Episode Highlights With Corban David Jenai
- We are each our own healer, and how to even begin the journey
- How he started his own healing journey and how some things like talk therapy actually seemed to make things worse at certain points
- No one can know us as well as we can know ourselves and why we are the experts on ourselves
- Therapy is a major intervention often made necessary by lack of a thousand smaller interventions along the way
- Healing hinges on connection with our bodies, with each other, and with the ineffable
- What somatic experiencing therapy is and how it can help with reconnection to our bodies
- Dissociation is not a malady; it is a remedy and is there to tell us something
- How spending over $300k helped him learn that it is often the simple and inexpensive things that can make the most difference over time
- His core, sleep, diet, and exercise strategies that helped his mental health
- Resting is investing!
- How sleep and a healthy diet directly influence the brain and mental health
- Emotions happen within our bodies, and our bodies can give us a clue to healing
- How lack of connection with others (true, deep connection) connects to mental health struggles
- Why are we more lonely now than we ever have been and what to do about it
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