The Shek Check
Self-awareness is a superpower we all need to strengthen, and we need some awareness from the outside to take it inward. To check ourselves. Host Erez Shek, with guests from around the world, is dropping that awareness surrounding our emotional health, personal growth, healing and well being. When we check ourselves, we wreck ourselves a little bit less. Let's get Shekked.
Episodes
105 episodes
Grief: Somewhere Only We Know
Grief is known by many names- sadness, joy, anger, love, fear...just to mention a few. It is experienced & felt in ways that are unique to each of us and our relationship to the people, places or things that we are grieving. Whi...
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Episode 105
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10:54
Anxiety, Horror Movies & Relief
What if we met our anxiety WITH anxiety? When we struggle with anxious feelings and thoughts we usually look for control and certainty to calm down- but what if we don't need to calm down? What if our anxious feelings and thoughts don't need ou...
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Episode 104
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10:15
Anger: All the Cool Kids Are Feeling It
There are a lot of messages regarding anger and feeling angry. Being told it is bad, negative, and that it will drain you of your goodness. Hearing messages telling you to “manage" your anger or the importance to "calm down" when you are feeli...
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Episode 103
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8:08
Stability: The Remix
For many people "stability" has been positioned as something we reach. Something we work towards or work for. A place we reach or find. How has that worked for you? While stability is officially defined as a quality, state or degree of b...
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Episode 102
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6:35
Burnout, Being Human, & Beyond
If you are human than you have most likely experienced burn out in some form (in your form). So, what conversation are you having with yourself regarding burnout? What does it look like for you? How compassionate are you towards yourself when y...
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Episode 101
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10:21
Episode 100: F*CK GOALS
Have we missed the point of understanding what drives us instead of where we are driving to? Goals Vs. ValuesWe live in a very goal and milestone centric society. We teach it in our schools and homes. They show up in our relationships, o...
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12:52
Checkin' Internalized Toxic Positivity
What is toxic positivity? Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how crappy something is, no matter what uncomfortable emotions we are feeling, no matter what the ...
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13:27
Rebecca Kennedy: Journey to Body Positivity
Body image issues are more common than we think and more than we openly discuss. The fitness and diet culture remind us of this constantly. Rebecca Kennedy has lived through the toxic side of those issues and that culture and now she is ch...
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48:41
Understanding the Inner Critic
The inner critic is what we call that inner voice that judges, criticizes and shames us. The thoughts surrounding actions, interactions, reactions, our choices and our behaviors- which can...
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13:09
Kerri Hummingbird: Understanding the Mother Wound
What is the mother wound? Who does it affect? How does it show up? The mother wound is not a specific diagnosis but it is something that ...
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43:44
Sunil Godse: Cultivating Intuition
Intuition is a form of knowledge that appears in consciousness without obvious choice or thought.It is not magical but rather a tool in which our impressions are produced from an unconscious place in our mind- formed from our past experi...
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39:34
Accepting Communication
We all have had (or have) those people in our lives that frustrate us because of how they communicate....or how we think they don't communicate. We will blame them for the miscommunication, we create conflict around the miscommunication or lack...
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6:56
Patrick Hill: Empowering Loss
We all face different kinds of loss in our lives, and we all go through hard times. It is an undeniable reality.The question becomes, what kin...
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37:46
Reframe: Peace, Forgiveness & Healing
If you are like me, there are some very distinct images that pop up when I think of peace, forgiveness and healing. Cinematic images that seem far away and so hard to reach. What if we reframe those images? What if we refr...
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8:11
Mindset Check: 2021
2020 has been exhausting right? So, it might feel natural to look at 2021 as the answer to all our problems.Is that helpful though?...
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7:09
Greg Bodin LMFT: Attachment Theory 101
Early childhood experiences shape how we feel in relationships and impact us through our whole life. How our needs are or aren’t met is what ultimately forms our attachment style later on in life.
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30:27
Haunted: Ghosts of Lies
The death of a truth creates the ghost of a lie. In this episode of The Shek Check, Erez serves a quick self-check on how powerful a...
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5:53
Ralph De La Rosa: Reality, Rage & Resiliency
Do you struggle with seeing value in your anger or rage? Do you struggle with seeing value in your sadness? Do you struggle seeing the love that exists within those “negative” emotions?
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36:38
How We Notice Hate…
In this episode, The Shek Check delves into how we notice hate in this world. Erez addresses the importance of looking beyond the hate that is bold and loud. In this episode Erez references to his chat with Dr. Angelica Pinna-Perez ...
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7:05
Sam Thomas: Bullies, Bulimia, Addiction & Recovery
What can it look like when two men open up about their experiences with bullies and eating disorders? In this episode of
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34:07
Passion (It's Personal)
In this episode, Erez Shek expands on the importance of viewing passion (and the things that we are passionate about) as unique to the individual. How can we better understand passion as a reaction to things outside of...
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7:14
David Monticalvo: Cultivating Creativity For Resiliency
How can you create and foster creativity in your life to strengthen your resiliency? In this episode of The Shek Check, Erez sits down with David Monticalvo to discuss discovering where creativity lives inside of each of us and how ...
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36:23
Closet Space / LGBTQ History Month
In this episode, Erez highlights LGBTQ History month and the complexities of coming out of the closet- as well as what the future can look like with changed behaviors in our society. <...
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10:45
Part II: Redefining r/Evolutionary with Guest Dr. Angelica Pinna-Perez
Continuing my chat with social action activist, educator and psychotherapist Dr. Angelica Pinna-Perez.In Part...
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32:13
Part I: Redefining r/Evolutionary with Guest Dr. Angelica Pinna-Perez
Host Erez Shek sat down this week to speak with Dr. Angelica Pinna-Perez, a trauma aware and culturally affirming psychotherapist, educator and social action activist. She is the founder of The Cervitude Coalition 501(c)(3), a non-profit increa...
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