Overcoming self-sabotage | Victoria River
Healthier Today
English - December 05, 2021 22:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Mental Health health storytelling narrative wellbeing Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
EPISODE 7 | SEASON 2 | HEALTHIER TODAY
Overcoming self-sabotage | Victoria Rivera
Victoria has spent the last 15 years as a holistically oriented psychotherapist striving for emotional and mental balance for everyone. In conversation with host Jared, Victoria discusses the importance of mental health, what a psychotherapist is and does, and the impact of stress from early childhood. Listen on for a conversation about touch hunger, how poverty affects mental health, and how many things in life are geared towards survival.
What a psychotherapist is and does [0:44]How psychotherapy involves many disciplines [2:57]Why we don’t have full control over our bodies to make the right decisions [4:18]Why we overthink and have a hard time interpreting text messages [5:57]How emojis convey emotions effectively [7:12]Victoria talks about how it is always important to always perceive information as positive [8:02]Why horror movies are stressful but highly entertaining and the impact they have on health [10:03]How we define what stress is and the difference between good and bad stress [13:04]When stress becomes good and helps you adapt [14:24]Parenting and the role of stress [15:11]How stress from early childhood affects their adulthood [18:02]Why everything is all geared towards survival [20:01]Confinement and the COVID perspective [21:40]Why it feels lonely despite a growing world population [23:26]The COVID pandemic, touch hunger, and the importance of touch from an early age [26:22]Why touch is essential for survival [28:41]Why you can’t think your way out of stress [30:29]Why meditation is not thinking your way out of stress [33:27]Why breathing is the key to de-activating nervous system [35:30]How poverty affects mental health [37:37]How poverty can influence one’s health and mental state [40:37]What living healthy today means for Victoria [42:32]What Victoria would tell her 18 year-old self [45:45]Victoria’s parting advice [47:23]
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Host: Jared Talavera
Co-host/Voiceover artist: Yani Harris
Assistants: Taneer and Atkia Sadia
Script writer: Brian Ariotti
Audio production: Resonate Recordings.
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