Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery

Dr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes
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  • 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.

  1. 09/06/2018

    Psychological Flexibility

    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

    52 min

  2. 08/23/2018

    Social Interventions for Depression

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

    52 min

  3. 08/23/2018

    365 Days of Happiness

    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

    43 min

  4. 08/16/2018

    Environmental Interventions for Depression

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

    26 min

  5. 07/26/2018

    Physical Interventions to Defeat 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

    35 min

  6. 07/20/2018

    Cognitive Interventions for 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

    44 min

  7. 07/13/2018

    Emotional Interventions for Depression

    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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

    38 min

  8. 07/06/2018

    Understanding the Need for Validation and Control

    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

    30 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Dr. Dawn-Elise "Doc" Snipes
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2018
  • Episodes
    129
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2023 CDS Ventures, LLC
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