286 SelfWork: When You Fear Disclosure, Maternal Abandonment, and Suicide After An Affair: Your Questions My Answers
Trigger Warning: References to Suicide (International Suicide Prevention Resources). After the shootings in New York, California and Texas within the last couple of weeks, I’m preparing an episode concerning mental health issues that may play a part in violent crime, but also – and...
Bingeing Or Comfort Eating? Five Ways For Comfort Eating To Stay Comfortable
I have two distinct memories that involve eating. One horrified me, the other brought a sense of being understood.
I, like most others, had a small fridge in my dorm room in college. I was beginning to develop anorexia, but hadn’t a clue at the time. I was eating less and less, and receiving all kinds of accolades for becoming thin.
285 SelfWork: How To Build Self-Regulation, Self-Control, and Self-Motivation
My mom used to write T H I N K on my forehead as a child. Ugh. I hated that! ! But it was definitely her way of trying to teach me self-control, a skill that I didn’t have much of as a child! Today we’re going to focus on three skills that are considered ego skills or what compose ego...
SelfWork: Special Edition: In The Face of Senseless Tragedy
Warning: This episode could act as a trigger due to its topic. Please listen with caution. The murders in Uvalde, Texas this week may pull for many different reactions to such senseless violence. The fact that the violence targeted children makes it even more devastating. I humbly offer these...
Are You Teaching Your Child to Hide Their Depression… Perfectly?
What are you teaching your child about admitting vulnerability? Or what to do with uncomfortable feelings that they don’t want, but have nonetheless? Or how to express hurt or pain? Or what depression is? Depression in kids is on the rise; whether it’s because of the well-documented...
284 SelfWork: Josh Peck Talks True Happiness: A Conversation With The Actor and Author of Happy People Are Annoying
Where did you learn who Josh Peck was? Through his award-winning performance in Drake and Josh when he was a teen? Starring next to Ben Kingsley in The Wackness? Or has it been more recently in Disney+ Turner and Hooch? What I learned in this interview is that you likely didn’t know who Josh...
283 SelfWork: Not Drinking Tonight: A Conversation with Retired-Party-Girl-Turned-Therapist Amanda White
I first found Amanda White on Instagram, as she’s the therapist behind Therapy For Women – a popular Instagram mental health group. But then I learned more about her. Her book came out early in 2022: NOT DRINKING TONIGHT: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love, where she calls...
How To Not Be Victimized By Empty Nest. Letting Go With Intention.
My son is traveling at breakneck speed through the last semester of his college days.
Graduation is two weeks away.
He’s making decisions about his future — carving out a life for himself that will hopefully prove productive and fulfilling.
What I Most Want This Mother’s Day I Can Give To Myself
This is the third Mother’s Day in the era of Covid19. I’m not one to be concerned with receiving gifts, but I wondered what I might want to give myself… The first gift I thought of is actually far too dangerous, for it has to do with knowing when the light at the end of the...
282 SelfWork: Watching My Mother Disappear
This is a very personal episode of SelfWork, as I tell the story of my mother’s intense struggles with anxiety – and her turning to prescription drugs to help her cope. Sadly, doctors in the 1960’s brushed off women with “nerves” and handed out medications that were...
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