Self-Care for Mental Health | Recovery, Anxious, Sadness, Bipolar, Emotions, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Self-Esteem

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶   Do you look around you and feel like you are behind even though the new year just started? Do you feel pressure to move at a pace that doesn’t feel supportive of your mental health and wellness? In today’s episode I am offering encouragement to block out the noise around you and pay attention to what you really need to remain confident in...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶   Happy New Year's Eve, friend. I have so much HOPE for 2025 that mental health and wellness recovery is possible for ANYONE.  In today’s episode you will have space to reflect with me about what you’ve gained from 2024, what you want to take with you into the new year, and what your hopes and dreams are for 2025? I am also sharing the reaso...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Breathe… Sometimes we just need to be reminded of the wellness tools we have within our reach at all times. Today I am sharing with you some breathing techniques that you can practice anywhere at any time to help you alleviate stress and stay present in your body. I will also walk you through a simple wellness tool called A.I.R.    Listen in...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 I invite you on a walk with me in our episode today, through the woods as I practice staying grounded during a very busy season. It is not easy for me to share from where I am when I am not feeling well, but I know it is important for my mental health & wellness recovery. My hope is that it will inspire you to share from where you are, e...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶   “It’s okay to not be okay.” A phrase we have likely said to someone in our lives when they were having a hard time, but how do we feel about extending that same kindness to ourselves when we are breaking down? I find that it is much easier to say these words to someone else, than it is to actually receive them myself. Do you need someone t...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Just because the holidays are upon us doesn’t mean we get an extra surplus of mental health and wellness. We have the same amount. And for those of us who choose to fiercely protect the wellness we have worked so hard for, this time of year can be extra challenging for us. Our pace is our pace. <3 As we continue to carve out our own path...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 What I am sharing in today's episode friends, is as real for my life this week as anyone else's. So real that it brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. There are many things I love about Thanksgiving. (Pumpkin pie for one, let's be completely honest. 😂) And also this time of year brings a lot of challenges for my mental health and...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Have you been feeling overwhelmed lately?  Does everything feel like too much? If someone looks at you the wrong way do you think you might lose it? I. Feel. You. Today I am sharing some specific ways we can support our mental health and wellness when we are nearing a meltdown. Grab that notebook and pen and listen in. ✍️ Your presence matte...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Allowing ourselves to be vulnerable is courageous and also terrifying. With it comes discomfort and uncertainty. How can we lean in to vulnerability when what we feel like doing is running the other way or finding somewhere to hide. Today I am sharing signs to look for when you might be experiencing a vulnerability hangover, and how to take...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Is sickness a stressor for you, friend? Something that enters your life and causes feelings of stress? It definitely is for me. As someone who lives with Bipolar disorder and cycling moods, it doesn’t take much to throw my mind and body off course. So myself getting sick or a loved one can be very difficult on my mental and emotional wellnes...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 This episode truly feels like an invitation to grab your favorite emotional support beverage ☕️🥰 and pull up a chair. We can learn so much from each other when we actively listen.  The reality of us discovering our own path to wellness recovery is that it isn’t always pretty. We will cycle through good times and really difficult times. Tod...

Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 🤔 Have you wondered where to even begin when it comes to discovering your own path to wellness recovery?  You are not alone. In my experience of going from living invisible to being seen and known, I  found that vulnerability and having safe spaces to talk about my mental health and wellness, has helped me see more clearly my own path to we...

Hi Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 When you hear the word expert, what comes to mind? Do you picture yourself or someone else? In today’s episode my hope is that you will feel empowered to see yourself as the expert of your own life.  I have not always seen myself in this way but I am learning more and more how to take the lead in my own life and walk confident...

Hi Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Do you have days when you just feel the need to be more quiet?   I definitely do, and I find it can be harder to accept my invitation to the table where I am.  I was reminded this week that I first need to accept my own invitation to the table where I am in order to extend that invitation to others.   Join me today as I share...

Hi Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Do you sometimes struggle to welcome a slower pace when it comes to your mental health & wellness recovery? Me too. In today’s episode I am sharing what my pace tends to look like this time of year and in the season’s to come, and what I do to embrace a slower pace. Every tiny step matters, friend. Listen in. Your presence...

Hi Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Have you been experiencing a shift in your mood or feeling any changes in your body recently? Do you ever wonder if it could be connected to the changing of the season? 🍂 I have found from my own lived experience that when the season changes it can sometimes make me feel disoriented or unsteady for a bit. I start to notice a...

Hi Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Do you realize how much beauty is inside you? Right now in this moment no matter where you are or how you are feeling today, there is a wealth of wellness inside of you even if you don’t feel like it in this moment. For years after being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, it felt like any semblance of mental wellness was out of...

Hello my Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Today’s episode is part 2 of a conversation I had with my good friend Jeremy Lynch, live in studio. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to part 1 yet in episode 11, please do.  This conversation is so meaningful to me for many reasons, but it really highlights just how important having spaces where we feel safe to talk...

Hi Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 I am thrilled to bring you part 1 of a 2 part conversation I had live in studio this week with my good friend, Jeremy Lynch. I love how episodes can evolve and take on a special meaning of their own and it feels like that is what happened in this conversation. What started as a conversation between two friends on how they met,...

Hi Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 I'm so glad you are here! 🫶 Change is in the air, do you feel it?  Now more than ever I am leaning into my W.R.A.P., Wellness Recovery Action Plan. This is a living plan I have made in advance and continue to revise to fit my needs. Included in my plan is  my morning routine. 🌅 ☕️ Having healthy routines I can count on makes a huge difference in how I...

Hi Friends and Welcome to Living Table! 🌊 🫶 The struggle to show up is real sometimes, right? Especially if you are someone who lives with mental health challenges. I find what can be even harder are the messages that play in our minds when it feels impossible to show up.  Messages that say we are less than, not enough, unworthy, etc. If you have ever experienced showing up to life to be a strug...

Hello my friends and Welcome to Living Table 🌊 I am SO glad you are here. 🐚  🫶  🏝️ Here’s what I know friends, we are CRAVING COMMUNITY, of the best kind. Living, active, LIFE-GIVING community! When daily life takes and takes and takes, we need spaces to replenish. We need living breathing community to recover our mental health & wellness. That is what today’s episode is all about. Your pre...

Hello my friends and Welcome to Living Table 🌊 I am SO glad you are here. You being here says you care about your Mental Health & Wellness and about creating Safe Spaces where others can recover their wellness too. I think you are amazing for that, because this is some of the hardest work and it's not easy to show up to. 🫶🫶🏻🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿 You are BRAVER than you think and STRONGER than y...

Hi friends and welcome to Living Table! It is really good to have you here. Today's episode is very in real life, in real time as I share from my heart while I am standing on the beach. I was on vacation with my family this past week and away from the studio so I needed to be ok recording from where I was. It can still feel scary for me to allow myself to be seen in this way, but I know that is wh...

Hello friends and welcome to Living Table!  I am so glad you are here today! Have you ever wondered what is a safe place or who is a safe person to talk to about your mental health and wellness? Do you wonder if communities like that even exist?? I used to think they didn't, or if they did I didn't know where to find them. In today's episode I am joined by my dear friend Natalie Coleman, who I met...