Making sense of life, one blockbuster at a time.
Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and professional filmmaker Alan Seawright break down your favorite movies, searching the characters, themes and plots to find things you can use to improve your mental health, your life, your looks? and your cardiovascular fitness (nope.)
Join them and their guests as they try to improve life, laugh at each other, and keep Alan from crying over everything.
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From Cinema Therapy. Can someone actually get red out of their ledger? Can they repair their wrongs and find healing? Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright talk about Natasha Romanoff’s (Black Widow’s) journey to try to get red out of her ledger, as she moves from assassin to hero to healer. They discuss…
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From Cinema Therapy. Jonathan and Alan have almost reached the end of the Twilight saga. Can they make it through? Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright break down what’s wrong with the relationships in Breaking Dawn. There’s some pretty toxic messaging about romantic relationships, with manipulation and abuse and lots of other issues,…
From Cinema Therapy. Try Acorn TV free for 30 days by going to https://acorn.tv and use promo code cinematherapy. How can you move forward and start to find healing after facing trauma? Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright talk about the trauma Katniss faced in her child, in the Hunger Games, and that…
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From Cinema Therapy. How can you overcome childhood trauma? And how can facing a scary clown help you with that? Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright discuss the journey of facing fears and confronting and overcoming trauma in the IT movies. They also talk about Jonathan’s journey of learning to love horror movies,…
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From Cinema Therapy. What do you do when you and your parent just don’t connect? When they’re critical, and you just want comfort? Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright talk about the relationship between Sarah Connor (the RIPPED Linda Hamilton) and her son John Connor (the intensely 90’s-haired Eddie Furlong) in Terminator 2.…
From Cinema Therapy. Get 10% off your first month of therapy by visiting our sponsor BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/CinemaTherapy How can you overcome your own prejudices and biases? How can you learn to understand and love people with different life experiences than you? Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright discuss seven tips to help you…
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From Cinema Therapy. How does Robin Williams’ portrayal of a therapist measure up to what therapy is like in real life? Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright take a look at Good Will Hunting to talk about the portrayals of therapy and therapists in this film. (Hint: he’s Jonathan’s favorite movie therapist.) They…
From Cinema Therapy. Get 10% off your first month of therapy by visiting our sponsor BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/CinemaTherapy Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright talk about the importance of consent, taking ownership for our mistakes, and honoring other people’s rights to make their own decisions. And how Edward and Jacob REALLY struggle with this!…