Welcome back to another episode of Inside your head! I’m your host, Christel Roets, clinical psychologist and founder of Psych Central South Africa. I want to take some time to thank each and every person who has listened to our podcast and showed us so much love an appreciation!

In this episode I have a chat with Thembelihle Mashigo. Thembelihle is such an interesting person, being a counselling psychologist as well as an indigenous healer. This was such an insightful discussion that we had about traditional or indigenous healing from the African spirituality perspective. We discuss Thembelihle’s own personal journey, some of the myths about traditional healers, what it looks like in terms of our mental health and psychological functioning, as well as how she juggles these different roles in her practice as a psychologist.

Thembelihle has a psychological and spiritual practice in Sundowner and she also works at Psych Central in Rosebank. She works with a diverse range of clients on understanding their spirituality and psychological functioning. She also writes on healing in an integrated way and gives presentations on African spirituality and healing. In addition, she has lectured and supervised other psychologists.

If you want to know more about Psych Central or Thembelihle and the services she offers, you can visit our website at psychcentral.co.za. You can also follow us on your preferred social media platform where our handle is @psychcentralsouthafrica for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube.

Welcome back to another episode of Inside your head!

In this episode I have a chat with Kerri Dimant, who is an educational psychologist, about emotional regulation. Emotional regulation is not only important for kids, but also for adults and actually human beings. So take some time to understand how we experience emotions and how we can learn to manage them. Emotional regulation is at the core of our emotional and psychological functioning. If we are not able to regulate our emotions, it becomes something that can present itself in mental health issues, affect our interpersonal relationships, school and work functioning.

Kerri works alongside toddlers, children, adolescents and parents mainly. She is also available for adult clients to help them through their therapeutic journey.

She is available at Psych Central in Rivonia, as well as The Family Tree Therapy Center in Modderfontein and can also be found on the Mental Health App – PANDA.

If you want to know more about Psych Central or Kerri and the services she offers, you can visit our website at psychcentral.co.za.

You can also follow us on your preferred social media platform where our handle is @psychcentralsouthafrica for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube.

Welcome back to another episode of Inside your head! I’m your host, Christel Roets, clinical psychologist and founder of Psych Central South Africa. I want to take some time to thank each and every person who has listened to our podcast and showed us so much love an appreciation! This has become one of my new favorite things to do and with each episode I am learning so much more about myself and how we function as human beings.

This episode was extra special and important for me to have. I had a chat with Thato Mokoena, about Imposter Syndrome or Phenomena as she prefers to call it. Thato is a clinical psychologist in private practice at Psych Central Rivonia and also offers psychological services in the medical setting where she currently works in a subacute ward with patients who experience neurological-related problems such as traumatic brain injuries and strokes.

Imposter phenomena is something that can be so invasive and really have people doubt themselves beyond what we can imagine. Being a high performer and someone who values achievement a lot, I have experienced this myself as well. However what Thato discussed with me goes far beyond this. Historically marginalized groups are so much more prone to experience imposter phenomena, constantly feeling like people are going to realize that you don’t know what you are doing, feeling like you have to work extra hard to prove your value and worth as a human being and professional person.

After this discussion, I realized that this phenomena is a problem that is much bigger that we think and affecting the lives of so many people. Please reach out for help if you find yourself able to relate to this.

If you want to know more about Psych Central or Thato and the services she offers, you can visit our website at psychcentral.co.za. You can also follow us on your preferred social media platform where our handle is @psychcentralsouthafrica for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Youtube.

Welcome back to another episode of Inside your head!

Self-compassion is about more than just practicing self-care or doing nice things for yourself. Self-compassion takes courage and bravery. It links to how we regulate emotions, our boundaries and 4how we even navigate relationships. Today I chat to Maroné Oosthuizen, counselling psychologist at our Rosebank branch, about this topic. Self-compassion is more than just a topic for Maroné, she has invested a lot of her time in understanding and studying it. She is a recovering self-basher and she has done her masters’ thesis on this topic, so this has really become a big part of her way of thinking – on both a personal and professional level.

If you want to know more about Maroné and the services she offers, you can visit psychcentral.co.za. You can also follow us on your preferred social media platform, where our handle is @psychcentralsouthAfrica on TikTok, Instagram,Youtube and Facebook.

Resources that Maroné shared:

https://self-compassion.org/

In this week's episode of Inside Your Head, I chat to Boledi Tladi, a counselling psychologist, about the new word on the block: psychedelics.

