
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.
Episodes
17 episodes
Episode 9 - Home for the Holidays in these Uncertain Times
In this episode we discuss the issues that we face individually and as a country this holiday season and the ways in which we can create the best holiday season possible in these uncertain times.
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39:46

Episode 8 - Resting in Revolution 2: Living in an Anti-Racist Way
In this episode we talk about an increased internal fire with regard to activism, overt and covert racism, white privilege, and how to live in an anti-racist way. Links:Overt and Covert Racism Examples
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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50:24

Episode 7 - The Third Pandemic: Self-Criticism
In this episode we discuss the causes of the deep well of self-criticism integrated into America culture, it's potentially crippling effects and approaching it with a practice of gentle awareness that makes us more available to ourselves, the p...
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59:22

Episode 6 - Feeling Traumatized? Of Course You Are.
In this episode we discuss why so many of us are feeling traumatized by the current state of our country, how that can bring up past trauma, the various ways that trauma can impact your life and how to address this impact with awareness and gen...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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49:00

Episode 5 - Cultivating Joy
We very rarely devote time to cultivating Joy. In this episode we discuss various ways to notice the Joy that already exists in your life, how to expand upon that Joy and how to cultivate new ways to experience Joy. In these turbulent tim...
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53:50

Episode 4 - Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia: Processing the Experience of Tuesday Night's Debate
In this episode we process feelings and experiences related to Tuesday night's Presidential Debate involving President Trump and Former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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38:03

Episode 3 - Two To Tango: Taking Up Space In Communication
In this episode we discuss how to manage when you feel shut down or experience "conversation stoppers" when communicating with someone, and how to take up more space in communication.
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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44:23

Episode 2 - Familial Divide: When the People You Love Vote for Trump
In this episode we discuss managing communication with the people you love who are voting for Trump: Do you want to have a conversation? If so, exploring how to do so with kindness and respect. If not, how to avoid be bated into a conversation,...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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46:53

Episode 1- Leaderless Nation
Welcome to the second season of Shift Happens...! This season is called Leaderless Nation. In this season we will be focusing on managing life during COVID 19 in the 2020 Political season. In this first episode, also called Leaderless Nation, w...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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51:51

Episode 8 - Pressure Cooker: Reckoning with our relationships during the pandemic
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 pe...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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34:25

Episode 7- Dating in the Time of COVID
As if dating isn’t hard enough, now we are coping with finding love within the parameters of a world wide pandemic. In this episode we discuss the unique issues that are related to dating during the time of COVID-19, providing tips and solution...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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48:27

Episode 5 - Opening Safely to Reopening
In the time of COVID-19, life shifts so rapidly and slowly at the same time. In this episode we explore the range of emotions people are experiencing about reopening, tools for safely navigating the difficulties we encounter and while also cele...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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52:25

Episode 4 - Staying Informed Without Inundation
Hello! Welcome to Shift Happens...This episode is about developing ways to manage news and incoming information, so that you can feel informed without feeling inundated. During a time when we feel as if we need to be constantly plugged ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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38:08

Episode 6- Regaining Control When There Isn't Any
During this time in our country we might feel the most out of control that we have ever felt in our lifetime. This episode is about developing awareness around the ways in which we attempt to regain control in our lives that do not work for us ...
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42:35

Episode 3 - Cabin Fever
Hello. Welcome to Shift Happens...We are existing in unprecedented times. Our entire way of living changed in the matter of a week, not only in our country but all over the world. In this episode we discuss the theme of cabin fever, too...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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38:43

Episode 1- Resting in Revolution
Hello! Welcome to Shift Happens...We are releasing this first episode, Resting in Revolution, on Juneteenth in honor of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Black people in our country have been profiled, harassed, murdered, lynched, since ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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40:42

Episode 2 - Coping With Difficult Emotions during COVID19
Hello! Welcome to Shift Happens...We are existing in unprecedented times. Our entire way of living changed in a matter of a week, not only in our country but all over the world. In this episode we discuss ways to develop tools to cope w...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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28:33
