Don't you love it when you talk with a trusted friend and they help you get clearer about who you are and what you believe? Seriouslyourself is a podcast that invites you to delve a little deeper into those stuck and confused places in life. Ingrid Helander brings her decades of experience as a family therapist and author to your everyday questions, problems, and wonderings. With humor & genuine conversation, Ingrid's lighthearted and dedicated style invites her guests and listeners to quest ...
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How can you let go of a feeling you've never really held? Have you ever thought to yourself, "I've heard so many people say this but I don't know how to do it"? In this week's podcast we go over how to do just that. Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey, welcome, welcome, come on in. How you doin…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey, hi there, come on in, how are you? Good to have you with me today, I feel like we have kind of a little bit of a relationship going, what do you say? That's what we're talking about today, relationships. You know, one of the best parts of being a family ther…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, come on in. Welcome, how are you today today? We have a topic that honestly, I just don't really like, but I think that's important to talk about. So what I don't like at all very often is disappointment. You know, I can handle being sad, I can handle you …
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, hello, how are you? Come on in. It is really a gorgeous day here in New England and um I hope wherever you are listening from, it is also a good day where you are. Today, I'm talking about an interesting thing that happens inside of us and it's interesting…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey there, hello, come on in, I'm excited that you're here with me today and I think I have a really helpful and interesting topic for you because I'm hearing about it a lot, I'm feeling it, and I think there are lots of people who right now are experiencing sort…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi there, come on in, how are you? Hey I have a question for you today, for our episode. The question is do you think of yourself as wise? Yeah, really think about it. Do you think of yourself as wise? Now I know a few of you and I can hear you saying well I'm a …
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi, come on in, how are you? I'm hoping you're busy. Are you busy? You're really, really busy. You probably are busy. Yeah, I'm recording this for September. It's September now, and I'm guessing you're busy, because everyone I talked to when I talk to them, they'…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriouslyourself, the podcast, and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey there, come on in. Welcome to Seriouslyourself. I'm really happy you're here today. I have an interesting topic that has been coming up a lot for me lately, and it's about addiction. Addiction... hmm... I never have thought of myself as a person really suscept…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi there. Hi, come on in, how are ya? Oh, today I have a kind of a yummy topic I think and you can take what you need from it, but I think fundamentally it's about being open to receive and to listen inside to you while you also notice what's coming towards you a…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey, hello, come on in, how are you? I am glad that you are here and I hope you're feeling well. Today I'm talking about heartache, ouch, heart ache. Have you had that experience heartache? I don't know if it's exactly the same as feeling a broken heart. I kind o…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, how are you? Come in, have a seat relax, kick off for 15 minutes or so, just enough time just to get a little boost today. I'm so glad you're with me. Thank you, thank you for joining me this month and seriously yourself, the community, we're talking about…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey there, Welcome, come on in, How are you, my friends? Have you ever caught yourself saying, "oh but that's just a feeling or that's just my emotion speaking"? I hear that a lot in therapy sessions which is interesting because I think one of the reasons that pe…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Oh, hey there, come on in. How you been? I hope you've been having a good summer if you're in summer weather and that you're feeling curious and ready to dive into a new curiosity, a new creative question. Today, you know, last week we talked about control, what …
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi there. Hello, hello, come on in. Hey, this week, I'm laughing at my topic and it's not about humor. That was the last time, right? So why is this topic funny to me? Because the topic for today is control. The feeling of having control. You see it's funny to me…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, Hi, come on in. I was just thinking about things that make me laugh and I was thinking about it because last month in June in the seriously yourself community, we were talking about humor. And humor and laughter tend to be thought of as maybe trivial or un…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey hello, come on in. You know I've been a therapist for many years, many, couple of decades now actually, seems impossible but true. And I was talking to someone the other day and they did this thing that I am aware of because it's happened many times and I wil…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Oh hello, how are you? Nice to have you joining me today. Come on in and get comfortable. I wanted to talk today about something that I think really is important when you're considering being seriously yourself. And that is that if you are listening to me right n…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, hi, welcome and come on in. I hope that you are feeling today, I hope that you are feeling, not that I hope you're feeling badly, but I hope you've got some feelings that we can tap into in a seriously yourself kind of way. You know, we've talked about lot…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, welcome, welcome back in. I still have my croaky little bronchitis voice and I'm feeling a little bit better. But just so you know, if you hear some cracks and rattles, that's just how it is right now. You know, I feel for people who have been suffering wi…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi hello, come on in, I am really glad you're here today and I want to tell you that I probably sound a little different and that is because I've been dealing with this crazy bronchial virus and I think a lot of people have it right now. It's not covid, but it's …
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey, hello, happy new week and come on in. It's really good to be with you. I have an interesting topic today. It's really I think very important for growth and for living feeling alive and that is about questioning and revising and seeing what you might not have…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, Come on in. I'm thinking today about the words regret and grief, kind of grieving regretfulness. You know this is a little different than the topic from a few weeks ago when we talked about um the slimy strawberries and sharing what you have to offer your …
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Shift Happens! Small Changes & Why They're Often Best
