Episode #70: The Psychological Effects of Breaking Family Traditions
In this episode, The X-Team discusses how breaking family traditions can trigger complex psychological effects. They explain how family traditions can provide stability, emotional anchors, and reduced stress for children, and how breaking them can cause guilt, anxiety, or shame. It can also be a necessary step toward breaking toxic patterns, enabling individuals to create new, healthier, more authentic, meaningful, and intentional lives. Because traditions act as "emotional anchors" that provide stability and a shared sense of belonging, disrupting them often triggers significant emotional responses in both the person breaking them and the family members left behind.
Episode #69: Doomscrolling and Mental Health
In this episode, The X-Team reacts to an article: Doomscrolling: Stop the scroll, protect your mental health. The date of the article is April 18, 2024. Written by Alisa Bowman. For the Mayo Clinic. Link to the article https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/mental-health/doom-scrolling-and-mental-health/?mc_id=us&utm_source=pes&utm_medium=e&utm_content=engagementlgbtq&utm_campaign=mayoclinic&geo=national&placementsite=enterprise&invsrc=patloy&cauid=188241
Episode #68: Staying Informed While Taking Care of Your Mental Health
In this episode, The X-Team reacts to a YouTube video by Terri Cole titled:
Listen to this episode at https://podcast.show/studio_talk_mental_health/episode/155713225/
How to Stay Informed Without Losing Your Mind (7 Simple Steps) - Terri Cole
YouTube Channel Video
Terri Cole
Mental Health Professional in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFoGakNV5Tc
A follower asked her on her YouTube channel: What's the first recommendation for maintaining your sanity during the 24-hour news cycle?
Episode #67: Clinical Hypnotherapy and Mental Health
In this episode, The X-Team explains what clinical hypnotherapy is and what it is not. They discuss the similarities and differences between mindfulness-based therapy, mindfulness, meditation, and clinical hypnotherapy. Special guest Darlene Cole, a Certified Clinical RTT Hypnotherapist based in Summerville, SC, joins the discussion to help us understand the nuances of her profession. With her guidance, the team discusses how to determine when a client needs clinical mental health counseling rather than clinical hypnotherapy. Darlene also explains what clinical hypnosis is, what it means, how clients benefit from it, and what makes it different from clinical mental health counseling and therapy.
Episode #66: Difference Between Self-Diagnosis and Self-Advocacy
In this episode, The X-Team discusses how digital technology has given way for unqualified individuals to self-diagnose and to diagnose others. Xiomara goes into how this affects people's ability to use these clinical terms correctly and responsibly. She also discusses the many ways that unqualified people on the internet weaponize and conflate these clinical diagnoses and terms incorrectly and how it is usually confused with advocacy and other issues.
Episode #65: Buying Luxury Goods and Mental Health
In this episode, The X-Team reacts to the article "The Emotions of Luxury" in Psychology Today, written by Peter Noel Murray, Ph.D., principal of a consumer psychology practice in New York City. Dr. Murray's specialty is the psychological drivers of consumer behavior, with an emphasis on emotion.