The Courageously.u Podcast: Recent Episodes
Tara Bixby
Why am I anxious? How can I establish boundaries? What is holistic health? How can I fall back in love with myself? How do I regulate my emotions? How can I stop making myself miserable? Am I crazy? Why do I emotionally eat?
These are just a few of the big questions we will dive into on The Courageously.u Podcast. Your host, Tara Bixby, is an everyday girl who just happens to be a therapist. After struggling for years with emotion regulation, insecurities, self-doubt, and let's not forget anxiety, Tara finally took back control of her life, and now she's here to help you take back control of yours. She's basically the best friend you never knew you needed.
Through doses of tough love (heavy on the love), Tara and her guests will deliver tangible tips and tricks to help you break free from the beliefs and behaviors that are keeping you stuck. Shy away from courageous conversations? No way!
Get ready to have your world rocked because over here at courageously.u we get vulnerable, we get real, and boy do we get courageous. Have a question or topic you'd like covered on the show? Be sure to send an email to hello@courageouslyu.com.
For too long, women have been told their brains are "broken" or that every struggle is just hormones. In this episode, we shift that narrative. Dr. Sarah McKay — Oxford-trained neuroscientist and author of The Women's Brain Book, Baby Brain, and Brain Health For Dummies — joins me to break down what's really going on in the female brain.
We talk about postpartum changes, perimenopause, anxiety, sleep, libido, and why so much of women's mental health is shaped not just by biology, but by support systems, stress, and societal expectations. This conversation will help you understand the female brain with more clarity, compassion, and empowerment.
If you've ever been told "it's just your hormones," this episode will give you a whole new perspective.
Send this to a friend who needs it — this one's too good not to share.
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✨ Tired of anxiety taking over your life? Ready to feel more calm, joy, and adventure? I'm now offering 1:1 anxiety coaching and would love to help. Email me at hello@tarabixby.com to get started!
Feeling a little off as the days get shorter and colder? You're not alone! In this bonus episode, we're diving into seasonal depression (aka the winter blues) — what it is, why it happens, and how to recognize the signs.
I'm sharing cozy, practical, and playful ways to lift your mood and thrive during the darker months — from light therapy and getting outside to fun seasonal activities, connecting with friends, and enjoying cozy indoor moments.
So grab a cozy blanket, a warm beverage, and join me — let's navigate this season together, feeling a little lighter, warmer, and more like ourselves.
P.S. If you loved this bonus episode, send it to a friend who might be struggling with seasonal depression — sometimes that tiny act of sharing can make a big difference.
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Do you have an inner critic that's always judging, shaming, or demanding perfection? You know — that little voice that quietly shapes how you see yourself and move through the world. If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you!
Today I'm joined by Dr. Rachel Goldsmith Turow, clinical psychologist, researcher, mindfulness and compassion teacher, and author of The Self-Talk Workout. We chat about where our inner critic comes from, why self-criticism can sometimes feel "safe," and how it affects confidence, motivation, and mental health.
Dr. Goldsmith Turow also shares practical, evidence-based tips to shift your self-talk, build more self-compassion, and even help kids develop a healthier inner voice.
If you're ready, let's learn how to quiet the critic, shall we?
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✨ Tired of anxiety taking over your life? Ready to feel more calm, joy, and adventure? I'm now offering 1:1 anxiety coaching and would love to help. Email me at hello@tarabixby.com to get started!
What happens when the systems meant to heal us end up causing more harm?
In this powerful conversation, Tara sits down with Anne Bracken — activist, poet, and author of Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery — to explore what it really means to heal beyond labels and prescriptions. Anne shares her deeply personal story of growing up with a mother who struggled with mental illness, her own experiences with medication and ECT, and the journey back to herself through alternative healing.
Together, they challenge the "chemical imbalance" narrative, discuss the importance of informed consent, and shine a light on the flaws within our mental health system. This episode is a reminder that recovery is possible, your voice matters, and sharing your story can help someone else feel less alone.
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✨ Tired of anxiety taking over your life? Ready to feel more calm, joy, and adventure? I'm now offering 1:1 anxiety coaching and would love to help. Email me at hello@tarabixby.com to get started!
Hey, friends! I'm so excited for today's episode — I've fallen in love with sound baths as a way to invite more calm and stillness into my day, and today's guest is one of my absolute favorites.
Sara Auster is a world-renowned sound therapist, meditation teacher, and creator of the PAUSE app. She's been featured in Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, TIME, Vogue, Billboard, and partnered with the World Health Organization to bring mindfulness to global health.
In this episode, we explore what sound healing is, why sound baths are transformative, how to get the most out of them, and how Sara used sound to heal her own trauma. She even guides us through a quick sound bath!
Whether you're new to sound meditation or curious about making it part of your life, this episode is packed with practical tips and calming insights.
P.S. Sara is giving you three months free on the PAUSE app when you use code TARABIXBY.
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✨ Tired of anxiety taking over your life? Ready to feel more calm, joy, and adventure? I'm now offering 1:1 anxiety coaching and would love to help. Email me at hello@tarabixby.com to get started!
Have you done everything "right"? Followed the rules, built the dream career, checked all the boxes you thought would make you happy — and yet, you still feel that ache inside?
Today's guest, Megan Hellerer, knows that feeling well. After graduating at the top of her class from Stanford and spending eight years as a Google executive, she found herself crying on the bathroom floor — successful on paper, but completely miserable inside.
Now, as an executive career coach for Underfulfilled Overachievers and author of Directional Living, Megan helps women realign their lives and careers with who they truly are. We talk about the "fulfillment ache," why you should forget your purpose and follow your curiosity instead, how to start making decisions that feel truly aligned, and so much more.
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Today's episode is a raw and powerful conversation about how a prescription for sleep turned into something much darker. Best-selling author and host of The Only One in the Room, Laura Cathcart Robbins, joins me to share her journey of Ambien addiction — from stockpiling pills in her Louboutins to secretly managing withdrawals between PTA meetings and tennis matches.
We talk about how her Ambien use began, what her addiction looked like behind closed doors, and the toll of keeping that secret while raising kids and trying to hold it all together. Laura shares the moment she knew she needed help, what withdrawal was really like, and how she continues to protect her sobriety. We also explore her past trauma, why addicts isolate, and what she wishes more people understood about addiction.
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Hey friend. 👋
Today, Dr. Ben Rein joins us to explore why connection isn’t just a cool idea — it’s a biological necessity for a healthy mind. Dr. Rein is an award-winning neuroscientist, author of Why Brains Need Friends, Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, and a brilliant science communicator.
We dive into the neuroscience of connection, how isolation triggers stress in the brain, and how meaningful relationships help us thrive. We also talk about recognizing when you’re running low on connection, curating a “social diet” that meets your needs, and how modern life and social media quietly erode real relationships. Ben also shares how the loss of social cues online fuels hostility and division, why disagreement doesn’t have to break connections, and how small acts of kindness benefit the brain.
✨ If this episode resonates, share it with a friend — text it, email it, or post it on social. Connection and community are what this podcast is all about.
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Poor sleep doesn’t just make you tired — it can fuel anxiety, worsen depression, and leave you stuck in survival mode. The good news? You can improve your sleep quality, and today’s guest is here to teach you how.
I’m joined by Dr. Sarah Silverman, a Stanford-trained sleep psychologist and insomnia expert, to unpack the powerful connection between sleep and mental health. We cover the difference between sleep deprivation and insomnia, how to manage nighttime worries, and what to actually do when you wake up at 2 a.m. We also dive into navigating new mom sleep, whether quality or quantity matters more, the importance of morning light exposure, and her take on sleep aids, mouth taping, and night terrors.
😴 If you know someone who could use better sleep, be sure to text them this episode.
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Feeling like something is wrong with you? Mary O’Malley — author, teacher, and counselor — knows that struggle all too well. After a painful childhood, three suicide attempts, and multiple hospitalizations, she learned that healing isn’t about fixing yourself — it’s about being present with what hurts.
In this conversation, Mary shares how a yoga class changed her life, why our thinking brain gets stuck in struggle, and how our toughest challenges can become a doorway to healing. We also explore facing anxiety with compassion and holding space for others without trying to fix them.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re broken, this episode is for you. Mary’s wisdom offers a new way to meet your pain with compassion and truly say yes to life — exactly as it is.
✨ If you know someone who’s stuck in struggle, share this episode with them — it might be the spark they need. And if you loved today’s conversation, leaving a review helps more women find the show and reminds them they’re not alone.
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Today’s quick tip isn’t about what to do — it’s about what not to do.
If you’ve ever tried using affirmations or talking yourself out of anxiety when anxious, you’ve probably noticed it doesn’t really work. Here’s why... when your nervous system is in fight-or-flight mode, your amygdala takes your thinking brain offline — it’s like taking a phone off the hook (remember those days). Your thoughts can’t get through.
Instead of trying to think your way out of anxiety, learn how to feel your way out. That’s what I’m teaching you in today’s episode.
If this was helpful, share it with an anxious friend. And if you’re exhausted from always being anxious and ready to finally feel calm, grounded, and back in control of your life, I’m now offering 1:1 anxiety coaching. This is your chance to stop white-knuckling through your days and start actually enjoying them. Email me at hello@tarabixby.com and let’s take this next step together.
At 35, Erica Lugo’s world went dark — depression, OCD, and suicidal thoughts took over, and she kept being dismissed by doctors. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Erica shares how she connected the dots between her mental health and her hormones, and how HRT completely shifted her life. This episode is full of hope for anyone who’s been dismissed, overprescribed, or feels like they’ve “tried everything.”
Women aren’t talking about this enough — Share this episode with all the women in your life.
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Hey friends — today’s episode wasn’t the one I had planned.
I had a fertility and prenatal nutrition interview ready to go, but when I sat down to edit it, something felt off. It didn’t align with where I’m at or what I want this podcast to be right now (disclosure: It was recorded a year ago). And since I’ve been working hard to actually trust my intuition, I listened.
So today’s episode is all about that — learning to tune into your inner knowing, trust it, and make decisions that feel aligned, even when it’s uncomfortable.
I’m also sharing a raw late-night reflection about how constant exposure to violence on social media is rewiring our brains — and why that might explain why so many of us feel anxious, numb, or both.
It’s unplanned, honest, and straight from the heart — and I’d love it if you shared it with a friend who might need to hear this too.
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If you’ve ever tried to think your way out of anxiety only to end up more stuck in worry and rumination, this tip is for you. In this quick tip tuesday, Dr. Russell Kennedy — doctor, neuroscientist, and one of the world’s most respected voices on anxiety — shares his go-to strategy for getting out of your head and back into your body when anxious. It’s simple, practical, and something you can start practicing today to calm your nervous system and find relief fast.
He’s also a past podcast guest, so if you love today’s tip, be sure to listen to episode 33, where he shares a new prescription for anxiety relief. You can listen on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you tune in from.
📱If you loved this tip, don’t keep it to yourself — text this episode to a friend who could use a little help getting out of their head and back into their body.
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Hey friends, it’s just you and me today! No guest, no script — just me, sitting on the floor with my mic, following a nudge I couldn’t ignore.
I’m diving into a topic I’m so fired up about... what anxiety really is (and what it isn’t). There’s a ton of noise out there about anxiety, but I want to cut through the confusion and share my perspective with you (one that I truly believe will finally help you find freedom from your anxiety).
If you're ready, hit play, and I'll see you inside.
✨ Tired of feeling anxious? Craving more calm and joy? I’d love to help you find freedom from your anxiety. I’m currently offering 1:1 coaching—just email hello@tarabixby.com and I’ll send you more info.
Hey friends.
If you’re tired of feeling anxious and want a quick, practical way to calm your nervous system, this tip is for you. Today, I’m breaking down how to use visualization to reduce anxiety and shift your nervous system out of a sympathetic state of “fight-or-flight.”
📱This tip’s too good to keep to yourself — text this episode to a friend who needs to hear it.
✨ Tired of feeling anxious? Craving more calm and joy? I’d love to help you find freedom from your anxiety. I’m currently offering 1:1 coaching—just email hello@tarabixby.com and I’ll send you more info.
Hey, my friends!
Parenting can feel like a mirror—reflecting not just our child’s behavior, but our own wounds, patterns, and triggers. What if the biggest shifts didn’t start with our kids, but with us?
Today, I’m chatting with Bryana Kappadakunnel, a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, mother, and author of Parent Yourself First. For over a decade, Bryana has helped parents uncover the root of their child’s struggles while healing their own nervous system and family patterns.
We dive into conscious parenting—why change starts within ourselves, how our past shapes our parenting, and why it’s not our child’s job to manage our triggers. Bryana shares how to set boundaries, heal your inner child, see the needs beneath behavior, do repair work, practice effective discipline, and why having friends as a mom is essential.
✨ Love this episode? Check out episode 50 with Dr. Lindsay Gibson on recovering from emotionally immature parents — one of our most-loved episodes.
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Hey friends. 👋
Today, we’re talking about something you might not realize is fueling your anxiety... blood sugar.
When your morning starts with cereal, bagels, or pastries, your blood sugar spikes and then crashes—sending your nervous system into fight-or-flight. That crash triggers stress hormones, which can leave you feeling anxious, irritable, or on edge.
The good news? You can hop off the blood sugar roller coaster. In this quick tip episode, I share 3 simple tips to help stabilize your blood sugar so you can feel calmer and less anxious throughout the day. I’ll also give a bonus tip for parents on how to set kids up for a better morning (hint: skip the cereal).
If you’ve ever wondered why anxiety seems to hit out of nowhere, this one’s for you.
✨ Tired of feeling anxious? Craving more calm and joy? I’d love to help you find freedom from your anxiety. I’m currently offering 1:1 coaching—just email hello@courageouslyu.com and I’ll send you more info.
🍌 Skip the sugar crash—bake up my favorite protein-packed banana muffins. Get the recipe here.
📱This tip’s too good to keep to yourself — text this episode to an anxious friend.
Today’s guest is the very reason I fight so hard for a better mental health narrative.
Dr. Cathy Wield shares her extraordinary mental health journey — from years of hospitalizations, 100+ ECT treatments, and 33 medications, to the retraumatization she endured and the moments she felt the system failed her. She opens up about her suicidal thoughts, what it took to relearn how to sit with her emotions, and how she ultimately broke free from the shackles of psychiatry.
This is a raw, eye-opening conversation and a must-listen for anyone navigating the mental health system.
✨ If this conversation made you think of someone you care about, don’t keep it to yourself—text this episode to just one friend who might need to hear it too. That’s how we change the mental health narrative, one conversation at a time.
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Hey, friend.
Today, I’m hanging out with Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring, a psychiatrist and former pharmaceutical researcher who now dedicates his career to helping people safely taper off psychiatric medications. He’s one of the few voices in medicine willing to speak out — and what he shares may just change the way you think about mental health treatment forever.
In today’s conversation, we’re talking about...
- What psychiatrists are actually taught about mental health in medical school
- How drug companies influence the mental health narrative
- Why medications continue to be prescribed despite their risks
- The turning point that led Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring to question everything he once believed about psychiatric drugs and mental illness
- What he believes drives anxiety and depression
- Why those who speak out against the mainstream mental health narrative are often labeled as “the bad guys”
- Why some people credit medications with saving their lives, while others feel deeply harmed by them
- The real story behind side effects, drug tolerance, and psychiatric drug injury
- The impact psychiatric medications have on fertility
- The three essential rules for coming off medication safely
- How to know when it might be the right time to begin tapering
- What to know before starting a psychiatric medication
- How parents can best support their child’s mental health journey
...and so much more!
This conversation isn’t about being pro-med or anti-med — it’s about being pro-informed. If this episode helped you feel a little more informed and a little less alone, please share it. Someone else might need that too.
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Hey friend.
In a world that never slows down, stillness isn’t just nice — it’s necessary. Today I’m sharing why stillness is so important for calming your nervous system, easing anxiety, and reconnecting with your inner knowing. I also walk you through my three favorite ways to invite more stillness into your day.
Loved this tip? Please share it with a friend who could use a little more calm and stillness in their life.
And if you’re tuning in today, I’d love to know! Tag me on Instagram @thetarabixby so I can say hi and cheer you on.
Hey friend.
Are you an anxious soul who’s hell-bent on making your anxiety disappear? If you’re nodding your head yes, this episode is for you.
Today, I’m joined by Dr. David Rosmarin — Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, program director at McLean Hospital, and founder of the Center for Anxiety. He’s a clinical psychologist, scientist, author, educator, and keynote speaker who’s been featured everywhere from Good Morning America to TED.com. And his message is powerful: Anxiety isn’t something to get rid of — it’s something to understand, and even embrace.
In today’s conversation, we’re talking about...
- The two different types of anxiety and how to know which one you’re experiencing.
- Why so many people are struggling with anxiety (and why we’ve become so afraid of our anxious feelings).
- Why trying to get rid of anxiety can keep you stuck — and what to do instead.
- Why the mental health system may be over-diagnosing people.
- The role uncertainty plays in anxiety, and how avoidance makes it worse.
- The four-step process that'll help you thrive with anxiety.
- How to support a child who may be struggling, too.
...and so much more!
If this episode gives you even a small burst of hope, would you take a second to share it with another anxious soul who might need to hear it too?
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https://courageouslyu.substack.com/p/dr-david-rosmarin-how-to-stop-fighting
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Hey, friend.
Welcome to the very first quick tip tuesday! 🥳
Today's tip is all about how to send signals of safety to your amygdala — so you can calm your nervous system, reduce your anxiety, and find a little more joy in life.
If you find this helpful, please share it with a friend who's feeling a little anxious, a touch stressed out, or just craving more joy and calm in their life.
And if you’re tuning in today, I’d love to know! Tag me on Instagram @thetarabixby so I can say hi and cheer you on.
Hey friends. If you’re a working mom feeling stretched too thin, drowning in demands, and simmering with that all-too-familiar mom rage… this episode is for you.
Today, I’m joined by the brilliant Dr. Whitney Casares — a Stanford-trained pediatrician, speaker, mom of two, and founder of Modern Mommy Doc and the Modern Mamas Club app. She’s also the host of the Modern Mommy Doc Podcast and a powerful voice when it comes to helping moms stop doing it all and start doing what actually matters.
We're talking about...
- Why so many women feel pressure to give 100% to everything they do — and how that belief is burning us out.
- Why it's important to triage what matters most in the season you’re in.
- What emotion coaching looks like and why mindful self-compassion is essential.
- The importance of giving yourself grace in the seasons you wish would move faster.
- The value of outsourcing and delegating, and why half-assing on purpose is important.
- How to create a more centered life.
- How to navigate resentment when it comes up and why honest communication with your partner matters.
...and so much more.
If this episode resonates with you, please take a second to share it with another mom who might need to hear it too. We’re not meant to do this alone — and sometimes, one honest conversation can make all the difference.
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https://courageouslyu.substack.com/p/dr-whitney-casares-moms-stop-trying
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Hey friend.
Today, I’m opening up about my history with anxiety, panic attacks, and my journey with psych meds. I’m sharing how anxiety first showed up in my life, what I think was really triggering my nervous system to stay stuck in survival mode, and the moment things got so dark, I started having thoughts of not wanting to live. This episode is raw, honest, and from the heart—if you’ve ever felt overwhelmed or alone in your mental health struggles, I hope this makes you feel a little more seen.
If it resonates, please send it to a friend who might need to hear it too. You’re not alone—and neither are they.
biggest hugs.
Today, I’m hanging out with Dr. Claire Plumbly — Clinical Psychologist, EMDR Consultant, and author of The Trauma of Burnout. She’s also the founder of Plum Psychology, a UK-based center specializing in trauma-informed care.
In today's episode, we unpack...
- The difference between stress and burnout
- Why burnout isn't your fault
- The invisible load that so many women carry
- How burnout and trauma are connected
- The impact chronic stress has on your mental health
- What it looks like when burnout leads to nervous system shutdown
- How to spot signs of burnout
- Simple ways to help your nervous system feel safe
- How our inner critic might be fueling burnout
...and so much more.
If this conversation speaks to you, if you find yourself nodding along or thinking of a friend who needs to hear it, please share it. Post it to your stories, text it to someone who’s quietly carrying too much, or leave a quick review. It helps more women find these kinds of conversations… and it means the world to me.
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Today I’m joined by Dr. Jessica Zucker — clinical psychologist, author of "Normalize It" and "I Had a Miscarriage", and a powerful voice in the movement to help women speak openly about what’s often left unsaid. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vogue, and Harvard Business Review, among others. She’s been featured on NPR, CNN, The Today Show, and Good Morning America and earned advanced degrees from New York University and Harvard University.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- Why it’s essential for women to start speaking their truths — even when it feels uncomfortable
- How to share hard things without being labeled as negative or too much
- The power of normalizing struggle instead of staying silent about it
- How to truly support someone when they’re opening up about something difficult
- Why we need to talk more openly about the identity shift and emotional impact of becoming a mother
- What it takes for women to drop their armor and step into real vulnerability
- How to stop taking it personally when others can’t hold space for your pain
- The unspoken pressure on women to show up perfectly
...and so much more.
If this conversation resonates with you, please share it with a friend, post it on Instagram, or leave a quick review. You doing this helps more women find the show, and it means so much to me.
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Hey friend.
Today's chat comes straight from my heart to your ears. I'm opening up about why I think we're overcomplicating healing, the 6(ish) things I want you to focus on, why I really dislike when professionals act like they have it all together, and—yes—my strong craving for friendships too
Can you do me a favor? I’d love your honest feedback. What do you think about solo episodes? Are they annoying, or do you actually look forward to them? Don’t hold back—friends tell the truth, right? Your input means a lot because it helps me create the episodes YOU need. You can share your feedback with me over on Instagram @courageously.u, or you can email me at hello@courageouslyu.com.
Happy listening, my friend.
If you ever think motherhood is hard, or maybe even hate parts of it, then this episode is a must for you. Today, Dr. Margo Lowy is hanging out with us to help me create a conversation about maternal ambivalence.
Dr. Lowy is a mother to three, author of Maternal Ambivalence, and a psychotherapist who specializes in mothering. It’s safe to say that maternal ambivalence is her jam as she has spent a significant amount of time researching the topic, speaking about it at universities and in media, and has even written an academic book on the topic.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- What maternal ambivalence is
- Why it’s important to own the hard parts of parenting
- What causes judgment to creep in
- Why it’s important to surround yourself with people who don’t judge you
- Why mothering isn’t about being perfect
- The power of being vulnerable
- Why it’s important to be open and genuine with your kids
- Tips on how to observe your mothering
- The importance of being compassionate towards yourself
...and so much more.
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https://courageouslyu.substack.com/p/dr-margo-lowy-the-loving-moments
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Hey friends. Today, I'm getting real about the occasional urge that creeps up to self-medicate.
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Dr. Julia Britz is a licensed naturopathic doctor who specializes in helping people who are struggling with mental health issues such as OCD, eating disorders, and psychiatric medication tapering. She utilizes natural and integrative modalities including targeted amino acid therapy, peptide therapy, micronutrient therapy, bioresonance, botanical medicine, and epigenetic analysis.
As a “hopeless case” who got better, her passion for helping others is real. Dismissed by doctors, Julia was told over and over that there was nothing else she could try beyond pharmacotherapy, and so she was inspired to create my OCD diary, a site dedicated to documenting the daily life of OCD and related disorders. Through this project and holistic therapies, she found new levels of wellness.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- Julia's past mental health struggles
- Her self-harming history
- What she did to find freedom from OCD
- What inspired her to get into naturopathic medicine
- Her thoughts on the root causes of OCD
- Her thoughts on how western medicine approaches mental health
- What she wished more people knew about psych meds
- Her experience with benzodiazepines
- One thing you need to practice to heal faster
- Her thoughts about safely tapering off psych meds
...and so much more.
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Hey, friends. Since having a baby, I’m all about normalizing the hard parts of motherhood, and today Danika Brysha is helping me do just that.
Danika is America’s leading Self-Care Expert and founder of Self-Care Society and Model Meals. She is a 3x Wellness Entrepreneur, former Plus Size Fashion Model for brands like Bare Minerals, Old Navy, and Lands End, Host of the Podcast and YouTube series "Your Morning Mindset Practice,” and mother to two young daughters. Danika has been featured on Chopped, People, InStyle, Shape, PopSugar, Create & Cultivate, and more.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- Danika’s postpartum experience
- How to protect your mental health postpartum
- The importance of social connection as a mom
- How to make self-care a priority without the overwhelm
- Danika’s tips for navigating body image issues post-baby
- The importance of knowing the hard parts won’t last forever
- How to cope with stressors without resorting to alcohol
- How to prioritize your partner post-baby
- Why Danika gave up social media for a year
...and so much more.
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I’m excited for you to hear my chat with the brilliant Dr. Kim Gorgens. Dr. Gorgens is a board-certified rehabilitation psychologist and Professor of Psychophysiology, Clinical Neuropsychology, and Psychology of Criminal Behavior at the University of Denver. She manages a large portfolio of brain injury-related research and has lectured extensively on those issues around the world. She has a 2010 TED talk on youth sports concussions and a 2018 TED talk on brain injuries in criminal justice.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- What brain injury is
- How many people don’t recognize they’ve had a brain injury
- What mild injuries due to the brain
- How brain injuries can present as mental health struggles
- The correlation between brain injuries and anxiety
- Why it’s important to tell your provider about past brain injuries when seeking mental health help
- The importance of supporting kids post-brain injury
- What you can do to heal your brain after an injury
- Why it’s never too late to do the recovery work
- The correlation between suicide risk and brain injuries
...and so much more.
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Today’s conversation is a special one. The hosts of the Just Stay Podcast, Kenzie and Brandee, are here to share how mental health has impacted their lives.
Kenzie’s story resonated with me when she discussed her postpartum mental health experience, which included postpartum psychosis and a stay at a behavioral health center. Kenzie gets raw about her mental health struggles and her journey towards healing in today’s conversation.
Brandee’s story is just as powerful. She’s a wife and mom to three teenagers. In today’s conversation, Brandee courageously shares how she lost her oldest son to his battle with mental health and how she found purpose as she navigated through grief.
I’m telling you, friends, this conversation is raw and will have you feeling big feels.
If you have been impacted by suicide, you know someone who is struggling with suicidal ideations, or you are experiencing thoughts of wanting to die, please listen to episode 48 of the podcast. It was a conversation with Dr. Rudd, whose primary focus of his research is clinical suicidology, with an emphasis on understanding acute and chronic distinctions in risk.
Episode show notes:
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God gave me a mic, and I'm gonna use it.
Today, I'm sharing a few thoughts on psych meds, why I want the mental health narrative to change, why I'm passionate, and why I never want you to give up on hope.
If you love today's solosode, please share it with someone you know will love it too.
