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About Lumen

Right Here is a mental health podcast that explores the psychological patterns shaping our relationships, choices, and inner lives. Hosted by therapists Christopher Mooney, LCSW, and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW, each episode offers grounded, compassionate conversations rooted in clinical insight and real human experience. No jargon. No judgment. Just clear, thoughtful dialogue designed to help listeners better understand themselves and the people around them.

Publisher

Lumen Therapy Collective, WPKN

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jan 2026

Latest episode

25 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Oct 2026

   Keeping Score

   “I called last time.” “I always apologize first.” “I do more around the house.” Most of us don’t set out to keep score in our relationships. We show up, help out, and tell ourselves it’s no big deal. But over time, those little mental notes become a running tally of everything we’ve done—and everything the other person hasn’t. Suddenly, an argument about the dishes is really about years of feeling unappreciated or unseen. In this episode of Right Here, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW explore keeping score in relationships—why we do it, how resentment builds, and how unspoken expectations become silent contracts.  They also unpack the difference between fairness and equality. Healthy relationships aren’t always fifty-fifty. Sometimes one person carries more. The problem is when that imbalance becomes permanent, invisible, and never discussed. The conversation also looks at why we give more than we can comfortably offer, hope others will notice, and eventually resent them when they don’t. Chris and Kenyon offer practical ways to recognize the needs beneath resentment, communicate them clearly, and distinguish generosity from obligation. Because the goal isn’t to prove who has done more. It’s to build relationships where neither person needs to keep receipts.

2. 

   17 Oct 2026

   You're Allowed to Change Your Mind

   Have you ever stayed with something long after it stopped fitting? Not because you still wanted it, but because leaving felt like an admission of failure? A job. A relationship. A friendship. A city. A belief. A role in your family. Even a version of yourself that everyone else got used to. Sometimes the question isn’t “Do I still want this?” but “What does it say about me if I change my mind now?" In this episode of Right Here, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW talk about why changing course can feel so much like failure—even when it may actually be a sign of growth, honesty, or new information. They unpack sunk-cost thinking, the pressure to stay consistent, the fear of looking foolish, and what happens when other people have become comfortable with the version of you that no longer fits. They also explore an important distinction: Is something difficult because it matters—or because it no longer belongs in your life? Not every hard thing is the wrong thing. But not every commitment deserves endless loyalty. The conversation gets into the identity piece, too—the grief that can come with outgrowing the person who always finishes, always stays, never needs help, or never changes their mind. And why you don’t have to criticize your former self in order to choose differently now. Chris and Kenyon offer practical ways to change direction with integrity: Ask what you would choose today, separate the cost of the past from the next decision, experiment with smaller changes first, say what has changed plainly, and make room for the grief, relief, fear, and excitement that can all exist at the same time. Changing your mind doesn’t necessarily mean you got it wrong. Sometimes it just means you know something now that you didn’t know then.

3. 

   11 Oct 2026

   The Need to Be Right

   Have you ever been in an argument and realized you’re no longer trying to understand the other person—you’re only trying to win? Maybe the disagreement started over parenting, politics, money, work, or something as small as how the dishwasher gets loaded. But somewhere along the way, it stopped being about the actual issue and became something bigger: Do you respect me? Do you think I’m stupid? Are you dismissing what I know? In this episode of Right Here, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW explore the need to be right—and why disagreement can feel so personal. They look at what can sit beneath defensiveness: competence, respect, control, justice, and identity, along with earlier experiences that may have taught us that being wrong is dangerous, humiliating, or unsafe. The conversation also breaks down how a simple difference of opinion can turn into a fight: the body gets activated, listening disappears, defensiveness takes over, and suddenly the original issue is replaced by a need for validation. Sometimes you can be factually right and still end up relationally nowhere. Chris and Kenyon talk about the difference between being right and being understood, why validation is not the same as agreement, and how curiosity can keep a disagreement from becoming a battle. They also offer practical ways to slow things down, identify what you’re really protecting, separate intent from impact, and pause without abandoning the conversation. The goal isn’t to stop having your own opinion. It’s to stop treating every disagreement like something you have to win.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

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