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  • Self-Help: From Seeking to Activation
    Oct 15 2025

    Want to feel better about your life? The new season starts with your first catalyst: activate the best in you, opening your possibilities and capabilities. Wading through the self-help world is overwhelming! Self-improvement work can feel impossible and even make you feel worse when it’s too much and too fast.

    Give a listen to Dr. Brown’s 5 small and easily integrated considerations that can make a big difference in the way that you move through the world. Small changes can equal big growth and even relieve your busy mind. You deserve it-it may not be as hard as you think to get a little more peace and quiet in that head of yours-give it a listen!

    Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ.

    This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.

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    55 min
  • Season Finale: Building Your Mental Health Tool Kit
    Sep 10 2025

    It’s been a great first season, exploring mental health concepts together and learning about the tools that can help us to stay mentally healthy. In this session, we are highlighting the top takeaways to add to your toolbox! Dr. Deborah shares the top ten strategies that you can easily incorporate to ensure that you are shining your unique light out into the world. She shares practical concepts to guide you on the journey to self-mastery and authenticity.

    Thank you to our listeners, who have joined us to learn more about how to be the best version of ourselves! Stay tuned for Season 2, starting in October. We can’t wait to share what’s next!

    Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ.

    This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.

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    52 min
  • Mindfulness: Why is it Important & How do I do it?
    Aug 27 2025

    Are you feeling distracted, overwhelmed and generally not present in your life? In this episode, Dr. Deborah takes a deep dive into how being more mindful can change your perspective and make you feel better! Explore what mindfulness really is, and how to increase present moment awareness in your everyday life.

    Dr. Deborah shares eight strategies that you can easily implement to help slow your busy mind down and become more present in your life. Long-term use of mindfulness strategies can promote improved emotional regulation, a reduction in anxiety, and a calmer mind to address your stress. Join Dr. Deborah for this session, and live your life a little more mindful!

    Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ. This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy.

    If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.

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    51 min
  • “I’m so OCD”: Mental Health Diagnoses & Pop Culture
    Aug 13 2025

    Are you tired of people who say things like “she is so bipolar” and “I just got triggered” and “that person’s a mental case! The increasing chatter in the world and on the internet about mental health is wonderful! But do we all really have a disorder? Explore in this session some real talk about what mental health disorders really look like, and how to address your own fears and concerns that you might just have one.

    Dr. Deborah will open your eyes and your mind to the power of how we talk about our mental health, and the importance of understanding the labels you might apply to others and to yourself related to it. Learn about mental health “fads” through the years, and why everyone seems to think that they are autistic these days. This one is for those of you who seek to understand your own mental health and care about the mental health of others. Getting it right can matter!

    Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ.

    This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.

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    46 min
  • Healing & Hope: How to Keep Going In An Uncertain World
    Jul 30 2025

    Feeling discouraged? Join your session this week to learn how to keep your head up and feel good in the context of a world that can feel overwhelming, unjust, and just plain scary sometimes. Explore the role of your inner belief systems and perspective on how you recover and heal from the hard stuff happening around you. Discover the wide prevalence of negative influence as it increases in America and think about why and how it may be affecting you.

    Dr. Brown will share her recent experience of being featured in The Quote Project, and her personal work to find hope in the worst of circumstances. Sometimes it is a negative and unfair world, and we owe it to ourselves to try to live the life we want, despite it. Dr. Brown is here to support you as you find your way toward the life you hope for.

    Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ.

    This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.

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    47 min
  • Cosmetic Surgery & Beauty Standards: Self-Love or Self-Harm?
    Jul 16 2025

    Are you feeling the pull towards cosmetic surgery, fillers, or other body modifications? Is it because you have body dysmorphia or is it a healthy form of self-love? In this episode, Dr. Deborah takes a deep dive into the world of cosmetic surgery, accepting our “flaws” and how societal messages about beauty have permeated societies around the world throughout history. Explore her feelings about celebrity transformations and how cosmetic surgery can have both positive and negative effects. Explore movements like “body positivity” and the “free the nipple” campaign and how these help us to see ourselves without sexualizing beauty and appearance.

    Dr. Deborah shares her own efforts to be “beautiful” and examines why being beautiful feels so important. She asks you to throw away concepts like vanity and “inside versus outside” beauty. She examines the pressure that many feel (in all genders identifications) to be attractive in a conventional and accepted sense versus embracing our own unique expression of beauty. Learn about how to achieve the “body neutral” approach to the mirror and to stop normalizing criticism around perceived imperfections of ourselves and others. Until we have a culture that values us for our personhood, we can only work on this within ourselves, and spread it along to others close to us: how to really see and celebrate our true beauty and be happier in our bodies.

    Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ. This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.

    Episode 16 Trigger Warnings: Surgery, Body Dysmorphia, Self Harm

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    59 min
  • Attachment Styles: Finding & Keeping Healthy Relationships
    Jun 25 2025

    Do your relationships with your partner, your family or your friends feel challenging? Is it likely because only about 15% of us have healthy, secure attachment styles? Learn about your attachment style and how you just might be getting in your own way in your relationships. Learn how to identify the attachment style of those around you to help you know where the real work of relationship building needs to begin.

    We are born to attach! Learn why your past experiences have affected your attachment abilities and explore how to change this for the better. How we attach is directly related to how our relationships make us feel, and how they become a positive or negative force in our lives. It is time for you to make your life and your relationships feel better and flow healthier! Join me for your session to learn more about attachment; and how healthy, secure attachments make us feel better about our relationships and ourselves.

    Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health.

    She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ. This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.

    Episode 15 Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse/Neglect

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    59 min
  • Monogamy & Maybe More: Exploring Non-Traditional Relationships
    Jun 11 2025

    In this session, we get curious about what’s happening with partnered relationships. Whether you are thinking about shifting your own relationship or are just curious about what others are up to…this is for you! It may surprise you to learn that many couples these days are moving outside of the monogamous traditional relationships that have been held by the masses for centuries. When asked in secret, 34 % of those in partnered relationships individually report that something other than traditional monogamy would be ideal for them. Those outside of traditional monogamy have always existed through the ages. More and more of us now are coming out of the fringes and sharing that all types of relationships have value and can work. Learn about the different types of relationships to include polyamory, swinging, open relationships, relationship anarchy and more! Check this episode out and peek over the fence to see what your friends might be up to and explore in this session how you feel about it, too! Dr. Brown holds a BA in Secondary Education/English, an MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and MPhil in Social & Behavioral Science and a PhD in Human Services with a Specialty in Public Health. She is a licensed Professional Counselor in the State of NJ. This podcast is not a replacement for psychotherapy. If you are someone you know is struggling with mental illness, please seek the help of professionals.

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    55 min