Practical Solutions for PTSD | Anxiety Symptoms, Seasonal Depression, Isolation, Stress, Guilt, Loneliness

Lori Owens - Master Resilience Training, Positive Psychology Instructor
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***TOP 5% Global Podcast***  Do you struggle with depression that isolates you and robs you of the joys in living? Does anxiety prevent you from achieving your dreams? Are you feeling disconnected from your friends and family? Have trouble focusing? Let me tell you, my friend, you are not alone! This podcast will help you: -develop customized strategies to manage your anxiety -move from isolating depression to joy-filled living -get out of the house and re-engaged with your favorite hobbies -rebuild relationships with friends and family Hey, I’m Lori. A single dog mom, lover of nature, and PTSD survivor. For years, I struggled with social isolation, severe depression, crippling anxiety, and clinical burnout. I tried powering through, toughing it out, and being strong only for my symptoms to worsen. I finally realized that if I was going to get my life back, things needed to change. I learned how to ask for help, set boundaries, and changed my thinking patterns. I removed toxins from my diet, home, and relationships. And, in time, I found my purpose, rediscovered my joy, and was able to reconnect with those I love. Today, I lead a life filled with hope, meaning, and joy. Even on those tough days, I have a purpose that keeps me moving forward. If you’re ready get your life back: - to break free from depression and anxiety - re-engage with the people and activities around you. - find joy and meaning in your life - learn brain hacks to help you focus and achieve your goals. Then this podcast is for you!

  1. 2H AGO

    55. Miss Who You Used to Be? Loving the New You After Trauma

    Have you ever whispered to yourself, “Will I ever be my old self again?” Trauma has a way of rearranging the furniture of our inner world. It can intensify anxiety symptoms, amplify guilt, and leave you navigating chronic stress that never seems to clock out. You might notice waves of seasonal depression, or feel the quiet ache of isolation and loneliness even in rooms full of people. The version of you that once felt effortless can seem far away. In this episode, we explore practical, trauma informed pathways toward accepting and loving the person you are now: • Learning to recognize strength and resilience in the scars trauma left behind • Understanding how your new self carries deeper compassion, empathy, and hard earned wisdom • Taking small, safe steps to reconnect and thrive despite anxiety symptoms, isolation, loneliness, or seasonal depression Your scars are not signs of weakness. They are proof of survival in the face of chronic stress and overwhelming experiences. Together, we gently shift from grieving who you used to be toward honoring who you are becoming, with courage, clarity, and self-compassion leading the way. LINKS:  New website: www.practicalsoluitionsforptsd.com Sign up an Anxiety and Depression Breakthrough Coaching Session https://calendly.com/practicalsolutionsforptsd  Take the free, Values in Action Survey and discover your Signature Character Strengths: 24 Character Strengths List | VIA Institute Become an Insider by signing up for the weekly newsletter: https://practicalsolutionsforptsdinsider.grwebsite.com/  Join our Facebook community: Overcome Depression & Anxiety - Use Positive Psychology to Combat PTSD | Facebook Get in touch! info@practicalsolutionsforptsd.com KEYWORDS:  anxiety symptoms seasonal depression chronic stress trauma recovery healing after trauma

