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Sinopsis

Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery (Happiness for short) is the sister podcast to Counselor Toolbox. Happiness was launched to provide easily accessible tips, tools and tricks to help people achieve their highest quality of life. Each week we delve into topics that will help you enhance your happiness, better deal with addictions, anxiety, depression and understand the interaction between mood, physical health and addiction.

Episodios

  • Psychological Flexibility

    06/09/2018 Duración: 52min

    Objectives ~ Define psychological flexibility ~ Explore how to apply psychological flexibility ~ Identify the shortcut question What is Psychological Flexibility ~ The willingness to accept things as they are in the moment and make a conscious choice to act with effective purpose choosing behaviors, thoughts and feelings that move you toward a rich and […]

  • Social Interventions for Depression

    23/08/2018 Duración: 51min

    Support from emotionally healthy family and friends is important to recovery.

  • 365 Days of Happiness

    23/08/2018 Duración: 43min

    An overview of the book 365 Days of Happiness which helps people start each day with a technique to live happier.

  • Environmental Interventions for Depression

    16/08/2018 Duración: 26min

    Environmental Interventions for Depression: Increase the Happy and Reduce the Stress

  • Physical Interventions to Defeat Depression

    26/07/2018 Duración: 35min

    100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression Physical Interventions Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Counseling Education Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify why physical interventions are important to recovery and happiness ~ Explore different physical interventions Intro ~ There are a myriad of reasons why physical interventions […]

  • Cognitive Interventions for Depression

    20/07/2018 Duración: 43min

    ~ The way people think and perceive situations has a huge impact on how they feel ~ Helping people embrace the dialectics can help them feel more positive and empowered ~ Just like it is imperative to add happy emotions, it is imperative to add happy thoughts as well ~ By practicing optimism and addressing unhelpful thoughts people can reduce their overall stress, sleep better, gain more energy and feel less hopeless and helpless (depressed).

  • Emotional Interventions for Depression

    13/07/2018 Duración: 38min

    Based on Doc Snipes' upcoming book 100+ Practical Tools to Defeat Depression. Summary When people are depressed, they often feel helpless and hopeless and nothing makes them happy. By adding in happy things, people can buffer against the depression By addressing the unpleasant feelings, they happy chemicals can be more effective. Emotional interventions help you address the unpleasant feelings and add pleasant feelings By developing a better feelings vocabulary, it will be easier to identify how you are feeling and address it. Mindfulness helps you stay in the present moment so you are in touch with your feelings and don’t let them fester like a dirty wound (or a bag of poop)

  • Understanding the Need for Validation and Control

    06/07/2018 Duración: 29min

    Steps Toward Self Validation ~ Identify the values and characteristics about yourself that make you awesome. ~ Make a Bill of Rights. “I deserve to…” ~ Follow your own Bill of Rights ~ Identify the people in your past from whom you craved validation and never got it. Explore why that may have been more about them than you. ~ Identify why you crave validation. Do you want to know you are important? Relevant? Lovable? ~ Make a list of people you know who fit that label. ~ How are you like those people?

  • 10 Tips for Raising a Happy Child

    29/06/2018 Duración: 47min

    Raising a Happy Child ~ Help them develop an emotional vocabulary ~ Develop self-awareness, mindfulness and psychological flexibility ~ Develop empathy and compassion for self and others ~ Develop self-esteem and self-confidence ~ Educate about unhelpful thoughts ~ Educate about hardiness ~ Develop good vulnerability prevention habits ~ Teach about distress tolerance Accepts and Improves

  • Men’s Mental Health

    15/06/2018 Duración: 46min

    Depression and anxiety impact millions of men annually. In this episode for men's health month learn about the causes, signs, symptoms in men (which are often different than in women) and treatments available.

  • Psychological Flexibility and the Wizard of Oz

    08/06/2018 Duración: 29min

    The psychological flexibility matrix helps you identify how you feel and what you need and make informed choices regarding your responses based on what will help you move toward those things which are important in a rich and meaningful life.

  • Gaining Confidence in Relationships

    01/06/2018 Duración: 53min

    Gaining Confidence in Relationships • Physical abandonment occurs when the physical conditions necessary for thriving have been replaced by lack of appropriate supervision • Physical disappearance (death, jail, job, choice) • Emotional abandonment occurs when parents do not provide the emotional conditions and the emotional environment necessary for healthy development. I like to define emotional […]

  • Time Out Trials and Tribulations

    18/05/2018 Duración: 26min

    Time-Out Trials and Tribulations Identify the function of the behavior ~ Not wanting to stop doing something fun ~ Desiring attention ~ Fear ~ Testing limits ~ Trying to get same privileges as older siblings ~ Privilege creep ~ Trying to assert power and control ~ Want to go home or get candy ~ Lack […]

  • Mindful Eating

    04/05/2018 Duración: 24min

    Mindful eating helps you enjoy your food and better manage your calorie intake. Learn... What is mindfulness ~ What is mindful eating and why is it important ~ What are some techniques for mindful eating

  • 21 Tips to Beat Anxiety

    26/04/2018 Duración: 33min

    Based on the upcoming book Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery: 100+ Practical Tips to Beat Anxiety by Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes

  • 15 Traits of Type A Personalities

    19/04/2018 Duración: 36min

    These people are plagued by a sense of time-urgency, hostility and often misdirected anger, poor organizational skills and a tendency to take on multiple tasks simultaneously.  Type A people often strive for perfection in everything, which often leads to doing many things poorly instead of doing a few things perfectly.   When things do not go […]

  • Living with ADHD

    13/04/2018 Duración: 42min

    Living with ADHD With Doc Snipes More resources are available at DocSnipes.com Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity ~ Difficulty getting organized ~ Chronic procrastination or trouble getting started ~ Many projects going simultaneously ~ Trouble with follow-through ~ A tendency to say whatever comes to mind without considering timing or appropriateness ~ A frequent search for high stimulation […]

  • Problem Solving and Goal Setting

    01/04/2018 Duración: 21min

    Goal Setting Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify the purpose of setting goals ~ Learn about SMART goals and how to set them ~ Explore ways to identify their goals ~ Identify the 7 most common pitfalls in goal setting, and […]

  • Goal Setting and Motivation

    31/03/2018 Duración: 27min

    Goal Setting Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify the purpose of setting goals ~ Learn about SMART goals and how to set them ~ Explore ways to identify their goals ~ Identify the 7 most common pitfalls in goal setting, and […]

  • Setting Practical Realistic Goals

    30/03/2018 Duración: 57min

    Goal Setting Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC Executive Director, AllCEUs Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox, Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery Objectives ~ Identify the purpose of setting goals ~ Learn about SMART goals and how to set them ~ Explore ways to identify their goals ~ Identify the 7 most common pitfalls in goal setting, and […]

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