Mental Health, Mindset, Mindfulness Alison Sullivan Mental Health, Mindset, Mindfulness Alison Sullivan

319: My Story- Trauma & Professional Identity with Valerie Ashley

Shownotes:

00:08 Intro

01:14 About Valerie Ashley

03:16 Welcoming Valerie

04:53 What is Professional Identity?

06:57 Influences of Professional Identity

10:47 Support & Community

12:05 How A Person Develops Their Professional Identity

16:30 *TRIGGER WARNING for Sexual Assault

24:05 Trigger Warning Over

24:06 Vulnerable Ages & Launching Yourself

26:25 Valerie’s Accident

27:50 Post-Traumatic Growth

28:58 Healing From Trauma & What Happens When Exploring That

32:27 Magnitude of People Living In Trauma

34:59 Working With Those Living In Trauma

36:39 Mindfully Engaging With Your Identity

38:03 Trauma Showing Up At Work

39:24  Shifts in Professional Identity

43:20 Pivoting, Shifting, & Reinventing

47:37 Expanding Sense of Self

48:30 Self-Reflective Areas to Engage With

54:51 More About Valerie & Her Work

55:32 Alison’s Letter

57:58 Outro


Mentioned Resources:

Website- www.valerieashleycounseling.com

Linked In- https://www.linkedin.com/in/valeriehicksashley/  

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317: Meditation Happy Hour With Alana Weathersbee

Show Notes:

00:09 Introduction

00:48 Live Episode Intro

01:41 Alana’s Intro

02:01 Relaxing Meditation Led By Alison

15:48 Building Community

16:55 Alana On Being Okay With What We Are Feeling

19:02 A Frontline Workers Letter 

22:10 Mental Health Clinicians Experience

25:28 Alana’s Examination of Thoughts/Patterns

31:00 Taking Pauses & Numbing

34:30 Applying To Your Life

35:50 Deep Relaxation Led By Alana

50:40 Invitation to Meet Yourself Where You Are

52:00 Outro

** Please Note:

We are committed to the mission of Integration Nation, building community through education about integrative mental health concepts and practices and seek to deliver the highest level of content possible.  To that end, due to recording live we were unable to use specific audio equipment leading to a few audio issues. We’ve done our best to reduce the impact of the audio difficulties on the content and believe that the content of this conversation far outweighs the minor audio issues we experienced.

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314: My Story- Parenting & Domestic Violence with Paige Flink

Shownotes:

00:08 Intro

03:15 Content Warning

05:18 Meet Paige

08:04 Domestic Violence Impacts on Parenting

11:15 Co-Parenting & Domestic Violence

18:49 Being Honest With Self & Children

23:20 Secrecy

24:05 Trauma Informed Care

31:10 Respect & Trusting Relationships

35:38 On The Other Side is Joy

37:29 The Family Place

46:00 Men & What They Think They Have To Be

53:45 Alison’s Letter/Blessing

Mentioned Resources:

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 | 1-800-787-3224 (TTY)

Local Domestic Violence Hotline: 540-373-9373 | Toll Free: 1-877-734-7238

Local Domestic Violence Shelter: http://www.empowerhouseva.org/

The Family Place

How to Find Paige:

IG: @paigeflink

Website: familyplace.org

FB: @thefamilyplace


Dragonfly Yoga Studio


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Episode 312: My Story- Our Breath with Alana Weathersbee

Show Notes:

00:08 Introduction

00:56 About Alana

02:27 Welcome Alana

04:00 Our Awareness Of Breath & Stress

07:00 Vagus Nerve

08:22 Habits of Breath

09:00 Aspects of Breath

11:26 Breath & Connecting

13:52 Self-Care, Self-Love, Self-Acceptance

17:44 Ego & Breath

18:41 Staying Connected Through Breath & Shared Space

22:33 Healing Yourself Through Breath

26:24 Finding The Moment of Pause

32:40 Alison’s Letter To Her Breath

Find Alana:

IG- @dragonflyyogafred


Dragonfly Yoga Studio


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Episode 311: My Story- Floundering with Haley Mills

Shownotes:


00:09 Intro

00:46 Alison Introduces Haley

04:08 Haley 411

04:58 Stages of Floundering

06:50 Stage of Anger & Doubt

08:37 Self-Doubt Stage

11:48 Diverse Experiences From Peers

13:07 Move From Disillusionment of Floundering to Self-Acceptance

16:30 Showing Up & Learning from Disappointment

19:02 Being In Relationship With Ourselves When Lost

21:30 How Are We Connecting With What We’re Doing?

23:09 What Would Haley Tell Her Former Self

26:37: Hearing From Brian

30:41 Alison’s Letter


Haley Mills

IG- @theliftingtater


Handout:



Dragonfly Yoga Studio

Skin+Touch Therapy Spa


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Episode 309: My Story- Nutrition with Dr. Leslie Korn

Show Notes:

00:08 Introduction

00:54 About Dr. Leslie Korn

07:02 Meet Dr. Korn

08:03 Fast Food & Convenience 80’s Trend

09:22 Nutritional Trauma

11:58 Nutrition & Infectious Diseases

14:33 Contributing To or Endangering Your Health

18:58 Routines & Patterns

20:30 Understanding Bioindividuality

24:02 Car Metaphor

27:20 Do We Need To Eat Like Our Ancestors?

