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The OverThinker's Guide to Joy Jackie de Crinis
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The Overthinker’s Guide to Joy is your go-to resource for every day tips and tricks on how to manage your stress and overthinking brain. If you are looking for easy ways to reduce your stress, improve your healthy and find more joy in your life, this is the podcast for you. Certified Life Coach, Jackie de Crinis gives you easily-digestible concepts that will help you feel calmer and more joyful in your life. If you would like even more ways to reduce your stress and create more joy, you can sign up for her newsletter at https://jackiedecrinis.com.
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98. Reframing Negative Thoughts with the STEPS Model
Negative thoughts can lead to frustration, anger, and irritation - especially for perfectionists. Luckily, we can reframe these thoughts using one of my favorite tools: the STEPS model.
It’s a powerful tool for reframing your mindset in challenging circumstances, and you can use it too.
Join me today as I take you on a personal journey in which I needed to overcome negative thoughts and discover how I reframed them using the STEPS model.
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97. Life, Television, Meditation and Mindfulness with Mark Feuerstein
Mark Feuerstein, the successful actor, writer, producer and director known for his starring role in USA's Royal Pains, joins me today.
We discuss Mark's journey into meditation years ago and how it has grounded him amid his successful acting career spanning television hits like The West Wing, Sex and the City, and Prison Break, as well as films such as What Women Want and In Her Shoes.
We delve into Mark's upcoming projects—the MGM+ series Hotel Cocaine, premiering June 16th, and the limited series Lady in the Lake, co-starring Natalie Portman.
Join us, as we take a glimpse into Mark's multifaceted life balancing acting, fatherhood, and mindfulness.
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96. Your Brain Is Even More Powerful Than You Think
As a society, we have a tendency to rely on external things for support and solutions. Things like good luck charms, superstitions and placebo effects are proof that the power to getting through hard times, actually comes from our minds - it’s called Associative Memory.
And it is in no way a bad thing - I use Associative Memory in my life by listening to classical music while I write, to tap into my creative mindset.
In this episode, I’m going to delve into the power of the mind, highlighting ideas from reading, listening and discussing I’ve recently done.
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95. What's Keeping You Awake At Night?
Do you struggle to get a good night’s sleep? Are you often kept awake by restlessness and an inability to drift off?
I’ve struggled with insomnia most of my life, with trouble falling asleep when I was younger and difficulty staying asleep now.
In this episode, we’ll go over my challenges and how I dealt with them. We’ll also talk about what might be the reason behind your insomnia and some sleep hygiene you can do to help you set yourself up for a successful night of sleep.
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94: Acting, Life and Reinvention with Tim Omundson
Best known for his roles as Detective Carlton Lassiter in Psych and King Richard in Galavant, today I’m talking to Tim Omundson.
After suffering a serious stroke in 2017, which caused him to need to learn to eat and walk again, Tim is sharing his nearly seven-year journey of adaptation, perseverance, and reinvention, which allowed him to act again in This is Us and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
Listen in to hear me and a longtime friend talk about all things life, television, touring, podcasting, and so much more.
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93: Learning to Embrace Failure
Fear is a primal instinct wired into our brains as a survival mechanism. It served our ancestors when facing immediate physical threats like predators, and now when we experience it, we feel as though we lack courage.
However, courage and fear can coexist simultaneously, we just think they can’t because of our tendency to overthink and underestimate our own ability to cope.
And one of the biggest fears for many people is the fear of failure. The stigma around failure being something to be ashamed of isn’t true, and holds us back from meeting our full potential.
In this episode, discover the relationship between fear, courage and failure, learn how to cultivate courage, and learn how to overcome and embrace failure.
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Customer Reviews
You can find JOY listening to this podcast!
I thoroughly enjoy listening to Jackie.
Listening and paying attention to her podcasts help inspire me to rethink how I currently live and how I can find joy in an overthinkers world.
Why I listen…
I debated posting this because it’s a bit heavy, a bit long. But I decided to, not so much to praise Jackie - although she absolutely deserves it - but because I know there are others out there like me, genuinely struggling. I have found great comfort and motivation and information I can hold on to listening to these podcasts. I want them to listen, too. To them, I say...
I listen because for me, my health, my survival, my having any chance at experiencing joy again, is at stake. Overthinking causes stress. And stress kills. If it doesn’t, it causes a broad array of health issues. Ask my doctor. My chart is peppered with stuff like hypertension, Fibromyalgia. Diabetes. Chronic fatigue. I get lousy sleep. I comfort eat. I’m moody. I fight every day to simply put one foot in front of the other. But too often I freeze, or retreat, because my brain turns mole hills into mountains. I was once a very strong young man, and my mind and body could handle the weight of overthinking. I’m in my 60’s now, and I’m losing strength. I’m now on the wrong end of a tipping point. There is an urgency. I simply cannot afford overthinking, nor the panic or the meltdown that comes with it.
I listen because I was asked to listen. It was suggested with heart, so it was the least I could do. I started with Episode 1, the “H” in the “H.O.M.E.” series. It was about drinking water. Not a terribly emotionally-charged issue. But halfway through, I suddenly heaved, there were tears.
I had just ended an 8-week relationship with a Life Coach. She talked to me like a harsh football coach. She hit some bullet points, but the connective tissue was devoid of any compassion, understanding, or anything I could grab onto and say, “That’s me! That’s my obstacle. That’s how I feel.”. I never felt an ounce of love, not necessarily for me, but for US. I listen because from that very first podcast about drinking water, I realized there was love in Jackie’s every word, phrase, joke, self-admission, suggestion, instruction, direction.
I listen because Jackie’s delivery of the information is not just pitch-perfect, but because there is humor and vulnerability, compassion and empathy. I listen because Jackie understands like only someone who’s been there can.
There is SO much “give” in “The Overthinker’s Guide to Joy”. That’s why I heaved and cried during that first episode, and why I listen. Which I do, one episode every day. No binge listening, so I can ruminate on the day’s Episode. I listen because these podcasts give me something very special and I’d like to pay it forward.
Complete gratitude
I just love how meaningful and easy this is everyday. Jackie’s voice is perfect to guide you into the meditations.