Understanding Complex PTSD and Where to Begin Your Healing Journey
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What is complex PTSD? What steps should you take to begin your healing journey? Welcome back to A Safe Place to Land! Today, we're answering these questions and diving deeper into trauma healing. Emily interviews Lesha Song, an intuitive trauma therapist and spiritual healing coach. In this episode, Lesha explains why involving the physical body in trauma healing is crucial and how acknowledging our pain is the first step on our healing journey. Many of us block our emotions and distract ourselves to get by, so stay tuned if you want to learn how to sit with your feelings and connect with...
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How To Navigate Depression
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Welcome back to A Safe Place to Land! Today, Emily sits down with Brian Sachetta, the owner and author behind Get Out of Your Head, a powerful brand and book series dedicated to helping individuals overcome anxiety and depression. We’ll explore the significance of the biopsychosocial model in treating depression and discuss how even small lifestyle adjustments can lead to significant improvements in both mental and physical health. Brian will also share his personal journey with anxiety and the valuable insights he gained at the start of his own healing process. Resources -website: -book 2...
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Why Women Don't Want Sex
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In today’s podcast Emily interviews Courtney Boyer, a relationship and sexual expert and author of Not Tonight Honey: Why Women Actually Don't Want to Have Sex and What We Can Do About It. Today, we're going to unpack how intimacy is so much more than what happens in the bedroom and how having a deeper connection with your partner will lead to more sexual satisfaction. We're also going to talk about the importance of women advocating for themselves and expressing their needs, and how it hasn't always been the norm in our society for women to vocalize those things. Courtney is fantastic, so...
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Nervous System Regulation. Am I Living in Fight or Flight?
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Do you ever feel so nervous and on edge that you can't settle down? Like your nervous system is just out of whack? In this episode, we’re going to talk about nervous system regulation and what fight, flight, and freeze truly look like. Today’s guest, Stacy B—an author, journalist, and nervous system evangelist—is going to share her story about living with what she calls functional freeze. We’ll discuss how complex trauma affects our nervous system and explore the tools we can use to find peace. The stress from complex trauma and undiagnosed neurodivergence, along with serving as a...
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Navigating Anxious Attachment
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Yo! Olivia Pelts is back to host this special episode talking all about attachment, relationship health and so much more... Joining Olivia today is owner of Well Roots Counseling - an online group practice specializing in perinatal mental health. Here is what they get into... 1. Understanding Anxious Attachment Style: What anxious attachment style is and how it manifests, including the importance of self-awareness and understanding past experiences. 2. Practical Strategies for Managing Anxiety: Chats on the importance of therapy, self-soothing techniques, and open communication to...
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Substance Use and the Family: Breaking the Stigma of Addiction
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In today's episode, Emily will be interviewing Lianna Purjes, LCSW & Empowerment Coach. Lianna specializes in helping individuals, couples, and families overcome trauma, addiction, and relationship issues. She has over 15 years of experience in the field and today she's going to be talking about how addiction impacts the entire family unit and how crucial it is to seek outside support. She shares her personal experience growing up with a mother who was an alcoholic and how therapy changed her life. We also discuss the stigma of addiction and what it looks like from a clinical perspective....
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Quality Over Quantity: How Poor Sleep Impacts Your Mental and Physical Health
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Welcome back to a Safe Place to Land! Today, Emily interviews Dr. Barry Krakow, a specialist in Sleep Medicine with expertise in mental health and sleep quality. Dr. Krakow discusses his research emphasizing that sleep quality outweighs sleep quantity, directly impacting both mental and physical well-being. Specifically, he explores how nasal breathing influences sleep depth and methods to enhance sleep quality. Dr. Krakow's findings reveal a link between poor sleep and various medical conditions like anxiety, depression, and more, as detailed in his book "Life-Saving Sleep: New Horizons in...
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Living with Avoidant Attachment and How to Move Towards Healing
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In today’s episode, Rita Bliven, author of Canyons & Fireworks, will be sharing her personal experience healing from a debilitating avoidant attachment style due to an international parental kidnapping. Rita explains what it's truly like growing up as an avoidantly attached child and how it impacted her development, friendships, dating experiences more. She also explains how therapy was an integral part of her healing journey helping her build self-awareness and self-confidence. This additional support helped her make huge leaps and bounds in her healing journey and she is passionate...
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Navigating Caregiving: Balancing Roles with Vanessa Alcala
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In this enlightening episode of "A Safe Place to Land," Olivia Pelts engages in a heartfelt conversation with Vanessa Alcala, a bilingual speech-language pathologist with extensive experience in dementia care. Vanessa shares her journey from a caregiver for her grandmother and father to a versatile healthcare professional. Basically, she's a bad ass 🤘🏽 The discussion dives deep into the emotional and practical challenges of balancing familial roles with caregiving responsibilities and the importance of maintaining the patient’s voice throughout their healthcare journey. Main Takeaways:...
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Relationship Anxiety and How To Manage It
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Hi, Hi, Hi! This is a topic that keeps coming up and up in our therapy practice so LETS TALK ABOUT IT. Sound familiar? Are you someone who constantly finds themselves overthinking relationships? Do you often wonder if your partner truly cares for you or if you're good enough for them? Relationship anxiety is real, my friends, and it can stem from various factors such as attachment styles, past negative experiences, low self-esteem, and poor communication skills. But fear not, because there are ways to overcome this anxiety and build healthier relationships. Here are some of the major...
info_outlineWe have loved talking about all of the things in this reflect and reset series.
Perhaps, one of our favorites is this little diddy right here...rhythms and postures.
How do we orient ourselves for the push and pull? The give and take? Do you have a rhythm of slowing down when coming off of a busy season? Are there postures or practices you hold around certain anniversaries?
Olivia Pelts breaks this down a bit in this episode helping you to get a fuller picture of what your rule of life might be for this coming year...
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