Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills In this video, individuals seeking to learn how to stop worrying and start living are offered a practical guide to differentiate between unproductive worry and constructive problem-solving. The video aims to empower viewers with the skills to redirect their attention away from chronic worry and towards living a more engaged and fulfilling life, highlighting the journey of how to stop worrying and start living. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects  you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_m

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Check out Smile Brilliant: https://www.smilebrilliant.com/product/night-guards/?utm_source=YouTube+Influencer&amp;utm_medium=Night+Guards&amp;utm_campaign=Daily&amp;utm_id=Therapy+in+a+Nutshell Discovering how to stop overthinking begins with the realization that trying to force our thoughts to change only amplifies them. This video introduces the ACT technique of cognitive defusion, a pivotal concept for those seeking to learn how to stop overthinking. Instead of wrestling with our thoughts and overthinking potential outcomes, cognitive defusion teaches us to observe our thoughts without attachment. By labeling and notici

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Feeling anxiety won’t harm you. Your body is wired to feel anxiety. It’s supposed to. You can handle it. But when we become afraid of our feelings, then suddenly we get stuck in a super unhelpful spiral. We start struggling against them, trying to force ourselves to calm down with “deep breathing or meditation” anything to make the anxiety go away. But this just makes things worse. We pile anxiety onto our anxiety. Anxiety about anxiety looks like -Fear of losing control -Anticipatory Anxiety: -Feeling anxious about your anxious thoughts. Oh no! I’m catastrophizing again! This will ruin everything! In this podcast we will talk about how to stop that anxious spiral.  Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects  you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own h

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills In this video you’ll learn about the automatic negative thoughts that fuel the anxiety cycle and lead to feeling overwhelmed or hopeless. You probably aren’t even aware of the types of thoughts that take you there, so we’ll explore them. And then we’ll talk about both a CBT and ACT approach to dealing with them. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects  you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Suppor

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills In this video we’re going to talk about 10 physical conditions that mimic Anxiety. Sometimes anxiety is not “All in your head” there’s a dramatic interplay between your body and mind. Sometimes a physical, medical issue like a vitamin deficiency, an illness, or an undiagnosed sleep issue shows up looking exactly like the symptoms of a psychological anxiety disorder. And sometimes the best way to treat anxiety is to actually treat the underlying physical issues first. Or at least rule them out. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects  you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Being highly sensitive doesn’t mean that you take things personally or that you’re fragile. It means your nervous system processes information more deeply and intensely than the average person. You are more impacted by lights, smells, sounds, body language, facial expressions, and emotions than the average person. While this sensitivity sometimes requires extra time to rest, recharge or process, being an HSP is a difference, not a disability. It’s something you’re born with, and when you let go of the cultural shame around it, it can be one of your greatest strengths. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: htt

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Why are some people much more anxious than others? And what causes anxiety disorders? What makes some people feel anxious when they’re actually safe? Well, the cause of an anxiety disorder is actually quite complicated. It’s not a disease with a single origin. There are a lot of factors that go into play. In this video, we’ll talk about how the bio-psycho-social model applies to understanding anxiety. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_medium=YTDe

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills We have this interesting problem in America where we’ve applied the medical model to mental health, and it’s created a lot of learned helplessness. In our attempts to remove the stigma from mental health, many people have come to believe that all mental illnesses are permanent, genetic traits. And it’s just not true. Because anxiety disorders, depression, trauma, and many other mental health conditions are really, really treatable. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://courses.therapyi

There are 7 types of anxiety disorders listed in the DSM 5 TR. In this video you’ll learn what they are, because when you have a name for something, it can help you find skills and resources to manage it. If you experience an anxiety disorder, It’s not your fault, but there’s something you can do about it. This video is day 6 of a 30 day course on how to improve your relationship with anxiety. I’m publishing the 30 main videos to youtube but if you want to learn more there will be bonus videos, workbooks, Q and A’s with me and extra content in the ad-free course. I’m also going to link to some free anxiety screening tests in the full course. https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: <a href='https://betterhelp.com

Improve your Relationship- Try HeyRitual today, to learn more click here: https://join.heyritual.com/TIAN20 HeyRitual is a sponsor of Therapy in a Nutshell Media portrays the depressed person as struggling to get out of bed, crying, drowning in despair. And while sadness is indeed a key symptom of depression, it’s not the only way it shows up. Anger or irritability is actually one of the primary ways that depression shows up in children and teens. But that anger doesn’t just turn off when you turn 18. So, today we're going to peel back the layers and explore how depression manifests as anger and irritability. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Willingness is the most powerful tool for managing anxiety, because when you have willingness, anxiety can’t control you any more. So in this video you’ll learn what willingness is, how to develop it, and you’ll get to practice it to see what it feels like. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: <a href='https://www.patreon.com

Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills What keeps us anxious? -Running from our feelings -Avoiding our problems and -Immobilization- not taking any action. Anxiety isn’t the same as a hot fear response, it’s much more of a cold, frozen dread response. On the polyvagal ladder it hovers between the FFF response and the shut down response. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on

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Buy the course Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Your brain is wired to adapt to circumstances, it can physically rewire itself based on how you think and the experiences you have. The human brain is one of the most complex, brilliant, and amazingly powerful creations in the world. So why the heck does it make so many anxious thoughts, why can it make us miserable sometimes? There are some ways we accidentally teach our brain to be more anxious. Let me show you. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://courses.therapyinanutshell.c

Free Grounding Skills for Trauma course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grounding-skills-for-anxiety-stress-and-ptsd   It was awesome to talk with Dr. Aimie Apigian about how trauma gets stored in the body. Dr. Apigian is a MD MS MPH is a leading medical expert on how life experiences get stored in the body and restoring the body to its best state of health through her signature model and methodology, The Biology of Trauma. In this conversation we talk about how trauma shows un in the body as auto-immune disorders, gut or digestive issues, metabolism, and other physical manifestations of trauma in the body. You can find Aimie's trauma healing programs here: https://www.traumahealingaccelerated.com   Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed

In this video you’ll learn the difference between stress, anxiety and worry because knowing the difference can give you a ton of tools to change your relationship with all three. Anxiety is, in essence, your reaction to the perception of being in danger. Especially physical danger, so if you were the roof of a skyscraper, your brain would perceive the potential danger and trigger the limbic system to send out a super loud warning to you in the form of thoughts and physical sensations of anxiety. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com <

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Today, we're diving into the wonderful world of positive psychology and discussing a powerful practice that’s a simple but transformative exercise that can bring a lot of joy and connection into your life. And you could probably do it in 15 minutes. So, let's jump right in! Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: <a href='https://www.therapyinanutshell.com?utm_medium=YTD

Check out Nick's course on How to Stop Worrying, it's $97: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/offers/tjFEvr7a Let's talk about anxiety- Nick Wignall, psychologist and writer, super great cognitive therapist, and friend shares his top three tips on how to decrease anxiety, and - no surprise here - it has to do with how we worry, setting boundaries on your worrying and accepting worry thoughts. I share my favorite tips on how to use the mind-body connection to decrease stress, accept your feelings and process through them. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://courses.therapyinanutsh

In this video, you'll learn to recognize these three forms of irrational thinking, so that you can replace them with healthier thoughts and be calmer, happier and solve problems without feeling like a helpless victim. So let’s get better at feeling. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: <a href='https://www.therapyinanutshell.com?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=YouTube

Download the free handout with the summary of how to help a child with anxiety here: click here No one is born knowing what to do with their emotions. But it’s a skill that can be learned.  In this video you’ll learn a bunch of tools that can help your anxious kid in a really practical way. If you were to ask “But what do I do?” Here are some things you can do. And again, if you haven’t seen part 1, 2 and 3, go check those out too.  Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://cour

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell In this video you’re going to learn how to teach your kids coping skills for anxiety. You’ll learn how to coach your child through anxiety and help them overcome it. We’ll talk about the skills to break tasks down into steps they can accomplish and then feel super proud of themselves as they grow and develop an internal sense of resilience. And I’m going to give a bunch of examples of how I coached kids to overcome their anxiety. Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: <a href='https://www.patreon.com/thera

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Does trying to relax or meditate make you anxious? Isn’t it supposed to make you feel calm? I recently ran a poll on my channel and 61% of people said that trying to relax or meditate made them feel anxious, guilty, or panicky. So what the heck is going on here? In this video, we’ll troubleshoot what might be making you feel anxious when you try to relax.  Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell If you're a highly sensitive person, you may find that conflicts can be particularly challenging for you. As someone who processes information deeply and is easily overwhelmed by sensory input, you may feel intensely emotional during disagreements and have difficulty expressing your thoughts and feelings clearly. In this video, we'll explore some effective conflict management strategies for highly sensitive persons that can help you navigate disagreements in a healthy and productive way.  Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support m

