Mental Health Insights

Redwood Trees are amazing and can shed some light on some helpful mental health concepts!

In this episode we talk about pruning to benefit our mental health. I hope you find this helpful!

Often we see ourselves as one of the biggest obsticles we face. Is this true or is there more to it than that. Are we really our worst enemy? Let's start to find out. Feel free to reach out and offer episode suggestions or just to say hi. I read and respond to every email! Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com

People pleasing is seen as such a bad thing that we should take some time to think of if that is true or not. Join me in exploring people pleasing, its function, and if it is really a bad thing. Feel free to reach out at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com if you have episode suggestions or just to say Hi! I respond to every email!

In this episode we explore how long lasting issues or challenging could be less mental health related issues and more a possibility of how your brain just is. Our brains operate differently and their is a fairly significant variance as more and more people are born. This leads us to question if the different ways our brains think is actually a mental illness or is it just wired to operate and be used differently? We explore this idea in this episode, I hope you enjoy!  

In this episode, I talk about how porn use can impact our mental health. This is important because of how prevalent porn use is and how it can impact our body and relationships deeply. I hope you find it helpful!   If you want to reach out for questions or episode suggestions, please email me at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com 

This question was asked by a friend and I took some time to think it over and I believe you will resonate with the answer. Thinking of your own life, you will likely be able to pick out how you may do this very thing we discuss to harm your own mental health without meaning to.    If you have any questions or suggestions for topics you would like to share, please feel free to email me at Craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com 

More processing power equals more ability to decrease the emotional volatility of an experience. Today we talk about how to increase you brain's processing power several times over to help you though tough experiences.    Remember to give our other podcast a listen to, Mental Health Insights In the Bible! You can find some of those episodes on all major podcast apps and at: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm/mentalhealthinsightsinthebible    If you want to reach out to me, my email is craig@lifecarecounselingstl.com   Take care!

Here is an episode from our other podcast, Mental Health Insights In The Bible. This episode will be posted for a short while so feel free to listen as long as it is up. To listen more more episodes, please subscribe by following the link: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm/mentalhealthinsightsinthebible   Here are the show notes:  Thank you for joining us on this journey! We go over Genesis one and start to unpack some of the biblical lessons from before the fall occurs in the biblical narrative. This is one of the most powerful examples of what life as a human would look like before sin and exile from the Garden of Eden occurs. Lessons to Ponder We are an image of God Mental health issues caused by conflict with identity and purpose We are not meant to go through life alone The disconnecting damage of guilt and shame Communication issues at the very start of the biblical story We hope you enjoyed the session! If you would like to reach out for questions, episode requests, or encouragement then please feel free to email us at mentalhealthinsightsinthebible@gmail.com We love you very much!

Small wins can take us so much further in our mental health journey because they normally come more frequently than larger ones. In this episode I talk about leveraging habits to create these small wins that yield big results.    If you would like to check out our other podcast, Mental Health Insights in the Bible then here is a link: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm   If you would like to reach out, my email is Craig@lifecarecounselintslt.com    Take care!

In this episode we go over the steps to take when you are suffering and go through several examples to demonstrate them. The truth is, we have to do something because suffering is something we all experience or will experience.  It has been almost a year since I have published anything while I worked on my other podcast Mental Health Insights In The Bible. Now that we have that off the ground I am happy to be back recording for this one again as well. If you want to check that other podcast out (we have some great things on that one too) then here is a link to some of the episodes: https://mental-health-insights.captivate.fm I look forward to sharing more next time!

In this episode we talk about distance in the relationship. Often when we feel distance (emotional rather than physical in this case) we will react in several ways. I break this down in the episode and start to give some ways of considering and talking about distance in your relationship.    This episode is part of a series and is another building block so we can continue to more complex topics. We like to keep it simple so breaking it down and taking it slow is something we hope will help really soak in the understanding and ability to take action on some of what we are discussing! 

We are created to bond and connect with others. In this episode we talk about human attachment and responsiveness to give us a foundation to build upon as we further explore relationships and how they impact our mental health.    In this episode I do not really talk about attachment styles as I feel like sometimes labels can restrict ways we think about ourselves. If labels help you more then I recommend you look some up since we all learn differently!

Burnout is a challenging feeling to contend with. Most of us will have to face it at some point or another and we need a strategy to get out of it and a more clear idea of what burnout actually is. Thank you for listening and I am glad to be back!  

Emotional wounds can last a long time. With enough time, do they go away? In this episode, we explore this question and how we can work on helping emotional wounds heal.    If you want to support this podcast and our mission to create a safe online community for working on improving mental health, please consider becoming a supporter.    As a supporter, you will be working towards helping this new community start up and contributing to the resources to help people improve their mental health. Improving our mental health alone doesn't work, so please support this effort here!

In this episode we break down validation and how central it is to building understanding and empathy in relationships. Validation is the key to communicating understanding of what someone is communicating and in this episode we talk about how this is done. After this episode, you will be able practice validating and experience the change it can bring!

In this episode we explore how we naturally create our own narratives or stories about ourselves in our day to day life. This can be a bad things if we are not really happy with how we are living our life. This can also be a great opportunity to use a powerful tool to actually help our mental health by crafting and pursuing narratives we want about our life. As with all things, awareness helps and it is action from awareness that will create change!

In this episode we continue to explore the concept of mind over matter in relation to willpower. 

In this episode we talk about the concept of mind over matter and how it can impact your mental health.

When we have anxiety, it can be common to try and think our way out of our problems. That may not be the right approach, fighting thoughts with thoughts. How about we try a different way.