by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Aug 9, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
FOR MORE THAN forty years, women have walked into my office and said some version of the same things. I don’t feel like myself anymore. My brain feels foggy. I’m anxious all the time. I can’t sleep. I’m so irritable, and I don’t...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Aug 1, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
A few weeks ago I sat down with my friend Pat Schraff to talk about the SAVE Act, and what I thought I was doing was one episode about names. About what women have historically had taken from them, and what it means when the name on your birth certificate is no longer...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Jul 25, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
The other day my daughter called me, half joking, to say that somebody should invent adult recess. That it should become a thing. We laughed, and then we hung up, and then her comment did what the true ones always do — it followed me around for days. Because I do miss...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Jul 18, 2026 | All Categories, Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
“This is going to sound terrible.” Whenever someone says that to me, I know we are getting closer to the part of the story they have been afraid to tell. Sometimes the next sentence is, “My mother was never there for me.” Sometimes it is, “My father was abusive.” And...
by Lori Stevic-Rust, PhD ABPP | Jul 11, 2026 | Becoming Real with Dr Lori Podcast
Can you do me a quick favor? Notice what just happened when you read that. For some of you, the yes was already forming before you had any idea what I was about to ask. That reflex — the yes that shows up before the question is even finished — is what this episode is...
