The Traveling Therapists: Recent Episodes
The Traveling Therapists
Do you consider yourself a strong listener? What can you find out from others just by listening to them?
How are you with conflict management? Do you find yourself keeping a list of regrets and threats or are you all studied up on how to forgive and be forgiven. This week speaker shares an acronym that helps him and his relationships with others.
Do you love someone who struggles with addiction? If you are suffering alone, let me be the first person to share with you that you do not have to suffer alone. Feel free to reach out for a 15 minute free connection call. I will do my best to give you free work resources to help support you. This week speaker is an addiction therapist and has some helpful guidelines to help us love our addicts to life.
How much tolerance do you have for being uncomfortable? Do you like to play it safe or do you have an adventurous side? This week speaker shares how she stretches her ideas about herself to do amazing things.
Do you have a hard time admitting when you’re wrong about some thing? What is the last time you were able to acknowledge that there may be a perspectives that you are missing?
If you are feeling like you have a mysterious superpower that has yet to be uncovered, I would love to connect with you for a free 15 minute connection call.
Are you experiencing a Season of Loneliness? If so, what can you do to get reconnected with friends and family? If you are needing to create a Facebook group like I needed to, feel free to reach out and we can talk about how I made mine.
Have you learned about creativity? What did you learn?What area/areas in your life do you think you are the most creative? If you haven’t exercised your creativity muscle in a while, when can you next set aside some time to focus on it?
Do you struggle with imposter syndrome? If so, how does it show up in your daily life? This week speaker shares how he struggles with imposter syndrome as a successful entrepreneur and how he found out that he was not the only one.
Are you currently in a relationship or are you looking for a relationship? The speaker this week as a divorce attorney that shares her career has shown some light on some key areas we can keep in mind when we are creating a relationship that lasts.
Do you identify with the idea of being the hero of your own story? If not, why not? My experience has shown me that being the hero is oh so much fun!
Who encourages you? What did they do that encourages you the most? This week speaker shares how she has received encouragement and how powerful it is in her life.
Good morning have you ever experienced the power of letting go? What happened? This week’s speaker shares with us how The act of letting go changed her life.
Have you ever thought of your life as a story line? Our speaker this week helps us to view our lives as a story that we can change an altar given the right set of circumstances and given a new mindset.
Do you love someone who struggles with addiction? If so, have you ever considered joining a 12-step group? If you would like more information, feel free to send me a message here on the website. www.thetravelingtherapists.com
How have you experienced social Validation? Was it something you craved or did you want nothing to do with it?
Have you ever wondered where emotions come from? This week’s speaker helps us understand the origin of emotion so that we can know how to better manage them when they show up.
Do you or someone you love struggle with an addiction? Are you getting help? If not, reach out to me for a free connection call, and I will share with you everything I did to get the help I needed.
Have you ever had the desire to reinvent yourself? What do you envision your magical transformation would look like? What is holding you back from thinking reinvention is possible?
Do you or someone you know struggle with exam anxiety? What do you do to help prepare yourself for an exam? The full blog with the featured speaker is on: www.thetravelingtherapists.com
What are the top 10 lessons that you have learned throughout your professional career? When you look back at every job that you have had, how did each experience help mold you to the person you are?
What has been your experience in collaborating with others? Have you ever experienced an amazing group effort? What would you say to those who are thinking about starting a collaboration project with others?
Do you own too much stuff? What is the way you go about getting rid of it? Do you have a system that helps you?
Who is the therapist you would call, if your relationship runs into trouble? It is best to know and keep their number accessible. I know a good one, if you don’t have one yet.
Where has passion and perseverance taken over your state of being? This week’s speaker shares with us the importance grit has on determining levels of success.
What is it about you that lights up up? What do you do that afterwards makes you feel lighter and brighter?
If you were to make a negative self-talk character, what would it look like? What what it’s name be?
Are you struggling with patience in quarantine? How are you managing your feelings of impatience?
Do you have a daily practice? If not, it is as simple as creating a short list of things you are grateful for each day.
Hope shows up in many different ways. How does it show up for you? What brings you hope & peace when you need it most?
Can you remember the last time you felt truly listen to? Who was it? What did they do to show you howMuch they wanted to seek to understand what you were going through?
How do you find personal piece when you find yourself being overcome with a lack of peace? Is there something you do to help you be mindful of your breath? Many mental health professionals are offering online services for a reduced rate at this time. Don’t hesitate to reach out.
What are some contenders for your worlds best abilities? Can you name them? How are you encouraging them to be in focus?
How do you adapt to new environments? What things do you need to do in order to feel grounded or study in new environments? Do you like to stick to a strict routines or are you more about making personal connections?
How do you best process information? Do you like to talk it out with others? Do you like to think about information by yourself? Do you like information and pictures and graphs? Today’s speaker uses her experience as a family therapist and an assessment tool developed in New Zealand to help us determine how we best process information.
Do you agree with the statement, “There is safety in numbers?” If so, how do you apply this in your life? What groups can you join that will bring safety and security?
What do you need in your relationships with others? Try to find a good time to ask them what they need.
When was the first time you realized just how powerful breathing is? Have you ever done any breathing exercises?
The best thing I can do to honor all the good these five people have added to my life is to try to model the characteristics that I admire about them.
What place does money have in your life? Is it something you think of this neutral? Or, do you think about money having some sort of power to enhance your well-being?
What does unhealthy codependency mean to you? What would it look like to trust yourself? What does the best version of yourself look like, and feel like?
Do you have a hard time appreciating who you are? Not what others expect you to be, but who you truly are. What is it that you appreciate about who you are?
