Digging Deep

On this final episode of Digging Deep, Dr. Shokrian expresses her gratitude and appreciation for the vulnerability and authenticity shared by her guests over the last two seasons. After just recently having a baby, Dr. Shokrian was surprised to learn how prevalent the feelings of shame, sadness, and guilt are pre/postpartum.  In todays episode, she speaks up about the realities of pre/postpartum, what we must recognize collectively as a society to support women, and how to seek the proper help.    Thank you tuning in to these very intimate conversations. For more information on Dr. Sasha Shokrian you can check out her website DrSashaShokrian.com where you can book a free consult or find her on instagram @DrSashaShokrian where she shares mental health tips.    Produced by Dear Media

How Erin got into Human Design & What drew her to this path? Where do the teachings of Human originate from? The 5 types and the qualities we see within these types? Manifestors, Generators, Manifesting Generators, Projectors, and Reflectors What are the different strategies and authorities and how does one begin to master them? What do the different profile numbers mean? Can human design help us better our relationships or pick more authentic careers? How does human design help us process our roles within our family systems? What you can expect from working with Erin!   Get your unique blueprints today at https://erinclairejones.com using discount code: DEEP   Produced by Dear Media

  What is resilience?  Do our temperaments and attachments influence our ability to be resilient as adults? What can you do as a  caregiver do to help foster resilience within your child?  Autonomy Supportive Parenting  Chronic vs. Toxic Stress? How to build resilience after growing up with Toxic Stress?  Building resilience within your romantic relationships?  Is optimism linked to resilience?  After 2 years of a Pandemic - How do we create certainity in the midst of all the uncertainty? Helpful tools that help you build resilience?    Produced by Dear Media  

What is the difference between functional medicine and conventional medicine?   What is the problem with treating the symptom?   What is the gut brain axis & How does it connect to our mental health?   Why the gut extends far beyond our digestive health?   What is the role of serotonin in the gut?   How does inflammation play a role in our mental health?   How leaky gut syndrome causes neuro-inflammation?   What is Molecular Mimicry and how does the immune system lose recognition of the self?   Why are we seeing such an influx of autoimmune issues and what is the connection to our emotions and inflammation?   How does the environment play a role in our health?   Whats going in our bodies physiologically postpartum?   Whats going in our bodies on a physiological level when we experience depression or anxiety?   Whats health protocol would you take if you're experiencing anxiety or depression?   Produced by Dear Media

Vanessa Fitzgerald otherwise known as @Vesshoney on Instagram discusses:   - Her early childhood experiences   - Growing up with a single parent and what it felt like having never met her biological father   - Where her perfectionism was born and why it pushed her to become a people pleaser   - Her addiction to Adderall: why it began, how it contributed  to her inability to develop a true sense of self, and how she was eventually able to detox   - Her take on Orthorexia and how she sees it play out into todays health world   - How she developed enough self compassion to build her brand and so much more!     Produced by Dear Media

Julie Menanno also known as the “The Secure Relationship” on instagram discusses:   What is emotionally focused therapy? How do we understand attachment types from an evolutionary perspective? How are our attachments formed in our early development? Anxious, Avoidant, Disorganized   Why an overbearing parent can lead to an anxious or avoidant attachment style What is happening to us individually within each of these attachment styles? Strengths and weaknesses we experience as adults within these styles of attachment? How anxious and avoidant attachment styles can work through the online dating environment and how to pay more attention to our felt experiences? How do couples work through relational issues when attachment styles are conflicting? Why  almost 100% couples fall into an anxious and avoidant match  What are attachment wounds and how do we work through them? How do we get stuck in a shame spiral? How does emotional validation play a part in all of this?  How our projections are related to our attachment styles? Intra-psychic blocks vs. Inter-psychic blocks What you can expect from her book “The Secure Relationship”   Her website: https://www.thesecurerelationship.com   Produced by Dear Media

Growing up in the midst of a divorce?  Why moving around so much as a child, allowed her to become adaptable How confronting her painful relationship  with her mother allowed her to individuate and understand who she was  How she has been able to foster unconditional love for her children, despite growing up within a conditional environment How her difficult upbringing gave her the resilience she needed to work through her romantic relationship  How the infidelity within her marriage became the motivation she needed to work through her feelings of resentment and anger  Working through the shame and judgment she faced for staying in her relationship, despite the cheating  Why radical transparency has now become the foundation of her marriage    Produced by Dear Media

