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Mental Health InsightsHow to Talk to Your Child About Suicide?In this episode we talk specifically about how to start the conversation with your child about suicide. More episodes about this will follow!2025-05-1416 minMental Health InsightsHow to Parent a Child With DepressionIn this episode we discuss your role in helping your child with depression. We first want to get a confirmed diagnosis from a clinician or physician. We also want to get a full blood panel to help discern if their is a physical cause. Our primary role needs to be one of support an encouragement and I talk in this episode about what that looks like. I hope you find this helpful!2025-04-3022 minMental Health InsightsHow Do You Parent A Child With Anxiety?In this episode we focus on how to parent a child that has anxiety. These are good skills to develop since even if your child does not develop a disorder, they will have anxiety in general at some point or another. Remember, if you have specific request for strategies for a specific mental health issue your child is facing, then please email me at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com. This will help me know which mental health issues to focus on!2025-04-2226 minMental Health InsightsHow Do You Parent A Child That Is Struggling With Their Mental Health?In this episode we start to go through a general process of how to help a child that is struggling with their mental health. In this series we will get more specific when we go through various mental health related issues but this episode will set the framework!Framework:Deal with the emotion first by validating and using repetition Comfort child in a way that is effective for themallow them to make a decision about the situation now or at a later time. If you have a specific situation you wish to hear me...2025-04-1526 minMental Health InsightsEmotions Series OverviewIn this episode I give an overview and some final thoughts about how to use emotions. I hope you all find this helpful!2025-04-0228 minMental Health InsightsWhat Do I Need To Know About Anger To Help Someone That Is Angry? Part 2This episode continues with talking about anger and how to engage with it. The focus today is trying to understand and discern why anger may be coming up in someone else to help us know how to engage!2025-03-2526 minMental Health InsightsHow Do You Calm Down Someone That is Very Angry? Part 1In this episode we focus on how to engage with someone that is very angry to help them in that emotional experience. As a warning, using these moves in an abusive relationship is not recommended, especially when alone with an angry abuser. A secondary warning is that sometimes the anger response is a plea for space or for you (if the anger is due to conflict with you) to disengage. If that is a case, notice that pattern and consider giving space part of what you do after the validation attempts and making that known that you...2025-03-1826 minMental Health InsightsHow To Help A Very Emotional PersonIn this episode we move our focus to helping someone else with their emotional experiences. Here are some quick notes of the conversation: Assess if you care enough about this person to actually help in this momentAcknowledge your own emotional bandwidth right now and the capacity you havevalidate 3-5 times what this person is experiencing offer a deeper or more vulnerable possibility occurring in their emotional experience right now as wellAllow the person to choose what part of their experience to focus on and stick with them using validation, simple open ended questions, curiosity, and a willingness to...2025-03-1127 minMental Health InsightsWhat Do You Say About Yourself When Things Are Emotionally Difficult?In this episode we explore how to tap into view of self or core belief about yourself. This helps use understand a common thread emotional events play into and how you make sense of them. Knowing this gives us more opportunity to do something about it, and more ability to do something about how this can affect our mental health. During the episode I discuss one of the interventions for a new emotional experience that I personally use is to lean into my relationship with Jesus. As a believer this is what I use. I discuss other...2025-03-0421 minMental Health InsightsWhat Activates Your Emotional Protection?In this episode, we continue to build upon the last one in discerning what activates or triggers your protection. This is often a message we get from another person or event that we are reacting to. This is all to help emotional regulation and use in real world situations. 