The Positive Mind: Recent Episodes
Kevin O'Donoghue, Niseema Dyan Diemer
Join Host Kevin O' Donoghue, LMHC, and Niseema Dyan Diemer LMT, SEP for provocative conversations about the entire spectrum of mental health topics. We explore innovative techniques and modalities for identifying what causes us pain and anxiety and for finding sources of comfort, healing and momentum in our lives-- and practical ways to engage them for personal growth and greater daily satisfaction. Our guests include authors, researchers, therapists, healers, and artists who consider the ways we can learn to care for ourselves and others. Together we invite you to embrace tools to help you lead a more positively minded life.
The feeling of home is as universal as it is personal. Home can be a place of safety and refuge, or chaos and instability. No matter which, home is the place you identify with in some way, it carries meaning, memories and shapes your identity.
Homesickness is a powerful feeling that something just isn't right, coupled with a longing for things to be stable, predictable, familiar and safe. But, it is a fact of life that everybody has to leave home; how a person manages that stress can say a lot about their relationship with themselves and their ability to take a sense of "home" with them wherever they go.
Kevin and Niseema talk about how homesickness can lead to depression, a sense of being lost, rootless and adrift. It's the mysterious and universal feeling of home that seems to root us in our very being, providing a shelter for those days and times when all seems lost.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about the Danish word "Hygge," which is a way of creating comfort and ease in your life. It is amazing how many ways we can create more comfort and ease in our daily rituals, from how we wake up in the morning, to how we live our day, to how we go to sleep.
In the fall/winter season, there are so many ways to add pleasure to our lives, like wearing cozy wool socks, to making a cup of hot apple cider or hot chocolate. For the Danish, Hygge is a way of life, which explains why they are one of the happiest countries in the world.
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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Come Away With Me." Performed and Written by: Nora Jones, Produced by: Arif Mardin, Nora Jones, Jay Newland, Craig Street, Source: Blue Note Records
End Music : "You Still Believe in Me." Performed by M.Ward, Written by: Brian Wilson and T Asher, Produced by: --, Source:Merge Records.
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week, Kevin and Niseema talk about the Vagus Nerve, a major nerve in the body that begins at the brain-stem and travels all the way through the vital organs to the sacrum. The Vagus Nerve helps control several muscles of the throat and voice, plays a major role in regulating the heart rate and keeps the gastrointestinal tract in working order. The Vagus Nerve has also been shown to have a very strong connection to how you manage stress. A weak Vagus Nerve is a major indicator that you have been suffering from prolonged and chronic stress.
Niseema introduces a powerful tool for healing and balancing the Vagus Nerve called The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). The SSP delivers a passive stimulation of the Vagus Nerve to help increase its capacity to regulate the "fight or flight'' part of our nervous system which contributes to symptoms of anxiety and PTSD, and access feelings of safety and connection.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In our final show on Resilience, Kevin and Niseema talk about how "programming" in childhood can lead to inflexibility and a low level of resilience as an adult.
Most often, children are programmed through negativity: "Don't do that. Don't touch that. Don't complain." This can force a child to create a "good child" persona that causes them to detach from a feeling self. They will carry this "good child" persona into adulthood, losing the capacity to be real to themselves, their friends or any future partner. Kevin and Niseema talk about ways to undo this terrible and destructive syndrome.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Trouble Man." Performed and Written and Produced by: Marvin Gaye, Source: Motown
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In Part 3 of our series on Resilience, Kevin and Niseema talk about the difference between "strain" and "stress." Notice what happens when we change a familiar word like "stress" into a more accurate description like "strain." Are you "strained out?"
One of the most universal sources of stress is strain. It can be a physical or psychological strain, and it can be caused by many different factors. For example, if you work long hours and don’t have time to spend with your family, that’s likely to cause some level of mental strain. Most of us have been dealing with a lot of strain since COVID began in addition to its aftermath, feeling our inner resources "strained" leading to "stress." Join Kevin and Niseema as they discuss strain, stress and how we can use those as tools to build resilience.
In Part 2 of our series on Resilience, Kevin and Niseema talk about defense mechanisms and an internal mechanism called "The Engineer" which wants to keep us from changing. "The Engineer" will work to sabotage any kind of alterations you want to make, even positive ones.
This week's show is centered around learning how to have a dialogue with, and make friends with, "The Engineer" so you can make the changes you want to make.
We are kicking off a four-show series on resilience. In this time of COVID/post COVID stress and all that it entails, people's sense of resilience is very low. How are you doing with your resilience? Do you feel tapped out, that you cannot handle one more demand? Tune in as Kevin and Niseema talk about ways to refill your resilience tank to move forward with knowledge and purpose.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Traction in the Rain." Performed, Written and Produced by: David Crosby, Source: Rhino Atlantic
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema welcome Dr. Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D, psychotherapist, Zen practitioner, speaker and author of the book, “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love.” Brenda shares with us her journey and understanding of how every person we meet can teach us how to love. In sharing this, she shows us ways that we can love without judgment, shame, or blame.
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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "All You Need is Love." Performed by: The Beatles, Written by: John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Produced by: Giles Martin and George Martin, Source: UMC (Universal Music Catalog)
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Falling out of love is a heartbreaking feeling. The expansiveness. warmth, and joy of being with your beloved is just gone. It may have happened suddenly or overtime, but there is no doubt that 'the loving feeling" is gone.
This week Kevin and Niseema explore some of the reasons why what used be a "tuning in" to our partner, suddenly turns into a "tuning out." Expectations, lack of relationship skills, stress, personal history, our own body, etc., can turn that loving feeling into irritability and loneliness. If love is the antidote to loneliness, then what may be the antidote to the "loss" of love?
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "Mean to Me", Performed by: Sarah Vaughan, Written by: Fred Ahert, Roy Turk,Produced by: J Isaacs, J. MCEWEN Source: Columbia/Legacy
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about the fear of letting people get close to you. How many people really know you? How many people do you feel close to? Closeness is often a trigger for most people. What happens to your body when people get too close?
Kevin and Niseema explore the common fears that consciously or unconsciously keep relationships at an arm's length. The fear of being controlled, the fear of losing independence, the fear of vulnerability, all work to sabotage the desire for real closeness. This week's show talks about THE REWARD of letting go of those fears.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Nature Boy." Performed by: Nat King Cole, Written by: Eden Ahbez, Produced by: Lee Gillette, Source: Capitol Records
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about research into "memory" and how our adult brains impose a memory on to our childhood brain. Statistics consistently show that the adult brain often creates a faulty "memory" of incidents that happened in the past. It's as if the brain takes a photograph of a past event and then distorts or enhances the photograph. The brain will often create a faulty memory of what love looked like in our childhood, and then project this onto future loe relationships. It can be the cause of immense, and unnecessary, suffering. It is this faulty memory that we project onto our future love relationships.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Kodachrome." Performed, Written and Produced by: Paul Simon, Source: Legacy Recordings
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Everything and everyone changes. What is revealed when the green leaves of summer turn so many varied colors? Each tree, each leaf, has specific traits to it. What if love's essence is an ability to see through the personality of our partner, to what is a completely unique constellation of traits that make them who they are. Kevin and Niseema explore the concept that it is this essence that delights us and makes us fall in love. Join us this week as we help you identify the traits of your partner that hint at their essence, and to also reflect on what they might see in you.
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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "This Nearly was Mine." Performed by: Frank Sinatra. Written by: Oscar Hammerstien II, Richard Rodgers. Source: FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Love is a feeling, not a Hallmark card or a box of chocolates. It is deeper and harder than that. Love is not unconditional, it needs the right conditions to be present, to be felt.
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about love and how it is the antidote to loneliness. In looking at the questions of the UCLA Loneliness Scale it becomes clear that a lack of love, or the feeling of love, is at the core of why loneliness is so ubiquitous. In looking at love and the ways it shapes our experience of living, we hope to inspire a thoughtful process about the meaning and feeling of love for you.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "As Time Goes By", Performed by: Dooley Wilson, Written by: Max Steiner, Source: WaterTower Music
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In this final show on loneliness, Kevin and Niseema discuss the personality system called The Enneagram, and the nine different ways people hide their loneliness from themselves. What if all human beings could be understood as having one of nine personality styles? Knowing your own personality style might help you solve many problems in your life, including any loneliness you might have.
In this show, Kevin and Niseema talk about six of the nine styles and how they lead to a sense of isolation and loneliness. They also talk about ways to end your style of loneliness.
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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "Just the Way You Are" performed by, Billy Joel, written by Billy Joel, Produced by: Phil Ramone, Source: Columbia
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week, Kevin and Niseema talk about ways to recognize and cultivate “Companionship” and “Belonging,” the two themes of the Loneliness Scale questions, (see button below.) Did your parents have companions or feel a sense of belonging in their community or social circle? If not, you may have a high tolerance for isolation and loneliness yourself. Birth order is also a factor: first-born children are often the parent/caregiver's companions while last-born children are often the loneliest, especially in a large family. Hoarding and addictions can be seen as "companions" too: though in reality, both are very isolating, cutting us off from the sense of belonging we crave. It is a paradox!
In the second half of the show Kevin and Niseema go through four steps that can help EASE your loneliness: Extend your boundaries,have Action plan, Select an activity, and Expect the best. By practicing these four simple steps anyone can move from a sense of isolation and loneliness to a place of companionship and a feeling of belonging.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music:" Lonely Too Long." Performed by: The Young Rascals, Written By: Eddie Brigante, Felix Cavaliere, Source: Rhino Atlantic.
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In Part 2 of our series on loneliness, Kevin and Niseema talk about the idea of having a "high" or "low" tolerance for loneliness based on your family heritage or genetic makeup. When you look at your own background can you see whether or not you have a high or low tolerance for loneliness? Does this make it easier for you to talk about loneliness in a non-judgemental, less shameful way?
In the second part of the show, we talk about the physical effects of loneliness, and the wear and tear that it can take on both the heart and the immune system. John Caciopo in his book, "Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection," unveils his pioneering research on the startling effects of loneliness: a sense of isolation or social rejection disrupts not only your thinking abilities and willpower but also your immune system, and can be as damaging as obesity or smoking. His book demonstrates that, as individuals and as a society, we have everything to gain, and everything to lose, in how well or how poorly we manage our need for social bonds.
Tune in next week when we talk about ways of minimizing and "easing" a sense of loneliness.
Follow this link to take the UCLA Loneliness Scale
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "In Dreams." Performed by Roy Orbison. Written By Roy Orbison,.Produced by Fred Foster. Source: Legacy Records
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about that other pandemic, Loneliness. In the 1970's only 11% of Americans reported feeling lonely. That number has more than tripled to 36% of all Americans, including 61% of young adults and 51% of mothers with young children. More and more people are expressing their feelings about loneliness yet we still can't seem to find the language to talk about it.
How do you react when you hear someone say the words, "I am lonely?" Do you feel overwhelmed, burdened, that you must do something for the person? If you can learn to bear and sit with your own loneliness, you learn that you don't have to solve someone else's.