    23 min

  2. 2D AGO

    54. Grow Calm: Food That Heals Anxiety Symptoms and Chronic Stress

    Discover the transformative power of growing your own food. From soil to sunlight to fully ripened harvests, learn how to turn your garden into a nutrient-rich mini-ecosystem that nourishes both body and mind. If you are navigating anxiety symptoms, seasonal depression, isolation, loneliness, guilt, or chronic stress, this episode explores how tending a garden can become a steady, grounding practice. Growing food is not just about nutrition. It is about rhythm, sunlight, fresh air, and reconnecting to something alive. We explore practical tips for: • Maximizing vitamins, antioxidants, and phytonutrients in homegrown fruits and vegetables • Optimizing soil health, mineral balance, light spectrum, and vine ripening for peak nutrition • Teaching kids and adults the patience and purpose found in growing real food • Using garden to table living as a tool to ease anxiety symptoms, soften loneliness, reduce chronic stress, and gently support seasonal depression In a world that often fuels isolation and guilt, planting a seed is a quiet act of restoration. Each harvest becomes proof that care produces life. Every bite carries flavor, nourishment, and connection. Join us as we celebrate real food, intentional living, and the healing power of growing what you eat. Every seed you plant and every tomato you slice can be a step toward calmer nerves, steadier moods, and a more rooted life. 🌱🍅 1st Gardening Episode: 51. Hope Grows Here: Heal Anxiety Symptoms and Stress Through Gardening https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/51-hope-grows-here-heal-anxiety-symptoms-and-stress/id1835492018?i=1000748358724    NEW WEBSITE:  www.practicalsolutionsforptsd.com  Sign up an Anxiety and Depression Breakthrough Coaching Session https://calendly.com/practicalsolutionsforptsd  Become an Insider by signing up for the weekly newsletter: https://practicalsolutionsforptsdinsider.grwebsite.com/  Join our Facebook community: Overcome Depression & Anxiety - Use Positive Psychology to Combat PTSD | Facebook Get in touch! info@practicalsolutionsforptsd.com   Keywords homegrown food benefits growing your own food nutrient dense vegetables organic gardening tips garden to table lifestyle backyard gardening for beginners fresh picked produce nutrition food as medicine sustainable living

    14 min

  3. FEB 12

    53. Not Broken. Equipped: How Curiosity Helps Calm PTSD and Anxiety Symptoms

    In this episode, we explore how curiosity can become a practical tool for managing PTSD, anxiety symptoms, and depression. When stress feels overwhelming, guilt creeps in, or seasonal depression leaves you disconnected and exhausted, curiosity offers a gentle alternative to self-criticism. Instead of fighting emotions like loneliness, isolation, or anxious thoughts, curiosity helps you approach them with safety and compassion. You’ll learn how shifting from “What’s wrong with me?” to “I wonder what’s happening here?” can calm the nervous system and reduce emotional intensity. This episode offers simple, trauma-informed strategies to help you use curiosity as emotional first aid on hard days. If you struggle with overthinking, guilt, stress, or feeling stuck in anxious patterns, you’ll discover how small moments of curiosity can create space, reduce pressure, and reconnect you to yourself. A practical, encouraging conversation for anyone navigating anxiety, seasonal depression, or the everyday weight of emotional exhaustion. Not Broken. Equipped Series:  45. Not Broken. Equipped: Character Strengths for Seasonal Depression, Anxiety Symptoms, and Loneliness  49. Not Broken. Equipped. How Creativity Finds New Ways Through PTSD and Anxiety Symptoms    Sign up an Anxiety and Depression Breakthrough Coaching Session https://calendly.com/practicalsolutionsforptsd  Take the free, Values in Action Survey and discover your Signature Character Strengths: 24 Character Strengths List | VIA Institute Become an Insider by signing up for the weekly newsletter: https://practicalsolutionsforptsdinsider.grwebsite.com/  Join our Facebook community: Overcome Depression & Anxiety - Use Positive Psychology to Combat PTSD | Facebook Get in touch! info@practicalsolutionsforptsd.com   Keywords:  anxiety symptoms PTSD recovery seasonal depression managing stress emotional regulation coping with anxiety trauma-informed care mental health tools curiosity as a coping skill nervous system calming

    23 min

  4. FEB 10

    52. Feeling Lonely This Valentine's? 5 Simple Ways to Overcome Isolation and Build Connection

    Valentine’s Day can bring more than roses. It can also stir up anxiety symptoms, seasonal depression, loneliness, isolation, guilt, and stress. In this episode, we offer gentle, practical ways to navigate the day with compassion instead of pressure. You’ll learn five simple pathways to connection through friendship, family, self-love, faith, and mindset. These low-stress, trauma-informed ideas are designed to feel safe and doable, even when your energy is low. We also explore how to release guilt, set healthy boundaries, and reframe Valentine’s Day in a way that supports your emotional well-being. Because connection doesn’t have to be big to matter. One small step can make all the difference. 💛 Become an Insider by signing up for the weekly newsletter: https://practicalsolutionsforptsdinsider.grwebsite.com/  Sign up an Anxiety and Depression Breakthrough Coaching Session https://calendly.com/practicalsolutionsforptsd  Take the free, Values in Action Survey and discover your Signature Character Strengths: 24 Character Strengths List | VIA Institute Join our Facebook community: Overcome Depression & Anxiety - Use Positive Psychology to Combat PTSD | Facebook Get in touch! info@practicalsolutionsforptsd.com   Keywords:  Valentine’s Day loneliness emotional overwhelm trauma-informed care nervous system regulation self-care strategies coping with loneliness mental health support healthy boundaries connection and belonging low-stress relationships depression support anxiety relief mindset shifts self-compassion

