Ep. 082 Przemyslaw Duchniewicz, ISTDP Psychotherapist

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🎙️ SHOW SUMMARY

This conversation felt like a shared excavation...in a good way!

Przem and I explored something that sits beneath titles, roles, and credentials — the living question of core values. Not the ones printed on a wall. Not the ones we claim in a workshop. But the ones revealed in emotion, memory, crisis, and action.

What happens when you analyze your own life through an LLM and ask it to identify your values? What happens when therapy isn’t about tools, but about walking into the forest of core memories and facing what lives there?

We talked about psychotherapy. Coaching. Internal locus of control. Parenting. Presence. Protection. Curiosity.

And unexpectedly, we touched something deeply human — the moment of becoming a father. The surge of protection. The embodied experience of a value surfacing.

This episode is not theoretical. It’s experiential.

If you’ve ever wondered whether values change, how to access them, or how to truly live them — this conversation goes there.

🔎 In This Episode, We Explore:

  • Using AI and transcripts of therapy sessions to uncover core values

  • The difference between knowing tools and living tools

  • Internal locus of control — “finding the switch”

  • The shift from corporate leadership to psychotherapy

  • Attachment, core memories, and personality development

  • The difference between coaching and psychotherapy

  • Experiential work vs. cognitive-only approaches

  • Curiosity as a driving life value

  • Protection and presence as embodied values

  • How major life moments reprioritize values

  • Why awareness is the gateway to self-management

  • Living passionately “against the dying of the light”