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Pieces To WellnessChecklist: Pieces To Our WellnessThe title of our podcast, Pieces to Wellness, can be interpreted in several ways. One is that wellness is like a puzzle and the image on the puzzle that we aspire to is different for everyone. Wellness is a broad, holistic concept with many interconnected parts. This week, we list as many parts or pieces as we can think of - those that help us most and those that we struggle to remember to implement.We don't suggest that you try to put the whole puzzle together in one sitting, and you especially don't have to do...2025-07-1630 minPieces To WellnessA Path To Freedom w/ Leon LogothetisPurpose. Joy. Flow. Kindness. Our guest this week is Leon Logothetis, widely known as "the kindness guy." This conversation is sure to boost your spirits, warm your heart, and maybe even inspire some faith in the inherent kindness of humanity.Leon shares his story of what inspired him to step away from a life that looked "successful" on the outside, but was deeply unfulfilling to him personally. In search of the lived experience of kindness, he journeyed to many places around the world, relying on the kindness of others to literally sustain him as he traveled. As...2025-07-0942 minPieces To WellnessTune Up- RuminationThis week's episode discusses a common feature of depression and anxiety known as rumination. Rumination is also described as overthinking, and like many other symptoms of depression and anxiety, it tends to fuel itself. Ultimately, when we're ruminating, we're not being present or mindful, we're retelling old stories and/or anticipating possible future scenarios worriedly. While these thoughts may be attempts to protect ourselves, they are generally not helpful, and often completely untrue.The antidote to rumination is mindfulness. But when you're in the grips of repetitive ruminative thinking, how do you break free? We share some...2025-07-0227 minPieces To WellnessLet Healing Begin w/ Annah ElizabethAnother guest episode! This week we welcome Annah Elizabeth, founder and creator of the Five Facets of Healing Program. Annah's story is truly miraculous. Annah turned her intense personal experiences of loss, betrayal, and grief into an extraordinary approach to healing that includes physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing. She shares her story with such openness and vulnerability and then describes the healing approach that emerged. Annah combines the modalities of Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) and other intuitive spiritual services with more traditional approaches. She is a widely renowned speaker who has been featured on the TEDx s...2025-06-2553 minPieces To WellnessStand In Your Power, Even When It Is Lonely w/ VickiThis week we welcome a powerful guest, Vicki Savini. Vicki is one of those people whose mind and heart go full steam ahead all the time - she loves her people and pets deeply, and her compassion is endless. And, she is honest, open, direct, vulnerable, and creative. We get into all these things.Vicki is a teacher, writer, mom, speaker, and intuitive life coach. She wears all kinds of hats, rising to the situations in her life and the lives of others with grace and dignity. She believes that fear is the root cause of the...2025-06-1849 minPieces To WellnessRant Day: Diagnostically SpeakingToday, we rant. Productively, and diagnostically speaking.Here at Pieces to Wellness, we believe that while not everyone has mental illness, everyone has mental health. That's why we share tips, tools, strategies to keep you on the wellness side of the spectrum.We also believe that mental health is essential to overall wellness. All too often, people who live with mental health challenges are reduced to their diagnoses. And we are so much more than that. We recognize that there are some ways in which diagnostics can be useful, and we emphasize how...2025-06-1114 minPieces To WellnessSome Things To Think About w/ Venerable RobinaThis week we are honored to welcome the venerable Robina Courtin to Pieces to Wellness. Robina is a Buddhist nun with a remarkably direct, take charge personality that comes through immediately in our conversation. Robina generously shares her wisdom with a real love for humanity that shines through. Together, we explore various daily practices that can literally help us change the way we think. Robina shares with us the importance of things like compassion, meditation, freedom, truth, and skillfully offers strategies to support us all in weaving these things into our day to day life. Consistently engaging i...2025-06-0457 minPieces To WellnessRoutine Maintenance - Why It WorksRoutine maintenance is part of the regular vocabulary here on Pieces to Wellness. This week, we explore the origin story behind this favorite term.Once a month, we do a quick "tune up" episode. Each of these shorter episodes explores one or more practical tools we have in our mental health tool kit. You know, the ones that keep us on the wellness side of the spectrum. These tools are well-used and dog eared showing how regularly we put them to use. Tim first shared this term in his book, and this week treats us to a...2025-05-2818 minPieces To WellnessWhat Is Vulnerability?Vulnerability - what does it look like, what does it feel like, how can befriending vulnerability support growth and healing? We're breaking it down and putting it all out there this week.Tim and Karen open up about how much each of our relationships with vulnerability have changed over the years. We share how we've masked our authentic selves with things like sarcasm, people-pleasing, numbing behavior. Vulnerability is often uncomfortable, and all too often many of us avoid it, believing that our defenses will keep us safe. However, as mental health warriors, we have learned (generally the...2025-05-2128 minPieces To WellnessMental Illness Is My Superpower: A Conversation With TaylorYou've probably heard the saying, "What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger." And while we don't wish tragedy on anyone, it is also true that sometimes we don't know what kind of strength we possess until we are faced with adversity. Real super heroes are known by their scars, not by accolades. This week we welcome Pieces to Wellness friend, Taylor Locke. Costume or no costume, Taylor is a true mental health superhero. Taylor wears many hats in the local, state, national, and even international mental health advocacy community. The challenges that Taylor has overcome, the resi...2025-05-1439 minPieces To WellnessStepping Stones: Balancing Difficult FeelingsIt's often said that healing is not linear. Some people compare it to a spiral in which you uncover new layers and lessons over time and can travel up & down, back & forth. In this week's conversation, we focus on some of the ways in which we each have learned to feel the most difficult feelings and navigate through them. These are our stepping stones. There's also a misconception that healing = happiness, sunshine, and rainbows. And while we are likely to experience more happiness as we heal, we are also likely to experience many o...2025-05-0727 minPieces To Wellness(RE) Introduction: Two Hosts And A MicrophoneAs Pieces to Wellness moves into our second year, we wanted to re-introduce ourselves in a super short and sweet tune up episode.If you're new here, welcome! Pieces to Wellness podcast is hosted by Tim and Karen. We're a couple of regular people with experience living with mental health challenges. Each week we have a conversation about how we live with these challenges, what we're working on, and what we do to stay on the wellness side of the mental health spectrum. We talk with guests who inspire us with their stories and wisdom. We hope...2025-04-3005 minPieces To WellnessA Conversation On Depression **This week on P2W: Let’s talk about the big D—**depression. A listener asked us to dive into this topic, and we’re going all in. Depression looks different for everyone. For both Tim and Karen, it’s been a long-time companion. In this episode, we unpack how it shows up—as a darkness, mask, a thief, a fog, even an octopus—and share our own experiences. Karen sees it as numbing; Tim as a deep disconnection. We also explore how we live with depression without letting it take the wheel. From challenging unhelpful though...2025-04-2344 minPieces To WellnessShake Your Foundation: Reframing EditionWe are big fans of metaphor here on Pieces to Wellness, and this one's a doozy. This week we're exploring the idea of shaking your foundation. If we think of life as a house, what do you do when your foundation is damaged, or hasn't been poured properly, or other areas in the house start falling apart? The subtitle of Tim's book is: "Life is a DIY project. This is a DIY book". That's what this conversation is all about.As with most things, the hardest part is getting started. Getting beyond our own resistance and digging...2025-04-1630 min