Ever been blamed for something that felt... oddly specific?

Welcome to projection — the psychological pastime where someone hands you their emotional baggage and then gets mad when you don’t carry it with a smile. In this episode, we dive deep (and a little sarcastically) into how projection hijacks your relationships, distorts reality, and makes you think your date is your dad.

We’ll cover:

• What projection really is (spoiler: it’s not intuition)

• Why people hand you their wounds with a bow on top

• How to stop playing the villain in someone else’s therapy story

• Because when you stop accepting parcels that aren’t yours, your whole life gets lighter.

  Disclaimer:

  This podcast is for entertainment, educational, informational, and reflective purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical, psychiatric, psychological, or therapeutic advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listening to this podcast does not create a therapeutic relationship with the host or any guests.

  If you are in crisis or experiencing mental health distress, please seek immediate support from a qualified healthcare provider, your GP, or local emergency services.

  All views expressed are personal, based on clinical experience, psychoanalytic theory, and professional reflection. They do not constitute individual psychological assessment or advice. Any resemblance to real-life clients is coincidental; examples are complete fiction.

  Please use discretion and self-responsibility when engaging with content that may evoke strong emotional or psychological responses. By listening, you agree to hold the host harmless from any liability arising from the use or interpretation of content presented.

  
  

What if the person you built a life with no longer feels like home?

In this episode, we unravel the quiet heartbreak of choosing between love and loyalty — the deep ache of growing beyond someone you once couldn’t live without. We explore the grief of outgrowing a relationship that still holds history, but no longer holds you. This isn’t about blame. It’s about becoming.

Whether you’re the one holding on or the one letting go, this is your permission slip to tell the truth about your heart — and to stop mistaking time served for love received.

Because you don’t owe forever to the person who can’t meet who you’ve become.

Disclaimer:

This podcast is for entertainment, educational, informational, and reflective purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical, psychiatric, psychological, or therapeutic advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listening to this podcast does not create a therapeutic relationship with the host or any guests.

If you are in crisis or experiencing mental health distress, please seek immediate support from a qualified healthcare provider, your GP, or local emergency services.

All views expressed are personal, based on clinical experience, psychoanalytic theory, and professional reflection. They do not constitute individual psychological assessment or advice. Any resemblance to real-life clients is coincidental; examples are complete fiction.

Please use discretion and self-responsibility when engaging with content that may evoke strong emotional or psychological responses. By listening, you agree to hold the host harmless from any liability arising from the use or interpretation of content presented.

You’re not that nice — it’s just Reaction Formation.

In this episode of Freud Made Me Do It, we unpack one of the sneakiest defence mechanisms on the block — Reaction Formation — where your unconscious flips the script and turns forbidden feelings into their chirpy, overcompensating opposite.

Ever gushed over someone you secretly can’t stand?
Ever been super moral about sex while secretly watching porn six times a week?
Ever smiled sweetly while your insides screamed murder?

That’s not virtue. That’s your ego doing damage control.

Today I take you behind the mask of forced niceness and fake moral high ground - showing how this defence shows up in relationships, politics, parenting, and yes… your sex life. Expect brutal clarity, biting humour, and examples so accurate you’ll laugh, cringe, and maybe even confess.

Learn how to spot it, stop it, and stop being so damn 'nice'.

Disclaimer:

This podcast is for entertainment, educational, informational, and reflective purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical, psychiatric, psychological, or therapeutic advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Listening to this podcast does not create a therapeutic relationship with the host or any guests.

If you are in crisis or experiencing mental health distress, please seek immediate support from a qualified healthcare provider, your GP, or local emergency services.

All views expressed are personal, based on clinical experience, psychoanalytic theory, and professional reflection. They do not constitute individual psychological assessment or advice. Any resemblance to real-life clients is coincidental; examples are complete fiction.

Please use discretion and self-responsibility when engaging with content that may evoke strong emotional or psychological responses. By listening, you agree to hold the host harmless from any liability arising from the use or interpretation of content presented.