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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318: Bonus Episode; Working People In Grief With Valerie Ashley

Show Notes:

00:08 Introduction

00:55 About Valerie Ashley

02:56 Conversation With Valerie

03:55 How Valerie’s Career Began

09:17 What’s Going On With People Around Job Loss

11:08 Career Grief Process

12:20 Comparative Grief

13:00 Denial

15:25 Anger

21:10 Bargaining 

23:50 The Scary D Word

29:50 Acceptance Seeping In

32:00 Exploration of Identity

37:25 Everyday Steps to Move Through Career Grief

43:40 A Good Starting Place

Mentioned Resources:

National Suicide Hotline-  1-800-273-8255

Assessment 1- https://www.viacharacter.org 

Assessment 2- https://quiz.gretchenrubin.com/four-tendencies-quiz/ 

 

How to Find Valerie:

Website- www.valerieashleycounseling.com

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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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Mental Health, Mindfulness, Mindset, Self-Care Alison Sullivan Mental Health, Mindfulness, Mindset, Self-Care Alison Sullivan

Episode 313: Psychological Self-Care

Mentioned Resources:

Protecting Your Headspace


Dragonfly Yoga Studio


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Mindset, Self-Care, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Body Alison Sullivan Mindset, Self-Care, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Body Alison Sullivan

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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Mindset, Mindfulness, Self-Care, Psychotherapy Alison Sullivan Mindset, Mindfulness, Self-Care, Psychotherapy Alison Sullivan

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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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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