Everyday Therapy: The Weekly Unravel

Everyday Therapy: The Weekly Unravel

by Stoke FM

Self-Improvement Mental Health

The Weekly Unravel - Ketamine Assisted Therapy

Jennifer Wright and Dr. Deschner talk about their unique approach to Ketamine Assisted Therapy and how they unfold a highly informed process towards addressing mental health issues as well as pain management. How is ketamine different than psilocybin based psychoactive treatment? What does it treat and what are the parameters around being a good candidate for it?

Weekly Unravel - Connecting emotions to biology from a Chinese Medicine lens

Emotions have a strong impact on our physical experience. We ache, we have migraine, we carry tension and emotions are at the root or resurface when pain is expressed. Cathey Keenan is a registered acupuncturists, Qi-Gong and movement instructor in Revelstoke, British Columbia. She joins me today to talk emotions from a Chinese Medicine approach to increase our understanding of how alternative approaches value the whole human experience not just a specific contained part of the body.

Weekly Unravel Suicide Awareness Month - Let's talk

September is Suicide Awareness month. In this episode, I'm talking to listeners who are on the receiving end of someone else experiencing suicidal ideation or has recovered from an attempt at their own life. How can we best support someone who is considering self harm? Yes, we can tell them to call a crisis line but they would have done that already if that is what they wanted to do. What do they really need and how hard is it to provide that? What is your role and what isn't your role?

Weekly Unravel Digital World and Mental Health

Dr. Melanie Parkin from Ascent Psychology joined me to further the conversation I started a few months ago regarding AI and mental health. Today we kept it a bit more broad by not soley focusing on AI but more so, the impacts to behavior change that digital media has on us across age demographics as well as our ability to tolerate our emotional distress. In a world of rapid fire distraction, how could we help ourselves and our children engage with it and not fall victim to it's avoidant behavior trap?

Weekly Unravel: Avoidant Attachment & Avoidance

Avoidance is a behavior that is adaptive to not wanting to feel something the nervous system and brain deem is too uncomfortable or unsafe. It is a early adaptive behavior and we needed it to survive a particular time. The thing is, avoidance of distress perpetuates and maintains the experience of distress. So what we work so hard psychologically to avoid, we keep close by. Let's talk about it.

The Weekly Unravel: Perimenopause Journey

There is a significant biological and psychological transformation that female bodies undergo in midlife - perimenopause. With the mind-body connection feeling deeply destabilized, bringing light to this journey is pivotal to finding the right navigation tools for you. Today I invited Registered Clinical Counsellor Leanne Dorish to share her experience and discuss the Grandmother Hypothesis that roots the purpose of being a women outside of the reproductive lens. What purpose can we serve beyond having children? Apparently something evolution has deemed critical or else we would simply die in the river like spawning salmon. You can reach Leanne at leanne@ldcounselling.com and you can reach me at letstalk@everydaytherapy.ca

Everyday Therapy: The Weekly Unravel Men's Mental Health Month

June is Men's Mental Health Awareness month and so let's talk about it. We know a lot is going on individually, socially and politically that is rooted in the dysfunction of patriarchy and men aren't not doing well. They haven't been for a while. We are interested in the Manosphere, how the dysfunction shows up in their lives and the implications of it on them and others around them. What do we need to do to help men take control and redefine what it means to be a strong man?

Everyday Therapy: Unraveling A Personal Journey of Loss, Addiction and Forgiveness

Today my guest shared their personal story through a family trauma of abandonment and loss that unraveled into anger, addiction, loss of Self and emotional isolation. Mike Brown's openness and humility is laudable and how he harnesses his love for Self and others will inspire you. Mike talks about what it is like to turn towards what we fear most and look at it in the eyes.

Everyday Therapy: Unraveling the Pillars of Health with Hilary Zeeuwen

As counselling therapists we can assume that everyone has a shared understanding on pillars of health. Sometimes it's surprising how people over look the most important aspects of health. Hilary from Wholehearted Counselling reflects on her past two years of practice and reminds us of the simple things we can easily overlook that can perpetuate unnecessary mental struggles. I think you're going to like Hilary; she wears many hats.

Everyday Therapy - Unraveling AI and Mental Health?

Should you? Are you? How is that going? Using AI is quickly becoming a go-to for many people to address their mental health issues. We don't know enough about the long term impacts of it. I have feelings about this because while I do see a use for it, I do feel strongly that parameters need to be placed by each person on what you are expecting from it. Most of us have a distorted idea of what psychological changes entails so let's get clear on that first.

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