Take my free course Grounding Skills for Anxiety: Take me to the free course Get notified when the course for parents of anxious kids is ready: Sign me up Your job as a parent is not to protect your child from anxiety but to help them learn to be resilient so that they can be functional and healthy humans. To learn the skills to manage emotions and make good choices, not to just try to make anxiety go away. When you learn how to change your fundamental approach to anxiety, you can create a space for your kids to change their relationship to anxiety - so that they can be healthy, resilient, self-assured and functional. The really cool thing about humans is that we can face a lot of challenges, difficulties, trauma or hardship if we just have one thing: Emotional Safety. The number one thing that creates emot

Learn Grounding skills for trauma and anxiety in my FREE course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grounding-skills-for-anxiety-stress-and-ptsd Do you ever have an intense emotional reaction that just seems disproportionate to the situation? Does some little thing set you off? And you can’t figure out why? Do you get anxious, a flash of anger, or an unexplainable feeling of fear? Or do you experience a feeling of “shut down”, exhaustion, or withdrawal? When we can’t figure out where these emotions are coming from, sometimes these feelings are related to childhood trauma or unresolved painful experiences from our past. In this video, you’ll learn 7 journaling prompts to help you explore how big emotions might be related to past trauma.  Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of y

Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Here's the link to hear when the upcoming "Help a Child with Anxiety" course will be available: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/pl/2147679837 OK, so you’ve got a kid with anxiety. They might struggle to go to school, or they’re shy, or maybe they’re dealing with stomach aches or headaches or other physical signs of anxiety. Maybe they throw a fit when it’s time to go to bed or they cry and cling to you when it’s time to leave. And it breaks your heart. You can see them suffering and you’d do anything to help them feel better. So in this video series, I’m going to teach you how to change your mindset around anxiety, then in the next 3 videos I’m going to teach you practical things you can DO to help your child with anxiety. So are you on board? Are you

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell  Why do you procrastinate? Could it be Executive Functioning? Has this ever happened to you? You had some big decision to make or a task to complete? But you just kept putting it off because it felt overwhelming? When people are faced with a big, complex decision that they aren’t certain how to move forward with- it’s really common to avoid that task, delay, procrastinate or keep busy with other meaningless tasks. But this can lead to big consequences later- getting written up at work, failing a class, or missing out on big opportunities because you can’t figure out how to move forward. In this podcast, you’ll learn what executive functioning is, why it’s so essential to making decisions

FREE Grounding Skills Course here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grounding-skills-for-anxiety-stress-and-ptsd Do you ever feel numb? Detached? Like you’re completely separate from your body or like you’re floating above it, watching yourself like you aren’t even real? Or does the world around you sometimes feel foggy? Dreamlike? Or like time is moving super fast or super slowly? These are all signs of dissociation, derealization, or depersonalization. These three terms all have some overlap in symptoms.  In this podcast, you’ll learn to identify the triggers and internal signs leading up to dissociation and when you have a framework to understand why dissociation happens, then you can be more gentle with yourself and learn skills to manage overwhelming situations more adaptively and flexibly and be more resilient. I have worked with many clients who’ve experienced

Learn how to process emotions in my online course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing Emotional eating is when you eat in an attempt to resolve emotions instead of eating to resolve hunger. But when people are asking "How to stop emotional eating? The first step is to learn to process emotions and listen to what your body is really asking for - aka intuitive eating. Most of the time, when we’re overeating, or under-eating, it’s because we’re seeking to regulate our emotions with food, instead of regulating our emotions by processing them. So the first step is to ask yourself “Why am I eating this? You don’t need to judge yourself for doing it, just get curious. If I’m eating and it's not because of hunger, what am I feeling? Learn how to make funeral potatoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGVAJashAEs&t=1s <

Download the free emotions tracker here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/pl/2147588374 Check out the how to Process Emotions Course here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/emotion-processing So how do you feel your feelings? How can you identify your emotions? What do you do when you don’t know what you’re feeling? In this video I’m going to teach you 4 ways to tune into your emotions, and these are things I use all the time in therapy to help my clients get better at feeling. 00:00 How to identify your emotions 01:19 Emotions are fundamentally physical 01:35 Emotions are fundamentally physical 03:20 Tune into your emotions and sensations 04:24 4 Principles from Mindfulness 07:04 Use Emotion Charts to Identify Emotions 07:58 Track your emotions to get practice identifying them 08:48 Draw your emotions to identify them</p

