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- Language (Rebroadcast)
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24 min - Body Betrayal (Rebroadcast)
Direct Impact, join us as we discuss what Body Betrayal is.
In this episode, we discuss the losses faced with body betrayal and how we relate to our bodies. Andrea discusses how we can grieve the loss(es) that company body betrayal, and she also shares her personal story of facing Body Betrayal. She shares the physical, emotional, and mental difficulties she faced during this period of her life.
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41 min - Rewriting Your Own Story (Rebroadcast)
Season 2 Episode 16
7/24 (re-airs 10/2):Rewriting Your Story - Becoming your own hero
Episode Summary
It takes bravery to engage in questioning the stories and experiences shown to us throughout our childhoods. Today we will discuss the power and purpose of re-authoring our own narratives.
Episode Highlights:
- There is power and purpose in re-authoring our childhood narrative.
- Where did they hear their narratives? Who told them or showed them these things? What did they see? What did they experience?
- Our narratives dictate who we are, and how we live, think, and experience life.
- It takes bravery to engage in questioning the stories and experiences shown to us and reworking our story.
- Important to remember: you were a child.
- Goal: a sense of agency and internal control
- Think about: who you were, who you wanted to be, your role in your family system, and who you engaged with
- Be the lead character of your here-and-now story.
- Choosing a supporting cast of individuals who will show up
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Get more insight from Andrea with her free resources:
Heads Up Guidance Services’ Resource Page https://www.headsupsavannah.org/resources
Find Andrea at her practice, and check out her upcoming workshops!
Resolve Strategies, Inc. https://www.resolvestrategiesinc.com/staff
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22 min - There is power and purpose in re-authoring our childhood narrative.
- Boundaries (Rebroadcast)
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting
Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist
Season 2 Episode 11
Airs 6/26/22 (Re-Airs 9/24/2022): Boundaries
Episode Summary
Direct Impact Nation, let’s discuss the importance of boundaries…..boundaries are the rules and limits we set for ourselves within relationships. Where do you start? How do you set them? How do you communicate them? How do you hold them?
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27 min - Bonus Episode: Season 2 Wrap Up
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting
Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist
Season 2 Episode 27
Air Date: 9/22/22
Episode Title: Season 2 Behind the Scenes/Meet the Team
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To join the discussion and be part of our online community visit www.directimpactmedia.com and www.lightninginabottle.biz or email Andrea at [email protected]. Find us on Instagram @directimpactwithandreaepting (https://www.instagram.com/directimpactwithandreaepting/)
Get more insight from Andrea with her free resources:
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To order a course or the Plan 2 Recover Journal, visit www.lightninginabottle.biz
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15 min - Mind Tricks pt. 2
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting
Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist
Season 2 Episode 26
9/18: Mind Tricks pt 2
Episode Summary
Welcome back everyone - Let’s continue down our list of mind tricks to use when we find ourselves disregulated or leaning into old, unwanted behaviors.
Episode Highlights:
- Opposite action - Doing the opposite action of what we are craving
- Doesn’t have to be the complete opposite, can just be a better choice
- Make a big deal of it
- Creates new habits, new neural pathways
- “I could do this, but I can choose a healthy opposite action”
- Tell somebody.. Say it out loud - Identify these negative cognitions out loud
- Does this sound true or irrational?
- Community is important - say it out loud, and allow someone to reflect and react
- Name it to tame it - notice/acknowledge the feeling or emotion attached to the craving
- Don’t attach to them, but spend time with and name these emotions
- Radical Accountability - wacky, silly, or extreme ways to get ourselves through the cravings
- *Urge surfing - sitting in our disregulations and negative emotions until they pass
- This is a challenging practice that requires mental muscles
- Sitting through thoughts and cognitions, discovering the feelings underneath them, maybe connecting to them
Call to action: You now have ten new mind tricks to use; implement one this week!
