Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=May%2006,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Coping skills can be really important for anxiety. They often soothe or comfort us, and they help us calm down and make better choices. However, coping skills do nothing to solve our problems in the long term, and some of them, if used exclusively, can be harmful. Coping skil...
May 06, 2021•8 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Apr%2028,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Sometimes we feel like we're in danger even when we're actually safe. In this podcast you're going to learn four skills to turn off this fear response, aka the fight/flight/freeze response, and restore a sense of calm in your body and mind. Looking for affordable online couns...
Apr 28, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Apr%2022,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Your body has a built-in, natural ability to calm anxiety. Learn four simple, body-based ways you can calm anxiety by turning on the parasympathetic nervous system. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional for $...
Apr 22, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Apr%2015,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Trauma, anxiety, and other emotions can get trapped in your body. In this video, you'll learn how to release trapped emotions and heal stress, anxiety, and trauma through the body. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed pr...
Apr 15, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Apr%2008,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Understanding how anxiety affects your brain can help you learn how to stop reacting to emotions, stop doing stupid stuff that you regret later, and live a happier life where your actions line up with who you want to be. Many people don’t know that the way their brain and bod...
Apr 08, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Apr%2001,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast The mind-body connection is powerful. When we have a strong emotion our body has a physical reaction, and emotions can seem trapped in our body when we have a chronic stress response. In this section, you’re going to learn how to improve your mental health by working with emo...
Apr 01, 2021•13 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Primary vs. Secondary Emotions Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Mar%2025,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Sometimes the emotion you're feeling isn't what you're really upset about. Sometimes what you're feeling is actually covering up real emotions. You can gain much better emotional control if you learn to identify the feelings underneath your feel...
Mar 25, 2021•12 min•Season 2Ep. 7
How to Feel Your Feelings: Willingness Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Mar%2018,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast This is the one skill I wish everyone had: willingness, the ability to experience your emotions without needing to immediately escape or avoid them. Willingness is an essential skill from ACT, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. It's a...
Mar 18, 2021•18 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Mar%2011,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast In this podcast, skill #5 from my course “How to Process your Emotions,” you’re going to learn how to tell if you’re making your anxiety worse. And in the next two videos right here on my channel, you’re going to learn how to escape that cycle — how to get better at feeling s...
Mar 11, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Mar%2008,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast The truth is that we create much of our own suffering. Why is this awesome? If we can identify something we are doing to create our own suffering, then we can fix it! We can take action to resolve the problem and come to peace. This is radical responsibility. When we can iden...
Mar 09, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 4
In this guided meditation, I walk you through visualizing your happy place, your safe place, your calming place so that you can relax and fall asleep. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional for $65/week. Try it now for 10% off: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=03042021 Support my mission on Patreo...
Mar 05, 2021•8 min•Ep. 40
Emotion processing is when you work through emotions, and in this technique for anxiety and other strong emotions, we cover the SIFT technique. the SIFT technique was developed by Dr. Dan Siegal and is a helpful technique for coping with anxiety and stress and other sensations and emotions. Thanks BetterHelp for sponsoring the video: BetterHelp- Professional, Affordable Online Counseling starting at around $65 a week https://www.betterhelp.com/therapyina... Learn more in one of my in-depth men...
Feb 27, 2021•5 min•Ep. 42
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Feb%2018,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Coping skills for emotions like anger, depression, anxiety focus on making bad feeling go away, on feeling better in the moment. But in the long run, coping skills actually make us feel worse because when we suppress our emotions, when we try to make our emotions go away or j...
Feb 18, 2021•19 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Feb%2011,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Many of us think of emotions as either "good"/"positive" or "bad"/"negative." But this view of emotions is inaccurate and unhelpful. In this video, you will learn how to stop judging your emotions and start describing them instead. This nonjudgmental attitude has been shown t...
Feb 11, 2021•14 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Feb%2004,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast When we don't know what we're feeling, we tend to be reactive and impulsive in ways that mess up our life. When our emotions are vague, nebulous, unexplored sensations - when we feel something, but we don’t know what it is or we aren’t sure where it comes from - we have littl...
Feb 04, 2021•13 min•Season 2Ep. 1
How to Process Your Emotions Ready to change your life? Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $147: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing?utm_campaign=Jan%2028,%202021&utm_medium=Description&utm_source=podcast Invest in yourself! Use my link and check out the first chapter of any course for FREE! https://bit.ly/3qHLWvZ When I talk about processing emotions, I mean we literally need to go through a process to regulate and resolve our emotions. In this vi...
Jan 28, 2021•15 min•Ep. 37
You can learn to set better goals. Most people don't realize it but they are accidentally setting negative goals and this just isn't how your brain works. If you want to set better goals, then you need to learn how to set positive goals. Setting positive goals is about focusing on the smallest possible steps to accomplishing what you DO want in your life instead of focusing on what you DON'T want in your life. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor BetterHelp connects you to a lice...
Jan 26, 2021•8 min•Season 1Ep. 35
You can fight depression and burnout in just a few minutes a day. Your brain is so much better at focusing on survival than it is at focusing on being happy, and it's because of this fact that your brain is constantly scanning for threats, trying to pick out or notice anything bad, dangerous, or negative instead of looking for the positive or dwelling on the good things that happen in your life. Your brain’s default setting is to keep you alive by really paying attention to anything threatening ...
