The Jill Cruz Podcast

Trauma is a subjective experience, and women tend to minimize their experiences to avoid aligning with stereotypes.

Michaela is a licensed professional counselor whose specialty is women who have experienced trauma. She’s using neurofeedback to help her patients change their behavior patterns.

If you think you’ve experienced trauma, you probably have, and you need to talk to someone about it. Antidepressants don’t address the root cause of your depression; the main way to get to the root of what’s going on is to go to therapy.

Show Notes

🙋‍♀️ Michela is a therapist who is incorporating Neurofeedback into her counseling sessions: primarily helping women who’ve experienced trauma. 02:08
🤷‍♀️ What does it mean to “experience trauma”? Minimizing the way that we feel leads to all sorts of diagnoses. 04:14
👉 Weight loss is a byproduct of improved health: trauma might affect human behavior without us knowing it.  06:35
🔁 When patterns of behavior are still recurring in the weight loss process: somewhere deep underneath, trauma might provoke this. 09:28
🧐 We're not looking at external factors that probably impacted our inner dialogue: do we really hate our legs or did someone tell us to do that? 11:26
🤩 The cathartic process of sitting with your emotions: the cyclical pattern of chicken and egg is a lot less negative. 14:07
😤 Physical and mental health diseases are related to suppressed rage: you don't really know it's there until it bubbles over and comes out.16:47
🧠 Neurofeedback teaches the brain to re-regulate and let go of old patterns to be able actually to change the behavior. 21:47
📌 QEEG Brain Map measures the activity on the surface of the skull: forty sessions are needed to track changes in the brain. 23:11
🤯 Neurofeedback sessions: The brain naturally feels good and wants to stay in that mode but illnesses, events, and trauma change it. 25:09
💊 The pill should not be the first solution: 80% of adults are on at least one medication. 27:07
❗ Depression can’t be fixed with antidepressants: it can be genetic, but for most people, it is a reaction to their environment. 29:39
🩺 All options should be laid out for the patient to choose from: when you need to find a new doctor. 32:07
😇 The best predictor of you getting what you want is liking your therapist and feeling close to them. 34:23

Links
👉 Connect with Michela www.connectedbraincounseling.com
📘 Book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger: https://tinyurl.com/rage-book 
🛋️ Hendrix’s therapy: www.hendricks.com
🌺 Natural Weight Loss and Wellness: www.wynweightloss.com
✅ Connect with Jill: www.linkedin.com/in/jill-cruz-ms-cns-healthy-weight-loss
🎤 Book Jill to speak: www.jillcruz.com

What is The Jill Cruz Podcast?

If you are a woman in leadership and/or aspiring for greater leadership and you are looking to have it all; success in your career, personal life, and health, you're going to love this podcast season.

I am incredibly passionate about this topic because I believe that as women leaders we can have it all! We don't have to settle for being successful in just one area of life such as our careers. We can orchestrate a life that is fulfilling, pleasurable, and healthy in all areas. We are all a "work-in-progress" but it's important to BELIEVE we can have it all or we surely won't get that.

We will be speaking about what it takes to be a successful leader AND have a thriving personal life. Topics include passion, purpose, grit, compassion, self-awareness, thought leadership, self-care, wellness, visionary thinking, and strategic leadership.
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