Anna David's "You've Got Issues" Podcast: "Everything Happens For A Reason..."

My second appearance on Issues with Anna is up... giving my Buddhist and therapeutic reflections on the phrase "Everything Happens for a Reason..." after Mishka Shubaly details why it triggers him...

Author and musician Mishka Shubaly isn’t only the author of seven bestselling Kindle Singles. (If you don’t know what these are, Google “Kindle Singles,” where you’ll also learn that almost all the publications who have written about them, from The New York Times to The Atlantic, focus on Shubaly. Some of his Kindle Singles titles include: -The Long Run -Shipwrecked -Of Mice and Me -Are You Lonesome Tonight? -Beat the Devil And then there’s his full-length memoir, I Swear I’ll Make It Up to You His writing is fierce, honest and funny—not an easy trifecta to pull of—and much of it focuses on trauma, alcoholism and sobriety. While Shubaly’s path to recovery is controversial, he’s never shy about saying it works for him but doesn’t suggest others follow in his wake. In this episode, we talk about Shubaly’s issue with the expression “Everything happens for a reason” and the general cult of positivity that permeates the world. We then attempted to uncover even more about why someone would have this issue with our team of experts, including meditation teacher Jeff Kober, Buddhist PSYD MFT Stephen Dansiger and 10-year-old LA resident Archer.