Episodes

Friday Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
I've got another solo pod for you! Do you ever feel disconnected from the world? Even those closest to you? I do. One of the ways to combat this is through Metta (Loving Kindness) meditation. However, I'll also share 7 tips you can use in everyday life to improve feelings of self-worth, gratitude, love, compassion and other happiness-inducing emotions.
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Friday Feb 07, 2025
Friday Feb 07, 2025
Kara Bryant is a licensed massage therapist. Her practice is built upon Precision Neuromuscular Training which allows her to work with the nervous system when treating the body. She holds certification in Level Two Thai Massage, Level Two Reiki, CranioSacral Therapy, Somatoemotional Release, and Trauma Informed Care.
In this episode, we discuss the impact of massage on mental health and how it might help us release emotional trauma.
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Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Stephanie Robinson spent 14 years of her life stuck inside with agoraphobia before finally taking her life back by trying medication and therapy. She is now the Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in the Southwest Missouri area. They are a grassroots, not for profit organization dedicated to providing programs and services to individuals and family members impacted by mental illness. NAMI serves as a drop-in center and offers peer supported groups to manage and help in their recovery.
In this episode, we discuss what it was like for her during the hardest times before she began her recovery, how she got her life back, the resources NAMI offers, and more!
TRIGGER WARNING: Stephanie talks, briefly, about making an attempt to take her own life in the beginning of the episode. I let you know in the intro how to skip past that part, if you wish to do so.
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Friday Jan 10, 2025
Friday Jan 10, 2025
Barbara Michaels, the Jester of the Peace, joins us today to explain how humor affects our mental health, can bridge the gap of perspectives, and can offer insight within ourselves.
She is the creator of Humorville, a participatory art experience and pop-up small town for humor for wellness, big laughs and bright love.
We talk about how she got her start in performance art, how she uses intimacy, comedy, wisdom, and change to ignite insight within visitors to Humorville, and much more.
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Friday Dec 13, 2024
Friday Dec 13, 2024
Author and baseball fan Ethan Bryan received a baseball as a Christmas gift from his daughter one year. On an extremely cold New Year's Day he was suffering from writer's block and he decided to put his new gift to use.
That led to a 366-day streak of playing catch, attracted attention across the country, and inspired others to begin playing daily.
On today's episode we talk about what play does for our mental health, what he learned from his Catch 365 experience, and he shares stories of others who decided to accept his challenge to play catch for at least a month straight.
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Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
During the last 5 years of working and hanging out with Gabriel and Kylie, co-owners of 2oddballs Creative, I've learned how you can build a business that best represents and supports you as an individual. I've seen them give back to their community and employees in extraordinary ways.
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Friday Nov 15, 2024
Friday Nov 15, 2024
Recently, I joked with my therapist that while I know I have meditation as a tool for anxiety, I can't meditate all day. However, I had forgotten that, while I may not be able to sit down and perform a formal practice I am, I can practice brief moments of mindfulness.
So, in today's episode I share with you some of the ways I like to practice brief moments of mindfulness to insert some calm when needed.
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Friday Nov 01, 2024
Friday Nov 01, 2024
Improving your mental health will be a lot of work, but if you don't like where you're at right now - you have to be willing to put it in.
There will be days where you feel like you're getting nowhere. However, by celebrating every small win - even when it's silly - you can combat those incorrect, negative thoughts that belittle your progress when you're feeling low.
In this short, solo pod I let you in on my progress, why I've been adamant about continuing to work on my mental health when I still struggle mightily after all this time, and I share some advice and books I've read.
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Friday Oct 18, 2024
Friday Oct 18, 2024
I'm a sports card collector so a few months ago I was looking through Reddit for fellow collectors who might have some cards I was wanting to add to my portfolio. I connected with Avi Tiwari, today's guest, and soon found out he had turned his hobby into a nonprofit called Packs 'N Snacks - donating portions of his profits to Feeding America.
We talk about the mental health benefits of working with charities and how making an effort to make every interaction with others - even strangers - a positive one can help you feel less socially isolated.
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Friday Oct 04, 2024
Friday Oct 04, 2024
It's a solo pod today! In this episode, I'll give you the tools I've been using to manage my own Generalized Anxiety Disorder. These are techniques I've picked up through therapy, reading psychologists' and other mental health professionals' books and research, and my own experiences.
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