Body Image and the Holidays with Amy Harman, LMFT

Perfectionism and Self-Compassion with Rachel Thornton

Rachel Thornton, TRS, CTRS, LCSW  specializes in helping people with anxious perfectionism tendencies. In this episode we discuss how to sift out perfectionism and how focusing on plucking this out can actually help people keep relationships, jobs, beliefs they connect with. We explore using the lens of self-compassion rather than perfectionism. Rachel addresses the common fear that being self-compassionate creates lazy unsuccessful people. We also address how shame is often at the root of us being “stuck" and that we can be confident individuals and still carry and perpetuate shame. Michelle shares some personal examples of how perfectionism shows up in her life and Rachel shares how seeing a "cliff effect" pattern in her own life helped her move away from perfectionism.

Supporting Single Adult Men

Trevor Hanson, LAMFT has a very successful instagram account focused on helping couples, but he has a soft spot in his heart for supporting single adult men. Together we talk about his story and what it was like for him as a single adult and how those experiences lead to him changing career paths. While living far away from family, Trevor was laid off by Tesla, broke up with his girlfriend, and had a terrible skiing accident. All the turmoil landed him in a therapy office for the  first time. It was life changing. He was smitten by the work and decided to jump into a therapy career. Trevor offers individual therapy sessions and holds a weekly men's support group.

Ketamine & Psychedelic Psychotherapy with Dr. Steve Thayer

In this episode Michelle interviews Dr. Steve Thayer, a clinical psychologist at Cedar Psychiatry, about his work using psychotherapy in conjunction with ketamine, a legal and safe psychedelic substance. Michelle shares her personal experience with Dr. Thayer when she participated in a pilot ketamine treatment program for frontline healthcare workers. Together they discuss who can benefit from this treatment, what to expect during ketamine treatment and the importance of having a therapist facilitate integration of the ketamine experience.  If this episode piques your interest, listen to Dr. Thayer and Dr. Robison on Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, a podcast dedicated to discussing various mental health topics and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.   Please visit https://www.novamind.ca/ for more information on ketamine treatments.  Follow Dr. Steve Thayer on Instagram @drstevethayer

Healing your whole self through bodily experience with Aimee Clements-Hadfield, MSW

In the episode Aimee Clements-Hadfield shares her story of how her experience with addiction in her family and great loss lead to her to make a big career change to become a therapist. Aimee talks about her passion for experiential therapy which gets clients out of their heads and into their bodies in order to heal. Aimee helps clients use creativity and spontaneity to help them live their most authentic lives. Aimee is quirky and real and fun.

Body Image and the Holidays with Amy Harman, LMFT

In this episode we learn from expert Amy Harman who talks about the difference between eating disorders and disordered eating. Amy shares how the small culturally acceptable comments about dieting and weight can be really harmful. We discuss how to ask friends and family for support in healing from eating disorders and poor body image. I ask Amy how to decrease the amount of mental and emotional real estate disordering eating and poor body image take up. She shares the process of digging deeper to find what the negative thoughts and disordered eating are really about. Amy shares about her online body image course: https://courses.therapynutshell.com/p/body-image-course/?affcode=514306_lm9hjutl [https://courses.therapynutshell.com/p/body-image-course/?affcode=514306_lm9hjutl] Used discount code: AMY20