Dr. Sue Varma

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1,488 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

So yes, there is an element of the ostrich, but I also just feel like this woman is also being gaslit.

So I think first recognizing what that emotion is, which is the shame.

Shame is very toxic and you've internalized other people's values and they're not necessarily even your own.

And I was mentioning the idea of the default mode network, which is it's a part of your brain that's active when nothing is happening, when you're just sitting there and you're daydreaming.

And it's meant for you to sort of have some introspection and self-referential thinking, what we call like thinking about yourself and your habits and awareness of the self.

It's what's happening in your brain when you're not doing an activity.

But in these negative loops, it can go down and you can start ruminating and you can say, I'm hopeless.

I am helpless.

What's wrong with me?

Yes.

So, you know, it's not something if especially I think if you've been conditioned.

to think that you must be a high performer in every aspect of your life.

So some of it is these narratives and these scripts that we've been given.

You know, I know I grew up with that, you know, like you have to serve everyone else.

So it's like you're dismantling and deconstructing an entire worldview, right?

And it's collapsing.

And it is an opportunity, I think, for a rebirth of sorts.

to say once something collapses it's like imagine i would hate for this to happen to anybody right but let's say your your house just i mean that's a tragedy right but like i'm using it as a metaphor so it it collapses and they're like okay here's some insurance money to build your dream house what do you want to do we're going to we're going to put you up somewhere temporarily we're reconstructing this house we're rebuilding it and i look at therapy as an opportunity for that like

So a person may come to see me because of a job loss, because of a divorce, because of a relationship problem.

They come in for one specific problem.

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