Mental Health Discovery and Recovery with Mary Joye LMHC

We hear so much about gratitude and some of us can be skeptical about how powerful it can be. With a simple exercise included in this podcast about being thankful, you will be able to feel in your physical senses. Gratitude makes you look for good things and changes the way you think, act and feel. This also explores how gratitude is a tool of postraumatic growth, too.

Broken Hearts do not heal quickly but they can heal better and faster with a technique called, Embrace, Replace and Erase. In this episode you will discover why a broken heart feels so badly and what you can do to expedite the alleviation of your pain.

This episode reframes shame in a positive way to act as a catalyst and an agent for change. You do not have to live in the shadow of shame anymore. You are human and can discover the subtle but powerful difference between humility and humiliation. Humility will help you embrace your humanity and learn from your mistakes. It will reduce the diminishing and dehumanizing dark force of humiliation. You can discover what it will take to lift yourself up from the effects of toxic shame and drive you toward being the person of a higher, healthier conscience.

You can control a narcissist by counterintuitively controlling your responses and reactions around them. This is not about repression of your emotions but giving you 3 simple ways to find expression of your truth and emotions to a narcissist without losing your temper or your mind. You can do this calmly, confidently, efficiently and powerfully.

Narcissists set you up to get you upset and one of the ways they do this is to talk over you. You can retain your power and peace by this short and simple tool of using silence. It's not about repression but an expression of your feelings without saying a word. It will help you change your intention and the narcissist's ability to have this be an effective tool to set you up to get you upset.

There has long been a nature vs. nurture debate with behavioral health. It's a combination of both and your DNA may have a lot to say about your mental health but your family history is not your destiny. You can change your life by changing your thoughts which will activate a better life at a cellular level.

There is research to back up how beneficial it is to have a change of scenery and learn to vacate your problems and recreate your life. This can be around the world or close to home. This episode explains how travel can change your mental and physical wellbeing and the simple neuroscience behind it. Enjoy the ride and journey is as much fun as the destination.

Has anyone ever asked you why you just can't leave a bad relationship? Why is it so difficult to break up with someone who has you in a trauma bond, built with intermittent reinforcement of phases and phrases of love bombing and discarding you. This is the foundation and dynamic of narcissist abuse. It hurts and getting free is like breaking an addiction. A trauma bond creates the same physiological symptoms as an addiction but you can get free and relieve the cognitive dissonance and dissociation from your true self. This will guide you and assist you to reconnecting with yourself while detaching from the bonder with good boundaries. When you become conscious of your physiological hook you can break the cycle and this will teach you how!

This is the first episode about mental health discovery and recovery. You will learn that this show is about venting your problems, but more importantly reinventing your life. You will get a holistic view of mental health and practical tools and guidance to live a happier and healthier life!