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Today, the fantastic Julia Hotz is hanging out with us to unpack all things social prescribing and why it’s time to update the sort of prescriptions that are being given out. Julia is a solutions-focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, The Boston Globe, Time, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. She’s also an award-winning author of the book The Connection Cure.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- What inspired Julia to write the connection cure
- What social prescribing looks like
- Why it’s important to do more of what matters to you
- What Julia would say to someone who questions the power of social prescribing
- Why Julia thinks big Pharma got so big
- The power of movement for improving depression
- Why we need to reframe how we view movement
- How belonging and connection impact our mental health
- Why nature captures our attention
- Where to start with social prescribing
...and so much more.
Episode show notes:
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Hey, friends.
In today's solosode, I'm teaching you why I'm obsessed with these two words... choose again. I'm also sharing why you need to become obsessed with them, too.
Love this solosode? Please share it with everyone you know. Want to make sure you never miss a future solosode? Be sure to hit subscribe so all future episodes automatically download.
Until our next chat... biggest hugs.
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If you’re a momma who wants to hit pause on your career to be home with your little one, this episode is for you.
Today, Neha Ruch is hanging out with us to give you all the tips and tricks on how to hit pause on your career post-kids and come back stronger than ever when you’re ready. Neha is a thought leader, influencer, speaker, author of The Power Pause, and momma of two. She’s also the founder of Motherhood Untitled, the leading platform for ambitious women leaning into family life. Her work at Mother Untitled is catalyzing a much-needed shift in how society views stay-at-home motherhood.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- What a power pause looks like
- Where to begin if you wish to take a career break post kids
- How to avoid feeling stuck during your pause
- Why it’s okay to get outside help
- The conversations you need to have with your partner if a career break is what you desire
- How to not let motherhood become your sole identity
- What you can say to someone when they ask what it is you do
- How you can transition back to work without guilt
...and so much more.
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Hey, friends.
Today's solosode is all about...
- My new "why"
- How I stumbled upon this new "why"
- Why you need a solid foundation
- How I'm going to help you get said solid foundation
If you love this solosode, please share it with anyone and everyone you know. Also... be sure to hit subscribe so you never miss a solosode in the future.
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I’m so excited for you to hear today’s conversation with Brittany Piper. Brittany is a speaker, author, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, the voice behind the wildly popular @healwithbritt account over on Instagram, and an expert in sexual violence prevention and trauma-informed care.
Her book, Body-First Healing, is a science-backed roadmap for trauma recovery and nervous system regulation. She teaches readers how to break free from survival mode and reclaim their lives using simple yet effective somatic practices.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- How the nervous system can become stuck in a stress response cycle
- What trauma looks like
- How your body remembers trauma even when your mind doesn’t
- What it looks like to armor up when a threat is present
- The importance of somatic completion
- How Brittany's nervous system responded during and after a sexual assault
- How our armor can be cloaked as a diagnosis
- The impact childhood wounds have on our nervous system
- What you can do when anxious to shift your nervous system back into a ventral state of calm
...and so much more.
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This conversation gave me goosebumps. No joke. I know you're going to love it.
Let me tell you a little bit about my friend Kelsey. First of all, she's an amazing human with the most calming presence. She’s also one of Hollywood's leading wellness experts, a momma, an inspirational speaker, the author of the book Burning Bright, the founder of the Pure Joy app, and a philanthropist who has been featured in hundreds of media outlets.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- Having babies at an older age
- Kelsey’s post-baby rebirth
- The fears that crept in surrounding her purpose post-baby
- The power of sacred movement
- The importance of checking out your hormones
- The power of "one"
- Kelsey's experience with toxic mold poisoning and the impact it had on her quality of life
- What Kelsey did to heal from toxic mold poisoning
- What to do if you're worried about mold poisoning
...and so much more.
Word of warning, there are a few f-bombs dropped in today’s conversation, so don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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And we're back, friends! I'm so excited to be back hanging out with you guys again. To say I missed you is an understatement.
In today's "solosode (solo episode)," I'm chatting about...
- Why I changed the podcast name (it used to be called the courageously.u podcast).
- What my intention is for this show, and how I'm on a mission to make it a top-rated mental health podcast.
- My recent struggles and how I found myself questioning if I was crazy.
...and so much more.
I can't wait for you to hear all the amazing conversations coming your way. To make sure you never miss an episode, be sure to subscribe to the tara bixby podcast.
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Friends, I'm coming back... in May. May just feels right.
Hit play to hear about why I chose May, what the podcast will look like going forward, and why I want a name change.
... and be sure to follow the podcast so you don't miss any episodes when they return.
See you in May!!
I have something to tell you...
...and I want to take you on this new journey with me.
Enjoy!
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Hey, friends! I’m so excited for you to hear today’s chat with the fantastic Elizabeth Lesser. Elizabeth is the author of several bestselling books, including Cassandra Speaks, Broken Open, and Marrow. She’s also the cofounder of Omega Institute, which is recognized internationally for its workshops and conferences in wellness, spirituality, creativity, and social change. She has given two popular TED talks and is one of Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100, a collection of a hundred leaders who are using their voices and talent to elevate humanity.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about…
- Why we’re all bozos on the bus
- How we can fully become alive
- Why remaining in a tight bud can be more painful than taking the risk to bloom
- The power of meditation
- How it takes courage to turn in and face what wants to change within you
- How being human is to be lost in the woods
- What happens when we stay awake during life changes
- Why problems are messages
- Why medicating grief is not the answer
- Why it’s hard to ask for help
…and so much more!
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Dr. Ari Calhoun is a Naturopathic Doctor specializing in neurodevelopment and pediatric neuropsychology. Her expertise lies in perinatal and early development optimization, emphasizing prevention in neurodevelopmental health. Recognizing the complex relationship between the immune system and neurodevelopment, she co-founded the Vaccine Empowerment Program, supporting parents in making informed vaccine decisions.
Through her multifaceted approach to functional medicine and neurodevelopment, Dr. Calhoun is committed to enhancing health outcomes for the next generation, starting from the earliest stages of life.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about…
- Where the vaccination schedule comes from
- How she approaches vaccinations with her patients
- Why you shouldn’t rely on your pediatrician to tell you what to do
- Why understanding risk is important
- What vaccine injuries can look like
- How you can make an empowered decision
- Why brands matter
- Why aluminum is a concern
- How vaccines can impact neurodevelopment
- What makes someone more susceptible to an inflammatory response
- Whether or not vaccines create a level of risk for autism
- The trouble with delayed vaccinations
- Why it’s important to have a provider that supports your decision no matter the decision
- Why the Hep B shot at birth is not necessary for the majority of babies
- The importance of leaning into your intuition
…and so much more!
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Today, Dr. Marilyn Sanders is hanging out with us to help me create a conversation about the impact trauma has on a child's developing nervous system.
Dr. Sanders is a board-certified pediatrician, neonatologist, author, scholar, and educator. She provides clinical care for critically ill newborns, infants, and young children at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut. As a neonatologist, she cares for babies with a wide range of medical problems that require intensive care services, and she also sees babies from four months to three years of age who are at risk for developmental challenges.
Dr. Sanders is also a professor of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Her scholarly work focuses on enhancing the social and emotional well-being of vulnerable infants and children, many of whom were exposed to early trauma. Her approach to trauma-informed care is embedded in the Polyvagal Theory that elaborates how our unconscious nervous system’s sense of safety, danger, or life threat affects our emotions and behaviors. Dr. Sanders also co-authored a must-read book called The Polyvagal Theory and the Developing Child.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about…
- What the nervous system looks like.
- How exposure to trauma, neglect, chronic stress, and adversity impacts a child’s nervous system.
- How childhood survival responses can carry into adulthood.
- How dorsal shutdown can manifest as self-medicating.
- Why it’s important to stop asking what’s wrong with you, but rather what happened to you.
- The importance of repair after disruption.
- Why it's important to understand your nervous system response so you can better respond to children’s dysregulation.
…and so much more!
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https://courageouslyu.substack.com/p/marilyn-sanders-how-childhood-trauma
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Today, the hilarious Caitlin Murray is joining me on the show to discuss all things motherhood. Caitlin is a humorist, writer, podcaster, future author, mother of three, wife of one, and voice behind the wildly popular Instagram account Big Time Adulting.
We're talking about...
- What Caitlin does to maintain her sanity
- How she navigated her son’s cancer
- How sharing her real feelings with the world is therapeutic
- The impact her hormonal cycle has on her mood and ability to juggle all the things
- How she manages stress
- The importance of asking why you’re doing something
- The insane pressures placed on moms
- Why it’s okay to slightly ruin your child
- How she keeps her marriage alive
- What she’d say to moms of littles
…and so much more.
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Hey, friends! Today the brilliant Dr. Jodie Skillicorn is hanging out with us to help me create a conversation on how you can holistically heal depression.
Dr. Skillicorn is a holistic, integrative psychiatrist and author of Healing Depression without Medications: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Balancing Mind, Body, and Soul. She integrates conventional medical training with evidence-based holistic methods that blend mindfulness-based psychotherapy with a variety of complementary, research-based modalities including breathwork, meditation, EMDR, Emotional Freedom Techniques, nutrition, exercise, and nature at her virtual practice in Ohio.
Her passion is in guiding, supporting, and teaching her patients self-care techniques that help balance their bodies and minds, thus empowering them to take an active role in their unique healing journeys on the road to optimal health. These skills may also help in reducing and often eliminating the need for medications.
We're talking about...
- How what Dr. Skillicorn was taught in med school was misleading
- The impact psych meds have on the chemistry of your brain
- The consequences of long-term antidepressant use
- The power of placebo on depression
- How Dr. Skillicorn’s approach to helping people heal differs from conventional psychiatry
- The power of mindfulness on the brain
- Why it’s important to move your body to discharge stress
- The impact poor sleep has on your mental health
- What Dr. Skillicorn believes drives increased depression
- How a biochemical bandaid isn’t healing the wound
- The role stress plays in inflammation
- The importance of eating clean foods
- What you can do to improve your depression holistically
…and so much more!
Podcast show notes:
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Today the beyond brilliant Brigid Titgemeier is hanging out with us to help me create a conversation about the impact diet and lifestyle has on our mental health.
Brigid is a Functional Medicine Registered Dietitian, Entrepreneur, professor, and Mom who is on a mission to help you use food to create health. She is the CEO and Founder of Being Functional Nutrition, a digital coaching company that has helped more than 20,000 people use targeted nutrition and lifestyle strategies for better labs, symptoms, and relationship with food. Previously, Brigid was a co-founding dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine under Dr. Mark Hyman.
In today's episode, we talk about...
- The current mental health crisis
- Where conventional medicine gets it wrong
- How gut health influences brain health
- How you can optimize your gut health
- How blood sugar fluctuations mimic anxiety
- Why it’s important to eat a blood sugar-stabilizing diet
- The impact nutrient deficiencies have on mental health
- Why you need more magnesium to help calm your nervous system
- The impact stress has on your b vitamins
- The role inflammation plays in depression
- The importance of exercise
- Why you need to spend more time in nature
- How going at mental health struggles with medication alone is failing people
- The top three foods she’d encourage you to eat less of
- The importance of preconception health
- How to increase energy and mental clarity postpartum
- Why we need to redirect our focus from weight loss to overall health postpartum
- How you can include more protein into your diet
...and so much more!
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Join me in today’s minisode as I process through why I’m changing my narrative, why I’m leaning towards the grey, what I want you to know, and why I don’t want to die on “this” hill.
Happy listening!!
In today’s episode, I’m going deep… and I get a little emotional. You ready?!
Today, the wonderful Kate White is hanging out with us to help me unpack my birth trauma and to also help you gain insight into how labor and delivery impacts the birthing parent’s nervous system. Kate is an award-winning educator and an advanced bodyworker. She is trained in somatic therapies, prenatal and perinatal somatic health, lactation, brain development, infant mental health, and she has specialized in parent-baby dyad care using somatic prevention and trauma healing approaches for 25 years.
She's also a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method, and is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her work combines somatic trauma healing, energetic therapies, bodywork, pediatric therapies, and education about the nervous system to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start.
In today’s episode, we talk about…
- My birth trauma and how it led to nervous system dysregulation postpartum
- Why it’s important to educate providers, midwives, and doulas about the freeze state
- Why Kate likes to unpack early life traumas when helping you with your birth trauma
- How the birth parent’s autonomic response is impacted based on how they're treated during the birthing process
- How the vulnerability of labor and delivery tends to lead to pleasing and appeasing
- Why we need to normalize nervous system responses during the birthing process
- How your baby has a story to tell too
- How our need to do things by ourselves is a survival strategy that we relied on as a child
- Why new parents need more support postpartum
- The impact social media can have on your nervous system
- How Kate helps me disrupt locked-up nervous system energy
…and so much more!
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I’m excited to share today’s conversation with you because I’m currently navigating a season where I crave friendships and I like to think I’m not alone.
Today the fabulous Anna Goldfarb joins us on the podcast to help us understand why we need a new approach to navigating friendships in a time when it’s so easy to shed them. Anna is a journalist, author, and speaker. Called “The New York Times’ friendship correspondent”, Anna’s work explores the nuances of friendships, relationships, and pop psychology. She has reported for outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, Vice, The Cut, Vox, and The Washington Post. She also writes the Substack newsletter, Friendship Explained, where she demystifies friendship mechanics through a pop culture lens.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- Why it’s so important to have friendships
- Why it feels harder to make friends as you get older
- Why you’re not a horrible friend for prioritizing a partner over a friend
- Why friends tend to get the short end of the stick
- Why our social lives can feel like a supermarket
- Why it can take longer to foster meaningful friendships as you age
- Why friendships drift apart
- The different types of friends you can make
- How friendships have shifted over the years
- Why it’s okay to call it quits on a friendship
- The importance of a friendship cleanse
...and so much more.
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Consider this an emergency (spontaneous) minisode where I let it alllll out. Sparked by the wild comment section of an Instagram post and the even wilder loss of followers (something I'm actually grateful for), I'm sitting down with you here to process it...
I'm also sharing with you what you need to know about me if we're going to be friends.
Enjoy!
Are you ready to escape conformity, ignite creativity, and awaken your genius? If yes, than you're in the right spot. Today the brilliant Ozan Varol is hanging out with us to help you do just that.
Ozan is a rocket scientist turned award-winning professor and bestselling author. He is one of the world’s foremost experts in creativity, innovation, and critical thinking.
In today’s episode, we talk about...
- How everyone is born creative
- Why you need to show the parts of yourself that you’ve suppressed
- Why comparison is one of the worst things you can do
- The two issues you’ll run into when you conform
- How little drops of work will create a ripple effect
- Why names given to what you’re doing matter
- Why it’s crucial to know your why
- What happens when you force yourself to create
- Questions you can ask yourself to help unlock your unique talents
- Why it’s important to give shamed parts of yourself a voice
- What you can do to inspire creativity
- The importance of journaling
- Why it’s more important to create than consume
...and so much more.
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Today the fabulous Ruby Warrington is hanging out with us to chat about why it’s okay for women to decide that being a mother just isn’t for them. Ruby is a British-born author, editor, and creator of the term Sober Curious.
Author of the 2018 book Sober Curious, and podcast of the same title, her work has spearheaded a global movement to reevaluate our relationship with alcohol. Other works include Material Girl, Mystical World, and The Sober Curious Reset. Her new book, Women Without Kids, is out now. With 20+ years of experience as a lifestyle journalist and editor, Ruby is known as an astute cultural commentator and true thought leader.
In today’s episode, we chat about…
- Why nothing is wrong with you for questioning whether or not you want kids
- Questions to ask yourself before having a baby
- Why the birth rate is dropping off
- What’s impacting fertility
- Reasons why people are choosing not to have kids
- Why women are starting to say no more than men to having kids
- How the lion’s share of work falls on women
- How motherhood impacts a woman’s career
- Why Ruby says she’s “areproductive”
- Why it’s important to normalize questioning whether or not you want kids
…and so much more!
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Are you languishing? No idea what languishing is? No worries, the wonderful Corey Keyes is here to break it all down for you.
Corey Keyes is professor emeritus of Sociology at Emory University and a member of the prestigious international MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development and Aging. He has participated in several National Academies of Science initiatives – “The Future of Human Healthspan” and improving national statistics to measure recovery from mental illness.
He organized and co-hosted the first Summit of Positive Psychology held in 1999 at the Gallup Organization. His research introduced the concepts of social well-being, flourishing, the two continua model of mental health and illness, and his work is being used to prevent mental illness via the promotion of positive (flourishing) mental health. In 2024, he published a book entitled Languishing: How To Feel Alive Again In A World That Wears Us Down.
In today’s episode, we’re talking about…
- What languishing looks like
- How to know if you’re languishing
- How languishing differs from depression
- How psych meds can leave you languishing
- Why current mental health treatments do not promote good mental health
- How people can heal through natural recovery
- The role the placebo effect plays in mental health healing
- Why so many people are experiencing languishing
- What it looks like to flourish
- Why it’s important to be mentally healthy
- The importance of being prepared for “the game of life”
- How to go from languishing to flourishing
…and so much more!
Podcast show notes...
https://courageouslyu.substack.com/p/corey-keyes-how-to-feel-alive-in
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Hey, friends!! I wanted to update you on the podcast, my status, my plan, and all that good jazz.
Chat more with you soon.
P.S. Miss you!
I know. I suck! I paused the podcast again (for good reason). Hit play and find out why I hit pause, when I'll be back, and where I'm hanging out in the meantime.
...and if you want to hang out in the coziest corner of the internet and be part of a courageous community, come hang out with me in substack.
Till next time,
biggest hugs.
Are you struggling with burnout (I mean who isn’t, right?!)? If you’re nodding your head yes, you most definitely want to hit play on today’s episode of the courageously.u podcast.
Today the fabulous Emily Ballesteros is joining us on the show to talk about all things burnout and what you can do to prevent and manage burnout in today's busy world.
Emily holds a master’s degree in industrial-organizational psychology and worked in corporate training and development before launching her burnout management business. In addition to being featured in media such as TIME and The Wall Street Journal, she regularly provides burnout trainings for corporations like Pepsi and Paypal, among others. Her book, The Cure for Burnout, was just published by Penguin Random House.
In today’s episode, we chat about…
- How burnout can keep your nervous system stuck in freeze
- How to know if you’re burnout
- The difference between burnout and depression
- Why it’s important to make changes to prevent burnout
- How people pleasing can lead to burnout
- Why you need to know your limits
- What you can do if you’re experiencing burnout by boredom
- How your mindset impacts your quality of life
- How better managing your time can reduce burnout
- What moms can do to reduce burnout
…and so much more!
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Today we are creating a much-needed conversation about maternal mental health with the wonderful Dr. Nicole Amoyal Pensak.
Dr. Pensak is a clinical psychologist, author, and mother. Trained at Harvard and Yale, Dr. Pensak provides empirically-based treatment that is uniquely tailored to meet the needs of her clients. She is certified in Postpartum Mental Health and serves on the Expert Review Board of The Parents Magazine. Her new book RATTLED, How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain is an absolute must-read for anyone who wants to be a momma and anyone who already is.
In today’s episode, we chat about…
- What’s going on inside a mother's brain postpartum
- What Dr. Pensak believes leads to intrusive thoughts
- Why she thinks postpartum OCD is higher in new moms
- Why it’s important to establish postpartum treatment the moment you find out you're pregnant
- Why we need to dispel the myth of mommy brain
- Why it’s important to work with your trauma to promote post-traumatic growth
- How new moms can nurture all the brain changes taking place postpartum
- How memory is impacted by sleep deprivation and an overwhelming mental load
- Why protecting sleep postpartum is crucial
- Why it’s important to heal the mother wound before the baby is born
- How we can best support new momma’s
…and so much more!
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Hey, friends! Today the courageous (and kick-ass) Kimberly Shannon Murphy is joining us on the show.
Kimberly’s a leading Hollywood stuntwoman who has served as a double for numerous A-list actresses, performing in 133 feature films and television shows, including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Captain America, Bird Box, The Hunger Games, Salt, Euphoria, Big Little Lies, and many more. She’s also married to Tom Cruise’s stunt double, whom she met on the set of Knight and Day when she was doubling for Cameron Diaz.
In today’s episode, we chat about…
- Why Kimberly decided to share her story of incest and childhood sexual abuse
- Why it’s important to be mindful of who your children are around
- Why she didn’t feel safe telling anyone about her abuse
- How her mother disassociated from her own trauma
- What triggered Kimberly’s suppressed memories of abuse
- What Kimberly’s triggers look like
- How she spent years living in survival mode
- How she coped by engaging in self-injurious behaviors
- How she navigated healing through psychedelics and Internal Family Systems
- Why it’s important to break the cycle of generational trauma
- How Kimberly’s trauma guides her parenting
…and so much more!
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Today's guest is the fabulous Cameron Rogers.
Cameron is the founder and host of the Conversations with Cam podcast (formally known as Freckled Foodie & Friends), the voice behind Fill Your Cup over on Substack, a mental health advocate, and a momma to two little boys.
In today’s episode, we chat about…
- How pregnancy and postpartum impacted Cameron's mental health
- How Cameron navigated sleep deprivation
- What she does to rest and reset
- What intimacy with her husband looks like after kids
- What her identity crisis looked like
- How triggers from pregnancy pop up today
- What Cameron's breastfeeding experience was like
- How she juggles all the things
- Why it's okay to have conflicting emotions about motherhood
…and so much more!
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Listen in as I process my thoughts and feelings with you regarding why I need you to get curious. Word of warning... The audio quality isn't the best because I recorded on a voice memo (through bluetooth) while driving to work. However, the message is still important, so I hope you find this helpful.
Feel free to share this with anyone you think would find it helpful.
biggest hugs. 💛
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Today’s guest is the wonderful Elise Loehnen.
Elise is a writer, editor, podcaster, momma, horse whisperer, and serious book lover. She’s the host of the Pulling the Thread podcast, which is a podcast focused on pulling apart the stories we tell about who we are—and then putting those threads back together. She’s also the author of the instant New York Times bestseller On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good. Elise is also a frequent contributor to Oprah and has written for The NewYork Times, Elle Decor, Stylist, and more. Previously, she was the chief content officer of goop, where she co-hosted The goop Podcast and The goop Lab on Netflix, and led the brand’s content strategy and programming.
In today’s episode, we chat about…
- The seven deadly sins and how they were influenced
- The importance of finding balance with the seven deadly sins
- How envy provides us insight into what we want
- Why it’s important to look at what’s underneath our judgments
- Why mom’s struggle to rest
- How our culture fails to support new moms
- How destabilizing it can be for women to show up
- Why women are terrified to speak up
- How anger is essential
- Why we find safety in not believing in ourselves
- Why we need to get curious when a big emotion arises
…and so much more!
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I'm back and couldn't think of a better guest to help me kick off my return than Dr. Richard Schwartz. Dr. Richard Schwartz is hanging out with us to discuss all things internal family systems and to help you understand why you’re the one you’ve been waiting for.
In today's episode, we talk about... * What internal family systems looks like * The role your protector parts play * How you can recognize your exile parts * Why it’s not your partner’s job to be the primary caretaker of your parts * How your parts protect you * What causes attachment re-injury * How to seek out partners in a healthier way * How you can begin the repair work within your relationship
...and so much more!
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I'm back (at least I think I am). Man, have I missed you!!
After a year away, I'm so excited to be back.
In today's minisode, I'm sharing my postpartum experience. Man, did it kick my butt! I'm talking about navigating postpartum during a season when I already struggle with seasonal depression, the horrific anxiety that sank in as soon as the sun set, how attempting to go to a Christmas party left me on the bathroom floor crying, and so much more.
I hope this conversation helps at least one new momma feel a little less alone.
Can you do me a favor? If you know a new momma or know someone about to have a baby, could you please share this episode with them? Your shares are the biggest form of thanks a girl can get.
Appreciate you, my friend!
Hey, friend! Today we're chatting about why we need to normalize hard and stop expecting people to "suck it up." If you've ever felt alone in a struggle or are navigating a hard season of life, this episode is for you. When you're ready, hit play, and I'll be waiting for you inside today's minisode. Biggest hugs!
Well, hello, friend! It's been a hot minute since I've shown up here. In today's minisode, I'm discussing why I went mia from the courageously.u podcast. If you're curious, go ahead and hit play, and I'll be waiting for you inside today's minisode. Biggest hugs!
Tara Schuster is an author, contributor to InStyle, The New Yorker, and Forbes, among others, and former vice president of talent and development at Comedy Central.
Her latest book, Glow in the F*cking Dark, is a guide to healing your deepest wounds, getting off your “good enough” plateau, and creating the spectacular life that you most desire.
We're talking about...
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What it was like growing up in a neglectful psychologically abusive household
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How Tara used weed to cope
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How she uses meditation and journaling to find safety
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What her reparenting process looked like
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How being raised by emotionally immature parents impacted her mental health
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Why it’s important to heal your trauma
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How establishing boundaries with her parents helped her heal
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Where her fear around money and loss stems from
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How she used exercise to improve her depression
...and so much more!
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March is endometriosis awareness month, and If you know me, you know I’m passionate about women’s hormonal health. That’s why I invited the wonderful Morganne Skinner onto the show to help me spread more awareness about endo.
Morganne Skinner is a registered nurse, freelance nurse writer, and fertility awareness educator. Her experience with endometriosis led her to discover the wonders of fertility awareness, as it helped her get diagnosed and manage her symptoms. Now she is passionate about sharing this knowledge and life-long skill with women looking for answers.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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What endometriosis is
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How long it took her to be diagnosed with endometriosis
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Where her endometriosis was located
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How common endometriosis is
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What her symptoms of endometriosis looked like
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My experience with endometriosis
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Why endometriosis causes pain
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Why birth control isn’t the answer to reducing your symptoms
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What Morganne did to help heal her endometriosis and reduce pain
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Why it’s common to be exhausted when you live with endometriosis
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How endometriosis impacted how she exercised
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Her thoughts on using CBD for endometriosis pain
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What mental health symptoms are common with endometriosis
...and so much more!
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Today Deb Dana is hanging out with us to chat all things Polyvagal Theory.
Deb Dana is a clinician, consultant, author, and speaker who specializes in complex trauma. Her work is focused on using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma and in creating ways of working that honor the role of the autonomic nervous system.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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What polyvagal theory is
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How we move through the three autonomic states
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How your nervous system takes in cues of safety and danger
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How your nervous system is shaped
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What it means to be dysregulated
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What you can do to move out of a dorsal state of freeze
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How the nervous system builds resilience through ruptures and repair
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Why some people are better able to tolerate stress
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What role the nervous system plays in social anxiety
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How you can nourish your nervous system
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Why people struggle to co-regulate
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How our brain creates stories to match our nervous system state
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Why the word “should” provokes survival energy in our nervous system
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How you can support someone who is anxious, and so much more
...and so much more!
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Today Scott Stossel is helping me create a conversation around anxiety and psych meds. You might recognize his name if you watched the Netflix documentary Take Your Pills: Xanax as he was featured in it.
Scott is the National Editor of The Atlantic, the author of My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind and Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver.
We're talking about...
