Healing Aloud

Our mental health isn’t just about our minds. We walk through life in a body, and how we think about that body has been a big part of our healing journey. How do we accept our physical differences and limitations?

There are a lot of things people say that don’t align with what is being meant. This episode focuses on a few intentional phrase changes that has helped us mean what we say, say what we mean and by making these little changes, change our thought patterns. (References from Instagram profiles: @kids.eat.in.color and @mommacusses )

Getting a mental health diagnosis can be a rollercoaster ride of emotions, especially if your diagnosis carries a lot of stigma, such as Borderline Personality Disorder. In this episode we talk about how getting diagnosed has affected our lives and how we’ve come to terms with it all.

When something tragic or traumatic happens to a loved one how can you best support them? How will you know you are saying and doing the right things? We share what was most helpful (and hurtful) during our hardest times. *Trigger Warning*: infant or pregnancy loss, childhood illness and injury, death

We get so caught up in ‘when we’ll get better’ but it’s more of a learning process and celebrating the small victories in progress of our emotions, triggers, coping mechanisms, life events, relationships, boundaries and more.

Has your therapist ever asked, “Is that serving you?” What does it mean for something to be serving you, how can we know if it is, and what do we do if it isn’t?

How do you play? Most people fall into one of eight “play personalities” according to researcher Dr. Stuart Brown. We share what our play personalities are and how we can incorporate all types of play into our lives as adults.

Whether or not you are a writer, journaling is a powerful tool for our mental health and relationships. Here’s a little bit about different ways we journal and how it helps us.

Play is a massive element to human nature! This overview of play talks about who play is for, why it’s important, known benefits, types of play. This is the first episode to play with more to look forward to in the future!

Nobody is perfect. But trying to reach perfection is really tempting but can be harmful. Listen in to hear how we see perfectionism in our lives and how we cope with it!