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December 27, 202187. Freeing Ourselves Through Shadow Work with Abigail Iquo Isuo
For this week’s episode, we sat with the brilliant, Abigail Iquo Isuo. Abigail is an Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist with 20+ years of experience who guides her clients through profound shadow work to uncover the gifts that lie in the painful depths of the psyche. In this conversation with Abigail we got to explore:
A deeper understanding of the different types of anger and the wisdom that this emotion has to offer us

What is shadow work and why reintegrating the dark, taboo parts of ourselves is a necessary step on the journey to wholeness and mental health

How to reclaim the parts of ourselves that have been put in the shadow

How to navigate our own and others’ difficult emotions and differences of opinions in ways that can help create a more harmonious world
Abigail's website: https://www.potentialcharisma.com/
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Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
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1 hr 9 min
December 20, 202186. Perfectionism, Social Anxiety & Being of Service (Solo)
In this conversation, we sat down for another Solo session to unpack the ways in which perfectionism and social anxiety feed into each other and how to counteract this through the power of intention. In this episode we deep dove into:
Our own experiences of challenging perfectionism and how showing up imperfectly has become a powerful exposure therapy practice.

What liberation perfectionist conditioning means to us and identifying safe spaces for beginning this journey.

How to utilize the power of intention to offset social anxiety and form authentic connections with others.
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Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
1 hr 14 min
December 13, 202185. Coming Out of the Spiritual Closet (Solo)
In this conversation we sat down for another Solo session to explore the ways in which western medicine and academia have often left spirituality out of the conversation on healing. We get honest about why this matter, how it’s affected past conversations on the podcast and deep dive into:
What it means to give ourselves FULL permission to allow more spirituality and faith to join us on this human healing journey

The expansive impact of reclaiming our voice, prayer and intention to activate healing energy in our lives.

Seeing life’s challenges as Initiations to greater levels of personal power rather than simply obstacles that are here to make our lives harder.
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Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
1 hr 18 min
December 06, 2021 84. Deconstructing Triggers and Redefining Our Own Realities (Solo)
For today’s solo podcast session, we sat down to unpack triggers and the value of giving ourselves permission to be free thinkers. In this conversation we deep dove into: Why opening up to the gray areas and nuance of life is so valuable to our mental health and human journeys. Cultivating deeper self-intimacy through a nuanced exploration of our triggers and our layers of conditioning. Recognizing the value of social norms and traditions as well as the value of questioning them. How the willingness to question what we think we know increases our psychological flexibility and mental health over time.
Pretty Mental Links:
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Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
Sponsor Links:
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IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)
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1 hr 6 min
November 29, 202183. Understanding & Working with Anger During Stressful Times (Solo)
In this Solo podcast we sat down to explore the energy of anger and our recent encounters with it. Anger plays a really important role in this human experience and there are both helpful and not so helpful ways that we can engage with it. In this conversation we unpack:
The recent experiences we’ve had encountering this energy.

Understanding the different survival strategies that get activated in the face of anger.

How and why our anger can help us identify our boundaries.

Exploring the fine line between self advocacy and indulging our anger.

What it means is to remain emotionally responsible with our anger even when we don’t have to be and why this matters.

Pretty Mental Links:
Website: PrettyMental.Com
Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
Sponsor Links:
Awaken Village Press
Website Awaken Village Press
IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)
Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team
1 hr 6 min
November 15, 202182. A New Paradigm for Mental Health (Solo)
For today’s podcast we got together for the first Sister Solo since Valentina’s return from the jungle. In this conversation we are unpacking and challenging our civilization’s obsession with linear, rigid, binary, medicalized world-views of the human psyche. We deep dove into:
Embracing the reality that we are all walking paradoxes, and how okay that is.

Introducing the PM community to the paradigm shifting therapeutic technique of Internal Family Systems (IFS).

Unpacking and challenging the level of influence that diagnostic models have on our current view of the human psyche.