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Why he wanted to share his mental health experience inside a documentary
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Where his mental health journey began
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What his experience with psych meds looked like
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What he believes is at the root of his anxiety
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Why being a man has made his anxiety worse
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How benzodiazepine use can lead to addiction
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How benzos impact GABA production
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The role the nervous system plays in anxiety
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What you can do to shift your nervous system back into a ventral state of calm
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How benzodiazepines impact your amygdala
...and so much more!
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Did you know that most Americans are deficient in several essential vitamins and minerals - vitamins and minerals that can help improve your mental health?
Today the brilliant Chris Kresser is hanging out with us to discuss the role nutrient deficiencies play in mental health and what we can do about it.
Chris is the co-founder of the California Center for Functional Medicine, the founder of Kresser Institute, the host of the top-ranked health podcast Revolution Health Radio, and the New York Times best-selling author of The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine. He is one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health and has trained over 2,000 clinicians and health coaches from more than 50 countries in his unique approach.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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How years of struggling with chronic illness led to Chris to help others improve their health
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Where conventional medicine is going wrong in regards to mental health treatment
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The role nutrient deficiencies play in mental health
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Why you can eat healthy and still be deficient in nutrients
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Why nutrient levels in food is declining
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Why it’s hard for you to gain insight into your nutrient levels
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What nutrients we could all benefit from having more of
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The benefits of adding seafood to your diet
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Why supplementation can be a problem
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What foods you can eat to get the biggest bang for your nutrient buck
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Why you need a good mix of plants and animal foods in your diet
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How to prepare veggies to get the most nutrients out of them
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Today the wonderful Donald Altman is hanging out with us to discuss his newest book, Travelers - a story about overcoming grief while finding hope, healing, and renewal.
Donald Altman is a psychotherapist, Award-winning writer, international workshop trainer, former Buddhist monk, and past Vice-President of The Center for Mindful Eating.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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Donald’s experience as a Buddhist monk
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Why he wrote Travelers
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What you can do when struggling with intrusive thoughts
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Why we need to get beyond labeling people with diagnoses
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What mindfulness looks like
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Why people struggle to sit in stillness with their thoughts
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The power of sitting in nature
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How science doesn’t show us the whole picture
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The controversy with diagnosing grief
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Why I was resistant to going to therapy
...and so much more.
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Class is officially in session! Dr. Paul Bloom is hanging out with us on the show to discuss his new book Psych, The Story of the Human Mind, which is a book he built around his Yale introduction to psychology course.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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Why he wanted to turn his class into a book
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Why he calls psychology a young science
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What people get wrong in regard to memory
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What you need to know about implicit bias
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Why you can’t overcome biases on your own
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What makes us unique
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How appropriate amounts of anger can be useful
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What makes people happy
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Why we tend to go along with the crowd
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Why people tend to join “evil” groups
...and so much more!
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Hit play to hear why I think so many people are struggling with their mental health today. I talk about when the Jetsons met the Flintstones, why your nervous system is freaking out, and what you can do to help it feel safe.
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Are you ready to overcome negative thinking, discover deep healing, and find lasting peace? If you’re nodding your head yes, then this episode is for you.
Dr. Seth Gillihan is a practicing psychologist, author, former professor, and podcast host of the Think Act Be podcast. He is the author of multiple books on mindfulness and CBT, with his latest being Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers a fresh, welcome approach for treating mental health issues that speaks to our times, blending mindfulness and spirituality with CBT.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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How Dr. Gillihan’s struggles inspired him to write Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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What traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks like
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How Dr. Gillihan adds mindfulness to CBT
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What you can do if you struggle with fear-based or intrusive thoughts
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Why pushing thoughts away isn't the goal
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What makes harm-related OCD thoughts unusual
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What the think act be model looks like
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How thoughts drive our emotions
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The importance of exploring beneath the surface level thought
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Why you should find gratitude in the “suck”
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Dr. Gillihan shares his thoughts on toxic positivity
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What you can do if you’re struggling with catastrophic thinking
...and so much more!
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Do you feel lazy when you rest? Do you feel like you always have to be productive? If you can relate, this minisode is for you, my friend!
Hit play, and I'm going to tell you why it's time to change your definition of productivity.
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Today the courageous Sadie Sutton is hanging out with us on the show to share how she navigated her mental health as a teen.
Sadie is a 19-year-old psychology student at the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving a year and a half of intensive treatment for severe depression and anxiety, and since fully recovering from severe depression and anxiety, she was inspired to share her story with fellow teens going through their own personal growth.
Sadie started the She Persisted podcast in 2019. Inside her episodes, she conducts impactful and inspirational interviews with subject matter experts, fellow teenagers, and social media personalities to break down the stigma surrounding mental health and inspire teens to create a life worth living.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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What Sadie’s mental health struggles looked like
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What her mental health treatment looked like
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How she engaged in self-harm as a means of getting validation and attention
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What mindset shifts she had to make to help improve her mental health
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What she feels was not helpful in her healing journey
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What Dialectical behavior therapy looks like
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Why sleep is crucial to improving your mental health
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Why she started the She Persisted Podcast
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What she’d suggest to a parent whose teen is struggling with their mental health
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What tool you can use to help with intense emotions
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What she’d say to a teenager struggling
...and so much more!
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Anxiety and agitation are signs that your nervous system has shifted into a sympathetic state of fight-or-flight, and stress hormones are now flowing in your body.
Sihing is a fantastic way to shift your nervous system out of a sympathetic state and back into a ventral state of calm.
If you're new to nervous system work, you want to be in a ventral state (anxiety and agitation don't live there).
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Happy sighing, my friend! 🤩
Today the fabulous Dr. Joanna Moncrieff is hanging out with us to help me create a conversation about all things psychiatric medications. If you’re on meds or are considering getting on meds, this episode is a must-listen.
Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist, researcher, professor, and best-selling author. She is a professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London and works as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS in London.
Dr. Moncrieff researches the rational use and understanding of psychiatric drugs and the history, politics, and philosophy of psychiatry more generally. Her books include The Bitterest Pills, The Myth of the Chemical Cure, and A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs. She is also co-founder of the Critical Psychiatry Network, which consists of a group of psychiatrists from around the world who are skeptical of the idea that mental disorders are simply brain diseases and of the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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What Dr. Moncrieff believes is the problem with drug treatment for mental health problems
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How the chemical imbalance theory was turned into a marketing message
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The downside to believing in the chemical imbalance theory
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How antidepressants change your brain chemistry
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The implications of using antidepressants longterm
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How improvement after someone starts taking a psych med is due to a placebo effect
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How antipsychotics help people who are acutely psychotic
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How we should approach psychosis
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What you need to know about stopping your mental health medications
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Why stopping a benzodiazepine can leave you even more anxious than before you started the med
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Ready to get off the diet roller coaster? Jenna Hollenstein is hanging out with us today to discuss how mindfulness can deepen and sustain your intuitive eating practice.
Jenna is a nutrition therapist, meditation teacher, and author of five books. Her work combines intuitive eating, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, Polyvagal theory, and other embodied modalities.
As someone who has struggled with yo-yo dieting and emotional and binge eating, I can't recommend this episode enough.
We talk about...
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What intuitive eating is
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What it looks like to intuitively eat
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Why it’s important to eat enough food
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What tends to drive binge behaviors
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How to reach satisfaction through food
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What happens when you restrict food
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Why intuitive eating is not a diet
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What makes diet culture so sneaky
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Why having a perfect body is not your job
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How the thought of restriction can trigger chaotic thinking around food
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Stuart Sandeman is hanging out with us inside Episode 132 to talk all things breathwork. Stuart is a globally recognized breathing expert, performance coach, and author. He is the founder of Breathpod, which helps individuals and groups reach their full potential through the power of breathing.
We talk about...
- Why controlling your breath is important - The difference between reactive and proactive breath - How to use breath to manipulate your nervous system - How you can use breathwork to trigger a relaxation response - How you’re supposed to breathe when speaking - What the benefits of mouth taping are - Why it’s important to hold your breath during a breathing exercise - How congestion can tell you which nervous system state you’re in
He also walks us through a few of his favorite breathing techniques.
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa is hanging out with us to discuss how we can help girls thrive in an era of increased anxiety and depression.
Today’s conversation is more important than ever because in case you didn’t know, girls are more prone to depression and anxiety than ever before and Donna’s here to help you understand the science of why this is.
Donna is an award-winning science journalist, author, and internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion. Her mission is to translate emerging science in ways that help those with chronic conditions find healing.
We're talking about..
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Why girl's mental health is worsening
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How chronic stress impacts girl's brains differently than boys
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Why it’s important to know the science
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How losing the in-between years negatively impacts girl's mental health
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How social media impacts adolescent girl's mental health
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The role puberty plays in a girl's mental health
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Why we’re seeing a sharp rise in self-harming behaviors in young girls
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Why you need to develop a safe and stable relationship with your daughter
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What you can do to help improve your daughter's mental health
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Why you need to be regulated if you hope to help regulate your daughter
If you know someone who'd benefit from hearing this conversation, please share it with them. 🥰
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Did you know that on average, people keep as many as thirteen secrets at any given time?
Today Michael Slepian is hanging out with us to discuss all things secrets. Michael studies the psychology of secrets and how keeping secrets affect variables that govern social and organizational life. He’s also a professor at Columbia Business School, author of The Secret Life of Secrets, and an elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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What a secret is
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How secrets can become a burden
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Why people keep secrets
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Why someone might feel compelled to share their secret
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Why some people are better secret keepers than others
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Whether or not you should keep a secret
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Why keeping secrets can feel hard
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What you can do if you’re struggling with a secret
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When secrecy starts to impact a kid's well-being
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I don't know about you, but I feel like there's not enough time in the day to do all the things I want to do. If you feel like you're in the same canoe as me, this is an episode you'll definitely want to hit play on.
Inside today's minisode, I'm sharing my favorite practice on how to be more efficient with your time while also making it richer.
If you want to learn more about making your time richer, be sure to hit play on my conversation with Dr. Cassie Holmes inside Episode 124...
https://courageouslyu.com/dr-cassie-holmes/
If you know someone who'd benefit from hearing this minisode, can you please share it with them? Your shares are the best form of thanks.
I hope you enjoy this minisode, my friend! 🤩
Today’s guest is here to share how her struggle with unbearable insomnia led to an accidental descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence.
Melissa Bond is a narrative journalist and poet. In the years of her dependence on benzodiazepines, Melissa blogged and became a regular contributor for Mad in America. ABC World News Tonight interviewed her for a piece in January 2014. Melissa is a respected writer on the perils of over-prescribing benzodiazepines and has been featured on PBS Story in the Public Square, Radio West, the podcasts Risk!, IGNTD, and Psychology Unplugged. The Salt Lake Tribune and the New York Post have both done features on her book Blood Orange Night, her memoir about becoming dependent upon and then withdrawing from benzodiazepines.
In this episode, we talk about...
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Melissa's descent into prescription benzodiazepine dependence
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What her insomnia looked like
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How she knew her symptoms were more than momma exhaustion
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What her withdrawal from benzodiazepines looked like
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How her struggle impacted her marriage
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What her mental health looks like today
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Why you should never cold turkey your psych meds
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What literature says about benzodiazepines
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Why everyone needs to read Anatomy of an Epidemic
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Why you need to know what stopping benzodiazepines can look like
If you loved this episode, please share it with a friend. Your shares help grow this small but mighty community.
Also, if you haven't done so already, be sure to follow the podcast. I'm adding a bunch of bonus minisodes to the feed and I don't want you to miss them.
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Do you struggle with driving anxiety? If you're nodding your head yes, this episode is for you, my friend!
Inside this minisode, I'm sharing eight things that help reduce my anxiety when driving. Yup, even I experience anxiety when driving sometimes.
If you loved these tips and you know someone who'd benefit from hearing them, please share this minisode with them. Your shares are the best form of thanks.
Do you struggle with driving anxiety? If you're nodding your head yes, this episode is for you, my friend!
Inside this minisode, I'm sharing eight things that help reduce my anxiety when driving. Yup, even I experience anxiety when driving sometimes.
If you loved these tips and you know someone who'd benefit from hearing them, please share this minisode with them. Your shares are the best form of thanks.
Dr. Robin Stern is the go-to gaslighting expert. She’s a licensed psychoanalyst, speaker, author, and co-founder and associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. She’s also an associate research scientist at the Child Study Center at Yale.
In 2007, Dr. Robin Stern published the critically acclaimed, The Gaslight Effect: How to spot and survive the hidden manipulation others use to control your life. The second edition was released in 2018. Her work is frequently published in popular media outlets, such as Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, Time.com, The Washington Post, The Hill, and Harvard Business Review.
We talk about...
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What gaslighting is and what it is not
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What the gaslight tango looks like
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How the gaslight effect works
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How you can decide which relationships can be saved and which you have to walk away from
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Why gaslighters gaslight
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How to know if you’re being gaslighted
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What you can do to get out of the gaslight tango
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What it looks like to be medically gaslighted
And sooooo much more!
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Dr. Palmer is a Harvard Medical School Physician, researcher, author, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and consultant working at the interface of metabolism, metabolic disorders, and what we call mental disorders.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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Why Dr. Palmer believes mental health disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain
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What one of the biggest flaws in our current mental health field is
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What role mitochondria and metabolism play in mental health
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How our current approaches to mental health treatment are failing people
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Why Dr. Palmer is so excited about the brain energy theory
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What causes metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction
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How mental health disorders share one common pathway
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The two things you can do today to begin restoring mitochondrial health
Like the show? Please leave the show a review here. Even just one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram and tag me at courageously.u so I can send you a virtual hug.
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Dr. Glenn Schiraldi is an author, graduate of West Point, Vietnam-era veteran, and founder of Resilience Training International. He has served on the stress management faculties at the pentagon, the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and the University of Maryland School of Public Health, where he received the Outstanding Teaching Award.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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What self-esteem looks like
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Why we tend to focus on the parts of ourselves we don’t like
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How self-esteem develops
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Whether or not perfection is actually attainable
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Why harsh self-criticism keeps you from changing
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How to respond differently to your imperfections
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How people who have no regrets are less prone to traumatic wounding
Episode goodies...
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Like the show? Please leave me a review here. Even just one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram and tag me at courageously.u so I can send you a virtual hug.
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Brooke Siem is a speaker, author, award-winning chef, and Food Network “Chopped” Champion. She was among the first generation of teens to be medicated with antidepressants. After spending half her life—and her entire adult life—on antidepressants, she wondered: Who might I be without them?
Six years after taking her last antidepressant and now fully healed from what was once assumed to be lifelong depression, Brooke’s mission is to share the story of what happened after she booked a one-way ticket to Malaysia and got off all the psychiatric drugs.
We talk about...
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What was happening in Brooke’s life when she accessed antidepressants for the first time
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How many terrible narratives there are about stopping psychiatric medications
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What psychiatric drug withdrawal looked like for her
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Why we need to start discussing the reality of psychiatric withdrawal
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How Brooke navigated Chopped while in severe antidepressant withdrawal
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How a one-way ticket to Malaysia helped her heal
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What she’s doing today to prioritize her mental health
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What Brooke believes needs to happen for real healing to occur
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Hey, friend! In today's minisode, I'm talking about why it's important to explore the root cause of your symptoms. If you find this minisode helpful, please share it with someone who'd benefit from listening.
If there's a topic you'd like me to cover in a future minisode, don't hesitate to send me a DM on Insta.
Biggest hugs,
Tara
Dr. Cassie Holmes is here to help you feel empowered with your time and to also help you design your hours to be more in alignment with what matters to you.
Dr. Cassie Holmes is one of the world’s leading authorities on time and happiness. She is a social psychologist, author, researcher, and professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Her work on the intersection of time and happiness has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more.
In today's episode, we talk about...
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Why having more time isn’t the answer
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How you can make the time you have richer
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How time tracking can help you gain insight into the activities that make you happy
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Why it’s important to carve out a no-phone zone
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How to make the not-so-fun activities of life fun
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Why is it important to recognize that our remaining time is limited
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Why it’s important to have a genuine sense of belonging
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How you can use time crafting to prioritize your time
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Why you should take a broader perspective of your time in years rather than hours
Episode goodies...
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In today's minisode, I'm talking about...
- How overwhelm had me crying in a coffee shop
- What I did about it
- Why overwhelm is a normal response
- What you can do when you feel overwhelmed
If you enjoyed this minisode, please rate and review The Courageously.u Podcast, and if you liked what you heard, be sure to press follow and share it with a friend.
In today's minisode, I'm talking about...
- How overwhelm had me crying in a coffee shop
- What I did about it
- Why overwhelm is a normal response
- What you can do when you feel overwhelmed
If you enjoyed this minisode, please rate and review The Courageously.u Podcast, and if you liked what you heard, be sure to press follow and share it with a friend.
Kristina Holtz is a wife, momma to two adorable kiddos, and nurse. Today Kristina Holtz is hanging out with us on The Courageously.u Podcast to discuss how she and her husband, Tyler, are navigating life with a 5-year-old who meets criteria for a DSM diagnosis of ADHD.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve watched how she and her husband have approached their son’s mental health, and I’ve just been blown away by what I’ve seen. In a world where medications are pushed as the answer, they didn’t settle.
We talk about...
- The behaviors she noticed Zeke struggling with
- The holistic treatments they tried
- What Kristina recommends you try if your kiddo struggles with ADHD
- Their family trip to the Amen Clinics
- How she prioritizes her mental health
If you know someone who’d benefit from listening to this episode, please share it with them. Text them the episode or screenshot it and share it on social. Changing the mental health narrative requires many courageous humans, and I couldn’t think of anyone better to have by my side on this mission than you.
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Kristina Holtz is a wife, momma to two adorable kiddos, and nurse. Today Kristina Holtz is hanging out with us on The Courageously.u Podcast to discuss how she and her husband, Tyler, are navigating life with a 5-year-old who meets criteria for a DSM diagnosis of ADHD.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve watched how she and her husband have approached their son’s mental health, and I’ve just been blown away by what I’ve seen. In a world where medications are pushed as the answer, they didn’t settle.
We talk about...
- The behaviors she noticed Zeke struggling with
- The holistic treatments they tried
- What Kristina recommends you try if your kiddo struggles with ADHD
- Their family trip to the Amen Clinics
- How she prioritizes her mental health
If you know someone who’d benefit from listening to this episode, please share it with them. Text them the episode or screenshot it and share it on social. Changing the mental health narrative requires many courageous humans, and I couldn’t think of anyone better to have by my side on this mission than you.
TODAY'S SHOW NOTES:
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Dr. Joshua Coleman is a psychologist in San Francisco and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, NBC THINK, The Behavioral Scientist, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Variety, and more. He’s also given talks to the faculties at Harvard, the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry, and other academic institutions.
A frequent guest on the Today Show and NPR Dr. Coleman has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, PBS, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television. Dr. Coleman is also the author of four books: The Rules of Estrangement, The Marriage Makeover, The Lazy Husband, and When Parents Hurt.
We talk about...
- Why a parent and child might become estranged
- How common estrangement is
- Why it’s now the parent's job to earn the love and respect of their child
- What the rules of estrangement look like
- Whether or not today’s children are too hard on their parents
- The role boundaries play in estrangement
- What the reconciliation process looks like
- How parents can navigate shame that might arise with estrangement
- What not to do when trying to reconcile
- How estrangement can impact grandparent's relationships with their grandkids
- Why reconciliation therapy looks different than marriage therapy
Episode goodies...
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Dr. Joshua Coleman is a psychologist in San Francisco and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, NBC THINK, The Behavioral Scientist, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Variety, and more. He’s also given talks to the faculties at Harvard, the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry, and other academic institutions.
A frequent guest on the Today Show and NPR Dr. Coleman has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, PBS, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television. Dr. Coleman is also the author of four books: The Rules of Estrangement, The Marriage Makeover, The Lazy Husband, and When Parents Hurt.
We talk about...
- Why a parent and child might become estranged
- How common estrangement is
- Why it’s now the parent's job to earn the love and respect of their child
- What the rules of estrangement look like
- Whether or not today’s children are too hard on their parents
- The role boundaries play in estrangement
- What the reconciliation process looks like
- How parents can navigate shame that might arise with estrangement
- What not to do when trying to reconcile
- How estrangement can impact grandparent's relationships with their grandkids
- Why reconciliation therapy looks different than marriage therapy
Episode goodies...
Get a FREE bonus sample pack with your first order of LMNT when you click here.
Like the show? Please leave me a review here. Even just one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram and tag me at courageously.u so I can send you a virtual hug.
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Hey, you! This minisode is all about the power of movement and why I need you to move your body. I talk about the importance of moving your body for your mental health and not your pants size. I also touch on choosing forms of movement that support your hormonal health, which is very important for the ladies.
If you found this episode helpful, please share it with your friends. Your shares are the best way to support me and The Courageously.u Podcast.
Also, I mentioned an episode I did with Alisa Vitti in today's minisode, so I'm linking it here for you: https://courageouslyu.com/alisa-vitti/
Enjoy the episode, my friend!
Hey, you! This minisode is all about the power of movement and why I need you to move your body. I talk about the importance of moving your body for your mental health and not your pants size. I also touch on choosing forms of movement that support your hormonal health, which is very important for the ladies.
If you found this episode helpful, please share it with your friends. Your shares are the best way to support me and The Courageously.u Podcast.
Also, I mentioned an episode I did with Alisa Vitti in today's minisode, so I'm linking it here for you: https://courageouslyu.com/alisa-vitti/
Enjoy the episode, my friend!
Dr. Elaine Fox is a psychologist, author, and the Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Before her move to Australia, Dr. Fox founded and directed the Oxford Centre for Emotions & Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN) at the University of Oxford, a renowned research center exploring the nature of resilience and mental well-being.
A cognitive psychologist by training, she is a leading mental health researcher combining genetics, psychology, and neuroscience in her work. Dr. Fox also runs Oxford Elite Performance, a consulting group bringing cutting-edge science and psychology to those at the top levels of sport, business, and the military. She’s also the author of Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain and Switch Craft.
We talk about...
- Why mental agility is important
- How multi-tasking drains us of energy
- Why you need to get comfortable with uncertainty
- How worrying about the unknown fuels anxiety
- Why it's important to challenge your beliefs and interpretations
- Why it’s important to switch up your routines
- How switch craft can help you identify what might work best in different situations
- What you can do to improve your mental agility
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Dr. Elaine Fox is a psychologist, author, and the Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Before her move to Australia, Dr. Fox founded and directed the Oxford Centre for Emotions & Affective Neuroscience (OCEAN) at the University of Oxford, a renowned research center exploring the nature of resilience and mental well-being.
A cognitive psychologist by training, she is a leading mental health researcher combining genetics, psychology, and neuroscience in her work. Dr. Fox also runs Oxford Elite Performance, a consulting group bringing cutting-edge science and psychology to those at the top levels of sport, business, and the military. She’s also the author of Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain and Switch Craft.
We talk about...
- Why mental agility is important
- How multi-tasking drains us of energy
- Why you need to get comfortable with uncertainty
- How worrying about the unknown fuels anxiety
- Why it's important to challenge your beliefs and interpretations
- Why it’s important to switch up your routines
- How switch craft can help you identify what might work best in different situations
- What you can do to improve your mental agility
Episode goodies...
Did you know that 97% of the coffees out there are full of pesticides, toxins, and mold? Gross right?! This is why I made the switch to Kion Coffee. Wanna try it for yourself and save some money? Save 10% off your Kion order when you click here and use code COURAGE at checkout.
Like the show? Please leave me a review here. Even just one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram and tag me at courageously.u so I can send you a virtual hug.
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If you know me, you know I'm terrified of being home alone at night. In this bonus episode, I'm breaking down how fearful thoughts and images in my mind leave me anxious. If you're someone who believes your anxiety is due to the thoughts and images in your mind, you're going to want to hit play on this episode. Enjoy, my friend!
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If you know me, you know I'm terrified of being home alone at night. In this bonus episode, I'm breaking down how fearful thoughts and images in my mind leave me anxious. If you're someone who believes your anxiety is due to the thoughts and images in your mind, you're going to want to hit play on this episode. Enjoy, my friend!
Like the show? Please leave me a review here. Even just one sentence helps! Post a screenshot of you listening on Instagram and tag me at courageously.u so I can send you a virtual hug.
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Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of six nonfiction books - Sing for Your Life, What Do Women Want, The Other Side of Desire, In the Land of Magic Soldiers, God of the Rodeo, and his latest book, The Mind and the Moon. In addition to the New York Times Magazine, Daniel’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Talk, and the New York Times Book Review, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times.
We talk about...
- The mental health journey of three individuals
- How JFK declared science would take us to the moon and also cure psychiatric illness
- The problem with medications being a default approach to treatment
- Why we need to stop comparing psychiatric medications to insulin
- Why we need to reframe how we view suicide
- What happens when we attempt to control situations
- Why psychiatries notion of permanence might not be quite right
- Scientist's reflections on mental health
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Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of six nonfiction books - Sing for Your Life, What Do Women Want, The Other Side of Desire, In the Land of Magic Soldiers, God of the Rodeo, and his latest book, The Mind and the Moon. In addition to the New York Times Magazine, Daniel’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Talk, and the New York Times Book Review, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times.
We talk about...
- The mental health journey of three individuals
- How JFK declared science would take us to the moon and also cure psychiatric illness
- The problem with medications being a default approach to treatment
- Why we need to stop comparing psychiatric medications to insulin
- Why we need to reframe how we view suicide
- What happens when we attempt to control situations
- Why psychiatries notion of permanence might not be quite right
- Scientist's reflections on mental health
Episode goodies...
Toss the toxins today and save $10 off your Branch Basics order when you click here.
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Jessica Baum, LMHC is the founder of the Relationship Institute of Palm Beach, a group practice providing couples therapy, family counseling, and addiction therapy in South Florida since 2011. As a therapist for over 10 years, Jessica has helped thousands of clients with her unique approach to healing, the Self-full® Method.
Jessica’s work is focused on developing a meaningful connection with oneself and in understanding our own core patterns so that we can better understand how we relate in our relationships. Without this meaningful connection to oneself and others, we find ourselves feeling isolated. Jessica opened a sister company, Be Self-full, that offers online coaching with a team of experts and courses worldwide.
Her debut book, Anxiously Attached, offers a practical and holistic approach to overcoming anxious attachment issues to discover happier, more fulfilling relationships.
We talk about...
- What attachment theory is
- The difference between anxious and avoidant attachment
- Why anxious and avoidant attachment tend to gravitate towards each other
- Why failed relationships are not a sign that you’re a bad judge of character
- What a core wound looks like
- What it looks like to become Self-Full
- How you can heal your little me
- The role co-regulation plays in your ability to self-regulate
- Why you need to focus on setting internal boundaries
Episode goodies...
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Jessica Baum, LMHC is the founder of the Relationship Institute of Palm Beach, a group practice providing couples therapy, family counseling, and addiction therapy in South Florida since 2011. As a therapist for over 10 years, Jessica has helped thousands of clients with her unique approach to healing, the Self-full® Method.
