Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress Relief for Real Life

By Meditation Teacher & Mental Health Counselor, Cheri Augustine Flake, LCSW: Meditation, Stress Relief, Healthy Habits, Spirituality, Mental Health, Self-Care, Self-Help, Happiness, MindfulnessAlternative Health Health & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress Relief for Real Life episodes

May 11, 2022 Meditation & Communication: Conflict Resolution & Having Hard Conversations
Today's guest is psychotherapist, Keith Wilson author of Constructive Conflict: Building Something Good Out of All Those Arguments and The Road to Reconciliation: A Comprehensive Guide to Peace When Relationships Go Bad. As a therapist, I can tell you this guy knows what's up, he is funny, real, super smart and kind....just the psychotherapist you need to make your relationships better.

Meditators look inward, get still and have to listen and face ourselves. What you get from the experience betters yourself. Now, let's work on our relationships too.

This is episode 6 of my 12 week series: Let's Meditate Anyway! Motivational Insights By A Seasoned Therapist Who Meditates
42 min
May 03, 2022 Meditate & Decide: Who Are You Gonna Be?
There is no doubt about it, meditation changes you. Affirmations are a great way to make changes in your life, but have you ever considered when is the best time for affirmations?
Because you are meditating on the reg, your brain is undergoing all of these lovely changes and this is having a profound effect on YOU. So, while you're noticing that you have the upper hand on what you think, how you react and how you behave in general, who are you gonna be??

This is episode 5 of season 3: Let's Meditate Anyway! Motivational Insights by A Seasoned Therapist Who Meditates
23 min
April 26, 2022 Meditation & Your Power: I WILLpower & I WON'Tpower
Meditation strengthens your willpower by actually changing your brain. Today, I am going to give you some homework to strengthen your powers even more! Then, we will meditate using a mantra that my daughter (at three years old!) will chant for you so we can all call on Lord Ganesha to remove our obstacles along the way.

This is episode 4 of my Season 3: Let's Meditate Anyway! Motivational Insights by A Seasoned Therapist Who Meditates
24 min
April 19, 2022 Meditation And Concentration: The Cure for Attention Problems
Sadly, many people who need meditation in their lives in order to help with inattention and concentration problems, will never find their way to the practice because they find meditation, the actual cure for these problems, so very difficult. It seems like a Catch - 22, but I can show you why it's not.

Help! I need to be able to concentrate, clear my head, stay focused (insert other attention complaints here!) in order to meditate! Not true. In fact, meditation is honing the skill of concentration and this means even the most scatterbrained of all of us can learn how to concentrate and focus better and the best news is, the more you practice, the better you get! Your brain actually changes when you meditate. It strengthens the part of your brain that is responsible for attention and other analytical parts of your brain. So, here are some baby steps if you're new to the practice and some refreshers if you've been around for a while. It's all so good for your brain!
32 min
April 13, 2022 I'm POSITIVE This Meditation Will Fill You to the Top With Gratitude
COVID BLOWS! But, let's meditate anyway!

This is me putting my money where my mouth is… today, in the interest of full disclosure, I feel horrible. Yesterday I tested positive for Covid. Today, I am grateful that although I took all morning to get it together, I am well enough to show up for you! Maybe not perfectly, maybe for not as long as usual and certainly, this isn't me at my best, but it's me, right now and with super gratitude for my every breath.
16 min
April 05, 2022 Meditation for Peace
I am traveling this week so we will not have a lesson together but we will certainly, meditate anyway!
Today we meditate for peace. Peace for ourselves, our families, our communities, our nation, and certainly, we meditate for global peace.

Nothing feels better the meditating on and for peace.

It's Season 3! Meditate Anyway!: Motivational Insights and Meditations with A Season Therapist Who Meditates
17 min
March 29, 2022 Let's Meditate Anyway! The BEST Reason to Meditate Every Damn Day!
There are LOADS of reasons not to meditate. Just like with any new, healthy habit, you can come up with thousands of reasons each day to avoid it, blow it off or just forget about it. You might "Need a break" or" deserve some time off," you can color it anyway you want because at the end of the day there are thousands of reasons to NOT do something.

But, have you considered this? What is your reason TO go ahead and just get the job done? The psychic energy you are spending on finding excuses would be way better utilized in DOING the thing rather than finding a way to feel good about not doing it!

In your life, when you felt your very best was it when you found a valid reason to blow something off or when times were tough and you DID IT ANYWAY???

This is the kickoff to Season 3: Let's Meditate Anyway!: Motivational Insights by A Seasoned Therapist Who Meditates
20 min
March 22, 2022 davidji: Meditation Wisdom & Simple Tools To Get & Keep You Meditating!
davidji, named last week in USA Today as 1 of the top 5 Meditation teachers to follow in 2022 is our guest today!
davidji is a world renowned teacher, recording artist, meditation master and award winning author. Today, he will share his wisdom both professional and personal on how and why to meditate and also how to make meditation a consistent daily habit.
davidji is famous for his simple and practical tools to start and keep up a meditation practice. 16 seconds to bliss and RPM are only a couple of the techniques we cover.
Meditate with The Stress Therapist and davidji today!
It's the big finale of my 12 week series~ Week 12! Making Meditation Habitual: How to Build A Daily Practice That Lasts A Lifetime!
45 min
March 15, 2022 A Daily Meditation Practice: Overcoming Excuses & Procrastination
The route to a successful, daily meditation practice is all in your head! This is my shortest podcast yet because the biggest excuse to not meditate is TIME…Your brain knows that you value it more than any other thing and so your ego uses it to talk you out of so many things…Valid excuses to not meditate: There are none. Both procrastination and excuse making are not about your thoughts so much as the emotions that come along with them. It's time to tweak the way you think AND feel so you can meditate anyway, baby!
Excuses are the arguments your ego gives YOU, the listener, in order to keep you stuck and not moving forward. When you explain an excuse out loud, you are repeating whatever argument your ego has put forth to convince you to NOT change and keep the status quo.
Let’s show up for the quickest meditation yet and prove that meditating at all is always better than putting it off or blowing it off!
This is week 11 of my 12 Week Series~ Making Meditation Habitual: How to Build A Daily Practice That Lasts A Lifetime!
21 min
March 08, 2022 Meditation...What the Hell? The Psychology Behind Keeping it Up Or Giving It Up
The "What the Hell Effect" is a very real psychological phenomena that can help you with meditation or any new healthy habit that you are trying to make a part of your every day living. Understanding where stops and starts, successes and failures, and everything in between come from can help you stay on track!

This is week 10 of my 12 Week Series~Making Meditation Habitual: How to Build a Daily Meditation Practice That Lasts a Lifetime!
30 min

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