Jan 21, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 36
In this video I’m going to talk about how you can create an environment where healing is possible and increase your chances of beating your mental illness. And while most people don’t have the opportunity to go to residential treatment if they need it, there is one thing that I’ve taken from my experience there that helps me be a better therapist now than I was before. And that’s taking a team approach to treatment. Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapynutshell.com Thanks BetterHelp for...
Jan 19, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Hello everyone, Today is World Mental Health Day. Right now around a billion people experience a mental illness or a substance abuse disorder and depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. But the solution sometimes seems overwhelming. So it’s needless to say that mental Illness is a big problem for many people. And the causes are complex, from biology to experience to how we think and act, and in my opinion depression and anxiety are often caused by a lot of tiny little thoughts o...
Jan 12, 2021•5 min•Season 1Ep. 33
In this video you’re going to learn what to do when your brain just won’t shut up with all the worries about what’s going to happen in the future. I’m going to teach you one antidote for when you’re stuck ruminating on your fears, and I’ll teach you why you should never worry in your head. A Little worry is ok. Worry serves a function. Beneficial worry prompts action, it can help us plan for the future by thinking through possible problems and their solutions. But compulsive worry makes us feel ...
Jan 07, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Mental filtering is the cognitive distortion where we only see one aspect of a situation, usually the negative side of it when it comes to depression or anxiety. You focus on the negative and disregard or filter out all the positive. You pick out a single negative detail and hyperfocus on this instead of everything else going on. If you can’t see anything positive, then your thoughts are lying to you. Mental filtering makes us more anxious, but anxiety makes us mental filter more- because anxiet...
Jan 05, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Loneliness impacts the immune system, mental health, and physical health in dramatic ways. But you can counteract its effects through intentional human connection. Loneliness contributes to depression, anxiety, heart disease, a weakened immune system, cognitive decline, and other mental and physical health problems, but you can find ways to connect with others in a way that strengthens your physical health, even during coronavirus. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp...
Dec 29, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 26
So here’s another of the most common questions I get on my “Rewiring the Anxious Brain” video- People asked “What if the dog bites you?” Now in that video I was explaining how when you avoid something it makes your anxiety go up, and this is really harmful when you avoid something that feels dangerous, but is actually safe- like public speaking, taking a test, or asking for a raise. So I used the example of being afraid of dogs and then explained how gradual exposure can help you overcome that f...
Dec 28, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Knowing how to get motivated is really important. How to stay motivated is even more important There are tons of videos teaching tips and tricks and rah rah motivation, but in this video I’m going to teach you how your brain works so you understand the principle behind how to get motivated and how to stay motivated. You’re going to learn how dopamine- the neurotransmitter of reward and motivation works in your brain and 4 simple things you can do to get motivated and stay that way. Looking for a...
Dec 26, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Here’s a quick activity that you can do to cope with anxiety and restore a sense of safety and calm, I do it all the time with my clients in session and you can feel a noticeable difference almost immediately. This activity is short and simple, but it can really help decrease anxiety or better cope with anxiety. A big part of anxiety and stress is trying to figure out what you should be doing about certain problems. I mean that’s what worry is, right, it’s thinking about a problem over and over ...
Dec 22, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Seasonal Affective Disorder is a type of depression that is associated with changes in the seasons. (It also has the clever acronym, SAD). Or it’s called the Winter Blues. These symptoms often start in the fall and persist into the winter. With Winter SAD people feel less energetic and more moody, with symptoms similar to depression. It can look like: Losing interest in activities you once enjoyed, feeling sluggish, tired, or low energy, having problems with sleep, feeling hopeless, weight gain,...
Dec 21, 2020•15 min•Season 1Ep. 30
People-pleasing is when you feel like you have to change yourself to be loved or accepted by others. People pleasing is especially common among women, but anyone could be a people pleaser. When you are stuck in people pleasing you may feel tired, overwhelmed, exhausted, or resentful. There are different types of people pleasers- the perky, the pouty, and the perplexed people pleaser. If you'd like to learn more about overcoming people pleasing and perfectionism, check out Carly's online course: ...
Dec 17, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Can you be successful with OCD? John Green is the famous bestselling author of "The fault in our stars" "Looking for Alaska" and "Turtles all the way down. He's successful, smart, deep, and he also has OCD. John Green's book "Turtles all the way down" is a fictional book about a girl who has OCD- Obsessive-compulsive disorder- and how she deals with life. Sign up for my newsletter: www.therapynutshell.com Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring the video: BetterHelp- Professional, affordable, online...
Dec 15, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 24
In part 3 of Rewiring the Anxious Brain, I talk about what to do when you don't know why you're anxious but you don't know why. After making my video on the Anxiety cycle and how to rewire your brain to be less anxious, I got a lot of questions, but one of the most common ones was "I don't know why I'm anxious" What do I do about that? In this video, I discuss 2 reasons why you might be anxious and you don't know why, and what you can do about anxiety. I discuss the principle of neuroplasticity ...
Dec 08, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 23
