As heard recently on the Gametime Guru Podcast! From the Gametime Guru: What a story we have for you today! Sarah Meister played volleyball at the Division 1 level for Missouri, and she has quite a few stories to tell. While there were some people who may look at an athlete or a team at…
ABOUT THIS PODCAST EPISODE ON MENTAL HEALTH DURING CHAOTIC TIMES As we all deal with the trauma of Covid-19, we are seeing a rise in mental health awareness. We are grateful that we have a leader in mental health tackling this topic and more in this essential Society of Financial Service Professionals talk and gathering. Derek…
You are pushed to the utter limits of your emotional and physical tolerance until you can no longer carry the weight. Here, in this small space pushed up against an invisible wall, is where you finally stop resisting and succumb to the realization that you must stop and surrender. I asked several people what it means…
Attention. Accountability. Acceptance. In this episode, Derek and Oren discuss Millennium Counseling Center’s 3A Intensive Treatment Program. This program, developed by Derek Bylsma, Oren Matteson, and their team at Millennium, offers extensive support and wrap-around care for individuals during critical transitional times of their recovery including, but not limited to, the time between leaving inpatient…
It’s hard to believe we are at the end of summer and yet this pandemic is still dictating our lives. With all the noise about how to process, cope and manage the stress, I wanted to offer up another form of therapy – humor. Even in the darkest of times, humor can provide relief from…
Taking action on improvement is not simple or easy. In this episode, we discuss what we are seeing as therapists regarding mental health during difficult times. We also touch on actions you can take to build positivity in your life during a time where some of our typical activities are unavailable to us.
This pandemic has lead to negative behaviors coming back into our lives. In this episode, we discuss compulsive behaviors and how to stay on the right track. We touch on positive behaviors that you can do to remove these negative behaviors from your life during this pandemic.
Now more then ever, you need to attend to your mental health. In this episode, we discuss how to navigate and manage your mental health on a daily basis. We touch on medication, meeting with a professional, and daily habits that you can attend to during tough times to maintain a positive mentality.
During this lockdown, life is moving at a surreal pace with a lost sense of time and space and I have been hyper-focused on the existential meaning of it all. What are we supposed to be learning from this altered state of being? As a therapist who focuses on attachments in relationships, this might be…