Objectives ~ Define psychological flexibility ~ Explore how to apply psychological flexibility ~ Identify the shortcut question What is Psychological Flexibility ~ The willingness to accept things as they are in the moment and make a conscious choice to act with effective purpose choosing behaviors, thoughts and feelings that move you toward a rich and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Objectives ~ Define psychological flexibility ~ Explore how to apply psychological flexibility ~ Identify the shortcut question What is Psychological Flexibility ~ The willingness to accept things as they are in the moment and make a conscious choice to act with effective purpose choosing behaviors, thoughts and feelings that move you toward a rich and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Psychological Flexibility

Support from emotionally healthy family and friends is important to recovery.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Support from emotionally healthy family and friends is important to recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Social Interventions for Depression

An overview of the book 365 Days of Happiness which helps people start each day with a technique to live happier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An overview of the book 365 Days of Happiness which helps people start each day with a technique to live happier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

365 Days of Happiness

Environmental Interventions for Depression: Increase the Happy and Reduce the Stress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Environmental Interventions for Depression: Increase the Happy and Reduce the Stress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Environmental Interventions for Depression

100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression Physical Interventions Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Counseling Education Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify why physical interventions are important to recovery and happiness ~ Explore different physical interventions Intro ~ There are a myriad of reasons why physical interventions […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression Physical Interventions Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Counseling Education Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify why physical interventions are important to recovery and happiness ~ Explore different physical interventions Intro ~ There are a myriad of reasons why physical interventions […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Physical Interventions to Defeat Depression

~ The way people think and perceive situations has a huge impact on how they feel~ Helping people embrace the dialectics can help them feel more positive and empowered~ Just like it is imperative to add happy emotions, it is imperative to add happy thoughts as well~ By practicing optimism and addressing unhelpful thoughts people can reduce their overall stress, sleep better, gain more energy and feel less hopeless and helpless (depressed). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

~ The way people think and perceive situations has a huge impact on how they feel ~ Helping people embrace the dialectics can help them feel more positive and empowered ~ Just like it is imperative to add happy emotions, it is imperative to add happy thoughts as well ~ By practicing optimism and addressing unhelpful thoughts people can reduce their overall stress, sleep better, gain more energy and feel less hopeless and helpless (depressed). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Cognitive Interventions for Depression

Based on Doc Snipes' upcoming book 100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression.  SummaryWhen people are depressed, they often feel helpless and hopeless and nothing makes them happy.By adding in happy things, people can buffer against the depressionBy addressing the unpleasant feelings, they happy chemicals can be more effective.Emotional interventions help you address the unpleasant feelings and add pleasant feelingsBy developing a better feelings vocabulary, it will be easier to identify how you are feeling and address it.Mindfulness helps you stay in the present moment so you are in touch with your feelings and don’t let them fester like a dirty wound (or a bag of poop) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Based on Doc Snipes' upcoming book 100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression. Summary When people are depressed, they often feel helpless and hopeless and nothing makes them happy. By adding in happy things, people can buffer against the depression By addressing the unpleasant feelings, they happy chemicals can be more effective. Emotional interventions help you address the unpleasant feelings and add pleasant feelings By developing a better feelings vocabulary, it will be easier to identify how you are feeling and address it. Mindfulness helps you stay in the present moment so you are in touch with your feelings and don’t let them fester like a dirty wound (or a bag of poop) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Emotional Interventions for Depression

Steps Toward Self Validation~ Identify the values and characteristics about yourself that make you awesome.~ Make a Bill of Rights. “I deserve to…”~ Follow your own Bill of Rights~ Identify the people in your past from whom you craved validation and never got it. Explore why that may have been more about them than you.~ Identify why you crave validation. Do you want to know you are important? Relevant? Lovable?~ Make a list of people you know who fit that label.~ How are you like those people? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steps Toward Self Validation ~ Identify the values and characteristics about yourself that make you awesome. ~ Make a Bill of Rights. “I deserve to…” ~ Follow your own Bill of Rights ~ Identify the people in your past from whom you craved validation and never got it. Explore why that may have been more about them than you. ~ Identify why you crave validation. Do you want to know you are important? Relevant? Lovable? ~ Make a list of people you know who fit that label. ~ How are you like those people? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Understanding the Need for Validation and Control

Raising a Happy Child~ Help them develop an emotional vocabulary~ Develop self-awareness, mindfulness and psychological flexibility~ Develop empathy and compassion for self and others~ Develop self-esteem and self-confidence~ Educate about unhelpful thoughts~ Educate about hardiness~ Develop good vulnerability prevention habits~ Teach about distress tolerance Accepts and Improves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raising a Happy Child ~ Help them develop an emotional vocabulary ~ Develop self-awareness, mindfulness and psychological flexibility ~ Develop empathy and compassion for self and others ~ Develop self-esteem and self-confidence ~ Educate about unhelpful thoughts ~ Educate about hardiness ~ Develop good vulnerability prevention habits ~ Teach about distress tolerance Accepts and Improves Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

10 Tips for Raising a Happy Child

Depression and anxiety impact millions of men annually.  In this episode for men's health month learn about the causes, signs, symptoms in men (which are often different than in women) and treatments available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Depression and anxiety impact millions of men annually. In this episode for men's health month learn about the causes, signs, symptoms in men (which are often different than in women) and treatments available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Men’s Mental Health

Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery (Happiness for short) is the sister podcast to Counselor Toolbox. Happiness was launched to provide easily accessible tips, tools and tricks to help people achieve their highest quality of life. Each week we delve into topics that will help you enhance your happiness, better deal with addictions, anxiety, depression and understand the interaction between mood, physical health and addiction.

