270. Ali & the Experts with Jess Thomas, Therapist
Ali on the Run Show
Ali Feller
4.9 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
"Our feelings are truly valid. Remember that the concerns that are leading to your struggles with anxiety and depression are valid and worthy of being talked about, gaining support, and being acknowledged."
Raise your hand if you're feeling anxious! (Mine are both raised.) Then you've come to the right place. On this episode — the second in the six-part Ali & the Experts series — NYC-based therapist Jess Thomas is here to answer listener questions about anxiety, depression, perfectionism, quarantine dating, and how to handle life during a pandemic. Jess, who is part of the Viva Wellness team, also talks about being new to therapy, and debunks all kinds of common mental health myths.
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| 0:00.0 | The Alley and the Expert series on the Alley on the Run Show is brought to you by Athletic Greens. |
| 0:05.6 | Go to AthleticGreens.com slash on the run to get a one year supply of Vitamin D with your first purchase. |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to the Alley on the Run Show. I'm your host Alley Feller and this is the Alley and the |
| 0:22.0 | Expert series. We kicked things off last week with Laura Parrott who brilliantly answered all of our |
| 0:28.2 | career related questions and now we're going deep. It is therapy time. Today's expert is Jess Thomas |
| 0:35.2 | a therapist at Viva Wellness in New York City and let's be honest we could probably all use a |
| 0:41.4 | little therapy right now. Maybe a lot of therapy. So Jess is here to answer all the questions that you |
| 0:47.3 | submitted about being new to therapy, about life during a pandemic and about anxiety. So many |
| 0:54.0 | questions about anxiety. So if you've been experiencing anxiety or depression particularly over |
| 1:00.5 | the past few months, please know that you are not alone and please join me in welcoming Jess Thomas |
| 1:07.1 | to the Alley and the Expert series. Jess I am really excited to have you here today. I feel like |
| 1:19.6 | for the past three years on the Alley on the Run Show, I've been on this mission to talk about |
| 1:24.6 | therapy and normalize therapy and make people comfortable talking about therapy and so that's |
| 1:29.5 | what we're going to do for the next hour. We're going to really dive in. Thank you so much for |
| 1:33.8 | being here to help me do that. I am welcome. I'm very excited to provide you know some feedback, |
| 1:40.7 | education and tips. Yay. Alright so we start every episode with our nice and easy. We call it the |
| 1:47.3 | warm-up. This is just the introduction. Can you tell everyone who you are, where you're from and |
| 1:52.4 | what it is that makes you qualified to be answering these questions today? Hi everyone. So my name is |
| 1:59.0 | Jessica Thomas. I am a Black Mental Health counselor at People Wellness based in Brooklyn Heights, |
| 2:06.4 | New York. So I professionally speak to people about their struggles with anxiety, depression, |
| 2:15.2 | trauma, race and sexual and gender issues and everything else can be between that can basically |
| 2:22.4 | happen and impact us within our lives. I attended and graduated from the Chicago School of Professional |
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