24: Changing Your Mindset with Megan Fenyoe

The Addicted Mind Podcast

Duane Osterlind, LMFT

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Mental Health

4.8 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We are excited to have mental health therapist, and Air Force veteran, Megan Fenyoe as our guest today as we discuss trauma, addiction, and changing your mindset toward a more positive life.

Megan has been a mental health therapist for over 15 years, primarily focusing in the areas of trauma and substance abuse. As an officer in the Air Force, Megan provided mental health services to veterans and active duty members mostly in the field of substance abuse. Most recently she has worked with patients in a hospital struggling with addiction. While working with patients throughout her career, she has focused on mindset and how your mindset can change the course of our lives.

To help in her personal and professional life, Megan has developed some great mindset tools to help her get “unstuck” in those moments when life gets you down.

We discuss what it means to have a positive mindset. We all have negative thoughts that alter our mood, and we all tend to say more negative than positive things about ourselves. Megan shares an incident she encountered with a guidance counselor who told her not to go to college, and also her experience of going through a painful divorce.

Having many different mindset tools in our “tool-belt” is very important because one method is not going to work for every situation, especially when it comes to addiction and trauma.

When we don’t have these mindset tools to help us through difficult times, we can turn to substances so that we don’t have to feel the pain of the trauma we have experienced. That instant gratification makes our hurt go away, but only for a moment. Finding the tools and the support that works for you is essential.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to episode 24 of the Addicted Mind podcast. My name's Dwayne Austerlund, and I'm your host. I'm excited that you're here,
0:11.5	and we have a great episode today. Before we get started, I just want to thank everybody who has
0:18.3	rated and reviewed us in iTunes. It really does help and it really
0:23.2	does get us a lot of exposure to get this information out to people who it can be helpful to.
0:28.2	So thanks and I really appreciate all the people who have done that.
0:33.5	I think one of the hardest things to do is when you're dealing with an addiction and you're in recovery
0:38.2	is changing your mindset around how you see yourself and how you see yourself in the world and how you see
0:44.3	the world. Our guest today, Megan Finio, is going to talk about those issues directly and how she
0:51.4	works with clients to help them shift that way of thinking to create a more
0:57.0	positive outcome for themselves.
0:59.1	I think this episode is filled with a lot of good information, so I hope everybody enjoys it
1:04.5	and gets a lot out of it.
1:06.0	One thing before we start the episode is that Megan has graciously given us access to her 100 positive
1:13.4	affirmations worksheet, and that's going to be in the show notes at the addictedmind.com
1:18.6	forward slash 24. So go there. If you're working on changing your mindset, this is a great
1:24.3	way to start, and you can download it there. So now let's begin the episode.
1:31.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. My guest today is Megan Finio and she is
1:38.2	going to talk about trauma, addiction and changing your mindset. Megan, you want to introduce yourself and kind of
1:46.7	tell us a little bit about your story and how you kind of got involved in your work? Yes,
1:51.4	thank you so much for having me on this morning. I'm really excited to be chatting about some
1:57.3	important things that are close to my heart. And I've been a mental health therapist for a little
2:02.3	over 15 years. And my primary focus is on trauma and substance abuse. I am a veteran and I provided
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