Daily Mindfulness Lab Todd Brossart

If you could have a conversation with yourself back when you started your career in healthcare, what would you say? What does that person need to know in order to sustain their mental health over the arch of their career? Would you talk to them about naivete? Or how to approach one's naivete as it comes up in their career? Consider where you're at today in your career. Would you be willing to talk to yourself about owning your naivete?
After 12 years of working in a large hospital setting, in outpatient mental health and substance use disorders clinics, I can admit that I naively behaved and spoke as though I was exempt from the stressors of life, and the stressors on the job. I was naïve to how things would eventually start to breakdown in my personal life. Which they eventually did. Some of the breakdowns were preventable, but my naivete interfered with seeing clearly.
I reference the following paper during the podcast:
Self-awareness Questions for Effective Psychotherapists: Helping Good Psychotherapists Become Even Better” by Samuel Knapp, Michael Gottlieb and Mitchell Handelsman.
The questions they encourage providers to consider to assist in becoming more self-aware:
Do I recognize my immediate emotional reactions? Do I judge my competencies accurately? Do I recognize that I might harbor implicit prejudices? Am I aware that I might succumb to cognitive biases or unhelpful heuristics? Am I fully aware of my values? Connect with me:
www.dailymindfulnessjournal.com
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If you’ve listened to this podcast for a while, you’ll know that I hold a belief that there’s still someone out there who I haven’t met yet, that will change my life in profound ways. This episode is an attempt to honor someone who left a lasting impact on my life. In April 2019 during my lengthy stay in the hospital, I was privileged to have a very special person care for me. Her name was Rachel Petersen. Rachel was a nurse at the Anschutz Medical Center, in Aurora, Colorado. Sadly, Rachel passed away recently. The news was devastating to read about, and my wife and I are still trying to process her sudden loss. To learn more about Rachel, and the first annual 5K Scrub Run honoring her visit, https://5kscrubrun.org/. 
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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts.
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Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video.
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Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.
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Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

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As always, we’d like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - hello@mentalevents.com.
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Connect with Mental Events on social media:
Instagram @mentalevents
Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.

We all have to do things. Some things we are excited about. Other things, not as much. Rarely do we consider what we get to do in our lives, taking it for granted. In this episode I offer a quick mindfulness reframe to help you shift your perspective to living with more presence and gratitude. Because when we get to do something versus have to do something, we show up more completely and openly.
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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts.
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Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video.
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Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.
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Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

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As always, we’d like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - hello@mentalevents.com.
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Connect with Mental Events on social media:
Instagram @mentalevents
Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.

Should self-care always mean you get to feel calm? Should self-care be limited to feeling good? Let’s reimagine self-care for a moment. Instead of adding things to your life in the name of self-care, consider what you could subtract in order to practice better self-care. Continually adding activities of self-care could become exhausting, and may make you feel worse. What could you let go of today to make room for your health and well-being?
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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts.
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Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video.
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Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.
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Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.

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As always, we’d like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - hello@mentalevents.com.
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Connect with Mental Events on social media:
Instagram @mentalevents
Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.

What doesn't kill us, can make us stronger! On the two-year anniversary of a near death experience, I invite a friend of the podcast, John Evans to sit down for an extended conversation about post-traumatic growth. Post-traumatic growth refers to the positive psychological changes that a person can experience as a result of adversity. John and I cover a lot of ground in this episode, referencing Stephen Joseph's book, What Doesn't Kill Us, Judith Herman's book, Trauma and Recovery, and Stephen Pressfield's book, The War of Art.
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If you're wondering how to move through feeling stuck, and hitting plateau's in day-to-day life, John gives some helpful insights from his 13 year recovery. We also talk about the importance of finding a survivor mission, and transforming the meaning of personal tragedy by making it the basis for social action.
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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts.
.
Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video.
.
Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.
 .
Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.
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As always, we’d like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - hello@mentalevents.com.
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Connect with Mental Events on social media:
Instagram @mentalevents
Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.

So often we feel hopeless and powerless after tragedy and trauma. I know I've felt that way recently with the tragedies in Atlanta and Boulder. Both events serve as reminders of how violence can devastate community, trust, and desecrate the ideals, values, and freedoms we hold as sacred. In this week's episode, I discuss what moral injurious events are, and offer a mindful approach to touch feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness.
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Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events mindfulness journal. It’s dedicated to examining the workability of the mind’s proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts.
.
Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my free Mindfulness Framework video.
.
Watch this video to learn more about Mental Events Therapy.
 .
Watch this video to learn more about the benefits of online therapy with Mental Events.
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As always, we’d like to hear from you. Send your questions via email - hello@mentalevents.com.
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Connect with Mental Events on social media:
Instagram @mentalevents
Facebook @mentaleventstherapy.