Episode 81: Rethink How You Cope With Anxiety- Interview With Therapist, Eliza Telford

Isha Warriors is huge advocate for promoting healthy mental and emotional health and making  trying to make a difference in the current statistics on suicide.  By listening to interviews like this one, you can be a part of changing the statistics on suicide too- because it starts with educating yourself about mental health!

Listen in today and to these other incredibly helpful podcasts.
Episode 30: Suicidal Thoughts- A Teen's Perspective
Episode 31: Suicidal Thoughts- A Social Worker's Perspective
Episode 32: Suicidal Thoughts- A Sibling's Perspective
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Liza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) at Aspire Counseling Network in Layton, Utah. She attributes much of her enthusiasm for the work she does in the field of mental health to her experience of greatly benefitting from the tools and insights gained through doing her own therapeutic work. She feels passionate about helping individuals, couples and families navigate life's challenges through guided self-inquiry, belief empowerment and universal coping strategies.

She says, "I have found that when I consider life's challenges from a place of curiosity and with a growth mindset, I more easily give myself space to process difficult things. I evaluate my own coping skills from a spectrum perspective, encouraging a 'healthy vs. unhealthy' lens, rather than a 'good vs. bad' one. This spectrum perspective helps me examine ways to create healthy habits to manage inevitable stressors and make 'micro shifts’ for sustainable change and encourage my clients to do the same.”

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Show outline:
1.  Spectrum perspective of "healthy versus unhealthy" instead of "good versus bad". 
2. Ask yourself, "Is it working?" 
3. No need to get mad at self...life is about making microshifts.
4. Coping skills: 

• Distract

• Reduce

• Eliminate

5. Give energy to the hardest thing first.
6. Feelings are fleeting & we were meant to feel all of them.
7. Amygdala-"it's just a fire alarm" so focus on "moving the chemicals"!
8. "Namaste, April."

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