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EPISODE #68 - We're thrilled to welcome back clinical psychologist and reiki master, Nadia Torres-Eaton, PsyD, ABPP. It's not too often you get in one person the clinical experience and expertise combined with the openness to alternative healing modalities, which is why we always love learning from Nadia. Currently she privately practices individual and family psychotherapy as well as energy medicine in Santa Ana, CA. We talk about what cycle-breaking means to Nadia, how she helps her clients recognize and break cycles, and how she went through her own massive year-long cycle-breaking journey.
Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.
Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. 
Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

EPISODE #67 - Each month in Yes Collective we focus on a central theme that ties together our new therapy tools, podcasts, and conversations. This month, we’re focused on cycle-breaking! Cycles are the patterns of behaviors, emotions, and beliefs. There can be inter-generational patterns that get passed down from one generation to the next. There can be personal patterns that have set in over years of coping, defending, and managing one's internal world. Or there can be relational patterns that take root in long-term relationships. Cycle-breaking is the conscious act of freeing yourself from destructive, unhealthy, or disruptive patterns in any area of your life. 
This week, Jenny & Justin are kicking off March by talking about what cycle-breaking means to them, how it's shown up in their lives, how it shows up for their clients, and some steps they've taken in their own lives to notice cycles they might want to modify, if not break. They also, talk about the amazing guests they have lined up for March. Best-selling author and former Comedy Central executive, Tara Schuster will join them for the March 8th pod, and somatic experiencing coach and author, Lauren Lovett, will join them later in the month. 
Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.
Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. 
Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

EPISODE #66 - We're continuing our February focus on building and maintaining authentic relationships with this podcast rewind from last year with the relationship coach Jayson Gaddis. We've long known about Jayson and the amazing work he does at The Relationship School and we couldn't wait to have him come on the podcast. We dove into Jayson's journey to becoming a relationship expert (a title that he rejects, but we're giving it him anyway!), how his relationships with his partner and kids have blossomed because of his work, how conflict in any relationship is inevitable, and how repair and growth are always possible. 
We also get some amazing tools and strategies from his new book Getting to Zero: How to Work Through Conflict in Your High Stakes Relationships. We talk about practices that can help anyone repair relationships and achieve deep connection amidst any conflict. If you have a high-stakes relationship in your life, whether it's your marriage, your kids, at work, or a friendship, then you'll absolutely want to tune in.
Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.
Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. 
Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

EPISODE #65 - All February we’re focusing on building and maintaining authentic relationships. This week, Jenny and Justin talk with executive matchmaker and dating coach Sophy Singer because she helps people find those authentic connections that lead to lifelong relationships. Sophy knows a thing or two about how to start an authentic relationship, and we wanted to hear it all. Like, how do people start relationships authentically? Don't we all want to put our very best foot forward, hide all the uncomfortable stuff, and hope to reel a person in before getting authentic? And what does it mean be authentic in the dating world? 
In this episode, Sophy tells us about how she built her decade-long career as an executive matchmaker, how she coaches clients as they navigate the dating world, why dating is so damn hard these days, why the practices of authentic relating are the key to finding the right person, and how she's disrupting the dating and matchmaking world today. Even if your like us and your dating days are far in the past, you're gonna love hearing Sophy's wisdom, her stories, and her passion for helping people connect deeply and authentically. 
Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.
Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. 
Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

EPISODE #64 - This is our second time around with Ryel Kestano, author, coach, and CEO of ART International, the world's leading authentic relating training organization. We had to have him back on to kick off our February theme of building authentic relationships. 
Nothing has a bigger influence on our emotional health than relationships. Yet how much time and effort do we spend on learning HOW to create and maintain rich, meaningful relationships? These certainly don't happen on their own. Thankfully, Ryel joined us this week to explain and demonstrate the art and science of authentic relating. 
We talked about the natural tension we all face as children between staying true to our own authenticity and creating a secure attachment with our caregivers, what authentic relating is, the five practices of authentic relating, and how to use authentic relating in our lives. Ryel even walked us through an authentic relating demo!
If you care about deepening literally any relationship in your life then you're going to love this episode with the wise and wonderful Ryel Kestano. 
Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.
Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. 
Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.

EPISODE #63 - All January long we’re working on new beginnings, fresh starts, and new year renewals. For us this means setting aside time to step back and think about what do we really want to focus on? What do we really want to commit to? Spend our time on? In considering these questions, I thought about Chris Gray, authentic relating trainer, coach, and conscious leadership consultant. Chris has many perspectives on new beginnings. He worked in silicon valley at one of the biggest names in tech and then left it all to start fresh as an authentic relationship trainer and coach. And today he helps companies make fresh starts as emotionally healthy workplaces. Today we dig in to Chris’s story, how he made his fresh starts, and how he helps companies and people around the world slow down and rethink how they relate to each other and themselves. 
If you care about making a real, authentic fresh start then you're going to love this episode with the amazing and insightful Christopher Gray. 

Yes Collective is co-hosted by Justin Wilford, PhD and Jenny Walters, LMFT.

Justin Wilford, PhD, is a co-founder of Yes Collective, an educator, a writer, and an emotional health coach. He earned doctorates from UCLA (cultural geography) and UC Irvine (public health), and specializes in translating complex, scientific ideas into actionable programs for mental and emotional health. 

Jenny Walters, LMFT, is a licensed marriage family therapist and senior expert contributor to the Yes Collective. She is a graduate of the Pacifica Graduate Institute and is the founder and director of Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy in Los Angeles, California.