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Feeling overwhelmed literally makes parts of your brain shut down. You might experience cognitive fatigue, sensory overload, burnout, physical exhaustion, a flood of thoughts, confusion, or the stress response, you may feel anxious, sweaty, teary, or panicky alternating in quick succession with wanting to give up, shut down, curl up into a ball, procrastinate and avoid everything. Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0YzMFV1RkozUl9DNUdORDFWQTE0TWJkaVIyd3xBQ3Jtc0trZmd3QzQyTVZqeGNIVG5hWjlUNV9NbUMxdjRhX2N1VDViMUZsYXBmR2UxSi00SlRWQ1NINS1IYlRLTTV1WXczNURGT2tNX3FKWHZNN3dfRm5GcEFRYjFza2JUSVRVM0c5d

Check out Laura's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/laurakampf Resilience is a skill that can be learned, and I was watching a creator who totally embodies it, Laura Kampf, she’s such a great example of resilience. When it comes to being more resilient a lot of people probably think that being more resilient means “Just try harder” “Suck it up” “Get over it” or “Just push through”. They think that the way to be more resilient, the way to overcome obstacles is to just force yourself to be motivated and keep going even if things aren’t working. And, while grit is a great characteristic, just forcing it can’t be your only tool. If you really want to be more resilient, you’ve got to have a toolbox of skills to rely upon when it all hits the fan. So in this video you’ll learn 6 ways to be more resilient. And I’m going to give you lots of examples of how to be resilient from Laura’s channel. Let's get better at feeling. 

Learn more from Dr. Rossman here: https://thehealingmind.org/ This is part 2 of my interview with Dr. Martin Rossman. In this part of the interview, we discuss how we live in a world where worry is everywhere, bombarding us constantly, and how tools like learning to use our imagination can help calm our minds and bring us back to a state of peace. Dr. Rossman shares how to use the connection of our mind and body to worry less and find more health and wellness. Want help to stop beating yourself up? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0YzMFV1RkozUl9DNUdORDFWQTE0TWJkaVIyd3xBQ3J

Learn more from Dr. Rossman here: https://thehealingmind.org/ This is part 1 of my interview with Dr. Martin Rossman. We discuss the importance of a holistic approach to mental health and wellness, and how the body and mind impact each other and the importance of nutrition in mental and physical health. Dr. Rossman has been studying integrative medicine for over 50 years and brings great insight on how to get feeling better physically and mentally. Want help to stop beating yourself up? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0YzMFV1RkozUl9DNUdORDFWQTE0TWJkaVIyd3xBQ3Jtc0trZmd3QzQyTVZqeG

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Can Chat GPT handle complex questions about mental health? Could Artificial Intelligence do a therapist's job someday? Let’s find out. I’ve asked you all to submit some questions and I’m going to try to answer them, then we’ll ask Chat GPT for it’s opinion and Today I’ve got my friend, colleague and boss with me Monica Blume, LCSW, and she’s going to be the judge of which of us did a better job. And throw out her suggestions for what the treatment would be. For the sake of time we’ll try to outline a treatment approach if the answer to the question is too long for this video. Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_descriptio

When you get overwhelmed by making a choice, when you can’t decide between A and B, you often settle for C or you end up paralyzed, procrastinating, or making no decision at all. In this video you’ll learn the 3 underlying causes of decision paralysis, and 2 keys to overcoming it. And I'll give you a hint, it has to do with emotion regulation and executive functioning.  Want help to stop beating yourself up? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0YzMFV1RkozUl9DNUdORDFWQTE0TWJkaVIyd3xBQ3Jtc0trZmd3QzQyTVZqeGNIVG5hWjlUNV9NbUMxdjRhX2N1VDViMUZsYXBmR2UxSi00SlRWQ1NINS1IYlRLTTV1WXczNURGT2tNX3FKWHZNN3dfRm5GcEFRYjFza2JUSVRVM0c5d0U3ZE1leEpHMGN

Stop apologizing and improve your self-esteem in this course by expert Dr. Carly LeBaron: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/improve-your-self-esteem Have you ever found yourself saying sorry for things that didn’t really deserve an apology in the first place? I once had a friend ask me “do you always apologize after giving someone a gift?” It shook me a little because I had no idea I was doing that. But when I started watching myself I totally did. I grew up in a culture of over-apologizing and it wasn’t until my 30’s that I realized how harmful it can be. Saying sorry too much undermines how others see you and how you see yourself, and that can really impact you both at home and in the workplace. In this video you’ll learn why you say sorry too much, how this messes up relationships and how to stop over-apologizing. 00:00 Introduction to over-apologizing 00:57 Learn to improve yo

