In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly take a look at what is unique about Millennials and their spirituality.

• Focus on personal journey
• Blend various traditions and faiths
• Online access to retreats and groups, apps
• Wholistic wellness and spirituality
• Look to the church as well as other places for answers
• Okay with not having solid answers
• Community is important
• Allowing for questioning

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly discuss how images people hold of God change through personal experiences and their spiritual journey.

• Exploring images or attributes, ideas and understandings of God
• Sometimes we need to heal images of God that have been harmful
• How do we reflect the God we believe in?
• Limited language is all we have to describe God
• Doubting, questions, and growth
• No matter where you wander, God is there

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly begin a series on spirituality. This episode focuses on stages of faith development.

• How did I get here from there in my spirituality
• Foundations
• Ages 0 - 2, learning trust, this can impact our trust in God later
• Ages 3 - 6, our image of God comes from our parents, very concrete, how are responded to when we don't do what is expected or wanted, are we shamed or given grace
• Ages 7 - 12, justice and fairness, good happens to good people, God is old, white man with a white beard. Literal, logical thinking begins to develop, experience faith
• 12 - adulthood, trust in institution of religion, challenges of faith are often ignored due to feeling threatened. If this...then this. People can get stuck here
• Mid 20's to late 30's, reflective stage, forming own beliefs, owning faith
• Mid-life crisis, moves beyond conventional beliefs. Open to others faith perspective and not threatened by others understandings.
• Universalizing faith, rarely achieved. Can relate to anyone at any stage and don't have the need to push people along in their faith.

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly discuss their personal experience and journey with mental health.

• Openness to talking about mental health
• Mental health and mental well-being
• Kelly's journey walking beside daughter struggling with depression
• Looking for a therapist that is a fit
• Not being a fixer, but a support
• Short term situational depression, long term depression
• Caring for self while care-giving
• Sydney's postpartum anxiety
• Medications
• Giving yourself grace
• Depression does not have to define you

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly continue their interview with Ana Maldonado, LPC, discussing different types of therapy.

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR
• Especially for trauma and distressing situations
• Trauma is stored in your body, this approach is a bottom up versus the other therapies that start with the head...logic etc...
• Desensitizes the memory, bi-lateral stimulation
• Do not have to talk through the whole experience
• Therapists require training for this therapy
• Was created for PTSD, but is effective on OCD, anxiety, and other disorders
• Not necessarily a stand alone treatment
• Internal Family Systems, IFS, the movie Inside Out is based on this
• How you either protect your inner self or exile parts of your inner self
• It is more than just your emotions, sometimes it is general concepts, or younger self
• Emphasizes self-compassion
• Works well with EMDR
• How do you find a therapist

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly interview Ana Maldonado, LPC, discussing different types of therapy. This is part one of two episodes on this topic.

• Every theory has strengths and weaknesses
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT. The most researched type of therapy
• Behavior is shaped by your thoughts, often uses worksheets
• Works to install new ways of thinking and directing your thought patterns
• Can use CBT on a lot of different issues, addictions, relationships...
• Requires practicing over and over, and role playing is helpful
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, DBT. A subset of CBT. Focuses on emotional regulation. Important for trauma work
• Works to create stability
• Mindfulness...self aware of emotions and body reactions
• Distress tolerance awareness
• Interpersonal effectiveness
• Emotional regulation...how to come back from reactiveness
• Designed for borderline personality patients, but is helpful for a variety of diagnosis
• This requires a lot of buy-in from clients. You have to choose to practice and commit to change and choose to practice self examination and be uncomfortable
• Acceptance and change

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly begin our month-long focus of Mental Health. This episode examines sleep and mental health. We both love our sleep!

• Sleep cycle and importance of each stage
• 75% of depressed people show symptoms of insomnia
• Anxiety feeds insomnia
• Restoration during sleep
• Routine and sleep
• Light exposure and exercise
• Meditation and sleep
• Quieting the mind

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In this episode of "An Incomplete Guide to Personal Growth" Sydney and Kelly explore how personal tastes may change along with our personal growth.

• The Let Them Theory, by Mel Robbins
• What influences our preferences and tastes
• Foundations that allow us to moving on
• What we are naturally drawn to
• Trying new things and being okay when they aren't a fit
• Listening to your inner-self
• Stagnation versus movement and growth

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