The elevate.epo Podcast Psychology, Precision, Power. Welcome to the elevate.epo podcast—where therapy ends and transformation begins. Hosted by Enrique Arteaga, MSc., this series breaks the mold of traditional mental health discourse. No DSM checklists. No passive listening. Just sharp, unfiltered insight into what it really takes to recalibrate your identity, optimize your emotional system, and move through the world with embodied leadership. Each episode explores the mechanics of EPO (Exe ...
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The Night Jane Broke the Frame: Borderline Collapse and the Origins of elevate.epo
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Send us a text It started as an after-work drink—until it became a clinical rupture. In this raw, field-based episode, Enrique walks us through the night “Jane” spiraled into a live narcissistic attack—weaponizing sex, triangulation, and emotional chaos to annihilate the containment that threatened her false self. But this isn’t gossip. It’s data. …
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The Mixdown of the Mind: Grunge Producers as Therapists of the 90s Psyche
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Send us a text In this episode of PrecisionCycle, Enrique peels back the distortion and dives straight into the psyche of the 1990s—through the lens of the men behind the console. What if grunge producers weren’t just making records... they were guiding entire generations through therapeutic landscapes? We break down the big six: Butch Vig as Winni…
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I’m on Warm Milk and Laxatives / Cherry-Flavored Antacids: How Modern Mental Health Keeps You Trapped in Pathology
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Send us a text In this scorched-earth episode of PrecisionCycle, Enrique pulls no punches as he recounts a recent therapy session that left him confronting the hollow mechanics of modern mental health. What begins as a casual drink with a licensed clinician morphs into a sharp critique of the therapy industrial complex, the illusion of clinical “sp…
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Memorial Day Standup: Why Therapy’s Broken and Boundaries Are the Answer
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Send us a text On this special Memorial Day edition of PrecisionCycle by elevate.epo, Enrique records straight from the Pasadena office with a message that’s part tribute, part takedown. He honors those who gave everything for this country—and then pivots into what we’re getting wrong about mental health, therapy, and the culture of emotional depen…
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Built Different: Why Boundaries, Not Therapy, Are the True Antidote to Narcissism, Perimenopause, and Emotional Collapse
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Send us a text This special Friday episode of PrecisionCycle is not for the faint-hearted. Enrique delivers a raw, grounded, and methodically explosive breakdown of why boundaries—not therapy—are the only reliable defense against narcissism, perimenopause-driven emotional collapse, and modern culture's disintegration of masculine structure. After a…
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Boundary Culture: What the Dutch Teach Us About Recalibration, Containment, and Respect
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Send us a text After Monday’s episode on Nancy McWilliams and perimenopause, I got a flood of messages—mostly asking the same thing: What does actual support look like? This episode answers that. But not with affirmations or coping strategies. With boundaries. We break down how modern therapy fails at structural support, how clinicians often confus…
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Perimenopause as Personality Collapse: A Psychoanalytic Deep Dive with McWilliams
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Send us a text Most people treat perimenopause like it's just hot flashes and hormones. But through the lens of Nancy McWilliams’ psychoanalytic theory, we see something far more structural: a full-blown stress test of personality. In this episode, Enrique, Ash, and Danni unpack how borderline, narcissistic, depressive, obsessive, and masochistic p…
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Tennis Court: Why You're Playing a Borderline Personality Game You Never Signed Up For
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Send us a text You didn’t choose this match—but you’re in it. In this episode, Enrique breaks down how Peter Fonagy’s groundbreaking model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) explains the emotional chaos many people experience daily—without ever getting diagnosed. From the collapse of mentalization to Lateral Plate Theory, we explore how shame…
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Cap’n Crunch with Water: Fonagy, Kendrick, and the Collapse of Pretend Theory
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Send us a text What do a British psychoanalyst, a Pulitzer-winning rapper, and a soggy bowl of Cap’n Crunch have in common? Everything—if you’ve lived it. In this episode, Enrique breaks down Peter Fonagy’s 2003 psychoanalytic manifesto on theory vs. practice and connects it to Kendrick Lamar’s raw sermon from wacced out murals. The message from bo…
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The Scaffolding of Return: How Your Trash Squat Is a Sign of a Fatherless Nervous System
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Send us a text Your back hurts. Your knees ache. You can’t squat 225 or pull 315 without breaking form—and it’s not because you skipped leg day. It’s because your dad never taught you how to hold tension. In this finale to Daddy Issues Week, Enrique unpacks how physical dysfunction, nervous system dysregulation, and emotional collapse all stem from…
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The Gambler: Daddy Issues in the Age of DraftKings
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Send us a text What do you get when you raise a boy in a house full of books, Nobel prizes, and emotional abandonment? You get Dave—a startup founder turned gambling mule, now flying to Texas to place $40K bets for a man who doesn’t make eye contact. But this isn’t a story about addiction. It’s a case study in the collapse of fatherhood, the pathol…
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Challenging Theories of Consciousness: Breaking the Loop
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Send us a text In this episode of elevate.epo, Enrique kicks off “Daddy Issues Week” by sharing the powerful story of Jane, his first private client — a woman shaped by a father who couldn’t protect her. We connect her struggles to new science on consciousness, exploring two big brain theories and what they tell us about how we see the world. Enriq…
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Dan's Test: How PrecisionCycle Fixed a Broken Heart
