For this week’s Special Edition Valentine’s Day episode we sit down for a round-table Q&A with one of our favorite soul sisters & Transformational Coach, Nicole Dominguez. In this episode we answered questions from our Pretty Mental community on all things relationships and being single. We explored: How to cultivate self-intimacy in and outside relationships. What it takes to develop authentic romantic relationships. Working through the fear of being alone.  Working through the fear of being hurt in relationships. How to handle when we want commitment but the other person doesn’t. Conscious, ethical dating and hooking up even when there is no intention for long-term relationship. Nicole's IG: @mevolvecoaching Nicole's Website Watch us on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

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94. Relationship Roundtable Q&A with with Nicole Dominguez

In this week’s Sister’s Solo podcast session we do another deep dive to unpack: Our current relationship with technology and social media and cultivating healthy boundaries in the digital age. Cultivating deeper resilience in our personal lives and business practices by learning from the pace of nature. Why honoring what’s truly nurturing and healthy will often require a tolerance for being misunderstood. Healing the self-abandonment wound to reclaim our Self-worth. Watch us on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

93. Cultivating Resilience and Self-Worth

In this week’s Sister’s Solo podcast session we do a deep dive into the energy of Guilt and unpack: Why this emotion is so common in our culture and why it’s so important to manage it How healing our relationship to guilt helps make us immune to manipulation Why not being controlled by guilt is essential for having true intimacy and building an authentic community. Liberating ourselves from the idea that  being a “good person” means self-sacrifice and not having boundaries  Everylywell Discount Link   Watch us on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

92. Challenging and Managing Our Own Guilt (Solo)

In this week’s Sister’s Solo podcast session we do a juicy deep dive into the energy of Fear and unpack: The major role it plays in our experiences of anxiety and depression. How to recognize it, stand up to it and transcend it. What we’ve personally learned on our journey of healing from this energy. How to hack out physiology to override the fear response. Why thriving can only happen when our minds and bodies are equally considered on this journey. Everylywell Discount Link  Watch us on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

91. Unpacking the Energy of Fear & Taking Control of Our Physiology (Solo)

In this week’s Sister’s Solo podcast session things got very real as we unpacked: Shaking off the societal pressures to put on a one dimensional, “professional” mask in order to have a seat at the table in your industry. The mindsets we need to cultivate in order to bring our full selves forward. How so much of what we consider Depression, is actually the result of settling for a life of suppressed desires and fragmented identities. The joy that is possible when we integrate all of who we are into our life experience. Watch us on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

90. Shedding All Masks and Owning All That You Are (Solo)

This week we sat down for another sister’s solo and deep dove into: Understanding narcissism, narcissistic relationships and how they tear us down over time. Normalizing the range of emotions that come up in the process of healing after these types of relationships. Exposure therapy and normalizing the discomfort that’s a part of healing and growing. Embracing imperfection and using humor to heal feelings of shame and inadequacy. Watch us on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

89. Learning How to Recognize Narcissistic Relationships & Embracing Imperfection (Solo)

To finish out the year we sat down for another sister’s solo and reflected on : The healing gems that can be revealed when we get triggered by family. Why our feelings of inadequacy can actually guide us towards a more authentic life. Why becoming more self-accepting leads to having a deeper acceptance of others’ differences. Practical tools for coping with anxiety and having healthy boundaries in real-time. Pretty Mental Links: Watch us on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

88. Family triggers, Self-acceptance & Boundaries (Solo)

For this week’s episode, we sat with the brilliant, Abigail Iquo Isuo. Abigail is an Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist with 20+ years of experience who guides her clients through profound shadow work to uncover the gifts that lie in the painful depths of the psyche. In this conversation with Abigail we got to explore: A deeper understanding of the different types of anger and the wisdom that this emotion has to offer us What is shadow work and why reintegrating the dark, taboo parts of ourselves is a necessary step on the journey to wholeness and mental health How to reclaim the parts of ourselves that have been put in the shadow How to navigate our own and others’ difficult emotions and differences of opinions in ways that can help create a more harmonious world Abigail's website: https://www.potentialcharisma.com/ Pretty Mental Links: Watch this episode on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

87. Freeing Ourselves Through Shadow Work with Abigail Iquo Isuo

In this conversation, we sat down for another Solo session to unpack the ways in which perfectionism and social anxiety feed into each other and how to counteract this through the power of intention. In this episode we deep dove into:  Our own experiences of challenging perfectionism and how showing up imperfectly has become a powerful exposure therapy practice.  What liberation perfectionist conditioning means to us and identifying safe spaces for beginning this journey.  How to utilize the power of intention to offset social anxiety and form authentic connections with others.  Pretty Mental Links: Watch this episode on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

