A Therapist Takes Her Own Advice
A Therapist Takes Her Own Advice is a podcast about healing from the inside out. When traditional treatments for depression stopped working, psychotherapist Rebekah Shackney turned to alternative medicine, breathwork, and spiritual practices to find her way forward.
Each episode offers honest conversations about emotional healing, trauma recovery, and the often nonlinear path to feeling whole. Whether you’re a fellow therapist, a seeker, or someone navigating your own transformation, this show offers insight, tools, and community for the journey.
https://rebekahshackney.com
Produced by David DibS Shackney.
Photo by David DibS Shackney
Episodes
43 episodes
Meditation: Relax into Sleep with Bilateral Stimulation
Episode Title: Relax into Sleep with Bilateral StimulationWelcome to A Therapist Takes Her Own Advice. I’m Rebekah Shackney, and in this episode, I’m guiding you through a sleep meditation designed to gently activate your parasymp...
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Episode 43
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9:35
MEDITATION: Cultivating Compassion for Challenging People
Welcome to A Therapist Takes Her Own Advice. I’m Rebekah Shackney, and in today’s episode, I offer a guided meditation to help you navigate interactions with the challenging people in your life with more steadiness and compassion.<...
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Episode 42
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11:15
Rethinking and Reworking A Therapist Takes Her Own Advice
Episode Summary:When standard treatments for depression stopped working, I found myself in uncharted territory—searching for healing in unexpected places. This episode marks the relaunch of A Therapist Takes Her Own Advice—a...
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Episode 40
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18:13
Guided Meditation - Bilateral Stimulation for Relaxation
This relaxing meditation uses bilateral stimulation, meaning it stimulates both sides of the brain to help trigger your para-sympathetic nervous system and increase relaxation. To fully take advantage of the bilateral stimulation you mu...
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Episode 39
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12:37
DBT Problem Solving - Use Skills to Suffer Less
This new series of podcast parent tips aims to help you reduce conflict and better connect with your teen. In the fifth episode, I talk about problem solving options. When we encounter problems in life, we have cho...
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Episode 38
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7:52
DBT SELF SOOTHING KIT - Calm a Meltdown Quickly
This new series of podcast parent tips aims to help you reduce conflict and better connect with your teen. In the fourth episode, learn to create a self-soothing kit to ease emotional intensity and get through a meltdown without making the situ...
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Episode 37
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7:40
DBT VALIDATION SKILL - Because Every Emotion is Valid
This new series of podcast parent tips aims to help you reduce conflict and better connect with your teen. In the third episode, learn to empathize with your teen even when you don't agree with them with the DBT Validation Skill.
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Episode 36
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8:56
DBT THINK SKILL - Improve Your Perspective
This new series of podcast parent tips aims to help you reduce conflict and better connect with your teen. In the second episode, learn to change your perspective on your teen's behavior with The DBT THINK Skill.THINK is an acronym that...
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Episode 35
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7:39
DBT STOP SKILL - Stop Conflict In Its Tracks
This new series of podcast parent tips aims to help you reduce conflict and better connect with your teen. In the first episode, learn to stop conversations from becoming fights with the DBT STOP Skill.The STOP Skill can help you Stop a...
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Episode 34
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7:39
GUIDED MEDITATION - Accessing Wise Mind
In the last episode I told a story illustrating the DBT concept of the three states of mind, emotion mind, reasonable mind and wise mind. In this episode, I offer a guided meditation tha...
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Episode 33
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8:26
Demystifying Mindfulness: Accessing Wise Mind
In this episode, I tell a personal story that illustrates the DBT concept of the three states of mind, emotion mind, reasonable mind and wise mind. Emotion mind is when you’re thinking and behaving emotionally, treating feelings as fact...
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Episode 32
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9:00
GUIDED MEDITATION - Paced Breathing
This episode offers a paced breathing guided meditation to help reduce emotional pain quickly and allow you to get through a difficult moment without making the situation worse. When emotional arousal is high the body goes into fight or...
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Episode 31
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8:26
GUIDED MEDITATION - Begin Again
For years I’ve told new meditators to allow themselves to begin again without judgement. When you realize the mind has drifted away just begin again. And, yet, until now, I didn’t connect this powerful concept to the rest of life.&nbs...
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Episode 30
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9:42
GUIDED MEDITATION - New Year New Intentions
As we celebrate the New Year and a New Moon, I invite you to practice this guided meditation that asks you to go of what no longer serves you and make room for new intentions and new dreams for the year ahead.Together lets examine the p...
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Episode 29
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9:02
GUIDED MEDITATION - Observe Emotions
Do you feel like your emotions control you? Like they come on quickly and intensely taking you by surprise? Or Have you ever felt stuck in an uncomfortable emotion? When our lizard brain senses pain or discomfort our natural instinct is to try ...
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Episode 28
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8:34
Reclaim Your Rhythm with Maya Benattar
In this episode, I’m speaking with Maya Benattar, musician, vocalist and music therapist. She talks about how her parents inspired her to become a music therapist and how she uses music to help clients connect with their emotions and deepen the...
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Episode 27
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50:26
GUIDED MEDITATION - Observing Thoughts
In this episode, we practice the DBT Mindfulness Skill Observe. It’s one of the three
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Episode 26
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11:16
Demystifying Mindfulness: The How Skills
With stress levels through the roof, we could all benefit from a little mindfulness. This season of A Therapist Takes Her Own Advice is all about making mindfulness understandable and accessible to everyone.In this episode, ...
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Episode 25
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16:26
Demystifying Mindfulness: The What Skills
With stress levels through the roof, we could all benefit from mindfulness. This season of A Therapist Takes Her Own Advice is all about making mindfulness understandable and accessible to everyone.In today's episode, David and I are ta...
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Episode 24
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19:12
Demystifying Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a word that you hear thrown around a lot these days, but is often misunderstood. It does everything from decrease depression to improve relationships to making pain more manageable… but how? This season of ATTHO, going is all abo...
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Episode 23
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15:17
Full-Hearted Living with Lauren Selfridge
In this week’s episode, I’m speaking with Lauren Selfridge, therapist, creative vision consultant and host of the podcast This is not what I ordered. She talks about everything from how
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Episode 22
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58:45
GUIDED MEDITATION - Loving Kindness
As we move into month 7 of the pandemic, with school starting, stress levels continue to rise, tempers are flaring and everyone seems to be at the end of their rope. We could all use some loving kindness. This powerful mindfulness is the perfec...
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Episode 21
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9:07
