Mentally STRONG with Dr. B

Personal vision for your career is not the same thing as a resolution you have in mind when a new year begins. This video is the first in series of personal visions. I had a strong desire to start with these series since I believe that some of you might find my knowledge and experience useful. 

𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐲❗

Do you feel like you have reached a career crisis?
What is your personal vision for your career or life work? 
Do you know how to find a purpose in your life?

The stress of running a business can distract you from achieving what you really want to be. Gaining insight will build confidence, but your personal career vision hinges on understanding your PURPOSE.

To reach your personal career vision and find your purpose; ask yourself:

✔️ Where do you really want to be in your life work or job? 
✔️ What are you called to do? 
✔️ What are your career desires?
✔️ Who do you want to be? 
 
Knowing what you want will help you create a personal career vision!

As some of you know, I created Choice Mapping. Choice Mapping is a simple and practical formula for mental strength utilizing a Cognitive Behavioral Approach (CBA) that empowers you to identify thoughts, actions, choices, and behaviors for better decision making and empowered choices in the future.

Now, let me share with you an essential discovery that inspired me to talk about personal vision for your career. 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲, 𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐥. 

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛. 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤. 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞❗

I have a desire to help people and I am not stressed while doing it. Furthermore, I can do it a lot! My life is about helping people and this YouTube channel is about teaching you what I have learned for 10+ years of doing the choice mapping on myself. I want to be the person who shares a story to help people. 

I do not know what your purpose is. The purpose for doing this YouTube channel is to help you and the world to know that we can be mentally strong. Suicide is not an option! I have a video where I already talked about it. Check out the link below:

Share your journey! I would like to hear your experience and perhaps other people will find it useful! You are not alone, stay mentally strong!

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Dr. Cristi Bundukamara, Ed.D, PMHNP-BC --- A Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Doctor of Healthcare Education has experienced unimaginable trials that have caused many feelings such as depression, anxiety, anger, & overwhelming stress. 

However, she has developed a new pathway to becoming Mentally Strong & Choosing to be Happy.  With purpose, Dr. B has developed the phases that were refined within the Choice Mapping System that she created and wants to share with you.
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Being mentally strong is a lifetime journey, choice mapping can help you get there!

Choice mapping link: 

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Dr. B at Mentally STRONG in Colorado Springs interviews a special guest. 

She bravely shares her story in the hope that it will help someone else.  She had tried 16 different medications for depression and dozens of therapies with no relief, she speaks on her struggle with addiction and how she was able to recover. She knew that if she just kept looking, she would find something that would work. Spravato ended up being the treatment that worked for her depression.

The message: Never Give Up! There will be something, it will get better. 

Remember, you ARE Mentally STRONG

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #selfcare #selflove #motivation #depression #health #mentalhealthmatters #life #wellness #inspiration #healing #mentallystrong 

How to defeat emotional eating is the final video on the series on eating disorders, eating disordered behaviors, and diets.

The strongest food cravings hit when you're at your weakest point emotionally. Some people cope with difficult situations by reaching for comfort food.

How do people who are emotionally eating usually feel before they seek for food?

😩 Depressed
😰 Anxious

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧❗

Carbohydrates, especially sugars and pleasurable foods, increase neurotransmission in the brain which helps anxiety and depression.

The solution depends on the occasion. This video reveals the best way to fight emotional eating at home alone, and also the best way to deal with emotional eating when you are out at an event.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞:

If you are home alone, you need to make a plan to stop emotional eating. Choice mapping, a proven strategy I developed is all about making choices and overcoming mental and eating disorders. You need to think about how you are going to stop emotional eating.

One of the tips I mentioned in the video is to take the pain that you are trying to suppress and instead, feel it!  Something is boiling in you and you dig deep down and figure out the triggers for emotional eating and binge eating.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭:

If you are trying to manage your anxiety at a social event where there are too many emotional triggers, you need to slow down. In this video, 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞❗

What is Anorexia Nervosa? Anorexia nervosa is a mental health concern and an eating disorder in which the person loses more weight than is healthy for their height and age. Anorexics are typically perfectionists.

Anorexia symptoms:

✔️ Low weight
✔️ Extreme restrictive eating
✔️ The anxiety of gaining weight
✔️ Keen desire to be thin
✔️ Fear of eating

Anorexia types: The first type is the restrictive type. The second is the binge-purge type. Binge-purge type shouldn't be confused with bulimia nervosa because the binge in anorexia might be 200kcal while a binge in bulimia can be 2000kcal. 

If you want to hear about anorexia nervosa treatment and the hidden health concerns, watch the video! 

Do you struggle with Anorexia? Let me know in the comments what do you do to fight against this eating disorder! I would like to hear your experience and other people will find it useful! You are not alone, stay mentally strong!

Bulimia eating disorder involves binging and purging. Binge eating means eating an excessive amount of food within a two-hour period. Purging is a compensation for that binge. If you are struggling with bulimia or you know someone who is, you’ll find this video very helpful! 

Bulimia nervosa is one of the most common eating disorders specifically for young women. When it gets a hold of you, oftentimes if goes into your whole adult life even if you are not actively binging and purging. 

You get a feeling you want to binge, you lose control, say "oh forget it" and you proceed to compensate. Every time you do that, it affects your health in bad ways! 

How many times have you done this?

To beat bulimia, you need to practice control. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬. 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟏𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡.