Jessica’s work is focused on developing a meaningful connection with oneself and in understanding our own core patterns so that we can better understand how we relate in our relationships. Without this meaningful connection to oneself and others, we find ourselves feeling isolated. Jessica opened a sister company, Be Self-full, that offers online coaching with a team of experts and courses worldwide.
Her debut book, Anxiously Attached, offers a practical and holistic approach to overcoming anxious attachment issues to discover happier, more fulfilling relationships.
We talk about...
- What attachment theory is
- The difference between anxious and avoidant attachment
- Why anxious and avoidant attachment tend to gravitate towards each other
- Why failed relationships are not a sign that you’re a bad judge of character
- What a core wound looks like
- What it looks like to become Self-Full
- How you can heal your little me
- The role co-regulation plays in your ability to self-regulate
- Why you need to focus on setting internal boundaries
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In today's bonus episode, I'm getting honest about why I choose to work in a prison. I'm also sharing the insights that help drive my desire to change the current mental health narrative. I can't wait to hang out with you in today's episode. See you there!
In today's bonus episode, I'm getting honest about why I choose to work in a prison. I'm also sharing the insights that help drive my desire to change the current mental health narrative. I can't wait to hang out with you in today's episode. See you there!
Dr. Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction psychiatrist, bioethicist, and assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, who understands addiction in a deeply personal way. At 29 he was a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school when his own addiction crisis nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued him and his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction.
Today we're talking about...
- Why trying to trace addiction to one single cause can be misleading
- Why people keep using despite wanting to stop
- How Freud championed cocaine as a “wonder drug”
- Why trying to eradicate addiction causes harm
- Cultures' permissive attitude toward alcohol
- Why we need to get curious about the role our addiction plays in helping us cope with pain
- The role corporations play in the way people think about addiction
- Why holding onto diagnostic labels too tightly can become more harmful than helpful
- Why we should be careful with psychedelics
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Dr. Carl Erik Fisher is an addiction psychiatrist, bioethicist, and assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, who understands addiction in a deeply personal way. At 29 he was a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school when his own addiction crisis nearly cost him everything. Desperate to make sense of the condition that had plagued him and his family for generations, he turned to the history of addiction.
Today we're talking about...
- Why trying to trace addiction to one single cause can be misleading
- Why people keep using despite wanting to stop
- How Freud championed cocaine as a “wonder drug”
- Why trying to eradicate addiction causes harm
- Cultures' permissive attitude toward alcohol
- Why we need to get curious about the role our addiction plays in helping us cope with pain
- The role corporations play in the way people think about addiction
- Why holding onto diagnostic labels too tightly can become more harmful than helpful
- Why we should be careful with psychedelics
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Today we are spicing things up a bit and trying something new. I invited the creator of my fave sound bath onto the show and guess what? He’s playing it here today for you. Consider this episode part podcast and part gift to your nervous system.
So who is Ben Holt? Ben is a professional wellness facilitator, healer, and coach that specializes in breath work, meditation, psychedelic therapy, and sound healing.
In today's episode, we talk about...
- What sound healing is
- How listening to a sound bath can help you heal
- How breath and sound healing go together like Lucy and Ethel
- What’s happening in your brain when you listen to a sound bath
- What the practice of sound healing looks like
- How Ben uses instruments to open your chakras
- Why Ben encourages you to practice yoga before listening to a sound bath
And soooo much more!
Ben's also sharing the recording from the live sound bath he did in Sedona, Arizona (It's at 24:41 if you want to skip straight to it). This sound bath goes through your chakra system and it’s the one that I’m currently obsessed with.
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Have you ever wanted to do therapy but had no clue where to start? Have you struggled to find a therapist who was a good fit? Need help finding a therapist who specializes in the very thing you’re struggling with? If you’re nodding your head yes then you’re in luck. Today’s episode is for you.
If you love this episode and find it helpful, please share it with your favorite humans. Your shares are the best form of thanks.
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Dr. Chantel Prat is a psychologist, neuroscientist, professor, and author. She teaches at the University of Washington with appointments in the departments of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics; with affiliations at the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, the Center for Neurotechnology, and the Institute for Neuroengineering. Her debut book, Neuroscience of You, was recently released and it’s a goodie.
We talk about...
- How our brains interpret the world
- Why it’s important to be aware of what sources of information are feeding your brain
- How social media strengthens our current beliefs
- Why it’s important to understand the relationship between the mind and the brain
- How our brain creates a subjective reality
- Why your brain doesn’t look like the one in textbooks
- How the traditional neuroscientific paradigm glosses over our differences
- What causes us to choke under pressure
- Why we have bogus out there thoughts
- Why we don’t do better when we know better
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I'm in a serious funk right now, are you? Inside today's bonus episode, I process through what my "funk" looks like, my plans for getting out of it, and why I feel so many people are self-imprisoned.
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Dr. Lisa Miller is a clinical psychologist, award-winning researcher, and New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child. She’s also a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, which is the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology.
Dr. Miller's innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She’s also appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and Weekend Today as an expert. Her latest work, The Awakened Brain, is a groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality that sets a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience.
We talk about...
- What working in a psychiatric inpatient unit was like for Lisa
- How synchronicity helps us better understand what life is showing us
- Why it’s important to say yes to synchronicity
- What Dr. Miller would say to someone who believes synchronicity is merely coincidence
- What role spirituality plays in depression
- The difference between achieving and awakened awareness
- How not saying what’s on your heart could be a missed opportunity
- The three questions you should be asking yourself
Dr. Miller also does two guided practices in today's episode. One that helps you see where synchronicity has been at play in your life and one that helps awaken you to your natural spiritual awareness.
Episode goodies...
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Allan is a professor and author who earned a doctoral degree in Sociology from Yale University where he was trained in psychiatric epidemiology and in deviance and social control. He has studied a variety of aspects of mental health and illness, including the social response to mental illness, family caretaking for dependent populations, the impact of social roles and statuses on mental health, and the social construction of mental disorders.
We talk about...
- What the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is
- Who influences what goes in and out of the DSM
- Where the DSM started and where it is today
- The pros and cons of the DSM
- Whether or not Allan believes the DSM is credible
- Why Allan believes the DSM is a straitjacket
- The increase of people self-identifying with their diagnosis
- Why premenstrual dysphoric disorder was so controversial
- The subjectivity in diagnosing
- The lack of validity with the current DSM
- What role pharmaceutical companies play in diagnosing
- Why clinicians depend on the DSM
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Mary-Frances O'Connor, Ph.D is a renowned grief expert, neuroscientist, author, and psychologist who has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain. She’s an associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress Lab, which investigates the effects of grief on the brain and the body.
In her new must-read book, The Grieving Brain, Mary-Frances shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, and she sets a new paradigm for understanding grief on a neurological level.
We talk about... * The problem with the five stages of grief model * What happens in our brain when we grieve * The difference between grief and grieving * Why processing grief can feel so hard * The role rumination plays in grieving * How grieving is a form of learning * The difference between grief and depression * The importance of therapy while grieving * What you can do to help improve insomnia after a loss * How to best support someone who is grieving
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Do you struggle with a feeling of “stuckness?” Do you feel like you can’t move past what’s holding you back in life, love, and work? Many of us know what we need to do to move forward, but we find ourselves unable to take the leap to make it happen. Today’s guest is here to let you know that you’re not lazy, crazy, or unmotivated for feeling stuck.
Britt Frank is a therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist who is committed to dismantling the mental health myths that keep us feeling stuck and sick. She’s also the author of The Science of Stuck, which is an empowering, action-oriented guide that helps you break through what’s holding you back.
We talk about...
- Britts struggle with being stuck
- What being stuck looks like
- The hidden benefits of staying stuck
- Questions to ask yourself if you’re feeling stuck in friendships
- The role trauma, self-talk, and shame play in keeping you stuck
- The reason laziness and lack of motivation are attributed to stuckness
- Why anxiety is one of the most important ingredients to getting out of stuck mode
- What happens when you try to avoid or repress aspects of yourself
- Why you need to look at your menu of options if you feel stuck in your job
- Three things you can do today to move out of stuckness
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Do you struggle with a feeling of “stuckness?” Do you feel like you can’t move past what’s holding you back in life, love, and work? Many of us know what we need to do to move forward, but we find ourselves unable to take the leap to make it happen. Today’s guest is here to let you know that you’re not lazy, crazy, or unmotivated for feeling stuck.
Britt Frank is a therapist, teacher, speaker, and trauma specialist who is committed to dismantling the mental health myths that keep us feeling stuck and sick. She’s also the author of The Science of Stuck, which is an empowering, action-oriented guide that helps you break through what’s holding you back.
We talk about...
- Britts struggle with being stuck
- What being stuck looks like
- The hidden benefits of staying stuck
- Questions to ask yourself if you’re feeling stuck in friendships
- The role trauma, self-talk, and shame play in keeping you stuck
- The reason laziness and lack of motivation are attributed to stuckness
- Why anxiety is one of the most important ingredients to getting out of stuck mode
- What happens when you try to avoid or repress aspects of yourself
- Why you need to look at your menu of options if you feel stuck in your job
- Three things you can do today to move out of stuckness
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Shira Gill is a home organizing expert, author, coach, and founder of the #15minwin productivity hack. Her online makeover programs, popular lifestyle blog, and Instagram feed have inspired a global audience to get rid of the excess in their lives and focus on what really matters.
Shira's work centers around the intimate relationship between people’s homes and lives and how they inform and inspire each other. Her work and home have been featured in Apartment Therapy, Domino, Forbes, Goop, Harper's Bazaar, HGTV, InStyle, Parents, Real Simple, and many more.
We talk about... * The importance of reframing the thoughts you have about your clutter * How clutter and disorganization negatively impact your mental health * What you can do to make your space feel better without buying new things * Why we all should purchase with the mentality of fewer but better things * What you can do to slow down the volume of stuff coming into your home * Actionable steps you can take to tackle your clutter * How we can be environmentally conscious by purchasing less * How you can build a year-round capsule wardrobe * How to practice minimalism when it comes to beauty products * Where to start if you don’t identify as an organized person
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Shannon is a world-renowned spiritual and self-love teacher, speaker, and empowerment coach. She’s also a bestselling author of five books on the psychology of happiness and fulfillment. Shannon's newest book, Return to You: 11 Spiritual Lessons for Unshakable Inner Peace, is a complete guide to Shannon's most effective strategies for tapping your innate wisdom and stepping into your true power. Shannon is on a mission to help guide people to awaken and align to their true selves so they can live the life they are meant for.
We talk about...
- Our inner nudge
- How in an attempt to fit in we split from ourselves
- How beliefs shape our reality
- How we can best navigate comparison
- What the seasons of the soul look like
- The 11 spiritual lessons that can lead to inner peace
- How you can find calm in a chaotic world
- Why you need to let go of control
- How trauma can lead to an I don’t need anyone attitude
- Mantras you can use when feeling overwhelmed
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Dr. Leslie Becker-Phelps is a psychologist, author, speaker, and teacher with the goal of guiding people toward happier, more productive lives. She does this by focusing on improving their relationships with themselves and others through compassionate self-awareness.
We talk about...
- What rejection looks like
- Why some people are more sensitive to rejection than others
- Why we need to remove self-judgment when we feel rejected
- How we can best navigate feelings of rejection
- The four basic attachment styles
- The importance of labeling your emotions
- The five domains of awareness
- Why you’re not flawed for feeling the sting of rejection
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Andrew Scull is an award-winning author, sociologist, historian of psychiatry, and distinguished Professor of Sociology and Science Studies. He received his B.A. from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton before going to the University of California San Diego. His books include Museums of Madness, Decarceration, Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, Social Order/Mental Disorder, The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, and many more. His latest book, Desperate Remedies tells the story of psychiatry in the United States from the 19th-century asylum to 21st-century psychopharmacology.
We talk about...
- The different beliefs surrounding the origins of mental illness
- The desperate remedies psychiatry has used to cure mental illness
- What happened to mental health patients when asylums closed
- The impact the psychopharmacological revolution had on mental health
- The role drug companies played in perpetuating the chemical imbalance theory
- What Andrew thinks the future of psychiatry will look like
- Why it’s easy to be seduced by the idea that there is an effective remedy to mental health struggles
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Erin Khar is an author and advocate known for her writing on addiction, recovery, mental health, parenting, and relationships. She knows first-hand the challenges of addiction recovery. At just 13, Erin began a 15-year struggle with heroin addiction.
Her debut memoir, Strung Out, appeared on most anticipated lists from Apple Books, Goodreads, SELF, The Rumpus, and others. She also writes the popular weekly advice column, Ask Erin, and her personal essays have appeared in SELF, Marie Claire, Salon, The Times of London Sunday Magazine, HuffPost, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and others. Erin has also established herself as a respected voice in the national conversation about the overdose epidemic.
We talk about...
- How Erin used substances to self-regulate
- The role shame played in Erin’s drug use
- What it feels like to be high
- What made the biggest difference for Erin when she stopped using drugs
- How self-hatred gave Erin the illusion of control
- Why Erin thinks it’s so hard for people to stop using drugs
- The problem with how we are handling the opioid crisis
- What Erin feels every parent should do with their teenager
- Why criminalizing drugs costs more in the long run
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Dr. Nicole Beurkens is the world’s leading holistic child psychologist. She has dedicated her 25-year career to providing parents with simple, effective, research-based strategies that get to the root of children’s attention, anxiety, mood, and behavior challenges so they can reach their highest potential.
She’s built and runs a multi-disciplinary evaluation and treatment clinic, is a best-selling author, published researcher, award-winning therapist, in-demand speaker, international consultant, and experienced mom who is determined to show the world that with healthy foundations in place every child and family can thrive.
We talk about...
- How kid's brains and bodies are not compatible with the way the world is today
- The importance of bringing nervous system regulation into mental health treatment
- Why kiddos with diagnoses like Reactive Attachment Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder tend to not get better over time
- How certain childhood diagnostic labels can create difficulties later in life
- Why so many more kiddos exhibit symptoms of ADD, ADHD, and Autism
- How diet and lifestyle changes allow medications to work better at a lower dose
- What you can do to improve your kiddo's mental health
- Dr. Nicole shares her concerns on how COVID impacted kid's and teen's mental health
- How parents can best support their kiddos who are scared of school shootings
- Why you need to know what your kids are doing on their technology
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Amanda White is a licensed therapist and the creator of the popular Instagram account @therapyforwomen. She is the founder and director of the group therapy practice, Therapy for Women Center, based in Philadelphia, where she serves clients across the country. Her unique expertise has been featured in notable publications such as Forbes, Washington Post, Shape, Women's Health Magazine, and more.
Amanda’s debut book, Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love is an honest discussion of mental health where Amanda explores our reasons for drinking alcohol and the benefits of taking a break.
We talk about...
- Why it’s okay to question your relationship with alcohol
- The impact alcohol has on your sleep
- What disordered drinking is and how it can lead to addiction
- How social anxiety leads to an increase in drinking
- Why moderating alcohol feels hard
- The problem with mommy wine culture
- Why coping with alcohol makes things worse the next day
- What you can do to establish healthier boundaries around alcohol
- How to support someone who’s struggling with alcohol use
- How you can still have fun when sober
- The harm in selling alcohol as self-care
- How to communicate to others that you're not drinking right now
Episode goodies...
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Elizabeth Earnshaw is one of today’s most trusted relationship teachers. She's a renowned Gottman therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Fellow of The American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy, author, and influential Instagram therapist who has helped transform countless relationships.
Elizabeth is one of the founders of Ours, where she works to make couples counseling mainstream and accessible. She also owns A Better Life Therapy in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, supporting clinicians who are helping couples every day. Her debut book, I Want This to Work, is a trustworthy, inclusive guide to navigating the most challenging relationship issues we face.
We're talking about...
- Why relationships can feel so hard
- A common cause of conflict within relationships
- The importance of co-regulation in relationships
- How to respond if your partner is not sharing how they feel
- Why it's so hard to recognize your own needs in a relationship
- The importance of effective communication in relationships
- How to reduce defensiveness from your partner
- How passion is maintained in relationships
- The impact COVID had on relationships
- A common misconception about couples counseling
- Why we all need to start talking about the fact we have conflict in our relationships
- The difference between healthy and toxic arguing
Episode goodies...
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Today's closet conversation is inspired by the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. I'm unpacking how this horrific event can leave the world anxious and the trauma response the shooting created.
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Dr. Paul Conti is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his training at Stanford and at Harvard, where he served as Chief Resident. He then worked in private practice while serving on the medical faculty at Harvard.
Dr. Conti is a general psychiatrist who was named one of Oregon’s Top Psychiatrists in 2008. He incorporates a holistic view of each client or patient into his work and treats all aspects of both mental illness and the impact of life stressors. He’s also the author of Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, a book that brings his valuable insights about how we can collectively heal from trauma’s effects to a larger audience.
We talk about...
- How Dr. Conti was inspired to become a psychiatrist after his brother died by suicide
- What we risk if we don’t look at the roots of trauma
- What trauma looks like and the dangers of trauma
- The role trauma plays in anger
- What happens when we hide trauma
- How trauma impacts your emotion systems
- What gives trauma its power
- How trauma can impact unborn children years down the road
- Dr. Conti’s thoughts on the problems with trauma and health care
- How trauma is driving trauma in our world
- Ways you can heal trauma
- What keeps people from getting the help they need
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Doctor David Carbonell is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. With over thirty-five years of experience, Dr. Carbonell offers exposure-based treatment of fears and phobias. He founded the Anxiety Treatment Center in Chicago in 1990, one of the first psychological practices in the United States devoted exclusively to the treatment of clients who sought help with anxiety disorders. He is the author of four anxiety self-help books and he also teaches workshops for therapists who want to learn more about the treatment of anxiety disorders.
We talk about...
- What a phobia is
- What the panic cycle looks like
- Why safety behaviors can become a problem
- How panic tricks you
- Why it’s important to do the opposite of what your panic is telling you to do
- How to navigate a panic attack
- What triggers a panic attack
- What a panic attack looks like
- The importance of breath
- How someone can best support a person who’s having a panic attack
Tired of anxiety hijacking your life? I want to be your anxiety coach! Click here to learn more.
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Have you ever been driving down the road and you see someone crying in another car? Well if you saw me driving down the road on May 11th, you might’ve been wondering why I was crying. To find out, hit play on today’s closet conversation.
In a world obsessed with appearances, it’s not surprising that body dysmorphic disorder, also known as BDD, has manifested itself as a troubling and relatively common problem for many individuals.
Dr. Katherine Phillips is the world's leading expert on body dysmorphic disorder. She is a physician, educator, and scientist who has spent her career caring for patients, mentoring/teaching, and conducting groundbreaking scientific research on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and other psychiatric disorders.
We talk about...
- What body dysmorphic disorder is
- The difference between BDD and body image issues
- Why people who live with BDD are convinced that they look abnormal
- What causes body dysmorphic disorder
- How BDD impairs people's ability to function.
- The treatments that do and don’t help with BDD
- Why Dr. Phillips advises people not to get cosmetic surgery
- How to know if you have body dysmorphic disorder
- The clues that someone lives with BDD
- How you can best support someone who lives with BDD
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100 episodes! I seriously can’t even believe it. That’s 100 conversations with 100 amazing humans, all in the comforts of my closet (Yup, I record in a closet). This is cause for celebration, my friend!
To celebrate this major milestone, I’m sharing clips from the top 10 most downloaded episodes on The Courageously.u Podcast. These are the most listened to and most game-changing episodes over the last two years.
The episode recaps are in chronological order, and the topics vary from anxiety to narcissism, to becoming a loving adult to your inner child. These episodes are the most popular, and I wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out on them.
I hope these clips resonate with you, inspire you, and encourage you to go back into the archives and hit play.
Here’s to 100 more, friend!
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Dr. Sherrie Campbell is a Licensed Psychologist, author, and toxic-family survivor with over two decades of clinical training experience providing counseling and psychotherapy services to residents of Orange County, California. She specializes in psychotherapy with adults and teenagers, including marriage and family therapy, grief counseling, childhood trauma, sexual issues, personality disorders, illness, and more. She also specializes in helping healthy people to cut ties with the toxic people in their lives.
We talk about...
- How Dr. Sherrie’s story influenced her work
- What a toxic family looks like
- How having a toxic family member negatively impacts your life
- What happens when you’ve been raised to believe you’re the problem
- The impact emotional abandonment has on you
- Why you need to view cutting ties as a form of self-care and self-protection
- What happens when you set a boundary with a toxic person.
- Why someone becomes a toxic family member
- The importance of being an educated empath
- Why you can’t find your needs in other people
- The significant loss you feel when you cut ties
- What cutting ties with a toxic family looks like
- What Dr. Sherrie would say to someone who’s scared to cut ties
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David Gandelman is on a mission to awaken souls on their path of growing into being human and living an enlightened, purpose-driven life. David Gandelman is a spiritual teacher, author, and guide. He is the founder of the Meditation School app, and host of the Meditation School, Energy Matters, and Grounded Sleep podcasts.
We talk about...
- What soul energy is
- What spirituality looks like
- The role invalidation plays in perfectionism
- What people do to avoid pain
- The one teaching David wants to leave everyone with
- Why it’s important to strengthen your spiritual muscle
- Why you should check your energetic weather
- The seven energy archetypes
- How we can use all seven energies in a healthy way
- Why you need to change your energy if you want to change your future
- How at the core of all energies is a memory that turned into beliefs that then turned into blocks
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Over thirty years, doctors diagnosed Sarah Fay with six different mental illnesses and today Sarah Fay joins us on the show to discuss what it’s like to live with those diagnoses.
We talk about...
- Sarah’s mental health journey and her history of identifying with her diagnoses
- Why she chooses not to know her current diagnosis
- The events that led to Sarah living with anorexia
- What withdrawal from SSRIs looked like for Sarah
- Why Sarah chose not to apply for disability
- How little reliability there is in a diagnosis
- Why primary care physicians shouldn’t diagnose people
- The importance of questioning your diagnosis
- What Sarah’s ideal conversation between patient and provider would look like
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Bethany is a writer, international speaker, transformational coach, and author of the must-read book, Discovering the Inner Mother. She is considered the global expert on healing the mother wound, something we inherit to varying degrees as women living in a patriarchy.
She started blogging in 2013 about the Mother Wound and quickly experienced worldwide demand for her work. Through blending research on intergenerational trauma, feminist theory, and psychology with her personal story, Bethany's work is the result of decades of research and her own journey of healing. Bethany speaks, consults and mentors around the world sharing her growing body of work that is raising the standard of women’s leadership and personal development.
We talk about...
- What inspired Bethany to work with the mother wound
- What the mother wound is and how it shows up
- What a daughter can do if their mother isn’t willing to change
- The goal of healing the mother wound
- The power of inner mothering
- What happens when you self-silence your feelings regarding your mother
- What keeps the mother wound in place
- Reasons women feel guilty for healing their mother wound
- What forms true love and intimacy
- Whether or not you can heal your mother wound while still maintaining contact with your mother
- What the mother wound has to do with self-sabotage
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Dr. Kevin Gilliland is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, executive director of Innovation360, and host of the Struggle Well, Live Well, Worry Less podcast. Over the past twenty years, Kevin has mentored countless individuals and couples, participated in research trials, and lectured across the country. He currently teaches in the Counseling Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas where he instructs graduate students.
We talk about...
- How excess worry talks us out of good things
- Kevin’s thoughts on how COVID impacted people’s mental health
- The lies worry tells us and how believing these lies leads to a small world
- How the news negatively impacts your mental health
- How COVID shaped kid's behaviors
- The resiliency of humans
- The madness of everyone buying toilet paper at the start of COVID
- Kevin’s thoughts on how social media is impacting mental health
- Setting boundaries with your cellphone
- The worst advice you can give someone who wants to enjoy life
- How Kevin starts with the basics to help people heal their mental health
- How to navigate the madness surrounding Russia and Ukraine
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Dr. Ellen Vora is a board-certified holistic psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health - considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root rather than reflexively prescribing medication. Ellen received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University.
In her just-launched book, The Anatomy of Anxiety, Ellen reframes our understanding of and relationship with anxiety, allowing for healing, growth, and joy.
We talk about...
- What Ellen thinks about conventional medical training
- How our well-being hinges on the health of our gut
- The role bacteria plays in the presentation of anxiety
- The importance of focusing on your body when improving mental health
- What happens when inflammation inflames the brain
- The difference between false anxiety and true anxiety
- Why it’s so important to engage in unstimulated rest
- How to strengthen your connection to your intuition
- The role blood sugar and intermittent fasting plays in anxiety
- Psychedelics and CBD being used as a form of treatment
- Social media and its impact on our anxiety
- Why it's so dang important to soak up the sunshine
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Today’s guest is a champion of the Enneagram and an awakener of people. Ian Morgan Cron is a best-selling author, psychotherapist, Enneagram teacher, Episcopal priest, and the host of the wildly popular podcast, "Typology.” He is a pioneer in the contemporary Enneagram movement and a highly sought-after speaker.
Known for his transparency, humor, and depth of insight into the inner workings of the human heart and mind, Ian uses the Enneagram personality typing system as a tool to help people cultivate self-awareness and find happiness. Ian believes the Enneagram is not just a powerful tool for personal growth, but also a great resource for transforming our relationships in every sphere of life.
Today we chat about...
- What inspired Ian to work with enneagrams
- What an enneagram is
- Whether or not there is a “bad” enneagram
- How the enneagram shows you your strengths and shadows
- How enneagrams evolve as you age
- Being stuck in the wrong story and how you can inhabit a new one
- How knowing your enneagram helps you navigate your story
- What a false self looks like and how you can show up as your true self
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Nancy Mae has helped people from all walks of life improve their lives in a wide range of ways: from getting pregnant to overcoming pain to making important shifts in their lives. She is a Hay House award-winning author who went from being in both physical and spiritual pain to healed through the power of alternative therapies. Her transformational experience inspired her to radically change professions, create the Energetic Fertility Method™, become an award-winning author, and she now works helping people improve and even transform their lives.
Today we chat about...
- What inspired Nancy to get into energy work
- The importance of having authentic communication with your future children
- Fear surrounding bringing in your future child
- How striving for a baby creates an energetic block
- Having an energetic hygiene practice
- Checking in with the younger aspect of you to give you insight into where you might be blocked
- Why you need awareness to create change
- How to tap into your inner child
- The importance of creating a safe space so you’re grounded in your environment
- What energy medicine is and how can we use it to bring a baby into the world
- How to know when our energy has become stuck or stagnant
- How perfection can be blocks to bringing in a child
- Being present in the earths energy
- How to know if you want a baby because society says you should or because you actually want one
- How anger impacts your overall energy
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After the birth of her first son, Antonia Schachter began to struggle with an increase in anxiety. She was waking up in the middle of the night hyperventilating and in panic. Desperate for relief, she sought help through medications. Thirty years later, with many different medications, a hospitalization, suicidal thoughts, and an additional diagnosis, Antonia is still trying to taper off her psych meds.