2025-02-2518 minMental Health InsightsIs Your Emotional Protection Healthy?Your emotional protection a key part of social interactions. In this episode we are going to explore how to tell what your emotional protection is and discern if it is healthy or not. 2025-02-1824 minMental Health InsightsWhat Does Fishing and Understanding Our Own Emotions Have In Common?In this episode we talk about using somatic (body urges) to explore depth and actions, or inactions, emotions point to. This is all part of our series on understanding our emotions more in order to improve our mental health. I hope you find this episode helpful!2025-02-1120 minMental Health InsightsHow to Sooth Your Own EmotionsIn today's episode we continue the series of talking about emotions. We focus on soothing and a way to go about that using your body and the emotional experience that comes up during that exploration. Remember, this is part of a series and this episode builds off the last and will continue to develop. I hope you find it helpful!2025-02-0417 minMental Health InsightsHow Can Understanding Emotions Improve Your Mental Health?In this episode we kick off a series to talk about emotions and how to successfully engage with your own emotions and with others emotions. In this episode we are going to specifically focus on how acknowledging and exploring your own emotion can help your mental health. This is a concept we will build upon as we travel through these episodes!It is good to be back. If you are curious what projects I have been working on, then check out my other podcast Handing It to Jesus. Below are some links to that podcast.2025-01-2917 minMental Health InsightsWhat Can Redwood Trees Teach You About Mental Health?Redwood Trees are amazing and can shed some light on some helpful mental health concepts! 2023-08-1715 minMental Health InsightsWhat Can Tree Pruning Teach Us About Mental HealthIn this episode we talk about pruning to benefit our mental health. I hope you find this helpful!2023-08-0914 minMental Health InsightsAre We Our Own Worst Enemy?Often we see ourselves as one of the biggest obsticles we face. Is this true or is there more to it than that. Are we really our worst enemy? Let's start to find out. Feel free to reach out and offer episode suggestions or just to say hi. I read and respond to every email! Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com 2023-07-0622 minMental Health InsightsIs People Pleasing a Bad Thing?People pleasing is seen as such a bad thing that we should take some time to think of if that is true or not. Join me in exploring people pleasing, its function, and if it is really a bad thing. Feel free to reach out at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com if you have episode suggestions or just to say Hi! I respond to every email!2023-06-2920 minMental Health InsightsDo You Have A Mental Health Issue or is Your Bran Just Wired Different?In this episode we explore how long lasting issues or challenging could be less mental health related issues and more a possibility of how your brain just is. Our brains operate differently and their is a fairly significant variance as more and more people are born. This leads us to question if the different ways our brains think is actually a mental illness or is it just wired to operate and be used differently? We explore this idea in this episode, I hope you enjoy! 2023-06-1530 minMental Health InsightsAddiction Series: PornIn this episode, I talk about how porn use can impact our mental health. This is important because of how prevalent porn use is and how it can impact our body and relationships deeply. I hope you find it helpful!
If you want to reach out for questions or episode suggestions, please email me at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com
2023-06-0127 minMental Health InsightsWhat is the Most Harmful Thing We Can do to Harm Our Mental Health?This question was asked by a friend and I took some time to think it over and I believe you will resonate with the answer. Thinking of your own life, you will likely be able to pick out how you may do this very thing we discuss to harm your own mental health without meaning to.
If you have any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to share, please feel free to email me at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com
2023-05-2519 minMental Health InsightsHow To Increase Your Brain’s Processing PowerMore processing power equals more ability to decrease the emotional volatility of an experience. Today we talk about how to increase you brain's processing power several times over to help you though tough experiences.
Remember to give our other podcast a listen to, Mental Health Insights In the Bible! You can find some of those episodes on all major podcast apps and at: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm/mentalhealthinsightsinthebible
If you want to reach out to me, my email is craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com
Take care!
2023-05-1821 minMental Health InsightsA Relationship Ruptured In EdenHere is an episode from our other podcast, Mental Health Insights In The Bible. This episode will be posted for a short while so feel free to listen as long as it is up. To listen more more episodes, please subscribe by following the link: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm/mentalhealthinsightsinthebible
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Thank you for joining us on this journey! We go over Genesis one and start to unpack some of the biblical lessons from before the fall occurs in the biblical narrative. This is one of the most powerful ex...2023-05-1238 minMental Health InsightsHow To Create Small Wins to Improve Your Mental HealthSmall wins can take us so much further in our mental health journey because they normally come more frequently than larger ones. In this episode I talk about leveraging habits to create these small wins that yield big results.
