Our series titled, "Building the best life ever." In it we outline a formula, or road map, for change. The mission of Cole Wellness is to promote emotional wellness and physical health through counseling, health coaching, and personal training.
Our friend Baddi from Iceland is in town after an amazing weekend workshop in Montana. Baddi and JP discuss meeting each other earlier this year as well as an upcoming collaboration in the works.
This is episode two of a multipart series where Julie talks about her addiction and recovery. This episode explores "what happened" after that fateful moment where she came out of a blackout staring at herself in the mirror. Julie and JP talk about the shame and despair of coming out of a blackout, the ways and reasons we blame others for our problems, and why it's so hard to take responsibility when you have been in a blackout. There remains more to the story, but this is a raw look inside the experience of someone struggling to surrender - both when they don't, and then, when they do.
This episode is one of a multipart series where Julie talks about her addiction and recovery. This episode explores "what it was like" and her life before she initiated recovery. It's a vulnerable glimpse into Julie's life growing up, her slide into addiction, and an exploration of some of the factors that played a part in the development of her addiction. Rest assured, there is more to the story...yet this is where the story begins.
This week Scott Fowler our producer from Palmetto Moose Productions joins us on the podcast! JP and Scott discuss his journey to becoming a successful production house owner and his travels around the world.
This week we invited our friend Yohance Boulden to join us for a discussion while he was in town for Sorinex Summer Strong. Yohance and JP discuss mental health, overcoming adversity, and the benefits of accountability and brotherhood.
This week we host our friend and Cole Wellness OG, Melissa Parks. Melissa is a local therapist specializes trauma, attachment disorders, and couples work. We talk about all that, some funny memories, her experience with being TikTok famous, and more. Check it out!
This week, Julie and Joanna are back with Part 2 on Toxic Positivity. This one is raw and vulnerable. Don't miss it! **Also, stay tuned for an exciting new announcement from Julie and Joanna, coming next week!!
This week we host Joanna Derrick, and Julie and Joanna dig into the topic of toxic positivity. This one was so good we had to break it into 2 episodes, so today is 1 of 2. Check it out!
This week, we host Nicole Deems, a good friend, Cole Wellness OG, local clinician, and all around badass. We talk about mindfulness, her growth as a clinician, and her passion for supporting the care of other professionals. Check it out!
For podcast 28, JP hosted one of the Cole Wellness OGs, Chris McCoy. Chris has worked in the Cole Wellness space in private practice with Hidden Creek Counseling since 2017, and has been a friend and coworker of JP and/or Julie for 15+ years. We were happy to have him on with JP. Check it out!
How did we do during a pandemic? What have we been up to since our last episode in August 2020? What are we getting into now? This and more in episode 27...join us!
Joining us on the podcast this week, Pastor Nick Cunningham of Emmaus Church SC discusses soul care with Julie Cole.
Live from Greenville & Columbia SC! We are very excited to announce that podcast 25 is available today! Join Julie and our special guest Mike Malone as we discuss more on Soul Care!
Live from Columbia, SC! We are very excited to announce that podcast 24 is available today! Learn about soul care with special guest Maudra Brown!
Live Austin, TX and Columbia, SC! We are very excited to announce that podcast 23 is available today! This episode features special guest Melody Taylor.
Live from the Chattooga River Campground! This week JP & Julie discuss the benefits of self care.
What comes to mind when you read that term - self-care? I don’t have to guess that this means many different things to most people. To keep it simple: self-care are activities we do to care and nurture our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual states. Truth be told, if you would have asked me 2 years ago what self-care looked like, I would have given you a different answer than I will today.
Live from the campground! We are very excited to announce that podcast 20 is available today! This episode features special guest Joanna Derrick.
Podcast 18 featuring special guests Nick & Lindsey Cunningham. Nick is the pastor at Emmaus Church in Columbia, SC.
Join us for a special Mother's Day edition of the Cole Wellness Podcast live from the campground!
Podcast 17 featuring special guest and friend Gabriel Mangold
If we live long enough, we will go through a significant life transition. Some are rites of passage - such as high school and college graduations & weddings - all of which are disrupted right now. Then there are life transitions that, though common, are unexpected. These can be walking through a parental divorce, going through the breakup of a friendship or romantic relationship, recovery for substance use or mental health disorder, or professional burnout, to name a few. We explore an expanded stages of grief model as we discuss the reality most of us will face in walking through unexpected life transitions.
One important thing to remember. No one actually knows what it’s like to feel like you do about loss. The emotions surrounding losing someone we love include the unique entirety of all of our life experiences. One of the most compassionate things we can do for others is to understand that we don’t understand what someone else is experiencing. Having said that...the content this week is very much related to experiences that have helped us and we hope it can be helpful to you.