Today we chat about...
- Antonia's journey with psychiatric medications
- How Antonia found psych meds helpful until she didn’t
- The importance of informed consent
- How Antonia went from struggling with anxiety to later being diagnosed with depression
- Her experience with withdrawal symptoms and suicidal thoughts
- How she found help through an online community
- Where the mental health system is going wrong
- Antonia's side effects and her experience with tardive dyskinesia
- How some psychiatrists are starting to change the mental health narrative
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Nicole Lohse is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Feldenkrais and Yoga Practitioner. She supports people in recognizing their own innate ability to move past the blocks that are stopping them from living fulfilling lives. She addresses patterns that stem from trauma - including shock, developmental, inter-generational, and really anything that involves the need to survive. Her style of working is very intuitive and awareness-based. It involves seeing YOU as a whole and supporting you as you move out of the survival responses that you're stuck in, into the wholeness that is your truth.
Today we chat about...
- What got Nicole into Somatic Experiencing
- Nicole’s thoughts on when you should start a yoga practice
- What Somatic Experiencing is, the nervous system, and threat response cycle
- What happens when fight/flight energy isn’t discharged
- What trauma means to Nicole
- The power of listening to the body when healing trauma
- How survival patterns protect us from feeling the pain from trauma
- Nicole's thoughts on why so many people are disconnected from their bodies
- How trauma and survival patterns limit people from accessing meaningful and authentic relationships with themself and others
- What it means to be dysregulated and how we can become more regulated
- The power of being engaged and connected with nature
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Dr. Martha Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every aspect of their lives.
Her written work includes several New York Times and international bestsellers, as well as over 150 magazine articles. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.”
Martha is a passionate and engaging speaker, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. For over two decades she has been, in the words of NPR and USA Today, “the best-known life coach in America.” Her published works include several self-help books and memoirs, including New York Times and international bestsellers Finding Your Own North Star, The Joy Diet, and Expecting Adam. Martha’s newest book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller.
Today we chat about...
- The integrity cleanse that inspired The Way of integrity
- What integrity looks like and how to know you’re out of integrity
- How working jobs we were never meant to can lead to suffering
- What you need to do to find purpose and joy
- Cultural hustle vs living from a place of integrity
- The four stages you go through on your quest to integrity
- What happens when you sell your freedom to get “stuff”
- Hell thoughts and how they keep you in suffering
- Martha’s thoughts on why so many people are out of alignment with their inner truth
- The importance of paying attention when your inner toddler throws a tantrum
- How little changes put you on the path of reclaiming your integrity
- How to navigate social comparison
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Dr. Erica Matluck is trained as a Naturopathic Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, Reiki Master, massage therapist, and vinyasa and kundalini yoga instructor. She has extensive training and experience in both conventional and alternative approaches to healing and has studied with masters from various traditions around the world.
Erica offers a uniquely holistic lens and a variety of therapeutic modalities to support her clients including addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and energetic obstacles in their way.
Today we chat about...
- What Erica believes is the biggest challenge with healing today
- How the healing process changes with age
- What holistic means to Erica
- Where Erica believes all miracles live
- What spirituality means to Erica and how she uses spirituality in her healing practice
- The different chakra themes and how to know if yours are out of balance
- How we cycle like the seasons
- The question we need to ask ourselves if we catch ourselves procrastinating
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Sean Gunderson is a survivor of nearly two decades of psychiatric detention. He found solace during those times by engaging in a daily spiritual practice rooted in meditation. Now free of the psychiatric system that detained him for his entire youth, he offers his insights on the mental health system in hopes of transforming it into what it is intended to be: a system where people who need help can go to truly heal.
We chat about...
- The intense spiritual experience he had at 17 years old
- How his spiritual experience led to him spending 17 years locked up in psychiatric facilities
- What Sean believes put his life into a tailspin
- What his delusional thought processes looked like
- His parent's concerns and encouragement to seek help
- The event that led to Sean's arrest and the court proceedings that followed
- His daily struggle for survival and how sitting in jail worsened his delusions
- The collateral damage of the criminal justice system
- Whether or not anyone ever tried to explore the root cause of Sean's symptoms
- When Sean was unconditionally discharged after 17 years in the criminal justice system
- How Sean's using his experience to peacefully change the minds of those in the mental health field
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Dr. Holly Richmond is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified sex therapist, and she holds a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology. This unique combination of professional credentials enables her to focus on clients’ cognitive processes as well as their somatic (body-based) health. Dr. Holly is one of North America’s leading sex therapists, serving women, men, couples, and gender-diverse individuals for relationship and sexuality issues.
She works from a sex-positive approach, meaning: “all sex is good sex as long as it’s consensual and pleasurable.” She is committed to helping her clients feel better—mind and body—not just behave differently. Dr. Holly’s latest book, Reclaiming Pleasure is a groundbreaking examination of both somatic and psychological factors in survivors’ recovery.
We chat about...
- What inspired Dr. Holly to write Reclaiming Pleasure
- Some common emotional and physical impacts of sexual trauma
- The connection between eating disorders and sexual trauma
- How sexual trauma impacts relationships with others
- The four trauma responses
- Being triggered during future intimacy
- How shame can go inward after sexual trauma
- The power of somatic therapy when healing from sexual trauma
- Whether or not sexual trauma can impact libido
- What it looks like to be sexually healthy
- How one can create a more passionate life after sexual trauma
- What Dr. Holly would say to someone who believes it’s too late to reclaim pleasure and passion
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Wendy Behary specializes in treating narcissists and the people who live with and deal with them. With 25+ years of professional experience and advanced level certifications, Wendy is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She has been treating clients, training professionals, and supervising psychotherapists for more than 20 years.
She is also a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Wendy served as the President of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy and also served as their Training and Certification Coordinator. She currently serves as the chair of the Schema Therapy Development Programs Sub-Committee.
Wendy has co-authored several chapters and articles on Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy. She is the author of an internationally bestselling book, "Disarming the Narcissist,” which has been translated into 15 languages. She also has a private practice primarily devoted to treating narcissists, partners/people dealing with them, and couples experiencing relationship problems.
We chat about...
- What inspired Wendy to work with narcissists
- What narcissism looks like
- How narcissism presents in men and women
- What it looks like to grow up with a narcissistic parent
- How to know you’re in a relationship with a narcissist
- Whether or not narcissists ever feel bad for their behavior
- How to have a conversation with a narcissist who always thinks everything is your fault
- Why you might be triggered by a narcissist
- The importance of being the narrator of your experience when speaking with a narcissist
- Why no one is immune to finding themself caught in the spell of a narcissist
- One of the hardest issues for people coming out of a relationship with a narcissist
- Hypersexual narcissism and what it looks like
- Co-parenting with a narcissist
- How do you cope if you have a narcissist in your life
- Whether or not narcissism can be successfully treated
- What Wendy would say to a therapist who’s struggling with a narcissistic client
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Twenty-two years on a psych med! What?! Join me inside an all-new Closet Conversations where I process how one Instagram post left me feeling overwhelmed with emotion. I also discuss my intentions with speaking against the mental health model. At the end of the day, I just want you to be informed, my friend.
If you love today's episode, I hope you’ll consider following the podcast and giving it a written review, and checking in with me on Instagram.
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David Healy is a psychiatrist, scientist, psychopharmacologist, and author. Before becoming a professor of Psychiatry in Wales, and more recently in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Canada, he studied medicine in Dublin, and at Cambridge University.
He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed articles and 25 books, including The Antidepressant Era, The Creation of Psychopharmacology, Let Them Eat Prozac, Mania, and Pharmageddon.
David’s main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.
David has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide trials involving psychotropic drugs, and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention of American and European regulators, as well as raising awareness of how pharmaceutical companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghost-writing their articles.
And that’s not all. David is also a founder and CEO of Data Based Medicine Limited, which operates through its website RxISK.org, dedicated to making medicines safer through online direct patient reporting of drug side effects.
We chat about...
- Ghostwriting in scientific research
- Why his job is knowing when not to prescribe medications
- How little is known about SSRI’s and what they do
- Why the negative side of medications needs to be recognized too
- The impact of taking SSRI’s while pregnant
- Why people are failing to see that psych meds can be both good and bad
- How psychiatric medications affect the brain and ability to make love
- Where doctors are going wrong with prescribing
- David's thoughts on the chemical imbalance theory
- How SSRI’s are not correcting anything
- How medications have become sacramental
- Why doctors need to wake up to the problems pills are causing
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Aimee Raupp is a renowned women’s health & fertility expert, celebrity acupuncturist, and coach. She’s also the best-selling author of the books Chill Out & Get Healthy, Yes, You Can Get Pregnant, Body Belief, and The Egg Quality Diet: A clinically proven 100-day fertility diet to balance hormones, reduce inflammation, improve egg quality & optimize your ability to get & stay pregnant.
Aimee works virtually with clients all over the world. She’s also a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in private practice in New York and Connecticut. Aimee holds a Master of Science degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Rutgers University. She is also the founder of the Aimee Raupp Beauty line of hand-crafted, organic skincare products that are optimized for hormone harmony.
We chat about...
- Aimee's thoughts on why so many women struggle to get pregnant
- The two most common reasons for fertility challenges
- The difference between how Western medicine and Chinese medicine approach fertility
- The role emotional inflammation plays in fertility
- How to feel like you're still living while also amplifying health and fertility
- The four phases of the Egg Quality Diet
- How long it takes for the body to reset itself
- Why you need to stop giving your power away when it comes to healing your health
- The number one thing we need for fertility
- Why you need to stop using the word infertility
- The importance of exploring the emotional "why" behind why you want a baby
- Why you want a warm uterus as opposed to a cold one
- The power of connecting to the spirit of the child before they come through
- Why you have every right to grieve the fact that your life didn’t work out exactly how you thought it would
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature parent, you may still struggle with anger, sadness, self-doubt, or shame. As a child it’s likely most of your emotional needs weren’t met, your feelings dismissed, and you took on adult levels of self-restraint to deal with your parent's behavior. Somewhere along the way, you lost your sense of self. And without this strong sense of self, you may now feel like your own well-being isn’t valuable.
Today Dr. Lindsay Gibson joins us on the show to tell you that it’s time to make yourself a priority. Lindsay has been a psychotherapist for over thirty years, working in both public and private practice. In the past, she has served as an adjunct assistant professor in Clinical Psychology, teaching doctoral students clinical theory and psychotherapeutic techniques.
We chat about...
- The three parts of Lindsay’s book Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
- What an emotionally immature parent looks like
- Why self-care is crucial when raised by an emotionally immature parent
- The importance of taking care of your needs in the moment
- Why self-care is not selfish
- Our favorite insights from the book
- How to maintain connection with self
- The power of nature
- How social anxiety ignites from not being allowed to be yourself
- A relaxation technique to help calm your nervous system
- How lack of self-care leads to self-repair
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David Carmichael made headlines when he was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 11-year-old son, Ian.
On July 31, 2004, in a London, Canada hotel room, David crushed up sleeping pills, sedated his son, and strangled him. At the time of the murder, David was experiencing an adverse reaction to the prescription Paxil, which he had begun taking three weeks prior.
While others believed David was “getting better,” he was actually descending into a private chemically-induced hell of delusion. In his state of psychosis, David believed, that his healthy son, who had a mild form of epilepsy, was brain-damaged, dangerous, and needed to die. Out of love for his family, David believed it would be best for him to take Ian’s life and to sacrifice his own life by spending the next 25 years in prison.
Today David shares his story with us as a warning to know your drugs.
We chat about...
- The delusions that led to his son's death
- What went through David's mind as he watched tv following the murder
- Why David accessed psychiatric medications
- The side effects David was experiencing while on Paxil
- Whether he was ever informed of possible side effects
- Why he initially stopped taking Paxil
- What the trial process looked like
- Why it's important to not blindly trust doctors
- What David's mental health treatment looks like now
- When the psychosis lifted and he realized what he had done
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Dr. Ian Kerner likes to call himself the Sherlock Holmes of the bedroom and is one of the most recognizable voices in clinical sex therapy. He is a licensed psychotherapist and nationally recognized sexuality counselor who specializes in sex therapy, couples therapy, and working with individuals on a range of relational issues that often lead to distress.
He approaches psychotherapy from an integrative perspective, which seeks to explain human behavior by bringing together physiological, affective, cognitive-behavioral, neurobiological, and systemic approaches as they apply to the natural stages of human development and the wide range of human functioning.
Ian is also the New York Times best-selling author of numerous books, including She Comes First. His latest book, So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex, is available now wherever you get your books.
WE CHAT ABOUT... * Why Ian calls himself the Sherlock Holmes of the bedroom * Some common challenges couples face when it comes to their sex lives * What a sex script is and how it can be useful * The difference between spontaneous desire and responsive desire * How the brain responds to turn-ons and turn-offs * What fantasy and mind based arousal look like * The importance of making a ritual out of weekly sex * Why you should be changing up your sex script to help with arousal * What to do when you can’t shut your thoughts off during sex * How to navigate through guilt and shame when you were raised in a sex-negative home * What to do if sharing a fantasy, or role-play, feels uncomfortable * What to do if there’s a mismatch in libido * How fantasy and power play are a way of processing and resolving trauma, and that many find kink to be therapeutic * Why labeling your partner as “sexless” or “sex addict” isn’t helpful * How biological, psychological, sociological, and relational variables can negatively impact sexuality * The homework assignments Ian would suggest if you wanted to change your sex script
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Russ Harris is a doctor, therapist, father, trainer of health professionals, and author of The Happiness Trap (plus eight other must-read books). He started his career as a newly-graduated doctor back in 1989 and soon discovered that most of his patients were expressing a significant degree of dissatisfaction in life. He was no stranger to their struggles as he was also experiencing something similar himself.
Even though he had a successful career with a dream job, good income, and high status, he was depressed, anxious, and overweight. He felt his life lacked a sense of meaning and purpose, and at times he was even suicidal. Struggling to understand why he felt this way, he set off on a journey to find out what makes people unhappy and what creates genuine and lasting happiness. After navigating down a lot of blind alleys and dead ends, he eventually discovered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
It was love at first discovery. Through ACT, Russ learned how to enrich and enhance his life, and transform the way he dealt with painful thoughts and feelings. This marked a big change for him as he realized he was far more interested in helping his patients build richer more meaningful lives than he was in writing prescriptions for medical conditions. So he threw away his prescription pad and retrained as a therapist.
We chat about...
- How Russ had all the external markers of success but internally he was miserable
- What Acceptance and Commitment therapy looks like
- How emotions are like the weather
- What the natural state of human emotions looks like
- How antidepressants can be an attractive proposition for someone who feels miserable
- What we should be aiming for when it comes to happiness
- Russ's inspiration for writing When Life Hits Hard
- The difference between grief, sadness, and depression
- How you can use ACT to navigate grief, loss, and crisis
- The importance of making room for emotions if you're going through acute grief
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Dr. Colin Ross is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher, author, and lecturer in the field of dissociation, and trauma-related disorders. He is the founder and President of The Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma. Colin completed medical school at the University of Alberta and his psychiatry training at the University of Manitoba. He is a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and is the author of over 250 papers and 35 books. He has spoken widely throughout North America, Europe, China, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand.
We chat about...
- What inspired Dr. Colin Ross to become a psychiatrist
- His thoughts on the lack of trauma training in schools
- What's wrong with the current mental health field
- The role trauma plays in the presentation of mental illness
- Colin's thoughts on the chemical imbalance theory
- Whether or not schizophrenia is a genetic brain disease
- Auditory and visual hallucinations and how they're related to trauma
- How different cultures view voices as either good or bad
- The role voices play in Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Dr. Colin Ross' thoughts on the core motive of why voices want a person dead
- What it means to dissociate
- Colin's approach to healing trauma in a nutshell
- Electrodes being implanted in the brain
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Tracey Higgins joins us on the show today to share how she healed from schizophrenia after losing 19 years of her life to a condition that affects millions of people worldwide. At the age of nine, she was taken from her home where she became a ward of the state. Over the next 19 years, she moved around from hospitals, group homes, a juvenile center, and the streets.
In her late twenties, Tracey found the courage to leave her schizophrenic world to help a child who was being sexually abused by her father; she discovered at the same time she too had been sexually abused as a child. That triggered off the healing process from her own dark world that robbed her of her dignity and basic human rights. When describing schizophrenia, Tracey calls it a waking nightmare. Coming out of it is a true awakening of oneself—becoming weller than well, a new version of self.
It has been said that schizophrenia is an incurable brain disease, but is it? Tracey says no. She believes it’s a survival mechanism brought on by disturbing or traumatic circumstances.
Today Tracey is here to tell you that schizophrenia doesn’t have to be a life sentence. While some mental health professionals called her hopeless, she went to college, worked in Government, and owned and operated a popular restaurant.
We chat about...
- Where Tracey's mental health journey began
- What her symptoms looked like
- Why she calls her symptoms "reactions"
- What life looked like living with paranoid schizophrenia
- How she suffered from trauma amnesia
- What it was like to have the memories of abuse flood back
- How she navigated living with schizophrenia without medications
- What it was like to be a ward of the state
- Tracey's thoughts on what is wrong with our current mental health system
- Why Tracey's against the brain disease theory
- What she believes treatment should look like for people who live with schizophrenia
- Tracey's thoughts on what she believes leads to schizophrenia
- What she feels would have helped her back in the day
- Tracey's struggle with suicidal ideations
- What her mental health looks like today
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Dr. Margaret Paul is a bestselling author, popular MindBodyGreen writer, and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® self-healing process, and the related SelfQuest® self-healing online program. She has appeared on numerous radio and television shows (including Oprah). Her book titles include Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved By You, Healing Your Aloneness and Inner Bonding, and the recently published, Diet For Divine Connection and The Inner Bonding Workbook. Margaret holds a Ph.D. in psychology, is a relationship expert, public speaker, consultant, and artist. She has successfully worked with thousands and taught classes and seminars for over 50 years.
Today we're chatting about...
- What the Inner Bonding process looks like
- How Margaret defines the inner child and the inner adult
- The two intentions of Inner Bonding
- How to know when you’re in a loving adult state
- What happens when your adult becomes disconnected from your inner child
- The four major ways you abandon yourself
- How self-abandonment leads to the presentation of mental health symptoms
- What Margaret believes is the cause of our suffering
- How abandonment in childhood plays out in relationships
- Why it’s never too late to use the inner bonding process
- How caretaking and niceness could be your wounded self attempting to control
- Tips to help kiddos learn inner bonding
- How to respond to someone who has a wounded soul
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Before you can succeed at parenting, you must first succeed as a couple. Today’s episode is for all the new parents, soon-to-be parents, or wanna-be future parents like myself.
Today is an exciting day because I have not one but two guests joining me on the show. Kara Hoppe and Dr. Stan Tatkin join us on the show to discuss their new book Baby Bomb: A relationship survival guide for new parents. Baby Bomb is the resource you need when a new baby turns your life—and your romantic relationship—upside down.
Today we're chatting about...
- How you and your partner can co-parent and co-partner as a solid and supportive team— while also cultivating mad love for each other
- Why Stan and Kara wrote Baby Bomb
- How a secure-functioning relationship is essential for raising happy, healthy kids
- Why it’s important to put the relationship before baby
- What couples can do when a new baby turns their life upside down
- Why babies don’t save marriages
- The importance of letting your partner know they are a priority
- Why it’s a benefit to step back as a new mom and receive care
- How to communicate your needs better to your partner
- What to do when you're jealous of your own baby
- How to keep intimacy alive after baby
- The importance of meeting your own individual needs
- Grieving your pre-baby life
- Why it’s important your relationship is in good shape before baby
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Katinka Blackford Newman is an award-winning documentary film director, journalist, and author. While going through a divorce, Katinka took an antidepressant. Not unusual – except that things didn't turn out quite as she expected. She went into a four-day toxic psychosis with violent hallucinations, imagining she had killed her children, and in fact attacking herself with a knife.
Caught up in a real-life nightmare when doctors didn't realize she was suffering side effects of more pills, she went into a year-long decline. Soon she was wandering around in an old dressing gown, unable to care for herself, and dribbling. She nearly lost everything, but luck stepped in; treated at another hospital, she was taken off all the medication and made a miraculous recovery within weeks.
Since then, Katinka has researched the side effects of antidepressants and interviewed some of the world’s leading experts. Her best-selling book The Pill that Steals Lives has been featured on Radio 5 Live, BBC London, Good Morning Britain, the Victoria Derbyshire Show, and in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, and The British Journal of Psychiatry.
In 2017 her research was made into a BBC Panorama program A Prescription for Murder which investigated whether an antidepressant could be the cause of one of the worst mass killings of this century. She is also the co-founder of a not-for-profit organization called Antidepressant Risks.
Today we chat about...
- How Katinka lost a year of her life after taking Lexapro
- Katinka lacerating her arm with a knife
- The different medications Katinka was put on to try and treat the adverse effects of Lexapro
- How antidepressants are no more effective than a placebo
- The role drug companies play in the chemical imbalance theory
- How Katinka lost the ability to love, feel, care for herself, and show up for her children
- What mental health looks like in the UK
- The importance of recognizing red flags to adverse effects to medications
- What shocked Katinka most when doing her research
- How Katinka lost the will to live and her constant thought of “I want to kill myself”
- The realization Katinka had when she reflected on her father's suicide
- Why for-profit mental health services can be a dangerous situation
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Nancy Colier joins us on the show to teach you how to let go of anxiety and free yourself from obsessive rumination. Nancy is a psychotherapist, interfaith minister, author, public speaker, mindfulness teacher, and relationship coach. She’s a longtime student of Eastern spirituality and mindfulness practices form the ground of her work.
She is the author of the recent, Can't Stop Thinking, The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World, Inviting a Monkey to Tea: Befriending Your Mind and Discovering Lasting Contentment, and other books.Nancy is a national speaker on wellbeing and mindfulness, and technology-related topics including parenting, addiction, and work-life balance. She is also a regular blogger for Psychology Today and Huffington Post.
Today we chat about...
- How Nancy's history of chronic rumination inspired her to write Can’t Stop Thinking
- What it looks like to become addicted to your thoughts
- How Nancy categorizes addictive thinking
- What Nancy thinks we are really afraid of
- What calms down our compulsive need to think
- The importance of watching your thoughts and stepping away
- How to find freedom and peace from your thoughts
- What keeps us hooked to our thoughts
- Nancy’s thoughts on toxic positivity and what you should do instead
- What rumination looks like and how to break free from your ruminating thoughts
- My struggle with rehearsing hard conversations in my head and the impact it had on my mood
- What to do when you’re caught in what-if statements
- How to tackle worrisome thoughts that pop up at night
- The ability to choose whether you think about a thought
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Join me inside today's bonus closet conversation episode where I'm talking all things Fight-Flight-Freeze.
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David Cohen is a professor of social welfare at UCLA. His research looks at psychoactive drugs (prescribed, licit, and illicit) and their desirable and undesirable effects as socio-cultural phenomena “constructed” through language, policy, attitudes, and social interactions.
Today we chat about...
- What piqued David's interest in mental health
- Where he thinks the mental health model is going wrong
- What makes someone psychotic as opposed to not psychotic
- How drugs fail to stabilize people
- David’s thoughts on the chemical imbalance theory
- When you’re at most risk to commit suicide
- What the mental health system aims for
- The two different pathways to involuntary commitment
- The dark heart of involuntary commitment
- David's thoughts on medicating and diagnosing children
- Why psychiatric medication is not like insulin
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Darcey Sergers joins us inside Episode 71 of The Courageously.u Podcast to chat about the time she lived with bipolar. Darcey lived with depression and anxiety on and off again beginning in her adolescent years. In 2016, after experiencing multiple stressors, she had a breakdown which led her to access psychiatric medications for the first time.
A year-and-a-half after starting her medications, her symptoms began to worsen, and she knew she had to begin the slow taper off her medications. As she tapered off her medications, her trauma story began to unfold and she finally began the process of true healing.
Now off all psychiatric medications, Darcey is advocating for everyone to get curious about the root cause of their symptoms, be open-minded to different forms of treatment, and to explore what mental health means to you.
Today we are chatting about...
- The toughest thing for Darcey after she was diagnosed with bipolar
- Where Darcey's mental health journey began
- What her breakdown looked like
- Darcey's thoughts on taking control of your healing
- Why it's important to find a therapist that’s a good fit for you
- The tole trauma played in the presentation of Darcey’s mental health symptoms
- Darcey's soul-sucking journey with mental health medications
- What it looked like for Darcey to taper off psychiatric medications
- The importance of bodywork when healing mental health symptoms
- Why Darcey was not born with bipolar, depression, or anxiety
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Stop making excuses, friend! If there is something on your heart, do it. If you hate your job, leave it. If you want to build the life of your dreams, go for it. Whatever you do, stop making excuses for why you aren't doing the thing.
In today's closet conversation, I'm hanging out with you with the hopes of delivering a dose of empowerment and inspiration.
I'm sharing my fears, excuses, how I overcame them, and more.
Oh yeah, one last thing, did you know I offer 1:1 anxiety coaching? Yup, I do! I look at the whole picture (trauma, lifestyle, diet, ACEs, thoughts, stress, etc). and help you heal the root of your anxiety. If you’re ready to heal your anxiety, Click here to learn more.
Dr. Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop, which was highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic. Dr. Lembke recently appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.
Her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence explores how to moderate overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.
Today we are chatting about...
- What inspired Anna to write Dopamine Nation
- Anna’s definition of addiction
- The 3 C’s of diagnosing addiction
- The neuroscience of addiction
- Whether or not we all have a drug of choice
- How the mere anticipation of our drug of choice gives us a dopamine hit
- What drives cravings
- The role substances play in the presentation of mental health symptoms
- Whether or not there is such a thing as an addictive personality
- The problem of overprescribing psychotropic medications
- How to reset your dopamine threshold
- The number one risk factor for addiction
- How drugs are becoming a substitute for self-care
- The opioid epidemic and the rise of benzodiazepine prescribing
- What the addictive potential for drugs is
- Why there’s power in sharing your shame
- The addictive potential of different drugs
- What abstinence violation syndrome is
- The impact substances have on a growing fetus’s brain
- My struggle with sugar as my drug
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Victoria Albina is a Certified Life Coach, Family Nurse Practitioner, and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping women realize that they are their own best healers. With over 20 years of experience working in health & wellness, Victoria’s on a mission to help women break free from codependency, perfectionism, and people-pleasing and reclaim their joy.
She’s also the host of the Feminist Wellness Podcast, holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Boston University and a BA in Latin American Studies.
We also chat about...