If you would like to check out our other podcast, Mental Health Insights in the Bible then here is a link: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm/mentalhealthinsightsinthebiblehttps://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm
If you would like to reach out, my email is Craig@lifecarecounselintslt.com
Take care!
2023-05-1122 minMental Health InsightsWhat To Do When You Are SufferingIn this episode we go over the steps to take when you are suffering and go through several examples to demonstrate them. The truth is, we have to do something because suffering is something we all experience or will experience.
It has been almost a year since I have published anything while I worked on my other podcast Mental Health Insights In The Bible. Now that we have that off the ground I am happy to be back recording for this one again as well. If you want to check that other podcast out (we have some g...2023-05-0534 minMental Health InsightsUnderstanding Relationships Part 2In this episode we talk about distance in the relationship. Often when we feel distance (emotional rather than physical in this case) we will react in several ways. I break this down in the episode and start to give some ways of considering and talking about distance in your relationship.
This episode is part of a series and is another building block so we can continue to more complex topics. We like to keep it simple so breaking it down and taking it slow is something we hope will help really soak in the understanding an...2022-05-2618 minMental Health InsightsUnderstanding Relationships Part 1We are created to bond and connect with others. In this episode we talk about human attachment and responsiveness to give us a foundation to build upon as we further explore relationships and how they impact our mental health.
In this episode I do not really talk about attachment styles as I feel like sometimes labels can restrict ways we think about ourselves. If labels help you more then I recommend you look some up since we all learn differently!
2022-05-1928 minMental Health InsightsWhat To Do About BurnoutBurnout is a challenging feeling to contend with. Most of us will have to face it at some point or another and we need a strategy to get out of it and a more clear idea of what burnout actually is. Thank you for listening and I am glad to be back!
2022-05-1226 minMental Health InsightsDoes Time Heal All Wounds?Emotional wounds can last a long time. With enough time, do they go away? In this episode, we explore this question and how we can work on helping emotional wounds heal.
2022-02-1032 minMental Health InsightsHow Validation Can Improve You RelationshipsIn this episode we break down validation and how central it is to building understanding and empathy in relationships. Validation is the key to communicating understanding of what someone is communicating and in this episode we talk about how this is done. After this episode, you will be able practice validating and experience the change it can bring!
2022-01-2028 minMental Health InsightsUsing Personal Narratives to Improve Your Mental HealthIn this episode we explore how we naturally create our own narratives or stories about ourselves in our day to day life. This can be a bad things if we are not really happy with how we are living our life. This can also be a great opportunity to use a powerful tool to actually help our mental health by crafting and pursuing narratives we want about our life. As with all things, awareness helps and it is action from awareness that will create change!
2022-01-1332 minMental Health InsightsUsing mind over matter to improve your mental health part 2In this episode we continue to explore the concept of mind over matter in relation to willpower.
2021-12-2317 minMental Health InsightsUsing mind over matter to improve your mental health part 1In this episode we talk about the concept of mind over matter and how it can impact your mental health.
2021-12-1621 minMental Health InsightsDon‘t Fight Thoughts With ThoughtsWhen we have anxiety, it can be common to try and think our way out of our problems. That may not be the right approach, fighting thoughts with thoughts. How about we try a different way.
2021-11-1921 minMental Health InsightsHow a Short Rest Can Improve Your Mental HealthA short rest or break can do wonders to develop great mental health. In this episode I break down why that is and how we can use this technique to help improve your mental health!
2021-10-2915 minMental Health InsightsUsing Hope to Improve Your Mental HealthHope is foundational to help keep us moving forward. In this episode I will talk about some functions of hope and how to use them to help improve your mental health. Mental health issues like depression will make this difficult, so make sure you set realistic expectations of yourself and keep that in you mind as you listen!
Hope can be a powerful tool if harnessed purposefully. I hope you enjoy the episode!
2021-09-2337 minMental Health InsightsUnderstanding Suicide and How You Can HelpIn this episode I talk to Paula Fontenelle about suicide. Paula is a mental health clinician and expert in working with all aspects of suicide. Paula shares with us signs, interventions, and mindsets to be aware of when helping someone that is suicidal.
