229 SelfWork: Careers That Kill: Could Your Vet Be At Risk?
Dr. Kristina Keifer reached out to me recently. Her email was simple and to the point. “I’m in vet med and veterinarians are in trouble.” I was intrigued and looked up some statistics on...
228 SelfWork: What’s Up with Your Gut and Depression?
Today we’re going to focus on your gut – and how recent research is finding that it may have more to do with depression and anxiety than realized in the past. Believe it or not, there’s a second...
227 SelfWork: Good Stuffing. Bad Stuffing. What’s the Difference?
Compartmentalization (sometimes called stuffing away feelings) is a healthy skill much of the time. And you can tell when people don’t have that skill. Their emotions govern their lives and their...
SelfWork YGTG: How Many Types of Narcissism Are There?
Today’s “You Get the Gist” explains the four different types of narcissism. All of them share the major features of a constant need for admiration, an unrealistic sense of...
226 SelfWork: 10 Things About Being A Good Therapist I Learned… From Being In Therapy
As many of you know, I was a professional singer before I began my journey to become a therapist and a psychologist. The only thing I knew about therapy was that I’d had lots of it and had never...
225 SelfWork: Broken (in the best possible way): A Conversation with Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson, known as The Bloggess, has literally thousands who follow her. She’s also a mom, a wife, and luckily for us, an author. Broken (in the best possible way) is her newest book. In...
SelfWork YGTG: How Do You Say Goodbye?
Welcome to SelfWork’s You Get the Gist, five minutes of some ideas you can ponder for the rest of the day. Today YGTG is about saying goodbye. When I knew back in 1992 that my husband and I...
224 SelfWork: 7 Steps Out of Enmeshment and Into A More Solid Sense of Self
In today’s episode, sponsored by BetterHelp, we’ll be talking about enmeshment. It sometimes can be confused with codependency, terms which some use interchangeably. We’ll focus on not...
SelfWork YGTG: Is Meghan Markle’s Experience Unique?
Today’s YGTG, or “you get the gist” deals not with who’s right and who’s wrong in the ongoing drama between Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Great Britain’s...
223 SelfWork: Shining A Light on Women’s Bravery in the Mental Health Arena
It’s Women’s History Month! And I’m excited to announce that SelfWork has a new sponsor – Premium Jane. You can visit them at premiumjane.com and use coupon code SelfWork to get...
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