86. Perfectionism, Social Anxiety & Being of Service (Solo)

In this conversation we sat down for another Solo session to explore the ways in which western medicine and academia have often left spirituality out of the conversation on healing. We get honest about why this matter, how it’s affected past conversations on the podcast and deep dive into:  What it means to give ourselves FULL permission to allow more spirituality and faith to join us on this human healing journey  The expansive impact of reclaiming our voice, prayer and intention to activate healing energy in our lives.  Seeing life’s challenges as Initiations to greater levels of personal power rather than simply obstacles that are here to make our lives harder.  Pretty Mental Links: Watch this episode on YouTube!! Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com

85. Coming Out of the Spiritual Closet (Solo)

For today’s solo podcast session, we sat down to unpack triggers and the value of giving ourselves permission to be free thinkers. In this conversation we deep dove into: Why opening up to the gray areas and nuance of life is so valuable to our mental health and human journeys. Cultivating deeper self-intimacy through a nuanced exploration of our triggers and our layers of conditioning. Recognizing the value of social norms and traditions as well as the value of questioning them. How the willingness to question what we think we know increases our psychological flexibility and mental health over time.  Pretty Mental Links: Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com Sponsor Links: Awaken Village Press Website Awaken Village Press  IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)  Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team 

84. Deconstructing Triggers and Redefining Our Own Realities (Solo)

In this Solo podcast we sat down to explore the energy of anger and our recent encounters with it. Anger plays a really important role in this human experience and there are both helpful and not so helpful ways that we can engage with it. In this conversation we unpack: The recent experiences we’ve had encountering this energy. Understanding the different survival strategies that get activated in the face of anger. How and why our anger can help us identify our boundaries. Exploring the fine line between self advocacy and indulging our anger. What it means is to remain emotionally responsible with our anger even when we don’t have to be and why this matters.  Pretty Mental Links: Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com Sponsor Links: Awaken Village Press Website Awaken Village Press  IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)  Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team 

83. Understanding & Working with Anger During Stressful Times (Solo)

For today’s podcast we got together for the first Sister Solo since Valentina’s return from the jungle. In this conversation we are unpacking and challenging our civilization’s obsession with linear, rigid, binary, medicalized world-views of the human psyche. We deep dove into: Embracing the reality that we are all walking paradoxes, and how okay that is. Introducing the PM community to the paradigm shifting therapeutic technique of Internal Family Systems (IFS). Unpacking and challenging the level of influence that diagnostic models have on our current view of the human psyche. Valentina’s third and final Kambo ceremony. How surrendering our resistance to discomfort decreases our experience of suffering and opens us up to palpable joy. Pretty Mental Links: Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com Sponsor Links: Awaken Village Press Website Awaken Village Press  IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)  Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team 

82. A New Paradigm for Mental Health (Solo)

For this week's episode, we sat down for another sisters heart to heart solo. For this conversation, we deep dove into the insights that we have been having while living through two very different life experiences. In this session, we explored:  Valentina's recent Kambo ceremonies in the jungles of Costa Rica.  Paula’s personal journey to becoming an OCD therapist.  A deeper dive into understanding OCD and anxiety and the brain patterns that are involved.  What exposure and response prevention therapy is and our lived experiences with this behavioral therapy tool.  How incorporating parts work (IFS) into our mental health practices can help create exponential results.  Pretty Mental Links: Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com Sponsor Links: Awaken Village Press Website Awaken Village Press  IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)  Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team 

81. Healing Through Kambo & Dissecting OCD (Solo)

For today’s podcast, we explored the beginning lessons of Valentina's current journey in the Costa Rican Jungle and the ways in which a different landscape can help facilitate a shift in consciousness. In this conversation we got to deep dive into: Lessons from co-habiting with an off-grid conscious community in the jungle.  What it means to step out of our comfort zone and sit through the tension of expansion.  How her current jungle experience is a great real-life example of exposure and response prevention therapy in real time.  The concept of location cure and discerning between running away from pain versus moving towards growth.  A deeper exploration of turning to emotional regulation tools to carry us through exposure practice.  Pretty Mental Links: Website: PrettyMental.Com Breathwork with Valentina Therapy with Paula  IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial   Contact: Community@PrettyMental.com Sponsor Links: Awaken Village Press Website Awaken Village Press  IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)  Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team 

80. Lessons from the Jungle (Solo)

Pretty Mental is about accepting our full selves and inspiring others to do the same by being daringly unfiltered. This means completely normalizing all things mental health and the wild journey that has brought us here. We are challenging the stigmatization of normal human suffering. We are done pretending and subscribing to the notion that it’s taboo to have challenging mental health experiences. Welcome to the pretty mental health club and enjoy the show! Tune in every Monday at 8am EST/5am PST for a brand new episode & follow us on Instagram at @PrettyMentalOfficial

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