313 SelfWork: Five Steps To Build Your Social Muscle and Tackle Self-Consciousness and Social Anxiety
Generally, when someone is called “a bundle of nerves,” they’re not describing a state of being that’s pleasant or desired. Those nerves could range from the fairly common experience of self-consciousness, where you have a heightened sense of yourself, to actual social anxiety, when the fear of...
I’m A Giver. I’m Proactive. I Work Hard. Is That The Same As PHD?
How does your personality develop? It’s a mixture of your genetic makeup, what you receive (or don’t receive) from your family in childhood — what kind of safety and nurturing they provided — what your experience is of your culture and the world around you in the years to come.
312 SelfWork: Why Not Me? A Conversation with Lessons From the Minivan’s Creator Jill Kaplan
I’ve received many messages from all of you concerning my upcoming surgery. It’s messages like this that make me very determined to get back to this mic as soon as I can… I’m hoping at this point that will be mid-January – but I’m so excited about the guest hosts we’re featuring. Everyone from...
Five Frank Mental Health Tips for Enjoying Your Family This Holiday Season
What can help you through spending time with family this holiday season? Dr. Margaret shares five frank suggestions to figure out how to do just that. Happy Holidays!
311 SelfWork: When Families Are Fractured: Estrangement and Parental Alienation
The term “cancel culture” came to be around 2016 and according to the dictionary, it’s the practice or tendency of engaging in mass canceling as a way of expressing disapproval and exerting social pressure. Yet, in families, estrangement has been around quite a long time. Parents can distance...
How To Uninvite the Shoulds and the Musts from The Holidays
Perhaps it’s started for you. You may already feel like the expectations around the holidays are getting out of hand: family is looking forward to traditions, coworkers can’t wait for your famous cookies, friends are praising your amazing gift-wrapping abilities. It’s too much to...
310 SelfWork: Maybe It’s Depression. But Maybe It’s Not.
We’re going to talk about labels today – and how the mental health world, its science, its leaders, and its language might be influencing us to over-pathologize what’s normal. Meaning that you can come to believe something is sick or wrong or abnormal when actually it IS normal when it’s...
309 SelfWork: How to Stop Emotional Eating and Breathe to Heal: A Conversation with Samantha Skelly
Samantha Skelly was such a vibrant and fascinating guest. She wrote her book several years ago – Hungry for Happiness: Stop Emotional Eating and Start Loving Yourself. And this is what she says about it: This book is how I turned my mess into my message. The journey of struggling with...
Perfectly Hidden Depression And The Power of Loneliness
After watching the famous shower scene in Psycho, even the most stoic of us can feel a bit dubious the next time you step into yours. But when you’re lonely and hiding pain from the world, sometimes that shower is the only place where your secrets are allowed to emerge. And it can be where...
Is It Depression Or The Winter Blues? Five Things To Do
Do you dread the leaves turning color? When you hear it’s going to reach only 50 degrees today, do you inwardly wince and yearn for warmer weather? Does your energy get zapped as the daylight wanes, and getting out of bed becomes increasingly difficult? If this rings familiar to you, perhaps...
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