The trial and error she experienced before founding the Career Contessa  The reality of keeping your day job, to pursue your passion project  The truth of being an entrepreneur and transitioning into motherhood  How to work through the mental load that comes with being a mother and running your own business  Mourning an old identity and working through the feelings and emotions many women experience postpartum  The importance of joining communities and groups for mental health support  How to financially plan for maternity leave Why over-planning doesn't actually help you and leads you to do more work Why its important to advocate for yourself, instead of expecting others to do it for you  Identifying as overachiever and how to practice self compassion How to work through the shame that comes along with being a stay at home mom  Some helpful tools for transitioning into motherhood 

The trial and error she experienced before founding the Career Contessa  The reality of keeping your day job, to pursue your passion project  The truth of being an entrepreneur and transitioning into motherhood  How to work through the mental load that comes with being a mother and running your own business  Mourning an old identity and working through the feelings and emotions many women experience postpartum  The importance of joining communities and groups for mental health support  How to financially plan for maternity leave Why over-planning doesn't actually help you and leads you to do more work Why its important to advocate for yourself, instead of expecting others to do it for you  Identifying as overachiever and how to practice self compassion How to work through the shame that comes along with being a stay at home mom  Some helpful tools for transitioning into motherhood    Produced by Dear Media

In this special season finale Dr. Shokrian discusses:   How is faith born? What does maintaining faith mean? Why it's difficult to hold on to faith, especially after growing up in an unpredictable environment. How faith is deeply connected to how we approach the unknown. Tools and steps you can practice to transform your fears into faith and push through the unknown.   Produced by Dear Media

What did relationships look like before she met her husband?  How her relationship with her husband taught her how to maintain boundaries and access her femininity  Why she recognized how her masculinity was rooted in her fear  What it was like experiencing a deep depression during such a fragile period in her life  What it meant for her to surrender How she found a healing and creative outlet during her most recent breakdown Why she developed the Shift Stirrer Method and what you can expect from her book and workshop   Produced by Dear Media

Showing up in in the world as who we really vs who we think we need to be (the good the bad and everything in between) Owning the parts of us we've disowned What it was like growing up in a  poor home surviving on food stamps  Internalizing the shame that came along with being different  How she built a shield against the shame she experienced to protect herself from the pain  Why her adult self can regresses in moments when she feels triggered and re-experiences her earlier shame   Why learning how to be resourceful as a child still continues to be a strength today and how she models this for her children How her modeling career allowed her be reintroduced to a softer version of herself and work through her shame connected to money    Produced by Dear Media

She discusses the difficulties she faced that set her on the journey to pursue Psychology   Why therapy and coaching are different yet both critical parts of adult development? What is happiness?  How do we access our authentic selves?  How do we become unstuck when we're feeling or experiencing more difficult emotions?  How do we make substantial change through dissecting our thoughts?  Why we often feel overwhelmed by our own healing and how goals allow us to small incremental change. Why research proves that we cant consume our way to feeling good. What you can expect from her Mind Your Mind Workshop? Find more information on Dr. Sasha Heinz  here & through her instagram @DrSashaHeinz    Produced by Dear Media

What does Narcissistic Personality Disorder look like in relationships? What is a healthy version of Narcissism & how it exists on a spectrum?  How does one become a Narcissists?  What compensatory strategies do Narcissists use in relationships? How this shows up in parent/child relationships?  How having a Narcissistic Parent causes us to develop a false sense of self?  Why children of Narcissistic Parents have a harder time self regulating  Why we can ALL easily attracted to Narcissistic personalities and what red flags to look for in these relationships?  How to maintain a relationship with a Narcissist if you are choosing to stay? Check out more on Dr. Jaimie Zuckerman @dr.z_psychologist and through her website      Produced by Dear Media

Instagrams favorite therapist SitWithWhit discusses her new book Toxic Positivity and how it influences our mental health How do we define toxic positivity?  Where did we develop this mindset from an evolutionary perspective?  Why it's difficult for us to sit with challenging emotions within our relationships? What areas do we see this most in? How the illusion of control plays a role in our need to be positive? How are manifestations and affirmations different from toxic positivity?  What is Groupthink?  How does it stifle creativity and intimacy?  How we perfect the art of pretending and how this harms us?  The numbing behaviors we use to deny our feelings? How do we align our affirmations with our values?  Why our “negative” emotions are so important to feel and how to make use of these experiences?  Why the pressure to feel gratitude can create shame and be unproductive?  What is the difference between emotions and feelings?  How does labeling our emotions help us use our emotions in a more adaptive manner?  How does a false sense of vulnerability actually hurt us?  The other end of the spectrum: a victim state of mind? What is radical acceptance and strategies/tools to use to implement this frame of mind?  How the pursuit of happiness can get in the way of our experience of joy?  Happiness Driven vs. Value Driven  What are positive fantasies and how do they help us through difficult times?  How toxic positivity plays a role in our perception of health?  What is helpful positivity vs toxic positivity?   Produced by Dear Media

