Unusual Practice

You finally got the calm, consistent love you said you wanted. So why does it feel like nothing? This is Prince Charming Syndrome, and most of what's written about it gets the diagnosis backwards. It's not about being...

You did everything right. Therapy, boundaries, the work. So why does being fine feel like something's wrong? This episode breaks down hedonic adaptation, the psychology finding that humans recalibrate to a stable...

Trauma doesn't just affect your personality. Neuroscience shows it physically restructures the brain, your threat responses, your attachment patterns, your humour, your drive - into what we call identity. So when...

Everyone talks about missing the person who left. Nobody talks about missing the version of you that only existed inside that relationship. The one who had that specific laugh, that mapped-out future, that whole self...

Nobody joins a cult. They think they're joining a community. By the time they realise the difference... it's already too late. In this episode of Unusual Practice, Charli breaks down the truth in cult psychology: the...

Thirty million people bought The Secret . A NYU study then showed positive visualisation actually makes performance worse. So what exactly is going on? In this episode of Unusual Practice, Charli dismantles one of the...

Your brain isn't broken... it's addicted. And the thing it's hooked on? Familiar pain. In this episode of Unusual Practice, Charli breaks down the neuroscience of why suffering becomes a habit, and why happiness can...

Last episode, we gave you eleven names. We promised to go deeper. Since then, the list has grown to thirteen, and Congress has said more names are coming. The FBI briefing deadline passed with no public answers. And one...

Eleven scientists. NASA. MIT. Caltech. Los Alamos. The nuclear weapons complex. The Air Force. All DEAD or missing between 2023 and 2026. The White House called it "pretty serious stuff." The FBI opened an...

Everyone's panic-searching "AI taking jobs” , but host Charli is asking the question nobody else will: what if AI didn't steal your career, it just exposed that you were already checked out? Backed by Gallup's bombshell...

There's a specific kind of disorientation that only comes with real success: you built the thing, you run the thing, and somehow the thing is running you. This episode dismantles the psychological trap of accumulated...

You didn't build a team. You built an audience. This episode exposes the hidden architecture of how high-performing leaders accidentally fill their organizations with people who are professionally dependent rather than...

Why Scaling is Often a Sophisticated Form of Avoidance 3 Part series for professionals. Most CEOs scaling into new markets aren't executing a strategy but rather running from a question. This episode deconstructs the...

What if your trauma isn't something that happened to you... it's something you've been performing? In this episode of Unusual Practice, host Charli goes after one of the most protected ideas of our time: the belief that...

You've researched it. You've planned it. You've made the list, color-coded the folder, and opened seventeen browser tabs. And somehow, nothing has actually happened. This episode is about that. That overthinking isn't...