Valentina’s third and final Kambo ceremony.

How surrendering our resistance to discomfort decreases our experience of suffering and opens us up to palpable joy.

Pretty Mental Links:
Website: PrettyMental.Com
Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
Sponsor Links:
Awaken Village Press
Website Awaken Village Press
IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)
Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team
1 hr 9 min
November 08, 202181. Healing Through Kambo & Dissecting OCD (Solo)
For this week's episode, we sat down for another sisters heart to heart solo. For this conversation, we deep dove into the insights that we have been having while living through two very different life experiences. In this session, we explored:
Valentina's recent Kambo ceremonies in the jungles of Costa Rica.

Paula’s personal journey to becoming an OCD therapist.

A deeper dive into understanding OCD and anxiety and the brain patterns that are involved.

What exposure and response prevention therapy is and our lived experiences with this behavioral therapy tool.

How incorporating parts work (IFS) into our mental health practices can help create exponential results.
Pretty Mental Links:
Website: PrettyMental.Com
Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
Sponsor Links:
Awaken Village Press
Website Awaken Village Press
IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)
Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team
1 hr 13 min
October 25, 202180. Lessons from the Jungle (Solo)
For today’s podcast, we explored the beginning lessons of Valentina's current journey in the Costa Rican Jungle and the ways in which a different landscape can help facilitate a shift in consciousness. In this conversation we got to deep dive into:
Lessons from co-habiting with an off-grid conscious community in the jungle.

What it means to step out of our comfort zone and sit through the tension of expansion.

How her current jungle experience is a great real-life example of exposure and response prevention therapy in real time.

The concept of location cure and discerning between running away from pain versus moving towards growth.

A deeper exploration of turning to emotional regulation tools to carry us through exposure practice.
Pretty Mental Links:
Website: PrettyMental.Com
Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
Sponsor Links:
Awaken Village Press
Website Awaken Village Press
IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)
Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team
1 hr 4 min
October 11, 202179. Conscious Dating (Solo)
For today’s podcast, we came together for a solo session to deep dive into mental health-informed dating practices. We know that the quality of the relationships and bonds we are able to cultivate makes a huge difference in the quality of our mental health. So in this conversation, we pull from our experiences and the lessons we have picked up along the way to deep dive into:
Recognizing healthy and unhealthy patterns in the beginning stages of the dating process.

What love bombing is and why it’s important to be able to recognize it.

Understanding intermittent reinforcement and why it’s such an addictive dynamic.

Tools and strategies for effective limit-setting and self-advocacy in relationships.

Trauma bonding 101 and how doing our healing work can help us avoid this.
Pretty Mental Links:
Website: PrettyMental.Com
Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
Sponsor Links:
Awaken Village Press
Website Awaken Village Press
IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)
Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team
1 hr 7 min
October 04, 202178. Reclaiming Our Sovereignty & Nervous System Regulation (Solo)
For this week’s podcast episode we jumped on for yet another sister solo catch up sesh. In this candid, raw conversation we deep dove into:
What it means to take back sovereignty over our health and well-being.

Waking up to the reality that our systems are focused on control and not evolution.

Recognizing the ways in which our unacknowledged traumas keep us in a state of reactivity towards those with different beliefs.

How to cultivate peace and nonviolent communication during these turbulent times.

Pretty Mental Links:
Website: PrettyMental.Com
Breathwork with Valentina
Therapy with Paula
IG: @PrettyMentalOfficial
Contact: [email protected]
Sponsor Links:
Awaken Village Press
Website Awaken Village Press
IG: Conscious Conversion (recently known as Resonate with Sara)
Book a Call with the Conscious Conversion team
1 hr 1 min

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Pretty Mental is about accepting our full selves and inspiring others to do the same by being daringly unfiltered. This means completely normalizing all things mental health and the wild journey that has brought us here. We are challenging the stigmatization of normal human suffering. We are done pretending and subscribing to the notion that it’s taboo to have challenging mental health experiences.

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