Instagrams favorite therapist SitWithWhit discusses her new book Toxic Positivity and how it influences our mental health How do we define toxic positivity?  Where did we develop this mindset from an evolutionary perspective?  Why it's difficult for us to sit with challenging emotions within our relationships? What areas do we see this most in? How the illusion of control plays a role in our need to be positive? How are manifestations and affirmations different from toxic positivity?  What is Groupthink?  How does it stifle creativity and intimacy?  How we perfect the art of pretending and how this harms us?  The numbing behaviors we use to deny our feelings? How do we align our affirmations with our values?  Why our “negative” emotions are so important to feel and how to make use of these experiences?  Why the pressure to feel gratitude can create shame and be unproductive?  What is the difference between emotions and feelings?  How does labeling our emotions help us use our emotions in a more adaptive manner?  How does a false sense of vulnerability actually hurt us?  The other end of the spectrum: a victim state of mind? What is radical acceptance and strategies/tools to use to implement this frame of mind?  How the pursuit of happiness can get in the way of our experience of joy?  Happiness Driven vs. Value Driven  What are positive fantasies and how do they help us through difficult times?  How toxic positivity plays a role in our perception of health?  What is helpful positivity vs toxic positivity?   Produced by Dear Media

Kimberly Snyder is a spiritual guide, meditation teacher, nutritionist, and holistic wellness expert. She is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of five previous books, including Radical Beauty, which she co-authored with Deepak Chopra. Kimberly hosts the top-rated Feel Good podcast. She is the founder of Solluna®, a holistic lifestyle brand that offers wellness products, digital courses, Practical Enlightenment MeditationTM, and the Solluna Circle. She has been featured in dozens of media outlets, including Good Morning America, The Today Show, and The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Los Angeles and Hawaii with her husband and her sons.    In todays episode we discuss: —  Backpacking through India & studying Yogananda's teaching  to moving back to NYC and watching how things started falling into place  —  Discusses the what she calls the four Cornerstones (food, love, emotional wellbeing, spiritual growth) —  How hitting rock bottom, allowed her to cling on to her practice more deeply  —  How she spent 5 months of disconnecting from the world, which allowed her to find trust in her inner voice —  Why the false self is born and how she was able to connect to her true self  —  What happens when we connect with our true self and trust our inner voice?  —  Balancing our outer world with our inner world —  Kimberly takes us through a short breathing meditation  —  Why its so healing  to pay attention to the gaps in between moments  —  How to stop living in the labels of who we should be, vs creating a life of non duality  —  How our inability to forgive can hold us back and why we have to self forgive in order to move forward  — What does it mean to have will and how does this expand our vitality?  —  Where you can find her new book “YOU ARE MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE”  —  For more information on Kimberly mysolluna.com    "I have learned so much from Kimberly's teachings for more than a decade and this book is a life-changing read for creating more peace and joy in your life.” — Drew Barrymore    "This book is an engaging, inspiring, and helpful guide to resurrecting your soul so you can embrace who you are truly meant to be. The time to tune into the glory and power of the True Self is now.” — Deepak Chopra, New York Times Bestselling Author    Produced by Dear Media

-  What does it mean to be an empath?  - What is happening on a neurological level within our brains for someone who identifies as an empath?  - What is happening on a developmental level for someone who identifies as an empath? - How does projective identification make it more difficult for empaths to distinguish their own feelings and emotions, from the emotions of others?  - How to feel more empowered as an empath?  - Why self regulation is such an important aspect of our adult development?  - Why empaths make great leaders?   Make sure to rate and comment and let me know how you liked the solo episode. I would love to hear from you and learn more about what other topics you'd like me to breakdown, so always feel free to DM me at @DrSashaShokrian   Produced by Dear Media

Dr. Sasha Shokrian, Clinical Psychologist  & Tania Nahai, Natural Food Chef & Yogi  discuss the psychology of loss and its existence within our everyday lives. Tania discusses how she  unknowingly took a path in her early 20's  that would help her work through the most painful experience later in her life, she explains why life transitions aren't meant to be smooth,  how she strives to work on her mental wellbeing, what she believes is the  major difference between grief and loss, and why they are so often confused.   Produced by Dear Media

