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  • The Rewarding Journey: Managing Depression

    Welcome back to another episode Growth Where Planted. Today we are joined by none other than Bobi Gentry Goodwin. This week, we’re talking about how to prepare yourself for the journey of managing depression. You don’t want to miss this episode, so stay tuned.

    Depression - [00:01 – 07:44]

    • Insight into the episode
    • Introduction to our guest, Bobi Gentry Goodwin
      • Background and Passion
      • Definition of depression
      • Managing depression and pain
      • Story Time
      • Owning your experiences
      • The Rewarding Journey - [07:45 – 16:03]

        • Acceptance of where you are:
          • What’s your current understanding about depression?
          • What is your current understanding about managing depression?
          • Do you know anyone who has been professionally diagnosed with depression?
          • Being strategic on how you manage your depression
          • If you believe you may have depression or you’re struggling mentally, please seek professional support
          • An important tip from Bobi
          • Managing Depression requires introspection
          • Resources and Close - [16:04 – 18:31]

            • Resources for this episode
              • See links below
              • Final words
              • Tweetable Quotes:

                “Any time in your life there can be emotional pain, physical pain, spiritual pain, and I think that is a strong indication that something is under the surface.” - Bobi Gentry Goodwin

                “If you don’t manage depression it will manage you. And it tends to get worse over time if it is unmanaged, and it can really impact the quality of your life.” - Bobi Gentry Goodwin

                “Take one or two steps towards the path that you want to go. And patience is essential in that, because you might not land where you want to land.  It might not be immediate, but those ripples can sometimes turn into waves, and those waves can definitely bring you to the place where you want to go.” - Bobi Gentry Goodwin

                “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” - Khalil Gibran

                Resources:

                • The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time by Alex Korb
                • Crisis Text Line
                • Psychology Today
                • You can follow Bobi on Instagram. Be sure to check our her Youtube and visit her website at https://bobigentrygoodwin.com/

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                  19 min
                • The Cynical Cycle: Self-Sabotage

                  While we often encounter external boundaries in life, it’s important to recognize when we’ve created our own barriers. Today we’ll be talking about how to break the Cycle of Self-sabotage, whether it be procrastination, or remaining in toxic environments. We could all learn a thing or two, so keep listening.

                  Self-Sabotaging Behavior - [00:01 – 05:31]

                  • Self-sabotaging Behavior
                  • Common Self-sabotaging behaviors
                    • Procrastination
                    • Self-medication with drugs/alcohol
                    • Comfort eating
                    • Self-injury
                    • Story Time
                    • The source of our self-sabotaging behaviors - [05:32 – 10:54]

                      • How would you rate your self-awareness?
                      • What self-sabotaging behaviors do you identify within yourself?
                      • What does self-love look like to you?
                      • The importance of working with a mental health professional
                      • A mantra to help you achieve self-love
                      • Resources and Close - [10:55 – 12:04]

                        • Resources for this episode
                          • See links below
                          • Final words
                          • Tweetable Quotes:

                            “Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.” - Marianne Willamson

                            “You cannot make progress in life if you’re constantly standing in your own way.” - Breonna B

                            “Oftentimes, self-sabotage begins with a lack of self-love.” - Breonna B

                            “While we often encounter external boundaries, it’s important to identify when we’ve created our own barriers. As it can help increase your self-awareness, self-love, and more clearly help you identify and resolve unhealthy relationships with others.” - Breonna B

                            “Life will continue to bring you situations to learn lessons. And if you don’t learn them the first time around, you will be presented with the same scenario until you identify and apply lessons.” - Breonna B

                            Resources:

                            • Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way - Dr. Judy Ho, PhD
                            • Crisis Text Line
                              • US and Canada: text 741741
                              • UK: text 85258
                              • Ireland: text 50808
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                                13 min
                              • The Balance of Treating Yourself: Fiscal Responsibility

                                Living and maintaining a balanced life is very important for your personal health and well-being, especially in our fast-paced and modern world. In this episode, we will talk about financial responsibility and how to create a balance in your life to set yourself up for success.

