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Dr. Kevin Gilliland is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, executive director of Innovation360, and host of the Struggle Well, Live Well, Worry Less podcast. Over the past twenty years, Kevin has mentored countless individuals and couples, participated in research trials, and lectured across the country. He currently teaches in the Counseling Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas where he instructs graduate students.  We talk about...  How excess worry talks us out of good things  Kevin’s thoughts on how COVID impacted people’s mental health  The lies worry tells us and how believing these lies leads to a small world  How the news negatively impacts your mental health  How COVID shaped kid's behaviors The resiliency of humans  The madness of everyone buying toilet paper at the start of COVID Kevin’s thoughts on how social media is impacting mental health   Setting boundaries with your cellphone  The worst advice you can give someone who wants to enjoy life  How Kevin starts with the basics to help people heal their mental health  How to navigate the madness surrounding Russia and Ukraine  ____________________________ I want to be your anxiety coach! ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/kevin-gilliland/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

Dr. Ellen Vora is a board-certified holistic psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health - considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root rather than reflexively prescribing medication. Ellen received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University. In her just-launched book, The Anatomy of Anxiety, Ellen reframes our understanding of and relationship with anxiety, allowing for healing, growth, and joy. We talk about...  What Ellen thinks about conventional medical training How our well-being hinges on the health of our gut The role bacteria plays in the presentation of anxiety The importance of focusing on your body when improving mental health What happens when inflammation inflames the brain The difference between false anxiety and true anxiety Why it’s so important to engage in unstimulated rest How to strengthen your connection to your intuition The role blood sugar and intermittent fasting plays in anxiety Psychedelics and CBD being used as a form of treatment Social media and its impact on our anxiety Why it's so dang important to soak up the sunshine ____________________________ If you love this episode, please rate, review, and share this episode. It helps me so much! ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/anatomy-of-anxiety/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

Today’s guest is a champion of the Enneagram and an awakener of people. Ian Morgan Cron is a best-selling author, psychotherapist, Enneagram teacher, Episcopal priest, and the host of the wildly popular podcast, "Typology.” He is a pioneer in the contemporary Enneagram movement and a highly sought-after speaker.  Known for his transparency, humor, and depth of insight into the inner workings of the human heart and mind, Ian uses the Enneagram personality typing system as a tool to help people cultivate self-awareness and find happiness. Ian believes the Enneagram is not just a powerful tool for personal growth, but also a great resource for transforming our relationships in every sphere of life. Today we chat about...  What inspired Ian to work with enneagrams What an enneagram is Whether or not there is a “bad” enneagram How the enneagram shows you your strengths and shadows How enneagrams evolve as you age Being stuck in the wrong story and how you can inhabit a new one How knowing your enneagram helps you navigate your story What a false self looks like and how you can show up as your true self ____________________________ If you love this episode, please rate, review, and share this episode. It helps me so much! ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/ian-morgan-cron/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

Nancy Mae has helped people from all walks of life improve their lives in a wide range of ways: from getting pregnant to overcoming pain to making important shifts in their lives. She is a Hay House award-winning author who went from being in both physical and spiritual pain to healed through the power of alternative therapies. Her transformational experience inspired her to radically change professions, create the Energetic Fertility Method™, become an award-winning author, and she now works helping people improve and even transform their lives.  Today we chat about...  What inspired Nancy to get into energy work  The importance of having authentic communication with your future children Fear surrounding bringing in your future child  How striving for a baby creates an energetic block  Having an energetic hygiene practice   Checking in with the younger aspect of you to give you insight into where you might be blocked Why you need awareness to create change  How to tap into your inner child   The importance of creating a safe space so you’re grounded in your environment  What energy medicine is and how can we use it to bring a baby into the world How to know when our energy has become stuck or stagnant  How perfection can be blocks to bringing in a child  Being present in the earths energy    How to know if you want a baby because society says you should or because you actually want one   How anger impacts your overall energy    ____________________________ If you love this episode, please rate, review, and share this episode. It helps me so much! ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/nancy-mae/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

After the birth of her first son, Antonia Schachter began to struggle with an increase in anxiety. She was waking up in the middle of the night hyperventilating and in panic. Desperate for relief, she sought help through medications. Thirty years later, with many different medications, a hospitalization, suicidal thoughts, and an additional diagnosis, Antonia is still trying to taper off her psych meds. Today we chat about...  Antonia's journey with psychiatric medications How Antonia found psych meds helpful until she didn’t  The importance of informed consent  How Antonia went from struggling with anxiety to later being diagnosed with depression Her experience with withdrawal symptoms and suicidal thoughts How she found help through an online community Where the mental health system is going wrong Antonia's side effects and her experience with tardive dyskinesia How some psychiatrists are starting to change the mental health narrative  ____________________________ If you love this episode, please rate, review, and share this episode. It helps me so much! ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/antonia-schachter/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

