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- Emotional Regulation
Today we create change! Join your session this week to learn about emotional regulation and how to think differently about your feelings. Feelings are signals that are informing us of very important things, and we must learn to listen. Move forward into your fear of feelings and understand why you might be avoidant or afraid of certain emotions. Explore skills that address emotional regulation, which can improve the way that you navigate your life. Learn about how mental health disorders like anxiety and depression are linked to emotional dysregulation. Dr. Brown will share stories about what happens when you cut off your feelings, and what happens when you allow your feelings to drown out your reality.
Dr. Brown will share the connection between trauma and the subsequent core fears that prevent us from growing. You will learn how to observe your feelings like weather and develop different expectations for the effect of your temporary feelings on the long-term you. Break patterns of automatic thoughts and your reactive patterns. It’s time to stop avoiding and start healing, and Dr. Brown is here to help.
Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ.
This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.
*Episode 3 Trigger Warnings: Depression, Anxiety, Bullying
55 min - Connecting to the Life You Want: Change, Happiness, Priorities
In this second episode, examine the power of mental health in how we live (and die) in America. Hear about the role of hope and worthiness in our change process. You will leave with a plan to use the “Pie Chart” activity to identify how to get your values showing up front and center in your priorities and in how you spend your time.
Explore the role of hypervigilance in overworked-overstressed-overwhelmed lives and the emotionally reactive behavior it causes which destroys our relationships and our peace. You will identify that when you view how you are spending your time in a real, honest way, you can feel better and have more of what you need to actually recharge and reset from the very real demands of life, work and family.
Examine what it actually means when we say we are “overwhelmed” or tired”. Get honest about what is external or internal: is it really out of your control or a pattern you stay stuck in? Powerlessness is sometimes outside of us, but often created inside of us. Identify your escapes versus healthy coping, and feeling trapped by the lack of two of the most important commodities: time and money. If we don’t make changes, we lose the third: health. Dr. Deborah will open your eyes and your mind to the possibilities within you.
Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ.
This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.
*Episode 2 Trigger Warnings: Addiction, Drug Use, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety
55 min - Your First Session
Today is your first session! This is the beginning of growing the seed that is YOU into the lovely tree you wish to be. In this session, we explore why people go to psychotherapy, how many of us need it, and what it is to walk in the dangerous neighborhood of the mind when we are stressed, depressed, anxious and traumatized. We discuss the need for wise elders, when instead we are exposed to a surplus of “experts” and influencers who tend to point us in a million different (not always psychologically sound) directions.
Join your session to explore your internally held ideals and how to identify them as the possible minefields to your mental health they may be. Discover the space that exists between our current selves and our ideal self and (spoiler alert!) that we live in that space for our whole lives. We address the “life in chapters” theory and the shame that holds us back from recognizing all our chapters as important parts of the mosaic that is us as humans.
You will be encouraged to embrace the weird, wild, and wonderful you, and identify the influences that may prevent that from happening. Go face forward into the fear that prevents growth and incorporate the value of curiosity in self-development. You will learn about the self-talk synthesis that happened to you, and how your inner voice may not be entirely yours. Break your down-going patterns and start some new ones that take you up where you belong in your precious one life. It’s time, and Dr. Brown is here to help.
Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ.
This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.
*Episode 1 Trigger Warnings: Eating Disorders, Sexual Assault, Suicide
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About My Session with Dr. Deborah Brown
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Dr. Deborah Brown is here to remind you that it’s time for you to accept or change elements of your life that cause you stress; and she can show you how. In each 53 minute “session” you will…
journey into self-examination, exploring what lights you up and what weighs you down, and how you arrived at this place where things may feel harder than they should. You will encounter surprising statistics, stories from her patients’ experiences, anecdotes from Dr. Brown’s life, even poems and quotes and a great book recommendation. Dr. Brown wades through the muck of the “self-help” world to emerge with real answers!
She provides a fresh and educated voice using her experiences with hundreds of patients. An expert in human behavior with her own wild ride of life experiences, she is an advocate for ending mental health stigma, raising self-esteem, and finding our voice. Change is hard, but she will show you how it is possible through diligent examination and attention to our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. As a therapist, she has identified a common void created by modern society that leaves people disconnected from others and from themselves. If you are a human and growing, this podcast is for you.
Dr. Deborah Brown is a psychotherapist, behavioral health entrepreneur, health researcher, and mental health advocate. As the founder of Brownstone Center, a collective of innovative mental health professionals, she leads a team in changing the world, one brain at a time! Dr. Brown is a suicide survivor, and in recovery from mental illness. She is a neuro-spicy, sex-affirmative, body-positive cheerleader who asks you to question what you see in media, look at yourself with love, and reminds you that “fitting in” is an outdated concept. If Dolly Parton and Sigmund Freud had a baby, that’s Deborah. Wildly creative and consistently supportive, she takes pride in helping others to learn to live free of the self-imposed limits that bind us to chronic discontent; and closely examines how we make decisions about our time, our health and our relationships.
Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ. Her examination of the roots of our behaviors and fears has helped many come back from the darkest times in their lives. She has worked with the institutionalized, the suicidal, the stressed and overwhelmed. Her patients include people from all walks of life including celebrities and other therapists. She specializes in high conflict couples and explores the world outside the heteronormative with gusto and expertise.
She is your therapist’s favorite therapist. So, you may not be able to get on her exclusive patient list, but you can join her weekly for “your session” and maybe grow a little each time. Enjoy!
This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.