Paula helps us understand that anyone can help someone with suicidal thoughts. Paula has great resources available at her website, understandsuicide.com where you can look at her book, online course, and podcast.
I enjoyed my conversation with Paula and know you will find her knowledge and insight help...2021-09-0945 minMental Health InsightsHow Does Technology Impact Our Mental Health Part 2As humans, we have amazing capacity to grow and learn. In this episode we will explore how technology can impact our attention and our propensity to avoid unpleasantness in life. We will also discuss how to star to think about striking that balance to help improve your mental health!
2021-08-2623 minMental Health InsightsHow Does Technology Impact Our Mental Health Part 1In this episode we start to unpack some of the ways our use of technology can impact our mental health. Technology is here to stay, so understanding the relationship between our mental health and technology use is critical!
2021-08-1127 minMental Health InsightsHow Does Mental Health Impact Thinking About The Future and What To Do About ItHave you ever had a hard time thinking about the future? Maybe you know someone who has trouble with this now? In this episode we will explore how mental health impacts our thinking about the future. We will also talk about day by day planning and what functions that serve for our mental health.
2021-07-1422 minMental Health InsightsBreaking Down Depression and What To Do About ItIn this episode I break down depression and the various ways it can work. This episode will also explore what you can do to help your or someone else's depression. I hope you find this helpful!
2021-07-0835 minMental Health InsightsCalming A Racing Mind and Our Nervous System Part 3Does your mind get flooded with thoughts that you can't seem to shake? Does your racing mind make it hard to focus or difficult to get anything done? In this episode, Pete Sandoval, LPC will explore with us what causes a racing mind and what we can do in order to calm ourselves in these moments.
This episode is part of the Calming A Racing Mind series but we go more in depth this episode to really drive home what you can do to help calm yourself in these tough moments. We hope you enjoy!
2021-06-1759 minMental Health InsightsHow Sex Affects Mental HealthIn this episode I start the conversation about how sex affects our mental health. First, we have to talk about both physical and emotional components that make up sex. I hope you enjoy!
2021-06-0332 minMental Health InsightsHow Physical Touch Can Help Our Mental HealthIn this episode, Sarah Sanburn, LPC helps us to understand how physical touch impacts our mental health. Sarah also helps use to understand how to use touch to help improve behaviors and connection to our children (young and old)! We hope you find this episode helpful!
2021-05-2143 minMental Health InsightsUnderstanding OCD and What To Do About ItObsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder that can be complicated. Today we have Dr. Jeremy Shuman help simplify OCD and guide us towards what treatment of OCD looks like. We hope you find this helpful!
2021-05-0353 minMental Health InsightsHow Tracking Your Mood and Behavior Can Improve Your Mental HealthImproving our mental health is important. This is an easy idea and tool to help you start the path to understanding what you can actually do to help your mental health. We hope you enjoy!
2021-04-2622 minMental Health InsightsHow Sleeping Affects Your Mental HealthIn this episode, I talk to Stephanie Korpal, a therapist in Saint Louis Missouri that helps us understand how sleep helps our mental health. We hope you enjoy!
2021-04-1545 minMental Health InsightsHow Your Relationship With Food Impacts Your Mental HealthJoin Reshaunda Thornton and myself as we explore how the foods you eat can impact your mental health. We will also explore how you can transform your relationship with food and why a diet may not be the right direction for you. We hope you enjoy!
2021-04-0849 minMental Health InsightsHow Describing Our Experiences Can Help Our Mental HealthIn this episode we explore how language, words, and description help our brain deepen its understanding of an experience we have. This is a crucial process in helping us process emotional events and helps us to better be able to communicate our experiences.
Being able to express your experiences is a great way to help yourself and others understand you. In this episode I will also talk about a process of helping you talk about your feelings and experiences in a deeper way with those around you. I hope you enjoy!
