Joanna from Mindful Counseling returns to invite listeners to prioritize self-care as the new year begins, sharing personal reflection on making room for stability, security, and mindful needs.

She reframes New Year’s resolutions as personal choices you can start anytime, encourages balanced goals (not extremes), and reminds listeners that the gym isn’t the only way to move—try yoga, outdoor activities, or mental challenges that fit you.

Choose one small, sustainable thing for yourself—30 minutes or a few sessions a week—and remember self-care supports all your other responsibilities.

How do we move past stagnation into a more successful version of self? What stops you from being your best self? Do your daily responsibilities, tasks get in the way of accomplishing your own goals? In today's society, we are overwhelmed with everything, with everyone even ourselves. We struggle to find happiness, pleasures and goals that keep on pushing us. We get stagnated by pressures of daily habits and excuses of avoidance. It is important to address our own needs, acknowledge space and give ourselves a recognition, a goal and motivation. 

In this enlightening episode we delve into an introspective exploration of the driving forces in our lives. We analyze the motives behind our daily actions, our motivation, and the elements that push us to pursuit daily routine. We also touch on how the lack of these elements can lead to anxieties, depression and lethargy.

The podcast opens up a thoughtful conversation about the internal drive found in each one of us. Are you driven by your job, your daily routines, or the people around you? As you listen, Joanna urges you to think about what truly motivates you and excites you to action.

As the episode unfolds, the conversation shifts to finding harmony between work and personal life, the importance of maintaining some form of equilibrium. 

We continue this discussion ask yourself a question what drives you today? and whether it might change tomorrow. Could you feel motivated to try a new routine, to be more social, to start a new job or a hobby or to push yourself in any other way?

This episode concludes with Joanna encouraging listeners to consider how past failures or setbacks can affect their ambition, and how setting boundaries can potentially enhance motivation. She urges you to explore what you would like to be driven by and create strategies to actualize those desires. This podcast serves as a mirror, prompting you to listen, think, and explore your own thoughts, unleashing the power, motivation, and determination within you.

Most of my female audience, clients, colleagues and friends struggle with what seems to be their own worth as mother and what that actually means. The pressure of being in a role of a mother and the expectations that are associated with it from the very beginning. Will proving their own worth be enough to feel like a good mom? Why is proving so important for so many women today and what lessons do we teach our daughters? Enjoy and comment if you'd like. 

Are you faced with constant pressures of doing and living with endless Anxiety that doesn't seem to diminish even with time? Most people today live with constant pressures of needing to do and never stop. Sitting does not feel as comfortable for most as it normally concludes with "being lazy". Is it the expectations of others or yours and where does own self-care come into place? What does it look like and how often do you provide that for self?

The importance of self-care continues on. How often do you address you needs and your own self care?  Do you take time to be tired when you are always running around, or you just hit the bed when it is time to sleep? Seems like we need to schedule time for self because endless responsibilities seem to never end. Self-care is about taking time for yourself. It addresses your needs, your time and your health. What does your self care look like today and can you find yourself scheduling time to be tired?

Childrens mental health in response to lockdowns in schools and the importance of talking to them about it. Young children express worry and fear when faced with school lockdown, even if its practice lock down. They observe one another, they look at facial features and body language. They may show their fears and worries through anger and frustration at home or at school. It is important for educators, parents and caretakers to talk to their children about these lockdown and how they perceive them. Talk to them about their feelings and let them know you care. It is important that we as adults provided our children with reassurance and emotional regulation. Talk to them about their worries and help them understand in their own limitations.

Living in fear by hearing about school shootings and children dying. What will it take to stop? Children should not be going through lockdowns with fear of dying. Children should not be dying or getting killed on the first place. People who may not be stable enough should not be carrying guns. Importance of mental health and getting the right service is necessary. Speaking up if you feel like someone might be off is necessary to prevent possible harm. Emotional regulation and not being able to deal with frustration and anger is necessary. Law and rules are necessary. They are important and they are there for a reason. Children need rules but so do adults. We don't like them but we need them. They gives us boundaries. They are not there to hurt us. People should not be entering school to kill innocent children. At some point this needs to stop. 

The difficulty in being in a narcissistic and emotionally abusive relationship. What are the signs of emotional abuse and what to do in case you find yourself in one? Both men and women can be victims of emotional abuse. Emotional abuse can leave scars that are not seen but carry pain. Most people in emotionally abusive relationships will not ask for help. Most victims will question themselves and their shattering character. Enjoy the episode with curiosity and room for your own exploration.