Dr. Keith's Pain-2-Power
This is a gym for your mind and soul—a way to become yourSELF by learning to never run away from painful realities. It’s the antidote to Facebook, Fake News, False Friends and any fiction you cling to about your life. Dr. Keith Ablow gives you the tools to become an autonomous, self-driven individual by facing the truth about your life and the world around you. You have a choice: You can be anesthetized by fakery or transformed by reality. This is Reality Central. Welcome to the True U University.
Episodes
33 episodes
Keeping Big Tech and the State from Stealing Your Soul
Big Tech and government are in an unhealthy alliance to eavesdrop on you, control you and deprive you of your privacy, liberty and humanity. It's time to immunize yourself from them.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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28:13
Self Esteem 101
Self-esteem depends on mastering one core concept. It's a leap of faith, really. And you can take that leap right now. Just hit "Play."
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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21:00
POWER PAST STRESS
Everyone always advises taking the “long view” of life—that today’s troubles aren’t forever. There’s truth to that. But for people under stress, it can be unwieldy to think too far in the future. A focus on today—in fact, on t...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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19:32
They Want to Cut Your Vocal Cords
What do you really GET for speaking your mind, even if so many people in America want to shut you up? You get stronger. You get a spine of steel. Everything that works against resistance works better, in the end. So, don...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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13:18
You Need Never Be Without Personal Power
Viktor Frankl, the great psychiatrist imprisoned for years in a Nazi death camp, gave us the tools to unlock the God-given, indestructible reservoir of power inside each and every one of us. It can be tapped in the face of any amount of p...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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16:14
Remember Your Metaphorical Cup of Coffee
Sometimes it really helps to remember that the creative and economic stresses that those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to pay our bills can still feel, along with the sense of impending doom that visits us despite relative pea...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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18:04
Climbing to Success Comes from the Core
While the ego climber might think that the ascent to wealth or fame or admiration or a remarkable physique is indistinguishable from the growth and achievement that comes from expressing one’s true self and true goals, that isn’t so. There’s so...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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20:00
THE EXCRUCIATING PAIN OF NOT BEING YOURSELF
There may be no pain greater than the pain of not being yourself—the person you were meant to be from all time. The journey from pain to power is the journey that taps into your core, moves you onto the path to self-actualization and allo...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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12:50
Governor Andrew Cuomo and Pain 2 Power
It is in our darkest hours—including those being experienced, no doubt, by Governor Andrew Cuomo—that we are called upon to turn our pain into power by striving for insight into oneSELF, by recommitting to even higher levels of service to SELF ...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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17:33
DESTROYING PATRIOTISM — AT WHAT COST?
Depersonalization is a psychological pathology in which people feel as though they are not truly at one with themselves. They feel dislodged from the drivers’ seats of their lives, as if watching themselves in a movie. America, as a...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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19:25
Simone Biles and Pain-2-Power
When Simone Biles decided to not compete in several events at the Tokyo Olympics, she showed she is the only author of her life story and she set the stage for her comeback—in whatever way she chooses. Remember: Only YOU can write t...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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17:56
A Pain-2-Power Guide on How to Love
There are three key elements on how to love—another person or yourself. They’re the essential triad of true love, in friendship, in family or in romantic love. No relationship is truly loving without them. And no relationship that h...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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21:45
Don't Just Recreate Yourself, Re-embrace YourSELF
People talk about reinventing themselves, as though adopting a new focus for work or a new outlook after a painful divorce or even a new “look” is enough to change the trajectory of their existences. But, ultimately, re-creating oneself isn’t e...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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12:45
Your Core Self is Everything
People talk about recreating themselves. But that isn’t possible. You are a creation of God, with unique talents and a unique destiny. Instead, the goal of your lifetime is to re-embrace yourself. Become the per...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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20:23
The Power of Partnership
Why is it I say that sometimes 1 + 1 = 11 in the arithmetic of Pain-2-Power? Because the power of a partnership — in love, business, politics or anything else—is transformational. Partners inspire one another and collaborat...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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16:32
The Alchemy of Extraordinary Personal Growth
Ancient alchemists used the phrase Solve et Coagula—dissolve and reconstruct—to describe the process of turning lead into gold. First, the lead would have to be broken down into its smallest, infinitesimal parts. Then, it w...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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18:33
The Power to Decide on A Different Direction — Even at the “Last” Minute
It isn’t weakness when a leader decides to take a different path than one he or she has planned; it’s strength. Admitting that a new direction is called for, even when lots of work has been expended on the original plan, might be painful,...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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21:04
How to Get Power from Admitting What You Don’t Know
It can be a bit painful to take a real and honest look at yourself and your goals and determine what you don’t know, but need to know, in order to achieve them. After all, who wants to focus on shortcomings. Well, you do. Beca...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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17:57
Overcoming Regrets
Regret is a normal human emotion. But it should yield to insight into the reasons that things didn’t go your way. And, then, it should be replaced by new dreams and the motivation to achieve them.
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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19:16
The Past is Powerful
People needlessly fear the past, thinking that looking back at what they’ve lived through will get them lost or stuck. Nothing could be further from the truth. All manner of buried treasure awaits those ready to explore earlie...
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24:48
Free YourSELF from Values that Limit Your Freedom
Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, offered a powerful metaphor for how to free ourselves from values that limit us and hold us hostage. It’s an image you won’t soon forget, and it’s the starting p...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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17:26
The Future Defines the Past: Why Your Comeback is Assured
When adversity visits you, keep in mind that “the future defines the past.” What do I mean? I mean that every one of our life stories—yours and mine—are encoded as comeback stories. Future chapters of your story will make it c...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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18:16
America Can Become a Codependent Family
Many forces are now aligned to turn adult Americans into perpetual children dependent on government. We’re being told when to stay inside, when we can open our businesses, when we can patronize other businesses, when we can worship and wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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29:20
Marcus Aurelius and Pain-2-Power
Marcus Aurelius, the illustrious Roman emperor, said, “The impediment to action advances acton. What stands in the way becomes the way.” What he meant is that, faced with adversity, we find our strength. Put another way, faced...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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6:18
TALON SET TO DELIVER REAL CONSUMER CLOUT TO HEALTH CARE MARKET
A new federal rule called the Transparency in Coverage Rule means the moment is right for companies like Talon to bring true competition to the health care delivery system and real freedom of choice to consumers. It’s a rare example of bi...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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22:10