Thoughts on Thoughts

Sometimes anxiety or trauma can make it hard to feel like you can trust your own mind and gut instincts. In this episode we give you tangible tips for how to learn to trust yourself! ___________________ Follow along on social media for more free tips! Instagram- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/thoughts.podcast/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/t...

Here is a 5 minute guided meditation you can listen to whenever you need to ground and recenter yourself. Enjoy! ___________________ Follow along on social media for more free tips! Instagram- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/thoughts.podcast/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thoughtspod/

In this episode we share our top 10 favorite alternatives to talk therapy. Talk therapy may not be something you want to engage in, pay for, or for whatever reason it may not be a fit for you right now. We think there are many ways to approach healing and coping mentally so we wanted to share some of our favorites. If you are enjoying the podcast please share your favorite episodes with others and...

In this episode we are answering more submitted listener questions! -If I have a tween with bad anxiety, do I have my child work with a child psychologist or a therapist who specializes in anxiety? -What should I do if I want my spouse to parent their way but sometimes I think they are just mean to the kids? -Where do you start with trauma? -What is the balance between this is the way I am and I&#...

Sometimes you can get to a point with something where you know it isn't right or healthy for you so how do you leave it? In this episode we discuss how to know when something isn't a fit for you in your life and how to let go of it. This episode also pairs nicely with Episode #113 How to Have Hard Conversations (linked below). Please rate and review the podcast if you haven't done so a...

Work stress and difficult coworkers can definitely impact mental health so here's an episode with some tips for navigating these things! We give an overview how to set boundaries with your colleagues and how to know when it's time to go to HR, etc etc. If you want us to go into anything more in depth just let us know! You can connect with us via email, thoughtspod@gmail.com or on Instagram...

Today one of us is sitting on the therapy couch to answer the question "What is your ideal day?" This is an important question to ask so that you can figure out what is standing in your way and keeping you from living the life you want. Please leave us a review if you enjoyed the episode! We so appreciate the support! ___________________ Follow along on social media for more free tips! I...

This is a follow-up episode to our episode all about dopamine (episode #123). This time we are giving you even more ideas of ways to increase your dopamine levels naturally. Enjoy! ___________________ Follow along on social media for more free tips! Instagram- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/thoughts.podcast/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thoughtspod/

In this episode we are answering all of your submitted questions about therapy! What do therapist struggle with the most, our advice for those starting grad school & more. Enjoy! ___________________ Follow along on social media for more free tips! Instagram- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/thoughts.podcast/?hl=en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/thoughtspod/

Dopamine has been getting a lot of attention lately and for good reason! In this episode, we discuss how you can maintain and achieve healthier dopamine levels in your brain. It's possible! We hope the ideas we share will help you get more quality dopamine highs that will benefit your brain and mental health. ___________________ Follow along on social media for more free tips! Instagram- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this episode, we share with you one of our favorite distress tolerance skills that we teach in therapy- radical acceptance. We discuss how to use radical acceptance to navigate times of stress, overwhelm and how to use this skill to reduce your mental load. This coping strategy can truly be a game changer! ____________________ Follow along on social media for more free tips! Instagram- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

If you have ever wondered what starting therapy is like or what to expect in a first session with a therapist, we have all the answers for you in this episode! Hopefully this episode can give you a road map of sorts for how therapy starts and can ease any pre-first session anxiety you may be experiencing. ____________________ Follow along on social media for more free tips! Instagram- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http...

Need something life giving, connecting and fun in your life? Well, self-care club has entered the chat! In this episode we tell you what a self-care club is (seems self explanatory but is it?) and give you ideas for how to get your own started. This is truly so FUN and we hope you love this idea just as much as we do! If you want to hear our other episode on what we feel like the true definition o...

This is our first episode in a new miniseries dedicated to helping you reduce your mental load/emotional labor. The mental load is all of the invisible, back of the mind stress that we carry with us every day that can really take a toll on mental health. With this miniseries, we hope to give you real tools that can help you significantly reduce the mental load in your life. This first installment...

When it comes to mental health, sometimes we can get stuck on solely focusing on decreasing unhappiness instead of also doing things to increase joy and positive feelings. In this episode we give you some ideas for how to have a mindset shift that allows for increasing joy and happiness in your life. ____________________ Don't forget to check out our Relationship Resilience Course: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https:...

In this episode we share one of our favorite parenting tips! We are going to revisit the idea of being a thermostat instead of a thermometer when it comes to handling our kids' tantrums and struggles. This mindset shift has helped us immensely in our own parenting experiences and we hope it will help you as well! This is the episode that we mentioned with Cristi Dame of 'The Playful Nest&q...

Social media...we love it, sometimes hate it, gotta have it but often want to escape it! Social media can have a big impact on our mental health so we wanted to have a conversation about this with Heidi Robey! Heidi is a mental health advocate and comedian who uses content creation on TikTok, IG, FB and Youtube to share humor as well as her own personal experiences with mental illness. **Trigger W...

In this episode we discuss how to support teenagers who are struggling with their mental health and how to help them build resilience. We are joined by Heather Ransom, LCSW, RPT. Heather is a licensed clinical social work and registered play therapist. She is EMDR trained (you know how much we love EMDR) and she works a lot with trauma, attachment, anxiety, and depression across the age spectrum....

In this episode we have the opportunity to talk with Joni Lybbert! Joni is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and the host of "The Sad Moms Club" podcast and she is an expert in postpartum and maternal mental health. We chatted about recurrent struggles postpartum and in motherhood in general and how we navigate those struggles with our clients and in our own lives. If you wo...

Let's chat about how to have difficult conversations! We talk about how to navigate setting boundaries and being emotionally flooded while having hard conversations with others Are you feeling pressured to respond to people who are trying to have hard conversations over text? We've got some thoughts on that. 

Breathwork can be a powerful tool for releasing emotion, healing trauma, and calming the central nervous system. In this episode Taylor will guide you through three different breathing techniques that you can use when you need to create some moments of calm in your day.  The article Taylor referenced in the episode: https://www.healthline.com/health/breathing-exercise

On this, the 50th day of January, we decided we needed an episode that may help make life feel a little bit better. We (KJ and Jessica) frequently nerd out to each other over Marco Polo about routines and systems we have that make our lives easier (and help keep our mental loads lighter). In this episode we bring you along for the conversation and hope that there is an idea or two that you want to...

If you're feeling like you have the attention span of a goldfish, like you don't know how to socialize in person anymore and/or you want your phone to be something you forget about instead of something that's constantly fused to your hand and burning your eyeballs...then this episode is for you. We also struggle with these things so we are here to share with you some strategies for breaking up you...

There's a lot of preparation that happens prior to having a new baby join your family. In today's episode we discuss some of the things we have personally done and recommend doing prior to having a baby to help your mental health postpartum. It would be helpful to listen to this episode if you are pregnant, hoping to be or are a family member of someone who will be having a baby. Or honestly even...

You are about to hear some life hacks to help you with motivation when you are feeling burned out. In this episode we share some of the systems that we have personally used to help ourselves get things done when we are running on empty.