2021-03-2530 minMental Health InsightsHow to Become More Introspective and Why It MattersIn this episode I talk about introspection and how to go about being more reflective of your own life experiences. I also talk about how important this is for our own personal growth. I provide personal examples to help you with your own journey as well! 2021-03-1937 minMental Health InsightsWhy Does Counseling Help?In this episode I start to talk about the science of some of what happens during counseling. This episode is great for understanding how counseling starts to produce change! 2021-02-2332 minMental Health InsightsWhy You May Want To Switch the Labels on How Your Brain ThinksOur brain creates labels as short cuts for helping us make logical leaps and conserve energy. The problem is, sometimes these labels are wrong or cause more issues for us. Today we explore how to look at and start the process of changing the way we use labels in the world around us! 2021-02-1245 minMental Health InsightsHow You Learn To Live Differently In RecoveryToday Matt Bauersachs from Learn To Live Recovery joins us to talk about recovery from substance abuse and how the transformation takes place. We talk about how how recovery is a process that helps addicts learn to live differently and feel differently about themselves. We hope you enjoy this episode! 2021-02-0459 minMental Health InsightsHow To Adjust Your MindsetIn this episode I talk about mindsets and how they form and impact your way of thinking and experiences life. We also start to talk about how to adjust a mindset you want to change and what that process looks like. I hope you find this helpful!2021-01-2839 minMental Health InsightsEmotional Toll of Preparing for and Starting CollegeFor those that decide to go to college, it is a stressful process and many times and very emotional one. Not only that but even getting to college can be create a very difficulty environment for a student to thrive. Join me as I explore these challenges with a college counselor, Joann Elliott, LPC. We hope you enjoy!2021-01-141h 00Mental Health InsightsThree Mistakes That Keep Couples From Being CloseIn this episode I talk about common mistakes I see in couples I work with. Being aware of these mistakes can give you the opportunity to creating a closer relationship with your significant other! I hope you enjoy this episode!2021-01-0731 minMental Health InsightsHow Functional Medicine Can Help Improve Mental HealthIn this episode, I talk to Dr. Roland about functional medicine and the relationship that exists between physical and mental health. We explore how environment and illness can play a role in contributing or even causing different mental health issues. I hope you find this helpful! 2020-12-1844 minMental Health InsightsHow To Calm A Racing Mind Part 3, Be ExperimentalA continuation of our Calming A Racing Mind series. In this episode I talk about how experimenting is one of the best ways to discover what works for you and give you real life examples and practical ways to get into this mindset. I hope you enjoy!2020-12-1033 minMental Health InsightsThe Journey To Find PurposeIn this episode I talk to Kim McGuiness, LPC about how she helps people find purpose and the importance that can have to our mental health. We hope you enjoy!2020-11-2540 minMental Health InsightsDeep Therapy and How It Reveals Why We Do What We DoIn this episode we start to explore a type of therapy called Psychodynamic Therapy with Gabi Black. This type of therapy is what we may call a deep therapy that is designed to help create understanding around deep rooted issues and behaviors. We also start a conversation about dreams and how they can have psychological significance. We hope you enjoy!2020-10-2943 minMental Health InsightsProtecting Your Mental BandwidthHow can you make everything you do a little easier? Just try to protect your mental bandwidth and learn what drains it! Today I talk about what this mental bandwidth is and why protecting it is so important. 2020-10-2327 minMental Health InsightsHow A Little Drama Can Be TherapeuticToday I talk with Paula Heller, a Drama Therapist. We talk about how acting, role play, and storytelling elements can help in therapy and really take "talk" therapy to another level.We also talk about how movement and role playing can help you get unstuck from difficult anxieties or trauma. We hope you find this helpful!2020-08-2157 minMental Health InsightsAttachment and Why It Matters For Your RelationshipsWe finally talk about attachment. We have touched on this topic in several episodes but today I talk with Shirley Crenshaw, LCSW, a specialist in attachment related issues and trauma. If you are wondering how childhood relationships can have big impacts on people later in life, then you will enjoy this episode. I hope you enjoy! 