Quiet Waters Podcast
Award-winning licensed professional counselor and meditation expert, Dr. Suzanne Nixon, is on a mission to bring the conversations about mental health— the conversations that matter— to the table and finally break the stigma. Join her as she welcomes guests: everyday people sharing their mental health journey, and mental health and mindfulness experts sharing their knowledge and heartfelt wisdom. Soothe your mind and body with Dr. Suzanne’s weekly guided meditations and contemplative talks to help you nurture stillness, cultivate awareness, deepen presence and nurture sanity. Tune in, tap in today.
Episodes
65 episodes
Ep 65: Mindful Communication
Communication is the bedrock of all good relationships. It is one of the most important life skills to learn. It will help you understand others and be understood, and builds a common ground of respectfully relating to one another. In this podc...
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Episode 65
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28:45
Ep 64: LGTBQ+ A journey back to Pride. Can you be proud, when you learn it’s YOUR kid?
Conversations about LBGTQ+ individuals and the LBGTQ+ community have swept the nation. Taking center stage are political and societal conversations about the rights of LBGTQ+ individuals to be who they are without scrutiny, to be free to expres...
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Episode 64
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40:50
Ep 63: Weight Gain, Weight Loss & Our Mental and Emotional Health: When is it Time to Consider a Nutritious Rapid Weight Loss Program?
Who likes to gain weight? Most of us don’t. We physically don’t feel well, our mood state may sink, our negative self-talk may increase and our self-image may tank….on top of the fact that our cloth es may not fit. Motivated to “fin...
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Episode 63
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55:09
Ep 62: Mindfulness Meditation: Cultivating Our Innate State of Natural Belonging
As we search for connection and places of belonging, we often forget to resource our deepest place of belonging – nature. Welcome this truth in this nature-based mindfulness meditation.
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Episode 62
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13:04
Ep 61: Exploring the Mindfulness Painting Experience
Therapeutic art modalities offer us a way to explore the realms of our inner life, deepen our understanding of ourselves, heal and transform our suffering and awaken us to a new way of being present and alive. Join me as I interview Jody ...
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Episode 61
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52:03
Ep 60: To Go Beyond, Go East: A Physician’s Inner and Outer Exploration of Eastern Health Traditions, Meditation and Wisdom Practices
After 21 years as a practicing physician with Mid-Atlantic Kaiser Permanent Health Care, Dr. Elliott Dacher, a board-certified internal medicine physician, left his medical position in 1996 and embarked on a journey to India to study consciousn...
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51:52
Ep 59: Women, Weight and Hormones
Weight gain, weight loss and weight maintenance are topics of conversation women can’t get enough of. They want to know why their weight can fluctuate so much, month to month or year to year, even though they have good lifestyle habits an...
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Episode 59
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46:01
Ep 58: Parenting Your Teen with A Mindset of Positivity
Parenting with a mindset of positivity and with behaviors of positivity, significantly impact your teen’s neurological, emotional, and social development, as well as their physical health. In this episode, Dr. Nixon introduces the merits of thi...
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Episode 58
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26:41
Ep 57: The 5 Heart-Centered Traits of A Good Therapist
Anyone seeking therapy wants to find a good therapist. Someone who is qualified, experienced and can help with your particular concern, mental health condition or relationship situation. Yet, what makes a good therapist? Listen in as Dr. Suzann...
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Episode 57
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21:09
Ep 56: Meditation for Immediate Stress Relief
When you notice stress accumulating in your mind or in your body, it is a signal to you to stop, pay attention, and seek relief. Having a brief go-to practice to relieve stress, helps regulate your autonomic nervous system into a state of calm....
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10:11
Ep 55: Honoring the Body and Mind in Healing from Childhood Trauma: A Professional’s Personal Story
How do you embrace a life of joy, love, and gratitude when your life as a child was a steady flow of abuse, neglect, addiction, and trauma? How do you heal from the pain, misery, and memories held tightly within the body-mind to become whole an...
