Support, Protect, Empower - The Project Purpose Podcast

4 Common Wellness Myths You Shouldn't Believe | Why there is No Prescription for Living & Being Well Wanting to live better and do better seems like a given. While the motivation can ebb and flow, most of us see the value in making the most out of the lives we lead. Oftentimes we think if we can model after people who seem happy with their lives, it increases our chances of finding happine...

How to Deal with a Cruel Partner | Learning to Support Yourself and Not Internalize Toxic Narratives There are some emotional injuries we would not wish on anyone. Many of these wounds are dealt to us by the people that we chose to try and create relationships with. When your person sees your vulnerability as an opportunity to spotlight all that you aren't rather than focalize on who you are i...

Four Things NOT to Do When You're Feeling Anxious | Breaking Unhealthy Habits in Dealing with Stress There are some ways of managing anxiety that we know, even as we engage in those behaviours, that are not good for us. Yet because these coping mechanisms are familiar and habitual... there's no real urgency to change the ways we respond to the stressors in our lives. At least so it seems....

5 Ways to Cope with Anxiety & Stress | Developing Healthy Strategies to Support our Mental Health Not all coping mechanisms are created equal. There are some that hurt more than help the situations and circumstances that we are dealing with. If our focus is on figuring out how to support ourselves during those challenges, it's important to iterate and learn through trial and error. Managin...

Your Life Decisions Won't Get Any Easier | Learn to Develop the Mental Muscle to Choose in Alignment Many people equate living your best life as chasing the highs that the world offers, this isn't my definition. Living your best life requires that you make the tough choices, when life calls you to choose to stay in alignment with your own wants, beliefs, and desires. Choosing alignment mea...

Learning How You Think to Improve How You Learn | Deciding How New Information Impacts Your Beliefs There is a high bid for your thoughts, beliefs and desires. More specifically, a high price that many people, corporations, government, and academic institutions will pay to ensure that your beliefs align with their agenda. While some of us carry the power to influence and sway the masses, most of u...

How Frenemies Could Be Bad for Your Health | Why the Ambivalent Relationships in Your Life are Toxic The cost of betrayal runs high. This is whether we focus on the psychological and emotional toll, or the very real exposure to physical danger it can create. In either case, there is risk inherent when you keep your (fr)enemies close. The worst way to learn this is through personal experience. Havi...

Pleasure: Indulgence vs. Fulfillment | How Incorporating Moderation Plays Into Our Quality of Life Today we're talking about the relativity of excess. The right amount of anything is dependent on each of us. Whether we're talking about food, fitness, activity, rest - life is about figuring out how much is too much, or too little, and what works best for ourselves, specific to the phase and...

5 Signs You Are Healing from Trauma | Some of the Cues & Signals that You Are Bouncing Back Stronger When it comes to our mental, emotional, and psychological wounds there is no cookie cutter framework to healing. It's sometimes difficult to gauge if we are healed, or how far we've come, because of how non-linear the healing process is. Healing is a process that starts with a choice. O...

The Importance of Listening First Before Speaking | Healthy Habits that Support Your Mental Health We're talking about the power of our voice, and the responsibility that comes with speaking up. Oftentimes we don't equate Mental Health and communication, but they are deeply intertwined. When we state our opinions, convictions and perspectives they inform the world around us of who we are,...

Reflections On a Year of New Challenges and Growth | Extracting the Value from Life Lessons Learned Often we can recognize the change we experience in our growth journey, if it's' a result of a massive life event. All to say, our personal growth is often incremental and the byproduct of small, seemingly insignificant interactions over time. The changes the we experience in our beliefs, val...

What does it mean to live off-grid? Educational talk, as we debunk the myths around self-consumption. For many of us, living off-grid translates as exiling ourselves from society and limiting our interactions with one another. Hollywood has played a major role in (mis)shaping our ideas around what it means to live off-grid, putting a negative spin on what it means to be self-sustaining by way of h...

How to Celebrate Yourself Alone | The Importance of Self-Recognition In Our Successes & Achievements Today, we talk about the importance of self-validation. How to celebrate yourself without the external applause of others. It's important that we give ourselves permission to be proud of what we've accomplished, even if there's no external recognition. #mentalwellness #celebratesmal...

