172: Spotting a narcissist, healing from trauma, anxiety, and the gut-brain connection with psychotherapist Megan Bruneau, M.A.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to inspiring professionals in the mental health field, psychotherapist and writer Megan Bruneau, M.A., has quite the impressive resume: She has seven years of education in psychology, her own private practice, and was dubbed by Deepak Chopra as "the millennials' therapist." She sits down with mbg founder and co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss her personal health journey, both with her relationship to food and her relationship to yoga and meditation. In addition to how she healed from an eating disorder, tune in to hear therapist-approved tips on when it’s time to leave a relationship, how to know when you’re dating a narcissist, and how to tell if your ambition is turning into perfectionism. To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email [email protected]. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email [email protected]. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here! Enjoy this episode sponsored by Yogi Tea! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by ITVX.
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0:27.7	freshest streaming service. Megan Bruno is a psychotherapist dubbed as the millennials therapist by our friend and
0:38.7	spiritual icon DePach Oprah. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Family Studies from the University of British Columbia at a Masters of Arts and Counseling Psychology from Simon Fraser University.
0:50.0	She's a registered clinical counselor in British Columbia and now works with clients in New York as well as globally as a remote coach.
0:57.0	Today we're going to talk about how she overcame struggles with mental health and eating disorder and great tips like how to know when to
1:04.1	break up with someone how to spot a narcissist why narcissists and impasse are
1:08.6	attracted to each other and we're also going to explore the gut brain
1:11.6	connection Megan's one of our favorites here at my buddy Green And we're also going to explore the gut brain connection.
1:15.2	Megan's one of our favorites here at My Buddy Green, so it's an honor to have her here today.
1:18.1	Megan, welcome.
1:19.2	Thank you for having me, Jason.
1:20.6	So let's rewind and start with your personal health journey. My personal health
1:25.9	journey. Oh, do we want mental, physical, or even differentiating between the two?
1:30.4	Let's go. Let's do all of it. Okay. Well, gosh, I mean I think for me I mental health is of course the area that is the most important to me the most relevant for me and what we're going to talk about and that's
1:46.5	of course related to physical health and you know the gut and the body and
1:49.9	everything like that so of course they're all interconnected, but for me I struggled
1:55.1	with depression and anxiety and eating disorders for a most of my life for a very long
2:01.0	period in my life and started having symptoms of bulimia around 15 but before
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