- How Victoria’s own health issues inspired her to help others
- Why the medical world isn’t talking about mysterious illnesses
- What Victoria believes is the underlying root cause of physical suffering
- The power of letting the body speak
- How Victoria uses the Polyvagal Theory in her work
- The importance of being in body
- What sacred anger is and what happens when we hold it down
- How Victoria's anxiety and depression felt and presented
- Why it's imperative to learn to trust yourself
- What codependent thinking is
- How perfectionism and people pleasing can lead to somatic manifestations
- What self-abandonment looks like
- How to connect with your inner child
- The role boundaries play in physical health
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Dr. Drew Ramsey, MD is a psychiatrist, author, and farmer. His work focuses on clinical excellence, nutritional interventions, and creative media. He is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and in active telemedicine clinical practice based in New York City.
His work has been featured by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lancet Psychiatry, The Today Show, BBC, and NPR and he has given three TEDx talks. He is the co-author of the Antidepressant Food Scale and his e-courses on Nutritional Psychiatry education for the public and clinicians. His books Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety (Harperwave 2021), Eat Complete, 50 Shades of Kale, and The Happiness Diet explore the connections between mental health and nutrition. He is on the Advisory Board at Men’s Health, the Editorial Board at Medscape Psychiatry, and is a member of the Well+Good Wellness Council.
He splits his time between New York City and Crawford County, Indiana where he lives with his wife and children on their organic farm and forest.
We also chat about...
- What nutritional psychiatry is
- How Drew stumbled into nutritional psychiatry
- The only time in traditional psychiatry when food is discussed
- The four ways food impacts mental health
- Food in institutions and schools
- The role food plays in ADHD
- Where to begin if you want to use food to improve your mental health
- Why some people might say hummus is bad
- Specific foods to help improve anxiety
- How much fish we should be eating
- Ways to spice up your veggies
- Drews thoughts on alcohol and caffeine
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During the winter of 2004, Rose Yesha had her first brush with psychiatry after she experienced a panic attack. Fast forward fifteen years, multiple diagnoses, and over a dozen different mental health medications, she found herself suffering silently.
Today Rose joins us on the show to discuss how one panic attack led to fifteen years of psychiatric drugs.
We also chat about...
- Factors that contributed to Rose's mind-body dysregulation
- How Rose felt invalidated when reporting side effects to her doctor
- What Rose's mental health treatment looked like
- How one panic attack resulted in being given multiple diagnoses over the fifteen years
- When Rose realized what she was doing was no longer working
- How she felt manipulated into the narrative that she lived with a mental illness
- Why its a conflict of interest for the person delivering the medication to provide informed consent
- Why psychiatric drugs is not the same as needing insulin
- How providers are setting people up for failure
- What it looked like for Rose to come off psychiatric drugs
- How she is managing her anxiety now
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Welcome to the first-ever Closet Conversations, with me, your host Tara Bixby!
You might be scratching your head, wondering, what is a closet conversation?
Closet Conversations are bonus episodes on The Courageously.u Podcast where I share what's on my heart. These are solo episodes where I sit in my closet and chat with you like we are best buds hanging out on the couch. Every now and then, I might also toss in some tips and tricks that I feel will help you live your best life.
Today's Closet Conversation is on the topic of COVID vaccinations and my struggle with mean people on social media. I get real, shed a few tears, and define who I want in my inner circle.
Hit play on today's bonus episode if you're ready to hear why I chose not to get vaccinated and my thoughts about the current state of the world.
My anxiety mentor, Dr. Catherine Pittman, joins us on the show for the third time to discuss her latest book Rewire Your OCD Brain: Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears.
Catherine is a professor and teaching is one of her greatest joys, so I thought it would be fun to switch things up a bit. Rather than me asking questions, I wanted to give you a look into what it’d feel like to sit inside one of her classes.
Today’s lecture focuses on how and why your brain gets stuck in a loop of obsessive thinking, uncertainty, and worry, and the tools you need to short-circuit this response and get your symptoms under control—for good.
Today, we're chatting about...
- Who Rewire Your OCD Brain is for
- What OCD is
- Where anxiety comes from in the brain
- Why you have symptoms when anxious
- The role the cortex plays in anxiety
- Why the amygdala is important
- Were fear memories are stored
- The importance of keeping your cortex calm if you live with OCD
- Why you need to get off the worry channel
- The benefits of worry
- How you can heal OCD
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As a kid, Tabitha Fergusin was verbally, emotionally, sexually, and physically abused. She was bullied by her peers and was later pushed into the juvenile justice system due to her negative behaviors - behaviors that were a cry for help.
By the age of ten, she had been diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Parent-Child Relational Problems, Partner Relational Disorder, and a Developmental Disorder. Later she was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Emotional Disturbance, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and ADHD. Over the years, Tabitha gained a laundry list of diagnoses with no one ever exploring the root of her symptoms - trauma.
Today, we're chatting about...
- The adversity Tabitha faced as a child
- How Tabitha's trauma was medicated and labeled
- What inspired Tabitha to share her courageous story
- The importance of schools using trauma-informed practices
- Tabitha’s thoughts on mental health medication
- Why not all doctors are omniscient when it comes to mental health
- What an ACE score is and Tabitha’s score
- The importance of getting to the root of kiddos symptoms
- My thoughts on how Glennon Doyle discusses mental health medication in her book Untamed
- Tabitha's history of substance use, suicide attempts, and what she wishes she could tell her younger self
- What life looks like now for Tabitha
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Dr. Laura Berman is the world’s leading expert in sex, love, and relationships. She earned two Masters and a Ph.D. degree from New York University and has spent the last several decades helping individuals and couples around the globe love and be loved better.
She is a New York Times bestselling author of many books, including her latest “Quantum Love.” She is an award-winning radio host and has her own podcast, “The Language of Love.”
Dr. Berman previously hosted her own program, “In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman,” on the OWN Network. She is a popular television personality who makes regular appearances on daytime television shows like “The Rachael Ray Show,” “The Dr. Oz Show,” “TODAY,” “Good Morning America,” and many more. She is a frequent contributor to women’s magazines like Cosmo, Glamour, and more.
Today, we're chatting about...
- Why people are so afraid to talk about sex
- How important is it to have intimacy and sex in a relationship
- What to do when you’re in a stalemate with your sex life
- Where women’s desire resides
- How to put yourself in the mood
- What to do when sex feels like a chore
- How to communicate what you like to your partner
- What to do if you’re nervous to initiate sex
- How to start from scratch in your sex life
- How to talk to your kids about sex
- The importance of discovering your own sexual needs and wants
- How to keep the romance alive after baby
- Sexual trauma and its impact on intimacy
- The downside to pornography
- How to repair after an affair
- Dr. Berman's thoughts on sex toys
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In 2008, Britney Spears' father petitioned the court for legal authority over her after what appeared to be a decompensation in her mental health. The courts granted it, and she has now been under a conservatorship for thirteen years.
That means, for thirteen years, she has had zero say over her body, finances, career, or life with this conservatorship in place. Her father is in complete control.
In today's episode, I'm chatting about:
- What a conservatorship is
- Britney's plea to end her conservatorship
- The timeline of events that led to Britney's conservatorship
- Why I'm calling bullshit
- The stressors that appeared to exacerbate her mental health
- Whether or not I believe Britney lives with a mental illness
- My theory of what I think happened to Britney Spears
- Why I feel her conservatorship is doing more harm
- What I believe she needs to do to heal
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Christina Dent is a politically conservative Christian, born and raised in Mississippi, who supported criminalizing drugs until she became a foster parent and saw the negative effects up close. She went on a journey to learn why drug-related harm wasn't decreasing and became convinced it's because the criminal justice system is the wrong tool for addressing drugs.
In 2017, she began hosting book discussions in her home state of Mississippi using Johann Hari's book "Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs." Those discussions grew to hundreds of people, which led to End It For Good becoming a nonprofit in 2019. Christina invites people to explore how addressing drugs and drug use as a complex health issue could dramatically reduce crime, overdose deaths, and the destabilization of families.
Christina founded End It For Good from the same passion that led her to foster care – helping children, families, and communities thrive. She isn't advocating drug use. She's advocating approaches to drugs that prioritize life and the opportunity to thrive.
Today, we're chatting about...
- What inspired Christina to do this work
- Drug use in prison
- Christina's thoughts on using the criminal justice system to address drugs
- The causes and effects of drug harm
- How we have forced drugs underground by criminalizing it
- What happens when you criminalize a substance
- Why we should stop looking for the perfect solution to reducing harm
- The reason so many people are dying from fentanyl
- What our number one goal should be
- Why alcohol is no better than any other illegal substance
- Why you don’t have to change political parties or leave your face to support the decriminalizing of drugs
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Dr. Kelly Brogan is a holistic psychiatrist, author of the NY Times Bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time For Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She is the founder of the online healing program Vital Mind Reset, and the membership community, Vital Life Project. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She specializes in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms.
Today, we're chatting about...
- What inspired Kelly to put down her prescription pad for good
- Why Kelly doesn't consider herself an unethical person for prescribing meds
- How to know when you're ready to question information that is in the dominant orthodoxy
- What Kelly thought would happen when people read A Mind of Your Own
- Whether or not mental illness is due to a chemical imbalance
- Why people believe medications save their life
- The risks of taking mental health medications
- Why science is not what it used to be
- How to approach a doctor-client relationship to avoid brainwashing
- Why Kelly believes you can't get informed consent from the person delivering the intervention
- The explanation for schizophrenia and bipolar
- Why it's harmful to cold turkey your medications
- Whether or not there is a time or place for mental health medications
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Jamie Scrimgeour is a wife, mom, stepmom, life coach, conversation opener, and bs caller. Seven years ago, she found herself sitting on the bathroom floor with a glass of wine, balling her eyes out, wondering what the heck she was thinking marrying a man with three kids and an ex-wife. She was madly in love, the kids were great, but as a 26-year-old with zero experience in the parenting department, she was over her head. When she went to the internet for support and was disappointed in what she found, so she decided to create the type of support she was looking for. Raw and honest conversations about all things motherhood, step motherhood, and living a kick-ass life.
Today, we're chatting about...
- What Jamies life looked like before being a step momma and what the transition to stepmom looked like
- How growing up in a blended family helped her navigate being the adult in a blended family
- The anxiety that arises when you sense you have no control
- How to navigate different rules for different homes
- The awkwardness of Mother's day
- How to approach a challenging biological mother
- The importance of hearing the kiddos perspectives and letting them know they are heard
- Codependency in blended families
- The power of creating subfamilies
- What it's like to add a baby to the mix
- The power in strengthening your unique relationship with the kiddos
- The uncomfortableness of feeling like an outsider
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Before becoming a celebrated wellness expert, motivational speaker, author of a best-selling memoir, Co-Founder of Greenhouse Tea Company, and Gwyneth Paltrow's pal, Quentin Vennie was a guy from a single-parent home in Baltimore who was told that he'd never amount to much. He was someone who fought addiction, battled anxiety, sold drugs in the heroin capital of America, escaped death, and dropped out of college three separate times.
After years of fighting a war of anxiety, depression, and addiction, he set out on a journey to heal himself. Quentin successfully overcame his addictions and developed a system to manage his anxiety disorder better with nothing more than faith and determination.
Quentin has been publicly celebrated by notable figures in the world of wellness for his unbelievable road to recovery. His transformation has inspired thousands worldwide and has raised global awareness of anxiety, depression, and addiction. He is living proof that you have the power and ability to unlock unimaginable strength no matter your background.
Today, we're chatting about...
- How past trauma and childhood diversity planted the seed for his future mental health struggles
- What Quentins life was like growing up in a community of violence, crime, and drugs
- How it felt for Quentin to visit his father in prison
- How as a child, his emotional and psychological pain presented as anger and defiance
- Quentin's thoughts on where the mental health system fails
- How in the process of wanting to feel safe, to incubate himself from fear, he became addicted to benzodiazepines
- Why Quentin slept in a hospital parking lot
- How Quentin used the word of wellness to heal
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Today’s guest is the brilliant Elizabeth Stanley. Elizabeth, who prefers to go by liz, is an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University. She speaks, teaches, and writes widely on a variety of topics related to resilience, decision-making, political psychology, civil-military relations, and international security.
She is the award-winning author of Paths to Peace and Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive during Stress and Recover from Trauma. She is the creator of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training, taught to thousands in civilian and military high-stress environments. Her work has been featured on 60 Minutes, ABC Evening News, NPR, and in Time magazine and many other media outlets.
Liz is also a U.S. Army veteran who served in Asia and Europe, she holds degrees from Yale, Harvard, and MIT, and she’s also a certified practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a body-based trauma therapy.
Liz used to be the queen of powering through and burning the midnight oil, until the day she lost her eyesight. It took Liz losing her eyesight to finally understand that there’s an easier way. She spent fifteen years studying the neurobiology of stress, trauma, and resilience—initially as a way to save herself and then to help others heal, too. There’s nothing Liz teaches that she hasn’t learned personally in her own mind and body.
Today, we're chatting about...
- The difference between stress and trauma
- What determines if an event is stressful or traumatic
- How attachment styles impact our ability to recover from stressful situations
- What a complete recovery looks like after a traumatic or stressful situation
- What it means to experience dysregulation and how dysregulation of the mind-body present itself
- How internal stressors trigger your survival brain to activate
- How you can best support people who live with trauma
- Liz's thoughts on how the stress of COVID will negatively impact people's mental health
- What you can do right now to begin the healing process
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Majo Molfino is a Latinx author, designer, women’s leadership expert, and recovering good girl. She is the author of Break the Good Girl Myth and host of the HEROINE podcast featuring top female leaders, creatives, and visionaries. Her leadership program, IGNITE, guides women to design and share a creative dream with the world. She has a master’s in learning, design, and technology from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in cultural studies from McGill University.
Today, we're chatting about...
- What inspired Majo to write Break the Good Girl Myth
- How to dismantle outdated rules, unleash your power, and design a more purposeful life
- Majo’s past desire to fit in by showing up as a good girl
- What a good girl looks like
- How being a good girl holds us back from living out our purpose
- The oppression of women and the role the patriarchy plays in women showing up as good girls
- How we benefit from following the rules
- The five good girl myths we need to overcome
- How you can use design thinking to break the good girl myths
- What the process looks and feels like when breaking your myth
- The number one way we can help young girls avoid falling into the good girl trap
- Who this book is for
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In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man, and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns—and putting a stop to his endless deception.
Mary thought her story would end with the revelation that Will, in fact, had several families—and numerous children. But when she discovered that he had continued to prey on new victims, she vowed to turn his betrayal into a force for good. On her mission to protect these women and others, Mary also learned more about the psychopathy behind Will’s duplicitous behavior.
Today, we're chatting about... * The Royal family and Prince Philip's death * Mary's experience with online dating and where it went horribly wrong * What it was like to discover her husband was a bigamist, con man, and convicted sex offender * Why psychopaths are so charismatic * What inspired Mary to share her story * Victim shaming * Who psychopaths target * The red flags to watch out for if you're online dating * What life looks like for Mary now and whether or not Mary's back in the online dating world again
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Dr. Jud Brewer is an internationally renowned addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor in the School of Public Health, and Medical School at Brown University. His 2016 TED talk, "A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit," has been viewed over 16 million times. He has trained Olympic athletes and coaches, government ministers and business leaders, and today he’s bringing his wisdom to you. His latest book, Unwinding Anxiety recently hit book shelves and today we are unpacking it.
Today, we're chatting about... * Dr. Brewers struggle with anxiety and panic attacks * When panic disorders develop * The neuroscience of anxiety and how it affects the body * Dr. Brewers thoughts on differentiating between a panic attack and a heart attack * The difference between an anxiety attack and a panic attack * Why people are so dang anxious right now * Dr. Brewers thoughts on whether or not anxiety can be helpful * What a habit loop is and how to break anxiety habit loops * How worries become habits * What happens when we inject curiosity into anxiety * Why anxiety is a concept * How avoiding a fearful situation is rewarding * Whether or not willpower exists * My struggle with emotional eating and the emotional eating habit loop
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Laura McKowen is a writer, teacher, and speaker. She had a long, successful career in public relations and the Mad Men–esque drinking culture of advertising. After getting sober, Laura quickly became recognized as a fresh voice in recovery, beloved for her soulful and irreverent writing online and in print. She now leads sold-out retreats and courses, teaching people how to say yes to a bigger life.
Laura's also the founder of The Luckiest Club, a sobriety support community. Her first book, We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life was released in January 2020 and was an instant bestseller.
We chatted about....
- Laura's 20-year struggle with drinking
- What life looks like since becoming sober
- Laura's predisposition to using alcohol to escape
- The myth that alcohol isn't that big of a deal
- Laura's thoughts on whether or not certain people can't drink alcohol
- Why the mommy wine culture is harmful
- Laura's physical and psychological dependency on alcohol
- The link between trauma and addiction
- Laura's rock bottom moment that led her to recognize she had a problem with alcohol
- The struggles with alcohol withdrawal and getting sober
- Laura's advice to you if you're struggling alone in silence with alcohol
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Stephanie Thornton Plymale is the CEO of Heritage School of Interior Design. Stephanie calls Portland, Oregon, home – a word with much meaning as she grew up without one. From living in a car on the beach with her five siblings, to isolation in the Dependent Unit of the State of California, to a horribly abusive foster home, Stephanie never experienced a feeling of family as a child. Married at 19 to her high school sweetheart, her desire for family roots helped her to build a stable marriage and loving home for her three children.
Stephanie continues to balance family life with promoting Heritage, the success of its students, staff, continually growing community and philanthropic efforts. Stephanie recently founded the Heritage Home Foundation, which serves our foster youth and homeless community, and is an advocate for non-profit organizations including Project Lemonade, William Temple House and Treehouse. She also currently serves on the board for Project Lemonade.
Stephanie’s traumatic childhood, family life and career is unique yet she takes heart in knowing that life’s lessons are universal and that everyone has a story. Her goal is to inspire others to share their stories, receive support and feel empowered by their ability to survive, forgive, heal, transcend and live the life of their dreams.
We chatted about....
- Why Stephanie decided to share her story after years of hiding it from the world
- The horrific trauma Stephanie's mother experienced as a child and how her unprocessed trauma presented itself later in life
- How Stephanie helped her mother release her trauma
- What it was like for Stephanie to grow up in a toxic home with a stepfather who struggled with substance use and how she later found forgiveness
- How as a child, Stephanie had to buy drugs and steal food for her mother and stepfather
- Why Stephanie believes her memoir, American Daughter, is about not living in a state of judging other people
- How eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) helped Stephanie process and heal her trauma and triggers
- What life was like living in isolation in the Dependent Unit of the State of California
- How the foster care system failed Stephanie by placing her in a home with a sexual predator where she was repeatedly sexually assaulted
- What it felt like for Stephanie to go from having no family history to discovering she descends from America's foremost founding families
- The possibilities of what her mother's life might have looked like had she received the proper mental health treatment she needed to process through her trauma
- What Stephanie's relationship looked like with her mother towards the end of her mother's life
- How her childhood shaped how she showed up as a mother to her own children
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Dr. Ethan Kross is one of the world’s leading experts on controlling the conscious mind and the author of his first ever book Chatter: The Voice in our head, why it matters, and how to harness it.
He is an award-winning professor in the University of Michigan’s top-ranked Psychology Department and Ross School of Business, Ethan utilizes and implements his research on how the conversations people have with themselves impacts their health, performance, decisions, and relationships. Ethan earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in social-affective neuroscience to learn about the neural systems that support self-control. He moved to the University of Michigan in 2008, where he founded the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.
We chatted about....
- What chatter is and when it backfires
- The purpose of chatter and how it benefits you
- How you get stuck in chatter
- Why you don't want to rid yourself of negative emotions
- What to do if you're caught up in chatter
- The factors that can make you more vulnerable to chatter like experiences
- Whether or not you can control your thoughts
- What to do if a worrisome thought pops up
- How sharing your chatter with others can push others away
- Why you read and have no clue what you read
- How social media impacts your inner voice
- Whether or not chatter manifests in children
- Why engaging in introspection when distressed can contribute to mental disorders
- If auditory hallucinations are similar to chatter
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Kelsey Patel is one of Hollywood's leading wellness and reiki experts. She's a sought-after spiritual empowerment coach, movement teacher, reiki healer, meditation instructor, and a multi-faceted entrepreneur and inspirational speaker. She is the creator of the Pure Joy app and founder of Magik Vibes, a soul-enhancing lifestyle brand that includes her very own wellness meets spirituality podcast, Magik Vibes.
We chatted about...
- Kelsey's journey from the U.S. Senate to the world of wellness
- The importance of micro-breaks for macro joy
- Why "I'm right on time" needs to be your new mantra
- How you know you lack an abundant mindset
- What a nudge from the universe looks like
- How do you surrender to the universe
- The one practice that Kelsey leaned on most while healing
- How anxiety presented itself in Kelsey's life
- What Reiki is
- The beauty of energy healing and chakras
- How to clear negative energy out of a room
- Items to add to your room to promote good energy
- The role intentionality plays in good energy
- Why you should know your moon sign to help clear energy
- Kelsey's tips for reducing anxiety
- How Kelsey pulls herself out of the game of comparison
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Were you raised by an emotionally immature person? Are you an emotionally immature parent? Not sure how to answer these questions. No worries. You’re in luck.
Today the wonderful Dr. Lindsay Gibson joins us on the show to discuss how to heal from distant, rejecting, or self-involved parents.
Dr. Gibson has been a psychotherapist for over thirty years, working in both public and private practice. In the past, she has served as an adjunct assistant professor in Clinical Psychology, teaching doctoral students clinical theory and psychotherapeutic techniques.
Dr. Gibson is the author of three books: Who You Were Meant to Be, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, and Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents, as well as a fourth on Self-Care which will be coming out in Fall, 2021. P.S., I got a sneak peek of her upcoming book and it’s definitely one you’ll want to add to your wish list.
We chatted about...
- What is an emotionally immature parent
- What does emotional immaturity look like
- How trauma impacts their ability to receive your love
- How our defenses appear as different personalities
- How an internalizer takes in information
- How an externalizer can recognize their behaviors are not serving them
- Whether or not you can struggle if raised by an emotionally immature parent
- Questions to ask yourself to determine if you are emotionally mature
- The four types of emotionally immature parents
- Where healing begins if raised by an emotionally immature person
- How you can use metacognition to gain awareness about your thoughts, feeling, and experience
- The "medication" for growing up with emotionally immature parents
- The importance of reconnecting with your inner child
- How does being raised by an emotionally immature person impact relationships
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Karin Jervert is a fine artist, writer, and psychiatric survivor labeled Bipolar at 21. She is currently working on a memoir exploring the medicalization of suffering and the parallel loss of language around emotional pain. Her work explores empathy, identity, normalization of suffering, and the power of creative expression to transform trauma, particularly the types of trauma inflicted by the psychiatric industry. Her study of Buddhism and improvisational comedy find their way into her work as well. Karin currently works for Mad in America.
You'll learn... * How Karin almost lost her life to her mental health treatment * The symptoms and events that led Karin to be diagnosed with bipolar * Karin's experience being hospitalized for mental health reasons * How Karin was led to believe she had a "broken brain" * Why Karin started using substances to cope * Factors in Karin's childhood that played a role in her mental health * The biggest trauma of Karin's life * What it looks like to be involuntarily hospitalized * Karin's process of withdrawing from mental health medications * The role community, support, and hormones play in mental health * How Karin found her laugh again * The pros and cons of being diagnosed with bipolar * Karin's struggle with suicidal ideations
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According to the CDC, in 2018, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States, claiming the lives of over 48,000 people. Suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 and 34, and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 35 and 54. There were more than two and a half times as many suicides in the United States as there were homicides.
Today Dr. David Rudd, President and Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Memphis, is joining us on the show to discuss the topic of suicide. Dr. Rudd’s primary focus of his research is clinical suicidology, with an emphasis on understanding acute and chronic distinctions in risk.
You'll learn...
- Pandemic suicide statistics
- Dr. Rudd's thoughts on why suicide rates are increasing
- Suicide warning signs
- Dr. Rudd's thoughts on whether people genuinely want to die when they attempt suicide
- The difference between chronic and acute suicidality
- Tips on how to help people who have passive suicidal thoughts
- When it's more likely for someone with severe depression to act on suicidal thoughts
- Correct terminology to use when discussing suicide
- How to help a teenager who's having suicidal thoughts
- Tips on how to ask for help if you're having suicidal thoughts
- How to cope when a family member dies by suicide
- Whether or not talking to someone about suicide will lead them to attempt suicide
- The importance of a safety plan and limiting access to a method
- How to treat chronic suicidal urges
- How to help someone engaging in self-injurious behavior
- Dr. Rudd's advice to someone having suicidal thoughts
- If it's normal to have passive suicidal thoughts
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Jessica Murnane is the founder of Know Your Endo (the endometriosis education and awareness platform), the author of the One Part Plant cookbook, and the host of One Part Podcast. She is a sought-after speaker and has contributed to/appeared in several magazines and websites including Bon Appétit, Goop, Shape Magazine, The Kitchn, Mind Body Green, and The Coveteur. Her latest book, Know Your Endo: An Empowering Guide To Health + Hope With Endometriosis is out April 27th, 2021. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her family, and lots of palm trees.
You'll learn...
- What it felt like to find out I had endometriosis
- Statistics on endo
- What endometriosis is and its symptoms
- The average time frame it takes to be diagnosed with endometriosis
- The different kinds of surgery for endometriosis
- Jessica's story of living with endometriosis
- Whether or not a hysterectomy is your answer
- If there is a cure for endometriosis
- Why it's valid to feel anger after being diagnosed with endo
- The importance of tapping into your hormones
- How endo led to Jessica not wanting to wake up in the morning
- Why it's important to plan your life around your period
- Tips for how to navigate work when you live with endometriosis
- Jessica's advice for managing endometriosis
- How often you should ask for ultrasounds if you have a history of cysts
- Jessica's thoughts on birth control as a form of treatment
- Whether or not pregnancy is a treatment for endo
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Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist specializing in cognitive and metacognitive neuropsychology. Since the early 1980s she has researched the mind-brain connection, the nature of mental health, and the formation of memory.
She was one of the first in her field to study how the brain can change with directed mind input. During her years in clinical practice she worked with many people who struggled with Traumatic Brain Injury, learning disabilities, autism, dementias and mental health issues like anxiety and depression.
Dr. Leaf is also the bestselling author of Switch on Your Brain, Think Learn Succeed, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, and Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess. She teaches at academic, medical and neuroscience conferences, churches, and to various audiences around the world. She is also part of the mental health initiative in Washington, DC.
You'll learn...
- What happens when we don't use our minds correctly
- The difference between the mind and the brain
- What neuroplasticity is
- How your thoughts keep you stuck
- What happens when you suppress the undealt with thoughts
- The toxicity of being labeled with a mental illness
- The role telomeres play in mental health
- Dr. Leaf's beliefs on schizophrenia
- The importance of identifying the why behind your symptoms
- How you can clean up your mental mess
- The importance of tuning into your physical and mental warning signals
- How many days it takes to build a habit (It's not what you think)
- The importance of using brain-building to keep your brain clean
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Denise Woods is one of the nation’s most sought-after voice and dialect coaches, with clients such as Halley Berry, Common, Will Smith, Octavia Spencer, Tyler Perry, Jessica Chastain, Soledad O’Brien, Queen Latifah, Ray Liotta, Portia De Rossi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mike Myers, and many, many more.
