Dig Deep!!!

Join me this week as we take a deeper dive into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by exploring the difference between feelings, thoughts, and emotions!!!!

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)is an evidence based therapeutic modality that is often used to help clients identify and deconstruct negative thought patterns. This exercise walks you through how you can use this simple strategy to identify how a situation triggers your thoughts, how that thoughts impact your feelings, and how your feelings impact the way you act/behave. This simple tool can help increase the parents personal awareness and it’s a simple strategy that they can use to help their child increase their feelings vocabulary and process their feelings and thoughts. Enjoy!!!!

I had the amazing opportunity to be interviewed by my amazing business coach, Ms. Wynsome Mclean. Click play to hear what was discussed!

Enjoy the wealth of wisdom shared by the amazing Mrs. Natasha Pemberton-Todd, on the very important topic of attachment and how it impacts the parent and their ability to parent. Mrs. Pemberton-Todd has over 20 years in the mental health field and is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and counselor supervisor. Additionally, she is an author, coach, creative and so much more! She also co-owns Conflict Coaching and Consulting where she serves with her husband. So get your note pad and pen, and get ready to Dig Deep!!!

Join YeShaun Okinye A.K.A YeShaun Speaks and I as we delve into the topic of “Rejection and the Adult Child”. YeShaun is a Christian Purpose and Destiny coach who help many men and women heal to prosper. You won’t want to miss this! Get your journals out and listening in! Let’s get ready to Diiiiigggggg Deep!!!

In this episode you will learn a new tool to help increase mindfulness.  Mindfulness is the intentional practice of bringing ones awareness to the present moment without judgement.  This practice is helpful to reduce high stress and anxiety.  I will teach a spiritual discipline called "Breath Prayers" that I learned from my therapist Ms. Kobe Campbell.  Please see her details below and follow her and her husband's amazing podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-healing-circle-podcast/id1448504061

In the last episode we defined what Self-Compassion is and you were asked to take sometime to reflect on how you treat "YOU" when it feels like you have falling short. Are you hard on yourself? Does it make you feel like a failure? Inadequate? What emotions does it bring up for you? Now that you have taken some time out to increase your self-awareness, lets look at some tools to help eliminate the inner critic and begin the journey of extending compassion to yourself, and equipping yourself to pass it on to your children and those around you. Join in on the conversation!!!!

Along the parenting journey we are prone to make mistakes as there are no perfect parents.  But just how do you treat yourself when it feels like you have falling short?  Are you hard on yourself?  Does it make you feel like a failure? Inadequate?  What emotions does it bring up for you?  In this podcast we will discuss a topic to help increase our awareness of the inner critic, and in a future episode how we can embrace ourselves even in the midst of parenting failures.  This is the first installment of our topic "Self Compassion". Additionally, if you are interested in learning more about Latoya Bryant who was mentioned in the episode, please see links below. www.awakechristianclothing.com www.prayerisbreathing.com

One of my desires is to stand alongside parents as they disrupt negative generational patterns! The Dig Deep podcast is a space for parents, caregivers and individuals who are interested in doing just that. Each podcast will provide psycho-education, tips, tools, as well as a Faith-Based approach to parenting and emotional processing! The goal of the podcast is to help parents reparent themselves so they can effectively parent their children to thrive, by developing emotional and spiritual wellness. So stay tuned and join in on the conversation.