2020-08-131h 02Mental Health InsightsWhat Goes Into Our Identity and How to Reshape ItToday Stephanie Barbee and I start to explore how our experiences shape our identity, attachment needs/responses, and how to work on becoming who you want to be. We talk about messages different people get at different times of their life as examples to help you start to think about your own identity and what helped form you into who you are today. The wonderful part of being human is we can change our identity over time and we also discuss how Stephanie helps people do so! We hope you enjoy! 2020-08-061h 04Mental Health InsightsTalk Less and Overcome Blocks With Brainspotting TherapyMany times we think about sitting on the couch and talking to someone when we think of therapy. This is because most therapy consists of that. However, Brainspotting is a therapy that can help with a variety of issues with very little speaking. In this episode, I talk to Brittany Bagy about Brainspotting. This type of therapy was developed by Dr. David Grand, and is very unique type of therapy. If you are curious about the brain and different ways therapy can engage in change in the brain/body then you will lo...2020-07-3156 minMental Health InsightsWhy Is Therapy Hard For Most GuysMen face a cultural stigma in therapy and today, we start to explore why. If you are a guy thinking about therapy or a therapist that works with guys, this will be most helpful for you. We hope you enjoy!2020-07-171h 00Mental Health InsightsCalming A Racing MindSlow that racing mind down! Here is how to do it.
2020-07-0929 minMental Health InsightsHow Self Awareness Makes Your Life BetterSelf awareness is something that helps us be who we want to be and understand why we do the things we do. It is an attribute healthy, successful, and many great leaders share. Maybe, self awareness is the key ingredient to big mental health changes! Join Craig Foust, Nicole Oliver, and Pete Sandoval for this episode. We hope you enjoy!2020-05-2242 minMental Health InsightsHow To Have Tough Conversations With Your KidsWhen is it the right time to talk about sex, emotions, the future, and any other tough topic with your child? We explore this question and how to have these tough conversations in this episode. We hope you enjoy! 2020-04-2958 minMental Health InsightsSurviving Vs Thriving During A CrisisThriving during a crisis is challenging so we explore some ways to help you thrive. We also talk about our own experience struggling during this time and how we are handling it. We hope you find this helpful!2020-04-2452 minMental Health InsightsClean Your Home To Help Your Mental HealthYou can take a great step towards better mental health by doing some house cleaning! If you have been staying home lately, consider clean up a little to help feel better! This episode talks about why mental health and cleanliness is related and how to go about taking these steps to improve your mental health. 2020-04-0817 minMental Health InsightsMore Self Awareness Will Make Your Life BetterLearn more about yourself and use that to help make your life better. Self awareness is a perspective and reality we work towards and I will talk to you about how to do it in this episode. I hope you enjoy!2020-04-0242 minMental Health InsightsDealing With Stress and Social IsolationLearn how to mange stress when you don't have easy access to social supports you may normally use. I hope you find this helpful!2020-03-2716 minMental Health InsightsHow To Handle Anxiety and Stress Part 2In light of the high anxiety time we are in, I wanted to share some simple tips to keep your stress and anxiety from getting too high. Keep in mind, our stress and anxiety directly impact our immune system. This means we have to keep working to keep our stress and anxiety in check! I hope you find this helpful!2020-03-2020 minMental Health InsightsWhat Do Therapist Mean By Healthy Relationships?Join Craig Foust, Nicole Oliver, Pete Sandoval, and Kristen Craren as we explore what healthy relationships look like. All of us look at relationships from different angles and give our own view on what "healthy relationships" look like and how to work towards them. We hope you enjoy!2020-03-1241 minMental Health InsightsWhy Is It Hard For You To Talk To People You Care AboutTalking to people you care about is hard. How do we get better at it? Kristen Craren joins me in answering this question and helping you understand a little about the importance of relationships. We hope you enjoy!2020-02-2756 minMental Health InsightsHelping Veterans and Finding PurposeDuring this episode, I talk to Chad Welch about how important mental health work is with active and retired military. We also start to explore purpose and meaning in our life and how that propels different issues therapist treat!2020-02-201h 13Mental Health InsightsOne Simple Way To Improve Your MarriageThis one skill will help you have a better marriage. Imagine reducing fighting, arguing, disagreements, and tension by just having make sure you do this one thing. This will be part 1 in a series to help you improve your relationships!2020-02-1226 minMental Health InsightsHow To Improve Your MemoryForgetting important things is awful.
