In this solo episode, I share my journey through podcast development, creation and my growth through this process.  I discuss reasons for ending Nothing Left to Give and share information about my new up and coming podcast geared towards Mental Health Therapists called "The Holistic Counseling Podcast." 

 The content of this episode includes 6 Lessons I've learned through 2020 and how these lessons can help in the future beyond.

  In this episode I interview Dr. Carly Marie Manly. Dr. Carla Marie Manly, a clinical psychologist and life-optimization expert, makes her home in Sonoma County, California. In addition to her clinical practice, she is deeply invested in her roles as an author, consultant, advocate, and speaker. With a holistic, body-mind-spirit approach, Dr. Manly specializes in improving professional and personal relationships through mindfulness and communication skills.  Blending traditional psychotherapy with alternative mindfulness practices. Dr. Manly's highly acclaimed books, Joy from Fear and Aging Joyfully—plus her newest title, Date Smart, offer life-changing insights and wisdom-filled tips to help readers create positive, purpose-driven lives.  

  Dr. Manly discusses what gratitude means for her, how she uses gratitude in her own personal practice and the benefits of gratitude.  She also shares ways that listeners can create more consistent and creative practices. 

  In this episode I interview Dr. Colleen Grunhaus.  She discusses her journey through burnout and how she moved through it. She discusses her research and how she discovered the differences between moral injury and moral distress. She shares how moral distress can appear when a Counselor loses a client to suicide. Chris shares her journey through a client suicide.  The emotional fallout for Counselor/Therapists when a client completes a suicide is discussed.  She shares more about her research on the impact on Counselors, what supports are provided for counselors and how do workplace response and support.  She found most agencies don't have a policy for supporting Counselors for a client suicide and Counselors are on their own to process through it.  

  Dr. Grunhaus discusses other ways to help Counselors through this including policy development, time off or reduced work load, individual counseling and if possible a group debriefing. She recommends destigmatizing language of "completing suicide" instead of "committed suicide."  She also discusses prevention strategies.

  In this episode I interview Marlo about her journey through burnout and how she overcame. Marlo Sell, LCMHC, is a Mom, Empowerment Coach, mother of 3 and a dog mom. Marlo loves helping people feel empowered so that they can live their best life. Marlo loves being in nature and at the beach. She takes a holistic approach to health and wellness.  We both discuss burnout recovery and how to maintain staying out of burnout.

  Marlo shares her personal journey through the tragedy of the loss of her 21 year old son.  She discusses the process of grief, self-blame and difficulty towards acceptance. She describes how she has found healing and how she gets through hard days as well as how she manages difficult emotions that have arisen.  She gives a message of hope and how to stay positive.

  This is one of my short episodes to help teach you hands-on skills to better manage stress, prevent burnout, or manage burnout. In this episode I teach you how to use visualization to let go of something that's holding you back and to help relieve stress.

  In this episode I interview Noa Ronen, speaker and Certified Coach.  She discusses how she is able to avoid burnout and the importance of recovery time.  She discusses importance of creating balance in your life with your strengths and what that can look like.  Noa describes differences between "Doing" and "Being" energy and the benefits and risks of each. She shares her journey through self-doubt and self-sabotage.  She shares how some are more likely to experience anxiety. She also details how to better manage ones inner critic and knowing there will be times you revert back to old habits.  She discusses the importance of believing in yourself to reach all your goals. 

  In this episode I interview Elizabeth Grady. She defines resilience and discusses how to create an action plan.  She discusses six steps and 8 dimensions of Wellness:

• Identifying where you want to build this resilience
• Take a look at your attitude, what do you say/believe about this
• How can you change it to be more positive
• Set goals for change "I want.." and fill in the blank
• Set some short and long term goals
• Take action

  She discusses how it can help to work through this with a Licensed Therapist, or use journaling to help you.  Liz discusses ways to stay consistent with changes you make. She discusses importance of focusing on what is in your control.

  This is one of my short episodes to help teach you hands-on skills to better manage stress, prevent burnout, or manage burnout. In this episode I teach you how to use meditation with healing light from the earth. 

  I interview Licensed therapist and Burnout coach Laurie Brassie from Denver, Colorado.  Laura also owns a coaching practice, where she helps exhausted, high-achieving Millennial women address burnout and move forward with clarity and freedom.

She shares her journey through burnout and how she overcame.  Laurie shares the differences between burnout, secondary trauma and compassion fatigue. A discussion on the double trauma therapists are encountering going through the pandemic and processing it with our clients at the same time through COVID is addressed.  She discusses strategies for managing compassion fatigue including dimensions of wellness.  "All is well and all will be well."

  In this episode I interview Dr. Kerri Palamara an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She practices as a primary care general internist at MGH. Dr. Palamara leads the Center for Physician Well-being for the Department of Medicine at MGH. Her academic work focuses on physician coaching and physician well-being. She shares her journey through burnout and how she overcame. She discusses importance of looking at what you can control when you are working for a system.  She also shares finding what works for you

  She shares the differences between regular burnout and COVID burnout.  She discusses how she found meaning and purpose with COVID but COVID burnout is more emotionally draining. Dr. Palamara describes how the Center for Physician Well-being is set up to help all Healthcare providers and members in their system to overcome and prevent burnout. They look at how to help with efficiency, burdens on providers, processes and how to support them through coaching.     Dr. Palmara discussed ways others can advocate at their organization and ways to create systemic change.