In this episode Trent, Amy and Jeremy use the therapeutic story "The Magic Kitchen" This story is adapted by Richard Schwartz and helps in understanding how we work with the parts of ourselves to find a sense of internal cohesion. In particular this story is a metaphor for how we connect inward to become healthy in order to be able to connect outward in romantic relationships. It is the old mental health adage that one must be able to have a healthy, loving relationship with themself to be able to have a healthy, loving relationship with others.

We integrate the ideas and themes brought up in the story and discuss how this relates to mental health.

In this episode Jeremy and Trent answer questions that Amy Alcorn prepared about the rising prevalence of Mental Health conditions in our world. We discuss factors and variables that have influenced the trend towards high numbers of people with mental health diagnosis.

This is the second episode in our mental health frequently asked questions series. In this episode Trent and Jeremy answer frequently asked questions about different counselling practice theories and how they work

This is another hypnosis script by Jeremy. This is a general healing it can be used to support mental and physical health.

Today we compare and contrast compassion and empathy where compassion is seen as an action oriented response and empathy is understood as holding emotional space for another person or being in the emotion with the other person.

We are joined by Doctor Nicole OBarto-Trainer

Nicole received her doctorate in counselling psychology from West Virginia University. She was clinically trained in the Department of Psychiatry at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA. She also has specialized training in the integration of mind body therapies in the treatment of chronic gastrointestinal disorders and somatic disorders from the Allegheny Center for Digestive Health. Dr. Trainer has been studying integrative mental health since 2009 and has advanced training in mindfulness-based interventions, HeartMath biofeedback, and functional approaches to depression and anxiety, including nutrition, micronutrient therapy, and amino acid therapy. 

Dr. Trainer has been working in private practice since 2011. She founded Native with the intention to shift the conversation in mental health care away from deficits and subjective lists of symptoms treated largely with pharmaceuticals to one focused on innate health and the integration of evidence-based complementary and alternative therapies. Further, Dr. Trainer believes that a more dynamic and holistic approach to mental health treatment would better prepare an individual for the lifelong process of understanding their emotional self and taking care of their mental health.

Dr. Trainer is also passionate about raising mental health awareness and reducing the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health problems. She encourages a conceptualization of mental health that is more fluid and allows for occasional disruptions in emotional wellbeing to be embraced as a natural part of the human experience and not pathologized.

You can get more information at https://nativeclinics.com/

Or contact Nicole at [email protected]

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Pain is a not a well understood phenomena. This episode is a hypnosis script that is intended to both help reduce and potentially completely remove chronic pain by creating a new understanding of what pain is and what purpose it has served so that you can let it go.

In this episode Amy askes Jeremy and Trent frequently asked questions about mental health. There are questions about specific mental health concerns, about population health, about medication and others.

This is another Hypnosis script that is created to help reduce and eventually remove any symptoms of anxiety and panic. Anxiety and panic are part of the alarm system of the body and can become sensitized by life experiences. If you can interrupt the loop between the body alarm system and the thought processes associated with panic then you can end the panic attack. It only take 3 minutes for the body to metabolize the adrenaline flowing through your body. In other words it only take three minutes for a panic attack to end.