                                Financial Responsibility - [00:01 – 03:26]

                                • Introduction and background of our guest, Jim Shoopack
                                • What is Financial Responsibility?
                                • Story Time
                                • The Reward and Responsibility Balance - [03:27 – 0:0]

                                  • Good and Bad Examples of financial responsibility
                                  • Rewarding yourself
                                  • Your relationship with money
                                  • Recalibrating your balance with money
                                  • Resources and Close - [09:38 – 10:28]

                                    • Resources for this episode
                                      • See links below
                                      • Final words
                                      • Tweetable Quotes:

                                        “Understanding how financial responsibility works and creating a balance can allow you to establish an amazing foundation for building relationships. Relationships for starting a business or growing in your career.” - Breonna B

                                        “Creating balance in your life, in general,  is an active journey.” - Breonna B

                                        “Find your balance and start rewarding yourself.” - Breonna B

                                        “If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.” - Robert Kiyosaki

                                        Resources:

                                        • The Self-Love Experiment - Shannon Kaiser
                                        • Get Good with Money - Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche
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                                          12 min
                                        • Community Influences: Personal Identity

                                          Welcome back to Growth Where Planted Podcast! For this episode, we welcome one of our first guests in our show, Jim Shoopack, as we talk about Personal Identity and how it can play a role in how you look at yourself and how you view others looking at you.

                                          20 years ago, Jim suffered all of the symptoms of depression. It is miraculous that he didn’t take his own life. He prayed and prayed and prayed, and even had what would be considered an out-of-body experience that gave him hope for the future. Once he had that experience, things started to improve.


                                          Personal Identity - [00:01 – 08:32]

                                          • Introduction and background of our guest, Jim Shoopack
                                          • The Definition of Identity
                                          • Working through and learning from challenges that life presents us
                                          • Story Time
                                          • Journey to develop personal identity
                                          • Developing and Maintaining your Personal Identity - [08:33 – 13:52]

                                            • Seeing people who do not have a grasp on their personal identity
                                            • The role of your public self and your private self in your identity
                                            • Surrounding yourself with the right people
                                            • Resources and Close - [13:53 – 16:48]

                                              • Resources for this episode
                                              • Connect with Jim
                                                • See Links below
                                                • Final words

                                                • Tweetable Quotes:

                                                  “It’s important to have a plan. But you have to realize that life doesn’t work the way you want it to, and you have to be prepared for disappointment and how you roll with that disappointment.” - Jim Shoopack

                                                  “Not every day is gonna be a good day. You’re gonna have bad days. It’s the beauty of life, it’s the beauty of the journey of life.” - Jim Shoopack

                                                  “In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” - Erik Erikson


                                                  Resources:

                                                  • Mental Health Musings
                                                  • The Power of Understanding Yourself by Dave Mitchell

                                                  • Connect with Jim, send him an email at [email protected] or visit http://mhmusings.com/. You can also follow him on Instagram (@mhmusingsblog)


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                                                    17 min
                                                  • Scattered Resources: Career Navigation

                                                    In this episode, we’ll be talking about careers, jobs, how to make money, and how to define your success when there’s not really a road map for the career you’re interested in.


                                                    Career - [00:01 – 05:06]

                                                    • Definition of Career
                                                    • Story Time
                                                      • Finding my career path
                                                      • The Process of Forgiveness and Managing - [05:07 – 13:17]

                                                        • Your definition of success
                                                        • Doing what you enjoy
                                                        • The beginning can be quite uncomfortable and that’s okay
                                                        • Create quarterly and annual learning goals
                                                        • Maintain a running list of things you’re doing well
                                                        • Ask for feedback
                                                        • Take the time to analyze your blockers
                                                        • Constantly advocate for yourself
                                                        • Resources and Close - [13:18 – 14:12]

                                                          • Resources for this episode
                                                          • Final words

                                                          • Tweetable Quotes:

                                                            “Defining a career path can be challenging, especially if there’s a lack of representation in the field or industry.” - Breonna B

                                                            “Creating learning goals and actively working towards them can help move you along to where you wanna be and present things that you may not be aware of.” - Breonna B

                                                            “We often see ourselves in the best light better than other people can. So getting an outside perspective, can give you a pragmatic view of how well you do.” - Breonna B

                                                            “You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.” - Michael Bassey Johnson


                                                            Resources:

                                                            Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life - Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

                                                            The Career Manifesto: Discover Your Calling and Create an Extraordinary Life - Mike Steib


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                                                            15 min
                                                          • Repetition Is Key: Forgiveness

                                                            People in our lives can end up hurting us. With the pain you feel, you have the choice to either hold on to your anger, resentment, and thoughts of revenge — or you can choose to forgive and move on.

