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Welcome to the Praxis Speech Sister Podcast—the go-to space for aspiring speech-language pathologists who are ready to pass the SLP Praxis® with confidence and step boldly into their careers. Hosted by Melanie Y. Evans, MS CCC-SLP, a Certified Speech-Language Pathologist, Praxis® Strategy Coach, and Abundance Mindset Coach, this podcast is your weekly source of strategic test prep, mindset breakthroughs, and career alignment tips.
If you've ever battled self-doubt, procrastination, test anxiety, or imposter syndrome on your journey to becoming an SLP—you’re not alone. In this space, we redefine success, overcome limiting beliefs, and build study strategies that actually work—so you can stop feeling stuck and start trusting in your purpose.
Each week, we dive into game-changing Praxis® study techniques, mindset shifts, and real-life lessons from Melanie’s own experience—from failing by three points to developing the winning strategies that helped her (and her clients) pass.
💡 What You’ll Get in Each Episode:
✅ Practical, step-by-step strategies for acing the SLP Praxis®
✅ Expert insights on breaking through self-doubt & limiting beliefs
✅ Success stories from past test-takers who overcame hurdles just like you
✅ Career wisdom on how to build a purpose-driven SLP career that aligns with YOU
🎧 Tune in every week for an episode packed with clarity, encouragement, and tangible strategies—because passing the Praxis® is just the beginning of your impact as an SLP.
Join the Praxis Speech Sister Community, and let’s make your dream career a reality! 🚀✨
Hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Passing the SLP Praxis Podcast. My name is Melanie Evans. I am an ASHA certified speech language pathologist and certified soul purpose and abundance mindset coach here to help you achieve your goals of passing the SLP practice exam and up level your mindset so you can release limiting beliefs about passing the SLP practice exam and ultimately manifesting your dream career in speech language pathology.
Speaker 1:If you haven't already, I talk about key strategies for passing the SLP practice exam and up leveling your mindset in my newest on demand mini course. You can go ahead and check out the link to that in the show notes. It is completely free. And you'll also see some other freebies for you in the show notes that I'm excited to share with you. If you are new here, welcome, welcome, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1:I am so looking forward for you to hear what we are talking about in today's episode. Please reach out to me on Instagram at Praxis Beach Sister. Let me know what you think about the episode, and I will see you in the studio. Bye, fam. Hello.
Speaker 1:Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Passing the SLP Praxis. I am your host, Melanie Evans, a certified mindset life coach and speech language pathologist. I also love helping praxis preppers just like you get over the hurdle of passing the SLP practice exam with subconscious mind reprogramming techniques and proven strategies that I use to get my score to jump 13 points. If you are new here, please go ahead, like, share, subscribe, download this episode, rewatch it because this is probably gonna be one of my favorite episodes. So I love talking about subconscious mind reprogramming.
Speaker 1:I love talking about self care and, ultimately, things that I wish I knew when I was studying for the SLP practice exam and things that are helping me to this day as a certified speech language pathologist. So let's get into today's episode. Today, we are talking about the morning routine that will keep you motivated on your goals, ease your test taking anxiety, and overall help you cultivate that unwavering belief in yourself that you are capable of passing this exam and achieving anything else that you want to put your mind to. So let's go ahead and get a little bit scientific. As soon as you wake up your subconscious mind is like a sponge, so that is also why it's very important for you to start your day with positive self talk.
Speaker 1:Let me give you some science with this. It's called brainwave theory, and I'm gonna go ahead and read a little bit from the article. I will put these in the show notes. You can find some more information on medium.comandhealthline.com. So when we first wake up, our mind is in the theta the theta wave state.
Speaker 1:And, ultimately, let me backtrack what brainwave theory is our brain cycle through different brainwave states throughout the day, each associated with different levels of alertness and cognitive function. So, when we wake up our mind is in theta wave state, these dominate during light sleep and deep relaxation. Theta waves are associated with increased receptivity to suggestion and heightened emotional processing, so ultimately what that means is as soon as we wake up, our minds are very receptive to messages, and that's why I recommend to really practice that positive self talk. That's why you might have noticed if you wake up and you look at your phone and then you see something that's negative, it throws off your whole morning. I'll honestly give you a really great example.
Speaker 1:I was sleeping and I woke up and I'm like, oh, what a beautiful day. What a lovely day. And then what I do not love, I love my dogs, but they come busting into my room as soon as they realize I'm up. And that's very shocking to my nervous system, and it puts me into a bad mood, and then I have to regulate myself. And, obviously, when your nervous system is shocked, that's when the thoughts come in that honestly don't help it, and you have to consciously talk yourself off the ledge, so to speak.
