Self-care and boundaries are ever-evolving, just as our identity evolves! Olivia Verhulst is a psychotherapist, adjunct professor, Forbes Health Advisor and She Leads LIVE conference speaker. With a strong focus on self-care…
Getting to know yourself so that you may be kinder to yourself. Yuri Chu Su is a digital nomad who embarked upon a 20-month transformative journey around the world. Growing up in a household where emotions were not openly di…
Men often get left behind when it comes to therapy. Owen Marcus, a coach with a degree in psychiatry, believes men are hungry for an environment where they can feel safe, and get connected in authentic ways to other men. Owe…
Progress is not achieved by sudden flight but by gradual steps of introspection, adaptation, and perseverance. Together with Dr. Wims, let’s analyze the shortcomings of New Year’s resolutions, attributing their lack of succe…
We are all unknowingly wearing our limitations within ourselves. Dr. Bonnie Wims talks about her transformative journey deep into the heart of the Costa Rican jungle, which was a source of anxiety but also a profound explora…
We all have the thinking traps that hinder resilience, such as jumping to negative conclusions and personalizing mistakes. It’s important to realize what our patterns of thinking are. In this episode, you'll explore the prof…
Change is hard and it can impact our psychological health. We all have expectations and plans of how we want things to go, and change can make us feel like we are losing control of that. When change disrupts our comfort zone…
Fully processing our losses is essential for overcoming prolonged grief. When the grieving process is disrupted, and we can't properly acknowledge our loss and integrate them into our lives, we can get stuck in prolonged gri…
Your childhood experiences can elicit emotions and behaviors in your adult life. Many of us have characteristics that we brush off as being "just the way we are," or we may experience emotional responses and triggers to seem…
Your personality is not hardwired into your brain. Many people believe that some of their behaviors and beliefs are a default setting in their brains, but this is simply not true. Our personality has grown and evolved with u…
Calming activities are not a replacement for real therapy. Activities like “goat yoga” can offer a relaxing and decompressing experience that can help manage stress, but calling them therapeutic is a mistake. If you are suff…
A common myth about therapy is that therapists offer their patients advice. This is actually something that therapists are not supposed to do, as it gives away your power to someone else. Therapists are not trained to be exp…
The media has misconstrued and sensationalized the truth about therapy for far too long. The stigmas created by the media’s representation of “crazy people” has tainted its reputation, which prevents many people from getting…
Growing up in an abusive family and years of therapy helped Dr. Bonnie Wims to understand the reasons why we think and behave the way we do. Life is hard and it happens to all of us. No one escapes the challenges and unfairn…
In this podcast we will talk about therapy in a way that's easy to understand and to dispel any misunderstandings and rumors about what therapy is and who it's for and who it's not for. Together, we can use our resources and…
