DIY Life with Jess: Recent Episodes
Jess Shiveley
Life can be challenging, learn to breathe love into your life again! If you need encouragement, guidance, hope, inspiration, or even a good laugh, come along for this journey.On DIY Life, Jess will use real-life stories, heart-to-heart conversations, therapeutic tips, techniques, strategies, and everything else in between to guide and help you grow in self-love and personal discovery. Learn to live more within the present, enjoying each moment, so that you can live authentically with purpose. Through her own personal experiences, challenges, growth, and daily life, Jess has gained a lot of insight, thoughts, ideas, and wisdom. Additionally, as a mental health therapist and educator, Jess will bring a unique perspective and approach, using both personal and professional expertise. She will encourage you to take your challenges and use them for triumphs.
Join Jess as she shares the importance of validating self and others. So many times in life we are told "deal with it", "suck it up", "just push through", but is anyone really listening to what you have to say? Are they hearing your feelings and validating you? Validating others is such an important skill and creates deeper connections. Listen along to find out the importance of validation!
Join Jess as she discusses the benefits of meditation, and guides you through meditation. This easy to listen-to meditation will help you on your journey of self-awareness. Additionally, practicing meditation can help you be more focused and present within the moment! If you've never tried meditation, or are unsure about meditation, Jess highly encourages you to join along; pick somewhere comfy, calming, and quiet, and get ready for a new approach to self-awareness. If you are familiar with meditation, this can still prove beneficial to you, as we work through our overall journey to self-love! Best~ Jess
Join Jess as she continues the discussion around self-awareness. Jess shares a few techniques and ideas on how to further your self-awareness. Straightforward and practical everyday tools you can develop and use.
Hey Everyone, I am back with season 2 of DIY Life with Jess podcast!
Continuing on in our overall Journey to Self-Love and overall Wellness; today I am talking about self-awareness. Self-Awareness is a key component of our journey; the more in touch we are with ourselves, including our beliefs, behaviors, feelings, and thoughts, the more empowered and capable we become. Self-Awareness helps us to understand ourselves and be at more peace with who we are!
Join Jess as she talks a little about recent real-life struggles, and how to keep pushing through, even when you are challenged or unmotivated. Don't let your struggles get in your way; re-channel your thoughts, energy, and time into the positive.
Join Jess on her next episode further discussing how our intentions feed our overall motivation. Learn how to take your core values, overall intention & purpose and set goals to better help your walk-in self-love and overall wellness. Jess uses examples from her life regarding intention, core values, and goal setting.
Join Jess in a discussion around life intentions and explore how to align all aspects of our life to move us forward and towards our journey of self-love! What are your core values? Do these line up with the way you live and your overall life intention and goals? Here is a great discussion to further our self-discovery and continue along this journey!
In this final episode about motivation, Jess wraps up what the last several episodes have covered, encouraging you to identify and challenge your internal obstacles. Now is the time to identify, challenge and work through our obstacles that decrease our overall motivation.
You have control; over your thoughts, emotions, reactions, and choices! Are you ready to move forward and make some life-changing choices, if so push play!
Bonus Episode, exploring what a Social Worker does in celebration of National Social Work Month. Jess shares the definition of Social Work while following up with her perspective of what a Social Worker is/does. She also discusses some essential skills/traits for a career in Social Work. Learn briefly about some of the experiences Jess has had in the field; including schooling, different roles, and her overall why in becoming a Social Worker.
Are your negative emotions and thought processes hindering your motivation; stalling your journey in life? Do you talk to yourself with love and positivity, or do you find yourself talking negatively? What we tell ourselves, we believe...is it time for you to tell yourself something more positive, to love yourself and treat yourself as you would treat others you care for? We need to do the same for ourselves!
Join Jess in part 4 of the March Madness Motivation Mini-Series, where we will explore how our negative self-talk can impact our overall life. Do yourself a favor, take 20 minutes, and hit play....learn to identify negativity and work towards acceptance of your emotions, while learning to increase positivity and motivation!
Are your negative emotions and thought processes hindering your motivation; stalling your journey in life? Join Jess in part 3 of the March Madness Motivation Mini-Series, where we will explore how our negative emotions can impact our overall life. Do you get stuck in thought processes that increase your anxiety, decrease your mood, or are repetitive in nature, only ending with a negative result? Do yourself a favor, take 20 minutes, and hit play....learn to identify negativity and work towards acceptance of your emotions, while learning to increase positivity and motivation!
Continuing on with the quick March Madness Mini-Series, today Jess is talking about attitude. Is your negative attitude hindering your internal motivation? We ALL have complete control of our attitude, it is our choice if we have a good or bad attitude! Attitude is everything; listen to hear a few ways to check your attitude and re-adjust it to re-align with a more positive YOU. Join Jess in this Journey we call life and 'Breathe Love Into Your Life" through learning how to Do Life Yourself with Jess!
March Madness Mini-Series Building onto Internal Obstacles; breaking these down further for an overall better understanding.
Our internal obstacles can be our biggest roadblocks to change; today we talk about how a lack of knowledge and/or understanding of how change works. Through no fault of our own, we may not know how to move forward and make lasting change. Join Jess as she briefly talks about ways around this obstacle and how to move forward.
This is part 1 in a March Madness Series to quickly get you information on internal obstacles so we can talk further about your intention and "why". The next 3 episodes will focus on a negative attitude, negative self-talk, and our emotions!
Join Jess as she talks further about internal motivation. We all have challenges that exist internally that impact our motivation; learn about the common obstacles and the impact they have upon our choices and overall motivation. Are your internal obstacles getting in your way of living a life you love?
**Please note a quick note from Jess: My apologies, but I mention two contributors (Beck & Burns) within this podcast referring to them as Psychologists; they are Psychiatrists. These are two different disciplines, and I apologize for the slip in words. As I say, I am not perfect and I will own up to my error. Please realize this was accidental, not a lack of knowing the contributors and their background.
Join Jess as she continues discussing motivation. Motivation carries us through even on hard and challenging days. It is so important that we increase our motivation, especially internal motivation. Internal motivation helps us develop a sense of self, meaning, and overall purpose; it will help us to move along in our life-long journey.
Jess continues on with her discussion around motivation; within this episode explore the differences between external and internal motivators. Discover the importance of motivation and how it can begin to lead us in making changes within our behaviors and overall life. Remember our intentions feed our motivation and motivation leads us in our overall purpose!
Are you motivated? Do you want to see change within your life, but are ambivalent about commitment? Change requires motivation. Join Jess as she talks about motivation and intention. Jess shares her recent journey of learning to be intentional while encouraging you to explore your intentions within life.
Life can be challenging, learn to breathe love into your life again! If you need encouragement, guidance, hope, inspiration, or even a good laugh, come along for this journey into self-love and discovery. Learn more about DIY Life during this introductory episode.