3 Powerful Benefits of Patience in Life | How a Focus on Mental Wellness Radically Increases Success In today's conversation, we're talking about 3 powerful benefits of patience in life. More specifically, how you can radically increase your success by focusing on your mental wellness and well-being. #mentalwellness #patience #success 0:00 - 2:30 - Intro 2:30 - 14:30 - 3 Powerful Benefits...

A conversation on Mental Health | Learning how to place boundaries on contrary opinions and set the standard for autonomy of choice. How to set boundaries, learning how to draw the line politely. Today we're discussing how to evaluate contrary opinions. Specifically, the opinions of those who do not agree with your decisions concerning any aspect of your life. How many of us have normalized an...

Mental Health: Seeking Restoration & Healing in Nature | Recognizing that Not All Therapy is Verbal In today's conversation we're talking about how under-utilized and under-esteemed nature is, when it comes to enabling our personal healing. When it is the case that we are dealing with major life transitions, that often leave us beyond words, nature can hold us in that place. While comm...

Education: Making Informed Decisions Navigating Healthcare | Short-Term Relief vs Long-Term Effects We're talking about the need to think critically about how we position ourselves in today's culture of healthcare. More specifically, how do we ensure that we are aligning the intervention plans, rehabilitation strategies, and present healthcare costs with the long-term effects of the treatm...

#education #assumptions #culturaldifferences 0:00 - 2:20 - Intro 2:20 - 9:20 - Keep Your Assumptions on a Leash 9:20 - Wrap Up Hello Everyone, I hope all is well. Welcome to our segment on Education, this week ☺️ We're talking about how much you stand to learn, when you recognize the limits that culture places on your reality. As someone who has travelled quite a bit, the most crucial learning...

#wellness #disappointed #bounceback 0:00 - 2:30 - Intro 2:30 - 14:30 - Bouncing Back from Disappointment 14:30 - Wrap Up Hello Everyone, I hope all is well. Welcome to our second segment on Mental Wellness, this week 😊 In today's conversation, we're talking about how to support yourself when you're feeling disappointed and unmotivated. Maintaining momentum when you're running a ma...

#mentalwellness #gossip #rumours #lies 0:00 - 2:30 - Intro 2:30 - 14:30 - Dealing with Lies & Gossip 14:30 - Wrap Up Hello Everyone, I hope all is well. Welcome to our first segment on Mental Wellness, this week 😊 In today's conversation, we're talking about how to deal with being the target of vicious rumours, lies, & gossip. While we assume it doesn't happen frequently, many...

#MentalHealth #LifeTransitions #experiences 0:00 - 2:30 - Intro 2:30 - 14:45 Growing Through Painful Rites of Passages 14:45 - Wrap Up Hello Everyone, Hope all is well. Welcome to another segment on Mental Health, this week ☺️! Let's talk about the rites of passages that shifted our perspective about the people, places, and situations in our lives (or who once played significant roles in our l...

#MentalHealth #LifeTransitions #experiences 0:00 - 2:30 - Intro 2:30 - 11:20 The Value in Non-Shared Experience 11:20 - Wrap Up Hello Everyone, Hope all is well. Welcome to another segment on Mental Health, this week ☺️! In today's conversation, we're talking about our non-shared lived experiences. Specifically, the people, places, and situations that we've experienced that others stru...

#education #creative #destruction 0:00 - 2:20 - Intro 2:20 - 8:00 - How Destruction Actualizes Potential 8:00 - Wrap Up Hello Everyone, I hope all is well. Welcome to our segment on Education, this week ☺️ In today's conversation we share a key tenet that is necessary when you're trying to breathe your vision into reality: destruction. Yes 🙌. While it may seem counter-intuitive, it is the...

#mentalwellness #perfectionism #expression #healingjourney 0:00 - 2:30 - Intro 2:30 - 10:30 - From Perfectionism to Expression 10:30 - Wrap Up Hello Everyone, I hope all is well. Welcome to our first segment on Mental Wellness, this week 😊 In today's conversation, we're talking about finding our way back to expression by reclaiming our voice. Many of us filter our thoughts, choices, and a...

#MentalHealth #speakyourtruth #reality 0:00 - 2:30 - Intro 2:30 - 11:20 The Pain of Healing 11:20 - Wrap Up Hello Everyone, Hope all is well. Welcome to another segment on Mental Health, this week ☺️! In today's conversation, we're talking about the choice to heal. Specifically, healing our mental, emotional, and spiritual wounds. Many of us are used to the dysfunction that stem from being...