Learn more about working through Grief with Sarah's course 9 Keys for Moving Through Grief and Loss: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/understanding-grief-loss-and-mourning-1 In this video I team up with grief expert Sarah Engler, LCSW to answer your questions about loss and the grieving process. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:50 Anniversaries of Loss and Grief 00:06:51 Multiple losses, compounded grief, loss of pets 00:13:34 What is the difference between complex grief and normal grief 00:16:51 How to deal with anger around grief and loss 00:22:58 How do you function after grief and loss? 00:27:21 Feeling nothing or numbness after grief and loss 00:37:11 Can you ever "Get over" grief and sadness? 00:45:18 What are practical steps to functioning after a loss? 00:54:38 How do you work through grief when you have children or are very busy? Looking for affordable online

Want help to stop beating yourself up? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Today we’re going to talk about beating yourself up. Whether you made a stupid mistake, you lost your cool with someone you care about or you’re just a perfectionist with imposter syndrome - It’s easy to get sucked into the toilet hole of beating yourself up. And then you do this ridiculous thing which I’m going to call the “The Self-Exemption-Bias” which keeps you trapped in the cycle. Being too hard on yourself decreases your confidence and your sense of self-esteem and self-worth. But the good news is that you can learn to stop beating yourself up, improve your self-esteem and learn to feel self-compassion and love. Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: <a href='https://www.yo

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Access all my courses and live Q and A's here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/mental-health-course Get an awesome shirt that supports kids who need therapy here: https://www.youplusmountains.com/shop The other day in my Live Q and A for my members, I was asked “How can I get regulated again after getting dysregulated?” What I assume that the person means is that they want to get back to the safe and social state of the nervous system, the parasympathetic response where you feel relaxed and calm and can think clearly. I’m going to assume that you already know a little about the nervous system- you understand the fight/flight freeze response, and about the shutdown response (if not check out my video on the 3 states of the nervous system). Because if you’re asking about dysregulation, you understand that we can’t just think our way into ch

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Your gut health directly impacts your mental health. From nutrient absorption that impacts the physical building blocks of the brain, to inflammation which can lead cytokines to damage the brain, to your microbiome which impacts your physical and mental health, your gut health is actually a huge contributing factor to your mental health. So in this video you’ll learn 4 1/2 ways to improve your gut health, which can improve your mental health.  Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://

So, you’re having a panic attack? If you’re right in the middle of a panic attack, this video is for you. For many people, a panic attack feels like a lot of intense physical symptoms. Maybe your heart is pounding, you feel faint or tingly, you’re afraid that you’re going to pass out or have a heart attack. In this video we’ll walk you through how to know if it’s anxiety causing those symptoms and some practical steps to stop the panic cycle. Because you’re going to be ok. You are safe. These sensations feel scary but they’re not going to hurt you.  Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0JNck14WTZmUGJMUWxPSjlpWUU1aThaeGRIZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuSEZ0Mkk2TTMzNmlnUlk3cEdEYnB2NkRMZnJndkpiUEk3d3U1ajZHZHFiNUFuM1BTZDVHYWE1OVoxTkowTnE1T1JBT092Yy1lZF9fWjFlaElBc1

FREE habit tracker: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/pl/2147583979 Online Courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=Podcast Why would I think a vitamin could improve mental health?The short answer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqXHHCc5lA James Clear's Blog: https://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains There’s two ways to think about mental health, and I think a lot of people don’t realize they’re stuck in the first one. Most people believe that you either “have depression” or you don’t. That if you get diagnosed with depression or anxiety, it’s like a permanent trait that you have - and that all you can do is learn to cope with it. I don’

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Check out Amber's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT8PE1v0xFR9zLXOijxM6hg Alcohol use changes your brain chemistry in a way that makes you more anxious. It also changes how you think- which can make you more anxious. And when you’re drunk, you might do stuff that makes you more anxious later…whether you or a family member has a problem with alcohol use, it’s important to know how it affects the brain and the practical steps you can take to escape the cycle. But, I am not a substance abuse counselor, it’s out of my wheelhouse so I was super grateful when Amber Hollingsworth offered to make a video for my chan

If one of your family members has a mental illness, does that mean you’re more likely to have it too? Can you inherit a mental illness from a parent? If your mom has, let’s say, social anxiety disorder, and you do too, does that mean that she passed it down genetically or that because she didn’t take you out much, and you watched her being nervous around other people- that you learned to be anxious around other people? In this podcast we’re going to talk about heritability estimates- what the research has to tell us about how much genes contribute to mental health. You’ll learn which disorders have the highest rates of heritability and how understanding this can help you make better choices. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell</p

