The Mental Spiral Podcast: Recent Episodes

Aitana Romero

A mental health podcast created to start a down to earth, casual and humanistic conversation about mental health from personal experiences.

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Have you ever given everything to a partner and nothing about their behavior changed? On this episode, Aitana vents about her latest relationship. How she lost herself and how she's trying to find herself again. 

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TRIGGER WARNING - this episode contains talk about depression, self-harm and suicide.

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This episode of the podcast is a bit different from the rest. I tell the story of my worst depressive episode (TRIGGER WARNING: contains talk about suicide). 

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On this episode, I talk to you guys about one of my biggest struggles - ACCEPTING THE FACT THAT I HAVE TO LIVE WITH MY ILLNESS FOREVER. 

I talk about why it's hard for me to accept it and how I've gotten closer to accepting it throughout the years. 

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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! On this episode, we dive into what I think are the 5 essential pillars we all need to have in order to have a successful relationship. 

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On this episode of the Mental Spiral, I tell you guys about my latest rejection story and share my thoughts on how to overcome the huge hit at our ego. 

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On this episode of the Mental Spiral Podcast, I'll be talking about confidence and its importance in our everyday lives. Not just that, I'll also give you guys eight of the most important tips to gain some self-confidence. 

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This episode of the Mental Spiral is a Q&A episode. I answer twelve questions: some about me, others about my listener's circumstances. 

Happy holidays and Happy New Year!!! 

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On this episode of the Mental Spiral, I'm going to teach you guys a few techniques to help you forgive yourselves and others. 

I'll also talk about what forgiveness really means and share some meditation tools to help you forgive. 

Link to forgiveness meditation I use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rcvZ_OxyCE&ab_channel=ZenLifeRelax

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On this episode of the Mental Spiral Podcast, we will dive deep into the world of psychological and physical abuse.

We'll learn what exactly is considered abuse and how we can identify it. You will also hear about some of my personal experiences with abuse in my past relationship. 

Get ready! This is by far one of my favorite episodes. I hope you guys enjoy it. 

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On this episode, we dive deep into the realms of the red flags of toxic and abusive relationships. We talk about things like sexual coercion, manipulation, and all the sings we have to look out for at the beginning of our relationships. 

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On this episode, I introduce you guys to my best friend Elena. Her and I talk about our friendship, the struggles we face when making friends and past struggles with friendships. 

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On this episode, I tell you guys about my latest break up and how I deal with the pain of loss still to this day. 

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On this episode, I bring my brother in to talk about my mental health issues from his perspective and to talk about his hardest moments. 

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In this episode, I talk about my own experiences with relapse. You'll know all about my relapse into depression this 2020 and I'll tell you the best way (in my experience) to deal with it. 

You'll finish the episode knowing why we relapse, how to know when we're relapsing, what to do when we've spiraled and how to deal with a friend or family member's relapse. 

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The first episode of Mental Spiral is all about self-esteem, its importance and how to improve it. I talk about my experiences with low self-esteem and reveal everything I did to make it better.

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Welcome to the Mental Spiral Podcast! This is a short intro episode where I explain what this podcast is all about.