Trust & Thrive

Hope you enjoy this compilation of clips from past episodes - all on boundaries and self-love. Stay tuned for future episodes to come! GUESTS:@dr.alexandra.solomon; @theblacksheepsurvives; @letsgetyourshifttogether; @jphillipsmsw; @dr_anniephd;  @shaunjfletcher; @lauraandersontherapy; @therapyforwomen; @thegmichelle; @jennifer_rollin;  @estherbmft; @codependencycurious;  @comprehensiveconsentSTAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Have you reflected on the stories you tell yourself? How do you see different aspects of the world and where did those beliefs come from? It's easy to autopilot through life and stay stuck in our beliefs, without questioning where our conclusions derived from.In this episode, I share some recent realizations that have opened my eyes to the ways I have been limiting myself. In addition, I challenge you to reflect on the stories you tell yourself and hope you feel inspired to rewrite some of those narratives.STAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Christina Crowe is a Canadian Registered Psychotherapist, an entrepreneur and a relentless mental health advocate. Christina founded Dig A Little Deeper, Psychotherapy & Counseling in 2015, which has grown into a modern, self-managed, group practice with 9 other psychotherapists and counsellors. DALD is headquartered in Caledon, ON, with 2 other additional Ontario locations and global virtual services. Christina also owns Dig Deeper Coaching, providing consulting and training for business leaders and teams looking to increase their competitive edge with behavioural science. Christina has been interviewed by local news outlets and podcasts, writes for The Dig Deeper Blog and for professional association websites. Christina is a relentless mental health advocate, serving in the past as a board member for OAMHP, and now on the Advocacy committee for CADDRA (a national clinician alliance for ADHD). Christina maintains her own private practice and provides clinical supervision to graduate counselling interns and currently practicing therapists. To help create more accessible services, Christina also partners with local organizations, like Caledon Community Services, providing free psychotherapy for some of our most vulnerable community members. Christina’s creative outlets are many, but most recently include making entertaining and educational tiktok video’s about ADHD, one the most misunderstood conditions in mental health.In this episode, we explore misconceptions around ADHD, how gender roles affect a diagnosis, how ADHD can affect relationships, internalizing vs. externalizing symptoms, how periods and estrogen affect ADHD symptoms, and more.FOLLOW CHRISTINA:INSTA: @digalittledeepertherapyWEBSITE: www.digalittledeeper.caADHD RESOURCE: digalittledeeper.ca/adhd-resource-page.htmlSTAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Colleen King is a licensed psychotherapist providing individual therapy to adults throughout California via telehealth. Colleen is passionate about helping people living with the challenges of anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder learn effective strategies to manage symptoms that get in the way of living their lives. Colleen helps people to increase self-awareness, master new coping skills, and address self-limiting beliefs to foster a meaningful and authentic life. In this episode, we discuss the inaccurate and harmful portrayal of bipolar disorder in media, manic vs. hypomanic episodes, supporting a loved one with bipolar, types of treatment, the importance of stress management and noticing one's triggers, breaking the stigma, and more.FOLLOW COLLEEN:INSTA: @bipolar_therapistWEBSITE: www.insightcounselingsacramento.comSTAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Sarah Casper is a consent educator and the founder of Comprehensive Consent. Her mission is to equip kids and teens with the knowledge necessary to navigate intimacy and create healthy relationships. Her work is geared towards helping children understand body autonomy and practice consent skills when the stakes are low so that they’re prepared when the stakes are high.In this episode, we discuss the impact of gender roles on consent, people-pleasing, body boundaries, teaching kids about consent and bodily autonomy, relationship check-ins, and more. FOLLOW SARAH:INSTA: @comprehensiveconsentWEBSITE: www.comprehensiveconsent.comSTAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Like many, when I would think of grief, I would associate it with negative change, such as death or losing a relationship we wanted to continue. In this episode, I specifically talk about grief related to positive change.I give some examples and share some personal experiences of how we can miss what is not good for us. If you are grieving a toxic relationship, a bad situation, a harmful job, or any situation that negatively affected your well-being, there is nothing wrong with you. It is valid to grieve and feel the way you do, no matter what the situation is.STAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Dr. Sand Chang, PhD (they/them/their) is a Chinese American genderfluid/nonbinary/femme psychologist/trainer in practice for 15+ years. Dr. Chang's work is focused on intersectional body liberation. Dr. Chang co-authored A Clinician’s Guide to Gender Affirming Care (New Harbinger, 2018) and the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients (2015). They are Board Member and section editor for Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, chapter author of the