Being vulnerable is cool! But it's also a really scary to do sometimes. In this episode I explore the name change of the podcast and why I stopped making the podcast for awhile. IM BACK THOUGH BABY! Ready to be way vulnerable as heck.

Finding a therapist can be difficult. There is jargon to understand and so many steps to follow. I can help! Not only do i personally engage in therapy, I also help people find therapy and psychiatry providers as my job. When I meet people going through a tough mental health time their primary complaint for getting help is that they don't know where to start or that finding the right therapist is too hard. While I cant make you have the perfect therapist match I can help you learn how to give yourself a better shot.

Steps:

• Understand the main reasons you want or need to go to therapy

• Think about what you want in a provider (list of things to consider provided)

• Start looking (ideas to find providers more easily provided) and schedule

• Meet with the provider and feel it out

• Make a plan of what to focus on and talk through expectations with therapist

• Make sure to come back and reassess progress and goals

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On this weeks episode I welcome on my first guest AND first friend- Amanda! Join us in discussing our goals and looking over the vision boards we have created for the year ahead. For more details on my goal setting go check out the last episode. Also check out my next video on the details of how to make a successful vision board on Friday 12/30/22.

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In this podcast I review my goals I set for 2022. Spoiler I did not do great. Through the podcast I come to some realizations about what success in goal achievement really means and how to carry that mindset into goal setting for the new year. I walk through the purpose of SMART goals and show you all of mine for the new year.

For my personal, school, and professional planning I utilize a planner from target and the app Notion. You can find both linked bellow. Through my notion page you can explore and use what I have created as a template to start your own. Notion is tricky at first but once you get it organized its a game changer for productivity and organization.

If you're interested in creating a 2023 accountability group please comment down bellow, DM me, or reach out. My idea is that we could meet via zoom once a month and do a lil get together to celebrate our achievements. It could be a support group and resource guide. Just an idea (:

Make sure to check out my YouTube channel. I will be starting to post weekly vlogs as well as a series of me deep cleaning my home and my life in general for the new year.

Links:

Physical Planner

Notion

• My Goals

• My Routine

• My Habit Tracker

• My Meal Planner

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Coping skills are the tools that we use to deal with unwanted or negative emotions and experiences in our lives. They can be good, bad or neutral. In todays episode I share my coping skills and how I tell if they're positive negative or neutral. As well show to stop basing your own coping skills and goals off of the infinite number of ways we are told are the best online. This week I gave you some homework! Make a list of every coping skill you can think of. From as simple as eating or taking a shower to as specific as meditation. Go through the list and label them + for positive - for negative or no symbol for neutral. Rewrite the negative ones and why they are unhelpful and choose which as hindering you the most if you have many. Otherwise write the details of why and your plan to change them or remove them. Same with positive ones! Write why they help and or add new positives and your SMART goals of how you plan to achieve the top one. Share your goals with me on instagram or utilize my outlines/examples to write them out on on my instagram.

Resources:

• Try Head Space for 30 days free!

• Motivation

• Radical Acceptance to reduce suffering

• Radical Acceptance DBT outline and worksheets

• Victim Mentality Explained

• Coping Skills

• More Coping Skills

• SMART Goals

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You are far more than a label of your mental health. The label is also not a death sentence you have power over it (in many but not all cases). I have struggled with my mental health since childhood. The roots of it run generations deep, but I have the power to take it by the reins. This episode is primarily about me and how my brain works. I filmed it while I was having a really difficult mental health day so its a bit all over the place... but how appropriate!

No resources this time because I am pretty much just talking about my experience and will deep dive into other topics in later episodes.

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Adulting is hard in general but figuring out how to navigate friendships as an adult may be one of the hardest points. Listen to hear me expose my values in friends, how I have behaved as a friend all my life, and what my goals are to feel more secure and fulfilled moving forward into the oblivion of adulthood.

Some fun articles to read regarding friendships:

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470381/#S2title

• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265407519861152

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifetime-connections/201503/the-13-essential-traits-good-friends?amp

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/opinion/lasting-friendships-secrets.html

• https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/how-friendships-change-over-time-in-adulthood/411466/

• https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/psychology-relationships-adult-friends.html

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Making friends, leaving them, and keeping them are hard things to do. Maybe harder than a breakup at times? Affirmations can help us to reframe the way that we think and in response behave. Friendship affirmations can make us more confident in our social skills and better at knowing what is worthy of our energy. SOOOO repeat after me...

Articles on the science of affirmations:

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4814782/#abstract-1title

• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,23&qsp=1&q=positive+affirmations&qst=ib#d=gs_qabs&t=1666228618439&u=%23p%3D6hA0V-Uh4AQJ

• https://www.berkeleywellbeing.com/positive-affirmations.html

• https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-to-know-positive-affirmations

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/05/02/do-self-affirmations-work/

• https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/positive-affirmations/

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Get to know me and what brought me here. As well as the insecurities and imposter syndrome that stopped me from going after my dreams for so long.

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Articles and Sources on Insecurity and Imposter Syndrome

- Brene Brown The Gifts of Imperfection https://brenebrown.com/book/the-gifts-of-imperfection/

- "Conquering Imposter Syndrome" University of Montana https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ecsip

- "Causes of Insecurity" Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mindful-self-express/201512/the-3-most-common-causes-insecurity-and-how-beat-them

- "Insecurity A Complete Guide" Berkley https://www.berkeleywellbeing.com/insecurity.html

- "Ways to gain confidence" Insider https://www.insider.com/guides/health/mental-health/insecurity

- "Building Confidence" National Library of Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354626/#:~:text=skills%20and%20experience.%E2%80%9D-,Positive%20thinking%2C%20practice%2C%20training%2C%20knowledge%20and%20talking%20to%20other,own%20ability%2C%20skills%20and%20experience.