You need to dig deep and ask yourself why did you binge in the first place. What made you do that? What was that feeling? Put that feeling in the middle of the map and find out why that triggered you so much.

The choice opportunity that helped me is about how to practice control. Real control is about stopping your binge in the middle of it. Gain control without going to the opposite disordered type thinking such as orthorexia and anorexia. 

Orthorexia - How to Recover from this eating disorder?

Orthorexia is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. 

Are you spending too much time planning meals ❓

Do you pay attention to the number of calories for every meal during the day ❓

Are you following an increasingly restrictive diet ❓

Are you losing weight ❓

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 video to help you avoid 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞. 

Orthorexia Nervosa is not the most famous eating disorder but you should know that it can dramatically affect your health. 

Unlike other eating disorders, orthorexia mostly revolves around food quality, not quantity. Unlike with anorexia or bulimia, people with orthorexia are rarely focused on losing weight.

It's perfectly fine to take care of yourself and plan your meals, but sometimes, if you exaggerate, it can have negative consequences for your health. Your effort for living a healthy life and paying attention to what you eat will be wasted. In that case, clean eating becomes unhealthy and creates damage to your body. After some time, it will affect your mental health and strength. There is a way to overcome and beat this eating disorder.

Do you suffer from Orthorexia or do you know anyone who is? If so, comment below and share your thoughts about it. I would like to hear how people are dealing with it.

If you find the video useful, like it and hit the bell button to receive notifications the next time I publish something worth your time. Stay mentally strong!

The non-diet diet is the best non-diet approach to eating healthy. 

Did you know that even if you do not meet the criteria for an actual eating disorder, you might still have disordered thinking or behavior? If you are struggling to lose weight, you might not even be aware of it!

Over the past 20 years, I’ve been struggling to lose weight until I was trying to find a non-diet weight loss. Whenever I thought something might work, it didn’t! That’s when I decided to try something new. I developed a non-diet d.i.e.t.

What does the acronym 𝐃.𝐈.𝐄.𝐓. stand for?

𝐃 – 𝐃𝐢𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 (We can’t always trust our bodies, so I revealed how this diet starts. Seek answers to my questions because that will help you start this non-diet approach on the right foot. Remember, preparing yourself for this is essential)

𝐈 – 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 (a non-diet approach that helps you have a healthy relationship-­mentally and physically-with food. You need to get insightful and intuitive about your eating)

𝐄 – 𝐄𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 (Yes, you can stay healthy and enjoy your food! This is, for most of us, valuable information because most diets rely on strict principles and there is no guarantee you won’t gain your weight back)

𝐓 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 (I’ve been dieting for over 20 years! I know I am not able to reverse that in 3 months. Use the therapeutic time to go through this process and allow yourself to dig deep, be insightful and intuitive, and enjoy your food.)

𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐍-𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐓. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧!  𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭.

Choice  Mapping is a simple and practical formula for mental strength.

DO I HAVE AN EATING DISORDER?

Besides eating disorders you may also have disordered thinking related to food. Learn about your relationship with food with our series. 

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Dr. Cristi Bundukamara, Ed.D, PMHNP-BC --- A Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Doctor of Healthcare Education has experienced unimaginable trials that have caused many feelings such as depression, anxiety, anger, & overwhelming stress. 

However, she has developed a new pathway to Becoming Mentally Strong & Choosing to be Happy.  With purpose, Dr. B has developed the phases that were refined within the Choice Mapping System that she created and wants to share with you.

In this podcast you will get proven tips on how to deal with toxic family members during the holidays.

Here’s a sneak peek at the questions I answered in this video:

✔ How to prepare yourself for dealing with toxic family members

✔ How to overcome anxiety during family events

✔ How to manage your expectations

✔ How to control yourself and your reaction in front of toxic family members

𝐈𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐢𝐭.

Dealing with toxic people is never easy. If you are spending holidays with your family and you already know things might go wrong, you need to be prepared. I understand these events can be challenging, emotionally exhausting and overwhelming but remember, there are some things you CAN control.

Your reactions and behavior can be key to making this event more pleasurable and enjoyable or at least bearable. First, you need to understand what’s behind that toxic relationship. Is the reason for that the distance you put between yourself and them or is it something else?

Protect yourself and your feelings by watching carefully my skillful suggestions.  Utilize proven tips and deal with any family member regardless of his toxic behavior easily.


If you find the video useful, like it and hit the bell button to receive notifications the next time I publish helpful tips.

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Dr. Cristi Bundukamara, Ed.D, PMHNP-BC --- A Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Doctor of Healthcare Education has experienced unimaginable trials that have caused many feelings such as depression, anxiety, anger, & overwhelming stress.

However, she has developed a new pathway to Becoming Mentally Strong & Choosing to be Happy.  With purpose, Dr. B has developed the phases that were refined within the Choice Mapping System that she created and wants to share with you.
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To get more helpful tips, visit us @ http://mentallystrong.com

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How to love yourself | Mentally Strong

Everyone says we need to love ourselves. This sometimes is easier said than done! Watch to learn how to love yourself, even if you aren't feeling it. 

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Dr. Cristi Bundukamara, Ed.D, PMHNP-BC --- A Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and a Doctor of Healthcare Education has experienced unimaginable trials that have caused many feelings such as depression, anxiety, anger, & overwhelming stress. 

However, she has developed a new pathway to Becoming Mentally Strong & Choosing to be Happy.  With purpose, Dr. B has developed the phases that were refined within the Choice Mapping System that she created and wants to share with you.