She has also coached broadcast news anchors at NBC Nightly News, CNBC, Bloomberg News, The Today Show, CNN, Inside Edition, KTLA News, and the TV Guide Channel, and she has prepared NBA and NFL athletes for on-camera commentary.
Denise is a graduate and former faculty member of The Juilliard School and a long time faculty member of California Institute of the Arts.
Denise is committed to giving disenfranchised voices the courage and tools to use their words, thoughts, and stories in ways they never thought possible by dismantling fear, shame, and insecurity. Her first book, The Power of Voice, was released in January.
You'll learn...
- Where the real origin of voice comes from
- The event that inspired Denise to write The Power of Voice
- How anxiety, stress, and trauma impact your true voice
- The importance of breath when speaking
- One thing to do if you struggle with anxiety around public speaking
- How imagination and relaxation improve speech
- Why you need to release your jaw when speaking
- The proper placement of your tongue when talking
- How tension in your tongue impacts speech
- All about nasal constants and when they become a problem
- How to improve speech by slowing down and putting more color in your voice
- Why you must imagine yourself bigger when speaking
- The role your personality plays in your voice
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Dr. Will Cole is a leading functional medicine expert who consults people around the world via webcam and locally in Pittsburgh. Named one of the top 50 functional medicine and integrative doctors in the nation, Dr. Cole specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing a functional medicine approach for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal imbalances, digestive disorders, and brain problems. He is the bestselling author of Ketotarian and The Inflammation Spectrum. Dr. Cole has also cohosted the popular podcasts goodfellas and Keto Talk and is the host of the new podcast, The Art of Being Well.
You'll learn...
- Dr. Cole's approach to healing the underlying driver of your mental health problem
- The importance of an integrative medicine approach to treating mental health
- Why you can't medicate yourself into health
- The importance of looking at your "second brain"
- Why mental health symptoms are your check engine light
- The role inflammation plays in mental health
- How autoimmune issues can impact your mental health
- The role histamine intolerance plays in anxiety and depression
- Where to start if you want a functional medicine approach to healing
- The core four foods that disrupt the microbiome and homeostasis of your body
- What intuitive fasting is and how it can improve health
- Which Dr. Will Cole book he suggests you read first
- Dr. Cole's thoughts on using CBD to reduce anxiety
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Today’s guest is the wonderful Satya Doyle Byock. Satya is a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon and the Founder of The Salome Institute which offers online seminars on socially relevant psychology. Satya’s teaching, psychotherapy, and writing is influenced by a few primary areas, including Jungian psychology, trauma research, feminist theory, and the study of race and racism worldwide. Her clinical work offers a developmental and soulful approach to work with individuals in Quarterlife, the stage of adulthood between adolescence and middle age. Satya sees the struggle to balance Stability and Meaning in Quarterlife as a timeless pursuit. Her book on finding Stability and Meaning in Quarterlife is forthcoming from Random House.
You'll learn...
- What a Quarterlife is and why it's complicated
- The importance of a childhood "death"
- How Quarterlife "crisis" is being mistaken as mental illness
- The importance of remembering we are mammals
- How to raise kiddos to support them through Quarterlife better
- Satya's beliefs about our current mental health system
- How we are approaching kiddos mental health the wrong way
- Why we are failing people if mental health medications are the only tool being used
- How our current system is sending younger generations to future empty goals
- Why people focused on "surviving" tend to have an easier Quarterlife
- What the bigger question of life needs to be
- The two types of people and what midlife "crises" might look like for them
- A few tips to help navigate Quarterlife
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Dr. Nima is both a Chiropractor and an educator, specializing in helping individuals and professionals get to the root cause of their physical and emotional challenges, from stressed, depressed, and anxious to living Powerfully Aligned and on Purpose. After building a successful Chiropractic practice in Canada, Dr. Nima sold his clinic to pursue his passion of teaching and coaching professionals who are stressed, depressed, and anxious to transform and have their best year ever.
Dr. Nima has integrated all the mind-body tools in his quest for healing stress-related disorders into one, simple to follow method called The Overview Method.
You'll learn...
- What happens when your soul becomes fractured from your body
- The connection between a chiropractic adjustment and release of emotions
- Examples of when your soul fractures from self
- How to heal your fractured parts
- How anxiety presented itself in Dr. Nima's life and how he navigated through it
- Dr. Nima's favorite way to reconnect with his body when feeling anxious
- What happens when your parent's words become your narrative
- How Dr. Nima helps people make the connection between self-abandonment and pain
- How learning to regulate and validate yourself improves your relationships
- What it looks like to have a dysregulated nervous system
- The Holy Grail of secure attachments
- The importance of awareness to your wounds in relationships
- The first place to start in your healing journey
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Caitlin Anderson is a fantastic singer, songwriter, two-time CrossFit Games athlete, and straight-up good time. She lives in Boise, Idaho, with her wife Jamie and four adorable fur babies. In 2020, Caitlin discovered music therapy's healing power and is now translating her pain into beautiful lyrics. You can listen to her work at Indi Anderson on Spotify.
You'll learn...
- What Caitlin did to navigate 2020
- How Caitlin uses music as therapy to heal past pain and suppressed emotions
- Caitlin's thoughts on how hardship builds confidence
- Caitlin's definition of anxiety
- Why Caitlin encourages you to produce your pain through creative outlets
- The power of music therapy
- How Caitlin coped with a recent panic attack
- Why you start with one little thing only to help you move forward
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Dr. Catherine Pittman, Ph.D., HSPP, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and psychology professor at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN. A practicing clinical psychologist treating anxiety for over 30 years, she's also experienced in neuropsychological rehabilitation for individuals who have experienced brain injuries or strokes. In today's episode, Dr. Pittman is sharing her concerns about Benzodiazepines.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * The problem with Benzodiazepines (7:26) * Where anxiety comes from in the brain (12:11) * What Benzodiazepines do in your brain (21:48) * The side effects of Benzodiazepines (25:31) * What happens if you take Benzodiazepines every day and then stop (28:26) * How long it takes to have changes in your brain after taking Benzos (30:35) * How daily use of Benzodiazepines creates a physiological dependence (34:30) * When Benzo use becomes a concern (35:12) * Why you don't come off Benzodiazepines cold turkey or without doctors help (36:30) * The most common Benzo withdrawal symptoms (39:47) * Why people confuse withdrawal symptoms as mental illness (44:45)
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Today’s guest is the co-founder and CEO of the Whole30 program, host of the Do the Thing Podcast, and six-time New York Times bestselling author, Melissa Urban.
If you’re as big of a fan of Melissa’s as I am, you most likely know her for Whole30. Well, today, we aren’t chatting food.
Melissa joins us on the show to share her courageous journey through addiction and the trauma she experienced that led her to numb through substances. She discusses engaging in self-injurious behavior and how she navigated her way out of the dark. Oh, and her adorable dog Henry makes sure his voice is heard on the show, too.
Creating conversations around trauma, coping skills, abuse, and substance use is something I’m insanely passionate about.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * What Melissa's substance abuse history looked like (3:48) * Whether or not Melissa had coping skills to cope with her sexual assault (5:27) * In hindsight what Melissa feels she needed after she was sexually assaulted (7:44) * Whether or not substances actually helped her cope with the abuse (8:52) * What Melissa's turning point was (10:44) * Melissa's healing journey (12:09) * How Melissa copes with big emotions and what her recovery looks like (13:15) * How Melissa used self-injurious behavior to feel something (15:33) * Why Melissa says, "I'm not drinking right now" (17:50) * Melissa's journey from drug addiction to Whole30 (20:42) * What Melissa would say to you if you are struggling right now (22:56)
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Welcome to my first ever bonus episode on The Courageously.u Podcast!
Today I am discussing the overwhelming anger I felt following my surgery for endometriosis.
Join me inside today's bonus episode, and let's create a conversation around the importance of women's hormonal health.
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To learn more about hormonal health, endometriosis, and fertility, be sure to check out these past episodes on The Courageously.u Podcast:
Episode 13: In the FLO: Biohacking Your Hormones With Alisa Vitti
Episode 25: Fertility and Primemestering 101 With Dr. Cleopatra
Episode 30: Toss the Toxins With Allison Evans
Episode 35: Dr. Neal Barnard Tells You His Secret to Hormonal Health
I'm curious, do you struggle with your weight and feeling comfortable in your body? Do you have an unhealthy relationship with food? Is your worth tied up in your pant size?
I've struggled with my weight for what feels like my whole life, and I'm most definitely riding shotgun on the emotional eating struggle bus. If you want to hear more about my weight struggle, be sure to tune into episode 4.
As we roll into a new year, where diet culture is preying on our insecurities, I wanted to give you a serious dose of inspiration.
Today's guest. Jessi Jean straight took me to church in today's episode.
Jessi Jean is a Certified Eating Psychology Coach who turned her decade long struggle with food + body into her mission. Now she helps women worldwide end the fight with food using unique brain-based techniques so they can have an effortless relationship with food + unshakeable confidence in their skin.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * How Jessi's diet/binge cycle journey led her to help other women find food freedom (5:01) * What Jessi's journey with food and body love looked like (7:26) * Questions to ask yourself if you're wondering if you have an unhealthy relationship with food (12:31) * Jessi's thoughts on "disordered" eating (14:27) * The power of reprogramming your brain to transform your life (17:25) * How Jessi healed and found food freedom (19:10) * Why you can have food freedom and still care about your body (24:50) * An activity to help you better understand how society dangles an unattainable carrot in front of you (27:34) * How body image ideals change over the decades (31:24) * How to show companies you are not going to support unrealistic body ideals (33:27) * What healing from body obsession looks like (35:32) * Why your ideal body type might not be a healthy body type for you (37:09) * Why you need to question and understand the systemic problems surrounding weight (41:20) * Jessi's tips for navigating diet culture as you enter 2021 (44:10)
I can’t wait to hear your feedback on this episode! Screenshot and tag me—I’m @courageously.u— and my guest—@jessijeannn and share your thoughts, feelings, and reactions.
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Today's guest is writer and essayist Christie Tate, who recently published her debut memoir, Group. Group is a real and vulnerable look at how one therapist and a group of strangers saved Christie's life. In law school, Christie was at the top of her class, yet she found herself struggling with suicidal ideations. What was missing?
Christie desperately craved intimacy and connection, and with some serious reservations, Christie took the advice of a friend and sought help.
Group is not your typical how-to book, but rather a raw look inside one courageous woman's struggle with a longtime eating disorder, suppressed emotions, trauma, the pursuit of unavailable men, and personal transformation.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * What led Christie to write her debut memoir Group (5:38) * A misconception about therapy (8:20) * What Christie discovered about herself while writing Group (9:24) * How Christie's thoughts were her worst enemy (10:54) * Where Christie's negative internal dialogue came from (12:05) * One thing Christie appreciates about her group process (13:25) * What healing looked like to Christie (15:33) * One of the things that tripped Christie up in group therapy (18:30) * Christie's thoughts on how long you could stay in Group (19:54) * The metaphor Christie uses to describe Group (21:35) * What Dr. Rosen's prescriptions looked like (23:27) * Christie's role in group therapy in regards to Dr. Rosen (27:02) * How Christie feels when new members join her Group (28:23) * One of Christie's biggest shocks about group therapy (32:16) * Why christie struggled to get close to people (34:26) * Christie's thoughts on calling anger bad (36:24) * How Christie feels closer to people who show their "mess" (40:56) * Where shame comes from for Christie (41:58) * How Christie's will to be in a relationship led to unfulfilled relationships (42:38)
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Together we can make sure no woman struggles alone in silence. Thanks for your help, friend!
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Today's guest is the courageous Kerri Axelrod. Kerri is a leading expert in a holistic approach to mental health, specializing in the connection between diet, lifestyle, and mood. In her work as a certified holistic health coach and nutrition consultant, she utilizes nutritional science, cutting-edge scientifically proven research, and the integrative modalities of Ayurveda, yoga, and meditation.
Before helping other women heal holistically, Kerri spent most of her life sad, anxious, overweight, frustrated – convinced that if she just lost weight, her life would change. In her twenties, she was a rising star in the fast-paced, high-stress world of national politics. Working long hours at a grueling pace, she endured a personal health crisis that marked the beginning of her health and wellness journey.
After being diagnosed with an autoimmune thyroid disorder and bouncing between doctors to only be left without answers, she quit her job, packed up her life in D.C., and devoted herself to getting healthy.
Now Kerri is the creator of a monthly online educational tool for integrative resources on mental well-being and frequently provides expert commentary for national and local media publications. She was also recently named one of Boston magazine's go-to wellness pros for nutrition services as well as one of the "Top 10 Healthy Food Instagramers to Follow."
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * How Kerri's mental health struggles led her to work in the world of wellness (4:56) * What anxiety looks like for Kerri (6:36) * Kerri's struggle with weight (8:39) * How years of putting her career in national politics first led to an autoimmune disease (10:33) * What Kerri's healing journey looked like (17:01) * Kerri's tips on how to improve your wellness (20:28) * The advice Kerri would give you if you're struggling with your wellness (25:20) * The evolution of Kerri working 1:1 with clients (25:39)
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Part of my mission with the courageously.u podcast is to help you break free from beliefs and behaviors that keep you stuck. For the longest time, I believed periods were supposed to be painful, and the only way to function through the pain was to take medications. I’ve recently learned that my belief couldn’t be any farther from the truth.
To help further educate not only you but myself on hormonal health, I invited Dr. Neal Barnard onto the show.
Dr. Neal Barnard is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Dr. Barnard received his M.D. degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed his residency at the same institution.
Dr. Barnard has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, and chronic pain, including a groundbreaking study of dietary interventions in type 2 diabetes, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that paved the way for viewing type 2 diabetes as a potentially reversible condition for many patients. Dr. Barnard has authored more than 90 scientific publications and 20 books for medical and lay readers and is the editor in chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a textbook made available to all U.S. medical students.
As president of the Physicians Committee, Dr. Barnard leads programs advocating for preventive medicine, good nutrition, and higher ethical standards in research. His research contributed to the acceptance of plant-based diets in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In 2016, he founded the Barnard Medical Center in Washington, DC, as a model for making nutrition a routine part of all medical care.
Working with the Medical Society of the District of Columbia and the American Medical Association, Dr. Barnard has authored key resolutions, now part of AMA policy, calling for a new focus on prevention and nutrition in federal policies and in medical practice.
You can consider this episode your 101 course in hormonal health. If you’re ready, pull up a seat, or shall I say ear, and get ready to take some notes
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * What hormones are (5:10) * Where things go wrong with your hormones (6:01) * What determines the level of estrogen in your blood (11:10) * Why doctors aren't educating us on our hormonal health (12:59) * What Dr. Barnard wants you to do to heal your hormones (14:20) * What endometriosis is (16:06) * On average, how long it takes to heal your hormones (18:45) * What PCOS is (22:16) * How to begin shifting to a vegan diet (26:56) * Why we shouldn't give kids milk (28:03) * Dr. Barnard's thoughts on coffee (30:18) * Why infertility seems to be on the rise (32:02) * The first step to reducing menstrual pain (35:33) * Whether or not toxins impact hormonal health (37:50)
I can’t wait to hear your feedback on this episode! Screenshot and tag me—I’m @courageously.u— and my guest—@drnealbarnard and share your thoughts, feelings, and reactions.
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Did you know that I work in an all-male prison? Yup! During my 9 to 5 or more like 6 to 4, you can find me working as a mental health clinician in an Idaho prison. Working with fellas who are incarcerated has opened my eyes in a way that they had never been opened before. I've become massively aware that trauma is real, substance abuse is, in fact, a common coping skill, and that many families looked like anything but the Brady bunch.
Today's episode is me sharing a sliver of what I see at work with you. Granted, Doug was never incarcerated in Idaho. He was once incarcerated.
Doug Bopst was a former convicted felon and drug addict, sentenced to months in jail due to being found guilty of "possession with intent to sell." With his cellmate's help, Doug was able to find fitness and use his time locked up to beat his demons and reinvent himself.
Doug is now an award-winning personal trainer, author, and host of the Adversity Advantage Podcast. He was voted Baltimore's "12 Fitness Heroes" in 2015 by The Baltimore Sun, and he has been featured on the Today Show and Men's Health. With the drug epidemic at an all-time high, he is on a crusade to share his story with hopes of inspiring others not only on the power of fitness but also to help inspire others to beat addiction.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: * How incarceration and fitness saved Doug's life (5:40) * Why Doug used substances to cope (8:22) * What led to Doug's incarceration (12:04) * What Doug would tell a kiddo who's struggling with big emotions (17:36) * How time led to change for Doug (20:15) * The four things Doug would tell someone who has an addict in their life (26:22) * How Doug navigated triggers (32:42) * Ways Doug managed cravings (34:54) * How anxiety presented itself in Doug's life and how he navigated it (37:50) * What Doug's up to now (45:46) * What Doug would tell his younger self (49:05)
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You all know anxiety is my jam. I'm basically obsessed with all things anxiety, so when I learned of today's guest, you better believe I was all over getting him on The Courageously.u Podcast.
Today's guest is Dr. Russell Kennedy. Dr. Kennedy grew up with a parent with schizophrenia and developed his own anxiety disorder as a result. Dr. Kennedy has degrees and advanced training in medicine, neuroscience, and developmental psychology. He is also a certified yoga and meditation teacher —and to top it all off, Russell was a professional stand-up comedian for over a decade. His life's work is dedicated to helping people to recover from anxiety. His Book, Anxiety Rx combines his traditional scientific training with lessons learned from his atypical life experience to show people exactly how to escape chronic worry.
I'm a firm believer that anxiety is not black or white and that it presents itself in many shades of grey. Dr. Russell and I dive deep into the grey areas of anxiety.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * How having a father that lived with schizophrenia ignited Russell's anxiety (4:25) * What happens when we stop reading ourselves (5:47) * Why we project on to people close to us (7:55) * How Russell's anxiety led to him contemplating suicide (8:54) * What Russell believes is the underlying cause of anxiety (9:22) * How our ego dragon overprotects us from potential dangers (10:40) * Why it's important to sit with and notice your anxiety (13:42) * The one thing Russell wants you to do (14:19) * Why Russell wants you to stop using the word anxiety (16:48) * Why you can't have anxiety without being a victim (17:47) * How your alarm (your inner child) is asking for attention (19:51) * How to reconnect to your inner child (24:21) * The correlation between childhood trauma and chronic anxiety (26:50) * What the three W's of warning are (29:13) * Why uncertainty drives anxiety (29:33) * How worries are used to avoid feelings (33:04) * How to get out of your thoughts and back into sensation (42:06) * Why one can split from themself (47:03) * Russell's thoughts on mental health meds and GP's role in prescribing meds (49:50) * What Russell does when he has a panic attack (56:56) * Why people mistake a panic attack for a heart attack (58:06) * Why people cry during yoga (1:02:39) * Russell's thoughts on health anxiety (1:07:54)
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Today's guest is holistic nutritionist, and lifestyle cleanse expert Elissa Goodman. Elissa has struggled with her health her entire life, culminating in cancer and Hashimoto's in her 30's. Beyond her own health, she has also struggled while watching various loved ones suffer from health-related issues, including her husband Marc, who lost his battle to cancer in his mid-40's.
Elissa believes that proper nourishment, healing by listening to your "gut, connecting to your inner strength, and a daily renewal practice is essential for optimal living. She's on a mission to educate and encourage healthy, mindful living while helping others embrace the concept that we are a product of what we eat and how we treat ourselves.
Today's episode is jam-packed full of nuggets of wisdom, so feel free to take notes. I may be biased, but I feel this is just the episode we need as we roll into a wild holiday season.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * Elissa's health story that led her to use food to heal (3:23) * The importance of marrying conventional and functional medicine (9:01) * Elissa's BIG epiphany (11:18) * What happens to your gut when you're stressed and unhappy (12:42) * Why focusing on your emotions and diet are essential in healing (13:32) * What Elissa does for self-care to improve her well-being (14:46) * Why you are never too old to reinvent yourself (18:11) * The benefits of juicing (19:04) * The importance of using food and lemon water to cleanse the toxins from our body (22:11) * One of the best things to do for yourself in the morning (25:44) * Why Elissa love's juicing and doesn't worry about the fiber being eliminated (26:34) * Why you shouldn't put fruit in your juices (27:35) * What to do if you don't have a juicer and want a shortcut (27:51) * How Elissa does intermittent fasting and why she chose to fast (29:35) * Key foods to incorporate into your diet (32:09) * The supplements I use to improve my hormonal health (34:27) * Foods Elissa encourages people to avoid (35:42) * Why Elissa thinks the word superfoods is overrated (38:09) * The benefits of taking organic MCT oil (41:35) * Elissa's thoughts on alcohol (41:40) * Why we should be drinking bone broth (43:45) * The importance of sleep (46:02)
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Today with are chatting with a survivor of a sexual assault, Lacy Crawford. I'll let Lacy share her story with you, but I do want to chat a second about why this episode means so much to me.
Did you know, on average, there are 433,648 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States, and every 73 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted? Bananas, right?!?
I'll never forget the feeling that came over me when I realized how many courageous souls had been sexually assaulted. The majority of my clientele, both in community work and corrections, have experienced sexual abuse at one point in their life (Not all, but definitely a large majority).
This blew my mind!
Why? Because no one ever talks about sexual assault. I honestly had no clue that it was really a problem until I became a therapist. Becoming a therapist opened my eyes to the realities that many people's emotional struggles stem from past sexual trauma.
Creating a conversation around sexual abuse is very important to me, and that's why this week's podcast interview with the ever courageous Lacy Crawford is so near and dear to my heart.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * Where Lacy found the courage to share her story of sexual assault (6:24) * The red flag that leads to victims holding blame and shame (9:34) * The background of what led to Lacy's first sexual assault (11:00) * The events that followed after Lacy was sexually assaulted (14:22) * When Lacy gave up and concluded her body no longer belonged to her (15:40) * Why Lacy didn't kick and scream and say no (17:08) * How Lacy's deadening inside carried with her into adulthood (17:45) * How Lacy coped with the assault, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts (19:00) * How Lacy refused to let the perpetrators and elite boarding school take what she had worked so hard to build away from her (21:35) * The methods Lacy used to heal her inner child (24:45) * What saved Lacy's life (27:57) * How an elite boarding school failed to report, protect, and treat Lacy (32:32) * What transpired when Lacy began the process of pressing charges (36:28) * Why Lacy went back to St. Pauls after they threatened to destroy her reputation (45:55) * What is taken away from someone who has been sexually assaulted (47:03) * How St. Pauls school covered up teachers sexually assaulting students (48:06) * Whether or not the school has tried to contact Lacy since her book came out (57:14) * The advice Lacy would give to someone who has been sexually assaulted (1:01:29)
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Are you ready to toss the toxins and get back to basics? I sure am! Today's guest is the ever courageous Allison Evans. I first discovered Allison after hearing her story through Branch Basics.
Allison is a co-founder of Branch Basics. She has dedicated herself to helping others reap the benefits of clean living after experiencing life-changing healing from living in an environment free of toxic chemicals.
I won’t dive into her story here because I want to let her tell you for herself, but Allison loves researching all things holistic parenting, clean eating, and she especially loves helping others navigate their health journeys.
This episode is really important to me because I recently learned I have endometriosis, and it threw my baby-making plans for a loop. After connecting with Allison and hearing her story, I discovered I’m not alone in this hormonal struggle.
My intention with this episode is to ensure women are informed and are provided the tools and education they need to be proactive in their overall health.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * Allison's health journey and what led to the creation of Branch Basics (4:47) * How toxic products are disrupting our endocrine system (10:30) * How we have become desensitized to fragrance (13:40) * The importance of becoming more comfortable with the smell of clean (17:13) * About Lyme Disease and how Allison is treating it holistically (18:00) * Allison's feelings about birth control being used for symptom management (24:19) * The first thing to do if you have endocrine-related symptoms (25:07) * How to avoid overwhelm when removing toxins from your home (29:24) * All about the wonders of Branch Basics (31:06) * The two main categories of cleaning products and how we are depleting our gut bacteria through our cleaning products (33:45) * The power of using Branch Basics for your laundry (38:10) * Allison's challenge for you (40:19)
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Don't let the word trauma discourage you from tuning in. Trauma looks different to everyone and comes in many different shades and colors. Today's guest, Dr. Nicole LePera, best known as the holistic psychologist, is joining us on The Courageously.u Podcast to deliver the tools you need to begin your self-healing journey.
Dr. Nicole LePera was trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University and the New School for Social Research and studied at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. She is a holistic psychologist whose work addresses the connection between the mind, body, and soul, incorporating overall lifestyle and psychological wellness practices.
She is the creator of the #SelfHealers movement, where people from around the world are joining together in community to take healing into their own hands. Her first book, How to Do the Work, is currently in pre-order with a release date of March 2021.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN: * All about the A.C.E. scale and how people are suffering wounding in childhood that is continuing to impair their level of functioning outside the traditional ten-point scale (11:05) * What reparenting is (13:23) * What the process of reparenting looks like (15:46) * Why we need consciousness to create change (18:51) * Markers that might imply someone has a wounded child (22:20) * If there is a correlation between borderline personality and a wounded child (25:40) * The importance of attachment with your parents and how it can impact future relationships (27:10) * Why people seek relationships to meet their needs (33:34) * What needs to change before other people can know us (37:16) * The importance of putting boundaries in place, how to put them in place, and what codependency looks like (39:49) * What is ego, and how does it operate in our daily life (51:24) * Ways to begin healing your ego (57:26)
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Jen Lancaster is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Here I Go Again and The Gatekeepers; the nonfiction works Bitter Is the New Black, Such a Pretty Fat, and Bright Lights, Big Ass; and the memoirs Stories I’d Tell in Bars, Generation X, My Fair Lazy, Pretty in Plaid, and I Regret Nothing, which was named an Amazon Best Book of the Year.
Her latest book, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic, is an absolute must read.
