religion with Michelle F Moseley
Jeremy is joined this week by returning guest Michelle Moseley, a therapist specializing in religious trauma, to explore the intersection of neurodivergence and high-control religious environments. They discuss how undiagnosed neurodivergent traits often align with the rigid structures and black-and-white thinking rewarded by churches, while also masking deeper struggles and reinforcing spiritual bypassing. The conversation highlights the ongoing work of unmasking, self-acceptance, and rebuil...
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2 months ago
59 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 118 - The System Wasn’t Built to Heal Us with Dr Rae Anne Ho Fung
Jeremy is joined this week by Dr Rae Anne Ho Fung, a veteran, former teacher, and psychologist who founded The Balanced Collective. They discuss her healing journey from childhood adversity and military service to navigating systemic failures in education, healthcare, and the military-industrial complex, and how those experiences shaped her trauma-informed approach to therapy. Their conversation touches on moral injury in healing spaces, obviously critiques late stage capitalism and inevitabl...
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2 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 117 - No Ethical Billionaires (Taylor’s Version)
In this solo episode of Your Therapist Needs Therapy, Jeremy Schumacher critiques the ethics of wealth and fandom through the lens of Taylor Swift’s celebrity empire, arguing that she—like Jeff Bezos and other billionaires—profits from systemic exploitation and capitalist excess. He unpacks the contradictions of therapists and progressive individuals celebrating Swift while simultaneously claiming to decolonize mental health or oppose capitalism, framing it as a moral and class hypocrisy. Dra...
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2 months ago
43 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 116 - Tylenol Does Not Cause Autism
Because, obviously, right? JFC, what is even happening. But f’real, in this episode, Jeremy dismantles the Trump administration’s claim that Tylenol causes autism, explaining how the argument relies on bad science, a misuse of correlation, and misogynistic political agendas. He highlights how the ban is another act of political violence against women, restricting safe and necessary medication during pregnancy while feeding into the broader Christian nationalist project of control. The e...
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3 months ago
37 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 115 - Irreverent Devotionals and Sacred Rebellion with The Transvangelical
This week Jeremy talks with Alycea, aka the Transvangelical, about deconstruction, biblical translation, and the ways Christianity has been weaponized against marginalized people. They unpack how purity culture, evangelical teachings, and figures like James Dobson shaped harmful beliefs about sex, gender, and power, while Alycea highlights how context and translation reveal very different, often liberating, readings of scripture. The conversation also touches on systemic oppression, media lit...
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3 months ago
1 hour 1 minute

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 114 - Being a Full-Time Propagandist is Political Violence
Jeremy uses the shooting of Charlie Kirk to examine the hypocrisy in how political violence is defined and discussed in America. He argues that hateful rhetoric, propaganda, and systemic oppression are themselves forms of violence, and that mourning propagandists like Kirk ignores the ongoing harm they inflicted on marginalized communities. The episode pushes back against calls for “civility” in the face of fascism, insisting that empathy belongs with the victims of hate, not its architects. ...
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3 months ago
46 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 113 - Untangling Guilt and Shame with Kelsey Philippi
This week Jeremy sits down with returning guest Kelsey Philippi to dive into the tangled relationship between guilt, shame, and dissociation, exploring how these experiences show up in therapy and everyday life. They discuss the systemic and cultural roots of shame, especially for neurodivergent and queer clients, and how authenticity and safety often exist in tension. The conversation closes with reflections on healing, rupture and repair in therapy, and the importance of building community—...
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3 months ago
59 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 112 - Escaping Evangelical Cult Leaders with Margaret Bronson
This week Jeremy talks with Margaret Bronson, founder of Deconstruction Doulas, about her journey out of Doug Wilson’s high-control religious group and how she now supports survivors of similar environments. Margaret shares how online communities, secure attachment, and body awareness helped her leave and heal, while highlighting the systemic abuse, lack of accountability, and patriarchal control within these groups. Together, they discuss the importance of safe, supportive communities and th...
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4 months ago
57 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 111 - Good Riddance to James Dobson
This week Jeremy celebrates the death of awful human, James Dobson. James Dobson built Focus on the Family into one of the most powerful engines of evangelical control, peddling authoritarian parenting, rigid gender roles, and relentless attacks on queer people. His so-called “biblical counseling” left generations with shame, fear, and deep religious trauma that still echoes today. F*ck him and f*ck his work, around here we celebrate when bad people die. As always, Jeremy has all ...
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4 months ago
26 minutes

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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 110 - Play, Pleasure, and Permission with Veronica Dress
Jeremy is joined this week by certified sex educator Veronica Dress. Veronica shares her journey from growing up with Catholic sex misinformation to becoming a queer, trauma-informed sex educator and intimacy coach. She and Jeremy discuss the political and cultural barriers to comprehensive sexuality education, the role of creativity and play in intimacy work, and the importance of permission-giving in dismantling shame from purity culture. They explore how expanding definitions of pleasure a...
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4 months ago
47 minutes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy
This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window not through arguments, but through vibes, repetition, and algorithmic adjacency. We look at what gets framed as “reclaiming” language or pushing boundaries and how it actually functions as desensitization to train audiences to suppress empathy and mistake numbness for nuance. We also look at the billionaire buyout of our attention span and how thei...