Live Radiantly

This week we're exploring the parallels between regeneration in healing and the pay it forward movement. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses both concepts and how together they create a large menu of options to foster internal and external goodwill for your committed action and intentional living goals.The art therapy guided meditation will help you envision how this feels internally and externally, emphasizing the energy and flow that exist between the two.

Feeling inner cohesion is an important part of health and wellness, but getting there is about working with and through your fragmented parts. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses the spectrum between these two, what each feels like, and why this happens in the first place. After all, it’s helpful to have a sense of where you are trying to go when it comes to the often unpredictable journey called life. The art therapy guided meditation will help you imagine constructing a cohesive self with compassion and acceptance.

Paradoxes and platitudes can reveal a lot about your healing and growth work. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses the differences between paradoxes and platitudes. She shares the story of how the phrase "fake it till you make it" landed with her and how the research she did for the show opened her mind to other possibilities. The art therapy guided meditation will help you notice how words make you feel and how that can serve your health and wellness.

Emotional safety and being vulnerable are two important aspects of our health and wellness. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC describes 3 important aspects of emotional safety and the research about how vulnerability influences your resilience. The art therapy guided meditation uses a seasonal metaphor to encourage you to become aware of what ingredients you need for safety and vulnerability to flourish in your life.

How you recharge has a lot to do with your personality. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC describes the spectrum of personality traits from extroversion to introversion and how this information can serve you and your relationships. The art therapy guided meditation will help you recharge your batteries, no matter where you find yourself on this spectrum, and invites you to consider what you might learn from someone who’s different from you.

We all have something that makes our skin crawl, our heart race, and the urge to avoid kick in. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses why it's so powerful to figure out how you can work with what scares you, so that you can reap the reward of facing your fears and benefit from not having them limit you. The art therapy guided meditation will support your ability to tap into your unique wisdom to cultivate acceptance, curiosity, and compassion to strengthen your capacity to respond rather than react to what frightens you.

This episode does a deep dive into the nuances of emotions, because for many of us it takes time to embrace the full spectrum of our feelings. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC discusses why it can be so challenging to recognize and name your feelings, while introducing the work of Sharon Dregne Gerstenzang, who's work breathed new perspective into the world of our emotions. The art therapy guided meditation will take you to a lab, where you can observe how the different feelings families transform one another.

One of the most unnerving aspects of healing, growth, and transformation is when you feel lost and unsure. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC explores how to manage what most of us resist, feeling lost, unsure, and confused, because it is a necessary part of evolving as a person. The art therapy guided meditation is designed to help you find comfort in the discomfort, by experiencing the guidance she offered during the show as a transformational practice.

Everyone has an inner saboteur, those parts of ourselves that tend to wreak havoc when we feel afraid, overwhelmed, and stressed out. In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC dives deeper into why we have them and how Internal Family Systems work can support your healing and growth work. Then she invites you to make friends with your inner saboteur with a playful guided meditation, using the transformative power of an art therapy.

In this episode, Stephanie McLeod-Estevez, LCPC invites you to consider the power of expansion and contraction, and how both are important to your health and wellbeing. Then she guides you through an art therapy experience that will help you anchor in and find a flow between them.