Live Radiantly

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...

Living with intention involves being mindful of what drives you, the energy of gripping and savoring can shine a light as to what's happening inside. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, unpacks what can drive us to hold on tight and how savoring life can ease tension. The art therapy experiential offers a guided visualization inspired by a trust fall to help you explore what this ener...

How we communicate understandably impacts our relationships, including the one we have with ourselves. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, highlights the intersection between communication styles, self-worth, and boundaries. The art therapy experiential offers a guided visualization to help you differentiate how you feel inside when conversations are constructive, vs when they've gone...

Love has the ability to transform our lives when we allow it. Love teaches us how strong and capable we are when we least expect it. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, highlights how experiencing and exchanging love together supports us individually and collectively. The art therapy experiential offers a guided visualization to help you see, feel, and tap into the power of love anyti...

Somedays the best we can do is to give ourselves a time out so that we can reset our focus and thoughts. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, highlights the healing power of forest bathing and how it can help you reset. The art therapy experiential offers a guided visualization into the forest, because sometimes we can’t get to the actual woods and yet imagining that you are there stil...

Thanks to a listener's request, we're diving into the relationship between yourself and your projects. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, explores how you can streamline your growth and healing efforts by raising awareness of what pressure, anxiety, and blocks are trying to tell you. The art therapy experiential invites you to find your footing once again, so that you can more forwar...

Each and every one of us has experienced moments in which we were overwhelmed and didn't know what to do. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses what spiritual bypassing is, it's connection to burnout, and how art therapy can help you take a mindful break from distress. The art therapy experiential is inspired by Dumbledore's pensive, with the hope that it will help you unburde...

Tension is a sign that something is needing your attention. And while it's understandable that you might want to resolve it quickly,  there's value in learning to live with it while you seek to understand its message. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses the psychological perspective on tension and how laughter can help you find reprieve without dismissing your feelings. The...

We all know that when we feel like we belong to a group, this helps us to feel a sense of place in the world. However, it's easy to overlook how valuable it is to belong to the most important person in your life, yourself. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses why this is so influential and how to create a roadmap for cultivating a healthy connection to yourself through the 5...

When the unexpected happens, you can feel caught off guard and under a lot of pressure to course correct. Yet there's a lot of benefit you can receive from the lessons you didn't plan for if you can find a way to unpack them. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses the emotional impact of being blindsided and how you can respond with greater resilience if you harness the power o...

Tension and stress can cause us to close up or shut down, which can interfere with healthy transitions and your resilience. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, shares how she came to terms with her own need to work with the energy of softening, it's psychological meaning and benefits. The art therapy experiential introduces you to a method of softening the tension you feel inside thro...

 Acceptance is a critical component of breaking up with the patterns that make us feel stuck. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses some of the concept of the repetition compulsion and how therapy can help you sort through this often frustrating cycle towards acceptance, which gives you more capability to choose your way. The art therapy experiential introduces you to a method...

Setting goals is an important part of transform your life and personal growth. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses some of the pitfalls that come with traditional goal setting practices and suggests that perhaps we can be more successful if we approach goal setting from a place of reverence and respect. The art therapy experiential encourages you to discover how to transform...

It's human nature to compare ourselves to others, but if you rely on it for self-motivation, in the long run it's likely to do more harm than good. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, discusses the effect of comparison, the benefit of it in small doses, and how to turn to curiosity and creativity to fuel your desire for growth. The art therapy experiential guides you through a process...

Discomfort pushes our buttons because it brings uncertainty and the potential for a loss of control, which understandably is very tricky to sit with. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, talks about how the brain is wired to keep us safe and why discomfort can set off alarm bells unnecessarily. The art therapy experiential guide you through the process of sitting with the feeling of di...

Cellular meditation is a practice of self-care that embodies the belief that you can heal and grow one cell at a time. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC, shares the story of how this practice evolved from reading the Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton during her cancer treatment. The art therapy experiential guide you through the process of connecting to "what is" and "what's need...