Send us a text In this Lightning Round, Sven gets into a back-and-forth with an online listener whose husband, an admitted cheater who says he wants to save the marriage, is away for the weekend in the same location as the woman he cheated with. How does he know? And what could go wrong? Other topics include getting over an Ex, conflict avoidance, the meaning of discipline, extreme takers, ghosting, forgiveness, and much more. When someone you care about wants to talk about their feelings, you'r...
Oct 08, 2023•45 min•Season 5Ep. 24
Send us a text Madi is a person of faith, and in pain over family pressure to maintain a relationship with her father, who she describes as a "shit person." Hearing her heartbreaking story, Sven guides her to understand that what she considered as simply being a low priority was actually serious abuse. Madi feels pressure to forgive, but her father's cruelty and overwhelming hypocrisy make it difficult or impossible. Sven (a former pastor) provides keen insight on the complexity of forgiveness, ...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 23
Send us a text Join Sven for unrehearsed responses to incoming online questions! Is there life after a 35-year marriage to a narcissist? Feeling like you don't deserve to live? Is there a difference between hate and rage? And hear Sven's emotional response to a follower who just became a quadriplegic. It's Lightning Round LV. Come on in! Explicit content.
Oct 01, 2023•49 min•Season 5Ep. 22
Send us a text In Emily's story, the abuse went both ways. After suffering a miscarriage, her husband severely beat her...after she threw a broken glass at him when he called her crazy in public. They later had a son, but the two-way abuse continued until they divorced. Now co-parenting, Emily wonders why she still loves her ex-husband even though she knows she deserves better. Sven asks, "Can feelings of love be detrimental?" as he counsels Emily to stop avoiding her painful feelings and get on...
Sep 28, 2023•45 min•Season 5Ep. 21
Send us a text More spontaneous Q&A with Sven, recorded as he checks in with his followers on multiple platforms. Need some new strategies to deal with your worries? Wondering how to succeed at a long-distance relationship? How do you know when it's over? Having trouble co-parenting with an uncooperative ex? Join us for Lightning Round LIV for all this, and much more! Explicit content.
Sep 24, 2023•47 min•Season 5Ep. 20
Send us a text Britt's sad history includes rape, beatings, and attempted suicide. She understands that she was taught to be unlovable and is making progress, but she's scared to let go of all the trauma that has defined her life. She wonders: What is her substance without it? Sven helps her though the final stages of embracing her authentic self in this ultimately uplifting counseling session. Explicit content....
Sep 21, 2023•50 min•Season 5Ep. 19
Send us a text In Lightning Round LIII, Sven again takes to multiple social media platforms to take live, unpredictable questions. Topics include fear of traveling, difficulties with journaling, conflict avoidance, forgiveness, distant spouses, and more. Sven never knows what's coming, and his answers are always insightful and illuminating. Please listen in! Explicit content.
Sep 17, 2023•50 min•Season 5Ep. 18
Send us a text Meet Lynn, whose memories of hating herself begin at age 8. Sexually abused as a child by a string of her mother's partners, Lynn struggles with crippling depression and suicidal thoughts. Compounding her misery - her mother knew about the abuse and did nothing except eventually blame her for it. And the manipulation and cruelty continue to this day. Lynn can only refer to her mother as "BG" - her birth giver. Through her tears, Sven guides Lynn to confront her true feelings, and ...
Sep 14, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Send us a text In Sven's 52nd Lightning Round, he offers great insight about repairing relationships between parents and children, and vice-versa. Feel like you're giving too much? Afraid that your trauma defines you? Wondering how to finally get your needs met? Worried that your partner is dumping adult problems on your children? Sven tackles all these issues and more in this recorded session of incoming questions from his online followers. Please join us for Lightning Round LII! Explicit conte...
Sep 10, 2023•57 min•Season 5Ep. 16
Send us a text Jennifer's life has been filled with "99% self hate." As a child, she never felt protected and had to protect her mother from her father's abuse. Although Jennifer would never allow her mother to parent her own daughter in the same way her mother did to her, she still unquestionably loves her mother. Sven works Jennifer through her painful life story of handed-down abusive behavior, and a string of horrendous relationships. Jennifer is taking steps in the right direction, but has ...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Send us a text In Sven's 51st Lightning Round, he takes on his followers' toughest questions on dealing with grief, handling difficult parenting (and parent) issues, getting past abusive relationships, understanding guilt, loving life like you used to, and so much more. The questions come live and unscripted, and the answers are always enlightening. Come on in and join us for Lightning Round LI! Explicit content....
Sep 03, 2023•53 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Send us a text Sarah believes her hate and rage are behind her, but she says she has no functional relationships. Sven helps her discover the connection between her severely troubled childhood and her true feelings as an adult. Molestation at the hands of her older sister and cousin was ignored by her parents and led her to a violently abusive relationship at age 15 with a 21 year old man. She's now taking steps to leave another failed relationship - an 11-year marriage - but her religious faith...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Send us a text Wondering if narcissists ever feel guilt? How to stop feeling invisible to your family? How to get through your sibling's wedding? Afraid you'll become a narcissist after living with one? Are you failing to get your emotional needs met? Join Sven and his online followers for our 50th Lightning Round! The questions are unpredictable, the answers always provocative and illuminating. Come on in! Explicit content....
