Shift Happens...Cultivating Calm Amidst Great Change
Hi! We are Cori Gracheck and Jenna Cotton, two psychotherapists in practice in Philadelphia, PA. who are privileged to work with wonderful people in our practice. We noticed trends in the issues that come up in sessions and thought that others might also benefit from hearing about the tools we use with our clients to manage these issues. So we decided to do a YouTube show/Podcast. The first series is focused on managing life in the pandemic, cultivating the tools for calm amidst great change. Each episode begins with a short meditation, then we cover a psycho-social topic (such as managing space, emotions, media during the pandemic, how to be in service to the Black community and people of color) and then end with the same meditation. The meditation is short and can also double as a mindfulness break tool to be used throughout your day and is appropriate for beginner through advanced meditators. We both practice and teach meditation and it is one of the central tools that we use with our clients.
Shift Happens...Cultivating Calm Amidst Great Change
Episode 8 - Pressure Cooker: Reckoning with our relationships during the pandemic
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Season 1
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Episode 8
Feeling like everything is coming to a head? You are not alone. In this episode we discuss how the restrictions shaping our life during the pandemic create an environment that almost forces us to look at ourselves and examine our lives. Many people are reckoning with one or more major areas in their lives: Love, family, career, life direction, quality of life, specific relationships, past traumas. This reconing may have begun before COVID-19 but it seems to be resolving now and can be incredibly painful. We discuss what we are hearing and ideas about how to approach this great reckoning in our lives in ways that ultimately lead us to greater freedom.