A lot of good tools for everyday improvement.

Great Tools for Happiness

Very helpful and understandable.   Helps you deal with life&#39;s every day stuff!

Very Helpful and Understandable

Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery

The HPA-Axis  Your Threat Response System More information can be found at https://docsnipes.com Objectives Define and explain the HPA-Axis Identify the impact of chronic stress/cumulative trauma on the HPA-Axis Identify symptoms of HPA-Axis dysfunction Identify interventions useful to help regulate/restore the HPA Axis What is the HPA Axis Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis AKA the Threat Response System […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The HPA-Axis  Your Threat Response System More information can be found at <a href="https://docsnipes.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docsnipes.com</a> Objectives Define and explain the HPA-Axis Identify the impact of chronic stress/cumulative trauma on the HPA-Axis Identify symptoms of HPA-Axis dysfunction Identify interventions useful to help regulate/restore the HPA Axis What is the HPA Axis Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis AKA the Threat Response System […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

012 -Understanding the HPA-Axis and Its Impact on Mood, Weight and Health

A variety of things can cause symptoms of depression including sleep disruptions, hormone changes, thyroid dysfunction, chronic stress, and of course, negative thinking patterns.  In this series we will examine some of the causes of symptoms of depression to help you have a more productive discussion with your doctor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A variety of things can cause symptoms of depression including sleep disruptions, hormone changes, thyroid dysfunction, chronic stress, and of course, negative thinking patterns. In this series we will examine some of the causes of symptoms of depression to help you have a more productive discussion with your doctor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

19a -Understanding Depressive Symptoms Part 1

Before you can start on your journey to Happiness, you must first identify what is keeping you from being happy.  What is causing your fatigue, irritability, impulsiveness, lack of motivation etc.  Learn about the many different things that can cause these "symptoms" and how to identify what might be causing it for YOU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before you can start on your journey to Happiness, you must first identify what is keeping you from being happy. What is causing your fatigue, irritability, impulsiveness, lack of motivation etc. Learn about the many different things that can cause these "symptoms" and how to identify what might be causing it for YOU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

002 -Happiness and the Assessment (Identifying the Goals)

A good self esteem means you feel good about yourself.  Without it you may seek approval from others and be afraid to set and maintain boundaries for fear of being disliked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A good self esteem means you feel good about yourself. Without it you may seek approval from others and be afraid to set and maintain boundaries for fear of being disliked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

022a -Improving Self Esteem

Mindfulness part 1 explores the difference between mindLESSness and mindFULness and how mindfulness can help you reduce not only emotional distress, but physical symptoms such as headaches, stomach upset, restless sleep and neck and back tension. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mindfulness part 1 explores the difference between mindLESSness and mindFULness and how mindfulness can help you reduce not only emotional distress, but physical symptoms such as headaches, stomach upset, restless sleep and neck and back tension. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

003a -Mindfulness for Happiness Part 1

Tips and tools for reducing stress and improving happiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tips and tools for reducing stress and improving happiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

053 -25 Things You Need to Hear

Anger and Fear are responses to a threat. Depression is a response to a loss or a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. All of these feelings can contribute to misery. When you feel a feeling, the first step is to accept it. Don't fight it thinking you should or shouldn't feel a certain way. You […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anger and Fear are responses to a threat. Depression is a response to a loss or a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. All of these feelings can contribute to misery. When you feel a feeling, the first step is to accept it. Don't fight it thinking you should or shouldn't feel a certain way. You […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

42 -Address Cognitive Distortions to Stop Being Miserable

Distress is inevitable.  Sometimes things just suck.  However, you have the ability to choose to sit in the suckiness, wrestle with it like a greased pig in a mud bog or improve the next moment.  Learn different tools that can help you ACCEPT distress and IMPROVE the next moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Distress is inevitable. Sometimes things just suck. However, you have the ability to choose to sit in the suckiness, wrestle with it like a greased pig in a mud bog or improve the next moment. Learn different tools that can help you ACCEPT distress and IMPROVE the next moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