In the second half of the show, Kevin and Niseema do an exercise that makes talking about loneliness as routine as talking about the weather. Ending your loneliness can be as easy as telling somebody about it.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" performed by, Elvis Presley, written by Lou Handman, Roy Turk, Source: RCA Legacy
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Children learn to navigate their surroundings with little guidance except for the voices and actions of the adults who are responsible for them. These words, feelings, and behaviors shape who they become for better or worse.
This Independence Day, join Kevin and Niseema as they explore steps outlined by Alice Miller, author of,"The Drama of the Gifted Child.” These steps help you discover your true nature, starting with your core "self" and working outwards. By identifying and learning to utilize these innermost traits, we give ourselves permission to be free!
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema invite Charley Wininger LP, LMHC, author of Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA, back for his third appearance on the show to discuss why he calls MDMA, "The Chemical of Connection." Charley reads pivotal passages that describe the physical and emotional responses that MDMA creates, as well as its bonding effects in both his relationship with his spouse and some courageous couples who are exploring MDMA as an option.
Charley talks about a recent New York Times article that discusses FDA approval for the use of medical MDMA for treatments of PTSD, substance abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, eating disorders, depression, end-of-life anxiety and social anxiety in autistic adults. The FDA is currently in Phase 3 clinical trials that are expected to clear the way for legal use by 2023.
Charley has compiled valuable resources for clinicians and explorers alike on his website http://www.charleywininger.com and through his You Tube channel Listening to Ecstasy. Here are a couple of videos that support and expand on what we talk about in the interview.
MDMA IS a Gateway Drug: but to what? https://www.charleywininger.com/youtube-videos/2019/3/21/is-mdma-a-gateway-drug-and-could-that-be-a-good-thing
Couples Sharing Good Chemistry: https://www.charleywininger.com/youtube-videos/2019/3/21/for-couples-sharing-good-chemistry
Read The New York Times article on Phase 3 clinical Trials Charley cites: http://https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/health/mdma-approval.html
Do you find yourself being pulled in two directions at once? Do you have many feelings about one aspect or one situation in your life? Sometimes, when we have a number of feelings running through us at one time, it becomes hard to find our ground and difficult to make decisions. What you might be feeling is called ambivalence, feeling two things at once (Ambi meaning two, and valence meaning feeling), which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Culturally, we tend to admire the decisive, single-minded person who seems to know what they want and goes towards it. However, ambivalence awakens us to the complexity of being human, and the possibility for greater freedom and choice in our lives. Life is more than just pursuing goals; it is also about expanding ourselves by opening our senses to all the things we can feel.
When feeling too much becomes too much!, a person can feel paralyzed and the single-minded goal pursuer can seem like a very attractive alternative. It does NOT have to be one or the other. Join Kevin O'Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer as they explore how feelings of ambivalence play out in the context of relationships and current events.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: At Seventeen, Performed and Written by: Janis Ian, Source: Columbia/Legacy
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In honor of Father's Day, Kevin and Niseema welcome Dr. Warren Farrell PhD, author of The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.
The crisis? More and more boys are growing up without fathers. This leads them to not only miss out on the father/son bond, but also to a higher likelihood of high school dropout, use of drugs, and a whole host of mental health vulnerabilities. Respecting the roles fathers can have with their sons gives us insight into how nurturing the "father instinct" leads to a more stable home, life, and society.
Dr. Warren Farrell's books include: The Myth of Male Power, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? and Why Men Are The Way They Are.
For more information and to contact Dr. Warren Farrell please go to:
www.boycrisis.org
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Fears can be great motivators. This week Kevin and Niseema discuss 9 ways people use fear to protect themselves. When individuals spend time understanding what they are afraid of and how they adjust to it, they can liberate themselves from moments when the fear might be unnecessary.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
The promise of having medical school paid for in return for seven years service in the Navy was an easy choice for Donnelly Wilkes when he started medical school in 1998. That all changed on September 11th, 2001. After just one year of residency in Family Medicine at Camp Pendleton, Dr. Wilkes was called to active duty in the Iraq War. Choosing to be stationed with the Marines, he knew he'd be close to the front lines, but not as close as 200 yards away.
In his memoir, Code Red Fallujah: A Doctor's Memoir at War, Dr. Wilkes gives his first-hand account of one of the bloodiest battles in the Iraq War. His unique perspective gives us a window into the mental and physical toll it took on the men around him, including himself. "Sharing the harrowing entries from his field diary, Lieutenant Commander Donnelly Wilkes becomes the first-ever U.S. military physician to recount the sights and sounds of one of the most violent events of the entire Iraq War." (www.coderedfallujah.com)
This Memorial Day, join Kevin and Niseema for this poignant discussion about combat stress and mental health with Dr. Donnelly Wilkes MD, who is passionate about sharing his story and letting other servicemen, women, and veterans know that there are resources and help available for anyone who needs and wants it.
To learn more about Dr. Wilkes and Veterans support go to:
www.coderedfallujah.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Shame, rejection, helplessness, fear of failure, surrender. No wonder it seems so hard to ask for help.
The inner dilemma that prevents you from making that call, sending that text, or leaning on that shoulder has all the hallmarks of a culture that prides itself on self-sufficiency. The real shock is that when help is received it can feel like, "Why didn't I ask for help sooner?"
This week Kevin and Niseema look at how the simple act of asking for help has layers of complexity and feeling that go back to the first time you tried to utter that word.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema continue thier conversation about Attachment Theory with Bethany Saltman mother and author of Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Through the Science of Attachment.
We continue talking about the Strange Situation Procedure developed by Mary Ainsworth, in the 1970s as a way to observe the attachment styles of children between the ages of 9-18 months. In one stage of the procedure, the mother/ primary caregiver and a stranger sit in a room with the child, and then the mother leaves the room. The way the child reacts to the mother's leaving and her return is carefully observed and information about the attachment bond is categorized into an attachment style. After documenting tens of thousands of separations and reunions three distinct patterns emerged: securely attached, insecure anxious, and insecure-avoidant, with 65% being securely attached.
As Bethany elaborates: "You don't have to be anything special to be securely attached or to raise a securely attached child. All you have to do is to have some experience and some comfort with your own emotions, your own difficult feelings."
In our adult life, these attachment patterns can become more apparent when our relationships are under stress like economic strife, pandemic quarantine, illness, or conflict. If your attachment pattern is insecure when stress arises you can feel like a loss is imminent, and a return to connection is impossible. If you both have a basis of secure attachment you can probably weather any of these storms. Knowing your attachment style can help you understand how you are in relationships.
For more information and to contact Bethany Saltman go to:
www.bethanysaltman.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Bethany Saltman, author of, "Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment," introduces us to the Strange Situation Procedure developed in the 1970s as a way to observe the attachment styles of children between the ages of 9-18months. In one stage of the procedure the mother/ primary caregiver and a stranger sit in a room with the child, and then the mother leaves the room. The way the child reacts to the mother's leaving and her return is carefully observed and information about the attachment bond is categorized into an attachment style. This procedure revolutionized the understanding of child and adult psychology specifically in relationships and bonding.
Join us as we discover how knowing about your attachment style provides a clue as to how you manage the stresses of relationships and parenting as an adult. Knowing this, you can start healing relationship wounds and foster secure relationships with your children and loved ones.
Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Into The Science of Attachment was named one of the best science books of 2020 by The New Scientist.
For more information and to contact Bethany Saltman go to:
www.bethanysaltman.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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www.kevinlmhc.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In this second hour of our interview with Richard D. Smith, we dive into how the systemic trauma of oppressed communities is reflected in feelings of powerlessness followed by rage. Lack of education, job opportunities, limited access to healthcare, and mental health programs has reinforced the idea that somehow Black, Indigenous, People of Color, (BIPOC) people are inherently, "less than".
Richard sees self-love as a"revolutionary act," starting with understanding "What happened to me is not my fault or even about me." When you are able to see that external events and influences are not about you and you can choose to take care of yourself in simple yet profound ways you start to co-create your life.
One of the first steps in healing trauma, says Richard, is to activate, "healthy aggression." The kind of aggression that supports the individual to stand up for themselves, honoring their self-worth and creatIng safety in their world. Standing up and saying "my life matters" leads to standing up for my community and all the people in my life.
Kevin and Niseema also talk with Richard about his outreach efforts for healing individuals and communities. His work emphasizes educating all communities about the effects of individual, systemic and generational trauma, and where to go from here.
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Follow Richard D. Smith on Instagram @rsspeaks, www.richardsmithspeaks.com
PR contact: Kashanna Evans pr@kissinglions.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema welcome guest Richard D. Smith, MA. He is a nationally recognized expert on trauma and healing for survivors of interpersonal and systemic violence. His father was murdered, his mother struggled as a single parent, and he experienced a childhood that was often chaotic, unstable, and frightening. By age 16, Richard was incarcerated in an adult jail and was eventually sentenced to spend all of his twenties in prison.
In part one of this two-part interview, we talk with Richard about how the behaviors that put him in jail were directly linked to "what happened" to him as a young person. Richard makes a distinction between "what happened to me" and who I am as an individual self. When he made the distinction, he was able to be free of the cycle of violence that shaped his young adult life.
Richard is now a leader in community-based programs, with over 20 years of experience. He is currently a doctoral candidate at SUNY Albany’s School of Social Welfare. His research focus is on male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Richard is a Robert Wood Johnson Forward Promise Leadership Fellow.
Follow Richard D. Smith on Instagram @rsspeaks, www.richardsmithspeaks.com
PR contact: Kashanna Evans pr@kissinglions.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
"The main ingredient of success isn’t positive thinking it’s non-negative thinking," says Kevin following up on last week's show on Learned Helplessness. Do you have a sense of your explanatory style? Do difficult things ALWAYS happen to you? It turns out that shifting a helpless explanatory style to an optimistic or deserving explanatory style is not as hard as it seems.
When something difficult happens, take the time to notice how you are thinking about it. Are there resources available to you that you can reach out to for help? What do you have control over? De-personalize the event by not generalizing against yourself. You may not resolve the situation today but there is always another chance, another way, another outlook that supports an optimistic, realistic mindset and an experience of success.
Kevin and Niseema talk about the three ways to shift from a helpless explanatory style to optimistic thinking:
- View the situation as temporary rather than permanent.
- Don't personalize. Externalize by seeing what the outside factors are that you had no control over.
- Notice when you say "always" and "never" and get specific about this one time.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Mid Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
When things happen, do you first think, "this always happens to me," or, "next time I'll try another way." Your reaction to the way things happen to you is called your "self explanatory style."
In his books,Learned Helplessness, and Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman, breaks down your explanatory style as being either "deserving," or "hopeless." It is a style learned in childhood, most likely adolescence. If you felt you were not valued or felt your help was not needed, or you felt left out very often, you are most likely to have a "hopeless" explanatory style.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, Kevin and Niseema take us through the A,B,C,D and E, sequence of "Learned Helplessness," or "Learned Optimism:"
- An Adverse situation happens.
- A Belief is formed based on that event.
- Anexpectation of the same Consequences arises.
