Safety Is Created Within with Courtney Grimes, LCSW
You Need Therapy
iHeartPodcasts
2.4 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week y'all are in for A TREAT with our guest, Courtney Grimes, LCSW.
Courtney’s passion for helping others is something you will feel in the first 3 seconds of this episode. You will also probably laugh in the first few seconds because she is as hilarious as she is passionate and smart.
This particular conversation was inspired by a comment that Courtney made on a work trip that she and Kat went on together when they were talking about the gaps and holes in the treatment and recovery process. Courtney said, "No one else cares about your recovery." This may at first sound off putting and harsh. But when you dig into it, this sentence offers up a huge serving of empowerment to take ownership and control of one's own life.
What makes it so hard for people to maintain recovery at home when in treatment? Why do triggers pop up everywhere? What are we supposed to do with said triggers? How am I supposed to heal and be healthy if the world is so F*ed up???
You will find about 1 million reasons to take notes during this episode, so grab a pen and paper (or your notes app on your phone). One of Kat's favorite Courtney takeaways was, "Everything boils down to two things things: love and fear. Fear is made up of what if, versus what is. And what if isn’t real." So good, right??
Courtney co-founded a group therapy practice in Nashville called Symmetry Counseling. She serves as the Clinical Director for non-profit Renewed, and more recently founded The Collective. The Collective is an Extended Outpatient program, designed to bridge the gap between IOP and OP services, while providing a welcoming community for clients.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Michael Lewis here. |
| 0:06.8 | My bestselling book, The Big Short, tells the story of the buildup and burst of the U.S. |
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| 0:40.6 | Coming up on you need therapy. |
| 0:43.5 | Confidence and empowerment are very quiet. |
| 0:47.1 | I think fear and insecurity are very loud. |
| 0:51.8 | I started to realize that not being an expert isn't a liability. It's a real gift. |
| 0:58.2 | If we don't know something about ourselves at this point in our life, it's probably because |
| 1:02.3 | it's uncomfortable to know. If you can die before you die, then you can really live. There's a |
| 1:08.6 | wisdom at death's door. I thought I was insane. Yeah. And I didn't know what to do |
| 1:14.8 | because there was no internet. I don't know. Man, I'm like, I feel like everything is hard. Hey, y'all. My name is |
| 1:23.8 | Kat. I'm a human first and a licensed therapist second. And right now, I'm inviting |
| 1:29.0 | you into conversations that I hope encourage you to become more curious and less judgmental |
| 1:35.1 | about yourself, others, and the world around you. Welcome to You Need Therapy. Y'all, |
| 1:43.0 | you are in for such a treat today. I have been waiting to share this |
| 1:47.9 | episode with you for weeks, and I have a friend and fellow therapist Courtney Grimes on to talk |
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