You Are Your Own Healer with Hope Guide Founder Corban David Jenai

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

Resources We Mention

• HopeGuide
• How We Heal Podcast
• His Website - Corban David Jenai