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Season 6 Episode 222 Date: 5/30/2024   Title: Mindful Decisions  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Let’s take a moment to pause. We invite you today to take a moment to pause and practice today’s mindful meditation. Our focus today will be on how we can engage our wise mind to help us make helpful and mindful decisions. Take a deep breathe to take a moment to calm your nervous system.    Get your Plan To...

Season 6 Episode 221 Date: 5/28/2024   Title: Simply Successful  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea in today’s episode where she explores the importance of having simple goals. In the Plan To Recover Journal, the focus is keeping things simple and easy when starting new behaviors. Why make things more difficult for you? Let’s make things easy and simple where we can succeed.    EASY Acronym: h...

Season 6 Episode 220 Date: 5/23/2024   Title: How Do You Eat An Elephant?  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea and Mary in today’s candid conversation! Andrea and Mary dissect the many ways that you can eat an elephant. They each share the various ways they approach tasks and how they have faced personal challenges with tackling various tasks especially being dysregulated and taking moments of...

Season 6 Episode 219 Date: 5/21/2024   Title: Get Unstuck  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Today’s episode focuses on how we can get unstuck and move towards action in reaching our goals. Andrea helps us explore what may be causing us to stay stuck an unwilling to move forward in taking action towards our goals. What are you noticing while you work towards your goals with the Plan To Recover Journal? ...

Season 6 Episode 218 Date: 5/15/2024   Title: Direct Impact with Darlene Green  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Darlene Greene wants to help you take charge of your own health, get out of pain, improve your energy, increase the quality of your sleep, reduce systemic inflammation, increase mental clarity, improve your nervous system, lower your anxiety, enhance brain functioning, improve cardiovascular...

Season 6 Episode 217 Date: 5/14/2024   Title: The Science Behind Streaking  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Today’s episode focuses on streaking…! No, not that kind of streaking! The streaking that helps us with behavior change. Andrea shares how the Plan to Recover journal can help us with consistency and self- accountability. She shares how she has established healthy habits by using streaking. Are y...

Season 6 Episode 216 Date: 5/9/2024   Title: Why Decisions Are SOOO.... Hard? Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea, Gregory, and Mary as they talk about what makes decision making so hard. Each person shares their perspective of what makes decision making hard for them like neurodiversity, being dysregulated, or people pleasing. Enjoy this conversation and explore what makes decisions hard for y...

Season 6 Episode 215 Date: 5/7/2024   Title: The Best of YES  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Here’s a new episode for you to check out! In this episode, Andrea helps us understand where we choose what to focus on in the next 90 days while using the Plan To Recover Journal. Andrea discusses what we need to consider for our priorities and intentions in the next 90 days while also taking in consideration...

Season 6 Episode 214 Date: 4/30/2024   Title: WHY Change?  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Let’s dive into the Plan To Recover by looking at our why? Today we focus on the Let’s Get Moving section of the journal. Andrea discusses the importance of why we need to identify our why as we start this journey. In finding our why, we need to think deeper about our why and how this motivates our decisions, cho...

Season 6 Episode 213 Date: 4/24/2024   Title: Journaling Practices That Will Change Your Life  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  It’s a start of our newest season!  Season 6 is here and we’re getting started by looking at different journaling practices. In this upcoming season, we will be focusing on the Plan To Recover Journal and discussing in depth the importance of each section and how this all relat...

Season 6 Is Here!

Season 5 Candid Conversation Date: 4/18/2024   Title:How To Feel Desirable In My Body  Hi Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea and Mary as they wrap up Season 5 with a Candid Conversation on how to feel desirable in our bodies. Andrea and Mary share their personal stories of acceptance with their bodies. They dive into the many challenges, victories, laughs, and tears with navigating in accepting an...

Season 5 Guest Episode  Date: 4/17/2024   Title: Jodi Body Betrayal Interview  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea and our special guest, Jodi, as they share their story of body betrayal and healing journey. Andrea and Jodi take a deep dive in their personal stories of body betrayal and how they have navigated their healing journeys. Take this time to join them in their journeys and shared expe...

