What the Hell is My Brain Doing?

Summertime and the living is easy! Welcome back to my awesome tribe of brain explorers! Speaking of exploring, I had an experience recently that reminded me of our brain that I am excited to share with you today. Confession time…. I recently snuck away from you amazing listeners and I took a vacation. My husband and I took an overseas trip for 2 weeks and it was fantastic. But it did not start out...

I can’t believe it! Do you realize what we did together? We have made it to 100 episodes! I know, I know, “One Hundred Episodes” feels like an unreal number but it’s true. We have been through thick and thin on this podcast for almost 2 years so today I want to celebrate our milestone by talking about milestones. When this whole thing got going, I just had a dream. I knew that I wanted to help mor...

Hello my amazing listeners! I have recently returned from a trip abroad and while I was gone, there were a number of storms in my home region which produced severe winds and even tornados. And that’s what I want to talk about today- tornados of thoughts if you will. See many clients have been coming to me lately talking about how when their thoughts get to spiraling, it seems really difficult to g...

Summer time is definitely here in Houston! After going through my case study on Suzie, I really hope that you gained value going through some of the facets of a real-life client’s journey. As I tried to illuminate in our last show, our journey through mental health and burnout recovery is different for everyone. With those differences, it can often feel isolating. We fear judgement for our mental...

Oh, my goodness…here we are friends! Where you might ask? Well, we are at the final episode of our case study on my client Suze and her amazing journey of healing from burnout. We have talked about so many things but ultimately it really comes down to is understanding the things we can control and the things we cannot. In this conclusion episode of my case study, we touch briefly on how these less...

Hope you are ready for more burnout fighting knowledge friends! We have covered a lot of things in the journey of my client Suzie. As we worked through her time audits and the importance of wellness as well as focusing on her relationships, another really important factor in her recovery journey came up. You see she would meet with me and do really well for a few days but then as always happens wh...

Can you believe how quickly April flew by? Our case study through the journey of my client Suzie continues this week as we talk about the normalcy of the journey sometimes feeling like it was moving up and then down. Suzie noticed that often she would be doing really well as we worked together but then something would come up and she would stumble a bit. I often liken it to a spiral staircase with...

Happy to see you all again! We are now in week 3 of my case study of an actual client’s journey with me to help her resolve her burnout and general dissatisfaction with life. Last week, I walked you through the idea of a time audit so that you can really hone in on how you are spending the hours of your day. Hopefully you were able to complete at least a baseline of that. Did it surprise you? Did...

Welcome back my amazing people! We are continuing this week with Part 2 of my case study of my client, “Suzie.” When you start therapy, there is lots of information gathering so that I can understand what diagnosis is appropriate for the client. For Suzie, she just wanted to enjoy life again and not feel like she was just going through the motions. Suzie was a rockstar at her job and used to enjoy...

Welcome back to all you fantastic people! April is known as National Stress Awareness month so I wanted to do something a bit different. As you know, we talk a lot about the brain on this show and how it reacts to the world around us. I try to give you practical tips you can use to better manage your mind so that it does not manage you. For this month though, I decided to do something a bit differ...

Welcome back my amazing brain people! We have made it past the whimsical April Fools Day! Heaven knows my children enjoyed pranking both myself and my husband as they were home from school yesterday as part of their Easter break. Though we have started a new month, my series on helping you understand and conquer your stress continues. Last week we talked about one of the ways that chronic stress c...

The year is flying by way too fast my friends! Spring is OFFICIALLY in the air along with copious amounts of pollen if you are in the South. And just as mother nature is going to continually stress our sinuses for the next few months, I am going to continue our series we started last week talking about what stress does to our brain. Did you know that stress physically alters your brain? The stress...

Welcome back to my truly fantastic podcast listeners. I want to be up front- today might be a bit heavier so if you need to take this episode in pieces, that’s perfectly ok. Many of my clients lately have been coming to me with a common problem. And that is trauma. With that trauma will come what are known as “trauma responses” which are mechanism built into the brain to help us cope and protect u...

Hello again to my fantastic listener! Spring is in the air and we are fully in the month of March. Not to get too serious but we are living through a time with a great deal of anxiety. Inflation has made us anxious about our budgets and finance. Layoffs in certain sectors of the economy perhaps have some worried about the job market. Whatever it may be, we consume this anxiety inducing media and i...

Good day to my wonderful listeners! We talk often about boundaries and limits on this podcast. As humans we all have limits even though it can often be difficult to know what those are. This week, a member of my amazing podcast editing team was going through some private emergencies and I wanted them to focus 100% on that. They offered to get the work done because that's the kind of person the...

And just like that we are at the end of February! I can’t believe how quickly this month has gone by. I was recently able to get together with a good friend of mine and we were discussing my most recent podcast about how our experiences cloud our perceptions. And we were chatting, we came to realize we both had some similar clouded experiences with toxic people that were in our same social circles...

Salutations to my lovely podcast listeners. Have you ever had a conversation with someone where you are both recounting something that happened in the past, and you realize part way through the discussion, that you each have a completely different understanding of what happened? You start to think, wait what? How in the world is that how you perceive that event? What you have to remember is that o...

Love is in the air my friends! Happy Valentines Day for those of my listeners who celebrate it. As I was considering what to share with you on this week, I started thinking about how our brain creates & responds to the feeling of “love.” It got me thinking about my own whirlwind romance to my now husband. And finally, it got me thinking about how this time can be difficult for those that may n...

Hello again to my fantastic podcast friends! Can you believe it is February? January certainly seems to have flown by. I really hope my series on understanding and dealing with Perfectionism has been helpful. I wanted to pivot a bit this week to talk about some feelings that I have seen recently with my clients. For many, we have just finished a month where we are setting and hopefully keeping som...

Alright my amazing people! We are at the end of January and the final episode in my series on Perfectionism. Rounding out this series, today we are going to talk about how Perfectionism impacts those of us with ADD or ADHD. Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are very hot topics in the creator and mental health space. ADD & ADHD is commonly diagnosed in Chil...

Salutations my amazing listeners! Hopefully my US listeners have been able to stay warm during this week of record cold temperatures. This week we are continuing my holistic series on Perfectionism with a discussion around what is known as “Socially Prescribed Perfectionism.” Essentially, somewhere someone has told us that we must do a certain thing in a certain way by a certain time in order to b...

Hello again to my amazing listeners! It’s the beginning of the year and we all know what that means for many of us… We have set big sometimes scary goals. Maybe it’s a big weight loss goal or health related goal. Or it could be related to some personal learning like speaking a new language or completing a certification. Perhaps it is a career-oriented goal- you want to increase your business reven...

Happy New Year Everyone! I am welcoming you to 2024 with an amazing interview with true renaissance woman, Adrienne Evatt. Adrienne is a chef, author, business coach, former Fortune 5 executive and the proud owner of Urban Dreamer Farm & Vineyard . If I had to pick a theme for today’s interview, it would be summed up most succinctly by this quote from the episode: “Our opinions of ourselves ar...

Hello to all of my lovely listeners! In reviewing the Spotify wrap up for 2023 for my podcast, I noticed certain trends for which topics tended to be my most popular episodes. One of those topics that was listened to at a much higher rate than many others was that of “Perfectionism.” So, today’s episode will launch a bit of a mini-series of episodes about perfectionism and how this tendency inters...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of my amazing listeners. I am here with a simple message of peace for all of you. It is ok to JUST be ok. Don't let the "Shoulds" of the world tell you what you are. You are allowed to just be. And that's ok. This is my final episode of 2023. Thank you all so much for being here- truly. If you want to supercharge your 2024, please set up...