The Wise Poet: Recent Episodes
The Wise Poet
Short, candid discussions on relationships, marriage, parenting, mental health, and other important topics, facilitated, hosted by Kavi Branham, MS, LCPC.
With the start of a new year, many are setting goals or resolutions. Do you struggle to be consistent or make progress towards those goals? Perhaps you don’t set any because you never reach them? Whether you’re setting goals because it’s the new year or perhaps you’re just setting goals because you want to make improvements, this episode will provide some tips and suggestions to help you be more successful in reaching the goals you set for yourself!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
We all experience frustration, stress, anger, and to some extent, anxiety. When that happens, it is not just a fluke, rather, there is something going on inside the body. This episode will discuss some of that through a better understand of a nerve in the body called the "Wandering Nerve." As you better understand how this nerve operates and impacts our bodies, it can help us implement more effective and targeted coping mechanisms, one of which will be introduced in this episode as well!
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Going to a counselor or having someone in your personal life who listens to you and validates you can be such a great thing! What if no one is readily available to do that or you don’t feel like there’s someone in your life who could do that for you right now? Take a listen to learn a tool or strategy that you can do on your own!
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This episode will introduce some initial ways to cope with, challenge, and work through the most common thinking errors that we all engage in.
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Do you Magnify and Catastrophize things? Do you self-label, blame, or unnecessarily personalize? Let’s work on growing our self awareness muscles! We all do these! As we increase understanding of what thinking errors look like, we can cope more effectively and increase our likelihood and ability to be able to prevent them in the future! This episode will introduce the last 5 most common cognitive distortions.
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Let’s work on growing our self awareness muscles! We all do these! As we increase understanding of what thinking errors look like, we can cope more effectively and increase our likelihood and ability to be able to prevent them in the future! This episode will introduce the first 5 most common cognitive distortions.
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Have you ever looked back on something you did and thought, “I was so not ready for that….” Have you ever taken the time after to acknowledge that you got through it? If you haven’t done that or done it very much, have a listen to this brief episode and give it a try!
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14.4 minutes each day spent in careful self-reflection or personal inventory has so many benefits when it comes to productivity, habit-change, alignment, focus, progress. This episode introduces an effective strategy or technique for you to utilize as a method for doing a personal inventory.
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This episode briefly discusses how mental health diagnoses came to be and what goes into a diagnosis. You’ll then learn a new way to think about what a mental health diagnosis even means and why making this shift can be a really positive and significant step towards healthier coping.
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Making changes or adjustments is hindered by a focus on what we might have to sacrifice or give up. Today’s podcast will address a subtle shift we can make to overcome the sense of loss one might experience when we give up a habit that is holding us back, but that has also become so comfortable and desirable for us to be doing and therefore making it so difficult to make a change.
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The Brain is incredibly powerful and can do so much; however, what happens to us when certain parts of the brain are over-active or overwhelmed? This episode will explore what tasks/processes activate the left and right parts of the brain and implications this has on us when we experience stress, anxiety, a depressive episode, or trauma. Some strategies will be provided to help you in efforts to regulate brain activity and get to a more “balanced brain.” (This episode does not replace the recommendations of your primary care provider and certainly doesn’t dismiss the benefits of things like exercise, healthy nutrition and sleep habits have on the brain.)
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Do you stretch yourself too thin? Do others take advantage of you? Do you have a difficult time prioritizing your needs and wants with all the demands you face? This episodes details an analogy and strategy for increasing your self-awareness and recognition for having some boundaries so you don’t “run out of gas!!!” Follow The Wise Poet on Instagram (@the_wisepoet) or Facebook (The Wise Poet)! If you have a topic you’d like to learn more about, send a suggestion by email: the.wise.poet.blog@gmail.com
Kavi shares a lesson learned from the bumps and bruises that came from learning to ride a bike. This episode will introduce a simple yet powerful idea to help you move forward whether you’re just kind of stagnant or feel like you’re sliding backwards.
Setting daily and weekly goals is a great thing to do, but what if we fall short or don’t get them all accomplished? Todays Motivation Monday episode introduces a quote that can help you when things didn’t quite go according to plan.
You’ve heard of personal hygiene but have you heard of Sleep Hygiene? Setting the tone for your overall sleep as well as improvements to how quickly you fall asleep are certainly influenced by how you prep yourself FOR sleep. This episode addresses the idea of routines and plans to aid you in making sleep improvements with some simple and practical suggestions that you can begin to implement today. Or should I say, TONIGHT?….
March 1, 2022 is a special day for me because it marks something significant and somewhat of a milestone! In this episode, I’ll share what and why that is and what 3 things helped me get there!