The X-Podcast: Real Conversations About Mental Health

In this episode, The X-Team discusses how breaking family traditions can trigger complex psychological effects. They explain how family traditions can provide stability, emotional anchors, and reduced stress for children, and how breaking them can cause guilt, anxiety, or shame. It can also be a necessary step toward breaking toxic patterns, enabling individuals to create new, healthier, more authentic, meaningful, and intentional lives. Because traditions act as "emotional anchors" that provide stability and a shared sense of belonging, disrupting them often triggers significant emotional responses in both the person breaking them and the family members left behind.

In this episode, The X-Team reacts to an article: Doomscrolling: Stop the scroll, protect your mental health.

The date of the article is April 18, 2024

Written by Alisa Bowman

For the Mayo Clinic

Link to the article

https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/mental-health/doom-scrolling-and-mental-health/?mc_id=us&utm_source=pes&utm_medium=e&utm_content=engagementlgbtq&utm_campaign=mayoclinic&geo=national&placementsite=enterprise&invsrc=patloy&cauid=188241

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In this episode, The X-Team reacts to a YouTube video by Terri Cole titled:

How to Stay Informed Without Losing Your Mind (7 Simple Steps) - Terri Cole

YouTube Channel Video

In this episode, The X-Team explains what clinical hypnotherapy is and what it is not. They discuss the similarities and differences between mindfulness-based therapy, mindfulness, meditation, and clinical hypnotherapy. Special guest Darlene Cole, a Certified Clinical RTT Hypnotherapist based in Summerville, SC, joins the discussion to help us understand the nuances of her profession.

In this episode, The X-Team discusses how digital technology has given way for unqualified individuals to self-diagnose and to diagnose others. Xiomara goes into how this affects people's ability to use these clinical terms correctly and responsibly. She also discusses the many ways that unqualified people on the internet weaponize and conflate these clinical diagnoses and terms incorrectly, and how it is usually confused with advocacy and other issues.

In this episode, The X-Team reacts to the article "The Emotions of Luxury" in Psychology Today, written by Peter Noel Murray, Ph.D., principal of a consumer psychology practice in New York City. Dr. Murray's specialty is the psychological drivers of consumer behavior, with an emphasis on emotion.

In this episode, The X-Team discusses what the term brain rot means and how it can impact our mental health. They describe what our brains feel like when we experience this phenomenon, which is a direct result of scrolling through social media for hours and consuming its mindless content. The team also explains why the term "brain rot" is gaining popularity to describe this common experience.

In this episode, The X-Team discusses how digital technology affects how we work and socialize, and the impact of it on our mental health. They get into how smartphones, tablets, computers, smartwatches, video game consoles, voice-activated assistants, and other digital devices have consumed our daily lives. The conversation gets into the pros and cons of their impact on our mental health in modern life.

In this episode, The X-Team discusses the importance of and differences between personal development, self-improvement, and mental health. They explain what personal development is and exactly how it impacts mental health in a positive way. JROC discusses his personal journey with personal development, and Xiomara provides insights on how it works to promote positive mental health and well-being. They also explain the subtle difference between personal development and self-improvement.

In this episode, The X-Team discusses some issues related to unhoused women and mental health. The team explains why they use the term “unhoused” instead of the term “homeless”. Xiomara talks about her passion project in the community, providing free mental health services to the unhoused community members in her community through her nonprofit organization, and encourages other healers and helpers to create their own passion project to provide these much-needed services in their communities. After the lively and impactful conversation, they provide ways that everyone can give support to this population, even in small ways.