Hope is foundational to help keep us moving forward. In this episode I will talk about some functions of hope and how to use them to help improve your mental health. Mental health issues like depression will make this difficult, so make sure you set realistic expectations of yourself and keep that in you mind as you listen!   Hope can be a powerful tool if harnessed purposefully. I hope you enjoy the episode! 

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Using Hope to Improve Your Mental Health

In this episode I talk to Paula Fontenelle about suicide. Paula is a mental health clinician and expert in working with all aspects of suicide. Paula shares with us signs, interventions, and mindsets to be aware of when helping someone that is suicidal.    Paula helps us understand that anyone can help someone with suicidal thoughts. Paula has great resources available at her website, understandsuicide.com where you can look at her book, online course, and podcast.    I enjoyed my conversation with Paula and know you will find her knowledge and insight helpful!

Understanding Suicide and How You Can Help

As humans, we have amazing capacity to grow and learn. In this episode we will explore how technology can impact our attention and our propensity to avoid unpleasantness in life.  We will also discuss how to star to think about striking that balance to help improve your mental health!

How Does Technology Impact Our Mental Health Part 2

In this episode we start to unpack some of the ways our use of technology can impact our mental health. Technology is here to stay, so understanding the relationship between our mental health and technology use is critical!  

How Does Technology Impact Our Mental Health Part 1

Have you ever had a hard time thinking about the future? Maybe you know someone who has trouble with this now? In this episode we will explore how mental health impacts our thinking about the future. We will also talk about day by day planning and what functions that serve for our mental health. 

How Does Mental Health Impact Thinking About The Future and What To Do About It

In this episode I break down depression and the various ways it can work. This episode will also explore what you can do to help your or someone else's depression. I hope you find this helpful!

Breaking Down Depression and What To Do About It

Does your mind get flooded with thoughts that you can't seem to shake? Does your racing mind make it hard to focus or difficult to get anything done? In this episode, Pete Sandoval, LPC will explore with us what causes a racing mind and what we can do in order to calm ourselves in these moments.  This episode is part of the Calming A Racing Mind series but we go more in depth this episode to really drive home what you can do to help calm yourself in these tough moments. We hope you enjoy!

Calming A Racing Mind and Our Nervous System Part 3

In this episode I start the conversation about how sex affects our mental health. First, we have to talk about both physical and emotional components that make up sex. I hope you enjoy!  

How Sex Affects Mental Health

In this episode, Sarah Sanburn, LPC helps us to understand how physical touch impacts our mental health. Sarah also helps use to understand how to use touch to help improve behaviors and connection to our children (young and old)! We hope you find this episode helpful!

How Physical Touch Can Help Our Mental Health

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder that can be complicated.  Today we have Dr. Jeremy Shuman help simplify OCD and guide us towards what treatment of OCD looks like. We hope you find this helpful!

Understanding OCD and What To Do About It

Improving our mental health is important. This is an easy idea and tool to help you start the path to understanding what you can actually do to help your mental health. We hope you enjoy!  

How Tracking Your Mood and Behavior Can Improve Your Mental Health

In this episode, I talk to Stephanie Korpal, a therapist in Saint Louis Missouri that helps us understand how sleep helps our mental health. We hope you enjoy!  

How Sleeping Affects Your Mental Health

Join Reshaunda Thornton and myself as we explore how the foods you eat can impact your mental health. We will also explore how you can transform your relationship with food and why a diet may not be the right direction for you. We hope you enjoy!

How Your Relationship With Food Impacts Your Mental Health

In this episode we explore how language, words, and description help our brain deepen its understanding of an experience we have. This is a crucial process in helping us process emotional events and helps us to better be able to communicate our experiences.    Being able to express your experiences is a great way to help yourself and others understand you. In this episode I will also talk about a process of helping you talk about your feelings and experiences in a deeper way with those around you. I hope you enjoy!

How Describing Our Experiences Can Help Our Mental Health

In this episode I talk about introspection and how to go about being more reflective of your own life experiences. I also talk about how important this is for our own personal growth. I provide personal examples to help you with your own journey as well!  

How to Become More Introspective and Why It Matters

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