Episode mentioned: s2 ep 25 - mind tricks pt 1
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Get more insight from Andrea with her free resources:
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Resolve Strategies, Inc. https://www.resolvestrategiesinc.com/staff
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alexithymia ep 24 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Wpalle2Wax4A14MjHLtrN
18 min - Opposite action - Doing the opposite action of what we are craving
- Mind Tricks pt. 1
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting
Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist
Season 2 Episode 25
9/11: Mind Tricks pt1
Episode Summary
When feeling disregulated, we may find ourselves considering old unwanted behaviors. Let’s talk about the mind tricks we can play on ourselves to stop our following through. Join us next week for part two, and five more mind tricks we can utilize.
Episode Highlights:
- Let's talk about the skills (mind tricks) we can use when we become disregulated.
- Sometimes we know we are going into a challenging/ triggering situation
- Sometimes triggers can come out of nowhere - confronted with, usually external
- Sometimes internal - cravings, thoughts, emotions
- The Tricks
- Low expectations - Being mindful of expectations of self/ others and limiting beliefs
- Are they grounded in reality?
- Is there room for air?
- Can I be present and just respond one minute at a time?
- Poising the fantasy - Stopping the inevitable romanticizing of unwanted behaviors
- Using reminders of why we stopped that unwanted behavior and are saying no now
- Let them be reminders you may be embarrassed of, ones that may be hard to face - poison that fantasy
- E.g., letters, texts, pictures
- Play the tape all the way through to the end - “If I follow through with this old behavior, the end result will be negative”; go step by step
- What are the consequences - shame, regret, injuries, relationship damage,
- Get back into your window of tolerance, re-ground decisions
- Reverse engineering - Reverse engineer the HALT (cravings/ urges)
- Step one: Recognize Internal cravings when we are hungry, angry, lonely, tired, stressed, sick, or bored
- Contributing to feeling disregulated and dis-eased
- Step two: Do something instead. Talk to your partner, take care of the need in a healthy way.
- Distraction - Distract yourself until after the craving subsides, then revisit it
- Cravings usually only last about 15 - 20 minutes at a time.
- Music, walking, doing something that takes us away from the unwanted behavior
Call to action: Implement one of these mind tricks this week
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To join the discussion and be part of our online community visit www.directimpactmedia.com or email Andrea at [email protected]
Get more insight from Andrea with her free resources:
Heads Up Guidance Services’ Resource Page https://www.headsupsavannah.org/resources
Find Andrea at her practice, and check out her upcoming workshops!
Resolve Strategies, Inc. https://www.resolvestrategiesinc.com/staff
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21 min - Let's talk about the skills (mind tricks) we can use when we become disregulated.
- Alexithymia (Bonus Episode)
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting
Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist
Season 2 Episode 24
9/7: Alexithymia
Episode Summary
Alexithymia: A personality trait characterized by being unable to recognize or notice feelings as well as being unable to communicate them.
Episode Highlights:
- Earlier in the season, we discussed how our feelings are not facts
- brought many questions - What are feelings? How do I process them? Where do I start?
- When you can put your energy and focus into your embodied feelings, recovery begins
- Learning to trust yourself, regulate emotions, and meet own needs
- Feelings give us guidance and protection
- Alexithymia - Personality trait characterized by being unable to recognize or notice feelings and tends to be unable to communicate feelings; neurological
- Tends to come from insecure childhood relationships and family systems, and traumas; Can be caused by neurodivergence
- Usually very challenging to be in social situations or to work in therapy
Episode mentioned: s2 ep7 - Feelings Are Not Facts and You Are Not a Slave to the Past
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To join the discussion and be part of our online community visit www.directimpactmedia.com or email Andrea at [email protected]
Get more insight from Andrea with her free resources:
Heads Up Guidance Services’ Resource Page https://www.headsupsavannah.org/resources
Find Andrea at her practice, and check out her upcoming workshops!
Resolve Strategies, Inc. https://www.resolvestrategiesinc.com/staff
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10 min - Earlier in the season, we discussed how our feelings are not facts
- Why I Do What I Do When I Don't Want To Do It
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting
Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist
Season 2 Episode 23
9/4: Why I do What I do When I don't Want to do it
Episode Summary
Let’s talk about why we engage in damaging behaviors, the ones we are aware of and want to stop but just can’t seem to.