- Dispute the negative consequences with statements that help you see what is really happening.
- Take agency with Energization to stop feeling ineffectual and move into a more optimistic frame of mind.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Mid Break Music: HELPLESSLY HOPING - il coro che non c'è
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Ask yourself, "What am I saying "YES" to that I want to say "NO" to but don't?"
Saying "NO" is an important tool in setting boundaries for yourself, and establishing your own identity. We invite you to look at where you can say "NO" in your life that might help increase your feeling of being free while maintaining your mental and emotional health in a positive way.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
What do Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Dalai Lama, and Michelle Obama have in common? It is possible that in their younger lives they were encouraged to attune to the feelings and needs of others to the detriment of themselves. When these personality types are unbalanced, they can prove to be difficult and challenging partners because they become seemingly impossible to get close to. Functioning always from a gut instinct perspective can often result in self-created conflict, chaos, and rigidity. However, because of these very wounds, their search for stability through equality, peace, and improving society on a structural level has brought their ideals to the forefront, creating universal change.
Join Kevin and Niseema as they complete this 3 episode journey with a discussion of the "Gut" Triad. The Challenger 8, focuses on challenging the rules and the people in their environment; The Peacemaker 9, lives to bring peace and harmony to their environment; The Reformer 1, focuses on what is imperfect in their environment and seeks to set it right.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Our personality, temperament, and relational style are complex and sometimes can feel like a trap. The search for safety is one that starts from a young age, especially if the home you grew up in was somehow dangerous, unstable, or unsafe. The hidden wounds of the Investigator 5, the Loyalist 6, and the Enthusiast 7, reflect a deep, relentless fear, based in insecurity.
Kevin and Niseema continue the journey with the Mind Triad Types, and show how we adopt certain behaviors as children to manage the fear and insecurity of our environment. When you recognize the type of person you have become, or are the type of person you are in a relationship with, you have the opportunity to relate to yourself and others with compassion and empathy.
Tune in next week to learn about the Challenger 8, the Peacemaker 9, and the Perfectionist 1.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Are you someone who gives of themselves but never really feels like you can receive?
Do you relish achieving goals and then feel a kind of emptiness?
Kevin and Niseema explore the effects of childhood trauma on adult patterns of behavior and self defeating habits. Using the Enneagram personality typing system, they review the 9 Types and go into depth about the wounds of the 2 (The Helper), and Type 3 (The Performer/Achiever). Understanding the core essence that got lost under the pain is a way to transform your relationship to yourself and others. Tune in next week to learn about the Type 4 (the Artist), Type 5 (the Investigator/Observer), Type 6 (the Loyalist), and Type 7 (the Enthusiast).
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
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Thank you for listening,
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Our guest, Dr. Lisa Miller, Ph.D., author of,"The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest For An Inspired Life," returns this week to explain how depression can be the key to a spiritual awakening. Dr. Miller says that the hallmark experience of depression is marked by a loss of connection to self and others but it is also a sense of not being held by a force or presence greater than yourself. Depression can be treated as something we wrestle with, or it can be viewed as an invitation to a reigniting of our "awakened brain," by connecting with ourselves and those around us. Join Kevin, Niseema, and Dr. Miller as she leads us through two visualization exercises that help us experience our "awakened brain," providing an opportunity for spiritual growth.
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o find out more about Dr. Lisa Miller or events connected with The Awakened Brain go to www.drlismillerphd.com
For more information, to suggest show ideas, ask questions or get support, contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Following up on the last week's show on Hygge, the Danish art of feeling good, Kevin and Niseema welcome Dr. Lisa Miller to talk about how the brain responds to Hygge and other pleasurable experiences. In her book "The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest For An Inspired Life," Dr. Miller shows us that when a person talks about a spiritual experience or a feeling of connection, fMRI scans show an increase in blood flow and the brain takes on a reddish color. Conversely, when participants were asked to tell a sad or depressing story, blood flow in the brain was constricted. Dr. Miller explains that the reddish brain reflects a kind of awareness called "Awakened Awareness," and that the brain is capable of shifting states and feelings based on what you are thinking and experiencing.
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To find out more about Dr. Lisa Miller or events connected with The Awakened Brain go to www.drlismillerphd.com
For more information, to suggest show ideas, ask questions or get support, contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about the Danish word "Hygge," which is a way of creating comfort and ease in your life. It is amazing how many ways we can create more comfort and ease in our daily rituals, from how we wake up in the morning, to how we live our day, to how we go to sleep.
In the winter season, there are so many ways to add pleasure to our lives, like wearing cozy wool socks, to making a cup of hot apple cider or hot chocolate. For the Danish, Hygge is a way of life, which explains why they are one of the happiest countries in the world.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Come Away With Me." Performed and Written by: Nora Jones, Produced by: Arif Mardin, Nora Jones, Jay Newland, Craig Street, Source: Blue Note Records
End Music : "You Still Believe in Me." Performed by M.Ward, Written by: Brian Wilson and T Asher, Produced by: --, Source:Merge Records.
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Kevin and Niseema welcome Dr. Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D. back to discuss her book, “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love.”
Following up on last week's show, Dr. Shoshanna talks about how everyone says they want to be in love but are addicted to the habit of staying separate. Brenda talks about the practice of "Zazen," which is simply sitting still, noticing your breath, watching and not reacting to your passing thoughts. Similarly, in love, Brenda teaches us not to react to our passing feelings and emotions of the moment, but to simply commit your spirit to a flowing forward in love.
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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "I'm Glad You're Mine." Performed by: Al Green, Written by: Not Documented, Produced by: Not Documented, Source: Fat Possum
End Music : "Star Chart." Composed by Geoff Brady
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema welcome Dr. Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D, psychotherapist, Zen practitioner, speaker and author of the book, “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love.” Brenda shares with us her journey and understanding of how every person we meet can teach us how to love. In sharing this, she shows us ways that we can love without judgment, shame, or blame.
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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "All You Need is Love." Performed by: The Beatles, Written by: John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Produced by: Giles Martin and George Martin, Source: UMC (Universal Music Catalog)
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In this week's show, Kevin and Niseema talk about how "programming" in childhood can lead to inflexibility as an adult and a low level of resilience. Most often, children are programmed through negativity: "Don't do that. Don't touch that. Don't complain." This can force a child to create a "good child" persona that causes them to detach from a feeling self. They will carry this "good child" persona into adulthood, and lose the capacity to be real to themselves or any future partner. Kevin and Niseema talk about ways to undo this terrible and destructive syndrome.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Trouble Man." Performed and Written and Produced by: Marvin Gaye, Source: Motown
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In part 3 of our series on Resilience, Kevin and Niseema talk about the difference between "stress" and "strain." Are you "strained out?" Notice what happens when we change a familiar word like "stress" into a more accurate description like "strain." Most of us have been dealing with a lot of strain since COVID began. How are you doing with your "strain?"
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "No.7,Tebetan Dance." Performed by: Yo-Yo Ma · Bright Sheng Solo, ℗ 1999 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT Released on: 1999-09-29 Producer: Steven Epstein.
End Music : “Sunset Blinds.” Geoff Brady
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In part 2, Kevin and Niseema talk about defense mechanisms and this internal mechanism called The Engineer, which wants to keep us from changing. In this month of resolutions, it is important to understand how a part of us does not want to make any changes but wants us to stay the same. "The Engineer" will work to sabotage any kind of change you might want to make. This week's show is centered around learning how to have a dialog with, and make friends with, The Engineer, so you can make the changes you want to make.
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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "At Seventeen." Performed and Written by: Janis Ian, Source: Columbia/Legacy
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Today kicks off our four-show series on resilience. In the time of COVID, people's sense of resilience is very low. How are you doing with your resilience? Do you feel tapped out, that you cannot handle one more demand? Tune into today's show where Kevin and Niseema talk about ways to refill your resilience tank.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Traction in the Rain." Performed, Written and Produced by: David Crosby, Source: Rhino Atlantic
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
New Year's Resolution #1 - Listen to more ocean waves and relax. This week Kevin and Niseema talk with Dr. Jen Wolkin PhD., Neuropsychologist, and author of the book “Quick Calm: Easy Meditations to Short-Circuit Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience.” We start the show with the sound of ocean waves that helps illustrate how quickly we can achieve a sense of calm when we just focus our attention on a particular sound.
Dr. Jen shows us how to start a mindfulness practice by teaching diaphragmatic breathing that can have the same effect as the sound of the ocean. We talk about how to bring mindfulness to something as mundane as washing the dishes and being present in the moment. There are 25 five-minute mindfulness exercises in this book that can reduce stress and enhance your life throughout the coming year.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about the Vagus Nerve, a major nerve in the body that begins at the brainstem and travels all the way through the vital organs to the sacrum. The Vagus Nerve has been shown to have a very strong connection to how you manage stress. A weak Vagus Nerve is a major indicator that you have been suffering from prolonged and chronic stress.
Niseema introduces a powerful tool for healing and balancing the Vagus Nerve called The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). SSP delivers a passive stimulation of the Vagus Nerve to help increase its capacity to regulate the "fight or flight'' part of our nervous system, which contributes to symptoms of anxiety and PTSD, and access feelings of safety and connection.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about the fear of letting people get close to you. How many people really know you? How many people do you feel close to? Closeness is often a trigger for most people. What happens to your body when people get too close?
Kevin and Niseema explore the common fears that consciously or unconsciously keep relationships at an arm's length. The fear of being controlled, the fear of losing independence, the fear of vulnerability, all work to sabotage the desire for real closeness. This week's show talks about THE REWARD of letting go of those fears.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Nature Boy." Performed by: Nat King Cole, Written by: Eden Ahbez, Produced by: Lee Gillette, Source: Capitol Records
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema follow up on the past two shows with Attachment Theory specialists Drs. Howard and Miriam Steele. Attachment Theory focuses on whether a child feels secure or insecure in their connection to, and "attachment to," the caretakers in their life. This early relationship influences the way a person will relate in their mature adult relationships. During the show, Kevin and Niseema ask some basic questions to help you determine whether you were securely or insecurely attached in childhood. See the attached questionnaire on the link below.
Kevin and Niseema also talk about research into "memory" and how our adult brains impose a memory on to our childhood brain. Statistics consistently show that the adult brain often creates a faulty "memory" of incidents that happened in the past. It's as if the brain takes a photograph of a past event and then distorts or enhances the photograph. The brain will often create a faulty memory of what love looked like in our childhood. It is this faulty memory that we project onto our future love relationships. It is astonishing what the brain/mind can do.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "Kodachrome." Performed, Written and Produced by: Paul Simon, Source: Legacy Recordings
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
“The greatest fear we have is not the fear of our own death
but the death of someone we love.” Dr. Howard Steele PhD.
This statement speaks to the depth of our need to feel connected and attached to others with whom we can feel safe and enjoy life. In this week’s show, Kevin and Niseema continue to explore "Attachment Theory" with Drs. Miriam and Howard Steele, Directors of The Center for Attachment Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
The Steele's answer questions from our audience about bullying and how learning the skill of reflecting on your own experience as a child can inform how you parent now, as an adult. We also discover how the need for new ways to be cooperative and civil, rather than competitive, is the next step in our evolution as a species. Attachment interventions and research are available for parents, teachers, therapists, and leaders to learn how to make our world a more peaceful and loving place.
