Live Radiantly

This week we're exploring the parallels between regeneration in healing and the pay it forward movement. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses both concepts and how together they create a large menu of options to foster internal and external goodwill for your committed action and intentional living goals. The art therapy guided meditation will help you envision how this feels i...

Feeling inner cohesion is an important part of health and wellness, but getting there is about working with and through your fragmented parts. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses the spectrum between these two, what each feels like, and why this happens in the first place. After all, it’s helpful to have a sense of where you are trying to go when it comes to the often unpredi...

Paradoxes and platitudes can reveal a lot about your healing and growth work. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses the differences between paradoxes and platitudes. She shares the story of how the phrase "fake it till you make it" landed with her and how the research she did for the show opened her mind to other possibilities. The art therapy guided meditation will help you no...

Emotional safety and being vulnerable are two important aspects of our health and wellness. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC describes 3 important aspects of emotional safety and the research about how vulnerability influences your resilience. The art therapy guided meditation uses a seasonal metaphor to encourage you to become aware of what ingredients you need for safety and vulne...

How you recharge has a lot to do with your personality. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC describes the spectrum of personality traits from extroversion to introversion and how this information can serve you and your relationships. The art therapy guided meditation will help you recharge your batteries, no matter where you find yourself on this spectrum, and invites you to consider w...

We all have something that makes our skin crawl, our heart race, and the urge to avoid kick in. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses why it's so powerful to figure out how you can work with what scares you, so that you can reap the reward of facing your fears and benefit from not having them limit you. The art therapy guided meditation will support your ability to tap into you...

This episode does a deep dive into the nuances of emotions, because for many of us it takes time to embrace the full spectrum of our feelings. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses why it can be so challenging to recognize and name your feelings, while introducing the work of Sharon Dregne Gerstenzang, who's work breathed new perspective into the world of our emotions. The art...

One of the most unnerving aspects of healing, growth, and transformation is when you feel lost and unsure. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC explores how to manage what most of us resist, feeling lost, unsure, and confused, because it is a necessary part of evolving as a person. The art therapy guided meditation is designed to help you find comfort in the discomfort, by experiencing...

Everyone has an inner saboteur, those parts of ourselves that tend to wreak havoc when we feel afraid, overwhelmed, and stressed out. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC dives deeper into why we have them and how Internal Family Systems work can support your healing and growth work. Then she invites you to make friends with your inner saboteur with a playful guided meditation, using th...

In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC invites you to consider the power of expansion and contraction, and how both are important to your health and wellbeing. Then she guides you through an art therapy experience that will help you anchor in and find a flow between them.

This week’s episode dives into the ingredients you need to cultivate a life in which your truth sets you free. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC explores what having healthy ego strength means and offers ideas on how to support your evolution, because we're all works in progress. The guided art therapy experiential offers an opportunity to connect to how you experience honesty and au...

This week’s episode looks at a part of your core identity, your essential self, the lovely, often quirky, part of your personality that makes you who you are. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC explores how this part of yourself helps you persevere and enjoy life The guided art therapy experiential offers an opportunity to connect with this part of yourself and how it serves you in li...

This week’s episode is all about the gift of presence and how it can support you in life, whether your in a situation that is asking you to defy the odds or wanting to feel a deeper connection to yourself and others. In this episode, it's Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC explores the meaning and benefits of presence. The guided art therapy experiential offers an opportunity to experience presence an...

Let's explore the dance that we’ve all done when we find ourselves in situations that we can’t control and yet still feel committed to sticking with and through the uncertainty. In this episode, it's Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC explores the benefits and reasons why learning how to let go and hold on can serve your health and wellness. The guided art therapy experiential gives you the chance to...

This episode is all about love, in every form that it takes, from self-love, to our sacred connections, to the collective. In this episode, it's Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC intention that we tap into this deep power through awareness, reflection, and art. The guided art therapy experiential will help you feel love from the inside out.

This episode talks about the importance of exploring your agency and personal sovereignty with regards to feeling resilient and living a life that is true to you and your possibilities. Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC explores the 3 most important factors that help you work on your agency and sovereignty. The guided art therapy experiential will help you assess your vitality and address any needs y...

When you're living through unprecedented times, it's typical to experience feeling afraid, overwhelmed, and alone. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, looks at the reasons why contribution is a powerful antidote and shares how her cancer experience helped her learn how to balance her need for self-care with her desire to be of service. The guided art therapy experiential will help you...

This episode is dedicated to restoring your energy reserves when life feels turbulent and you're living through extraordinary times. It's inspired by Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are". In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses what rewilding is and how it can impact your health, wellness and wellbeing. The guided art therapy experiential that invites you to become...

Learning how to trust and surrender are two essential components of feeling empowered. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, examines the nuances between the three ideas and how they work together. The guided art therapy experiential will help you notice your response to these words so that you can explore your relationship.

Change is something that is unavoidable in life. Sometimes we choose it, other times it comes as a surprise, or out of great need. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, talks about a model of change that can help you assess where you are at in the process as you navigate it. The guided art therapy experiential will help you release the pressure that often comes with change, whether you'...

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can be a powerful tool for assessing and identifying what you need while also giving you the opportunity to feel gratitude for your evolution. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses the 5 level system with a reflection for how it can relieve the inner critic. The guided art therapy experiential will support your ability to notice where you are at and...

Shedding is a conscious practice of releasing and letting go what no longer serves, a great practice to contemplate as the year comes to the end. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses the various ways that you can welcome in this natural part of the life cycle, while sharing tips for doing so with compassion. The guided art therapy experiential will ease you into the practice.

There's some important distinctions between these two, knowing them can help your appreciation and gratitude practices grow.. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, highlights the nuances. The guided art therapy experiential is a unique twist on the loving kindness meditation to sew these two practices together.

Most of us tend to overlook the value that exhaling brings into our lives. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, highlights the good info about how our exhales serve us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The guided art therapy experiential incorporates the guidance for exhaling that Stephanie learned from research, combined with a relaxing visualization. 

The one thing that's a constant in life is change. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, unpacks the 4 distinct phases to enhance your ability to work with them, including highlighting what's needed to move from one to the next. The art therapy experiential uses the art-it-out, art-it-in method to help you express and find validation for your feelings, so that you can think more clearly...