The Seth Forgets Podcast

I Was Thinking Today About Kaiser Permanente

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:16:41 GMT

Yesterday, I had a follow up to a physical with my doctor at Kaiser Permanente.

My doctor got so mad at me. She said I was wasting her time and she was not here to chase down every ache and pain for me. She suggested in a very unkind way that I needed medicine for anxiety not for an illness.

The way she handled it was wrong. I think she must have been having a bad day. But I also think she was right. Anxiety can express itself in physical form.

The last few years have been overwhelmingly stressful for me. So many life changes. Career, relationship, all of it. But my take away isn’t anger at my doctor (although I will never let her treat me again). The lesson here is deal with your shit. Nothing ever truly goes away. You have to turn over the stones and find the hidden things to really heal yourself.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I Was Thinking Today About Wim Hof (Feat. Dalia)

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:12:41 GMT

It's not what we do it's why we do it. And it goes further than that. When we do things because we love others, we often heal ourselves in the process.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I Was Thinking Today About My Parents

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:55:28 GMT

If given the chance, what would you do if you could go back to the beginning with all the knowledge you have now?

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I Was Thinking Today About North Carolina

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:35:03 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Ageing

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:17:29 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Relationships

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:04:18 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Flexibility

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:46:47 GMT

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I Was thinking Today About Walking

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:27:00 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About This Podcast

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:06:47 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Change Part 2

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:49:30 GMT

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Decisions in London Feat. Rae

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:07:03 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Los Angeles

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:13:51 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Life

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:49:21 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Danger

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:52:35 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Mexico, Again

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:05:09 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Success

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 01:34:37 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Rerouting

Fri, 30 May 2025 14:45:58 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Hidden Stories

Mon, 12 May 2025 07:00:00 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Learning

Sat, 10 May 2025 19:40:39 GMT

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I was thinking Today About Baditudes - Part One. Feat. Vincent

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:47:49 GMT

Baditudes

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I Was thinking Today About Being Wrong

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 01:44:09 GMT

Being Wrong

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I Was Thinking Today About the Old Ways

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:10:53 GMT

The Old Ways

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I Was Thinking Today About Fear

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:37:31 GMT

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I Was Thinking Today About Pain

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:50:31 GMT

Pain is something we should avoid, right? Wrong. Pain is a teacher. It shows us the things we don't want to see so we might learn from them. We should love our pain not scorn it.

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I Was Thinking Today About Trauma and Emotions

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:34:07 GMT

Trauma and emotions

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I Was Thinking Today About Relationships Feat. Jordan

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 04:20:02 GMT

Relationships

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I was Thinking Today About Loss

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:14:49 GMT

I was thinking today about loss. When we lose everything it feels like the end of the world but it can also be an opportunity. What possessions do we take with us when go to zero?

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I Was Thinking Today About Endings - Season Finale!

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 04:49:46 GMT

Endings

For the season finale I took it to the streets. Instead of just talking to myself in this episode I asked my friends what they thought about endings. Why should I do all the heavy lifting??? Thank you to Nika, Bryan, Jed, Vincent and Andy. You are all more special than you know.

Please enjoy the end of season 1. See you next year.

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I was Thinking Today About Contradictions

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:21:33 GMT

Contradictions are not what we think. Two things can be truth even if they appear to negate each other because we're asking the wrong questions. When we look at the world through a binary lens (right wrong good bad) we will see contradictions. But they aren't opposites at all. Our POV sometimes distorts what we see.

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I Was Thinking Today About Forgiveness

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:20:36 GMT

It's so easy to hold a grudge. When someone hurts us we never want to let them off the hook. But people are not their actions. It might seem counter intuitive but even if a person does a bad thing that might not make them a bad person. And when we find the ability to forgive someone that has wronged us, we also find the ability to forgive ourselves.

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I Was Thinking Today About Healing

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:54:36 GMT

Healing is nonlinear and backwards and tough.There is no wrong way to heal. We can numb ourselves. We can talk to people. We can distract ourselves. The only wrong way to heal is by doing nothing.

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I Was Thinking Today About Change (Feat. Nika)

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:42:20 GMT

Change is always happening. Good change and bad. When we fight it our worlds fall apart.

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I Was Thinking Today About Dancing

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:39:08 GMT

Dancing alone is the best way to meet yourself.

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I was Thinking Today About Lifeboats

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:55:23 GMT

Lifeboats save us from disaster but they're not meant to be a forever home.

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I was Thinking Today About Balance

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 21:36:50 GMT

Balance to me is not happy or comfortable. It's neutral.

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I Was Thinking Today About Hobbies (Feat. Jed)

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:49:16 GMT

Hobbies are important. We need things in our lives that have little or no stakes. We need to enjoy just being. A hobby is just that. Why do we do things that have no value other than enjoyment? Because our value is not our productivity.

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I Was Thinking Today About Suicide

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:58:11 GMT

We can all help prevent suicide. The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.

Today’s topic is taboo. We’re not supposed to think about it or talk about it. But it’s necessary. We all have dark thoughts and hiding them is never a good thing.