Howard Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and former chair for Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At the New School Dr. Steele co-directs (with Dr. M. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Howard Steele is also founder and senior editor of the international scientific peer-reviewed journal Attachment and Human Development. Howard is the founder and first president of the learned society, Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, www.seasinternational.org.
Miriam Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Dr. H. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst. Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of intergenerational patterns of attachment, and has also carried out longitudinal attachment research in the context of child maltreatment and adoption.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Was there one person in your childhood who you knew you could go to when you were in distress? You knew they would listen and allow you to have your feelings, providing comfort and support. This person represented a "secure base" in a world that may have been chaotic, confusing, and scary.
It turns out that having a "secure base" during your childhood makes all the difference in how you love, trust and engage in relationships.
Kevin and Niseema welcome Drs. Howard and Miriam Steele, to discuss their book, Handbook of Attachment-Based Interventions. They have made it their life's work to study the benefits of having a secure base, and what happens when there isn't one. They have studied and developed effective ways to support parents learning the skills of being a secure base for their children, and in the process learn what it means to be a humble caretaker.
Stay tuned for Part II next week, when the Steele's will talk about the ramifications of a world where striving for independence has eroded the human need for "interdependence and community."
Howard Steele, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and former chair for Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At the New School, Dr. Steele co-directs (with Dr. M. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Howard Steele is also the founder and senior editor of the international scientific peer-reviewed journal Attachment and Human Development. Howard is the founder and first president of the learned society, Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, www.seasinternational.org.
Miriam Steele, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Dr. H. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst. Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of inter-generational patterns of attachment, and has also carried out longitudinal attachment research in the context of child maltreatment and adoption.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Everything and everyone changes. What is revealed when the green leaves of summer turn so many varied colors? Each tree, each leaf, has specific traits to it. What if love's essence is an ability to see through the personality of our partner, to what is a completely unique constellation of traits that make them who they are. Kevin and Niseema explore the concept that it is this essence that delights us and makes us fall in love. Join us this week as we help you identify the traits of your partner that hint at their essence, and to also reflect on what they might see in you.
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For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : "Another Country", Performed by: Shadowfax, Written and Produced by: Chuck Greenberg, Source:Windham Hill/Legacy
Break Music: "This Nearly was Mine." Performed by: Frank Sinatra. Written by: Oscar Hammerstien II, Richard Rodgers. Source: FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Falling out of love is a heartbreaking feeling. The expansiveness. warmth, and joy of being with your beloved is just gone. It may have happened suddenly or overtime, but there is no doubt that 'the loving feeling" is gone. This week Kevin and Niseema explore some of the reasons why what used be a "tuning in" to our partner, suddenly turns into a "tuning out." Expectations, lack of relationship skills, stress, personal history, our own body, etc., can turn that loving feeling into irritability and loneliness. If love is the antidote to loneliness, then what may be the antidote to the "loss" of love?
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "Mean to Me", Performed by: Sarah Vaughan, Written by: Fred Ahert, Roy Turk,Produced by: J Isaacs, J. MCEWEN Source: Columbia/Legacy
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Love is a feeling, not a hallmark card or a box of chocolates. It is deeper and harder than that. Love is not unconditional, it needs the right conditions to be present, to be felt.
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about love and how it is the antidote to loneliness. In looking at the questions of the UCLA Loneliness Scale it becomes clear that a lack of love, or the feeling of love, is at the core of why loneliness is so ubiquitous. In looking at love and the ways it shapes our experience of living, we hope to inspire a thoughtful process about the meaning and feeling of love for you.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "As Time Goes By", Performed by: Dooley Wilson, Written by: Max Steiner, Source: WaterTower Music
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
The past few weeks we've been talking about loneliness and vulnerability and how universal and unseen these experiences can be. In naming your loneliness and seeing where you are vulnerable you can begin to know yourself on a deeper level. This week Kevin and Niseema talk about emotional and cognitive freedom, and how to find a way to be more compassionate about the critical thoughts we may have about ourselves.
When we were young, we learned how to get our needs met by believing what our parents said about us and then giving them what THEY needed. In this show, we separate out the negative messages our parents would have us believe about ourselves, from what really could be our true strengths and our true liberation. We start by asking five pertinent questions beginning with, "What am I doing in my life that is NOT me?"
We also explore the little-known diagnosis of "dependent personality disorder", and how debilitating it can be to feel incapable of doing anything for yourself.
Tune in this week as we explore more ways to live a free and independent life.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Music by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema follow up last week's conversation about the nine personality types, and how they protect against some type of inner wound. As we have been discussing, loneliness can be such a wound.
The story of Achilles is appropriate. Achilles' mother heard a prophecy that her son would be killed at a young age. So she did what any mother would, she dipped him in the River Styx to give him immortality. He grew up strong and beautiful, creating all kinds of havoc believing he was invulnerable. Little did he know he had a spot on his body that didn't get covered in the water. It was this unseen wound, this unseen and unknown part of himself, that ultimately caused his demise.
Do you have an Achilles heel? Does loneliness, which we have been discussing or something else, make you feel vulnerable? This "vulnerability" might actually be your path to a deep sense of inner liberation and freedom.
Kevin and Niseema talk about a wound that maybe others see in you but you don't. In exploring and getting to know your wound, you have the opportunity to have a deep compassion for yourself, and a deeper ability to connect to others.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Music by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In this final show on loneliness, Kevin and Niseema talk about
the personality system called the Enneagram, and the nine different ways people can hide their own loneliness from themselves. What if all human beings could be described as one of nine personality types? Knowing your own personality type/style might help you solve many problems in your life, including any loneliness you might have. Kevin and Niseema talk about six of the nine types, how they lead to a sense of isolation and loneliness, and how one might get out of it.
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These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "Just the Way You Are" performed by, Billy Joel, written by Billy Joel, Produced by: Phil Ramone, Source: Columbia
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Last week, Kevin and Niseema talked about a number of statistics about loneliness in America and worldwide. An epidemic of loneliness is confirmed by all social psychology studies. 18 of our listeners took the UCLA Loneliness Questionnaire that was posted on our website (www.tffpp.org), and 14 found out that they are very lonely, 4 were average and none were not lonely.
This week, Kevin and Niseema talk about ways to recognize and cultivate “Companionship” and “Belonging,” the two themes of the Loneliness Scale questions. Did your parents have companions or felt a sense of belonging? If not, you may have a high tolerance for isolation and loneliness yourself. This is not something to judge yourself for. Loneliness can boil down to a lack of companionship and/or a lack of belonging.
Kevin and Niseema also talk about the acronym EASE standing for Extend Yourself, Action Plan, Selection, and Expect the Best. By practicing these four simple steps any person can come from a sense of isolation and loneliness to a place of companionship and belonging.
Link to the UCLA LonelinessScale here.
Following up Armand's 2009 interview with the author, John Cacciopo, about his book, "Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection," Kevin and Niseema talk about the idea of having a "high" or "low" tolerance for loneliness based on your family heritage or genetic makeup.
When you look at your own family, your own heritage, can you see whether or not you have a high or low tolerance for loneliness? Does this make it easier for you to talk about loneliness in a non-judgemental, less shameful way? We hope that it does.
In the second part of the show, we talk about the physical effects of loneliness, and the wear and tear that it can take on both the heart and the immune system. Tune in next week where we talk about ways of minimizing and "easing" a sense of loneliness.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "In Dreams." Performed by Roy Orbison. Written By Roy Orbison,.Produced by Fred Foster. Source: Legacy Records
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In last week's show, we discussed loneliness as “the other pandemic.” This week Kevin and Niseema welcome Kate Walter, author/essayist /journalist/educator, whose new book, "Behind The Mask: Living Alone in the Epicenter," takes us inside daily living in New York City during the pandemic. Her essays reveal her neighborhood, her neighbors, their isolation and fears as well as their strength and resilience as a community.
Kate credits the power of writing as helping to cope and keep her sanity. We share some examples of writing prompts in the book that help you reflect on and clarify your own experiences during the pandemic.
A natural extrovert, Kate talks candidly about how she found herself feeling isolated and alone in the most populous city in the US, and how the long haul of seclusion changed her as a person.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "The Only Living Boy in New York", Performed by Simon & Garfunkel, Written by Paul Simon, Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Roy Halee. Source: Legacy Recordings.
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about the other pandemic happening during Covid: Loneliness. How do you react when you hear the words, "I am lonely?" How do you feel when you feel that you are lonely? How hard is it for you to tell somebody, "I am lonely?" "Lonely" has become a dirty word in the English language. We are not allowed to say the words, "I am lonely." Why is that?
Loneliness is almost as pervasive as Covid-19. In the 1970s, 11% of Americans reported feeling lonely within the last 6 months. Pre-pandemic over 40% reported feeling lonely within the last 6 months. We don't have the current statistics on loneliness, but we expect it to be well over 70%. Yet, we still can't talk about it. Why is that?
What is the one thing you would have to face for you to talk about your loneliness? What is the one thing you would have to give up to end your loneliness? Ending your loneliness can be as easy as telling somebody about it. In the second half of the show, Kevin and Niseema do an exercise that makes talking about loneliness as routine as talking about the weather. Since we all have it, we might as well start sharing it with each other.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" performed by, Elvis Presley, written by Lou Handman, Roy Turk, Source: RCA Legacy
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA is now on audio books. To celebrate that release, we asked Charley back for a more in-depth personal view of how he continues to "listen to ecstasy" in both his professional and personal life.
Charley talks about a recent New York Times article that discusses FDA approval for the use of medical MDMA for treatments of PTSD, substance abuse, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, eating disorders, depression, end-of-life anxiety and social anxiety in autistic adults. The FDA is currently in Phase 3 clinical trials that are expected to clear the way for legal use by 2023.
In his third appearance on the show, Charley reads pivotal passages that describe the physical and emotional responses that MDMA creates, as well as it's bonding effects in both his relationship with his spouse and some courageous couples who are exploring MDMA as an option. We invite you to listen as Kevin, Niseema and Charley discuss why he calls MDMA "The Chemical of Connection."
Guest - Charley Wininger, LP, LMHC, is a licensed psychoanalyst and mental health counselor specializing in relationships and communication skills. Recognized as The Love Doctor by the New York Times and Newsday, he's been treating couples and individuals in his Manhattan and Brooklyn offices for 30 years.
"Wininger's book can throw open cosmic windows in even the most mundane reader", Tom Robbins, author of nine novels including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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For more information and to contact Charley Wininger please go to:
https://www.charleywininger.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Our last shows with Dr. Jennifer Wolkin and Dr. Lisa Miller focused on finding our "awakened brains" and mindfulness, while connecting to our spiritual selves and the world around us in new ways.