forthcoming WPATH SOC8, and co-founder of The Gender Affirming Letter Access Project (The GALAP), a movement to make mental health letters for trans health care financially accessible. Sand’s work is focused on gender, sexuality, disordered eating (from an anti-diet and HAES perspective), addictions, trauma/EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and attachment concerns. Sand is a certified Body Trust Provider. Outside of work, they are a dancer, food top, punoff competitor, and small dog enthusiast. In this episode, we touch on the white-washed view of body liberation & the negative effects of diet culture, trans health and body oppression, gender vs. sexuality, gender stereotypes in diagnosis criteria, intersectional identities, understanding authenticity as a privilege, and more. FOLLOW DR. CHANG:INSTA: @heydrsandWEBSITE: www.sandchang.comSTAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Chris Sheridan (previously Grant) is a highly experienced BACP Counsellor and Psychotherapist based in Scotland. On a mission to improve trans healthcare in the UK and beyond, Chris opened their private practice, The Queer Therapist, in 2018 to provide queer and gender affirming counseling and psychotherapy to trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary people. Chris also works as a Psychotherapist for an Adult Clinical Psychology Department and Occupational Therapy Department in NHS. Prior to their current roles, Chris worked as the Lead Self Management Specialist in Dumfries and Galloway LGBT Plus in 2016 where they developed and led an award-winning LGBTQIA start-up charity offering advocacy, counseling, group therapy, CBT and befriending to LGBTQIA adults in Scotland. In 2017, Chris became a member of the Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on LGBTI Issues and continues voluntary governance work with non-profit organizations with a focus on health inequality. Chris is a member of The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) and the Gendered Intelligence Network for Therapists and Counsellors.In this episode, we explore the topics of gender vs. sexuality, performing gender, how the church and religion often reinstate gender roles, non-binary representation, gender affirming healthcare, supporting a loved one who is exploring their gender identity, and more.FOLLOW CHRIS:INSTA: @theqtherapistWEBSITE: thequeertherapist.comSTAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Michael McLeod, MA, CCC-SLP TSSLD is an ASHA-Certified Speech-Language Pathologist and Executive Function/ADHD Specialist. Michael focuses on the unique and innovate skill of Internal Language while constructing interpersonal relationships and meaningful varied experiences for students. The evidence-based GrowNOW Model utilizes a holistic approach towards decreasing prompt dependency, fostering independence, strengthening Executive Functions, through the lens of the academic, social, and emotional methodology. Michael is the owner of GrowNOW Therapy Services, LLC, a specialized private practice in Philadelphia, PA. Michael has traveled internationally, presenting and training families and professionals on his unique GrowNOW Treatment Model for fostering Executive Functions & Resiliency.In this episode, we touch on the topics of internal language, a fixed vs. growth mindset, nonverbal vs. verbal working memory, resiliency, understanding executive functioning skills, and more. We also break down some common myths around ADHD, in hopes to help break the stigma around the diagnosis.FOLLOW MICHAEL:INSTA: @grownowtherapyWEBSITE: www.grownowtherapy.comSTAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.com

Sherry Gaba, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach who helps people cope with codependency, addictions, trauma, and mental health issues. Sherry is a single mother and once her daughter was old enough, Sherry returned to school to receive her Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. As a leading expert on addiction and recovery, Sherry’s TV appearances include: Vh1’s Celebrity Rehab, CNN, Inside Edition, the Robert Irvine Show and Access Live, E! News, among others. She has been featured in Cosmopolitan, Women’s World, the LA Times, Thrive Global, the New York Post, Marriage.com and other leading publications. She has also been a guest on many SiriusXM radio shows. Sherry is the author of the best-selling book, Infinite Recovery, which addresses recovery from addiction and alcoholism through the lens of the Law of Attraction. Sherry is also the author of Love Smacked, in which Sherry addresses relationship addiction and codependency, and is a contributing writer to the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times Tough People. Sherry maintains a private practice in Westlake Village, CA, is Editor of Recovery Today Magazine, and founder of Wake-Up Recovery an online group coaching program that applies the principals of positive psychology, law of attraction, and mindfulness for codependents and addicts in recovery. In this episode, we explore the topic of codependency, guilt and grieving that may come with one's recovery process, what it's like to have an anxious attachment, defining love addiction and trauma bonding, and more. FOLLOW SHERRY:INSTA: @codependencycuriousEBOOK: www.wakeuprecovery.com/codependency-quiz/BOOKS: Love Smacked STAY CONNECTED:INSTA: @trustandthriveTIKOK:@trustandthriveTWITTER: @trustandthriveFACEBOOK: bit.ly/FBtaramontWEBSITE: www.tara-mont.comEMAIL: trustandthrive@gmail.comCo-Dependents Anonymous: https://coda.org/