The Wondering Mind

Happy Pride Month!

Today's episode features Dillon Espinosa LPAC. Dillon is Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, National Certified Counselor, and Registered Yoga Teacher. His specialty areas include: Depression, Anxiety, LGBTQ issues, College students, Teenagers, Adults.

Today Dillon provides some tangible tools you can implement into your daily life if you are struggling to connect and make friends with other people. 

Some things you will learn within this episode:

Four Tips for Making & Keeping Friends as an Adult

Ex: Neighbors, Spiritual Organizations, Networking Organizations, Apartment Communities etc.

    2. Consistency-Be consistent in order to keep the momentum going; Become a familiar face

    3. Finding similarities by getting involved in activities that are authentic to you- Ex: A local MeetUp group, a bike club, a run club, intramural sports, yoga etc.

   4. Shoot your shot by connecting and starting the conversation, no matter how scary it may seem.

Tip: Evaluate Your Plate- Take a step back and look at what’s on your plate and ask yourself, can things be moved around? Where can you take some energy from and add it to making friends.

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Meet Jay Chase. Jay is the host of Don't Touch My Mindset, a podcast created to help folx tap into their why, find their purpose, learn how to pivot and maintain their mindset. 

Jay's journey of learning how to pivot began years ago when he found himself in prison for drunk driving. Since then, Jay has become sober, learned what his why is and figured out how to turn his pain into his passion. 

In this episode you'll learn more about Jay's journey and gain access to some tangible tools that you can utilize within your own life in order to figure out your 'why.' Jay also shares some encouraging insight into why it's so important that we learn how to pivot. 

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In today's episode I had the pleasure of speaking with Jennifer Tarm. Jennifer (she/they) is an Asian American therapist-in-training and community organizer. She is registered as associate marriage and family therapist and is currently pursuing her doctorate in counseling psychology. With her passion in advancing and addressing BIPOC mental health from a system's perspective, she is a team member at Asian Mental Health Project (AMHP), a nonprofit dedicated to educating and empowering the pan-Asian community to seek mental health services. During the time of the recording she served as the Director of Operations & Special Projects. She currently serves as the Director of Partnerships for AMHP. In todays episode, Jennifer explains what the mission and purpose of Asian Mental Health Project is, how it came to be, and why it's such an important resource for the AAPI community. She also goes into detail regarding her own personal mental health journey.  Jennifer gets candid about the barriers she has had to overcome as an Asian American, how she felt it was her duty to live up to her families expectations of her regardless of how it made her feel, and how generational trauma, lack of mental health resources and a lack of community almost made her flunk out of college. Lastly, she explains how seeking therapy helped her gain clarity regarding her identity and her life. 

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In today's episode I speak with poet and host of the Words of Heart podcast, Dionne Sanchez. 

Dionne tells her truth about what it was like being bullied as a child and young teen and how her peers constantly left her out and reminded her that she was "different", ultimately leading Dionne to battle severe mental health issues that almost cost her, her life. 

During this conversation, Dionne shares with us some coping tools that helped her overcome her traumas, and she also shares what it took in order for her to finally find her tribe.

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Creating The Wondering Mind- a mental health podcast and The Wondering Mind Co. a mental health merchandising brand, is a lot of work. It takes a lot of time, money & energy. My main goal is to continue to help YOU, as well as evolve, grow and improve each piece of content, in hopes to break mental health stigmas & normalize having candid conversations about our mental health. Any little bit of support can go a long way over here. Thank you as always 💚

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In today's episode I had the absolute honor of speaking with family physician, anxiety/stress expert and TEDx speaker Dr. Shahana Alihai. 

Dr. Shahana walks us through her journey and explains how she was able to shift her mindset in order to begin to improve her mental health. She also shares some simple and useful tools one can utilize along your mental health journey to help you regain control of your thought process. 

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Creating The Wondering Mind- a mental health podcast and The Wondering Mind Co. a mental health merchandising brand, is a lot of work. It takes a lot of time, money & energy. My main goal is to continue to help YOU, as well as evolve, grow and improve each piece of content, in hopes to break mental health stigmas & normalize having candid conversations about our mental health. Any little bit of support can go a long way over here. Thank you as always 💚

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Today I chat with wellness/fitness coach, podcast host of Run Thrive Survive and mental health advocate Ciara Carter. 