Lisa Hayim, registered dietician and founder of the Wellnecessesities and Dr. Sasha Shokrian get real about having dated the same man and why they once couldn't imagine becoming friends or colleagues. Lisa discusses her early experience with her parents divorce and how it contributed to her beliefs about relationships, conflict and so much more. She explains her motivation to stay thin, why she gained so much value from her body image, and how this eventually connected to her feelings of anxiety and depression. Lisa also speaks to why she needed to confront painful realities in order to heal herself both physically and mentally.      Produced by Dear Media

Dr. Sasha Shokrian, Clinical Psychologist & Celebrity Pilates Instructor & Forma Founder, Liana Levi discuss Liana's early upbringing and the messages that may have kept her from getting to know her deeper self. She explains how she learned to cope with the trauma of her fathers death, and why the feelings she pushed aside resurfaced years later. Liana also discusses why she called off her wedding engagement to focus on her mental health, how her body broke down as a result of her trauma, and what tools she uses to continuously work on her physical and mental wellbeing.  Liana attributes her external success to the internal work she continues to do, allowing her to create a  Pilates Revolution - seeing almost every A list celebrity in town.    Produced by Dear Media

Dr. Laura Berman,  relationship and sex psychologist, is a New York Times Best selling author, repeat guest on both the Oprah & Dr. Oz show,  host of In the Bedroom on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and currently hosts a podcast called the  Language of Love. Dr. Shokrian & Dr. Berman dig deep into the field of manifestation through a scientific and evidence based lens. Dr. Berman discusses her most recent book, Quantum Love, where she explains the psychology of Quantum Physics. She explains the science of how to move our bodies into different energetic frequencies, and what to do when our brains become addicted to certain emotions. She also discusses the difference between spiritual bypassing and evidence based change. She acknowledges that pain is a critical aspect of our individual healing and explains how to use our imaginations to change our mental states. Dr. Berman recently lost her own son and discusses how she has used these tools to process his death.  Check out Dear Media's Backbone Not Wishbone Produced by Dear Media

Elissa Goodman, is a holistic nutritionist and cleanse expert. Elissa digs deep into her all phases of her life, most significantly, the complicated and sometimes painful relationship she shared with her mother. She discusses why living a fast pace life was once her only way to detach from her pain, how her chronic stress contributed to her health issues and why seeking therapeutic help eventually forced her to take another path. Elissa also explains why feeling like the outcast within her family and led her to hide for so long, but also motivated her to eventually find her sense of purpose and self. Elissa Goodman has transformed her story and today is one of L.A's premiere cleanse experts, she is also the incredible author of Cancer Hacks, a holistic guide to overcoming your fears and curing Cancer.    Produced by Dear Media

Marriage and Family Therapist & Holistic Health Coach: Maria Sosa, has made self betrayal her jam. She has gained quite a following as HolisticallyGrace on Instagram, where she shares mental health tips, and discusses how we self betray in many difference aspects and phases of life. In todays episode, we break down the psychology of what self betrayal really is, how it manifests within our everyday lives, and how it breads shame and resentment within our internal worlds. We also get into how self betrayral plays can play a  huge role in our romantic and professional relationships and why this is connected so closely to our initial attachment styles. Maria also discusses her most recent workshop, where she offers tools and strategies to teach individuals how to reparent and set the necessary boundaries for change.   Produced by Dear Media

Dr. Sasha Shokrian, Doctor of Psychology & Relationship Coach, gives listeners an introduction to who she is, and how she got into the field of Psychology. She discusses her mission in creating a podcast that would be less about showcasing the highlights of ones live, and more about sharing the difficulties and struggles people face along the way. She plans to normalize the human experience, by asking  the challenging questions we are all curious about and opening up conversations to topics that are often missed and ignored. She believes that through vulnerability and authenticity, we all have the capacity to connect with each other in a deeper and more meaningful way. In todays episode, she explains what it means to have a integrated sense of self and why we often become so addicted and protective of our false personas. She discusses how to more authentically get to know the self that is often hiding, and how to become more adaptable to change. You can find her at @DrSashaShokrian on instagram, where she shares mental health topics and behind the scenes footage.    Produced by Dear Media

Tune in on Monday, November 22 to hear our first episodes of Digging Deep with Dr. Sasha Shokrian! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss it. See you then. Produced by Dear Media