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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Episode 313: Psychological Self-Care

Mentioned Resources:

Protecting Your Headspace


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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302: My Story- Childhood Trauma & Resiliency

SHOW NOTES:

00:09 Intro

00:55 Internal Intersectional Identity

03:47 Content Warning

04:04 ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

05:18: Definition of ACE’s

07:19 Categories of ACE’s

09:20 Alison’s Experiences

12:30 What are Counter ACE’s?

15:50 Where to start/look?

17:18 One More Content Warning

18:19 Alison’s Letter to Her Little Girl Self

21:17 Thank You!

Mentioned Resources:

Stand Alone Intro

206: Both/And; The Lure of Certainty

212: Empathy- The Magic Wand

204: Who Cares About Self-Care, Isn’t it Boujee BS?

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention- ACE’s

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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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