Parenting Coach, Aaron Huey gives a riveting perspective on how to parent from a place of emotional regulation during this stressful time in our world. He offers helpful tools and strategies for self care and tending to ourselves “first” so our parenting is thoughtful and compassionate.
In this episode I share some thoughts about what each of us can do to overcome feelings of aloneness and powerlessness that are affecting a lot of people during this difficult time.
Highlights
I’m trying to identify the emotions, both comfortable and uncomfortable, that I’m experiencing now.
Because I like to solve problems, not knowing how to help leads me to feel powerless.
I have no power to change what’s going on outside of me. I can only change what’s going on inside of me.
The people in power don’t understand what ordinary people have to go through.
What can each of us do – what actions can we take – to help lift the burden that so many are feeling.
Although there’s a lot of aloneness going on, we have the opportunity to reach out and connect to others.
It’s important to reach out to others and be authentic about how you are feeling and what you are dealing with.
If we share our feelings with others, both up and down, we can feel more whole.
Who might you reach out to just to ask How are you doing?
How can you re-perceive the current situation?
We need to connect to and support others.
We have to look beyond the past and into the future. And, you have the right to imagine a positive future.
Try to imagine positive solutions and results of what has been happening.
How can you look into the future and see a positive story?
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Host Doug Stephan and Co-Host and Astrologer Laura Banks, https://www.stargalnetwork.com/ she can be contacted at: 352-552-1243 welcome Psychic Medium, Author and Radio Host Jeffrey Wands. www.jefferywands.com While watching TV at the age of 6, Jeffrey’s great grandmother appeared in front of him and spoke. What made this unusual is that she had been dead for over 23 years. Jeffrey has come to understand that everyone has some psychic ability within them. Today, he is a “professional psychic,” and has hosted his own radio show for many years, “Psychic Sundays,” which is accessible on the internet through www.walk975.com . Next, our weekly visit with Paranormalist Uri Geller. www.urigeller.com. Then, Psychic Scout Mary O’Maley describes her new “Magic Mind Program.” www.psychicscout.com. Finally, Astrologer Laura Banks https://www.stargalnetwork.com/ she can be contacted at: 352-552-1243, tells us that we need to “let it go” and the value of a Luan Calendar.
Many couples are battling over whether it’s safe to go out, and marriage therapist Dr. Susan Heitler gives me tips on how to deal with this.
THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!
The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.
It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.
We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!
When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!
The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.
Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp
Host Doug Stephan and Co-Host Laura Banks https://www.stargalnetwork.com/ She can be contacted at: 352-552-1243 welcome Author, Medical & Emotional Intuitive and Medium/Licensed Professional Counselor Katie Beecher. www.katiebeecher.com & www.facebook.com/beechermedicalintuitive. Katie has turned her efforts to reducing anxiety due to Covid. The quarantine has brought a lot of issues to the surface because people have far less distractions and has made it even more important to address health conditions that increase the risk of contracting Covid as well as weight gain, lack of exercise and stress occurring right now. She reveals the messages she’s gotten from her spirit guides about the spiritual purposes/reasons for Covid. Next, our weekly visit with Mystifier Uri Geller. www.urigeller.com Uri stresses the importance of believing in yourself. Next, Psychic Scout Mary O’Maley www.psychicscout.com offers tips to help you avoid Self-Sabotage. Finally, Astrologer Laura Banks https://www.stargalnetwork.com/ says “look for more fun, soon.”
Eva DeVirgilis, an award-winning actor, speaker and writer joins the Eating Disorders: Navigating Recovery podcast for a two-part episode. Eva discusses how she’s staying connected to herself and others during the pandemic, introduces us to “Norma”, and the power of ceasing to apologize.
Trevor Steinhauser, the host of the Stigmatized Podcast, joins
me to look at the funky weird state we’re in mid-COVID and its bearing
on our mental wellness.
Do you feel like your super over COVID even though we’re not over COVID?
