This Free Spirit

In this episode I (Stephanie!) interviewed long time friend, colleague, and mentor Jackie Melin on navigating grief and loss. Jackie is a tremendously skilled therapist who currently specializes in grief work in her private practice. Jackie and I discuss what grief actually is, how we can begin to navigate our losses with more skill and presence, and how we can best show up for friends or loved ones when they are grieving.

I LOVED this talk with Jackie so I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did. I included her shared resources below, and as always please reach out with thoughts or questions about this episode at www.diytherapypodcast.com.

Contact Jackie at www.peakhealingcenter.com

The Me You Can't See - documentary

It's Ok That You're Not Ok - by Megan Devine
refugeingrief.org

Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
centerforlossandtrauma.com

Dr. Alan Wolfelt
centerforloss.com

In this episode, Amy hosts by herself and tells the story of self-love. Some of us have ideal mothers and fathers. When we are securely attached, we receive mostly what we need and we receive it consistently. But sometimes, something is just "not right" with mother/father and we do not receive what we need. Why is this? And how can you recover if you did not receive what you needed when you were so young? This episode dives into those questions and walks you through the real work of loving yourself to health.

Amy's program Self-Healing the Inner Child begins July 5th, podcast listener's receive 50% off by entering the code DIYTHERAPYPODCAST at checkout at 
AmyScottMindBody.com/self-healingyourinnerchild

In this episode we discuss setting the stage for working with trauma. We explore the early stages of trauma work including the importance of feeling safe with your therapist, simple ways of introducing yourself to your body and the emotions that live there, and some helpful somatic tools that can be used for instant nervous system relief. If you're interested in learning more about our guest, Jen Barnes, you can find her at www.pathwaystowellnessllc.com.

Lastly... we experienced a few recording hiccups in this episode so we apologize for losing a small chunk of Jen's discussion on polyvagal theory in the middle of the episode. We also lost the last minute of our recording so you may feel like we cut out early! Despite these glitches, we know the value of this episode greatly outweighs our recording errors :) We hope you enjoy the conversation. 

For other questions or comments about this episode or any other, visit us at www.diytherapypodcast.com.

We all flow in and out of depressive episodes throughout the lifespan. But instead of working to fight our mood fluctuations, it can be much more helpful to practice flowing with them. In this episode we discuss an evolved perspective on depression and explore ways in which we can all stay more present with its ebb and flow. We offer tools for changing your relationship with depression and discuss why its so important to give yourself permission to do the bare minimum when you're feeling blue. In summary... we believe feeling depressed is just fine and may even be a launching pad for our ongoing growth and evolution as human beings. We would love to hear your feedback on this episode so please head over to www.diytherapypodcast.com and tell us what you think. 

In this episode we veered away from our norm and decided to discuss some of our favorite helpful tips for new therapists. Although this episode was geared more toward other professionals, we believe the conversation will prove helpful for any of our listeners. We would love to hear what you think, so please share your thoughts with us at www.diytherapypodcast.com. Talk soon!

This episode is all things random! We discuss feelings of guilt around taking vacation, the dynamics of accepting fees for helping people heal their souls, and we discuss social media usage, specifically, our lack thereof, and we wonder how that will impact the scaling of our podcast. Basically, it's the random deep thoughts episode! 

This topic was so fun to explore. We talked about how important it is to re-raise ourselves. And what does that really entail? We call it doing "the work" and we describe it in simple details. We talked about the choices we make, conscious or unconscious. We also take this conversation pretty deep (per usual) and we talk about how the universe and you have the same goal--expansion! We go on a lengthy dharma conversation about pain and suffering as it relates to being parented.  And we offer something that you need to hear: It happened to you, but it wasn't about you. 

This episode is about cultivating  the only thing that permanently exists: the present moment. The act of becoming present may not solve our problems or eliminate pain, but presence relieves suffering from pain and opens us up to access the collective solutions to problems.  In presence, we are a portal.
 

What should you eat? How should you eat? What does it mean about you that you eat what you eat? Are you addicted to sugar? This episode will help you answer these questions and more. We cover topics like food and morality, food cravings, food addiction, how to feed your kids, and so much more!

In this last and final episode in our anxiety series we're discussing our fourth anxiety master tool, habits of daily living. Self-care is a hot topic and our goal for this episode was not only to introduce fresh ways of approaching healthy habits, but offer you some tips and tricks for implementing them in ways you may not have tried before. Please let us know your thoughts on this episode by sending us a message at www.modernmindbodytherapy.com/podcast. See you next time!