Season 5 Episode 25 Date: 4/16/2024   Title: Body Betrayal Season Recap Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Enjoy today’s episode where we review what this season has been about - Body Betrayal. Andrea reviews and discusses the many topics we have talked about related to body betrayal like the stages of recovering from body betrayal, the types of body betrayal we can experience, and what exercises that can...

Guide: Andrea Epting  Join Andrea as she guides us through today’s meditation. In this meditation, we are creating and exploring curiosity as we begin to prepare for a journaling practice. Take notice of how your body responds in releasing tension and where uncomfortable emotions manifest. Take this moment for yourself to enjoy this practice of exploration while embracing curiosity.  Community is...

Season 5 Episode 24 Date: 4/9/2024   Title: Just Say No to Normies  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea today as she explores how societal messages impact us and our relationship with our body. Andrea invites us to explore how societal messages impact and affect our core beliefs while creating space of appreciation for our current bodies and the care it provides us each day.  Call to Action : S...

Season 5 Candid Conversation Date: 4/4/2024   Title:Size (Matters) Hi Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea and Gregory as they discuss does size really matter. In this candid conversation, Andrea and Gregory share their personal experiences with changes in body size and how they and others have responded to these changes. They also explore the differences in how people perceive the changes in size i...

Season 5 Episode 23 Date: 3/26/2024   Title: Reclaiming My Sexuality (Post Betrayal)  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  Enjoy today’s episode where Andrea talks about how we become loving and accepting of ourselves and our sexual self after we have faced betrayal. Andrea encourages us with warmth and compassion to take time to claim our sexual selves to take up space and sit with your fullness of self. ...

Guide: Andrea Epting  Join Andrea as she guides us in today’s meditation. Today, we are focusing on tension. Take a moment to focus on yourself by creating a safe and quiet space where you can host stillness. As you begin to take deep breaths, get grounded. Continue to focus on your body by noticing any sensations. Notice where your tension is held from the top of your head down to your toes and s...

Season 5 Episode 22 Date: 3/26/2024   Title: 4 Ways To Be Kind To Your Nervous System  Hey Direct Impact Nation!  With all the distraction and stimulation that we face everyday, we may lose connections with our bodies and instincts. Andrea discusses how we get locked in our head brain. Join Andrea today as she discusses 4 easy exercises to help calm our nervous system and allow us to stay in our w...

Season 5 Candid Conversation Date: 3/21/2024   Title: Making Meaning From The Pain   Hi Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andre and Mary as they talk all things gut health and how we can take care of our guts. Andrea and Mary share some fun facts about our gut health and how it connects with our mental and emotional health. They even share their own personal experiences with how they incorporate gut hea...

Season 5 Episode 21 Date: 3/19/2024   Title: When Is It Enough? Hey Direct Impact Nation!  When is it enough? A question we seem to keep asking ourselves especially as we heal. Andrea unpacks this question with us. We may ask ourselves when is it enough or when are WE enough. But we are enough… we struggle with living in the shades of gray. Take a moment to listen to today’s new episode to learn m...

Join Andrea as she guides us through today’s mindful meditation. Andrea focuses on guiding us through releasing toxic bonds. Take a moment and get comfy. Focus on this moment and get grounding as you take an intentional moment for yourself. Focus on what may be holding you back that could be binding you; allow it to rise to the surface. Hold space for this and slowly let it be released and melt aw...

Season 5 Episode 20 Date: 3/12/2024   Title: How to Build Self Trust Hey Direct Impact Nation!  It’s a new solo episode where we talk about self-trust. As we work through our recovery process from body betrayal, self-trust becomes lost. So how do we rebuild trust in ourselves? How do we get to know ourselves again? Andrea talks about how we build the scaffolding of trust bonds through integrity an...

Season 5 Candid Conversation Date: 3/7/2024   Title: Making Meaning From The Pain   Hi Direct Impact Nation!  Join Andrea and Gregory as they talk about how we can move in our pain. Andrea and Gregory explore what makes it difficult for us to move forward towards acceptance and how this can hinder our progress or even become maladaptive coping. Enjoy this candid conversation and let us know what y...