Wisdom for Wellbeing: Mind-Body Psychology and Somatic Skills for Healing and Growth

In this episode, we talk about how to support our children with navigating the uncertainty that comes with the pandemic and going back to school. Dr Laura Anderson Kirby's book, "Henrietta's Thistleberry Boots" beautifully illustrates the feelings our children might be experiencing during these unpredictable times.

Laura Anderson Kirby, Ph.D. is a children’s book author inspired by her work as child clinical psychologist and her experience raising two young, spirited children. She completed her undergraduate degree at Duke University, where she majored in Psychology and minored in English. She then spent two years in training at the Yale Child Study Center, followed by a five-year Developmental/Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland. Laura then returned to the Yale Child Study Center to complete her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship. Currently, she is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in North Carolina. Laura’s passion is to promote child mental health and social-emotional learning through her writing and her practice, to help spirited and neurodiverse children feel understood, and to inspire societal acceptance of all kinds of people—because the world needs them! 

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In this episode, Dr Patricia E. Zurita Ona, also known as Dr Z, discusses how perfectionist and high achieving tendencies can be balanced and modified.  Dr Z is a Psychologist by training. She has authored six books, co-authored two books, conducted over 140 workshops at national and international conferences, runs a boutique practice, and absolutely loves to create resources for every client she works with. In 2019, Dr Z was nominated as a Fellow of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Sciences (ACBS) for her contributions to the dissemination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy skills for particular unworkable behavioural patterns.

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In this episode we will be exploring 3 strategies for your most stress relieving yoga practice. This is an important conversation if you have heard about yoga for stress reduction… yet find something gets in the way of you actually getting on the mat.

If you’d like to learn more about using yoga as a mindfulness and acceptance-based psychological practice to transform your anxious overwhelm into peace and purpose, my empowering course Yoga Brain 101 might be for you! Head to www.drkaitlin.com/yogabrain to learn more about it.

In this episode, the conversation focuses on supporting parents to take care of themselves, so that they can better nurture their children. Dr Renee Cachia is an experienced Australian psychologist with a passion for empowering children, adolescents, and their parents to reach their full potential. As a bestselling published author with a PhD in psychology and her own private practice, she is best known for her ability to uniquely integrate her research and clinical skills to help change and enrich lives with compassion. Parenting Freedom is the book she has long dreamed of writing. Learn more at reneecachia.com.

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In this episode I speak with Thomas Anderson, the author of “The Vulnerable Man – Break your patterns. Master your emotions. Reclaim your life.” Thomas has extensive experience from global companies as a project manager, change manager, and management consultant. In 2015 his life changed, trapped in an emotional prison, stuck in the digital stress and he was on the brink of burnout. That was a starting point and over three years he completely turned his life around. He did many changes with setting boundaries, change in life style, working out more and found ways to let his body to release stress. One key thing he learns that made a big difference was what it meant to be a highly sensitive person. This made him understand and letting go of emotions, feelings and the limiting patterns and breaking out of that emotional prison. Now he shares his journey and experiences in his book and in lectures. He wants to help creating awareness about how to create a sustainable life and working life in times of change.

Please note as a warning, there is discussion about suicidal ideation in this episode. If you feel distressed at any point while listening, please contact Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 or your local emergency department. 

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In this episode, I discuss healthy ways to develop and maintain habits for the New Year and beyond. New Year's Resolutions can be difficult to keep up with, so it's important to be kind to ourselves and adapt the ways we integrate habits into our lives with routines that already exist. 

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Dr Joey developed and validated one of world’s first psychometric scales that solely focuses on the construct of equanimity - The Equanimity Barriers Scale [EBS] in 2018. His research (spanning 6 years) includes operational definitions of inner and outer equanimity relevant for clinical psychology, theoretical models of judgement and the validation of the EBS. He has recently published a book entitled 'Why Mindfulness is not Enough: Unlocking Compassion with Equanimity', which is an overview of his research and includes case studies and guided meditations in order to bring equanimity down from the mystical and into the lap of the practical.

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Andrew McGonigle has been studying anatomy for over twenty years, originally training to become a doctor and then moving away from Western medicine to become a yoga teacher, massage therapist and anatomy teacher. He combines all of his skills and experience to teach anatomy and physiology on Yoga Teacher Training courses internationally and runs his own Yoga Anatomy Online Courses. His new book Supporting Yoga Students with Common Injuries and Conditions: A Handbook for Yoga Teachers and Trainees was published in March 2021. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband.

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On this episode, we will be speaking with Jennifer Kemp about the fears that underlie perfectionism and how to navigate these experiences with self-compassion. Jennifer is a Clinical Psychologist who has a special interest in perfectionism from both her own experience and through the work she does with clients. Jennifer integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), clinical behaviour analysis, and exposure with self-compassion in her work. In her private practice in Adelaide, Australia, Jennifer sees clients struggling with chronic illness, depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, trauma, grief and loss. Jennifer has a background in leadership coaching and facilitation and provides supervision to Clinical Registrars and experienced practitioners. She is the author of “The ACT Workbook for Perfectionism” for New Harbinger, due for release in December 2021.