Aug 27, 2023•51 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Send us a text Meet Lance and Rebecca, whose deep wounds from their lost childhoods haunt their adulthood. As a child, Lance was forced to care for his bipolar, suicidal mother. Rebecca suffered an early life filled with emotional and sexual abuse of the highest order. Did they become self-critical? "Only 100%." Listen in to this gripping session as Sven counsels these two remarkable individuals who are struggling toward a better life filled with good relationships with their own children, their...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Send us a text Recorded live and unrehearsed for the 49th time, Sven takes on tough questions from his online followers. Tons of useful insight and advice here, with questions including: What's the best way to unlock blocked memories? Where did my teen learn to say "You're triggering me?" How can I stop lashing out when I'm stressed? Who is Sven for Sven? And: Why does my girlfriend keep storming out of my house at midnight? All this and much more in Sven's latest Lightning Round. Come on in! Ex...
Aug 20, 2023•57 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Send us a text In two stories of abandonment and guilt, Sven provides some seriously healing counsel. First, Sharon found her estranged fiancé dead in his car, and needlessly blames herself. In the second half of the show, meet Christian, who always knew he didn't want to marry, but gave in anyway, thinking, "What's the worst that could happen?" Both individuals found out. If you'd like to learn how to give yourself permission to live life your way, listen in and join Sven, Sharon, and Christian...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Send us a text After the episode "What's the Worst That Could Happen?," Sven got Sharon and Christopher's reactions to their experience on the show.
Aug 17, 2023•8 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Send us a text Another recorded session of Sven taking unpredictable online questions fed to him live from 3 different social media platforms. Sven explains the root of his 12-year depression, and tackles topics like narcissism, finding one's purpose, the effects of adoption, the green flags to look for when dating, and much much more. Explicit content.
Aug 13, 2023•58 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Send us a text Sven's counseling guests in this episode have cheated, been cheated on, had parents that cheated, been abandoned... Amanda wants to hold herself responsible and resolve her feelings, and Faith is just scared that life is passing her by. Both women seek recovery and peace, and Sven helps them look, painfully at times, at the origins and effects of cheating. Far-reaching cheating. Please join us and listen in to these compelling stories and Sven's insightful guidance. And check out ...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 6
Send us a text After the show "Cheating From Every Painful Angle," Amanda and Faith share their thoughts with Sven.
Aug 10, 2023•12 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Send us a text Fearless Sven again takes to social media to field unpredictable questions on tough personal topics: My ex is a narcissist and I've adopted his daughter who is just the same, should I cut myself off from her? How can I erase the memory of an accident that put me in a wheelchair? I apologized, but my son won't talk to me. How do I get over my abusive ex-husband? And lots more. Join us for Lightning Round 47! Explicit content....
Aug 06, 2023•56 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Send us a text Sven does some seriously badass counseling with two women, each struggling to find their inner voice. Rachel is having a crisis of faith. Damaging and sexist messages taught by her parish are blocking her ability to heal from past trauma, including sexual abuse. Sven's deep pastoral knowledge plays an important role in helping Rachel find her free, authentic self. Sven's first guest is Jacqueline, and his heart bleeds "200%" when he learns of her horrible childhood. She felt the r...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Send us a text Listen in behind-the-scenes as Sven has an interesting chat with his guests after the show "It's Your Inner Voice. Listen!"
Aug 03, 2023•10 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Send us a text Kicking off Season 5, Sven takes to social media to record this new round of questions from his followers. He never knows what will come up, but he's always ready for anything. In this episode, find out what he thinks about a mother who leaves town -- right when her child is about to undergo brain surgery! Tons of great advice here on relationships (long-distance or otherwise), anxiety about intimacy, narcissistic partners, journaling, and much more. Cool insight here for hot summ...
Jul 30, 2023•53 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Send us a text Meet Phil and Kristi, two very different individuals whose issues have a common root. Sven counsels them to look inside, rather than at the extremely challenging outside forces that debilitate them. Kristi has suffered through an abusive marriage to a violent narcissist and needs guidance to find a better life for herself and her children. Phil was caught cheating, has a houseful of relatives, and seeks to reconcile with his reluctant wife. For insight and advice, they turn to Bad...
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Send us a text After finishing "With or Without You," Sven had a meaningful exchange with his guests. Listen in!
Jul 27, 2023•7 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Send us a text Here's another recorded session of Sven in top form, fielding questions in real time from followers on 3 different social media platforms. Narc issues, mom issues, Ex issues, anger issues, children issues, childhood issues, relationship issues...It's all here, and more, in Sven's 45th Lightning Round. Please join us for great insight, advice, and a few laughs, too! Explicit content.
Jul 23, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Send us a text Meet Rachel, who knows she should leave her relationship with an "aggressive, whiny, and controlling" man, but can't figure out how she got into it. Sven guides her through confronting her family myth and the effect it had on her. When no one in her family keeps a picture of her late father, you can begin to guess what's up. Rachel finds it tough to state the truth, but says, "It's kind of easier with him being gone." Join us for her compelling story, and don't miss Badass Overtim...
Jul 20, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Send us a text After the show, Rachel had the chance to tell Sven how different it felt to talk with him directly vs. listening to him counsel others. Lots to learn here, so please join us for Badass Overtime! Explicit content.
Jul 20, 2023•9 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Send us a text Narcissists! (or, Extreme Takers). Sven offers his in-depth thoughts about narcissists from many angles, including why are they the way they are, why don't they think they're not lying, why do they often abandon their children, and more. Sven is fired up and ready to rock in this recorded session of listener questions and answers, fed to him in real time from social media platforms. Other topics include fixing relationships with children, handling triggers, and dealing with a part...
Jul 16, 2023•55 min•Season 4Ep. 21
