Stuff You Should Know About Therapy

Stuff You Should Know About Therapy

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Stuff You Should Know About Therapy episodes

  • Plan Self Care
    I should rest when I feel like resting! Doing things out of obligation is only going to breed resentment and low self-esteem. When we deny the signals in our bodies to some outside force, our subconscious mind internalizes it. It tells us that other people’s wants and goals are more important than me and what I want.
    11 min
  • Being Your Own Top Priority
    We can't draw from an empty well. A lot of people see their wells as empty and, in a panic, try to drink from everyone else’s well. It can be an act of compassion to give these people water, it is an even greater act of compassion to show these people that their own well can always be refilled.
    11 min
  • Prioritizing Self Care
    If we always prioritize what is urgent over what is important, then we will create a life that is a never ending rat race. If we always accept being rushed, then people will feel emboldened to rush us even more and rush us next time. Set a boundary! Kids love boundaries, and so do adults. When people know where our boundaries are, they respect us even more, and we will feel our lives filling up with what is important, and not what is urgent.
    15 min
  • Magnifying Self Care
    Self-care, or lack thereof, is either a virtuous cycle, or a vicious one. It’s hard to state how important self-care is, and how valuable compounding effort is and how devastating downward spirals can be.
    13 min
  • Self Care
    The unglamorous truth about self-care is that it is a whole lot like brushing your teeth. While often not the most exciting thing, it can become something done automatically if we set ourselves up properly. Unlike brushing our teeth, self-care is going to look a little different for everyone.
    13 min
  • Healing Grief
    I want to talk about expectations of healing and how they can make a whole new set of problems. If you scar a tree, the scar never goes away or even gets smaller, the tree just gets bigger. That’s what we have to do--grow, and get bigger than our scars.
    14 min
  • Making Meaning Out Of Grief
    I want to talk about making meaning out of grief. As we begin to talk about normal life, or getting used to what might be a new normal, we naturally want to begin to place these events into a place in our minds. Where we place it is the meaning we give it. While we can’t control what happens to us, we can--at least partially--control how we take meaning from the events of our lives.
    15 min
  • The Positive Side Of Grief
    Joy will come back to all of us in ways that we can’t currently imagine. It might be hard to believe, but one day we will look back on this time and be grateful for it, because we will know that it will have shaped how we will have turned out. When we experience loss, we are making room for the next thing to enter our world. The only way that it won’t come into our life, is if we won’t let go of what used to be.
    14 min
  • Sharing Grief With Others
    Sharing what hurts us with people we trust is often the very best way to grow. There is strength in vulnerability, as difficult as that is to see at times. It actually takes more strength to sit quietly with someone without trying to fix them. The way we share our grief, and deal with it when it is shared with us, are some of the most important moments in our lives.
    14 min

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Have you ever wondered what it's like going to therapy? Have you thought about going but are afraid of the stigma around therapy? Do you know someone who goes to therapy, but unsure if you should go? This podcast takes you on a journey of what therapy is like, what is typically talked about, and why going to therapy is amazing! Join Matthew, a Marriage and Family Therapist, as he discusses the ins and outs of the therapeutic process, while dispelling some of the myths and rumors of therapy.