    15 min

  5. FEB 5

    51. Hope Grows Here: Heal Anxiety Symptoms and Stress Through Gardening

    In this episode, we explore how gardening becomes far more than a simple hobby. We look at the powerful ways time in the garden can help calm anxiety symptoms, ease everyday stress, and offer gentle support during seasons of seasonal depression. This episode considers how digging in the dirt, caring for plants, and spending time outdoors can soften feelings of loneliness and isolation, while creating a steady, grounding rhythm for overwhelmed minds and bodies. We talk about the science behind soil and the nervous system, the emotional benefits of slow, purposeful movement, and how tending a garden can help quiet the guilt many of us carry when life feels heavy. Whether you’re navigating difficult emotions, ongoing stress, or the ache of feeling disconnected, this episode invites you to see gardening as a simple, accessible tool for resilience and healing. Discover why even the smallest seed can help you feel a little more hopeful, peaceful, and at home with yourself. Sign up an Anxiety and Depression Breakthrough Coaching Session https://calendly.com/practicalsolutionsforptsd  Take the free, Values in Action Survey and discover your Signature Character Strengths: 24 Character Strengths List | VIA Institute Become an Insider by signing up for the weekly newsletter: https://practicalsolutionsforptsdinsider.grwebsite.com/  Join our Facebook community: Overcome Depression & Anxiety - Use Positive Psychology to Combat PTSD | Facebook Get in touch! info@practicalsolutionsforptsd.com   Keywords:  gardening for mental health anxiety symptoms anxiety relief stress relief seasonal depression emotional healing resilience therapy through gardening mental wellness healing through nature

    14 min

  6. FEB 3

    50. Too Overwhelmed to Decide? 10 Real-Life Systems for Seasonal Depression

    When anxiety symptoms rise and seasonal depression sets in, even simple decisions can start to feel impossible. Stress gets louder, energy gets smaller, and daily life turns into a long list of choices you no longer have the strength to make. In this episode, we focus on practical preparation instead of motivation. You’ll learn ten real-world systems you can set up ahead of time to help you function during low-energy seasons. These tools are designed to reduce overwhelm, soften isolation and loneliness, and quiet the guilt that often shows up when you’re struggling. This is not about pushing harder or pretending to feel better. It’s about building supports that carry you through when your nervous system is tired and your brain is overloaded. If you’ve ever wished for a simple plan to help you navigate depression and stress without relying on willpower, this episode will give you clear, realistic starting points you can use right away. Sign up a 60 minute 1:1 coaching session: https://calendly.com/practicalsolutionsforptsd  Take the free, Values in Action Survey and discover your Signature Character Strengths: 24 Character Strengths List | VIA Institute Become an Insider by signing up for the weekly newsletter: https://practicalsolutionsforptsdinsider.grwebsite.com/  Join our Facebook community: Overcome Depression & Anxiety - Use Positive Psychology to Combat PTSD | Facebook Get in touch! info@practicalsolutionsforptsd.com   Keywords:  anxiety symptoms seasonal depression stress management decision fatigue coping with depression PTSD support mental health tools practical mental health

