Aug 23, 2026 · 30 min · 12 segments
This week, host, Helene Beck, is joined by Kathy Dimario

What he basically said is whenever you say the word should, never, always, you are beating up on yourself.

In fact, my second book will be What Did Ellen Daly Get? Because when I was a child, no matter what happened, no matter what I brought in, you know, it could have been an A for a paper.

The first thing my father would say is, what did Ellen Daly get? So it didn't matter what I got.

Whatever I got was discounted because there was somebody else better than me, you know?

So I wanted to help children stop that, stop taking that baggage with them forever.

So we came up with this program based on cognitive psychology, which is challenging that negative thought because it really is irrational.

So we use Pasha to, we have a toolkit and Pasha teaches them to catch the thought, for example, no one likes me, catch it, then challenge it, check it.

And see, is it really true? And of course, when we delve into it, it's not really true.

You could say to the child, well, you just had somebody over to play yesterday.

And then the biggest part of it is changing it and taking the child from the emotion, which is an amygdala, to the frontal lobe, to where they start making decisions about

What he basically said is whenever you say the word should, never, always, you are beating up on yourself.

In fact, my second book will be What Did Ellen Daly Get? Because when I was a child, no matter what happened, no matter what I brought in, you know, it could have been an A for a paper.

The first thing my father would say is, what did Ellen Daly get? So it didn't matter what I got.

Whatever I got was discounted because there was somebody else better than me, you know?

So I wanted to help children stop that, stop taking that baggage with them forever.

So we came up with this program based on cognitive psychology, which is challenging that negative thought because it really is irrational.

So we use Pasha to, we have a toolkit and Pasha teaches them to catch the thought, for example, no one likes me, catch it, then challenge it, check it.

And see, is it really true? And of course, when we delve into it, it's not really true.

You could say to the child, well, you just had somebody over to play yesterday.

And then the biggest part of it is changing it and taking the child from the emotion, which is an amygdala, to the frontal lobe, to where they start making decisions about
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