32:41 Sugar: A Food Of Trauma

43:22 Principle of Substitution

45:33 Integrating Nutrition & Mental Health

46:50 Digestion & Fat

50:51 Probiotics & Identity

52:02 Fat- An Essential

58:59 Alison’s Letter To Her Body

 


How to Find Dr. Leslie Korn:

Website- http://drlesliekorn.com/

Facebook

Instagram- @dr.lesliekorn

Twitter- @Drlesliekorn

Soundcloud

Pinterest

Youtube

Amazon Author Page- https://www.amazon.com/Leslie-E.-Korn/e/B009EA3Y32

On Psychology Today- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rhythms-recovery

On LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-leslie-korn-5455135/

On Academia- http://cwis.academia.edu/LeslieKorn

On Research Gate- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leslie_Korn


Dragonfly Yoga Studio

Skin+Touch Therapy


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Episode 308: Physical Self-Care


Dragonfly Yoga Studio


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Episode 307: Emotional Self-Care

Dragonfly Yoga Studio

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304: Relational Self-Care


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217: Growth Mindset Vs. Fixed Mindset In Relationships

Show Notes:

00:01 Intro

03:00 Growth vs. Fixed Intro

05:00 In the Garden

05:20 Fixed Mindset

06:50 Growth Mindset

08:29 How These Mindsets Show Up in Relationships

14:00 Growth Mindset

19:50 Alison Goes Skiing

22:53 Impacts of Fixed Mindset on Relationships

23:28 Move Towards Growth Mindset in Relationship

25:50 Q&A


Mentioned Resources:

Releasing Worry Blend

The Low Down on Let Down

The Golden Ticket

Empathy- The Magic Wand

Both/And; The Lure of Certainty

Sweaty Conversations


Dragonfly Yoga Studio


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216: Meeting Yourself Where You Are

Show Notes:

00:20 Intro

01:14 NEW TEAM MEMBER

02:41 Meeting Yourself Where You Are

04:11 What inspired the topic?

08:00 Invitation for self-acceptance

10:28 We all have our own golden ticket.

11:50 Attachment to Outcomes

12:30 Getting to a place of meeting ourselves where we are at

15:55 Psychotherapeutic CBT for Self-Acceptance

20:37 Stages of learning

23:50 Q&A


Mentioned Resources:

The Golden Ticket

Alana Weathersbee- Coming Home To Yourself

Empathy- The Magic Wand

Both/And; The Lure of Certainty


Dragonfly Yoga Studio


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215: Protecting Your Headspace

Show Notes:

01:00 Intro of protecting the space in your head.

05:57 Quote from Shantideva

08:06 More intentional about protecting headspace

10:58 How I protected my headspace

12:40 Additional self-care practices to protect headspaces

14:32 Components to protect headspace

16:19 How to develop self-awareness

20:47 Context specific

22:53 Refine

23:52 Q&A

26:51 Workshop Page

Mentioned Resources:

Self-care

Boundary Setting

Mindful Matters

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214: Letting Go of Limited Thinking

Show Notes:

00:01 Introduction

06:32 Limited Thinking

07:05 Limited Thinking Phrases

09:33 Permission Slip Method

12: 38 Step 1. Do I want to try something new?

13:30 Step 2. Does it conflict with my beliefs & my values? Does it align with my beliefs & values?

14:11 Step 3. Sign your slip!

15:00 How Limited Thinking Shows Up

18:20 Being in Conflict With Something

21:30 Q & A


Mentioned Resources: 

Permission Slip

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213: Dr. Brian Keenan, N.D.- Herbal Healing 101

Show Notes:

00:01 Introduction

01:26 Why of the Podcast

04:26 Meet Brian Keenan

07:45 Basics of Herbs for Mental Health

10:10 Calm, Cool, Collected Tea

15:35 Three BIG Weird Words

26:00 Why Tell your Physician about Herbal Supplements You Are Taking

28:20 New to Herbs? Brian’s Top 5 Herbs for Mental Health

32:20 Q&A

Mentioned Resources:

Alison’s favorite Episode: 207: The Low Down on Let Down

Brian’s Herbal Care Basket for Mental Health hand out:




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212: Empathy- The Magic Wand

Show Notes:

00:01 Intro

04:19 Magic Wand of mental Health

05:10 What is Empathy? How do I use it?

08:20 Self-Empathy

11:30 Different aspects of Empathy

11:31 Cognitive Empathy

12:39 Social Empathy

14:09 Empathic Concern

15:48 Empathy Misfires

16:56 Deer in the Headlights

18:28 Silver Lining/ Firefighter Approach

20:41 Minimizing

23:30 Giving Advice

25:17 Sharing a story about someone you know

27:45 The Competitor

29:08 Staying grounded in the mess

31:46 Q&A

Mentioned Resources:

The Low Down on Let Down

Mindful Matters

Food Mood

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