                                                            This week’s episode is all about the process of forgiveness and the emotion management that comes along with it.


                                                            Forgiveness - [00:01 – 03:42]

                                                            • What is Forgiveness?
                                                            • Story Time
                                                            • The Process of Forgiveness and Managing - [03:43 – 09:34]

                                                              • Evaluating your knowledge of forgiveness
                                                              • Why you should forgive
                                                              • Deciding to forgive someone and addressing them
                                                              • Establishing your boundaries and the need for respect
                                                              • Resources and Close - [09:35 – 10:36]

                                                                • Resources for this episode
                                                                • Final words

                                                                • Tweetable Quotes:

                                                                  “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” - Corrie Ten Boom

                                                                  “Forgiveness meant that you could continue to bring up someone’s transgressions over and over and over again, because you were wronged by that person.” - Breonna B

                                                                  “Forgiveness is not for them, it’s solely for you. You have to heal, you have to let it go.” - Breonna B

                                                                  “If you don’t forgive, if you don’t let it go, if you don’t move on, it can leave you stuck for years.” - Breonna B



                                                                  Resources:

                                                                  Emotional Detox by Sherianna Boyle - https://amzn.to/32UYt5n



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                                                                  11 min
                                                                • Personal Prison: Guilt

                                                                  This episode is all about how to escape the Mental Prison you’ve created with self-sabotaging behaviors, and learn how to hold yourself accountable.


                                                                  [00:01 – 01:01] What is Guilt?

                                                                  • I introduce the topic for this episode
                                                                  • The definition of Guilt
                                                                  • Understanding guilt to develop healthy accountability habits and identify unhealthy and toxic relationship structures
                                                                  • [01:02 – 03:07] Story Time

                                                                    • How I was introduced to the concept of guilt
                                                                    • The Favor system
                                                                    • [03:08 – 08:48] Tips on how to escape your guilty mental prison

                                                                      • Identifying what makes you feel guilty
                                                                      • Differentiating Guilt and Accountability
                                                                      • Make a list of 3 actions you will take and how you will take micro-steps daily towards those actions
                                                                      • Calling out people who are using false guilt to control your relationship
                                                                      • [08:49 – 09:45] Resources and Close

                                                                        • Resources for this episode
                                                                          • See Links Below
                                                                          • Final words

                                                                          • Tweetable Quotes:

                                                                            “Understanding how guilt can serve as a track, weapon, or path to nowhere, can help you develop healthy accountability habits with yourself and others.” - Breonna B

                                                                            “Accountability is very different from feeling guilty. Accountability is about taking action, guilt is about self-sabotaging your growth.” - Breonna B

                                                                            “Guilt isn’t always a rational thing. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.” - Maureen Johnson



                                                                            Resources:


                                                                            Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions - https://amzn.to/3sUCia5

                                                                            Let Go of the Guilt: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Take Back Your Joy - https://amzn.to/32IlVCQ



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                                                                            10 min
                                                                          • No Means No: Personal Boundaries

                                                                            Setting your personal boundaries is necessary to help you keep a healthy and positive self-image. In this episode, we’ll be exploring, how to stand firm in our boundaries and how to avoid falling victim to guilt.


                                                                            [00:01 – 01:21] Personal Boundaries and Guilt

                                                                            • I introduce the topic for this episode
                                                                            • What are Personal Boundaries?
                                                                            • What is Guilt?
                                                                            • [01:22 – 02:22] Story Time

                                                                              • My own sense of personal boundaries
                                                                              • Instances that helped me establish personal boundaries
                                                                              • [02:23 – 04:58] Setting Your Personal boundaries and Strengthening our ‘NO’ muscle

                                                                                • Questions to get you started and understand what you know about personal boundaries
                                                                                  • Understanding your relationships with people around you and how they respect your personal boundaries
                                                                                  • How to establish your personal boundaries
                                                                                  • Determining the reason behind your “NO”
                                                                                  • Discuss these thoughts in therapy
                                                                                  • [04:59 – 05:50] Resources and Close

                                                                                    • Resources for this episode
                                                                                      • See Links Below
                                                                                      • Final words

                                                                                      • Tweetable Quotes:

                                                                                        “No means No. No is a powerful world, and No is a complete sentence.” - Breonna B.