Episode Highlights:
- My heart and soul says no
- Aware of damage and consequences that doing said action brings, but still participating - why?
- Begin with grace and shame reduction
- Not moral failures - addictions, compulsivity, brain chemistry
- Behavior is damaging, humans are not
- This is a dis-ease that leads to disease; progressive and pervasive
- Requires honesty, transparency, and unpacking
- Goal: replace these unwanted numbing behaviors with life-giving behaviors
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting Podcast- Powered by Lightning in a Bottle (LIAB)
To join the discussion and be part of our online community visit www.directimpactmedia.com or email Andrea at [email protected]
Get more insight from Andrea with her free resources:
Heads Up Guidance Services’ Resource Page https://www.headsupsavannah.org/resources
Find Andrea at her practice, and check out her upcoming workshops!
Resolve Strategies, Inc. https://www.resolvestrategiesinc.com/staff
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16 min - My heart and soul says no
- Trauma Sensitive Yoga w/ Kierstin Graham
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting
Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist
Episode Summary
Our passions sometimes give purposes to our pasts. Direct Impact Nation, join us as we welcome Kiersten Graham, a trauma informed yoga teacher. Kiersten explains the importance of the mind and body connection and seeks to provide a safe space for individuals to discover what is going on in their bodies, without fear of judgment. In this episode, we discuss the importance of blending movement with mental health awareness. Direct Impact Nation, help us normalize the mind being an active part of movement and exercise through this week's podcast episode.
Episode Outline: We talk about trauma informed yoga, recovery, normalizing mental health, and the mind and body connection.
- Negative Biases and the Inner critic
- Perfectionism
- Body Image and Eating Disorders
- Trauma Sensitive yoga emphasizes no expectations on the person walking in
- Ex.) You do not have to be happy in class
- Personalized practice and noticing your bodies cues
- Balance of support during the practice and empowerment
- Common humanity
- The Window of Tolerance
- Outside of the window of tolerance our body tells us we are unsafe and we react.
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting Podcast- Powered by Lightning in a Bottle (LIAB)
To join the discussion and be part of our online community visit www.directimpactmedia.com or email Andrea at [email protected]
Get more insight from Andrea with her free resources:
Heads Up Guidance Services’ Resource Page https://www.headsupsavannah.org/resources
Find Andrea at her practice, and check out her upcoming workshops!
Resolve Strategies, Inc. https://www.resolvestrategiesinc.com/staff
Find Kiersten on instagram @dualityrising.
Listen to the episode we mentioned, Our Passions Give Purpose to our Past: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/direct-impact/id1584866018?i=1000574455004
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"Samba Isobel"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/27 min
About Direct Impact
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Direct Impact with host Andrea Epting exists to connect the dots between the psyche and its direct impact on the world around us. You don’t have to settle for a less than extraordinary life! You deserve a life filled with purpose, connection, and direction. Unlock your authenticity, discover your full potential, and make a DIRECT IMPACT on the world that is not only positive but profound. In this podcast we discuss alternatives to emotional dis-ease, mental clutter, and limiting beliefs by creating a climate for growth, allowing your mind to become an ally vs. an adversary. You can become the best version of yourself, and leave a Life-giving legacy of curiosity, creativity, and compassion without compromise. We want you to make a DIRECT IMPACT.
Direct Impact with Andrea Epting
Powered by Lightning in a Bottle (LIAB)
To join the discussion and be part of our online community visit www.directimpactmedia.com or email us at [email protected]
Get more insight from Andrea with her free resources:
Heads Up Guidance Services’ Resource Page
www.headsupsavannah.org/resources
Find Andrea at her practice, and check out her upcoming workshops!
Resolve Strategies, Inc.
www.resolvestrategiesinc.com/staff
Andrea is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Masters Addiction Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist
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