A Healthy Mind: How Are You Doing... Really? with Tamia Barnes Tomasek

Your Day Brighter®

Mar 03, 2021•41 min•Ep. 47

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Episode description

Tracey talks with sought-after psychotherapist and speaker Tamia Barnes Tomasek about our mental health in the year of pandemic, racial tensions, and political divides. How do we navigate these crises with a healthy mind?

Tamia gives some practical help to measure how we are really doing, warning signs of needing professional care, and ways we can practice self-care and care for others.

1:45- How therapists are bring stretched during this time
3:17- A little bit about Tamia and what she specializes in
6:15- How Tamia stays mentally healthy separating her work from her family life
8:37- Selfcare and wellness
9:51- How faith integrates into Tamia's counseling
12:43- Anxiety vs depression and the prevalence of both
19:06- The impact on our mental health with isolation
22:33- Warning signs to look for
28:40- Practices to put in places
32:02- Coping mechanisms
35:02- Help for those struggling with anxiety and sadness

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