Brave Being the Podcast

It’s mental health awareness month! In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses the connection between our mental and physical well-being, and shares with listeners how we might reframe mental health as emotional health.

Topics include:

• Dispelling myths around mental health challenges
• Fighting stigma
• Reframing mental health as emotional health
• The connections between physical and emotional health
• Emotional well-being as a lifelong, active process
• Indicators that your emotional health may need attention
• When to seek therapy
• Meaningful relationships, vulnerability, and other pillars of emotional health
• And other topics.

Resources:

Places to get a therapist: www.betterhelp.com

Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

www.pyschologytoday.com

www.MentalHealth.gov

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Bridget is joined by life coach and podcaster Nicole Baker to discuss how to fortify your mindset and confront imposter syndrome.

Topics of conversation include:

• Placing visual affirmations in your immediate environment to punctuate habitual thinking
• Thoughts are driven by where you focus your attention. What are you focusing on?
• Breaking down the trigger, behavior, reward loops that feed our habitual behaviors
• Utilizing physicality to hack your mindstates
• The power questions have in shaping our thoughts
• And other topics

Resources Mentioned:

Instagram @lifecoachbaker

Life Coach Baker Podcast

Life Coach Baker Website

Guide to Creating Your Perfect Morning Routine

Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget shares with her listeners strategies for managing difficult feelings when you are having a sad day. Topics included: Bridget’s history of depression and how she’s learned to manage it through psychotherapy, recognizing the difference between having sad days and slipping into depression, healthy and unhealthy coping strategies for managing difficult feelings, the importance of keeping healthy coping strategies simple and accessible, coping tools such as writing and exercise, and other topics.

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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses the tendency to lose our authentic self as we transition into adulthood and begin to embody the expectations of the world. Featuring an introduction from a very special guest, Parker G., Bridget shares with listeners an exercise they can use to connect with their inner child and to explore their authentic self. Topics include: modeling your true self as a parent, honoring the whole self including parts we may feel averse to, how to find clarity as we investigate our authenticity, and other topics.

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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget shares how her experience with play therapy informs how she thinks about human behavior and interactions. Topics include: play as something we are always engaging in irrespective of age, framing our understanding of how we interact with the world as play, three different lenses to look at play through and their associated energy states, the transformative model and how it relates to play, play being the tool by which we integrate our emotions and overcome challenges, and other topics.

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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget discusses the psychology concept modeling and how it relates to our common desire to create change in the world. As human beings, our primary form of learning comes through enacting the behaviors that have been modeled to us, specifically those that communicate who we are and how we ought to be in the world. Bridget explains why she believes the most effective way to transform our world is to model in a congruent and authentic way. 

Topics include: examining how we show up in the world, being a role-model in our relationships and our community, how to hold big emotions triggered by injustice and tragedy, the need to address our internal states in preparation to take on our external environments, learning to live in alignment with our authentic selves, and other topics.

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In this episode of Brave Being the Podcast, Bridget takes a deep dive into the topic of validating feelings. Topics include: validating feelings as a parenting strategy, how learning to validate the feelings of others teaches us how to show up as our authentic selves, moving away from our conditioned fix, rescue, or problem-solve response to negative emotions, why negative emotions are integral to understanding ourselves, simplifying negative emotions down to mad, sad, and scared in framing the question “how might I feel if this was happening to me?”, and other topics.

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In this episode of Brave Being, Bridget connects with listeners to discuss the parenting challenges many of us are experiencing as a result of the pandemic. Topics of conversation include: setting boundaries and teaching our kiddos that it is okay to be disappointed, understanding that our mindful presence is all that children yearn for, being realistic about the roles that we can and cannot fulfill in our kids’ lives, the importance of showing vulnerability, how we can use this situation to model resilience and balance for our children, and other topics.

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In this episode of Brave Being the Podcast, Bridget discusses how we can show up authentically and settle into the new, new normal that life is presenting us with. Topics of conversation include: how being vulnerable gives people around us permission to do the same, the connection between childhood and mindfulness, the unique parenting challenges many of us are experiencing right now, how we might reframe our experience of the pandemic, confronting and being present with our emotions and experiences rather than running to thoughts of the past or future, and other topics. This week, we have a challenge for you. When somebody asks you how you are doing, be brave and share genuinely. Let us know how it goes, and we will see you next week!

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We are back! Welcome to another episode of Brave Being the Podcast. Thank you for joining us! In this episode, Bridget reestablishes her intentions for the podcast and gets clear on her offering for the Brave Being audience. Topics covered include: the birth of Bridget’s daughter, moving towards our authentic self and becoming a brave being, Bridget’s first therapy session with a child and what she learned from the experience, being willing to be vulnerable with the things that cause us pain, the principles and intentions behind the podcast and what listeners can expect each week, and other topics.

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