Charley Wininger, LP, LMHC takes the science of MDMA and applies it to the same fundamentals of exploring and accepting ourselves with love. Commonly known as Ecstasy or Molly, controlled MDMA studies report improved self‐knowledge, sleep regulation, accuracy in perceiving mental states of others, coping strategies, emotion regulation, and cognitive insights as well as aiding Autism and PTSD.
We look forward to having Charley back with a new interview celebrating the release of Listening to Ecstasy:The Transformative Power of MDMA on audio books. As an introduction to him, his work and philosophy we invite you to listen to an encore presentation of Part 1 of our insightful conversation with Charley.
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For more information and to contact Charley Wininger please go to:
https://www.charleywininger.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In Part I of our interview with Dr. Lisa Miller, PhD, we discussed her new book "The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life," and discovered how depression can be an opportunity for what we call in Positive Psychology, Post-Traumatic Growth. Dr. Miller discussed two types of awareness, "awakened awareness" and "achievement awareness." In part I of our discussion, Dr. Miller talked about the downsides of our "achievement awareness" society.
In Part 2, we discuss the empirical data available from fMRI studies on the "awakened brain." Dr. Miller leads us through two visualization exercises that help us experience our awakened brain that provides us an opportunity for spiritual growth.
To find out more about Dr. Lisa Miller or events connected with The Awakened Brain go to www.drlismillerphd.com
For more information, to suggest show ideas, ask questions or get support, contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Does depression hold the key to spiritual awakening?
Our guest, Dr. Lisa Miller, PhD, thinks that it does and she tells us why in her new book, "The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life." The experience of depression is marked by a loss of connection to self and others. Dr. Miller says that it is also the loss of a sense of being held by a benevolent force or presence greater than yourself.
How often have you felt that you, "had to get the job", "had to get into the university," or "pass the test"? Dr. Miller explains that these thoughts come from our "Achievement Awareness," and are most often the cause for our depressions. She shows us through fMRI scans that when telling a depressing story blood flow throughout the brain is constricted. Conversely, when a person talks about a spiritual experience or a feeling of connection, fMRI scans show an increase in blood flow and the brain takes on a reddish color. Dr. Miller explains that the reddish brain reflects the other kind of awareness called "Awakened Awareness."
To find out more about Dr. Lisa Miller or events connected with The Awakened Brain go to www.drlismillerphd.com
For more information, to suggest show ideas, ask questions or get support, contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Did you know that many executives do their interviews while walking with a potential employee outside? Research has shown that walking is good for your mental and physical health, but that walking outside, in nature has the added benefit of increasing the mind's ability to think creatively. If you have a problem that you need to solve, going for a walk will help you solve it in many more ways than if you didn't go for a walk.
Tune into this week's show as Kevin and Niseema talk about the salubrious benefits of going for a walk. A perfect way to end the summer months is with an evening walk.
For more information or support contact hosts Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC or Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
We follow up on our recent show on "Home" with this week's show on "magical thinking," which is a way to create home/safety in spite of incredible odds. Magical thinking is a psychological error that attempts to create an effect with an improper cause. You do not win the lottery just because you believe you have the winning lottery ticket.
Magical thinking becomes problematic and pathological when you become blind to the consequences before thoroughly examining the causes. The measurement in psychology practice is "significant distress in professional, social, inter-relational, financial, and other areas of one's life." Often magical thinking is behind compulsive gambling, all addictions, and many other syndromes like Borderline Personality Disorder and self-mutilation. Kevin and Niseema talk about better ways of finding home.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week we visit the idea of connection as important to our sense of well being and mental health.
Take a moment, and ask yourself: Where do I feel connected in my life? Am I connected? Do I feel disconnected?
We recap the key concepts of three authors we have had on, and all who have a unique take on "connection." We revisit Charley Wininger's, "Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA", Dr. Warren Farrell's, "The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It,” and Bethany Saltman's, "Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Through the Science of Attachment."
We think you'll appreciate the idea of connection so much more after you listen to the show.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
The feeling of home is as universal as it is personal. Home can be a place of safety and refuge, or chaos and instability. No matter which, home is the place you identify with in some way, it carries meaning, memories and shapes your identity.
Homesickness is a powerful feeling that something just isn't right, coupled with a longing for things to be stable, predictable, familiar and safe. But, it is a fact of life that everybody has to leave home; how a person manages that stress can say a lot about their relationship with themself and their ability to take a sense of "home" with them wherever they go.
"It's the mysterious and universal feeling of home that seems to root us in our very being, providing a shelter for those days and times when all seems lost." Kevin and Niseema talk about how homesickness can lead to depression, a sense of being lost, rootless and adrift.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week we welcome our guest for the hour Dr. Jen Wolkin PhD., Neuropsychologist, and author of the book “Quick Calm: Easy Meditations to Short-Circuit Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience.” We start the show with the sound of ocean waves that helps illustrate how quickly we can achieve a sense of calm when we just focus our attention on a particular sound.
Dr. Jen shows us how to start a mindfulness practice by teaching diaphragmatic breathing that can have the same effect as the sound of the ocean. We talk about other mindfulness exercises, even how to bring mindfulness to something as mundane as washing the dishes.
There are 25, five-minute mindfulness exercises in this book, and we feel that learning mindfulness can enhance your life and enhance your experience of these summer months.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
We follow up last week's annual show on Freedom and Independence, by talking about the importance of saying the word "NO" in maintaining your mental and emotional health.
Last week we talked about five ways to help you discover your true self and so true freedom. One of the tools was to ask, "What am I doing every day in my life that is not me?" This week we ask, "What are you saying "YES" to that you want to say "NO" to but don't?"
Saying "NO" is an important tool in setting boundaries for yourself, and establishing your own identity. Was there a period of your life when you were saying "NO" to many things in order to live out what was important to you? We invite you to look at where you can say "NO" in your life that might help increase your feeling of being free.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
For our annual July 4th show, we ask 5 critical questions to help you discover your true self and so true freedom.
As children, we learned how to get our needs met by believing what our parents said about us and then giving them what THEY needed. In this show, we separate out the negative messages our parents would have us believe about ourselves from what really could be our true strengths and our true liberation. Tune in this week as we explore more ways to live a free and independent life.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week we ask, "How long did it take you to finally accept the pandemic and then try to make the best of it?" Isn't it remarkable that we humans can make the best of something if we put our mind to it?
We focus this week on three traits from positive psychology that people can intentionally bring to mind to help them get through a difficult situation. We find that if you take just one trait like Hope, and make it your anchor for the day, you can experience hardship in a totally different way. We encourage you to listen to the show to discover which single trait might work best for you.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Kevin and Niseema continue their exploration of how lockdown and re-emergence post-pandemic, mirrors the stages outlined in the book, Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties, by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. “In a way it feels like everyone landed in the hard reality that life is tenuous,” says Niseema. The unseen threat of the Coronavirus forced many to evaluate, “What have I been tolerating?” and, “What do I really want from life?”
Kevin and Niseema bring the stages of Emerging Adulthood into today’s circumstances, validating what you may be feeling and questioning about your own life. In part 1, Niseema suggested taking 5 mins every morning to write “I want….” and then fill in the blank. This week Kevin invites you to answer a series of questions that will help you take advantage of this experience and clarify what you need. The opportunity is here to be self focused and open to the possibility of emerging into a NEW life.
Exploration, instability, self-focus, feeling in-between, possibilities are the stages of "emerging adulthood." In this week's episode, Kevin and Niseema explore how these stages are paralleling people's feelings about emerging from the quarantine. The Age of emerging adulthood is 18 - 29 and signifies a transition into a knowing of self, one's direction, and purpose. During this time in life we lay the groundwork for what we hope will be an expression of our inner nature. What was your emergence into adulthood like? Did you have a clear vision and work towards it, or did you flounder and move from job to job, self to self. You might have self-medicated any anxiety because of not know who you were or what you wanted. During quarantine many people felt the opportunity to finally ask the question, "What do I want?"
Living for more than a year under the unseen threat of Covid19 has forced many people to see what they have been tolerating: an unfulfilling job, a failing relationship, living in a place that no longer suits you, etc... In Part 2 of this series next week, Kevin and Niseema will dive into the stages of Self Focus and Possibilities as we begin to fully emerge and move into new relationships, new environments, new jobs and for many, a new life.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In this encore episode Kevin and Niseema talk with Nancy J. Napier, the author of "Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children." This landmark book appeared 30 years ago and has served as a resource and guide for anyone who was exposed to or experienced chronic stress or trauma in childhood.
Nancy illustrates such classic mechanisms such as dissociation, where a child will use their mind to pull out of their body so as not to endure the terror and abuse; and, "numbing" where the child can choose to not feel anything and allow themselves to go completely numb. Many of these strategies adopted in childhood continue into adulthood. Nancy teaches us how to make a distinction between what happened "then," in the past, and what is happening moment to moment "now," in the present. She teaches us how to develop an observing self that serves as a companion who helps make the distinction between the past and the present.
This groundbreaking book, with it's unforgettable title, truly opened the door to understanding the coping strategies that adults struggle with on a daily basis and provides validation of their experiences.
Guest - Nancy J. Napier is former president of the New York Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociative Disorders, a board member of the New York Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a past board member of the New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Practices for Conscious Living.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
Our Guest Nancy J. Napier can be contacted through her website www.nancynapier.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
This week Kevin asks, "If crying weren't so embarrassing would you cry more often? Are there tears in there you can't even get to?" To grieve we need to share what we've lost. What have you lost to the Pandemic this year? Is your body carrying a grief you may not know about? Do you feel the same way physically, emotionally, mentally now as you did before March 2020? It is important to stop and take a self assessment.
One way the body manages multiple traumatic events is to go into a psychic shock. As we all begin to emerge from the pandemic the melting of that shock may cause an increase in anxiety, sadness, and tears that come from nowhere. If we go back to just being busy without assessing the changes we've been through we threaten to prolong the psychic shock. One way to ease the transition is to honor your grief and your changing feelings and reach out to people to share them. Niseema shares her experience of joining a group called, "a grief circle" and related how this structured sharing of her experiences during the pandemic and after helped her to find her creative voice again.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Have YOU experienced grief during this pandemic? What losses have you experienced? Can you number them? Maybe they are beyond number.
Originally aired at the beginning of the pandemic, we examine the importance of grief in a time of pandemic. Often to grieve well, means to have lived well and loved well. We identify classic symptoms of grief and mourning. This can deepen the understanding of what is known as the five stages, they are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Later in the show, we walk you through an exercise to help you access grief, it really is a heart opener. We also take a look at collective and individual grief as many are beset with anxiety and loss.
Next week we ask, "Where is your grief now that we are reopening and coming back to life?" We will touch upon how grief can thread its way through your life if it’s not felt and how important it is to have a Good Mourning.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Have your emotions been in quarantine? Dysthymia is more than "feeling blue". People who struggle with Dysthymia are more than just pessimistic. They have a muddled outlook, and can rarely remember the last time they were happy or inspired about something. It is difficult to have fun, and their self-criticism revolves around persistent sense of shame, failure and low self-esteem. Many become "comfortable", taking on the gloom as an identity. "I am not worthy of happiness so why bother".