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Send us a text In this episode of elevate.epo, Enrique shares the story of Dan, a client working through the pain of a broken heart after a tough relationship at work. Using the PrecisionCycle method, Dan learned how to heal, grow, and show up as his best self—on and off the field. We talk about heartbreak, emotional strength, and why in life, ever…
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The Berkeley Shark: Recalibrating the Field with PrecisionCycle
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Send us a text What if the problem isn’t that you’re misunderstood—but that you’re miscalibrated to an underdeveloped field? In this episode, Enrique introduces PrecisionCycle, elevate.epo’s groundbreaking diagnostic system for tracking real psychological transformation—not in years, but in days. Through the one-month case of Danni, a single parent…
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Field Week: How Reverse Causality Destroys Relationships
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Send us a text In this Field Week kickoff, Enrique from elevate.epo breaks down one of the most overlooked yet devastating dynamics in modern relationships: Reverse Causality. Rooted in primitive psychological defenses, reverse causality occurs when someone injures the relational field — and then blames you for reacting. Pulling from real-world cli…
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The Escape from Sedation: How Real Clinical Work Threatens Broken Systems in Eating Disorder Treatment
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Send us a text When a borderline patient at an eating disorder residential spiraled into distorted thinking, Enrique used Lacanian principles to recalibrate her reality—in real time. Instead of being celebrated, the intervention was rejected by leadership desperate to maintain the illusion of healing. In this week's Friday Address, Enrique exposes …
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Two Energies: The Survival Fields of Restrictors and Binge-Purgers
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Send us a text Not all eating disorders are the same — not just clinically, but energetically. In this episode, Enrique breaks open the hidden divide inside the EDO world: Restrictors and Binge-Purgers. These aren't just diagnostic categories. They are distinct survival strategies with completely different emotional fields. From the quiet collapse …
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The Reality Behind Eating Disorder Treatment: Why Containment Fails and Collapse Happens
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Send us a text In this episode of elevate.epo, Enrique exposes the hidden fractures inside residential eating disorder treatment. From the raw realities of nervous system collapse to the institutional betrayals patients experience after discharge, this episode peels back the sanitized marketing and reveals the truth: behavior modification is not he…
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Integration Week: Friday Address – This System Is Built Under Pressure
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Send us a text You don’t build a new system by sitting in circles and processing your feelings. You build it by moving under pressure. In this special Friday edition, I break down what Integration Week means inside elevate.epo: recalibration through movement, not maintenance. We cover: Why structure beats survival mode How emotional sovereignty out…
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Billing or Healing: Why Modern Mental Health Failed — and How We Take It Back
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Send us a text The mental health industry isn’t broken — it’s executing a billing-first model by design. In this episode, we expose how compliance replaced healing, why insurance dependency destroyed practitioner autonomy, and how elevate.epo’s PrecisionCycle is the scientifically proven countermeasure. Integration and optimization aren't luxuries …
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I Was 310: The Body Isn’t Broken. It’s Holding the Line.
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Send us a text In this opening episode of the Week of Integration series, Ash and Danni break down a paper by Enrique—founder of elevate.epo— that unpacks what it really means to lose weight without chasing transformation. This isn’t a fitness journey. It’s a structural recalibration. The move from 310 to 230 wasn’t about health. It was about recla…
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This Isn’t Therapy. It’s a Psychological Weapon.
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Send us a text Welcome to the 5th episode of elevate.epo—a system of psychological architecture for high-performance living, not a self-help sandbox. In this origin story, Enrique Arteaga lays out the blueprint: Why he walked away from the traditional therapy model What he saw in the room that textbooks couldn’t touch And how elevate.epo was born f…
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Context Over Culture: How elevate.epo© Rebuilds Identity Across Codes
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Send us a text Most therapy frameworks collapse when exported outside of the Western, individualistic, emotionally expressive paradigm. Even “culturally adapted” CBT—despite its global rebranding efforts—often falls short. Why? Because it focuses on language and identity while ignoring structure. In this episode of elevate.epo, we review and critiq…
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The GOAT (Greatest of All Transferences) - Why Kernberg Still Runs the Table
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Send us a text What if the key to modern mental health wasn’t just empathy or mindfulness—but a full-scale reintegration of the self under fire? In this episode, we take you inside elevate.epo’s clinical war room to explore why Otto Kernberg remains the GOAT of personality theory. With precision and bite, we dismantle his 2015 paper on neurobiologi…
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Episode 2: The Prototype - 'If these walls could talk'
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Send us a text Episode 2 – The Prototype "If these walls could talk..." This is where it all started. Before elevate.epo had a name, it had a moment. A room. A client. A voltage. Her name is Lisa (not really, but close enough). What you’re about to hear isn’t a case study—it’s a cinematic cut from the origin story of a system that refuses to pathol…
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Send us a text 🎙️ EPISODE 01 – “The State of Mental Health Is Bad. Here’s Why We Built a System.” Hosted by Ash and Dan | Powered by elevate.epo In our debut episode, Ash and Dan dive into the raw findings of the State of Mental Health 2022 survey—a deep, data-backed analysis conducted by Enrique Arteaga, MSc., revealing a truth most systems still …
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