Mindful of You

Taylor Bickett, an artist with a viral song “quarter life crisis” has a new song, I like Mondays:

Rachel Taylor is a health and fitness coach, certified personal trainer, and weight loss specialist. Her goal as a coach is to help people understand how working on your physical health and fitness is an investment to create the most confident and capable version of you! Listen to our interview to learn from her and how to get started, especially if you are a beginner when it comes to taking care of your physical health. 

Moana takes the cake as my favorite Disney princess. I love how fierce and courageous she is, and how she confronts her fears to do the right thing. There are many lessons taught in this movie, and I will dive into just a few in this podcast episode today. Listen to see how this sweet story can help us all be better people and gain confidence. 

In this episode I rehash some concepts already covered on the podcast because they were some of my first steps in becoming an adult who could take care of my own responsibilities. If you cannot eat consistently, sleep well each night, and get up and move each day, it’s going to be very difficult for you to start feeling better. Listen to this episode to get started. 

In this episode we listen to Michelle, a licensed social worker and current therapist, teach us a little more about what to expect in therapy and then she gives us some free tips on feeling better right out of the gate. Listen to this episode if you want to start feeling better fast and see if therapy is a good fit for you. 

Disney outdid themselves when telling this story about an imperfect family trying to work through their own insecurities and come together in love. Listen to this episode to hear what lessons I learned from this movie, and how we can use them to make our minds a better place to live. 

If you have read the Book of Mormon, you are aware that 1st Nephi is full of accounts of Nephi describing the murmuring and complaining that come from his brothers, and sometimes his father and his mother. During my study of these chapters, I had some things I wanted to share about murmuring and how it’s keeping us stuck in our lives. Check out this episode to learn more. 

This episode is a good cousin or sister to episode 12: “love: my favorite feeling”- so check that one out if you like this one! Love is a great feeling, and we all want to feel loved. How can we create that feeling for ourselves and maybe a little bit for others? Listen to this episode to find out!

McKinley Thomas is the founder of Rethreaded, a non-profit organization dedicated to hosting clothing exchanges for women to extend the life of women’s clothing. Listen to this episode to hear her talk about how she became passionate about this topic and how you can make small changes to extend the life of clothing and live more sustainably. 

Next clothing exchange: Feb 24 @ the Local Artisan Collective 2371 Kiesel Ave, Ogden Utah. 12 PM-2 PM, bring immediately wearable clothing if you have it 🙂

I wanted to discuss how religion and mental health interact, and how we can be mentally healthy and still wholeheartedly devote ourselves to Jesus Christ. It is my belief that God wants us to utilize every resource available to us here on earth to feel good and be happy, and that none of his teachings are meant to induce shame or regret. Listen to learn how to view God as a loving individual and how the Atonement of Jesus Christ can help us reduce shame and sadness.

Pixar’s new movie Elemental tugs at the heart strings just like most pixar movies do. Listen to this episode to hear what I learned from it and how it can help us all change our perspectives and make our minds a better place to live. 

You would really think I grew up in the 90s with my love for the TGIF baby Boy Meets World. But, that doesn’t mean I don’t see all the character flaws. The flaws are glaringly obvious when it comes to our protagonist, Cory Matthews. As he gets older, we see him get more self-absorbed and rigid. Maybe he needs to go back to his 11 year old self and Mr. Feeney and try to meet the world all over again. Listen to this episode for how I think I could help our beloved Mr. Matthews. 

In celebration of this milestone of podcast episodes, I wanted to talk about the person I want to be when I turn 50 years old. Hopefully, when you listen, you can pick out some things that you may want to do by the time you are 30, 50, or maybe 80!

Amanda has experienced a few different subsets of OCD including existential, scrupulosity, and perfectionism. She went through ERP and was able to fully enter the recovery stage. Listen to this episode for help with OCD, and to learn more about how OCD differs from other mental disorders like anxiety. 

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Is his heart three sizes too small, or does he just hate taking joy in something as stereotypical as the Christmas season? In order to love life, you have to open up as many areas of love and enjoyment as you can. I would let the grinch know it’s time to love!

The holiday season! The happiest time of year.. Filled with the most disappointment? Expectations are heightened around the holidays thus, so is the level of disappointment. Listen to this episode to learn how to manage expectations and receive what you are given. 

A movement of self-care has taught us all it’s okay to slow down, take a bubble bath, light a candle, and read a nice book. But what about when self-care isn’t all that enjoyable? Can it still be a form of self-care? Listen to this episode to find out how to take good care of yourself by showing yourself a little tough love sometimes. 

Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about our role in the body of Christ, and how we can strengthen our roles individually, in our families, and in the church. 

Today I cover the lyrics in Jon Bellion’s “Maybe IDK” and the lessons you can pull from them, and some of my personal experiences in lessening future anxiety.

In this episode I recap Russel M Nelson’s famous talk “Peacemakers Needed”. Listen as I talk about how to become a peacemaker, and how it’s more than going through the motions. It starts in your mind, leads to your feelings, and eventually your actions. This will give you practical advice to feel less anger and more love. 

Utahns tend to get married young-- why does it make sense that we change and grow? Can you choose to believe marriage still works after your partner has changed, or you have changed? How can that be exciting rather than scary?

In the Book of Mormon, the anti-nephi-lehies buried their weapons of war in a time where logically, they needed them most. What are our weapons of war? Listen here as I discuss the ways I hold on to fear, pride, and judgment to defend myself and how I am learning to put down these weapons.

Listen to this episode to get your thoughts moving about gratitude and to learn more from the perspective of a college student working for a non-profit.

Description: Listen to my conversation with Jacqulin as we discuss the Enneagram and other tools we have used to improve our mental health. Jacqulin shares some important insights and offers a perspective that’s brand new to the podcast.

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