During our conversation Ciara opens up about the details of struggling with an eating disorder, her addiction to fitness, near death experience and how she managed to flip the script and change her outlook, that ultimately saved her life.

She shares with us the coping mechanisms she uses to this day to help keep her on track, how she was able to shift her mindset on food from negative to positive and why she feels it's so important for school's to provide transparent and helpful education on eating disorders to their students. 

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Creating The Wondering Mind- a mental health podcast and The Wondering Mind Co. a mental health merchandising brand, is a lot of work. It takes a lot of time, money & energy. My main goal is to continue to help YOU, as well as evolve, grow and improve each piece of content, in hopes to break mental health stigmas & normalize having candid conversations about our mental health. So any little bit of support can go a long way over here. Thank you as always 💚

The Wondering Mind Link Tree:

Find out where to stream the show, listen to Emily's interviews on other Podcast's + so much more.

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This week's episode features Louisville District 4 Councilman, Simmons College of KY Professor and hip-hop/classical musician Jecorey Arthur.

Jecorey opens up about his mental health journey, how being a musician provided him a safe, creative space that initially saved him from living a life that he did not want to lead and set him on the path to live a life of purpose. 

Jecorey also shares with us how becoming a councilman has impacted his mental health and his life. 

He also provides some simple and very useful tips that he utilizes throughout his daily life to help him stay on top of things and to avoid burn out.

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Website:

https://www.jecoreyarthur.com/

Simmons College of KY:

https://simmonscollegeky.edu/

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Creating The Wondering Mind- a mental health podcast and The Wondering Mind Co. a mental health merchandising brand, is a lot of work. It takes a lot of time, money & energy. My main goal is to continue to help YOU, as well as evolve, grow and improve each piece of content, in hopes to break mental health stigmas & normalize having candid conversations about our mental health. So any little bit of support can go a long way over here. Thank you as always 💚

The Wondering Mind Link Tree:

Find out where to stream the show, listen to Emily's interviews on other Podcast's + so much more.

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In today's episode I chat with not one, but TWO guests! 

Founders of Therapist's for Protestor Wellness, Millicent and Darian join me on the show to talk about why they chose to get into the mental health field, what areas surrounding mental health lack within our community when it comes to access and affordable care, how they coped and assisted others through the trauma of the 2020 #BreonnaTaylor protests and more. 

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https://www.buymeacoffee.com/emilyelizabeth  

Creating The Wondering Mind- a mental health podcast and The Wondering Mind Co. a mental health merchandising brand, is a lot of work. It takes a lot of time, money & energy. My main goal is to continue to help YOU, as well as evolve, grow and improve each piece of content, in hopes to break mental health stigmas & normalize having candid conversations about our mental health. So any little bit of support can go a long way over here. Thank you as always 💚

The Wondering Mind Link Tree:

Find out where to stream the show, listen to Emily's interviews on other Podcast's + so much more.

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Emily Elizabeth releases the first solo episode in over a year. 

Today is Emily’s birthday and she felt this would be the perfect occasion to provide you with some insight as to where her mental health has been as of late, how it’s impacted her life, how she's coping, and what’s to come. 

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Creating The Wondering Mind- a mental health podcast and The Wondering Mind Co. a mental health merchandising brand, is a lot of work. It takes a lot of time, money & energy. My main goal is to continue to help YOU, as well as evolve, grow and improve each piece of content, in hopes to break mental health stigmas & normalize having candid conversations about our mental health. So any little bit of support can go a long way over here. Thank you as always 💚 

The Wondering Mind Link Tree: 

Find out where to stream the show, listen to Emily's interviews on other Podcast's + so much more. 

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Amanda Young, author of Jumo the unicorn and host of the Sunshine and Rainbows podcast tells her tale of finding her purpose after being let go from her dream job and how through therapy she was able to find her own independent identity separate from her career. She also shares for the first time publicly, how she was able to navigate through being newly diagnosed with bi-polar 2 disorder and how choosing to get help and take medication essentially saved her life. 

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@that_manda_girl

@sunshineandrainbowspod 

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That Manda Girl

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