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Erin D’Orio: The Power of the Healthy Mind


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In this episode Ariel is joined by psychologist Erin D’Orio about the power of the healthy mind, with tips and ideas to help you maintain your balance, let go of negativity and get motivated. We also learn about equine-assisted therapy.

Affirmations:

"All of you are wonderful, all of you are good."
"All of me is welcome."
"I love me, all parts of me, totally and completely. I am healed, whole and complete."

Techniques Erin recommends:

  • To address de-motivation, use the Rocket countdown, "5-4-3-2-1" to "blast off" the couch once you reach 1.
  • Doing a job/task you don't enjoy: Set the timer for 15 minutes to get things done. Dishes, clean the fridge, or any other task.
  • Aerobic Exercise for dopamine and endorphin release.
  • Do something you love! Take classes on the topic you enjoy. Find what you love to do and what is the footwork towards doing something you can do for a living.
  • Have a "business meeting" with yourself to think about the things that need to be done in your life.
  • Do something to help someone else so your focus is not on yourself.
  • Brush off negative energy in the restroom at work and flush it!
  • Grounding yourself consistently.

Anxiety comes from thinking about what you are not doing and depression comes from thinking about what you haven't done.

To reach Erin:
760-885-0231
www.psychologytoday.com, do a search for Erin D'Orio in Lucerne Valley, CA.
Erin's email is:  [email protected] 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • When I was about 13, I was a “difficult child” and I was sent off to boarding school. That turned out to be a place for getting my feet wet in abnormal psychology because there was a whole bunch of girls there that had a multitude of problems, from kleptomania to step-dad taking girl out for the weekend and doing things to her – that particular girl tried to commit suicide and I was involved with the clean-up of that. the Math teacher tried to rape me and that’s how I got back into regular high school, but in the meantime I’d had a year and a half of quite an education and I think that started me off to being observant of human behaviour and being fascinated with it.
  • A lot of people have been traumatised in one way or another, so I do EMDR, which is eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing. That helps the brain to go back – much like cleaning out a filing cabinet – to a critical point which is often stuck, not only in a person’s mind, but in their body and their cells. When we go back and re-look at that point I do a series of eye movements in front of their eyes which allows the brain to go back into all sorts of memories right around that and other places, which unsticks that  point. It goes from a dramatic, colourful picture of intensity to more like a black and white picture that’s still there but doesn’t have that intensity anymore.
  • I try to teach people practical things too. Firstly, I ask people to bring all of themselves. People want to compartmentalise – part of them is bad and part of them is good. Some people just need some help in their daily life, people have got very disorganised during Covid, they’ve got messy or sloppy or they watch too much TV.
  • I see a lot of younger people that are very non-motivated. Their parents bring them in and ask me to “fix my teenage kid”. Well, it’s usually the parents’ problem, not the kid. However, what we’re having trouble with is getting people to be motivated, to move forward in their life, find something they really want to do. I think screen addiction is a really big problem in that area, it tends to stop people getting out into the world. I try to help people find something they really want to do, because, once you’ve found that thing, it’s not a job, it’s a pleasure.

BEST MOMENTS

“Exercise is really a very good grounding for overall health, and mentally it creates all kinds of brain chemicals that are natural and make you feel good.”
“Sometimes I do a breathing technique where I talk about the cells being happy and breathing in happiness and you can see their whole demeanour change, even if they’re under hypnotherapy.”
“All of you are wonderful, all of you are good.”
“For all the horrible jobs around the house you don’t like to do, set a timer for 15 minutes – you can do anything in 15 minutes – the timer helps you work against the clock.”

ABOUT THE GUEST

Erin D’Orio is a licensed psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience in various types of therapy and healing modalities.  She works with traditional methods such as Cognitive Behavioral, EMDR (eye movement, desensitisation and reprocessing), Addiction/Substance problems, Gestalt, Psychodynamic, Hypnotherapy and non-conventional methods such as shamanic journey work, energy healing, Equine Assisted and Transpersonal therapy.  

She has worked in several substance abuse treatment centres as well as county mental health agencies and has a wide background of experience.  

Currently she has a private practice so that she can work in her own time frame and take the session wherever it needs to go.  Erin loves this work for its "spur of the moment, whatever walks in the door" quality and although there is always a treatment plan for the session that day, it usually goes "off the cuff" and she follows the bouncing ball wherever the client needs to go for their healing.

ABOUT THE HOST

Ariel is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Empath and Psychic who has been involved in holistic healing since 1988. She is also an educator, speaker, author and mentor for empaths, spiritual seekers and medical professionals. To reach Ariel, go to www.arielhubbard.com, where you will be able to contact her directly.  Please let her know you heard her on the podcast and the assistance you need or question you have.

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