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 fol ...
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20 Ways To Up Your Happiness During the Holidays
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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!By Robert Sidwell
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Learn the warning signs, how to speak with, and what actions to take with someone who is suicidal.By Robert Sidwell
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Better Blood Draws: Less Fainting and Less Pokes
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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.By Robert Sidwell
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Why It Matters That Physical and Mental Health Are Undeniably Connected
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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 societyBy Robert Sidwell
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The Dandelion - a short guided visualization
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A short guided visualization exercise designed to reduce stress, burdens and tension. A supplement to short visualization techniques.By Robert Sidwell
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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.By Robert Sidwell
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Victim v Survivor and Intro to the Survivor Series
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We explore the importance differences between victims and survivors and introduce an exciting upcoming seriesBy Robert Sidwell
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Natural Health Products - The Good, The Bad, & the Outright Terrifying
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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.By Robert Sidwell
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Identifying & Overcoming Maladaptive Coping Strategies
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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.By Robert Sidwell
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Learn the power of positivity, how to remove negativity & build positivity, & feel the difference between real v fake positivity + a life example that WILL inspire youBy Robert Sidwell
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PMR exercise option 2. Please listen to intro episode for general instructions & important info prior to listening to this episode. Thank you.By Robert Sidwell
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PMR exercise option 1. Please listen to intro episode for general instructions & important info prior to listening to this episode. Thank you.By Robert Sidwell
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Progressive Muscle Relaxation Intro/Instructions
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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 & 7By Robert Sidwell
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Intro into mindfulness, the health benefits, and several exercises to practice mindfulness.By Robert Sidwell
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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.By Robert Sidwell
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Rehabilitation is a Journey Not a Destination
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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.By Robert Sidwell
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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.By Robert Sidwell
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