Dysthymia is a persistent mild or chronic depression, and one if it's biggest triggers is stress. The stress of a year long pandemic, feeling "invisible" and isolated may trigger thoughts like, "What is the difference between going out or staying in? I wouldn't be noticed anyway." Now might be a good time to ask yourself, is this more than "the blues"?
Over 3 million new cases of Dysthymia are diagnosed every year, currently called Persistent Depressive Disorder, and that number is likely to have tripled as a result of the persistent stress of the pandemic. Women are 3 times more likely to get it than men, African-Americans more than Caucasians and many, many older people suffer from Dysthymia. The condition is often undiagnosed because people can function in their normal lives without getting treatment. In what is now a post-pandemic world, the movement out of an emotional quarantine is bound to raise some difficulties. The best we all can do is to understand what might be happening, and get the help needed to find your inspiration again.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Not knowing the words to describe how you are feeling is called Alexithymia. It can feel like seeing the world in black and white. No Color. The ability to accurately communicate feelings is one of the ways human beings can feel safe and connected. During this extended quarantine, social distancing has caused many of us to see the world in black and white. We are not sure how we feel. When we recorded this show last year we were having a hard time knowing how to find the words to express how we felt. 16 months later we are still having difficulty. As the world slowly emerges from the pandemic, more color may begin to enter our lives. Do not feel badly if you still have trouble expressing how you feel. It will take some time. Enjoy this rebroadcast of our show on Alexithymia.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
“The greatest fear we have is not the fear of our own death
but the death of someone we love.”Dr. Howard Steele PhD.
This statement speaks to the depth of our need to feel connected and attached to others with whom we can feel safe and enjoy life. In this week’s show, Kevin and Niseema continue to explore Attachment Theorywith Drs. Miriam and Howard Steele, Directors of The Center for Attachment Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York City. The Steele's answer questions from our audience about bullying and how learning the skill of reflecting on your own experience as a child can inform how you parent now. We also discover how the need for new ways to be civil and co-operative rather than competitive in our society is deeply needed; and attachment interventions and research are available for parents, teachers, therapists and leaders to learn to help make that happen.
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Howard Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and former chair for Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At the New School Dr. Steele co-directs (with Dr. M. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Howard Steele is also founder and senior editor of the international scientific peer-reviewed journal Attachment and Human Development. Howard is the founder and first president of the learned society, Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, www.seasinternational.org.
Miriam Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Dr. H. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst. Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of intergenerational patterns of attachment, and has also carried out longitudinal attachment research in the context of child maltreatment and adoption.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Was there one person in your childhood who you knew you could go to when you were in distress? You knew they would listen and allow you to have your feelings, providing comfort and support. This person represented a secure base in a world that may have been chaotic, confusing and scary. It turns out that having a secure base during your childhood makes all the difference in your whole outlook on life and relationships.
Kevin and Niseema welcome Drs. Howard and Miriam Steele who have made it their life's work to study the benefits of having a secure base and what happens when there is none. They have studied and developed effective ways to support parents learning the skills of being a secure base for their children and in the process learn what it means to be humble.
When parents are no longer afraid of their children and children no longer afraid of their parents then a whole new relationship is possible. A relationship that relies on co-operation, joy and a genuine interest in the emotional worlds of each other.
Stay tuned for next week where we will expand on the ramifications of a world where striving for independence has eroded the human need for interdependence and community.
Howard Steele, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Clinical Psychology, at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At the New School. Dr. Steele co-directs (with Dr. M. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Howard Steele is also senior and founding editor of the international journal, Attachment and Human Development, and founding president of the Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, www.seasinternational.org
Miriam Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Dr. H. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst. Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of intergenerational patterns of attachment, and has also carried out longitudinal attachment research in the context of child maltreatment and adoption.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Revisiting The Science of Attachment with Bethany Saltman
Bethany Saltman, author of, "Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment," introduces us to the Strange Situation Procedure developed in the 1970's as a way to observe the attachment styles of children between the ages of 9-18months. In one stage of the procedure the mother, or primary caregiver, and a stranger sit in a room with the child, and then mother leaves the room. The way the child reacts to the mother's leaving and her return is carefully observed and information about the attachment bond is categorized into an attachment style. This procedure revolutionized the understanding of child and adult psychology specifically in relationships and bonding.
Join us as we discover how knowing about your attachment style provides a clue as to how you manage the stresses of relationships and parenting as an adult. Knowing this, you can start healing relationship wounds and foster secure relationships with your children and loved ones.
For more information and to contact Bethany Saltman go to:
www.bethanysaltman.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
What is it like to feel unsafe? What goes on in your body, in your mind, in your emotions when you don’t feel safe?
This week Kevin and Niseema talk about the Vagus Nerve, that starts in the brain stem, in the back of the head, and connects all the way down into our vital organs. When there is an imbalance in your nervous system, specifically in the Vagus Nerve, you can have a very hard time connecting to a feeling of safety. You might feel chronic anxiety, hyper-vigilance, exhaustion and disengagement with the world.. Niseema takes us through how the Vagus Nerve contributes to an imbalance in the nervous system, and how to regain balance through simple exercises.
Niseema also introduces a powerful tool for healing and balancing the Vagus Nerve called The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). SSP delivers a passive stimulation of the Vagus Nerve to help increase its capacity to regulate the "fight or flight'' part of our nervous system, which contributes to symptoms of anxiety and PTSD, and access feelings of safety and connection.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Last week, Kevin and Niseema spoke with Donnelly Wilkes, M.D., author of "Code Red Fallujah, a Doctors Memoir at War," about his experiences on the front lines. PTSD and trauma are usually associated with extreme situations faced by first responders, soldiers, and firefighters.
Having lived through Covid this past year the traumatic stress that we all have been experiencing in one form or another has taken its toll on almost all of us.
Tine into our rebroadcasting of one of our most popular interview shows, "Preventing PTSD with Thayer Case, LMCHC-SW,SEP Part 2". We go into detail on the SCOPE Crisis Stabilization and Safety Aid and how it can be used to manage situations that are “too much, too fast, too soon.”
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
To reach Thayer Kyusan Case go to:
www.maverickpsychotherapygroup.com
For a free download of the SCOPE exercises go to:
https://traumahealing.org/scope/
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
The promise of having medical school paid for in return for seven years service in the Navy was an easy choice for Donnelly Wilkes when he started medical school in 1998. That all changed on September 11th, 2001. After just one year of residency in Family Medicine at Camp Pendleton, Dr. Wilkes was called to active duty in the Iraq War. Choosing to be stationed with the Marines, he knew he'd be close to the front lines, but not as close as 200 yards away.
In his memoir, Code Red Fallujah: A Doctors Memoir at War, Dr. Wilkes gives his first hand account of one of the bloodiest battles in the Iraq War. His unique perspective gives us a window into the mental and physical toll it took on the men around him, including himself. "Sharing the harrowing entries from his field diary, Lieutenant Commander Donnelly Wilkes becomes the first-ever U.S. military physician to recount the sights and sounds of one of the most violent events of the entire Iraq War." (www.coderedfallujah.com)
Join Kevin and Niseema for this poignant discussion about combat stress and mental health with Dr. Donnelly Wilkes MD, who is passionate about sharing his story and letting other service men, women and veterans know that there are resources and help available for anyone who needs and wants it.
To learn more about Dr. Wilkes and Veterans support go to:
www.coderedfallujah.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
What drove Martin Luther King Jr. to push against the most entrenched systems of racism in the United States? Why was the Dalai Lama chosen as the next link in the centuries old lineage of Tibetan Buddhism? What abilities enabled Michele Obama to be effective and remain serene through her 8 years as FLOTUS? What makes these types driven to heal and transform our world? What wounds did they experience to bring them to their adult convictions?
It is possible that in their younger lives these types were encouraged to attune to the feelings and needs of others to the detriment of themselves. When these personality types are unbalanced, they can prove to be difficult and challenging partners because they become seemingly impossible to get close to. Functioning always from a gut instinct perspective can often result in self created conflict, chaos and rigidity.
Join Kevin and Niseema as they complete the 3 episode journey through the points of the Enneagram with a discussion of this fascinating "Gut" Triad. Type 8, the Challenger, focuses on challenging the rules and the people in their environment; Type 9, the Peacemaker, lives to bring peace and harmony to their environment; Type1, the Reformer, focuses on what is imperfect in the environment and seeks to set everything aright.
Studying the Enneagram enables you to understand yourself and others better, living this life with more joy and compassion.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
It's a gallery opening for The Artist who is known for their unique and captivating work. The Investigator looks at the details of the art, being an expert in all the artists of this genre, his critique is highly regraded. The Loyalist has been following The Artist since they were showing at University, believing the profundity locked in the art will finally quell their doubts about life. The Enthusiast is also there with two lovers on their arm and a martini in hand as they flit from guest to guest with a certain joie de vivre.
Do any of the characters in this scene remind you of a friend or even yourself? How and why do we behave the way we do? Our personality, temperament and style are complex and sometimes can feel like a trap. The search for safety is one that starts from a young age, especially if the home you grew up in was somehow dangerous, unstable, or unsafe. The hidden wounds of these types reflect a deep relentless fear.
Kevin and Niseema continue the journey through the points of the Enneagram finishing the Heart Triad with Type 4 (the Artist) and continuing with The Mind Triad Type 5 (the Investigator), Type 6 (the Loyalist), and Type 7 (the Enthusiast) to validate how children adopt behaviors to manage fear and insecurity in very different ways. Recognizing the type of person you have become or are in relationship with gives you the opportunity to relate to yourself and others with compassion and empathy.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Are you someone who gives of themselves but never really feels like you can receive?
Do you relish achieving goals and then feel a kind of emptiness?
If so you may have a wound of neglect that may not seem like a wound but it is what you organize your sense of yourself around. "I'm a helper", "I'm an achiever or a performer" but I never get the attention I really want or need. This may be because you just didn't get the right attention or mirroring that would help you discover who you are and that you are worthy of love without having to do anything.
Kevin and Niseema deepen the exploration of the effects of childhood trauma on adult patterns of behavior and self defeating habits. Using the Enneagram personality typing system they review the 9 Types and go into depth about the wounds of the Type 2 (the Helper), and Type 3 (the Performer/Acheiver). Understanding the core essence that got lost under the pain is a way to transform your relationship to yourself and others.
Tune in next week to learn about the Type 4 (the Artist), Type 5 (the Investigator/Observer), Type 6 (the Loyalist), and Type 7 (the Enthusiast).
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
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These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
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Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Achilles' mother heard a prophecy that her son would be killed at a young age. So she did what any mother would, she dipped him in the river Styx to give him immortality. He grew up strong and beautiful, creating all kinds of havoc believing he was invulnerable. Little did he know he had a spot on his body that didn't get covered in the water. It was this unseen wound, this unseen and unknown part of himself that ultimately caused his demise.