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Ep 54: What Middle Schoolers Want Their Parents to Know
Your middle school teen wishes you knew them better, understood them more, and listened more. They are going through an explosive developmental period with their brains changing, their bodies growing and their mental, emotional and social needs...
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36:17
Ep 53: Kindness: Medicine for the Mind, Heart, Body and Soul
When someone is kind to you it feels good, and when you extend a gesture of kindness to another, it feels good. Research studies show the health benefits of kind acts, for the receiver, the giver, and the larger community. Join Dr. Suzann...
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Episode 53
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42:04
Ep 52: Chakra Meditation: Welcoming Positive Affirmations
Each of the seven chakras represents an aspect of our physical, psychological and spiritual essence. We receive, assimilate and transmit all of life’s energies through these centers of spinning light. In this guided meditation, you will focus o...
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Episode 52
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19:39
Ep 51: Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress
Nowadays the need to manage our everyday stress is essential. Over time, stress unmanaged or stress prolonged will negatively affect our physical, mental, and emotional health and overall well-being. The holidays are a time of good ...
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Episode 51
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36:55
Ep 50: Unique Brains: The Gifts & Challenges of Being Neurodiverse
The range of differences in how our individual brains are wired and function is called neurodiversity. Our brain wiring affects the way we think, process information, behave, interact with others and experience the world around us. Neurod...
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Episode 50
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39:43
Ep 49: Meditation: Be Open to Receiving You
Each and every day is a new opportunity to intentionally connect within, become aware of your inner experiences, and welcome presence. Embrace what is arising in you, moment to moment, and with a tender heart receive you in this 15- minute guid...
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Episode 49
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14:58
Ep 48: You Are Pure Energy: Understanding the Chakra System and Guided Meditation
You are a divine being made up of pure energy. The ancient Hindu text, The Vedas, elaborate on the Chakra System, the template for understanding our human energy field. The 7 Primary Chakras, spinning wheels of energy, offer a body of knowledge...
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Episode 48
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53:05
Ep 47: 3 Things Parents of Gifted Children Wish More People Understood
When you picture a gifted child, do you have an image in your mind of a precocious, straight-A student who is the teacher’s pet? You may be surprised to learn that not all gifted children do well in school, and if gifted children do not have th...
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Episode 47
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51:42
Ep 46: Who’s Taking Care of Mom: Are You Prepared for the Caregiving Journey?
Are you prepared for the challenges of caring for your aging parents or family members? Have you had the difficult conversations with your loved ones about their declining health, eldercare and end of life affairs? If you minimize or deny...
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Episode 46
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48:40
Ep 45: Meditation – Allowing Calm to Come In
Calm energy is always present even when we think otherwise. In this ten-minute guided meditation sit, settle in, and allow calm to come in.
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Episode 45
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9:21
Ep 44: Laugh Out Loud: A Remarkable Way to Heal
Go ahead, laugh out loud! Laughter is a feel-good “medicine”, which has proven to have a positive effect on our physical, mental and emotional health. Laughter has the power to uplift our spirits, lessen our stress load, lighten ou...
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Episode 44
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45:32
Ep 43: The Brief RAIN Practice
When you are experiencing difficulty, a challenge, or wrestling with uncomfortable thoughts and feelings, stopping to pause and engaging in a brief RAIN practice may be what you need. This meditative self-inquiry process guides you to mov...
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Episode 43
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11:37
Ep 42: Horses are good for the soul
Horses have a healing effect on our minds and bodies. They teach us how to be aware in the moment, to pay attention to what is, and deepen our listening skills. Their soulful presence has the capacity to ease our anxieties, calm our mind ...
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Episode 42
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43:59
Ep 41: The Answers Are Within: Guided RAIN Mindfulness Practice
You’ve heard it many times before, “the answers are within”. How though, do we launch this inner journey? Join Dr. Suzanne as she guides you on this inner journey with an age-old mindfulness self-inquiry practice RAIN. Wondering what to i...
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Episode 41
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30:28