007 -Distress Tolerance

Living with ADHD With Doc Snipes More resources are available at DocSnipes.com Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity ~ Difficulty getting organized ~ Chronic procrastination or trouble getting started ~ Many projects going simultaneously ~ Trouble with follow-through ~ A tendency to say whatever comes to mind without considering timing or appropriateness ~ A frequent search for high stimulation […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Living with ADHD With Doc Snipes More resources are available at <a href="http://DocSnipes.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DocSnipes.com</a> Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity ~ Difficulty getting organized ~ Chronic procrastination or trouble getting started ~ Many projects going simultaneously ~ Trouble with follow-through ~ A tendency to say whatever comes to mind without considering timing or appropriateness ~ A frequent search for high stimulation […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Living with ADHD

Based on the upcoming book Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery: 100+ Practical Tips to Beat Anxiety by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Based on the upcoming book Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery: 100+ Practical Tips to Beat Anxiety by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

21 Tips to Beat Anxiety

Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Sleep Effects Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes  Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox &amp; Happiness isn’t Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes President: Recovery and Resilience International Objectives ~    Learn about sleep ~    The function of sleep ~    Sleep cycles ~    How much is enough ~    How lack of sleep contributes […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Sleep Effects Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes  Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox &amp; Happiness isn’t Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes President: Recovery and Resilience International Objectives ~    Learn about sleep ~    The function of sleep ~    Sleep cycles ~    How much is enough ~    How lack of sleep contributes […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

15 -Preventing Vulnerabilities by Improving Sleep

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Techniques Emotion Regulation Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes  Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox &amp; Happiness isn’t Brain Surgery Author: Journey to Recovery (2015) &amp; Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery (2017) Objectives ~    Review the basic premises of DBT ~    Learn about the HPA-Axis ~    Define emotion regulation ~    Identify why emotion […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Techniques Emotion Regulation Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes  Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox &amp; Happiness isn’t Brain Surgery Author: Journey to Recovery (2015) &amp; Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery (2017) Objectives ~    Review the basic premises of DBT ~    Learn about the HPA-Axis ~    Define emotion regulation ~    Identify why emotion […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

008a -Emotion Regulation Part 1

Motivation is essential for behavior change.  All change takes energy and effort.  To be willing to invest that energy, you have to be motivated.  We discuss the multiple types of motivation, ways to increase it and potential pitfalls based on your level of motivation or readiness for change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Motivation is essential for behavior change. All change takes energy and effort. To be willing to invest that energy, you have to be motivated. We discuss the multiple types of motivation, ways to increase it and potential pitfalls based on your level of motivation or readiness for change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Improving and Maintaining Motivation Part 1

Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Improving Self Esteem Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox &amp; Happiness isn’t Brain Surgery Author: Journey to Recovery (2015) &amp; Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery (2017) Objectives ~ The Nature of Self-Esteem ~ Why improve self esteem ~ Identifying and Disarming the Critic ~ Creating an […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Improving Self Esteem Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox &amp; Happiness isn’t Brain Surgery Author: Journey to Recovery (2015) &amp; Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery (2017) Objectives ~ The Nature of Self-Esteem ~ Why improve self esteem ~ Identifying and Disarming the Critic ~ Creating an […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

022b -Improving Self Esteem

With a clear idea of what you want to do, why you want to do it and how to go about doing it, you are well on your way to starting to create your rich and meaningful life.  Learn how to clarify your goals, address fears holding you back and stay motivated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With a clear idea of what you want to do, why you want to do it and how to go about doing it, you are well on your way to starting to create your rich and meaningful life. Learn how to clarify your goals, address fears holding you back and stay motivated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

56 -Addressing FEAR and Increasing Motivation to Achieve Your Goals

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Visit <a href="http://DocSnipes.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DocSnipes.com</a> for more resources Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

43 – 10 Tips to Quiet the Mental Noise

Mindfulness part 2 teaches you core mindfulness skills of observing, describing and participating to improve the moment and discusses how to use purposeful action in order to most effectively delegate your energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mindfulness part 2 teaches you core mindfulness skills of observing, describing and participating to improve the moment and discusses how to use purposeful action in order to most effectively delegate your energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

003b -Mindfulness Part 2

Do you find that your thoughts sometimes keep you stuck feeling angry, anxious or depressed? In this video serries I explore what thinking errors are, where they came from, how they may have been helpful in the past, and how to change them to be more helpful in the present. For example, in your family it may not have been safe to talk, trust or feel. As an adult, you no longer have to anticipate the needs and moods of the addicted parent, so what was helpful to your survival in the past is no longer helpful to your happiness. How can you learn to not only trust select others, but also yourself? What can you do to give yourself permission to feel your feelings without fear of punishment or condemnation?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you find that your thoughts sometimes keep you stuck feeling angry, anxious or depressed? In this video serries I explore what thinking errors are, where they came from, how they may have been helpful in the past, and how to change them to be more helpful in the present. For example, in your family it may not have been safe to talk, trust or feel. As an adult, you no longer have to anticipate the needs and moods of the addicted parent, so what was helpful to your survival in the past is no longer helpful to your happiness. How can you learn to not only trust select others, but also yourself? What can you do to give yourself permission to feel your feelings without fear of punishment or condemnation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

17a -Identifying, Understanding and Addressing Cognitive Distortions

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