227 // Mental Health Lessons I Learned From My Psychologist

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 227 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll discover 3 mental health lessons I learned from my psychologist. You'll also hear about some of my personal experiences with mental health and and why working with a psychologist has been really helpful for me.

Mental health lessons I learned from my psychologist:

1: It's ok to grieve for things you lost or missed out on.

2: Avoiding anxiety often makes it seem scarier than it is.

3: You don't need to take responsibility for other people's actions and feelings.

If you'd like to find a supportive mental health professional yourself, I highly recommend BetterHelp. You can receive 10% off your first month of BetterHelp at: trybetterhelp.com/themindfulkind *

*Please note this is an affiliate link and if you sign up via my link, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. I only promote things I truly believe in and I’ve been using BetterHelp myself for over a month and had great experiences with it! My counsellor is kind and supportive and she’s recommended several helpful strategies so far (plus a great book I’d never heard of before!)

Thank you so much for listening and take care, Mindful Kind.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mindfulkind podcast.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at
0:12.0	Rachelcable.com.
0:13.8	Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress
0:19.2	and live more mindfully in the modern world.
0:24.6	Hello and welcome to episode 227 of the Mindful Kind podcast. I'm really excited about this
0:32.1	episode because I'll be sharing three mental health lessons I've learned from my own
0:36.8	psychologist. If you've been listening
0:39.2	to this podcast for a while, you'll probably already know I experienced stress and anxiety from a young
0:45.6	age and that's part of what motivated me to study psychology in the first place. I really wanted to
0:53.2	understand myself better and to find more positive and
0:56.4	practical ways of coping with challenges because I felt like the things I tried myself didn't work
1:02.4	very well. I woke up in the mornings feeling anxious and I'd lie there thinking about everything
1:08.2	that could go wrong and all the things I wasn't looking forward
1:12.0	to, I would ruminate over my mistakes and mentally beat myself up about my flaws.
1:18.8	I felt like my own mind was my own worst enemy a lot of the time.
1:24.3	Now, when I was a teenager, I actually went to see the school counsellor one time.
1:29.3	I hoped that she would give me all the answers I needed and that somehow I'd overcome all my challenges straight away.
1:36.3	I wasn't sleeping well at the time, so she gave me strategies to help myself fall asleep better, and that was what we focused on for the session.
1:46.1	I left feeling disappointed and helpless, but when I look back now, I can see my own
1:52.4	expectations were impossible to achieve. I wanted her to read my mind without me having to talk
1:58.9	openly about what was really bothering me. I wanted her to
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