                                                                                        “Discuss your lack of boundary setting, the way that you set boundaries, your hope in setting boundaries in therapy, because someone can help guide you through that process and not only establish those boundaries, but they can also help you understand exactly why you have those issues in the first place.” - Breonna B.

                                                                                        “It’s really important to understand your education around personal boundaries, and they also help you truly understand how people have leveraged that within your life. If they know they can always rely on you, and you never say No, they can abuse that.” - Breonna B.


                                                                                        Resources:

                                                                                        I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)

                                                                                        Setting Boundaries: Info and Practice Woksheet 


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                                                                                        6 min
                                                                                      • The Addiction: Social Media

                                                                                        Throughout this episode, we’ll be getting real about Addiction to Social Media and how to start establishing healthy boundaries. Are you guilty of the endless roll of app switching? Keep listening.


                                                                                        [00:01 – 01:09] Addiction

                                                                                        • I introduce the topic for this episode
                                                                                        • The definition of addiction
                                                                                        • [01:10 – 02:41] Story Time

                                                                                          • My addiction to social media 3 years ago
                                                                                          • Tracking my usage
                                                                                          • Understanding my connection to social media
                                                                                          • [02:42 – 06:31] Restructuring your relationship with social media

                                                                                            • Questions to ask in order to understand the level of your connection to social media
                                                                                            • Structuring your time to add barriers between you and social media
                                                                                            • An easy way to distance yourself and take a break from social media
                                                                                            • [06:32 – 07:47] Resources and Close

                                                                                              • Resources for this episode
                                                                                                • See Links Below
                                                                                                • Final words

                                                                                                • Tweetable Quotes:

                                                                                                  “One should be careful not to buy into the notion that someone else’s life is somehow more complete or fulfilling than yours, based solely on what you see online.” - Germany Kent

                                                                                                  "As a way to add barriers between you and social media, you have to start structuring your time.” - Breonna B.

                                                                                                  “Work through any unhealthy emotions, experiences, avoidant behaviour, and insecurities in therapy. Having someone who is trained, and knows how to help you untangle yourself from that web can be vital to give you a different perspective, on not only whatever it is that you’re addicted to, but everything else in your life.” - Breonna B.


                                                                                                  Resources:

                                                                                                  Hooked: Overcoming Social Media Addiction - Bernard Kelvin Clive

                                                                                                  Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business(and in life) - Thomas Erikson

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                                                                                                  8 min
                                                                                                • Recover and Reconnect with Your Garden: Therapy

                                                                                                  Welcome back! Today we’re discussing how to move past your discomfort surrounding Therapy, and embracing the process of understanding every aspect of you. We go over the process of restructuring your mindset regarding therapy.


                                                                                                  [00:01 – 02:02] What is Therapy?

                                                                                                  • I introduce the topic for this episode
                                                                                                  • The definition of Therapy
                                                                                                  • [02:03 – 04:51] Story Time

                                                                                                    • Suppressing any and everything I felt
                                                                                                      • Not effectively communicating my feelings
                                                                                                      • Going to therapy
                                                                                                      • [04:52 – 11:58] Restructuring your mindset regarding therapy

                                                                                                        • Breaking down our view and understanding on therapy
                                                                                                        • Ponder over how you currently see and have experienced and witnessed therapy
                                                                                                        • Reframing the function of your support system
                                                                                                        • Being patient and taking the time to find the right therapist for you
                                                                                                        • Be the example to encourage healing and growth
                                                                                                        • Entering Therapy with a blanket of trust
                                                                                                        • [11:59 – 13:42] Resources and Close

                                                                                                          • Resources for this episode
                                                                                                            • See Links Below
                                                                                                            • Final words

                                                                                                            • Tweetable Quotes:

                                                                                                              "Friends and Family are not committed to walk through treacherous subjects with you. There’s only a level of comfort or discomfort that they’re willing to endure in order to support you.” - Breonna B.

                                                                                                              “When you’re looking for a Therapist, please keep in mind that it can take up to two to three times to get the right Therapist. So be patient through the process.” - Breonna B.

                                                                                                              “Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.” - Shannon Alder


                                                                                                              Resources:

                                                                                                              Psychology Today

                                                                                                              Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb

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                                                                                                              14 min

                                                                                                            About Growth Where Planted

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                                                                                                            We explore common life experiences, prune ourselves from the pain, and harvest the lessons. Every week, I'll share personal experiences, tips and resources I use to continue to grow from them.…