Ep. 119 Normalizing Suicidal Ideation with Tara Bixby
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode I’m joined by Tara Bixby, LPC a therapist, activist, and anxiety coach working to change the mental health narrative.
We discuss…
- Tara’s journey from cosmetologist, to 911 dispatcher, to clinician in an all male prison, to an anxiety coach and therapist
- The prevalence of suicide in the United States and why we need to normalize mental health challenges
- How everyone is susceptible to mental health challenges
- The impact of the nervous system on our mental health
- Why it’s important to move away from identifying as your mental illness diagnosis
- The first steps you should take if you’re struggling with severe depression and suicidality
- Healing after a suicide attempt
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality, |
| 0:11.6 | where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself. |
| 0:16.1 | Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the |
| 0:20.5 | capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness, |
| 0:26.2 | we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does. |
| 0:33.0 | So are you ready to recover from reality? |
| 0:39.7 | A lot of people may want to attempt suicide because they like the symptoms are never |
| 0:44.3 | going to end, it's never going to get better. And it's a huge reason I really focus on trauma, |
| 0:49.8 | and people may be like, well, I've never experienced trauma. Trauma is stress when your survival |
| 0:57.0 | brain perceives you to be powerless, helpless, or lacking control. That's what trauma is, |
| 1:01.8 | it's just stress with those three factors to it. And so you may go through something traumatic, |
| 1:07.7 | and like I always imagine like you have a cup, we all have different cup sizes based on what we |
| 1:12.4 | went through as children, what our parents went through, and when these things like sexual abuse, |
| 1:17.9 | physical abuse, neglect, whatever it looks like for your trauma gets put into your cup. |
| 1:23.7 | If you're not recovering after that traumatic experience, your cup is going to get fuller and |
| 1:28.9 | fuller until it overflows. And then you have the symptoms. And so for somebody who is struggling |
| 1:35.0 | with suicidal thoughts, I would want to help regulate their nervous system. I would want to help |
| 1:39.6 | try to empty that cup a little bit for them because that's where the healing takes place. |
| 1:44.4 | People don't associate past traumas from their childhood as their current symptoms, but the reality |
| 1:50.4 | is it has everything to do with it. That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Tara Bixby. |
| 1:57.5 | Tara is a therapist and activist and anxiety coach and an everyday girl who's on a mission to |
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