We have all been in that gut wrenching moment when we realize we forgot something important. Today, Nicole, Sheila, and myself talk about how to improve your memory so you don't get into those situations as often. I hope you enjoy the episode!
2020-02-0745 minMental Health Insights5 Steps to Handle Big Emotions5 Steps to Handle Big EmotionsDo you feel like your emotions overwhelm and take over when situations get tough in your life? You are not alone. Anyone can get overwhelmed from strong emotional tides and sometimes it may even feel like our life is ruled by our emotions. In this podcast episode, I talk about 5 ways to help you start to break down those big emotions and stop those overwhelming feelings from taking over. I hope you enjoy! 2020-01-2228 minMental Health InsightsMaking Your Resolutions StickMaking Your Resolutions StickIt is hard to stick to goals and resolutions. The sense of defeat from trying to improve can be devastating. In this episode we talk about how to make habits, resolutions, and goals easier to be successful with.This is a topic Pete, Nicole, and myself really enjoy talking about and I hope that you find it helpful for your own pursuits as well!2020-01-1054 minMental Health InsightsDefeating Social AnxietyThe Crushing Loneliness of Social AnxietySocial anxiety is an isolating condition that can be overcome. You can be confident when walking into a social situation when you address your social anxiety. This condition makes avoiding any social situation normal. Learning social skills and being more comfortable in talking to others can go a long way in helping you develop lasting relationships. Social anxiety is the condition that promotes loneliness and avoidance. Learn how to address your social anxiety and visit My first dungeons and dragons group for those that suffer from social anxiety is aimed at s...2019-12-1622 minMental Health InsightsYou Can Recover From PsychosisPsychosis is a scary experience, and it is largely unknown why it occurs in some and not others. We do know early warning signs, how reduce chances of psychosis, and how to start the road to recovery. Jennifer Gerlach with True Story Counseling talks to us about psychosis and how to help recovery. She also talks to us about warning signs and some factors that influence if someone will experience psychosis. We hope you enjoy!2019-12-1139 minMental Health InsightsTherapist Talk About How You Can Handle The HolidaysSurviving The Holidays
The holidays can be a hard time for many people due to the high time demands, stressful family encounters, and tugging expectations. We unpack these difficulties and start to talk about how to address each issue to help you get through the holidays. This will help you enjoy the holidays instead of dreading them!
2019-12-0554 minMental Health InsightsAddiction Series: NicotineHow Does Nicotine Affect Mental Health?
Nicotine is a drug that has been around for many years and the cravings and withdrawals from it are well known. How bad is nicotine for you, what does it do, is it that hard to stop and what are the different forms of nicotine use are all questions I will talk about in this episode.
I will also share some of my experience working with adolescent that use nicotine regularly in the newer vape devices that are gaining popularity. I hope you find this epi...2019-11-2519 minMental Health InsightsAddiction Series- OpiatesUnderstanding Opiates and AddictionOpiates are some of the most powerful and deadly drugs and there is good reason. They affect our brain and body in a powerful way by tapping into natural internal systems we have. Learn how opiates impact the body and brain and how to help with opiate addiction. I hope you enjoy this episode and find it helpful!2019-11-1327 minMental Health InsightsTrauma Basics Part 3How Do Therapist Resolve Trauma?Join Craig Foust, Nicole Oliver, and Pete Sandoval as we talk about how therapist approach working with trauma and helping healing occur around traumatic experiences. Trauma therapists use several techniques such as EMDR, somatic experiencing, accelerated resolution therapy, and couples therapy to help with trauma. Each of these methods taps into natural ways the brain is able to heal from trauma and many of them work in similar fashion. Join us as we explore some of the techniques and how they work to heal trauma! We hope y...2019-11-0646 minMental Health InsightsTrauma Basics Part 2 RebroadcastDue to an error with the the original episode, a good portion was cut out. This episode is a solo episode to go over some of the key areas we covered to make sure the information is still available and to help with a smooth transition to the next trauma episode in the series! I hope you enjoy!2019-10-3024 minMental Health InsightsHow Do Therapist RelocateSometimes moving from place to place is a part of life. Sometimes we move because we want to and other times not so much.