What we don't know or see can be the cause of a lot of pain. Being invulnerable is not human. What's you Achilles heel? What is the situation or feeling that buckles your knees? This week Kevin and Niseema take us through the nine types of wounds that we organize our sense of self around. We believe that the wound will not be seen or felt by others, but often it is. In exploring and knowing your wound you have the opportunity to drop into a deeper humanity and ability to connect to others.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Shame, rejection, helplessness, fear of failure, surrender, no wonder why it seems so hard to ask for help. The inner dilemma that prevents you from making that call, sending that text or leaning on that shoulder has all the hallmarks of a culture that prides itself of self sufficiency. The real shock is that when help is received it can feel like, "Why didn't I ask for help sooner?"
This week Kevin and Niseema look at how the simple act of asking for help has layers of complexity and feeling that originated in your childhood.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Dreaming of familiar places with masked faces? COVID dreams are real reflecting our vulnerability in a time of uncertainty and anxiety. Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC and Niseema Dyan Diemer LMT, SEP discuss the sleep, dreams and vulnerabilities we have been experiencing during these months of living under a pandemic. Our environments have changed and so have our sleep patterns and dream content. Kevin and Niseema focus on the wisdom of vulnerability as an antidote to disconnection.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Who knew that going for a walk could make you more creative and help you solve your problems. Kevin and Niseema follow up the last three episodes with this exploration of the benefits of walking on the mind and body. Depression, anxiety and stress are relieved by this natural gentle exercise.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
During this time of COVID are you finding yourself irritable, blaming, focusing on the negative? When we are feeling mildly depressed, our minds are subject to cognitive distortions like magical thinking, catastrophizing, black and white thinking etc. These "distortions" can lead to an uptick in compulsive and addictive behaviors.
Being aware of these "distortions" can help you to realize that you need to spend time doing self care practices. Tune in to this weeks show as Kevin and Niseema explore the many ways our thoughts can be distorted.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Are you "of two minds" or "two feelings" about any one thing? Can you see both sides of an argument and find it difficult to land on either side? Maybe you are ambivalent, and that's not all bad. Culturally, the decisive and single minded person is held up as the the one to admire in life. The availability of so much choice in today's world leaves many of us feeling ambivalent. What if being ambivalent speaks to a deeper understanding of life and the world? When ambivalence becomes pathological you can feel paralyzed, avoiding the feelings that underlie having to make important choices in life, like choosing a love partner or career. Join Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC and Niseema Dyan Diemer LMT, SEP as they explore how feelings of ambivalence play out in the context of relationships and current events.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Following up on our show on Home, and that, “all sickness is homesickness” we discuss the phenomena of magical thinking as a way to create safety when what one really wants is a sense of home.
Magical thinking is an error in causation, attributing a cause and effect relationship when there isn’t one. We all engage in magical thinking, buying a lottery ticket is testimony to that, it only becomes a problem “pathological” when it creates significant consequences/distress viz., betting your house in a poker game. Join Hosts Kevin O’Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer as they talk about magical thinking in both its pathological and innocuous versions: and as it relates to significant pathological conditions like adolescent cutting and Borderline Personality Disorder.For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music: Geoff Brady
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Home is a powerful word. It evokes a sense of belonging, acceptance, safety and stability. Whether this was your childhood experience or not the idea and concept of home is a universal one. In this weeks episode Kevin and Niseema talk about how you can feel at home in your self, your body and a physical place. Homesickness is what happens when we move away from home, like in college or young adulthood and it can be a difficult time filled with grief and longing. These feelings are a sign of wanting to connect to home, no matter how you can find it.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
These have been very serious and challenging months. Many of the things we loved to do are closed and inaccessible. Things that used to energize us are out of reach, even thinking about them seems to use too much energy. When the objects/subjects of our pleasure are gone we can lose a sense of there being any enjoyment in life at all, which is a mental health condition called Anhedionia. We are experiencing many of the symptoms on some level collectively through the pandemic. Kevin and Niseema discuss the loss, and reclaiming, of pleasure for your mental and physical health. Tools and insights to bring you from "meh" to moving towards feeling good again
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Kevin O'Donghue LMHC and Niseema Dyan Diemer LMT, SEP close this year talking about focusing on one particular strength and how with practice that strength can improve mental and emotional health. They focus on three of the 24 positive psychology strengths of gratefulness, hope and appreciation of beauty as vehicles for transforming depression or anxiety into a sense of well being. ______________________________________________________
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
"At the core of resilience, there is trust" states Kevin O'Donoghue. And, as Niseema Dyan Diemer points out, "resilence is built through adversity."
In this year of unprecidented events from wildfires, COVID and lockdowns to school reopenings and politics, we are faced with many unknowns. How are you bouncing back from the daily anxieties plaguing us both socially and personally? What is your resilience level, have you adapted to adversity pivoting your thoughts to "what can I do today to be ready for tomorrow?"
This week's Positive Mind Radio Show Podcast invites us to examine how resilience can be found in us all, when we trust and know what we can and cannot change.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Why Complaining Doesn't Work
What's really going on when a person is complaining?
Hosts take the hour to discuss the hidden motives of complaining and look at the effective and ineffective ways of griping.
At what point do complainers look for attention or seek connection on a deep level but haven't found a way to get there? We can listen to the complainers in our lives by asking, "What is this person really feeling, and what is it that they really want?" To move beyond complaining requires courage and vulnerability.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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www.kevinlmhc.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Connection is key to good mental health. The ability to connect in relationships of all kinds is what will support us getting through this time of social isolation and distance.
Kevin and Niseema review some of the key concepts that lead to feeling greater connection shared with us by our most recents guests, Bethany Saltman, Author of "Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Through the Science of Attachment", Charley Wininger LMHC, author of "Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA" and Dr. Warren Farrell author of "The Boy Crisis". We also share listener questions and responses to the guests on our show the past few weeks.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Bethany Saltman returns to our show to go a little deeper into the science of Attachment Theory and how it impacts adults navigating relationships. She also introduces some simple techniques to start to heal the attachment wounds that often keeps people from having the relationships they want and need. Our discussion about her book, Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment, also covers how the understandings gained from the Strange Situation Protocol are being introduced to caregivers in typically underserved communities to help build relational resilience from the beginning of life.
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For more information and to contact Bethany Saltman go to:
www.bethanysaltman.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In part one of their conversation with Bethany Saltman mother, author and journalist, Kevin and Niseema get into the details about attachment theory and how to understand the implications revealed in the Strange Situation Procedure created by Mary Ainsworth in the 1950's. Bethany Salzman's most recent book Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey Into The Science of Attachment was named one of the best science books of 2020 by The New Scientist and seeks to normalize the parenting experience by sharing her own experiences and understandings thought the lens of the Strange Situation.
For more information and to contact Bethany Saltman go to:
www.bethanysaltman.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Continuing our conversation with Charley Wininger about his new book Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA. Part II of II. Guest - Charley Wininger LP, LMHC, is a licensed psychoanalyst and mental health counselor specializing in relationships and communication skills. Recognized as The Love Doctor by the New York Times and Newsday, hes been treating couples and individuals in his Manhattan and Brooklyn offices for 30 years. "Wininger's book can throw open cosmic windows in even the most mundane reader", Tom Robbins, author of nine novels including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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For more information and to contact Charley Wininger please go to:
https://www.charleywininger.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Hosts speak with Charley Wininger about his new book Listening to Ecstasy: The Transformative Power of MDMA. Part 1 of II. Guest - Charley Wininger, LP, LMHC, is a licensed psychoanalyst and mental health counselor specializing in relationships and communication skills. Recognized as The Love Doctor by the New York Times and Newsday, hes been treating couples and individuals in his Manhattan and Brooklyn offices for 30 years. "Wininger's book can throw open cosmic windows in even the most mundane reader", Tom Robbins, author of nine novels including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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For more information and to contact Charley Wininger please go to:
https://www.charleywininger.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In honor of November's Men's Health Awareness Month, Dr. Warren Farrell joins hosts Kevin O'Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer to examine The Boy Crisis. The crisis, in brief, is that boys are growing up without fathers leading them to not only miss out on the father/son bond but, Dr. Farrell believes, leading to lack of social skills, a likelihood to drop out of school, use drugs and experience mental health issues on a broad scale. The roles of men have changed in society: we need to adjust our thinking to encourage fathers and sons to be valued for their intrinsic worth as they are, not just as providers or moneymakers. Respecting the roles fathers have embraced with their sons and daughters, especially during COVID, gives us insight as to how nurturing the "father instinct" leads to a more stable home life and society in general.
Dr. Warren Farrell is an educator, activist and author of seven books on men and women's issues. His books include The Myth of Male Power, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? and Why Men Are The Way They Are.
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For more information and to contact Dr. Warren Farrell please go to:
www.boycrisis.org
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Do you know someone who is still traumatized from watching The Exorcist or any of the top 10 horror films? For Halloween we thought we'd look at the role of fear in the 9 Enneagram types. These fears can occur very early on in life and one could unconsciously spend a lifetime avoiding what caused the initial fear. Some lives based on fear avoidance could have positive outcomes, others not so much. Hosts describe nine personality traits and their underlying fears.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Kevin and Niseema discuss the effects of cognitive dissonance on human psychology in the context of conflicting information related to treatments and guidelines during the pandemic. Hosts talk about examples of early childhood cognitive dissonance and how that applies to the larger more politically based episodes. Ideas for compassionate treatment and ways to process through self awareness.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
One of the leading modalities to help people heal from trauma is Somatic Experiencing or SE. This is a therapy that focuses on body sensations and to relieve symptoms of PTSD in addition to related psychological and physical problems.
Part two of our interview with guest Thayer Case LCSW, SEP will go through each letter of the S.C.O.P.E. acronym, which is a helpful way to remember how to use SE treatment on yourself in real time.
Thayer Case is co-director of Maverick Psychotherapy Group and works with children adults and families. He has particular expertise in treating grief, anxiety, depression, attachment issues, ADHD, sensory integration and mild autistic spectrum issues, stress reduction, issues with spirituality, and trauma.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
To reach Thayer Kyusan Case go to:
www.maverickpsychotherapygroup.com
For a free download of the SCOPE exercises go to:
https://traumahealing.org/scope/
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
One of the leading modalities to help people heal from trauma is Somatic Experiencing or SE. This is a therapy that focuses on body sensations and to relieve symptoms of PTSD in addition to related psychological and physical problems.
Part one of our interview with guest Thayer Kyusan Case LCSW, SEP details how he uses this technique with his patients. He joins us today to tell us about his work and how this healing therapy works. He also introduces us to SCOPE, 5 exercises to build resiliency and prevent PTSD.
Thayer Case is co-director of Maverick Psychotherapy Group and works with children adults and families. He has particular expertise in treating grief, anxiety, depression, attachment issues, ADHD, sensory integration and mild autistic spectrum issues, stress reduction, issues with spirituality, and trauma.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
To reach Thayer Kyusan Case go to:
www.maverickpsychotherapygroup.com
For a free download of the SCOPE exercises go to:
https://traumahealing.org/scope/
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
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September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and CDC reports show a steady increase in suicide prior to the pandemic. Conditions associated with suicide include anxiety, social isolation, substance abuse, depression and psychiatric disorders. As current data points to an increase in the population vulnerable to suicide, hosts discuss hidden yet recognizable signs and ways out through therapy or counseling.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Many people are talking about how difficult 2020 is turning out to be. The challenges of Pandemic, Protests, Elections, Hurricanes, and Wildfires are testing our personal and community resilience. In this episode Kevin and Niseema explore way some people are resilient and some are not, how to increase your own resilience and how to create it in your community. Resilience is how we will come through the multiple traumas of 2020 and become better for the journey.