Are you tired, frustrated, and in need of a self-care recharge?
The reality is that it’s ok to not feel ok, that you may be desperately missing normalcy or having a sense of uncertainty with your social, personal, and work-life when it comes to COVID.
We have teachers uncertain about what their classroom is going to look like. There are parents on edge about how to respond with the upcoming school year. The countless struggling with heightened anxiety and depression with the impending uncertainty of what to expect with work, traveling, socializing, and simply dealing with everyday life.
Trevor and I chat on ways to identify when we’re not in a good place and look at ways to strengthen our mental wellness and get in a flow that works for us.
Check out Trevor’s Podcast, at StigmatizedPodcast.com, as well as the Stigmatized Pod on Instagram and Stigmatized Podcast on Facebook.
Dr. Leo Flanagan shares his tested strategies and on how to reopen your business during the COVID-19 outbreak. Dr. Flanagan discusses important information regarding leadership in a time of crisis, the pandemic of anxiety and its role in reopening, and how to prepare for the unknown.
Leo F. Flanagan, Jr., PhD has more than 30 years of experience in the crafting and activation of business transformations by integrating human capital, innovation, and customer loyalty strategies. He has held senior level corporate positions at Merrill Lynch, Willis Holdings and The Forum Corporation. He consults across a wide range of industries including digital media, consumer goods, financial services, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology.
Consulting engagements have ranged from working with PE firms and portfolio companies on turnarounds and accelerations to partnering with global enterprises such as Bank of America, Citi, The Home Depot, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, McDonalds, MMC and UBS to craft and activate strategies to drive revenue growth, engage employees, upgrade talent and deliver the brand.
His brand of business transformation is fast, lean, practical and integrated with – not burdened on – the business. His work produces a true ROI. Double digit increases in revenue, customer loyalty and employee engagement and reductions in cost are trademarks of his leadership. One leading financial services company recently calculated the ROI from his work at 67:1. The CFO of a major bank cited his work more valuable than a $1bn acquisition with an 18% ROE.
Early in his career, Leo was a faculty member at Cornell University’s, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. A regular speaker at leading universities, Carnegie Mellon recently selected him as a faculty member and executive coach for its new Executive Leadership Academy. The Academy will prepare high-potential African Americans for advancement.
Always active in philanthropy and volunteer work, Leo currently is on the Board of Tuesday’s Children, an advisor to Children’s Learning Centers of Fairfield County and a member of Ministry to the Homeless. As Director of Community Resilience & Behavioral Health for H.E.A.R.T. 911 he volunteered in response to the Newtown School Shooting, Superstorm Sandy and the Moore Oklahoma EF-5 tornado.
Leo earned his PhD at City University of New York, his M.A. at Hunter College and his B.A. at Fordham University. Leo and his wife Maureen have four daughters. They also share a passion for travel as well as skiing, tennis, and sailing. Leo is also an avid fisherman.
The Courses discussed on this show can be accessed through his website.
Recommended Reading- The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find By Embracing Them by David Richo
Leo and more information on his courses can be found at https://www.centerforresilience.com/
This is a summer like we’ve never experienced before.
Resurging COVID cases. Heavy hearts weary from racism and unequal treatment due to skin color. Canceled vacations. Uncertainty
with what’s next.
Personal check-ins are critical in these times. How are you doing?
I mean how are you really doing? I’ll be sharing some red flags
indicating that we need to kick up our support resources as well as
simple strategies to effectively keep our mental wellness as a high
priority in the coming months.
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If you’re a comic, writer, or speaker who is afraid to reveal your
true self, you’ll want to listen to Judy’s guests, comics Franqi
French, Tehran Von Ghasri, Zainab Johnson, & Brandon Broady who have
the courage to stop trying to please others, & tell the truth… but
funnier.
BRANDON BROADY
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ZAINAB JOHNSON
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FRANQI FRENCH
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TEHRAN
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