Join me as I talk to Christina with Mindful Coping Solutions and Lauren with Venture Wellness about their recent move to St. Louis.
As mental health professionals, these two have a different take on how to make moving a little easier! I hope you enjoy!
2019-10-2844 minMental Health InsightsAddiction Series: CocaineI go over how cocaine affects the body and brain and some of the ramifications of its use. I also talk about some signs to spot possible cocaine use, I hope this is helpful!
2019-10-2124 minMental Health InsightsAddiction Part 2This episode is to help you understand depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens/dissociatives. I also talk about how these drugs can impact mental health on a basic scale and will go more in depth when we start talking about specific drugs. I hope you enjoy!2019-10-0336 minMental Health InsightsAddiction and AlcoholA continuation of our addiction series where I talk about how alcohol use affects mental health. This episode also talks about benzodiazapines since they are similar in how they work. I hope you enjoy!2019-10-0233 minMental Health InsightsDogs are Relationship ExpertsToday we talk to Sarah Wilson about her work with dogs and how that informs her some of the family dynamics. While Sarah focuses on altering unwanted behavior of the dog, she talks to us about how dogs are reactive to the dynamics in the home. This is a fascinating episode that has me looking at my dogs and wondering how their behavior can inform me about how I am at home with my family. I also have Kristen Craren with me to lend some of her own observations and experiences to the conversation. I hope you enjoy!2019-09-2935 minMental Health InsightsHow Our History Impacts Our Present (Trauma series)Join Craig Foust, Nicole Oliver, and Kristen Craren as we talk about how our past experiences impact us today. While the context is with trauma in mind, our own past experiences have deep impacts on our feelings and behaviors presently. We hope you enjoy our exploration of this topic!2019-09-1344 minMental Health InsightsTrauma basics part 1Join Craig Foust, Nicole Oliver, Kristen Craren, and Pete Sandoval as we talk about what trauma is, how it occurs, different types of trauma, and how trauma affects people. We hope you enjoy!2019-09-0347 minMental Health InsightsHow to Reduce Anxiety and StressJoin a few therapist as they talk about ways to manage your stress and anxiety. They share their own ways of managing stress and some ways their clients have found to be helpful. In this episode, Craig Foust with Life Care Counseling, Nicole Oliver with Integrative Neurocounseling, and Kristen Craren with Craren Family Services. I hope you enjoy it!2019-08-2149 minMental Health InsightsAddiction and MarijuanaThis talk from the addiction series, will focus on marijuana. In this episode I will talk about how marijuana works in the body and brain and what effects can occur due to ongoing marijuana use. I will also talk about the difference between THC and CBD. I hope you find this helpful!2019-08-1331 minMental Health InsightsYour Stress responseYour stress response is a beautiful thing in the right circumstances. Just like many parts of ourselves, the stress response is something that can adapt to our experiences and our genetics. In this episode, Nicole and I talk about the stress response, how it works, and signs of what it may look like if the stress response is over active. We hope you find this helpful!2019-08-0644 minMental Health InsightsAddiction BasicsJoin me in this solo episode as I talk about addiction and habit loops. These pieces are a part of all of us and starting to understand the basics can help us alter our own behavior. I hope you enjoy!
2019-07-0939 min
Mental Health InsightsBrain BasicsJoin us for our first episode on Mental Health Insights. Here we talk about the basics of the brain to build an understand for our later talks on mental health. We hope you enjoy!2019-07-0230 min