    25 min

  7. JAN 29

    49. Not Broken. Equipped. How Creativity Finds New Ways Through PTSD and Anxiety Symptoms

    PTSD, anxiety symptoms, stress, seasonal depression, and depression all have a way of shrinking life. They narrow options, increase isolation, and amplify loneliness. In those moments, creativity is not about making something beautiful or impressive. It’s about creating breathing room. In this episode, we explore creativity as a quiet but powerful way to push back against the effects of anxiety symptoms, depression, and trauma. Not by forcing inspiration, but by restoring flexibility, choice, and small moments of agency when the nervous system feels stuck. Creativity becomes a way to soften stress, interrupt rigid thought loops, and stay gently connected to yourself during seasons of isolation. We also talk about guilt. The guilt that shows up when you “should” feel creative but don’t. The belief that something is wrong with you when creativity feels inaccessible. This episode offers a different frame: if creativity isn’t available right now, that doesn’t mean you’ve lost the strength. It may mean your system is conserving energy, and that is not failure. This is a permission-giving conversation about using creativity as support, not pressure. And trusting that even when you can’t reach for it, creativity is still part of you, waiting without demand. Sign up a 60 minute 1:1 coaching session: https://calendly.com/practicalsolutionsforptsd  Take the free, Values in Action Survey and discover your Signature Character Strengths: 24 Character Strengths List | VIA Institute Become an Insider by signing up for the weekly newsletter: https://practicalsolutionsforptsdinsider.grwebsite.com/  Join our Facebook community: Overcome Depression & Anxiety - Use Positive Psychology to Combat PTSD | Facebook Get in touch! info@practicalsolutionsforptsd.com Keywords creativity as a strength creativity and mental health trauma-informed creativity creativity and healing creativity as support Mental Health Focus PTSD support anxiety symptoms depression support seasonal depression stress regulation

    25 min

  8. JAN 27

    48. Feeling Isolated This Winter? 5 Low-Pressure Ways to Reconnect

    Winter can intensify anxiety symptoms, stress, and seasonal depression, making isolation and loneliness feel heavier than usual. If you’ve been withdrawing from friends, feeling guilty for wanting space, or noticing your nervous system craving safety, this episode is for you. In this episode, we explore why winter and past trauma can increase withdrawal, how to notice when solitude shifts into painful isolation, and practical, low-pressure ways to stay gently connected without forcing yourself or adding guilt. You’ll learn: How winter impacts anxiety symptoms and emotional energy When isolation is protective—and when it becomes harmful Gentle strategies to stay connected on your own terms Ways to reduce loneliness, guilt, and stress without overextending This episode normalizes the pull to disappear in winter while offering real tools for connection that respect your nervous system. Sign up a 60 minute 1:1 coaching session: https://calendly.com/practicalsolutionsforptsd  Take the free, Values in Action Survey and discover your Signature Character Strengths: 24 Character Strengths List | VIA Institute Become an Insider by signing up for the weekly newsletter: https://practicalsolutionsforptsdinsider.grwebsite.com/  Join our Facebook community: Overcome Depression & Anxiety - Use Positive Psychology to Combat PTSD | Facebook Get in touch! info@practicalsolutionsforptsd.com   Keywords:  winter isolation social withdrawal feeling isolated seasonal depression anxiety symptoms loneliness stress guilt

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***TOP 5% Global Podcast***  Do you struggle with depression that isolates you and robs you of the joys in living? Does anxiety prevent you from achieving your dreams? Are you feeling disconnected from your friends and family? Have trouble focusing? Let me tell you, my friend, you are not alone! This podcast will help you: -develop customized strategies to manage your anxiety -move from isolating depression to joy-filled living -get out of the house and re-engaged with your favorite hobbies -rebuild relationships with friends and family Hey, I’m Lori. A single dog mom, lover of nature, and PTSD survivor. For years, I struggled with social isolation, severe depression, crippling anxiety, and clinical burnout. I tried powering through, toughing it out, and being strong only for my symptoms to worsen. I finally realized that if I was going to get my life back, things needed to change. I learned how to ask for help, set boundaries, and changed my thinking patterns. I removed toxins from my diet, home, and relationships. And, in time, I found my purpose, rediscovered my joy, and was able to reconnect with those I love. Today, I lead a life filled with hope, meaning, and joy. Even on those tough days, I have a purpose that keeps me moving forward. If you’re ready get your life back: - to break free from depression and anxiety - re-engage with the people and activities around you. - find joy and meaning in your life - learn brain hacks to help you focus and achieve your goals. Then this podcast is for you!

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