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Act the Way You Want to Feel: Transform Negative Emotions Fast

Leave a Comment / Anxiety Recovery, Brain Health, Depression Recovery, Live-streamed, Podcast Episodes, Positive Mindset Tools, Self-Care, Teen Mental Health / By Doctor Jodi

If you want a different experience, you have to perform your behavior differently. Adopting behaviors associated with desired emotions can create positive feedback loops, leading to genuine emotional shifts. This approach, often referred to as “fake it till you make it,” highlights the powerful interplay between actions and feelings, advocating for proactive behavior change as […]

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What to Say When You Talk To Yourself

Leave a Comment / Brain Health, Live-streamed, Podcast Episodes, Positive Mindset Tools, Self-Care, Teen Mental Health / By Doctor Jodi

In this uplifting episode, you learn about the importance of self-compassion and kindness in inner dialogue. We explore how self-talk impacts our mental well-being and overall outlook on life because our minds hear everything we say and explain how and why we judge ourselves harshly to prevent others from thinking we are unworthy of belonging.

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Benefits of Singing: How to Write Songs with Singer/Songwriter, Frances Lovett

2 Comments / Brain Health, Depression Recovery, Live-streamed, Podcast Episodes, Self-Care, Teen Mental Health / By Doctor Jodi

There are many benefits to singing and songwriting. In today’s episode, hear from singer/songwriter Frances Lovett (@franceslovettmusic of TikTok) about her journey writing songs and recording her first album while still in high school. Humans are born to be creative. However, everyone’s creative process is different. Creativity is healing the mind, body, and spirit. Watch

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What Your Dreams Mean: Interpreting Dreams and Stopping Nightmares

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Do you wonder what your dreams mean? Dream interpretation has been part of psychotherapy and humanity for a long time. Curiosity has us desiring to unravel the subconscious messages they may contain. Therapists and dream interpreters explore symbols, emotions, and narratives within dreams to shed light on the dreamer’s inner conflicts, desires, and experiences. They

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Worrisome Risks of Social Media on Kids and Teens (and Adults!)

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The risks of social media concern parents, educators, counselors, and teens. The rise of social media has transformed how we connect, communicate, and share our lives, offering instant access to a global network of people and information. While these platforms can foster connection and self-expression, they also carry significant emotional and social risks that we

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The Teenage Brain: Understanding Anxiety and Depression in Teens, with Kasey Crist

2 Comments / Anxiety Recovery, Brain Health, Parenting, Podcast Episodes, Teen Mental Health / By Doctor Jodi

Welcome to Anxiety, I’m So Done with You! podcast’s BONUS episode: The Teenage Brain with Kasey Crist, author of a book by that same name ‘The Teenage Brain: Understanding Anxiety and Depression in Teenagers’. https://amzn.to/46n2ptY It’s a guide for parents, counselors, and teenagers, and it is so jam-packed with resources that you are going to

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Keeping it together through COVID Worries: Robust Mental Health in a Time of Social Distancing

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Are you feeling all COVID worries right now? Having trouble consistently keeping it together? Feeling okay and calm one minute while you laugh at what someone gets up to in their free time, only to lose your shizzle the next moment because you dripped peanut butter on your sock? (The ones that you finally changed

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