The Mental Wellness Practice Dr. Shainna: mental health counselor, educator, & advocate

The Mental Wellness Practice Podcast 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 Krizia Capeles Evans the creator of “Use Your Light” an initiative to inspire others to learn more about issues affecting our world today, and to help readers learn about ways to shine their light on causes that they care about. Tune in to learn about how service can affect your mental well-being.

This episode covers:


What service is


Krizia’s experiences with service


How service affects our wellness


How to explore service as a self-care skill


Finding your passion for service


Ideas to delve into service





About Krizia:

Krizia has been serving in the Central Florida community for over 10 years through volunteer groups, AmeriCorps programs, and through her professional roles as a Justice Director for a large congregation, and the Executive Director for the nonprofit she founded, From Outside In.

Today, Krizia aims to inspire individuals, and families, to shine their light on social issues in order to create a better community and world. She created the “Use Your Light” website to inspire others to learn more about issues affecting our world today, and to help readers learn about ways to shine their light on causes that they care about.

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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 The Mental Wellness Practice, 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.



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 the place for you to learn practical tips to support your well-being. Season four is dedicated to helping you explore a variety of strategies to help you enhance your self-care practice. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Aric Prather a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and author of "The Sleep Prescription: 7 days to unlocking your best rest," who helps us learn all about sleep hygiene and mental wellness.

Tune in to explore:


What sleep hygiene is


How the lack of sleep affects our wellness


Tips to improve sleep hygiene



About Dr. Prather

Dr. Aric A. Prather is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. His research program focuses on how poor sleep can impact mental and physical health. Dr. Prather is also a licensed clinical psychologist who treats insomnia patients using cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. He is also the author of "The Sleep Prescription: 7 days to unlocking your best rest.".

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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.

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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 Denise Sherman, a Registered Aromatherapist with over twenty years of experience of educating others the power of essential oils and she is going to help us explore what aromatherapy is and how to integrate essential oils into your mental wellness practice.

Tune in to explore:


How to look for a quality essential oil


Benefits of essential oils


Methods to incorporate essential oils


Specific uses of peppermint, citrus, frankincense, chamomile, rosemary, bergamot, sandalwood, eucalyptus, red mandarin, ylang ylang, and rose.



 

About Denise:

Denise Sherman is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, who left a nursing career behind in 1998 to pursue studies in the holistic health and wellness industry and never looked back. She became a Registered Aromatherapist in 2002 and designed and taught training programs to prospective aromatherapy consultants for a large essential oils/supplement company.  From there, she became a Registered Yoga teacher and ran her own studio for over 5 years. Since graduating from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in January of 2018, she has coached dozens of women to overcome the often alarming and sometimes debilitating symptoms related to leaky gut and autoimmune conditions, something from which she has suffered as well. 

After the devastating loss of her husband of 40 years, Denise set out on a mission to help women in similar circumstances whose own health often suffers through the caregiving of a loved-one who is ill AND from the weight of the grief of their passing. She is currently working on her forthcoming book, “Harnessing Your Second Wind” A 9 Step FLOAT PLAN For Reclaiming Your Health, Vibrance and Joy After Loss”, which is due out April 2024.

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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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In this episode, Dr. Shainna chats with Dr. Zach Bloom, a counselor educator, therapist, and author who helps us explore the value of creative writing as a self-care strategy.

Tune in to explore:


How to tap into creative writing beyond journaling


How creative writing helps us improve our mental health


Obstacles that get in the way of creative writing


Types of creative writing to try


Things to consider when delving into creative writing


Creating an environment conducive to creativity


Dr. Bloom’s experiences with creative writing as a mental wellness resource


Prompts for creative writing



About Dr. Bloom

Zachary D. Bloom, PhD, is a licensed clinical mental health counselor and marriage and family therapist in Illinois where he works with clients from trauma-informed, holistic, and wellness-based lens. As an associate professor, he teaches master's level courses in individual, couple, and family counseling. Outside of his clinical work, he writes horror and poetry by candlelight. 

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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



This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for mental health counseling. If you are experiencing a mental health concern, please seek professional help.




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In this episode, Dr. Shainna chats with Matt Soule, speaker, level 3 Wim Hof Trainer, and author of The Stress Paradox who helps us unpack what cold therapy is, how it works, and how you can incorporate it into your self care practice.

Tune in to explore:


What is cold therapy is


The variety of forms of cold therapy


Misconceptions around cold therapy


What makes cold exposure helpful for mental wellness


The connection between cold therapy and stress management. 


The link between cold exposure and mindset


How cold therapy may differ from what pops up in your social feeds and ads




How to know if cold therapy is right for you


How to get started with cold therapy


How to expand your journey with adventure therapy.



About Matt Soule

Matt is an author, speaker, and professional instructor focusing on a counterintuitive approach to stress management aimed at leveraging the key pathways of stress to live our best lives. Exposure in childhood to domestic violence was the initial spark which motivated Matt to seek methods to combat stress eventually culminating in becoming a martial arts school owner and a Wim Hof Method Level 3 trainer. Over the last 15 years, he has taught more than 10,000 members of the public, as well as trained over 500 instructors from 40 different countries, ways to leverage stress for peak potential.

To learn more

Connect on Instagram

Checkout Matt’s website

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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