A podcast that provides helpful tips and skills for you or people you know who have chronic physical and/or mental health issues to get by and thrive in daily living and in rehabilitation. The podcast is provided from the viewpoint and expertise of a rehabilitation counselor of twenty-three plus years who has been recognized with numerous awards and who also has the experience of living with significant physical and mental health issues. After listening to the podcast please click on the following link and complete the survey so I know which topics are most important to you. Thank you!<a href="https://forms.gle/pYovJMWRHHcgaJ2w7" rel="nofollow">https://forms.gle/pYovJMWRHHcgaJ2w7</a>

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The holiday season can be tough! Here are twenty ways to help you be happier, improve your mental health, and upgrade your holiday season. Happy holidays!

20 Ways To Up Your Happiness During the Holidays

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Learn the warning signs, how to speak with, and what actions to take with someone who is suicidal.

How To Help Someone Who Is Suicidal

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2022/8/16/4/ea969e62-20fc-47c2-b593-d9ae17b7c413_bloodcoping.mp3

A guide to help those who often faint or get poked multiple times during blood draws and IV insertions that will significantly increase their chances of less pokes and less fainting.

Better Blood Draws:  Less Fainting and Less Pokes

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2022/7/11/21/475c3add-9551-40fb-af00-00730ab571e6_copingconnection.mp3

Take Tylenol for social rejection? We review how physical and mental health are intertwined, how we can utilize that to help ourselves, and briefly discuss how it impacts society

Why It Matters That Physical and Mental Health Are Undeniably Connected

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2022/6/20/3/e65131ca-4207-445a-b4c3-4d81caeb437a_dandelionvisual.mp3

A short guided visualization exercise designed to reduce stress, burdens and tension. A supplement to short visualization techniques.

The Dandelion - a short guided visualization

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Intro to some amazingly useful quick visualization tools to change thoughts (anger, addiction, anxiety, etc.), ease pain, depression, stress and more.

Short Visualization Techniques

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We explore the importance differences between victims and survivors and introduce an exciting upcoming series

Victim v Survivor and Intro to the Survivor Series

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2022/3/28/5/36b94656-8a65-4de7-b208-9c399a939a07_naturalhealthcop.mp3

Natural health products can be very useful, but let us review some of the problems that come from purchasing items unregulated by official agencies and how to avoid them.

Natural Health Products - The Good, The Bad, & the Outright Terrifying

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2022/2/15/5/790e9af9-a5ad-4fdb-b8d5-9463079789c6_malcop.mp3

Maladaptive coping strategies are some of the major contributors to and sometimes the causes of our physical and emotional pain. Identifying them is the first step to overcoming them. Some ideas to overcoming them are given.

Identifying & Overcoming Maladaptive Coping Strategies

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Learn the power of positivity, how to remove negativity &amp; build positivity, &amp; feel the difference between real v fake positivity + a life example that WILL inspire you

The Power of Positivity

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2021/12/28/19/dcbecb84-2e2e-4feb-92cb-8449cb555620_pmr2cop.mp3

PMR exercise option 2. Please listen to intro episode for general instructions &amp; important info prior to listening to this episode. Thank you.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Ex #2

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PMR exercise option 1. Please listen to intro episode for general instructions &amp; important info prior to listening to this episode. Thank you.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Ex. #1

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Need help with a proven tool for pain, insomnia, mental health and more? Explanation of Progressive Muscle Relaxation, its many many benefits, and instructions for episodes #6 &amp; 7

Progressive Muscle Relaxation Intro/Instructions

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2021/11/24/0/46c49a6f-9510-466a-8724-554e31197e30_mindfulcop.mp3

Intro into mindfulness, the health benefits, and several exercises to practice mindfulness.

Mindfulness

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2021/11/3/21/4d4cad6d-02fb-4f19-904b-cd34f24f45ac_coppanic.mp3

Learn how to manage panic attacks to lessen their occurrence, make them more bearable, and complete those tasks that you want or need to accomplish.

Overcoming Panic Attacks

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In this episode we outline some important benefits of understanding that we have chronic illnesses and focusing on our journey instead of our destination in regards to treatment, fulfillment and happiness. This includes listing some dangers of focusing on the destination.

Rehabilitation is a Journey Not a Destination

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We learn the benefit of deep or belly breathing, how to breathe using the diaphragm, and three breathing techniques including some examples on when each could best be utilized.

Breathing Exercises

A podcast that provides helpful tips and skills for you or people you know who have chronic physical and/or mental health issues to get by and thrive in daily living and in rehabilitation. The podcast is provided from the viewpoint and expertise of a rehabilitation counselor of twenty-three plus years who has been recognized with numerous awards and who also has the experience of living with significant physical and mental health issues. After listening to the podcast please click on the following link and complete the survey so I know which topics are most important to you. Thank you!

https://forms.gle/pYovJMWRHHcgaJ2w7