Speaker 1:So that might be just one example for you. Maybe it's just stubbing your toe, or for you, it's looking at your Instagram and seeing something shocking online or, you know, whatever that may be. So that's why the first thing that we are going to recommend that you do is not to look at your phone. Turn off the alarm, but don't don't even look at the messages. I keep my phone on do not disturb so that way I don't even see the messages first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1:I go to the bathroom, I brush my teeth, I wash my face, and then I go right back to bed. Okay? Now you're going to wanna stay sitting up so that way you don't go to sleep. Now I also do set another alarm. This is why Siri and Alexa are amazing because I just might say, hey, Alexa.
Speaker 1:Set a timer for 25 minutes. So that way I'm not falling asleep. Okay? Because you will get very relaxed with this. Then what you're going to do is turn on YouTube and you're gonna wanna play some binaural beats that will help activate those brainwaves.
Speaker 1:I personally like, subliminals because they send you really great suggestions. So I might do subliminals for creativity. I might do subliminals for self belief. I need to create a whole other episode on subliminals, and I really actually have this desire and it's going to be coming very soon to create a subliminal for Praxis Success. But, just keep that in mind.
Speaker 1:You can go and Google subliminals and I'll go ahead and put a link in the show notes. Yes. So, after you as you're listening to these subliminals, what you're going to do is gratitude journaling, even if you think of just 5 things that you are grateful for that day. So you might say, I am grateful for the sun. I am grateful for the breath in my lungs.
Speaker 1:I am grateful for this very cozy room. I am grateful for maybe your roommate is out for the weekend or something. I am grateful to have this extra time to myself, whatever that may be. Right? So already go ahead and show gratitude for the day.
Speaker 1:Then what I do, as I'm already in those really high vibe states, and the reason why I wanna make sure that I'm in a high vibe state rather than, my lower vibe state for lack of better words is because next you're going to go into a visualization or hypnosis. So pretty much your eyes are gonna be closed and you're going to be visualizing your success in anything you want, but specifically the practice exam. And if you don't do the gratitude journal or maybe maybe you don't need the gratitude journaling. But I needed the gratitude journaling personally because sometimes I might still be overwhelmed. I might still be carrying energy from the night before, or just worries from even just opening my eyes from the day.
Speaker 1:You know? We're human. And what that does, what having that gratitude energy and feeling in my body does is it helps me easily combat other negative thoughts that might try to come through as I'm trying to rest. Because again, your brain is trained to protect you. And so what might happen is fight or flight might turn on and if you are visualizing and actively visualizing yourself being calm and confident on exam day and everything, automatically anxiety jumps in and it's like, but what if this happens?
Speaker 1:But what if that happens? And you wanna be able to keep yourself in, like, hey. Wait a second. There's so much to be grateful for. Everything is good.
Speaker 1:We are right here in the present moment and it's safe. We're simply just reminding ourselves how amazing we are and how we are capable of passing this exam and how it's going to feel very good when we walk into the test center or when we open up our laptop to take the exam. Right? Okay. So after do you do your hypnosis or your visualization, I recommend doing EFT tapping or scripting or both.
Speaker 1:I honestly have a very long morning routine. I like to give myself 30 minutes to an hour for my morning routine. That's that's how I feel most comfortable and ready for the day. So, if you have time to fit in the EFT tapping and the scripting, then you are good to go. So I do EFT tapping, I have posted some EFT tapping videos on the YouTube, and then you'll also see it on my Instagram account, or if you are a student in the passing the SLP practice programs, I create personalized EFT tapping videos for you to help make your success inevitable.
Speaker 1:So when you're done with that EFT tapping routine, what you're going to do is script, and this is why I recommend doing the mini course. It's a free mini course. Go ahead and check it out in the show notes because I actually give you a script where you're able to manifest your passing score. You're able to noises that you will hear, the sounds that you'll hear, how you'll feel in your body, the thoughts that you will think, the things that you'll smell. You're able to really make it even more real for you and train yourself into believing that it's inevitable.
Speaker 1:It's already done. And so what scripting does is it not only reminds you and your subconscious mind that all of these things are already happening, but it also just continues to send messages to the universe like, hey. I'm ready for this thing. I'm ready for this thing. I'm ready for this thing.
Speaker 1:Please continue to guide me. So I hope that this episode helped you out. This is my favorite morning routine. The last thing, of course, that you're gonna wanna do is exercise, get your blood flow up, maybe go take a shower, go outside and get some sunlight. Even better if you can do this out in the sun, but just make sure that you're staying in that relaxed state.
Speaker 1:I know personally if I step outside before I do this, I'm going to, you know, be reminded of all the responsibilities I have. And this is kind of when you don't wanna do this yet. Okay? After this calming self care morning routine is when you're like, okay. Are the things that I wanna do for my day.
Speaker 1:Alright. So I hope that this episode helped you. Go ahead and check out the show notes for some more information, and I will see you in the next episode. Bye, fam.