345 SelfWork: Making the Hard Job of Caregiving Easier: A Conversation with Cathy Sikorski
There are some people who can take the most difficult situations and find the humor in them. Cathy Sikorski is one of those people. I met her several years ago at a midlife bloggers association meetin...
23 Jun 202339min
344 SelfWork: A Daughter's Determination To Save Lives After Her Mother's Suicide: A Conversation with Donna's Law Creator, Katrina Brees
This interview focuses on suicide prevention so please listen carefully. Here are the international suicide prevention crisis numbers (USA is not 988). I want to read you the first part of the email I...
16 Jun 202335min
343 SelfWork: What's Emotional Regulation? It's Both Self-Control and Self-Protection
There are a lot of mental illnesses that are characterized by intense emotion which then governs behavior, such as in bipolar disorder, major depression, or several personality disorders. But even it ...
9 Jun 202325min
342 SelfWork: Five Ways of Dealing with Defensiveness, Enmeshment Dynamics, and Roles Vs Relationships: Your Questions My Answers
Today is an episode filled with your questions and my answers – one of my favorite things to do here on SelfWork! So today the topics are enmeshment, the difference between playing a role in someone’s...
2 Jun 202323min
341 SelfWork: The Five Mental Mistakes of Depression: 4. Not Seeing the Trees For The Forest. And 5. Unrealistic Expectations.
We’re going to be talking about the last two major mental mistakes or bad habits that can either lead you into depression or be a factor in your depression worsening or sticking around. And those two ...
26 Mai 202327min
340 SelfWork: What You Need to Know About the Merry-Go-Round of Dieting: A Conversation with Jenn Trepeck
The excitement of shedding pounds. The disappointment of gaining them back. Deprivation as a way of life. Dieting is a merry-go-round…minus the fun. Whether this describes you or someone you care for ...
24 Mai 202339min
339 SelfWork: The Five Mental Mistakes of Depression: Three. Ruminating About the Past
This month is Mental Health Awareness Month, and as SelfWork has been named one of the ten top podcasts for depression by VeryWellMind for 2023 – I wanted to focus on just that. Depression. I’m pullin...
19 Mai 202328min
338 SelfWork: The Five Mental Mistakes of Depression: Two. Decisions That Create Chaos
In the month of May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re focusing on five different mental habits that you can have or adopt that either worsen depression, create depression, or are part of ...
12 Mai 202326min
