Do you feel like you are having the same arguments with your partner or loved one over and over without resolution? Is our country experiencing something similar? In today's episode I hope you will find some encouragement to explore your beliefs and truths as well as diving deeper into your relationships with some assistance from a man who lived about 2500 years ago on the other side of the world.
In this episode we briefly explore how trauma and fear effect our nervous systems. Knowing what is happening in our bodies and brains, not just our thoughts, is one of the keys to beginning to understand how we interpret and react to the outside world, including things that frighten or threaten us. This knowledge can help dispel common misconceptions and help those with trauma, and, let's face it, almost everyone has some kind of trauma, begin to understand their reaction and how to heal....
As you sit talking to your therapist, do you sometimes wonder what is going on in their heads? What are they really thinking about? Their grocery list? Their upcoming vacation? In this episode, I address several of your questions over the last few weeks. What are therapist's really thinking? Do therapists know when you're lying? And how can a therapist work with someone they don't like?
Are you struggling in releasing resentment, pain or anger connected with someone, maybe yourself? Do you feel you want or need to let go and just aren't sure how? Today's podcast is meant to help you explore forgiveness, why you might consider it, and the benefits it can bring.
If you feel your self-esteem could use a boost and you want to learn ways to love yourself better, then please listen to today's podcast. So much of what we believe about ourselves comes from our attachments, our abilities, our achievements, and our relationship histories, but also, sometimes, much of what we believe is based on lies we were told or told ourselves as well as outdated information and distortions in thinking. Listen today to learn some ways to improve how you feel about you and yo...
Do you think your attachment style, first learned as an infant, is negatively impacting your relationships? If so, is there any hope of changing our attachment style or is it so ingrained and wired that we are stuck with it? In this episode we will look at ways to shift your thinking around how you attach and six steps toward beginning to move toward self examination and more loving relationships.
How did you learn what love is and how to love? If your relationships are not fulfilling, if you feel relationship is something you've never been "good at", please listen. This podcast is devoted to attachment styles and childhood wounding, which are often at the heart of why we struggle in relationship. Why you react as you do or feel (or not feel) in relationship, is often directly connected to your past. As Carl Jung said, "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life an...
As we look at our individual and collective obstacles and challenges, read the news or even in looking outside these days, it is easy to sometimes feel trapped, stuck, and uncertain. In today's brief episode, we examine the lives of several people we might think of as having been trapped and explore how they and we can shift our thinking to truly be free, leading us to more fulfilling and satisfying relationships with ourselves and others.
If you want to change your life or your relationships, shifting your thinking can make all the difference. Now more than ever we need the ability to look at different perspectives, which can lead us to empathy and a more fulfilling life. If you are depressed or anxious, learning the habit of shifting your thoughts and actually effecting changes in your brain, can improve your mood and your life. In this episode of Try, Try Again with Katherine Velez we start in looking at the basics of how to sh...
Malala Yousafzai said, “Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.” And while one computer might need to be included, distance learning has not changed this profound truth. If you have felt more overwhelmed the last few weeks with the start of school and distance-learning, you might find some strategies and reassurance in this latest episode of Try, Try Again with Katherine Velez. I provide five strategies to try and help with the anxiety many parents, s...
Are you feeling hopeless and having difficulty connecting to or finding faith in the midst of all our individual and collective trauma and loss? Where do we find hope and faith when it is in short supply, typically when it is needed most, like today? In this episode we explore how to reconnect to ourselves and one another and how to create and witness not only hope, but faith as well. We have the power and ability right now and I encourage you to listen to the entire episode. It is simple, not e...
Do you ever feel someone is taking advantage of you and, worse, you are letting them? Do you say yes, but then feel resentment followed by guilt? Would you like to feel more comfortable in saying no and speaking your feelings? In this episode, we start by looking at what I have always thought is one of the best books about boundaries; The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein and outline six necessary steps in learning how to set healthy boundaries in your relationships.
If you are feeling you could use more energy or are struggling with chronic illness or addiction to sugar or even considering some kind of dietary change, this episode is worth a listen. This week in Try, Try Again with Katherine Velez I talk with Carissa Vukovich, a Registered Nurse and Community Ambassador for UC Davis Integrative Health about the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle as well as her own battle with chronic illness and relationship with food.
Trust is a cornerstone of relationship so how do we rebuild trust after someone has hurt us deeply or betrayed us? Can we let go of the pain or should we let go of the person? In this episode of Try, Try Again with Katherine Velez we talk about honesty, forgiveness, and developing new ways of communicating leading to restored trust and perhaps an improved relationship.
Join me in listening to yoga teacher and consultant Sydney Strohn as she honestly and lovingly discusses regulating ourselves and recovery. Many of us are in recovery from addiction, but also we may be recovering from losses so great we feel we cannot bear them or feeling we are not good enough. Maybe we are recovering from pain someone else has caused us or perhaps we have never been loved well and never learned to love ourselves. We all, at some point, are in recovery of a kind and Sydney shar...
In this interview, Yogi Cheryl Nielsen shares her expertise and passion for yoga. She is a private consultant and has practiced and taught yoga for more than 40 years here in the states and worldwide. Learn one simple technique for helping you regulate and calm and find out why yoga is so effective for increasing focus, decreasing anxiety, and many other physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits.
There continues to be much stress and uncertainty even after six months of Covid entering our lives and our lexicon. We are still in collective trauma and, for many, individual pain, depression, and or anxiety. In this episode I offer steps that have worked for me and others to find empowerment where we can and "letting go and letting God" where we can't.
Yes, we all get angry or scared or upset and we've probably all experienced someone saying to us, "Just calm down." Has that ever worked? This episode we'll review why it's difficult to calm down and why it's important to know how to calm yourself as well as eight steps to a calmer, more collected you.
Wherever we find ourselves right now, physically, emotionally and spiritually, is due to decisions we’ve made as well as potentially years of programed belief systems, maybe trauma, decisions others made that effected us or brain health issues, but also a lifetime’s worth of habits. Good habits that were not kept up or bad habits that were adopted. Self care and habits are closely connected. In the first part of several to follow addressing self care, we'll talk about six basic self care necessi...
How do you know when it might be time to seek out a therapist? This episode is an introduction to Katherine and a chance to examine possible obstacles keeping you from getting the help you might need. Explore the seven suggestions you might want to consider before seeing a therapist. Direct any questions, comments or suggested future topics to my website, katherinekempvelez.com.