October is domestic violence awareness month. The speaker helps further clarify the entanglements that someone faces when fighting themselves at home with domestic violence.
Have you been to therapy? If so, what was it like? Do you have find memories of your therapist? What discoveries about yourself did you make in session?
Today, when I feel connected on social media. It might be wise to take a step back and ask myself, when was the last time I had a full conversation with a friend? What do I look like to my family when I am constantly on my phone or laptop? When was the last time I unplugged for an entire day, week or month? Why is my brain terrified at any length of these times?
Is there a phrase that haunts you? Is there a substitute phrase you could start using, instead?
Think about your current and/or past relationships, what have you learned about being in a relationship? Are there any books or experiences that have helped increase how you navigate them?
If a professional organizer came to your home, what could she tell you about yourself just by looking at the things you choose to surround yourself with?
What do you tell yourself if you were to record every thought you had about yourself? What would the recording say?
What have you been to fearful to do? What challenges or obstacles are holding you back? This week’s speaker has an exercise that will help put those fears under a magnifying glass.
And have you ever stopped believing in yourself? What event or person caused your fire to go out?
What achievements could you list out from your life? Are there any in particular that stand out to you? What is it about that specific achievement that makes it so valuable?
Do you remember a time when you were caught doing something you didn’t realize was going to get you into trouble? How did it feel? It made me wonder where I had gone wrong.
Think of someone in your life who is the best example of the word, love. Who comes to mind? How did they communicate love to you?
When it comes to taking a rest, do you find it easy or hard to do? Can you think of a time where you took a significant rest? What was it like to step away from everything?
Do you find it easy to let go of relationships as soon as you realize they have a need to end? Or, do you instead find yourself agonizing over memories of what went wrong? Embracing the lessons instead of holding on to the regrets will help set you up for new relationships.
How do you define the word intimacy? Have you experienced it before? What were the circumstances?
What qualities do you enjoy about yourself? What qualities of friendship would you like to practice and get better expressing?
Have you ever felt lost in your education or career path? What help do you bring clarity to your purpose? If you find yourself looking for answers, resources are available to help you.
When I think of being self-motivated, I think of myself hopping on one side stepping stone at a time to get across a huge lake. What is my reason to keep hopping to the next stone?
The best way I can differentiate between empathy and sympathy is to imagine a person stuck at the bottom of a cave with only one opening at the top.
When thinking about the first community I have experienced, these two values were present.
As a little girl, making friends was relatively easy to do...Today, making friends is a lot more complicated.
If you had to make a list of categories you have been out of control, which category would have the most tallies?
Have you experienced high anxiety? Was anyone with you? Or, were you alone? What did you do to cope?
How do you handle difficult conversations? Do you attack them head on or dodge them like the plague?
If you have even spoken in front of a crowd, you know that there are a couple of things that could go horribly wrong... Do you struggle with public speaking?
This week’s Ted Talk has been on my mind for a very long time. It is something I wished I had seen as a teenager. I did not know how others were handling divorce, but I can share what life is like for me, now.
My early memories of Valentine’s Day are so wonderful! My family was big on celebrating all the holidays and Valentine’s Day was no exception.
Whether you are an introvert or an extrovert, how can you best communicate your needs with others?
My inner world was highly developed as a child. Being inward focused is very natural for me.
What have you had to negotiate? Did you feel that came to a resolution or did it leave you feeling dissatisfied?
The road to self acceptance is long and arduous. I believe the last time I felt that I was completely satisfied with the person I am was when I was a little girl.
How do you deal with conflict? What process did they teach at home or at school when you were young?
Some call it excessive worry, some call it anxiety. I didn’t have a name for it then, but now I do.
Mentors are people who have gone before me. People who have experienced more in an area that I need to learn about.
My tendency to overthink keeps me in fantasy, but their daring nature helped bring me back to reality.
Is there a goal or a dream that you are reaching for? What do you envision when working toward it? Moving forward may be depending on your mindset.
I am grateful for my relationship. I am proud to know and to love my husband. I dream that my sons will know this kind of love. Love that conquers all.
I came up with “The Volcano of Anger” because I was needing to communicate how to manage anger with young children. It has been help in managing my own anger.
One day, one of my classmates unexpectedly highlighted an aspect of who I was, a character trait I hold close to me still.
The memories we make are just more evidence that what we have is something we are so grateful for...each other.
My creativity is a big part of who I am. Taking away my opportunity to practice creativity would be a mistake, like ask me to lock a door of a room instead my soul.
I walked into my first class (at college) and something happened. There was no assigned seating. Where was I going to sit if no one was going to tell me? The answer was anywhere I wanted.
Do you have a memory of a hard lesson you learned, growing up? What did you do to take care of your emotions?
The true procrastinators are very seldom proud and forthright about how long it has taken them to start doing something. Time begins to be the subject of my blame when, in reality, Choice is the culprit.
Another part of the self discovery was asking myself who I wanted to be with. What values would they have? What characteristics would they possess? What are my deal breakers?
Think back to a time where your self perception was congruent between your outsides and your insides, and when you were the happiest.
That day,they walked in and found me on the couch sobbing...That day, curled up on the couch, I was experiencing heartbreak.
Who do you picture when you think of someone you have met with a contagious personality?
When the next challenge comes be ready to just do it. No more letting these negative thoughts hold you back.
Whatever your mouth’s natural position, regularly scheduled good conversation is invaluable to connecting with others.
Friendships may not last forever, but the kind of friend you wish you had could be you.
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps, hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” -Maya Angelou