191 episodes

Sven Erlandson, TikTok star, best-selling author & founder of BadassCounseling (NYC), is a CEO-whisperer & soul counselor, who kicks your ass, taking you to the dark places of life to finally heal into true ALIVENESS! Listen for new counseling sessions every Thursday, and Sven's responses to his followers' questions every Sunday. Explicit content.

The Badass Counseling Show Sven Erlandson

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.9 • 340 Ratings

Sven Erlandson, TikTok star, best-selling author & founder of BadassCounseling (NYC), is a CEO-whisperer & soul counselor, who kicks your ass, taking you to the dark places of life to finally heal into true ALIVENESS! Listen for new counseling sessions every Thursday, and Sven's responses to his followers' questions every Sunday. Explicit content.

    Q&A: Narcs, Trauma, Boundaries, Fear...

    Q&A: Narcs, Trauma, Boundaries, Fear...

    Join Sven and Rob for another recorded online session featuring a wide variety of questions and topics coming in from social media. Afraid of the dark? Dealing with cheating? Moving on after divorce? Co-parenting? Wondering why your narc ex keeps contacting you? All this and more in this Lightning Round. Come on in! Explicit content.

    • 52 min
    Generational Denial

    Generational Denial

    Although Brenda's story begins with her concern about her son getting into a car driven by her alcoholic co-parenting ex, this counseling session soon becomes all about the profound effects of bad parenting on their children and their children's children. Brenda believes she's a good parent and has trouble admitting her real feelings about her not-so-good parents, but Sven guides her to some unpleasant, yet supremely hopeful truths. Explicit content.

    • 55 min
    Q&A: Being Alone, Forgiving, Bad Parenting, and More

    Q&A: Being Alone, Forgiving, Bad Parenting, and More

    It's Lightning Round LXXXVI! Tons of advice on many different topics including: Setting boundaries in your pregnancy that your mom ignores, being angry about inappropriate forgiveness, feeling worn out by journaling, parental apologies, and much more. Please join us for this recorded session of Sven taking unpredictable questions from his online badasses. Explicit content.

    • 55 min
    Paternal Betrayal

    Paternal Betrayal

    Revelations abound as Sven counsels two women with serious father (and mother) issues. Paulie defines herself by her work and wonders why. Perhaps because she felt she always had to perform to prove her worth? Add in a father who molested her two step-sisters and you begin to understand why she hated herself as early as age 3. Next, Heather wants to cut ties with her abusive mother, but comes to understand the truth about a father who betrayed her and never protected her. Lots of tears and hope in this compelling counseling episode. Explicit content.

    • 1 hr 11 min
    Q&A: Dating, Therapists, Alcohol, and More

    Q&A: Dating, Therapists, Alcohol, and More

    Listen in as Sven takes unpredictable questions from his online followers. In this episode: I need to divorce but I don't want to co-parent. I'm having trouble finding the right therapist. I feel like I'm becoming an extreme taker. And...Sven, what are your credentials? Please join us for Lightning Round LXXXV! Explicit content.

    • 44 min
    Lonely Teardrops

    Lonely Teardrops

    In this counseling episode, Michelle tells Sven she's leaving her partner of 7 years, knows it's the right thing to do, but is terrified of being alone. She's scared of the quiet. Her unsupportive mother was never her champion, and her hate for her stepfather is real. Still, she thinks her mother's approval is the key to her peace and happiness. Sven compassionately guides Michelle, through her tears, to the truths that will actually bring her the relief she so deserves. Explicit content.

    • 55 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
340 Ratings

340 Ratings

kRiSiMichelle ,

Anxious Journaling as a Result of Legal System Abuse

Becca,
I went through this too…there are apps now you can get on your smart phone that you can hide and password lock. It took me 2-3yrs but I started again this way. Now, today I’m writing in a paper journal for almost a year now (btw, that when it’s full I burn) and at this point today I’ve began through what started as an assignment in a law class I’m taking after deciding to return to school, work on my personal narrative. DO NOT GIVE UP!!! It is hard, YOU Can DO hard things!

kentucktenn ,

#19 IX Stonewalling after accusing of cheating

I listen to this episode and was left a little confused & cliff hung on the stonewalling. I made accusation to my wife married to for 18 years and shouldn’t had of her cheating. I didn’t have proof My question is your answer of stonewalling, is caused by the other spouse did not cheat or that she did? She has stonewalled me and also my kids follow suit. Her and my kids will not speak to me unless spoken to or somethings wrong or needed

Erica bergstrom ,

Profoundly Helpful and Healing

Sven’s podcasts have become a profoundly helpful and healing counter message to all of the negative messaging I got as a child. If you are looking for a better, faster way to heal through self directed therapy his podcasts and his books are phenomenal. No joke. I have been in therapy on and off since 1997 and I have been able to heal more in the last three months since I found his work than I have in the last 27 years. If you are tired of slow, ineffective therapy and are a DIY type who is ready to dive deep and get work done, Sven’s work will help you like nothing else. His work has changed my life in a profound way.

I personally can’t handle the counseling episodes of the podcast, but I LOVE the Q&A lighting rounds where Sven goes on mini rants in response to people’s questions. I really enjoy those episodes.

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