Podcast 492: Psychology and Purpose
In this episode, Martin Pytela sits down with Dr. Kim Chronister, a clinical psychologist with extensive expertise in relationship dynamics and mental health, to discuss the profound effects of personal identity and self-expansion on happiness and well-being. Dr. Chronister offers insights on navigating breakups, coping with depression, and sustaining healthy relationships, particularly in the context of recent societal challenges like lockdowns. She advocates for rediscovering oneself through hobbies and recognizing toxic behaviors, all while maintaining individuality in relationships. Listeners will learn practical strategies for healing, rebuilding, and cultivating fulfilling connections.
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MARTIN: Greetings, everyone. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast. And with me today, doctor Kim Chronister. I will let her tell her own story. But first and foremost, Kim is an accomplished person. She’s been through the mill. She has her chops. So listen carefully because her knowledge is won through the mill of life. This is not just reading books. Hello, Kim Chronister.
KIM: Hello. Nice to see you again. How are you?
MARTIN: That’s great. Yeah. You know, life always deals me something interesting every time.
KIM: Yeah.
MARTIN: Care to review some of the accomplishments that brought you here so that we know that you have the authority to speak of whatever we’re going to do next?
KIM: Absolutely. So I’m a clinical psychologist, so I have a doctoral in clinical psychology. I’ve worked in inpatient treatment centers, outpatient treatment centers, been a director of rehab settings, worked in substance use, mood disorders. Right now, what I kind of specialize in are relationships, breakup, recovery, and helping people get through kind of arduous times and finding themselves, their identity and getting out of depression. So that’s kind of my wheelhouse right now.
MARTIN: Boy, we’ve done a lot of that these last four years, have pretty much compressed all the things that have been perhaps brewing. Right? And then we have had the shutdowns and lockups and God knows what’s that really, what’s the word? Amplified all the friction that we may have had in relationships. Right.
KIM: Absolutely. Yeah. And that’s why I think the research on what actually makes people feel filled up inside and the relationships that kind of nurture their identity and kind of making sure that people are thinking about self expansion, like people that actually motivate them with their goals if they’re going to be dating them. And then just the prongs of contentment with positive psychology research.
MARTIN: Right. I think reflecting on myself, pursuit of a worthy goal seems to be the method by which I structure my day, as in I wake up wanting to do what I’m about to do.