Auditory sensitivity can occur on a spectrum, where hyperacuity may be on the more severe end of the spectrum, and a dislike of loud noises can be on the less severe side of the spectrum. Auditory sensitivity can also be associated with sensory differences with autism, and it can stand alone- it can just be that you have really sensitive ears. Thanks to Dr. Lindsey Tubaugh for teaching me about treatment for sound sensitivities: https://littleheroeshearingclinic.com/ Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.thera

The idea of repressed memories goes all the way back to Freud, through the 90’s when therapists accidentally implanted people with false memories, through the courtrooms, and into today where the idea of repressed memories is still popular among lay people and controversial among therapists and researchers. So today you’ll learn three skills for better understanding lost memories, aka dissociative amnesia or repressed memories (or at least my opinion about it). The idea of repressed memories goes all the way back to Freud, one of his first patients, Anna O had all sorts of unexplained physical symptoms, when she began talking with her doctor about her life, previously forgotten memories of trauma came back and as she talked about them, her physical symptoms went away. Freud developed the concept of repression, that current symptoms are all related to something that happened in the past, that we repress the memories to protect ourselves, and that we must analyze our psyche in order t

Learn more about grief in this mini-course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/grief/?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=Podcast “Grief is unpredictable, and it will go wherever it finds an outlet. If it can’t be expressed emotionally, it may find expression in the body.” (136) Grief, like all emotions, isn’t just in your head; it shows up in your body in remarkable ways. But most people have never been taught what is common in the grieving process and how grief does show up in your body, and this can leave some people feeling stuck, spiraling through endless grief and pain. Grief has many physical symptoms. When you learn the physical symptoms of grief, you can be more equipped to address it and work through the process of grief and loss. In this video we’ll learn from grief expert Dr. Dorothy Holinger the author of The Anatomy of Grief, how grief shows up in t

Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Do you ever feel hopeless, shut down, or walled off? Or do you get triggered and feel anxious, angry, or agitated? There are essentially 3 states of your nervous system: Ventral Vagal (Safe and social) Sympathetic (Fight or Flight) and Dorsal Vagal (Shut Down). Most people aren’t able to identify which state they’re in, and then they feel helpless to change. This is especially difficult for people with trauma, which includes about ⅓ of the population. When you have trauma, your nervous system can get stuck in a hypervigilant state or a frozen, numb state. And when you can identify the states of your nervous system, you can learn skills to spend more time in the safe and social state of your nervous s

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Check out the course, Taking Charge of Intrusive Thoughts, here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/managing-intrusive-thoughts OCD is caused by a combination of factors- genetic and biological(what’s going on with our bodies, including inflammation, nutrition, stress, etc), environmental (our experiences), and psychological- how we think. The way you think and act determines whether you feed or starve your OCD. In this video we’ll look at 6 types of thinking that feed OCD, they make it worse. And the reason we look at these is because when you can notice these thoughts, clarify that they aren’t helpful, and then replace them with something else, you actively decrease OCD symptoms. OK, so let’s explore 6 thinking patterns that make OCD worse and then we'll talk about what to do about it. 1. Inflated Responsibility 2. thought Fusion- Believing that Thinking it and doing it are the same thing 3

For more ways to manage depression check out my course, Change Your Brain: 10 Natural, Research-Backed Ways to Improve Mental Health https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/change-your-brain Or my other courses and free resources here: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=podcast A chemical imbalance is not “The Cause” of depression. We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are”. This is the main idea behind Johann Hari’s bestselling book lost connections. I recently finished it, and even though I didn’t completely agree with his conclusion, I thoroughly enjoyed his detailed, evidence-based tear-down of the overly-simplistic idea that "chemical imbalance causes depression". What if the causes of depression are much more compli

Oh my goodness, I got to speak with Bob Schrupp from Bob and Brad (the famous YouTube Physical Therapists), and he asked me a bunch of questions about how to accept and manage anxiety.  We talked about willingness, anxiety in the body, acceptance of anxiety, how avoidance makes anxiety worse, and lots more. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed talking with Bob! 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=10112021 Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutsh

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 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapynutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: <a href='https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books

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 mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanu

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 video, you’re going to learn what emotion processing is, what gets in the way of it, and how you can work through your emotions so they don’t build up in a harmful way in your life. Over the next 30 podcasts I’m going to teach you skills that help you process through not only feelings of a