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey there. Hi, come on in. Nice to see you today though. I can't really, but I'm imagining you ,with lots of love and affection. Today we're talking about change and a lot of us don't like change. I've heard that 1,000 times in my office, I don't like change, don…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi there, come on in. This is gonna sound a little strange maybe, but I'm hoping I've caught you at a bad time. I really am. I'm hoping I caught you at a time when you're like ughh, because that's what I'm talking about today. The other morning I woke up and I ha…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi there. How are you? Come on in. I'm so glad you're here today. Today's offering on SeriouslYourself comes from some soggy strawberries in my refrigerator. See there's inspiration everywhere right? Soggy strawberries in the fridge. I'll tell you why the other d…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, hello, come on in. Welcome to Seriously Yourself. I'm happy you're here. I'm sitting here and I'm looking out my window in my office at still bare trees of New England. I think they should be popping out with some leaves pretty soon. I see buds but they're…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Well, hello everybody, I'm so glad you're here. I hope you're comfortable. Come on in and take a seat if you want or if you're out and you're in your car, you know, just soften your shoulders a little bit. Maybe you're taking a lovely walk outside. That sounds li…
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When Your Depression Holds On Too Tightly
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi there, come on in. Welcome to Seriously Yourself. I am kind of excited to talk to you today. So I hope I don't ramble in too many circles. If you've been listening, thank you: number one. And I also want to let people know if you're looking for someone who tal…
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi there. Come on in. Nice to have you with me today. I'm inviting you to hear our talk as a little love letter to the parts of you that felt during covid quarantine... And the modifications that many, many, many, many of us made during the higher levels of pande…
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It's a Man's World. Might As Well Get Used to It?
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriously Yourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi there. Welcome. Come on in. Nice to see you. I wish I could see you. I'm imagining you. It's a very rainy, dreary, drizzly day here in New England...in the northeast of the United States. It's springtime, and we get a lot of that here. So I'm kind of just feel…
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Venting, Raging, Ruminating, and How to Get It Out
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Hi there, come on in. This is Seriouslyourself, the Podcast, and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey there, how are you today? Come on in. Do you ever like to just vent about something? Maybe there's a pet peeve you have or you're feeling frustrated and you just can hear yourself like I just want to vent about this. I want to complain. Or crab or maybe have a…
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Hi there! Come on in. This is Seriouslyourself, the podcast, and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hi, how are you? Nice to have you back with me. Thank you so much for joining me today. I'm bringing in a topic that we're looking at in Seriouslyourself, the membership, and it is the topic of trust and trustworthiness. And I was laughing because before I started…
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Hi there! Come on in. This is Seriouslyourself, the podcast, and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey there, come on in. You know, I am continually amazed at how many ways I feel and how many things I do that come almost directly from my experience of being a child. Things that never sort of saw the light of day to be re-translated or re-made into reasonable l…
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Hi there! Come on in. This is Seriouslyourself, the podcast, and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey there and welcome back, I'm excited to talk to you today because this is a topic that we were working on in my Seriouslyourself membership, and it's very much a part of being seriously yourself, and yet it's not always clear what we're talking about here, whic…
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Problem Solving and the Pressure of Perfectionism
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Hi there! Come on in. This is Seriouslyourself, the podcast, and I'm Ingrid Helander. Oh my goodness, today I have a kind of a fun topic, I think. And it grew out of this realization that came to me very profoundly during, I think, the last year too, which is: I am not that unique. I want you to hear that. It's so often that we think we are so uniq…
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Hi there, come on in, this is Seriouslyourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. So the other day I got a request to talk about boundaries, boundaries. Oh boy. And that's what I thought: Boundaries. Oh boy! Because you hear so much about boundaries these days. For me, it can almost become a little wearing. That's not to uh in any way minimize t…
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Transcript: You're Not In Trouble Hi there, come on in, this is Seriouslyourself, the podcast and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hey, hello! Hello and welcome back to Seriouslyourself. I am so happy, so, so happy that you have decided to join me again today. Today I had this idea and it was based on something that happened really recently. So let me kind of …
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Transcript: What to Do After Biting Your Tongue Hi there, come on in. This is Seriouslyourself, The Podcast, and I'm Ingrid Helander. Hello, come on in. Thanks for joining me today. So today on Seriouslyourself, I wanted to talk about biting your tongue. Have you ever used that expression: "I really should just bite my tongue here, because I was go…
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Transcript: Episode 2, Feelings that Kill You Hi there, come on in. This is Seriouslyourself, The Podcast, and I'm Ingrid Helander. Thanks for being here. So today I thought it would be fun to talk about something I heard on a podcast the other day. It was a podcast called We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle and her sister (whose name I am com…
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Overthinking is exhausting! Do you feel like you're an Overthinker? Do your thoughts, worries, plans, and sometimes just nonsense occupy your mind without your permission? Can't sleep because your mind is running overtime? Waking up worried, sometimes for no apparent reason? Is overthinking even a real thing? I mean, maybe the pain and self-critici…
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Thank you for tuning in to Seriouslyourself, the podcast! Meet your host, Ingrid Helander, who brings her decades of experience as a family therapist and author to your everyday questions, problems, and wonderings. Learn more about her approach, which encourages you to question and wonder with genuine curiosity. Subscribe to Seriouslyourself, and s…
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