Mental Health Insights

In this episode we discuss how to approach and engage in a conversation with your child about self harming behavior.. The key is to be able to engage in the conversation in a productive way and engage our curiosity. I hope you find this episode helpful!

In this episode we talk specifically about how to start the conversation with your child about suicide. More episodes about this will follow!

In this episode we discuss your role in helping your child with depression. We first want to get a confirmed diagnosis from a clinician or physician. We also want to get a full blood panel to help discern if their is a physical cause. Our primary role needs to be one of support an encouragement and I talk in this episode about what that looks like. I hope you find this helpful!

In this episode we focus on how to parent a child that has anxiety. These are good skills to develop since even if your child does not develop a disorder, they will have anxiety in general at some point or another. Remember, if you have specific request for strategies for a specific mental health issue your child is facing, then please email me at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com. This will help me...

In this episode we start to go through a general process of how to help a child that is struggling with their mental health. In this series we will get more specific when we go through various mental health related issues but this episode will set the framework! Framework: Deal with the emotion first by validating and using repetition Comfort child in a way that is effective for them allow them to...

In this episode I give an overview and some final thoughts about how to use emotions. I hope you all find this helpful!

This episode continues with talking about anger and how to engage with it. The focus today is trying to understand and discern why anger may be coming up in someone else to help us know how to engage!

In this episode we focus on how to engage with someone that is very angry to help them in that emotional experience. As a warning, using these moves in an abusive relationship is not recommended, especially when alone with an angry abuser. A secondary warning is that sometimes the anger response is a plea for space or for you (if the anger is due to conflict with you) to disengage. If that is a ca...

In this episode we move our focus to helping someone else with their emotional experiences. Here are some quick notes of the conversation: Assess if you care enough about this person to actually help in this moment Acknowledge your own emotional bandwidth right now and the capacity you have validate 3-5 times what this person is experiencing offer a deeper or more vulnerable possibility occurring...

In this episode we explore how to tap into view of self or core belief about yourself. This helps use understand a common thread emotional events play into and how you make sense of them. Knowing this gives us more opportunity to do something about it, and more ability to do something about how this can affect our mental health. During the episode I discuss one of the interventions for a new emoti...

In this episode, we continue to build upon the last one in discerning what activates or triggers your protection. This is often a message we get from another person or event that we are reacting to. This is all to help emotional regulation and use in real world situations.

Your emotional protection a key part of social interactions. In this episode we are going to explore how to tell what your emotional protection is and discern if it is healthy or not.

In this episode we talk about using somatic (body urges) to explore depth and actions, or inactions, emotions point to. This is all part of our series on understanding our emotions more in order to improve our mental health. I hope you find this episode helpful!

In today's episode we continue the series of talking about emotions. We focus on soothing and a way to go about that using your body and the emotional experience that comes up during that exploration. Remember, this is part of a series and this episode builds off the last and will continue to develop. I hope you find it helpful!

In this episode we kick off a series to talk about emotions and how to successfully engage with your own emotions and with others emotions. In this episode we are going to specifically focus on how acknowledging and exploring your own emotion can help your mental health. This is a concept we will build upon as we travel through these episodes! It is good to be back. If you are curious what project...

Redwood Trees are amazing and can shed some light on some helpful mental health concepts!

In this episode we talk about pruning to benefit our mental health. I hope you find this helpful!

Often we see ourselves as one of the biggest obsticles we face. Is this true or is there more to it than that. Are we really our worst enemy? Let's start to find out. Feel free to reach out and offer episode suggestions or just to say hi. I read and respond to every email! Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com

People pleasing is seen as such a bad thing that we should take some time to think of if that is true or not. Join me in exploring people pleasing, its function, and if it is really a bad thing. Feel free to reach out at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com if you have episode suggestions or just to say Hi! I respond to every email!

In this episode we explore how long lasting issues or challenging could be less mental health related issues and more a possibility of how your brain just is. Our brains operate differently and their is a fairly significant variance as more and more people are born. This leads us to question if the different ways our brains think is actually a mental illness or is it just wired to operate and be u...

In this episode, I talk about how porn use can impact our mental health. This is important because of how prevalent porn use is and how it can impact our body and relationships deeply. I hope you find it helpful!   If you want to reach out for questions or episode suggestions, please email me at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com  

This question was asked by a friend and I took some time to think it over and I believe you will resonate with the answer. Thinking of your own life, you will likely be able to pick out how you may do this very thing we discuss to harm your own mental health without meaning to.    If you have any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to share, please feel free to email me at Craig@lif...

More processing power equals more ability to decrease the emotional volatility of an experience. Today we talk about how to increase you brain's processing power several times over to help you though tough experiences.    Remember to give our other podcast a listen to, Mental Health Insights In the Bible! You can find some of those episodes on all major podcast apps and at: https://mental-health-i...

Here is an episode from our other podcast, Mental Health Insights In The Bible. This episode will be posted for a short while so feel free to listen as long as it is up. To listen more more episodes, please subscribe by following the link: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm/mentalhealthinsightsinthebible   Here are the show notes:  Thank you for joining us on this journey! We go over Gene...

Small wins can take us so much further in our mental health journey because they normally come more frequently than larger ones. In this episode I talk about leveraging habits to create these small wins that yield big results.    If you would like to check out our other podcast, Mental Health Insights in the Bible then here is a link: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm/mentalhealthinsight...