Walking with clients through decision making and why slowing things down is one of the first steps

Episode Two - A Change of Pace

Normalizing that anxiety will show up, why it is necessary, and why sometimes it can be more damaging.

Episode Four - Getting Rid Of Anxiety?

Understand how some foundational choices - sleep, movement, and nutrition - are paramount for both proactive health and as reactive measures when stress and anxiety show up.

Episode 5 - Living Well And Pushing Back Against Anxiety

Struggling in relationships? Listen for types of manipulators around whom we should be guarded and boundaried. Here are some key personalities that are difficult to navigate - and as we get healthy, distance may be needed.

Episode 32 - Types of Manipulative Personalities

Health - there are many areas to consider. While this list is not comprehensive, intentionality in each of the stated eight domains will help lead listeners to a life of wellness and health.

Episode 43 - Eight Domains Of Wellness To Consider

The headlines keep coming; school shootings are taking place with alarming regularity. Our kids need help processing through this. Here are a few tips to engage these tough conversations.

Episode 47 - Another School Shooting: How We Can Talk to our Kids

For some, poor identity formation is due to parents and authority figures not inviting kids appropriately into adulthood. When this happens, people often experience mental health distress. Need a more formed identity? There is some work to be done!

Episode 63 - A Poorly Formed Identity Means There Is Work to Do!

Why do we do the things we do? Are we living a life where the motives are oriented towards changing out of love? Or, are we depending on guilt, duty, or fear to get us to change. If it is the latter, let's take a look at that!

Episode 132 - Guilt, Duty, & Fear Vs. Love

Often, when we experience rejection, we can assume it is saying something negative about us. What if it is just about incompatibility?

Episode 143 - Getting Rejected, And Being OK With It

Can you weep with those who weep? How about weeping with those who have "brought it on themselves"? How about with those who are on the receiving end of unrecognized losses? This is an area many of us could probably grow in. Take a listen.

Episode 167 - Disenfranchised Grief: Walk Gently In The Lives of Others

This is not about victim blaming. This is about pushing back against the troubling statistics of revictimization. Take a listen. Share with someone who needs to hear this!

Episode 174 - When You're Done Being A Victim

Staying in the present helps push back anxiety in numerable ways! But, what would need to be true for me to better stay in the present? Take a listen!

Episode 270 - Anxiety Disruption!

There are layers of understanding to be found in our human interactions and in our own stories. Are we willing to honor the complexities?

Episode 271 - It's Not Relative, But It Is Complex

We have processes that play out when we are in shifts and changes. What does that look like for you? 

Episode 272 - How Do We Metabolize Change

How do we go bankrupt? How do we build a meaningful life? The steps are similar; it's the directions we choose

Episode 273 - Gradually, Then All of the Sudden

In an extended analogy, take a listen for why fear shows up when we "try again"

Episode 274 - Understanding over time As My Fear Center Works Overtime

Walking in the light does not mean being perfect. It means we have the freedom to honor our many dimensions - the good, the bad, and even our ugly!

Episode 275 - Honesty and Freedom

Many adult singles - thirties, forties, fifties and beyond - come with a story. Often, there is loss, rupture, and a plethora of pain points they are carrying with them. And yet, they can often be unseen, unincluded, and passed by. How do we reconcile this when healthful community is a key part of living well?

Episode 276 - Do We See Them Do We Include Them

How do we know when a cause is ours to hold? Is there a pain point? How about a gifting? Perhaps that is the invitation to proceed!

Episode 277 - For the Collective Good

Why does it take so long to become who we want to be? Take a listen! It is possible and it is a process. 

Episode 278 - Identity Consolidation

A key piece of identity development is how we choose to talk about the things that we are practicing. Take a listen!

Episode 279 - The Declaratives Matter

It takes intentional effort to put things into helpful sequencing. When we take time to do it, though, it can push back against anxiety in significant ways!

Episode 280 - Sequencing for Anxiety Reduction

Establishing life priorities and creating plans that allow us to walk them out is a key piece of intentional and healthful living. What are the priorities?

Episode 281 - Establishing Life Priorities

Intentional living will always require sacrifice. Perhaps we aren't always clear what we are signing up for. Maybe that's the way it is supposed to be!

Episode 282 - The Next Little Step & Sacrafice

As we engage intentional living, it takes a while to get each domain of life developed. If DOES take time. And each area of life is important. Let's explore this together!

Episode 283 - It's a Lot It; Takes a While

I barely have words. These words only form questions. No answers. How have we arrived here? 

Episode 284 - How? Only Questions Right Now

It's true that we do not have to confront our pain, clean up our inner landscape, and work on healing. It is also true that there is a cost - and not just to ourselves. 

Episode 285 - Immeasurable Cost

Most gains we make are on the other side of sacrifice and on the other side of submission. Are we willing to let go to see what else might emerge?

Episode 286 - Submit to the Process

Identity emerges with committed action over time! 

Also, please forgive the static and the cut/splice! I was able to salvage only some content with the audio file glitched!

Episode 287 - Identity Emerges over Time

Asking some questions about self and others can help propel a deeper understanding when relational ruptures happen. 

Episode 288 - Curiosity to Process Confusion

A mental health educator compelled to walk with people through the stress, challenges, and traumas that unfold in our stories

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