Insight and Connection is hosted by Patty and Kam Dirilten. Patty and Kam are psychotherapists and have been married for 25 years. They have two children. The goal of the podcast is to bring common everyday issues to a deeper place of understanding through humor, research, experience and discussion.
Understanding Cheating and How to Heal After Betrayal Trauma
19 Jun 2026
Addiction as a Family Disease-Part 3
6 May 2026
Addiction as a Family Disease Part 2
Part 2 of Addiction as a Family Disease. Visit our Website and Follow us on Instagram! website: https://www.insightandconnection.com/ instagram: @centerforinsightandconnection Mixed & Edited by Next Day Podcast info@nextdaypodcast.com
20 Apr 2026
Addiction as a Family Disease
Therapist couple Patty and Cam explore addiction not just as a substance problem, but as a whole-family disease rooted in attachment wounds and generational patterns. Using a fictional family — John (alcohol use disorder), his wife Sally, and their two kids — they walk through John's story using three frameworks: The Laundry List (Adult Children of Alcoholics' 14 traits)Attachment Theory – how early emotional neglect shapes adult behaviorEMDR's four themes – particularly defectiveness ("I don...
12 Mar 2026
Life Through the Eyes of Young Adults: A Group Reflection
13 Jan 2026
Understanding Depression
6 Nov 2025
Why the Hate?
29 Aug 2025
Trauma: Widening the Lens
16 Jul 2025
Episode 6: What is Recovery?
16 May 2025
Episode 5: Learning Boundaries and Effective Communication Through our Relationships with Animals
4 Apr 2025
Episode 4: WHY AM I SO ANGRY?
20 Feb 2025
Episode 3: Understanding what Drives Conflict Between Partners and How to Connect More Deeply with the Ones We Love
Patty and Kam promote a deeper understanding of how couples trigger one another and trap themselves in a never ending cycle of triggered responses. They discuss a feasible solution that they as therapists and partners have used to unlock the prison that these triggered responses can create. Visit our Website and Follow us on Instagram! website: https://www.insightandconnection.com/ instagram: @centerforinsightandconnection
31 Jan 2025
Episode 2: Bringing the State of Anxiety to a Deeper Understanding
A discussion between therapists about how prior experiences drive anxiety, and how EMDR can work to heal these experiences to get cognitive, emotional and somatic shifts so that there are less anxiety symptoms to manage with traditional coping skills. Visit our Website and Follow us on Instagram! website: https://www.insightandconnection.com/ instagram: @centerforinsightandconnection
13 Jan 2025
Episode 1: Understanding What Drives Addiction
A discussion between addiction therapists about what drives addiction and how a deeper understanding of this drive can help to develop more comprehensive treatment. Visit our Website and Follow us on Instagram! website: https://www.insightandconnection.com/ instagram: @centerforinsightandconnection
20 Dec 2024
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