Guiding Compass Podcast
Here’s a quick description of the guiding compass podcast!
Episode 25: Navigating Motherhood
Episode 25: Motherhood is hard. There is no question about how difficult it is to become a new mother. Today's episode is all about maternal mental health.
Episode 24: Creating The Bridge: How To Connect With Teens
Episode 24: Aly Thompson, LMFT joins me for a discussion about adolescence and provides insight, tools and valuable information about how to connect with, understand and guide teens through their unique challenges.
Episode 23: Nap Time Is Good For You! The Impact Of Sleep
Episode 23: Amanda Cortez, LMFT discusses the impact that sleep has on your mental, emotional and physical health
Episode 22: The Power Of Yoga For Trauma
Episode 22: Deborah Vinall, LMFT discusses her experience using the practice in her therapeutic work with client's and shares her own journey of becoming a yogi, clinician and coming up with the idea to combine her two passions.
Episode 21: How Mentorship Can Transform Your Life
Episode 21: Dr. TK shares how mentorship helped her create the life and career of her dreams and also gives practical advice for how to find a mentor, what to look for and ways to best utilize mentorship to move to the next level in your life.
Episode 20: From Anxiety to Love
Episode 20: Author Corinne Zupko, a licensed counselor and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, undertook her study of psychology out of necessity when debilitating anxiety threatened to derail her life. Seeking ways to do more than temporarily alleviate her symptoms, Corinne began to study A Course in Miracles (ACIM), mindfulness meditation, and the latest therapeutic approaches for treating anxiety.
Episode 19: Intuitive Eating
Episode 19: Julie Simon, LMFT joins me for an in-depth look into the origins of emotional eating, recovery and shares about her most recent book. Julie focuses on self-soothing, emotional regulation and mindfulness.
Episode 18: The Healing Power Of Breath Work
Episode 18: Nathaniel Hodder-Shipp discusses how trauma is stored in the body and how he uses breathing techniques to help client's access, process and move through the trauma stored in their body and transform their lives.
Episode 17: Healing From Divorce: The Power of Mediation
Episode 17: Barry Davis joins me to discuss the power of mediation and how it can help decrease some of the emotional trauma of divorce.
Episode 16: Whole Health Is Mental Health
Episode 16: Justin Bethoney joins me for Episode 15 to discuss how lifestyle factors such as, diet, exercise, sleep and stress management combine and contribute to our overall mental health and emotional wellness.
Episode 15: Healthy Love LA
Episode 15: Barry Davis, LMFT and Shana Diskant to discuss their group therapy approach to helping people develop healthy relationships and how they use a combination of mindfulness and CBT to teach new client's new ways of communicating, connecting and caring for their relationships.
Episode 14: How To Survive A Narcissistic Romance
Episode 14: Alla Branzburg, LCSW joins me for an in-depth discussion about narcissistic personality disorder and her work with couples where one or both partners have this diagnosis.
Episode 13: The Path To Authenticity
Episode 13: Ira Israel the author of "How To Survive Your Childhood Now That You Are An Adult" joins me to discuss the path to healing and learning to live an authentic, fulfilling and connected life. Ira's philosophy looks at how our cultural and social expectations prevent us from being able to tap into our truest selves
Episode 12: The Space Between
Episode 12: Ms. Cocharo discusses the beauty that exists in "the space between" and how she helps couples reconnect by looking at each other with admiration, curiosity and respect for each person's experience in the relationship.
Episode 11: Women And The Power Of Perspective
Episode 11: Joanne Royer, PH D has built her coaching practice around working with women and helping empower them by utilizing the power of perspective. Joanne will speak about her journey working with women and how she has utilized her background in clinical work combined with coaching to help women take control of and improve their lives.
Episode 10: Let's Talk About Sex
Episode 10: Alicia Brandt, LMFT will be discussing why sex is such an important part of a relationship, how to talk about it and ways that she helps couples communicate their needs better.
Episode 9: Millennials And The Life Skills Epidemic
Episode 9: On the ninth episode of Guiding Compass, I interview Dr. Tekesia Jackson Rudd about how the lack of life skills and direction in life is impacting Millennials and leading to higher rates of anxiety, depression and the "snowball generation."
Episode 8: The Impact Of Trauma
Episode 8: In the seventh episode, I interview Dr. Carole Goguen about her work with client's with PTSD and complex trauma.
Episode 7: Interactive Parenting And Relationship Building
Episode 7: Dr. Lisa Cohen about Parent-Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT) and how she uses play to help build and strengthen the relationship between caregiver and child.
Episode 6: Helping Men Embrace Their Vulnerability
Episode 6: Courtland McPherson, LCSW about his research and work with men, embracing vulnerability and helping challenge cultural perceptions of "male stereotype."