We chat about how it is used in psychedelic-assisted therapy, how it impacts us psychologically and various factors people need to consider before using it. Psychedelics is actually not such a new thing and there has been more and more research done to understand how it affects our brain and can potentially benefit our emotional and psychological functioning.

I hope you enjoy this episode!

Some resources suggested by Boledi:

• Documentary - How to change your mind (On Netflix)
• Documentary - The Goop Lab (On Netflix)
• https://psychonauts.co.za/

Other resources available:

• https://www.equanimityretreat.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvzWO0NU50

Welcome back to another episode of inside your head!

Today I will be having a chat again with Tova Steiner, counselling psychologist. The very first episode of Inside your head was with Tova, where we discussed attachment and after some further discussions we decided to do another episode about relationships. Specifically about the mystery of desire and attraction.

You really want to listen to this one. We touch on why we choose the partner we do and why we are attracted to them, why excitement wanes off in long term relationships, myths about relationships and sex, the impact of parenthood on relationships as well as infidelity. It is a lot, you might want to listen twice.

If you want to know more about Tova and the services she offers to both couples and adult individuals, have a look at her profile on psychcentral.co.za.

You can also follow us on your preferred social media platform where our handle is @psychcentral.co.za for YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

The card game that Tova mentions in this episode:

Where Should We Begin - A Game of Stories (https://game.estherperel.com/)

A similar app that you can also use:

Gottman Card Decks: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.carddecks&hl=en_ZA&gl=US

Boundaries! We all know we need them, but damn they can be so hard to navigate!

In this episode of Inside Your Head, I chat to Shelley Bernhard, a counselling psychologist, about boundaries. We chat about boundaries, not only in relationships, but also with yourself. How setting boundaries are not about you saying NO to others, but rather saying YES to yourself. Shelley shares some of her thoughts on why some people struggle to set boundaries and how and where we can start if we need to get some boundaries in place. She also shares why boundaries are a necessary part of being connected to others in our lives.

Some resources suggested by Shelley:

• Set Boundaries, Find Peace - A Guide To Reclaiming Yourself (Book, by Nedra Glover Tawwab).
• Boundaried Bootcamp (page on Instagram)

In today's episode I will be having a solo chat. After having a heart to heart with my husband about hard things and feelings I have faced and are currently facing, I felt an urge to chat about this topic.

We all have to face hard things in life. And that can be scary as f. I often ask myself/ the universe what the point of all of these hard things are, and honestly sometimes I don’t have the answer. If I reflect on the last few years of my life, I kind of feel that this has been my motto and probably a conversation I have with myself on a regular basis – you can do hard things Christel.

In this episode, I reflect on some of the hard things I have had to go through and what lessons I have learned from those hard things.

I hope that you can find some meaning in this chat, to help remind you that you too can do hard things.

If you want to know more about Psych Central or myself and the services we offer, visit our website on www.psychcentral.co.za or follow us on our various social media platforms where our handle is @psychcentralsouthafrica on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Youtube.

In this episode of Inside Your Head, I chat to Kayleigh Luntz, an educational psychologist, about tantrums. Weather we like it or not, tantrums seem to be an inevitable part of a child's development. They are uncomfortable and sometimes quite overwhelming, and therefor it is so important for parents to equip themselves with skills and have strategies to make those moments a bit more bearable and manageable. Kayleigh shares some of her tips with parents around making transitions smoother and navigating those power struggles with more ease. We also discuss how tantrums can become learning opportunities and why how we deal with them can even impact us in adulthood.

Some social media pages suggested by Kayleigh to help parents:

@biglittlefeelings

Podcasts to follow:

Dr. Brenna Hicks - Play Therapy Parenting

Lessons from the Playroom

Parenting Beyond Discipline

In our very first episode of Inside Your Head, I chat to Tova Steiner, a counselling psychologist, about attachment. Attachment can be such an abstract concept to think of, yet so crucial in our daily experiences. Our attachment style refers to how we view ourselves, the world and ourselves in the world. Tova shares her thoughts on how things like trauma can impact our attachment and experience of the world, how our relationships are navigated accordingly and how to work on your attachment style if it is something that might be hindering you.

Some reading suggested by Tova if you are interested to learn more about attachment:

The Power of Attachment - Elizabeth Gilette

Mother Hunger - Kelly McDaniel (as featured on Red Table Talk)

The Emotional Life of a Toddler - Alicia Lieberman

Born for Love - Maia Szalavitz & Bruce Perry

Childhood Disrupted - Donna Jackson Nakazawa

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You can find more information on Psych Central and Tova on www.psychcentral.co.za