The Self Care Unit

This week, for Mental Health Matters, we are joined by Lia Mancao. Lia is a psychotherapist, writer, and emotional resilience educator, and she is a Mental Health Advisor for PopSugar and a Wellness contributor to TheKnot. Lia joins us to talk about her work, her strategies to prioritize mental health, and how we can encourage health care workers to seek out help when they need it. Thank you Lia for joining us!

Our listeners should definitely follow Lia @alyssamariewellness on instagram, she has so much amazing content available for you and you can also find all of her links there as well!

CW: Discussions of trauma, abuse

This week, for Mental Health Matters, Carley and Sarah are joined by Kelly Chase. Kelly is an entrepreneur, social influencer, Business and Mindset Coach, and speaker. We talk about her journey and awakenings with regards to mental health, the hard work she's done to heal, and how she found her calling as an advocate and coach. Thank you to Kelly for this deep and vulnerable conversation, we need more people like her in the world!

TW: Suicide

This week, the Self-Care Unit welcomed Harlie Monroe, co-founder of the Jared Monroe foundation, to the pod. Her amazing organization is dedicated to fostering awareness, understanding and support for Bipolar Disorder and suicide. We discuss all aspects of her work as a nurse and co-founder and her hopes and goals for a special "Art of Healing" fundraiser with Don't Clock Out for World Suicide Prevention Awareness Day on September 10th.

A big thank you to Harlie for sharing her story with us! Please check out the Jared Monroe Foundation @jaredmonroefdtn on Instagram.

This week’s episode is all about Grounding! You may have heard the term before, but Jayshree Asnani joins us to explain the practice, which is all about harnessing our senses and awareness to tackle the stress in our lives. She shares techniques and tools from her work as a life coach and reveals how grounding ourselves can result in more balanced and less anxious lives.

For more of Jayshree and her work, check out @EveryJayLiving on TikTok and Instagram!

For this week's Ask a Nurse episode, Carley and Sarah talk about holistic medicine in the hospital. What holistic methods or practices do they wish were used in the hospital?

We talk about a lot of holistic practices on this show, but we usually discuss them as supplementary, in settings outside of the hospital. Why is that? What benefits might a combination approach bring to patient care? Is the Eras Tour holistic medicine? We talk about all that and more on this episode!

This week, for Ask A Nurse, we talk about how to cope with making mistakes. Mistakes are a part of life!  We like to pretend they’re rare and never happen, but that is not the case. Sometimes, the aftermath of a mistake can cause stress, anxiety, and self-doubt. So, let's dive into the subject!

How comfortable nurses are admitting mistakes? What systems exist to help cope? How can we deal with negative self-talk? What strategies nurses can use to communicate they’ve made a mistake? Carley and Sarah answer all these questions and more!

TW: Eating Disorder/Disordered Eating

Christine D'Ercole was with us this week for a very special Mental Health Matters episode. Christine is a cycling instructor, decorated competitive track cyclist, writer, and speaker. Her iconic Wordshops are focused on editing our Self-Talk to more productive in the direction we want for our lives. She is an incredibly persuasive force for being kinder to ourselves, and we learn how she became that force through her life experience and work. A huge thank you to Christine for this incredible conversation!

Christine's work and links can be found @iamicaniwillido on Instagram!

And, as we talk about, Therapyaid.org with Don’t Clock Out is hosting a FREE virtual Wordshop on August 25, 2023  at 1:00 pm EST for nurses and healthcare workers. To receive information about this Wordshop, go to: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7CQGMZ2VCpXUHQ9jVRrxrm7LDkaOy_CO168feMxJMPXvFPA/viewform

Therapyaid.org is also generously sponsoring two nurses to attend the premier 3-day Virtual Wordswork Wordshop Experience. For more info on the Wordshop go to https://christinedercole.com/products/3-day-virtual-wordswork-weekend-experience Christine will pick the 2 winners randomly via an instagram live on Friday August 4th at 1:00 pm. To enter, go to:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMczBCbeNqITnXGohDNyn-93xWuTrqxbDK2WM3h1coShHD0g/viewform

This week, for Mental Health Matters, Carley and Sarah were joined by Noah Galloway! Noah is an Army Combat veteran, author of Living with No Excuses, athlete, motivational speaker, and an all around incredible guy. He shares his experience enlisting and how he mentally handled a life-changing injury, and we talk through how we can all support each other in our shared struggles. Noah also talked about his approach to mental health and what motivates his work today. A huge thank you to Noah for being with us for this important conversation!

Please check out NoahGalloway.com or follow @NoahGallowayAthlete on instagram for access to his book!

This week, we do a deep dive into CBD by talking with Montel Williams! Montel is a veteran and media personality who has used CBD and cannabis to help deal with pain and other symptoms brought on by MS for over two decades. You may have seen CBD pop up more and more on shelves over the years, but what exactly is it? Montel walks us through the history and science of CBD, the many forms or applications it can take, and what it is most effective at treating. His expertise and experience was so valuable for clearing up misconceptions, we learned a lot from speaking with him!

Montel can be found on instagram @montel_williams and hosts his own podcast, Let's Be Blunt with Montel, to bridge the gap between common cannabis knowledge and in-depth research.

This week, Carley and Sarah learn all about Somatics. To do that, we welcome Christine Coen to the pod! Christine is a Holistic Burnout Recovery Coach, Dietitian & Fitness specialist, who uses Somatics as part of her practice.

Christine talks about her beginnings with Somatics, how a body-based approach can help nurses, specifically those dealing with burnout, and the science behind the practice. She also walks us through some techniques she loves and how to approach the practice as a beginner. A huge thank you to Christine for being with us, she brought so much to this episode! Check it out!

And for more of Christine, you can find her on @Christine.Coen on Instagram or her website christinecoen.com!