It's difficult to manage and deal with and oftentimes tells us it's not there. It rears its head when least expected and never fully goes away. It often shifts and can look like anger, sadness, depression, irritability, and hopelessness. It is also treatable, manageable, and can be a helpful tool for our growth.
It's difficult to manage and deal with and oftentimes tells us it's not there. It rears its head when least expected and never fully goes away. It often shifts and can look like anger, sadness, depression, irritability, and hopelessness. It is also treatable, manageable, and can be a helpful tool for our growth.
Dr. Darren Woodlief is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate at CPS. He specializes in conducting a broad range of diagnostic evaluations for clinical and educational purposes and for treatment planning, including psychoeducational, ADHD, and mental health assessments, as well as autism and neuropsychological screenings. He earned a Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology and a Certificate in Graduate Study in Applied Statistics from the University of South Carolina. He is also a research analyst at the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Woodlief serves as a reviewer for the journals Evaluation and the Health Professions and Child Development, a psychological statistics textbook reviewer for Cengage Learning, and a member of the Society for Research in Child Development.
In a world of before and afters, we miss the real magic - the mess. The mess is where real authenticity resides, and where real change happens. It is the part where we surrender, claw and cry. The part where there is no pause button, and where we have to dig into the depths of our soul, and find the will to move through the fear, through the escape, through the very things that make staying the same so comfortable.
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As a recap, we spent the last 9 weeks on our Build Your Best Life Series, which included the following steps: Step 1: Develop a deep and meaningful understanding of where we want to be. Step 2: Develop a deep and meaningful understanding of where we are. Which brings us to Step 3: Build a Roadmap to get there. This can be found in a number of forms, but most people create or sign on to a plan or program to reach their goals.
We define spiritual health as the way we interact with the world around us and within us. It is the total experience of our physical and mental health and the energy we give off to others. It is not limited by our beliefs or faith but can be influenced by it. Although it can be harder to assess than the other areas of life, we hope to provide some helpful questions and tools this week to help with your own personal assessment of spiritual health.
How do we begin taking an honest look at our mental and emotional health? The first step is to increase our awareness of it. Setting time to consider specific questions like What thoughts or emotions did I experience today? What are some of the patterns and narratives? Do I tend to focus on work, relationships, or health? Is my emotional state relatively stable? Or does it change dramatically throughout the day? Am I able to flow from thought process to thought process, or do I ruminate and obsess over topics until I resolve the perceived uncomfortability? What emotion would I say dominated my day? On a scale of 1-10, how intense was it? Questions like these can help give a better picture of where we are each day.
How do we begin taking an honest look at our physical health? The first step is to increase our awareness of it. Setting time to consider specific questions like How much did I move today? What were my energy levels? How much coffee/caffeine did I have? How long and how well did I sleep? How did I feel today after meals (over-full, satiated, hungry)? Questions like these can help give a better picture of where we are each day.
Building purpose is the foundation of change. Finding purpose and meaning in our lives is probably the number 1 thing that we see individuals trying to answer with Therapy and Coaching. It’s a personal and individual journey to find this answer. The past few weeks we have talked about goal setting and visualizing the changes we want to see in our lives. The way to build real consistency and increase success is to find the true purpose and meaning behind the change. This week we will discuss how to deepen our understanding or why changing our lives is truly meaningful to us.
Once we determine a goal, it is important to visualize the change we want to see in our lives. The most common use of this is to utilize it to help with goal setting by backtracking from the visualized change to the starting point to break down goals into manageable chunks.
Build Your Best Life Step 1: Have a deep and meaningful understanding of where we want to be. The first thing we have to do is develop a baseline. In this case, a basic goal to get us started. Most people start with a general goal like, “I want to feel better” or “I want to lose some weight”. The first thing we need to do is to break the goal down to something more specific.
Imposter Syndrome is the feeling that secretly we are not qualified, not good enough, or not like others. Today we take a deeper look at this common human experience.
Mental flexibility. What does that even mean? For us, it has been the willingness to let there be more than one outcome. An opportunity to model this has already been raised with our our new content series, Building Your Best Life. In it we proposed these three steps: Deep and meaningful understanding of where you are. Deep and meaningful understanding of where you want to be. Develop a plan or map to get from #1 to #2. As we have worked on developing the content series further, we have recognized that it would really work better to reverse #1 and #2, to look like this: Deep and meaningful understanding of where you want to be. Deep and meaningful understanding of where you are. Develop a plan to get from #2 to #1.
We recently started a new series titled, "Build your best life". In it we outlined a formula, or road map, for change. The mission of Cole Wellness is to promote emotional wellness and physical health through counseling, health coaching, and personal training.
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