The Thought Spiral: Recent Episodes
Mari
A space to discuss and work through our through our endless thoughts about relationships, friendships, love, family, childhood trauma, struggles and anxiety. Open forum, honest, raw and real. Can’t promise you won’t laugh and maybe cry.
Checking back in after 2 years now. So many things have happened leading up to my return to this platform and I’m ready to share and to talk about it with whoever might be listening.
Hey friends it’s been a long time since I have stopped in and chatted! Just a little update on what’s been going on and hoping that this episode finds you healthy and happy!
It’s been a while since I’ve been on, so I’m just checking in and sharing what’s going on with me and how I plan to move forward with this podcast. Hoping that all of you are staying safe and healthy and still here with me.
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Just to chat about letting go of resentment over past relationship losses. How I have been able to manage not feeling so much resentment for things that I cannot control and understanding that my peace is most important above all else.
Just to chat about why it’s so important to remain an unproblematic woman in this world. Many of us allow the negative things that of happened to us in our lives to control how we seek speech and act in the world. Being unproblematic allows you to maintain a state of peace in your life and it’s important for your mental health.
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Just to chat about letting go of old habits and creating new habits to live a better, more content and peaceful life.
We must empower, encourage, cultivate the strength within ourselves and our fellow woman. A chat about how this all makes me feel.
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A personal experience of a chat with my dad regarding toxic family. We are not obligated to maintain relationships with people who think it’s OK to abuse us with hurtful words, actions or behaviors. We need to do better for ourselves and understand that we are deserving of everything good that comes to us.
I want to give credit to Don Miguel Ruiz for his book the four agreements. I wanted to share how this has impacted me and how I perceive myself in my life. ⚠️I am not sponsored by Mr. Ruiz or Amazon or any other company⚠️this is just my personal view/opinions and practical application/review of this self-help book. I hope this helps those of you on your search for enlightenment and purpose.
This episode is a quick chat about my experiences with military sexual trauma, sexual assault and what we’re doing to hopefully change the course of how the military handles situations. I want to share that I want justice for Vanessa Guillen and for all the service members: male, female and all gender types that have experienced these circumstances without resolve.
Just a little chat about how it is completely normal to have disagreements or tensions within your relationship. Any arguments or discussions at a negatively don’t need to be a dealbreaker. Article Link below for ya: https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/can-relationship-survive-major-political-differences-0620165
Just to chat about making sure to stay healthy physically and mentally. I’m going to the Journey myself and I thought it might be helpful to share.
A chat about re-evaluating relationships, identifying toxic behaviors and just being better for yourself. Choose you, always.
This episode is really about how often I’m seeing people and relationships or friendships because someone is staying silent about this particular BLM. Silence doesn’t necessarily mean that someone doesn’t agree with this movement. I just go on to explain that a little bit further.
Just a little chat about living in the now excepting acknowledging and letting go of the anxieties, the pain, the anger or any of the emotions that control our thoughts unnecessarily.
This is the time for you to reflect, listen to your mind and body, grieve, celebrate whatever you need to do to feel whole. Don’t feel pressure to be perfect after things go back to normal.
Just a quick little chat about my own personal experiences living with anxiety. Ways to combat some of the anxiety that we feel in every day life.
Just a quick chat about making friends, keeping friends and solidifying those friendships to last into the future.
Struggling with identity and purpose. Feeling like I offer something to the world. How to find it again? How to reconcile these feelings with growth. Just a chat.
Just my thoughts about grief and being sent I’ve to others while they grieve. Understanding grieve and loss as trauma. RIP to the Bryant, Altobelli, Chester, Mauser and Zobayan families and also to Brownie Aoun.
Just a chat about breed discrimination, responsibility of pet owners and my thoughts and feelings about the subject. I love dogs, they are my pride and my passion.
Just a chat about growth and allowing people to change and be who are they are now. Don’t hold onto the person you think someone is if you don’t really know who they are today. We are all worthy of being able to change and respecting others when they do.
Working through our traumas and the cycles they create within us. Focusing on being present and acknowledging but pushing those negative residual energies aside.
Just a little insight into Murphy’s Law and how it impacts you when things are going well in your life. Finding the best way to react is what’s most important and working with your partner or even with yourself to make the best decisions that are the most beneficial to you.
Sharing my thoughts and experiences with debt and choosing to start a path toward being debt free. Sharing our choices good and bad to inspire anyone to choose the debt free life. ⚠️DISCLAIMER⚠️I am not sponsored by Dave Ramsey or his affiliates.
This is an article I read on narcissistic personalities a while back that got lost in the media mix. Happy to be able to share this!
⚠️STRONG LANGUAGE⚠️Another personal experience because of social media. Don’t let anyone diminish or dictate your choices about how you express your relationship, life or yourself.
Episode detailing a personal experience with someone I believe to be narcissistic. Chatting about how it impacted me, how I’m dealing and how to not be in that situation.
Just a quick chat about the cycle Of toxicity within families. I wanted to share my own personal experiences about abuse and about family forcing relationships with abusers. We don’t have to allow that anymore.
Just a little intro to define what the title of this podcast means, what it’s going to be about and what I hope to get out of it!