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For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
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Meet our guest this week Richard D. Smith: he's gone from childhood trauma, imprisonment and school drop-out to national motivational speaker, social activist and trauma specialist. He has a degree in Africana studies from SUNY Albany, is the national director of healing works at Common Justice, a college professor at LIU New York and a workshop presenter. Richard joins Kevin and Niseema discussing techniques to address systemic and personal trauma in all areas from home, prison, education and society sparking an awakening both in the self and the community at large. Part 2 of a 2.
Follow Richard D. Smith on Instagram @rsspeaks, www.rsspeaks.com
PR contact: Kashanna Evans pr@kissinglions.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Join us for our interview of Richard D. Smith, national speaker for the African American Community on mental health issues and intergenerational trauma.
Asking "what happened to you?" as opposed to "what's wrong with you?" is the beginning of understanding and diffusing aggressive behaviors, all of which are rooted in trauma response. When you stop and ask this question it can be an awakening to self-awareness. As a speaker, professor, community advocate and childhood trauma survivor Richard teaches us about the revolutionary act of self love.
Follow Richard D. Smith on Instagram @rsspeaks, www.rsspeaks.com
PR contact: Kashanna Evans pr@kissinglions.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In the second part of a 2 part series, hosts Kevin O'Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer discuss Learned Optimism. This episode covers information based on Martin Seligman's book Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life. Hosts highlight useful techniques that help stop depreciating and self-defeating thoughts, moving you toward developing your full potential and durable happiness in this time of COVID and beyond.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
In Part 1 of a 2 part series, Hosts discuss learned helplessness, a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness. It can arise from traumatic events or consistent failure. Its considered an underlying cause of depression. Kevin and Niseema help untangle potential connections with pandemic fallout such as job loss and blaming oneself for being a bad employee. This usually happens very fast. Most people don't catch it until the feeling of anxiety is present. Do you attribute external events to some personal shortcoming and what is your explanatory style?
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Mid Break Music: HELPLESSLY HOPING - il coro che non c'è
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Hosts speak with Scarlett Lewis, the mother of Jesse Lewis who was one of the 20 children killed during the Sandy Hook School shootings. She has since founded The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation in honor of Jesse and to spread a message he left on their kitchen chalkboard shortly before he died, Nurturing Healing Love, the formula for choosing love, and to promote social and emotional education in schools as well as a consistent message of compassion in our communities.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
To bring the Choose Love Movement to your school or community go to:
www.chooselovemovement.org
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
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www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Kevin and Niseema discuss the effects of cognitive dissonance on human psychology in the context of conflicting information related to treatments and guidelines during the pandemic. Hosts talk about examples of early childhood cognitive dissonance and how that applies to the larger more politically based episodes. Ideas for compassionate treatment and ways to process through self awareness.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Producer/ Research: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Have you taken your emotional temperature lately? Are you finding spikes of anger or settling into a continuous state of feeling a "little of something" or nothing at all? Does it take you back to a time as a child when anger, frustration, sadness or fear were not allowed or dismissed?
As we start to look back at lifestyle changes and social upheavals from the last 6 months, we can see how we are operating at about 50% of our emotional level. It just seems to be the easiest place to be: flatten the curve, flatten the feelings.
Join Kevin and Niseema as guides to understanding why we blunt our inner selves and how to recharge our emotional engines this week on The Positive Mind Radio Show Podcast.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Remember when all our friends were Insta, Facebook, Tik Tok-ing " their best lives"? It seemed everyone had the perfect home/vacation/ children/pets. And feeling some Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) because you were on the outside looking in, uninvited.
Then, the pandemic lockdown: the great equalizer! Everyone was living their shared COVID lives.
Now things are starting to open up again...What/who is safe? Touch or don't touch? And therein lies Fear of Going Out (FOGO).
Kevin and Niseema discuss the phenomena of phobias: how our early experiences in childhood set a pattern for our coping mechanisms throughout life. Learn how to peel back your layers to examine deeper fears, the 5 kinds of reactions to fear/anxiety and how to find your positive center in our new world.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
What is freedom to you? Is it found in the memories of a carefree summer past, or recalling a time when you felt fully present doing something you love? How about Independence? Self-reliance, making your own decisions and timetables?
These words carry a lot of weight in how we live our lives. Are we free of our past, upbringing, and inner critic? Are we independent if we are living in the shadow of our parents, our relationships or the all too familiar "codependency" with others?
Hosts Kevin O'Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer expand on the concept of declaring emotional independence to gain freedom in our lives. Five tools are offered to help you take steps toward becoming mentally and emotionally independent.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
As society begins to re-open is phases, hosts discuss "emerging" in the context of quarantine and on a developmental level. The fundamental changes that occur for all of us at 18-29 years of age can be of value during this emergence. Those and a few more related concepts are explored in this show that offers important personal insights.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Dysthymia is more than "the blues". It is also known as "persistent depressive disorder". At some point every day becomes a gray blank slate. And that seems normal. Sufferers can experience symptoms for many years before it is diagnosed, if at all. As a result, people believe that depression is a part of their character, so they may not even discuss their symptoms with anyone. "I'll always be a Debbie Downer" or like Eeyore, always looking for something positive but already sure it won't be found.
Living with Dysthymia, or with a dysthymic partner or relative, can be overwhelming. But there is hope: talk therapy, self care and early diagnosis can go a long way to offsetting the symptoms and avoid major depression episodes.
Join Kevin O'Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer as they explore Dysthymia, and provide tools to work through the gray and into the light.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Getting Through the Day: Strategies For Adults Hurt As Children.
Hosts Kevin O'donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer discuss the ways to recognize and treat the effects of childhood trauma and abuse that show up in adulthood with family therapist and author Nancy J. Napier. Her book Getting Through the Day: Strategies For Adults Hurt As Children focuses on solutions for adults to learn new strategies to meet the demands of daily living and those who find unresolved childhood feelings are blocking life's path.
Guest - Nancy J. Napier is former president of the New York Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociative Disorders, a board member of the New York Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and a past board member of the New York Milton H. Erickson Society for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis. She is the author of several books, including Sacred Practices for Conscious Living.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
Our Guest Nancy J. Napier can be contacted through her website www.nancynapier.com
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
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https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
These have been very serious and challenging months. Many of the things we loved to do are closed and inaccessible. Things that used to energize us are out of reach, even thinking about them seems to use too much energy. When the objects/subjects of our pleasure are gone we can lose a sense of there being any enjoyment in life at all, which is a mental health condition called Anhedionia. We are
experiencing many of the symptoms on some level collectively through the pandemic.
Kevin and Niseema discuss the loss, and reclaiming, of pleasure for your mental and physical health. Tools and insights to bring you from "meh" to moving towards feeling good again
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
“What are you REALLY feeling?” Emotions seem to be jumbled due to isolation, lack of social interaction and suddenly we can't find words to express HOW we feel, if we feel at all. There is a word for that: Alexithymia.
And when we are literally out of touch with others, we are out of touch with ourselves. We are, as a whole, suffering from "skin hunger" . Touch is essential to our wellbeing in every way. But all we hear is DON'T TOUCH: no wonder we are so confused.
Kevin O'Donoghue, LMHC and Niseema Dyan Diemer, LMT teach us about the relationship between being at a loss for words and physical touch. They also share exercise tools to help us define our feelings and become centered in our bodies. Plus learn how to pronounce Alexithymia.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Dreaming of familiar places with masked faces? COVID dreams are real reflecting our vulnerability in a time of uncertainty and anxiety. Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC and Niseema Dyan Diemer LMT, SEP discuss the sleep, dreams and vulnerabilities we have been experiencing during these months of living under a pandemic. Our environments have changed and so have our sleep patterns and dream content. Kevin and Niseema focus on the wisdom of vulnerability as an antidote to disconnection.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Midway Break: Terrapin, Animal Magic, Bonobo
End Music : A Distant Closeness, Road to Knowhere, Tommy Guerrero
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Rhythms dominate our lives from breathing to moon cycles. Subtle patterns unconsciously guide us as we navigate through the day. The pandemic has rearranged our daily schedules, blended days and weeks together, blurred work/personal/family time. When rhythms change abruptly it can be difficult, even traumatic, to our lives and minds registering in our nervous systems.
How has your rhythm changed? Have you slowed down or do you miss the go-go-go? Have you checked in with yourself and found a new rhythm calling you?
Kevin O'Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer use music, movement and memory tools to help us embrace the flow of who we are now and march to our own drumbeat.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Drums : Native American Vision Quest Drums, American Indian Music
Slowing Down: Gymnopede No. 1, performed by Philippe Entremont, Erik Satie
End Music : Billie's Bounce, Max Roach
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Self-quarantine feeling like solitary confinement? Social distancing keeping you from yourself? You are not alone!
Kevin O'Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer bring you the why's and how's of turning this insightful time into an opportunity to expand your world through exploring your personal space.
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
Dr. Sarah Chipps is the founder and Director of Well Williamsburg and noted speaker on Intuitive Eating, who will discuss how you can eat for yourself and lose your anxiety over food. Whether vegan, keto, allergic or omnivore your body is the best barometer you have to becoming happy, healthy and satisfied.
To contact and see more info about Dr. Chipps go to: http://www.drsarahchipps.com.
For couples and family counseling contact Kevin@thepositivemind.com.
For body centered therapy go to www.niseema.com.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to info@thepositivemindcenter.com.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
The Positive MInd
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music : Just the Way You Are, The Stranger, Billy Joel,
End Music : The Lonely Surfer, The Lonely Surfer, Jack Nitzsche
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
During this time, people are aware of and concerned about their mental health and also the health of their closest relationships. We examine ways and techniques to converse when relationships are under tremendous strain and to handle those minor irritations that could become inflamed while in quarantine. These irritants are often doorways into a more meaningful interaction. We demonstrate how the skill of listening with curiosity can be applied to any relationship and issue.
For couples and family counseling contact Kevin@thepositivemind.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music : Instrumental Music composed by Geoff Brady
End Music : Guitar Solo composed and performed by Giullian Gioello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com
For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at info@thepositivemindcenter.com, or call 212-757-4488.
These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing.
Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email.
Thank you for listening,
Kevin and Niseema
www.tffpp.org
https://www.kevinlmhc.com
www.niseema.com
www.thepositivemindcenter.com
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax
Break Music : Ce Matin-La, Moon Safari, Air
End Music : La Femme D'argent, Moon Safari, Air
The Positive Mind is produced with the help of:
Engineering: Geoff Brady
Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon
Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello
Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, jen@maguirepr.com