Jen is regularly a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. She has sold well over a million books documenting her attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all—sometimes with disastrous results. She’s also been seen on the Today show, as well as CBS This Morning, Fox News, and NPR’s All Things Considered, among others. On top of all this, she is real, and that’s why I love her.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:
- What inspired Jen to write Welcome to the United States of Anxiety (8:07)
- What anxiety looks like to Jen (9:58)
- What Jen gained from asking herself, "What would be the worst thing if I admitted I was afraid, this makes me anxious; I don't like this." (12:09)
- Why Jen based anxiety on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (13:36)
- Jens belief of what triggers people the most (15:13)
- Whether or not Jen likes the Kardashians (18:00)
- Why Jen feels food can leave you anxious (20:25)
- How comparison leads to anxiety (24:40)
- The negative impact of social media (32:27)
- The message we are getting from HGTV (34:02)
- How keeping up with the Joneses is increasing anxiety (37:02)
- The role policing plays in anxiety (41:23)
- How our political climate is impacting us (45:36)
- The phrase that will make your life easier (48:28)
- Jens view of hate crimes (54:15)
- The cons of posting pictures of your kiddos on social (58:56)
- What helps Jen manage her anxiety (1:02:25)
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On my continued quest to help break the commonly held belief surrounding mental illness, I bring you today's guest, Dr. Kabran Chapek.
Dr. Kabran Chapek has been a staff physician at Amen Clinics since 2013. As a graduate of Bastyr University in the Seattle area, he is an expert in the use of functional and integrative treatments. Dr. Chapek is the founding president of the Psychiatric Association of Naturopathic Physicians, an affiliate group of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians.
He is also the author of Concussion Rescue, an amazing book that describes the programs and protocols he uses at the Amen Clinics to put patients on a pathway to recovery. For anyone struggling with the effects of concussion, Concussion Rescue guides you through strategies from the cutting edge of brain science.
Why does this episode matter?
Most people believe that mental illness is solely the result of a chemical imbalance, and that’s just not true.
Dr. Chapek educates us on the role that brain injury plays in psychiatric illness. Having had multiple head injuries myself, I found concussion rescue to be very insightful.
If you have ever had a brain injury, know someone who has, or want to be proactive in regards to your mental health, this episode is for you.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:
- Why brain imaging is helpful (6:20)
- That brain injuries can cause mental health problems (9:50)
- Things to do immediately if you injury your brain (13:34)
- What you need to place in your car (15:14)
- What to do if there are signs of a concussion (16:23)
- Symptoms of a concussion (16:42)
- How brain injury leads to mental health problems (18:24)
- The BRIGHT MINDS risk factors (22:59)
- How brain injury can lead to sleep problems and tips to improve sleep (29:39)
- What to do if you don't have access to SPECT imaging (33:51)
- How diet influences brain health (36:12)
- Dr. Chapek's final tip to help improve mental health (39:20)
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Today's episode is a courageous story of a female endurance athlete who went from the top of her game to an emotional breakdown that had her living with thoughts of suicide.
Sonja Wieck is a top Ironman triathlete with nothing but passion, drive, and determination. She can be seen leading her group of three men on Team Iron Cowboy on Mark Burnett’s new competition show “World’s Toughest Race Eco-Challenge Fiji” hosted by Bear Grylls, which can be seen on Amazon Prime.
At the ripe age of 40, she is a 6x Kona Ironman World Championship Qualifier and Competitor, has participated in 18 Ironman competitions, came in 2nd place at Kona Ironman World Female 35-39 age group, was named the Ironman All World Female 35-39 Champion, Tokyo’s Joe’s Athlete of the Month, participated in multiple Ultramarathons finishing up to 100 miles, ran the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim in 12 hours, and that’s just the half of it.
Sonja Wieck states her mission is simple. She wants to encourage men and women of all ages that you can push yourself to do the impossible, but if you strive for success and achievement for your own ego, you will be left unfulfilled. It is when you pursue your dreams for your own personal growth, you learn the most about yourself and are able to show up best for others around you. Sonja wants people to know life is about more than ourselves but giving back and helping others, and this is what is missing from competitive sports.
IN TODAY'S EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:
- What it's like to compete in the worlds toughest race (6:05)
- What led to Sonja's breakdown (10:05)
- Sonjas feelings surrounding normalizing mental health struggles in sports (16:40)
- What Sonja's breakdown looked like (18:27)
- Sonja's breakdown red flags that were ignored (22:59)
- What helped Sonja cope with her symptoms (25:42)
- The concept that was one of the hardest things for Sonja to break down in therapy (30:15)
- What Sonja was feeling when she was having suicidal ideations (35:02)
- The advice she would give to herself if she could go back in time (41:00)
- The details behind Sonjas continued struggle with anxiety and how she manages it (42:28)
- How Sonja went from breakdown to the worlds toughest race (46:38)
- The practice Sonja engages in prior to making commitments (52:18)
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Are you struggling to get pregnant? Do you want a baby in the future? Have you been told you're infertile? Want to learn how to improve your fertility? If yes, this episode is for you.
Dr. Cleopatra is a scientist and university professor specializing in the intersection of reproductive health, human flourishing, and how health is transmitted from one generation to the next. She provides fertility and pregnancy consulting to women and families nationally and internationally through her signature In Bloom Programs, Inner Circle, and personalized, comprehensive one-on-one consulting.
Dr. Cleopatra combines a lifetime of scientific knowledge with Eastern traditions and experiential wisdom to guide women through the many unknowns and mountains of conflicting, confusing information that they face as individuals, mothers, and professionals. And she does this in the most green, natural, compassionate, objective, real, heart-centered way possible. This rare combination of qualities is her signature and the gift that she offers with love, joy, gratitude, and dreams of blissful mommies, babies, and families, everywhere.
YOU WILL LEARN: * Why you don't want to "just have sex and make your baby" (8:36) * Why you can not outsource your fertility pyramid (11:41) * What fertility is (12:05) * What a "primemester" is (13:56) * Whether or not you can reverse reproductive aging (16:35) * What a "super baby" is (19:54) * The rate of miscarriage and common reasons for why they occur (21:23) * The role lifestyle and mental health plays in fertility (25:52) * Why the brain will always prioritize safety over reproduction (30:00) * The five levels of the fertility pyramid (34:42) * Why you should avoid caffeine if you are trying to get pregnant (38:41) * The role foods play in fertility (43:29) * How birth control impacts fertility (48:03) * What involuntary childlessness is (55:44) * The first step to take to improve fertility (1:02:06)
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Today's guest is Robert Whitaker. Robert is an American journalist and author who has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers' Award for best magazine article.
In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research for the Boston Globe that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. His first book, Mad in America, was named by Discover magazine as one of the best science books of 2002. Anatomy of an Epidemic won the 2010 Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism. He is also the publisher of madinamerica.com.
Today's episode focuses on a topic very near and dear to my heart. I hope the information and awareness you gain adds value to your life the same way it did mine. If you're ready, lets head into today's courageous conversation with the one and only, Robert Whitaker.
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Given the season of life we are in, I felt it was only fitting to do an episode on depression. I don't know about you, but I'm no stranger to struggling with depressed mood.
Today's guest is Dr. Alex Korb.
Dr. Korb is a neuroscientist, writer, and coach. He has studied the brain for over 20 years and is the bestselling author of The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time.
He earned his undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Brown University and then later completed a Ph.D. in neuroscience at UCLA. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed journal articles on depression, neuromodulation, and other topics. He is currently an adjunct assistant professor at UCLA in the department of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences, as well as vice-president of research and development for BrainSonix.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- What depression looks like in the brain (5:40)
- The roles the cortex and limbic system play in depression (8:31)
- How the "spiral" begins (11:25)
- The role genetics play in depression (18:09)
- What the upward spiral is (23:44)
- What contributes to seasonal depression and how you can manage your symptoms (28:52)
- Why feeling terrible is a natural part of life (38:03)
- The correlation between suicide and depression (41:09)
- The importance of moving your body (48:32)
- Why there is power in putting emotions into words (50:53)
- Why you should start small if depressed (57:16)
- The role habits play in the upward spiral (1:00:54)
- Dr. Alex Korb's thoughts on postpartum depression (1:07:03)
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Today's guest is the insanely courageous Jane Hart.
Jane is a mother of two courageous boys, a forever student, and a passionate advocate. She also lives with Dissociative identity disorder, formally known as multiple personality disorder. Before starring in A&E's hit documentary series, Many Sides of Jane, Jane wrote articles and spoke out about childhood abuse and the normalization of mental health. She loves to spend her time hiking with her boys, reading, writing, and figuring out more ways to advocate for those who don't have a voice. Did I mention she's also from Boise, Idaho?!?
My passion for mental health advocacy is real, so I had to shine a light on DID. According to the DSM 5, the defining feature of DID is the presence of two or more distinct personality states or an experience of possession. DID is associated with overwhelming experiences, traumatic events, and/or abuse in childhood. Why does this episode matter? Over 70% of outpatients with DID have attempted suicide, and other self-injurious behavior is frequent.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- What Disassociate Identity Disorder (DID) is according to Jane (5:58)
- When Jane began to notice her parts (6:48)
- The pros and cons of DID (7:52)
- What parts are and the many parts of Jane (8:37)
- The movie that inspired Jane to share her story on A&E (14:58)
- How backlash has impacted Jane's life (16:37)
- What it's like to be a mom with DID (20:52)
- What it looks like to switch between identities (23:42)
- Jane's day to day life living with DID (26:31)
- What treatment looks like for individuals living with DID (28:08)
- Jane's advice to individuals living in silence with DID (34:53)
- Parenting tips if you live with DID and have kiddos (39:05)
- How Jane landed a documentary series on A&E (40:40)
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Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained, board-certified psychiatrist, nutritionist, and professional chef who married both psychiatry and nutrition to create a beautiful treatment modality designed to help you improve your overall mental health.
She founded the first hospital-based nutritional psychiatry service in the United States, where she serves as the director of nutritional and lifestyle psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. In her new book, “This Is Your Brain On Food,” Dr. Naidoo explores the fascinating science behind the food-mood link and offers actionable nutrition recommendations and recipes to optimize your mental health.
Having this conversation excited me because it gives me hope for the future of mental health treatment.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- The influence food has on our brain (7:46)
- How physical problems can manifest as mental illness (10:32)
- How psychiatric treatments are integrated with nutritional interventions (13:03)
- When Dr. Uma Naidoo recommends pharmaceutical treatment and when she recommends nutritional treatment (16:20)
- If Dr. Naidoo has seen any improvements in symptoms with individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder when utilizing nutrition as a form of treatment (21:41)
- What foods to avoid if you're anxious (25:59)
- Foods to add to your diet to help improve anxiety (29:09)
- Why you should speak to your medical provider prior to taking passionflower or chamomile if you are on a blood thinner (31:47)
- Whether or not organic foods play a role in using foods as medicine (33:15)
- How long, on average, it takes to see an improvement in symptoms when dietary changes are made (34:12)
- How to navigate healthy eating if you're an emotional eater (37:15)
- If dieting impacts your mental health (41:48)
- What role alcohol plays in mental health (43:23)
- The role omega 3s play in anxiety (45:52)
- Dr. Uma Naidoo's thoughts on the role food plays in ADHD and autism (46:58)
- Whether or not blood sugar plays a role in panic attacks (50:00)
- Simple tips to improve mental health symptoms (51:19)
I can’t wait to hear your feedback on this episode! Screenshot and tag me—I’m @courageously.u— and my guest—@drumanaidoo and share your thoughts, feelings, and reactions.
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Dr. Jennifer Freed is the bestselling author of Use Your Planets Wisely and a renowned psychological astrologer and social and emotional education trainer. She has spent over thirty years consulting clients and businesses worldwide on psychological, spiritual, and educational topics. She has served as the clinical director of Pacifica Graduate Institute and is a national consultant for EMDR.
As a regular contributor to goop, Dr. Freed has written over 23 articles on wellness and Astrology and has penned ten books relating to personal growth. She has also been interviewed for her expertise by the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Vogue.
And that's not all. In 1999, Jennifer and her partner Rendy Freedman created the non-profit AHA!, which is dedicated to teens, families, and educators feeling safe, seen, and celebrated. AHA! has served over 35,000 children and families in Santa Barbara, and Jennifer has trained educators throughout the country in the five pillars of social and emotional learning.
Dr. Freed is the real deal, and she blew my mind in today's episode. If you're ready, let's dive into today's conversation with the one and only, dr. Jennifer Freed.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- What psychological astrology is (5:37)
- The archetypes of astrology (6:43)
- What a birth chart is (8:30)
- How the planets give us insight into our potential and purpose (8:48)
- What a session looks like with Dr. Jennifer Freed (15:45)
- The five competencies of social and emotional intelligence (16:22)
- Dr. Jennifer Freed's thoughts on horoscopes (18:12)
- How to improve your relationship by using your birth chart (19:27)
- What it looks like to awaken (20:24)
- What it looks like when we don't lean into our native gifts (22:25)
- What new moons mean (25:00)
- The three levels of planets energies that can be expressed (30:50)
- All about AHA! and the importance of emotional and social learning (32:30)
- Tips to help regulate emotions (35:31)
- How to work with Dr. Jennifer Freed (40:39)
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Inside Episode 19 of The Courageously.u Podcast, Angela Peacock shares her courageous story of how the overprescribing of mental health medication almost killed her.
Angela Peacock is a former U.S. Army Sergeant whose normal response to deployment led to fifteen years of being overprescribed medications, multiple hospitalizations, and a whirlwind of disability. Over that time, Angela was prescribed forty plus mental health medications, and at the height of the prescribing, eighteen medications at once.
Four and a half years off all medications, Angela is now sharing her courageous experience in the mental health care system. As she continues to heal from the neurological damage and psychological trauma caused by being a "compliant patient," she facilitates discussion of the issues presented in Medicating Normal for communities worldwide.
Later on in the episode, co-producer Wendy Ractliffe joins us in our discussion of the documentary Medicating Normal.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- What led Angela to seek help from psychiatry (3:51)
- How Angela's normal emotional response to readjusting to Germany led her to being overprescribed mental health medications (6:08)
- What withdrawal from over thirty-six mental health medications looked like for Angela (9:07)
- How Angela went from a very successful army leader to a hermit (13:05)
- What the current system of care for veterans looks like (14:00)
- How Angela became involved in the documentary Medicating Normal (14:50)
- All about Medicating Normal (20:16)
- What inspired the making of Medicating Normal (23:23)
- How people responded to Medicating Normal (26:23)
- The advice Angela and Wendy have for someone considering mental health medication (31:22)
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Dr. Belisa Vranich is a clinical psychologist, a leading expert in mental health and fitness, and a breath work guru. She is also the founder of the breathing class, and the author of Breathe: The Simple, Revolutionary 14-Day Program to Improve your Mental and Physical Health.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- The psychology of breathing (9:34)
- The difference between chest breathing and belly breathing, and why it's important to breathe from your belly (12:15)
- The three patterns of anxious breathing (14:50)
- How breath can worsen your anxiety symptoms (16:11)
- The role breath plays in physical wellness (18:22)
- Why you should take your breathing IQ (22:39)
- How to strengthen your breathing muscles (24:56)
- The role breath plays in IBS (29:03)
- Why you have to advocate for your own health (32:30)
- The role breath plays in labor (34:43)
- How to teach kiddos to breathe (37:29)
- Why breathing helps you fall asleep and the importance of sleep hygiene (40:05)
- How we are doing kegels wrong (44:37)
Today Dr. Belisa is bringing all her breath work knowledge to the show, so I won’t keep her all to myself any longer. Let’s dive into today’s episode with Dr. Belisa Vranich.
You can find Dr. Belisa on Instagram at @drbelisa, and we’d both love to hear your reactions to this episode, so please screenshot and write any thoughts or questions that come up as you’re listening and tag us both (I’m @courageously.u).
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Do you remember lying awake all night as a kid, overcome with anticipation and excitement, waiting for Christmas morning to arrive? That was exactly how I felt waiting to chat with today's guest, Dr. Ellen Vora.
Dr. Ellen Vora is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health and addresses the root problem rather than reflexively prescribing medication to suppress the symptoms.
She also considers the whole person, focusing on everything from physical health, sleep, nutrition, digestion, thought patterns, relationships and community to our connection with nature and creativity, and the ways we find meaning in life.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- Postpartum anxiety and depression
- Caffeine and alcohols impact on mental health
- What it looks like to withdrawal off mental health medications
- Holistic approaches to mental health treatment
- How inflammation impacts mental health
- The importance of sleep for your overall well-being
- Why panic attacks occur in your sleep
- and so much more!
I can’t wait to hear your feedback on this episode! Screenshot and tag me—I’m @courageously.u— and my guest—@ellenvoramd and share your thoughts, feelings, and reactions.
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I'm so excited to have on Mark Wolynn, the founder and director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. Mark is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma and the author of the book It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle. His articles also appear in Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, MariaShriver.com, Elephant Journal, and Psych Central, and his poetry has been published in the New Yorker.
In today's episode, we talk about:
- How trauma is passed on from generation to generation
- How phobias can be inherited from parents
- The importance of attachment with mothers
- The science behind inherited family trauma
- How to heal and break the cycle of family trauma
- Unconscious loyalty to the suffering of parents
- What you should do if you don't know your family history
- How symptoms of mental illness might not be your symptoms
- What makes trauma repeat
- How we can heal from parents hurtfulness
- What is trauma language
- The role divorce plays in attachment
- The role dads play in attachment
- What courage looks like to Mark
You can find Mark on Instagram at @markwolynn, and we’d both love to hear your reactions to this episode, so please screenshot and write any thoughts or questions that come up as you’re listening and tag us both (I’m @courageously.u).
Enjoy!
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https://courageouslyu.com/?p=2640
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Are you an exhausted mama? Do you feel guilty for taking time for yourself? Do you feel alone and lost in the chaos of motherhood? If you are nodding your head yes, Episode 15 is for you.
Claire Nicogossian Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with over two decades of experience. In the last ten years, Claire has specialized her practice in maternal-mental health and well-being. She also founded MomsWellBeing.com, an online resource that’s helped thousands of parents increase self-care.
In today's episode, Dr. Claire discusses her latest book, Mama, You Are Enough. The fun doesn't stop there, though. We also discuss shadow emotions, the pressures of being a mama, the importance of self-care, the dangers of the mommy wine culture, and so much more.
If you're ready to find calm in the chaos of motherhood, be sure to hit that play button.
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Are you being tricked by your worries? Do you ever feel hopeless or crazy for feeling anxious? Do you want to learn how to respond to panic attacks? If yes, Episode 14 is for you.
Doctor David Carbonell is a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders as a therapist, author, and teacher. With over thirty-five years of experience, Dr. Carbonell offers exposure based treatment of fears and phobias in Chicago; is the author of four anxiety self-help books; and teaches workshops for therapists who want to learn more about the treatment of anxiety disorders.
If you're ready to take back control of your anxiety, hit that play button and join inside Episode 14: The Worry Trick With Dr. David Carbonell.
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Alisa Vitti is a functional nutritionist, women’s hormone expert, and pioneer in female biohacking. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Alisa has been featured on The Dr. Oz Show, Lifetime, and has been a regular contributor for Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, and Women’s Health.
She is also the best selling author of WomanCode and her latest book In The Flo. She is the founder of the modern hormone healthcare company Flo living and the creator of the the number one paid period app on itunes, my flo.
Lisa Vitti is a Godsend to women with all her hormonal wisdom on how we can take back control of our hormonal health and learn to live within our flo.
If you're tired of living with hormonal disturbances, and are ready to heal holistically, join us inside Episode 13. We will be waiting for you!
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If you're in need of a swift kick in the booty to help you jump-start your life, episode 12 is your episode. Meredith Atwood, a former attorney, turned podcaster, motivational speaker, and 4x IRONMAN triathlete, joins us today to deliver a hefty dose of motivation.
She discusses:
- How a tearful spin class lit a spark inside her to begin her fitness quest
- What it looked like to navigate addiction
- The time her husband told her to get her shit together
- What showing up for yourself looks like
- How you can identify the nonsense in your life
- And so much more!
If you're ready for a motivational sermon, hit that play button and join us inside Episode 12 The Year of No Nonsense With Meredith Atwood.
P.S. Everything discussed in this episode can be found in the show notes below.
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Rated one of the hottest trainers in America by Shape Magazine, Heidi Kristoffer is on a mission to make yoga, inversions, health, strength, and whole, happy living accessible to everyone.
Inside episode eleven, Yoga 101 With Heidi Kristoffer, Heidi gives you an introductory lesson in all things yoga. She discusses the different styles of yoga, how yoga can improve anxiety, why yoga is a fantastic means of practicing mindfulness, and so much more.
She's also giving you FREE access, for one month, to her Fantastic CrossFlow Yoga app. You can find the link in the show notes below.
If you're ready to dive into Yoga 101 With Heidi Kristoffer, hit that play button and enjoy!
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Is the game of "what-if" leaving you anxious? Are you scratching your head thinking, what in the world is she talking about?
Inside episode ten of The Courageously.u Podcast, we are chatting about the terrible, soul-sucking game of “What-if” statements.
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Did you know that your gut health can impact your brain health? Did you know that inflammation in your body could mimic mental illness? Did you know that your brain had a glymphatic system? Did you know blood sugar instability could lead to anxiety and depression? Are you curious about what functional medicine is?
Inside episode nine of The Courageously.u Podcast, Dr. Mary Pardee is delivering you all sorts of gut/brain health wisdom. You can consider this your unofficial college introduction class to all things functional medicine.
Dr. Mary Pardee is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor and a Certified Functional Medicine Doctor specializing in integrative gastroenterology and hormone balancing in Los Angeles, California. She is the founder of modrn med, a telemedicine and virtual wellness company that provides medical and health services to clients across the world from the comfort of their homes.
If you're ready to take back control of your physical and mental health, hit that play button and be prepared to take lots of notes. Happy listening!
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Life isn't always how it appears, especially inside a home nestled on Hidden Valley Road. Margaret Galvin Johnson grew up in an American family with twelve children. Six of them being diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Behind the illusion of perfection, good looks, and athleticism hid a secret. A secret that would later become medical's greatest hope for understanding Schizophrenia.
Hidden Valley Road is a true story of rejection, pain, trauma, abandonment, neglect, and physical and sexual abuse. However, hidden within the chaos of mental illness lies another story—a story of a girl who grew to be a courageous woman. In today's episode, the spotlight is shined on how Margaret Galvin Johnson navigated her way through years of trauma to a place of self-compassion.
Margaret Galvin Johnson is a multi-passionate artist who has spent the last twenty years writing her family story (now known as Hidden Valley Road). A story of shame, denial, secrecy, abuse, mental illness, and resilience. Margaret's family story, which was later handed off to author Robert Kolker, has since become a New York Times bestseller and Oprah's 84th book club pick.
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Are you tired of feeling anxious? Do you find yourself lost in future-focused worries? Are you guilty of playing the "what-if" game? If yes, you won't want to miss out on these mindfulness goodies.
In today's episode, I am sharing three of my fave mindfulness techniques to help you reduce your anxiety by grounding yourself in the here-and-now.
If you're new to mindfulness, no worries! Hit that play button, and let's get to it.
P.S. There is an anxiety FREEBIE in the show notes!
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How do we combat perfectionism, especially in our social media-obsessed society where everyone feels pressured to make sure only their “highlight” reels are posted? What do you do when your life looks perfect, but you are silently falling apart? As a child were painful emotions not only disallowed but ridiculed or ignored? Do you live with perfectly hidden depression?
In today's episode, Dr. Margaret Rutherford describes a syndrome whose primary trait is perfectionism, fueled by shame and self-criticism. She helps us understand how someone can present as the perfect friend or co-worker, highly successful, engaged—and seemingly happy—while struggling with wounds that have never been acknowledged or seen for what they are.
If you're ready to learn all about perfectly hidden depression, click that play button, and tune in to Episode 6 to hear all about it.
P.S. If you, or someone you know, is having suicidal thoughts, please access help. You matter, your life matters, and help is available. Call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.
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On December 29, 2010, what started as a typical evening commute quickly ended with Carey Portell's life being turned upside down.
Carey is a survivor of a drunk driver that has left her partially disabled. After a four year recovery, and thirteen surgeries, Carey splits her time between cattle farming and speaking on how to break limitations.
In today's episode, Carey shares her pain and also her triumph from the lens of what it looks like when you are the victim of drinking and driving, but most importantly, she explains how she refused to play the victim in her circumstances.
If you're ready to hear Carey's courageous story, hit that play button and join us inside Episode 5: When a Drunk Driver Hits With Carey Portell.
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https://courageouslyu.com/?p=2133
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Friends tell each other secrets, right?!? Well, friend, I am dropping some juicy secrets in today's episode.
I'm whispering in your ear why I'm down to one pair of pants and how the realization I had gone up four pants sizes drove me to want a Mrs. Fields sugar cookie. On top of all that, I'm letting you into what feels like my lifelong battle with weight. Oh, and let's not forget, I may or may not have cried. You'll just have to hit that play button to find out.
I'm also sharing 12 tricks and tips to help both of us break free from the diet cycle, learn to love our bodies, and how to help the younger generation avoid the toxic cycle of body shaming.
P.s. There's also a freebie in the show notes that has your name written all over it!
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Dr. Catherine Pittman, Ph.D., HSPP, is a licensed Clinical Psychologist, and psychology professor at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. A practicing Clinical Psychologist treating anxiety for over 30 years, she's also experienced in neuropsychological rehabilitation for individuals who have experienced brain injuries or strokes.
On top of all of that, she is my anxiety mentor, and I am soooo excited to share her with you today! In this episode, Dr. Pittman is dropping some serious nuggets of wisdom on how to not let anxiety stop you from living your life.
In this episode, I decided to switch things up and gave my courageous community over on Instagram an opportunity to ask Catherine some of their biggest burning questions. Well, friend, today is the day she delivers, so if you're ready to dive in, hit that play button and let's do this!
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https://courageouslyu.com/?p=2073
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As someone who is currently struggling with hormonal acne on a whole new level, I was beyond excited to sit down with Courtney O'Conner.
Courtney Joy O'Connor is Primally Pure's in-house Holistic Esthetician and has been involved in the beauty industry for over a decade. After working with an international beauty brand for several years, she took a step back from the spa industry to focus on the healing power of non-toxic skincare products and joined the Primally Pure team in 2016.
In today's episode, she is dropping so many nuggets of wisdom on why our overall wellness must shift to non-toxic natural skincare. She also discusses having a holistic perspective to skincare and what it looks like to treat the whole person without toxins.
If you're ready to knock your socks off, hit that play button and join us inside today's game-changing episode.
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https://courageouslyu.com/?p=1966
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Welcome new best friend to the very first ever episode of The Courageously.u Podcast. If we are new besties, you might be a little curious as to who I am and why I am the best friend you never knew you needed. If that's the case, you are in luck, buddy.
In today's episode, I am diving deep into all things that make me, me, and why I chased the overwhelming fire in my soul to show up for you. We talk about my struggles, my why, my passions, and why I am making it my mission to help you live your best life.
I share with you how courageously.u was born out of my own need for connection and how my insecurities almost held me back.
You'll walk away with a better understanding of what courageously.u is and all the goodies it delivers.
I do have to tell you, though, that yes, I am a therapist, but I am not your therapist. I am sharing with you years and thousands of dollars worth of self-work as an everyday girl who just happens to know how to help people.
So, if you're feeling courageous, go ahead and hit that play button. Stay courageous, my new BFF!
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