Nicole Lohse is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Feldenkrais and Yoga Practitioner. She supports people in recognizing their own innate ability to move past the blocks that are stopping them from living fulfilling lives. She addresses patterns that stem from trauma - including shock, developmental, inter-generational, and really anything that involves the need to survive. Her style of working is very intuitive and awareness-based. It involves seeing YOU as a whole and supporting you as you move out of the survival responses that you're stuck in, into the wholeness that is your truth. Today we chat about...  What got Nicole into Somatic Experiencing  Nicole’s thoughts on when you should start a yoga practice  What Somatic Experiencing is, the nervous system, and threat response cycle  What happens when fight/flight energy isn’t discharged  What trauma means to Nicole  The power of listening to the body when healing trauma  How survival patterns protect us from feeling the pain from trauma  Nicole's thoughts on why so many people are disconnected from their bodies  How trauma and survival patterns limit people from accessing meaningful and authentic relationships with themself and others What it means to be dysregulated and how we can become more regulated The power of being engaged and connected with nature  ____________________________  If you love this episode, please rate, review, and share this episode. It helps me so much! ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/nicole-lohse/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

Dr. Martha Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. She has spent a lifetime offering powerful, practical, and entertaining teachings that help people improve every aspect of their lives. Her written work includes several New York Times and international bestsellers, as well as over 150 magazine articles. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science, and Oprah Winfrey has called her “one of the smartest women I know.” Martha is a passionate and engaging speaker, known for her unique combination of science, humor, and spirituality. For over two decades she has been, in the words of NPR and USA Today, “the best-known life coach in America.” Her published works include several self-help books and memoirs, including New York Times and international bestsellers Finding Your Own North Star, The Joy Diet, and Expecting Adam. Martha’s newest book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller. Today we chat about...  The integrity cleanse that inspired The Way of integrity What integrity looks like and how to know you’re out of integrity How working jobs we were never meant to can lead to suffering What you need to do to find purpose and joy Cultural hustle vs living from a place of integrity The four stages you go through on your quest to integrity What happens when you sell your freedom to get “stuff” Hell thoughts and how they keep you in suffering Martha’s thoughts on why so many people are out of alignment with their inner truth The importance of paying attention when your inner toddler throws a tantrum How little changes put you on the path of reclaiming your integrity How to navigate social comparison ____________________________ >>> If you love this episode, please rate, review, and share this episode. It helps me so much! ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/martha-beck/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

Dr. Erica Matluck is trained as a Naturopathic Doctor, Nurse Practitioner, Reiki Master, massage therapist, and vinyasa and kundalini yoga instructor. She has extensive training and experience in both conventional and alternative approaches to healing and has studied with masters from various traditions around the world. Erica offers a uniquely holistic lens and a variety of therapeutic modalities to support her clients including addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and energetic obstacles in their way. Today we chat about...  What Erica believes is the biggest challenge with healing today How the healing process changes with age What holistic means to Erica  Where Erica believes all miracles live What spirituality means to Erica and how she uses spirituality in her healing practice The different chakra themes and how to know if yours are out of balance How we cycle like the seasons The question we need to ask ourselves if we catch ourselves procrastinating ____________________________ ✨ If you love this episode, please rate, review, and share this episode. It helps me so much. ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/erica-matluck/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

Sean Gunderson is a survivor of nearly two decades of psychiatric detention. He found solace during those times by engaging in a daily spiritual practice rooted in meditation. Now free of the psychiatric system that detained him for his entire youth, he offers his insights on the mental health system in hopes of transforming it into what it is intended to be: a system where people who need help can go to truly heal. We chat about...  The intense spiritual experience he had at 17 years old How his spiritual experience led to him spending 17 years locked up in psychiatric facilities What Sean believes put his life into a tailspin  What his delusional thought processes looked like His parent's concerns and encouragement to seek help The event that led to Sean's arrest and the court proceedings that followed His daily struggle for survival and how sitting in jail worsened his delusions  The collateral damage of the criminal justice system  Whether or not anyone ever tried to explore the root cause of Sean's symptoms When Sean was unconditionally discharged after 17 years in the criminal justice system How Sean's using his experience to peacefully change the minds of those in the mental health field  ____________________________ I want to be your anxiety coach! Yes, you! Click here to learn more about 1:1 anxiety coaching with me.  ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/sean-gunderson/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/  

Dr. Holly Richmond is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified sex therapist, and she holds a Ph.D. in Somatic Psychology. This unique combination of professional credentials enables her to focus on clients’ cognitive processes as well as their somatic (body-based) health. Dr. Holly is one of North America’s leading sex therapists, serving women, men, couples, and gender-diverse individuals for relationship and sexuality issues.  She works from a sex-positive approach, meaning: “all sex is good sex as long as it’s consensual and pleasurable.” She is committed to helping her clients feel better—mind and body—not just behave differently. Dr. Holly’s latest book, Reclaiming Pleasure is a groundbreaking examination of both somatic and psychological factors in survivors’ recovery. We chat about...  What inspired Dr. Holly to write Reclaiming Pleasure  Some common emotional and physical impacts of sexual trauma  The connection between eating disorders and sexual trauma  How sexual trauma impacts relationships with others The four trauma responses  Being triggered during future intimacy  How shame can go inward after sexual trauma  The power of somatic therapy when healing from sexual trauma Whether or not sexual trauma can impact libido  What it looks like to be sexually healthy  How one can create a more passionate life after sexual trauma What Dr. Holly would say to someone who believes it’s too late to reclaim pleasure and passion ____________________________ NEED HELP MANAGING YOUR ANXIETY? Download my FREE 4-week anxiety action plan today! ____________________________ COURAGEOUSLY.U SHOW NOTES: https://courageouslyu.com/holly-richmond/   COURAGEOUSLY.U INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/courageously.u/