40 min
[39] How Gratitude Affects Your Mental Wellness with Craig Smith The Mental Wellness Practice
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- Mental Health
We all have mental health, and this is a place for you to learn practical tips to support your wellbeing. In season 4, we are looking at different types of coping skills that you may want to add to your self-care practice. In this episode, we are joined by Craig Smith, a therapist and creator of the FOCUS Journal who is going to help us explore gratitude as a mental wellness skill.
Tune in to explore:
What gratitude is
The benefits of gratitude
What is the difference between toxic positivity and gratitude practice
How to manage negativity
How curiosity helps to foster gratitude
The key word to use to shift into gratitude
What a gratitude practice looks like
Strategies to improve gratitude
How to “borrow” gratitude
Practicing grace with gratitude
About Craig:
Craig Smith is a powerful man of God, a patient, present, loving father and husband, a FAITH spreader, a LOVE giver, and a HOPE dealer. He strives to live every day attracting love, success, and abundance into his life and inspire as many people as he can to do the same.
For over a decade, Craig has helped individuals change their mindset and create the desired change in their lives. Craig strives to live and promote the Greatest Day Mindset, which is a lifestyle, a way of living every day with a positive attitude. It is choosing to be happy and live your life with energy, no matter your circumstances. Craig believes that while today may not be your last day on earth, it is the only day so why not choose to make today the Greatest Day of your life.
Follow Craig on IG
Join the Inner Greatness Community
Checkout the free Focus on Gratitude Community
Checkout the FOCUS journal
About Dr. Shainna:
Dr. Shainna is a mental health counselor, educator, and advocate who is passionate about destigmatizing mental health counseling and helping individuals worldwide recognize the importance of fostering mental wellness. She is the creator of The Self-Love Workbook, The Self-Love Workbook for Teens, Luna Finds Love Everywhere: A Self-Love Book for Kids, The Self-Love Planner, and Designing Healthy Boundaries. She has been featured through outlets such as ABC, CBS, NPR Washington Post, and Insider. Dr. Shainna’s passion for promoting mental health awareness and access inspired her to host the Mental Wellness Practice Podcast. Dr. Shainna is the owner and operator of Integrated Counseling Solutions, LLC, a strengths-based clinical mental health and consulting practice located in Central Florida. Additionally, she has served on the Board of Directors of The Mental Health Association of Central Florida and is a past president of the Florida Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development. Dr. Shainna has been honored with the Association for Specialists in Group Work's Al Dye Award, the Pete Fischer Humanitarian Award, and UCF’s 30 under 30 and Noble Knight distinctions for her efforts in promoting mental wellness. You can learn more through her website www.DrShainna.com or follow along on Instagram @DrShainna.
Mental Wellness Resources:
Designing Healthy Boundaries
The Self-Love Workbook
The Self-Love Workbook for Teens
The Self-Love Planner
Luna Finds Love Everywhere
Find a Mental Health Provider:
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Mental Health Lifeline
Open Path
Therify
Melanin & Mental Health
Inclusive Therapists
Therapy for Black Girls
Asian Mental Health Collective
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We all have mental health, and this is a place for you to learn practical tips to support your wellbeing. In season 4, we are looking at different types of coping skills that you may want to add to your self-care practice. In this episode, we are joined by Craig Smith, a therapist and creator of the FOCUS Journal who is going to help us explore gratitude as a mental wellness skill.
Tune in to explore:
What gratitude is
The benefits of gratitude
What is the difference between toxic positivity and gratitude practice
How to manage negativity
How curiosity helps to foster gratitude
The key word to use to shift into gratitude
What a gratitude practice looks like
Strategies to improve gratitude
How to “borrow” gratitude
Practicing grace with gratitude
About Craig:
Craig Smith is a powerful man of God, a patient, present, loving father and husband, a FAITH spreader, a LOVE giver, and a HOPE dealer. He strives to live every day attracting love, success, and abundance into his life and inspire as many people as he can to do the same.
For over a decade, Craig has helped individuals change their mindset and create the desired change in their lives. Craig strives to live and promote the Greatest Day Mindset, which is a lifestyle, a way of living every day with a positive attitude. It is choosing to be happy and live your life with energy, no matter your circumstances. Craig believes that while today may not be your last day on earth, it is the only day so why not choose to make today the Greatest Day of your life.
Follow Craig on IG
Join the Inner Greatness Community
Checkout the free Focus on Gratitude Community
Checkout the FOCUS journal
About Dr. Shainna:
Dr. Shainna is a mental health counselor, educator, and advocate who is passionate about destigmatizing mental health counseling and helping individuals worldwide recognize the importance of fostering mental wellness. She is the creator of The Self-Love Workbook, The Self-Love Workbook for Teens, Luna Finds Love Everywhere: A Self-Love Book for Kids, The Self-Love Planner, and Designing Healthy Boundaries. She has been featured through outlets such as ABC, CBS, NPR Washington Post, and Insider. Dr. Shainna’s passion for promoting mental health awareness and access inspired her to host the Mental Wellness Practice Podcast. Dr. Shainna is the owner and operator of Integrated Counseling Solutions, LLC, a strengths-based clinical mental health and consulting practice located in Central Florida. Additionally, she has served on the Board of Directors of The Mental Health Association of Central Florida and is a past president of the Florida Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development. Dr. Shainna has been honored with the Association for Specialists in Group Work's Al Dye Award, the Pete Fischer Humanitarian Award, and UCF’s 30 under 30 and Noble Knight distinctions for her efforts in promoting mental wellness. You can learn more through her website www.DrShainna.com or follow along on Instagram @DrShainna.
Mental Wellness Resources:
Designing Healthy Boundaries
The Self-Love Workbook
The Self-Love Workbook for Teens
The Self-Love Planner
Luna Finds Love Everywhere
Find a Mental Health Provider:
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Mental Health Lifeline
Open Path
Therify
Melanin & Mental Health
Inclusive Therapists
Therapy for Black Girls
Asian Mental Health Collective
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thementalwellnesspractice/message
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