If you’re thinking about ending at all, don’t. There are many versions of living you can explore.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I Was Thinking Today About Crying

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 04:27:17 GMT

Crying is a physical reaction to the emotion stored inside of us. As men we're told not to cry. Crying as weakness. And it causes so many problems. We can be strong and be sad and cry all at the same time.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I Was Thinking Today About Addiction

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:40:29 GMT

Addiction is such a powerful experience. It feels so good. There is no part of it that feels wrong. At first. I went down the Benzo rabbit hole in my 30s. I loved those pills. I didn't feel high. I felt nothing which is all I wanted. I didn't want to feel anything and these little gifts from god solved everything. At first. Then my body started to breakdown. My panic attacks became near constant and my body buzzed like I was being electrocuted. My then wife helped me navigate getting off them because no doctor would even admit they were the source of my issues. What I realized after it was all over was the addiction wasn't me chasing a feeling. It was chasing the numbness.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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Loving Kindness

Fri, 31 May 2024 03:22:29 GMT

"Loving Kindness" - The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chodron

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I Was Thinking Today About Change

Fri, 31 May 2024 03:20:04 GMT

Change. It seems like a good thing. If I change something, I’ll be better. If I can just learn from my mistakes, I’ll be better. But change is weird. The goal should not be to change ourselves. The goal should be to accept ourselves. The only thing that ever actually changes is our point of view, our opinions. What does it tell us about changes? The change we need is not about ourselves, but in our point of view.

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I Was Thinking Today About Ghosts

Tue, 28 May 2024 19:06:41 GMT

All ghosts love each other. I started working on this concept in 2018. I came up with the idea when I noticed that the only romantic partners I was connecting with was through trauma. We were trauma bonding (although at the time I didn’t know that term).

When two ghosts haunt a house they can sometimes fall in love. They’ve gone unseen for so long that when someone finally notices them they might mistake it for intimacy and love. It’s not the worst thing in the world. But it doesn’t lay a good foundation for a relationship.

It took me years to figure out who was a ghost and who wasn’t because there’s another type of person. The Shaman. These are people that can cross a boundary and return. Unlike a ghost, they are never stuck.

Unless they forget who they are.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I Was Thinking Today About Spinning Out

Sun, 26 May 2024 02:00:08 GMT

Spinning out. We all have moments where we get so overwhelmed that we lose our ability for rational thought. I think some of us do it more than others but there’s always something that sends us down a rabbit hole. The most important thing I’ve learned in the last six years that I can weather a lot of storms. Not all of them, but most of them. I haven’t failed yet. But I see how I spend so much energy on trying to protect myself from what might happen. That energy is best spent in the moment. Being present. That is the way to live a life.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I was Thinking Today About Guilt vs Shame

Sat, 25 May 2024 00:00:18 GMT

Guilt and shame. These two terms are often confused with each other. I know I didn’t understand the difference for years. Guilt is the belief you did something wrong, shame is the belief you are the thing that is wrong.

For me, I always default to shame. It’s something I struggle with a lot. I think a lot of us do. It’s important to know that we are never the thing that is wrong. It’s our actions that define us, not our being.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I was Thinking Today About Mexico

Fri, 17 May 2024 20:50:33 GMT

Years ago I worked on a job in Mexico and I fell in love with a woman. We got married and created a life together. Along the way I found I not only loved her, I loved her country as well.

That marriage ended earlier this year. I have to figure out what my relationship is to Mexico. What’s left for me? Twenty years of visiting a place that I have no real connection to anymore but I still feel in my bones. Mexico became a part of me.

I now start the journey of re-creating a relationship with a place I cannot live without.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I was Thinking Today About Energy

Sat, 11 May 2024 18:25:15 GMT

Like attracts like. It's ironic that sometimes the thing we hate is the thing we invited in. What I found over the years of trying to right my ship was that I usually caused the issue I was struggling with. If we are in a bad space, generally speaking, we will only have access to people on our same level. It's up to us to make the changes so we can meet different energy.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I was Thinking Today About Trust

Mon, 06 May 2024 21:19:20 GMT

Trust is a hard one for me. I grew up in a love insecure environment and that set me off on a path of a lifetime struggle to figure out how to let people in. My love life has always been a mess. I think my marriage is the only bright and shining moment... so far. But every other relationship I’ve ever had has been fraught with insecurity and doubt and protectionism. I always see walls.

In this episode, I talk about some very hard things for me. These are my scars. These are the things I went through. I’m exposing them now with the hopes that somebody might hear it and know that they’re not alone.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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I Was Thinking Today About Boundaries

Fri, 03 May 2024 22:36:17 GMT

Boundaries are part of every healthy relationship. But as I learned to draw more (and better) boundaries, I realized there was resistance. The people I cared about pushed back in the weirdest ways. It took a long time to learn this but you teach people how to treat you. It took them long time to learn how to treat you the first time so when you want to be treated differently, it’s gonna take everyone a moment to learn again.

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I Was Thinking Today About Starting Over

Thu, 02 May 2024 23:00:07 GMT

We all have times in our lives when we have to start over. Sometimes it’s by choice sometimes not. For me the end of my marriage was both. I chose to deal with something from the past and it caused the present to disintegrate. What I think is important, the most important lesson I learned through that process, is that it’s okay to let go of the past.

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I Was Thinking Today About Forgetting

Wed, 01 May 2024 22:12:12 GMT

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned over the past six years is how to forget. I don’t mean ignoring something. What I mean is I’ve learned how to let go of my bad habits. I have learned how to let go of what used to keep me safe. Whether it did or not is irrelevant. All that mattered is at some point, the things that kept me safe were the things that held me back.

I named this podcast Seth Forgets as an anchor so I would never forget how to forget. We have to let go in order to move on.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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An Introduction to Seth Forgets

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:29:43 GMT

Welcome to Seth Forgets, a podcast about navigating life after doing the work. This entire show is recorded out in the world while walking around. Just like life, amazing things can happen if you get up off the couch and leave the house.

I record myself as I walk. Sometimes people hear me.

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