Dove's Inner B.E.A.U.T.Y. Podcast
Join us as we delve into the complexities of our emotional worlds with Demetria Nickens, a certified mental health first aid instructor and trauma recovery coach. In this episode, Demetria shares her insights from her platform, Dove's Inner Beauty, which challenges conventional beauty standards and advocates for genuine well-being. We discuss the life-changing impact of mental health first aid, trauma recovery, and suicide prevention.
Off-air, Demetria embraces life's simple joys, reflecting her deep commitment to maintaining balance. She opens up about balancing a rigorous career with cherished family moments, offering listeners a personal look at managing wellness amidst daily pressures. Tune in to discover not only Demetria's professional expertise but also her personal strategies for fostering inner beauty and work-life harmony. This episode is more than a dialogue—it's an invitation to promote mental health and uncover the beauty that lies within us all.
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Dove's Inner B.E.A.U.T.Y. Podcast
Reclaiming Direction and Purpose in the Pursuit of Positive Mental Health
Can A Lack Of Purpose Contribute To Mental Health Challenges, And What Steps Can Someone Take To Rediscover Their Purpose?
Find the path to mental clarity and purpose with us on the Doves Inner B.E.A.U.T.Y. Podcast. Join me, Garfield Bowen, and our insightful guest, Demetria Nickens, as we examine the pivotal role personal values play in shaping mental health, especially for young adults. Discover the practical steps to understanding your core personal values and how family and guardians influence your sense of direction. Demetria, a trauma recovery coach and certified mental health first aid instructor, provides invaluable guidance on how to regain focus and align your decisions with your true self. Through self-reflection, we explore how identifying strengths and weaknesses can lead to a more profound self-awareness and mental well-being.
Learn how embracing personal freedom as a key value can revolutionize your decision-making and transform your life. We explore the significance of understanding what truly matters to you and how prioritizing these values can catalyze meaningful change. This episode is all about reconnecting with your purpose and embarking on a journey of personal growth and emotional awareness. Whether you're seeking to overcome a sense of being lost or looking to reaffirm your life's direction, we're here to guide you toward a more fulfilled, balanced life, with actionable insights and encouragement.
For more information about Dove’s Inner B.E.A.U.T.Y. visit:
https://www.DovesInnerBeauty.com/
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(336) 298-6599
Welcome to the Doves Inner Beauty Podcast, where we foster emotional awareness one individual at a time. Leading the way is Demetria Nickens, a certified mental health first aid instructor and trauma recovery coach with over two decades of experience in fostering emotional awareness in others by engaging their mental health.
Speaker 2:Explore the connections between a lack of purpose and mental health struggles, and learn actionable steps to regain clarity and direction. Demetria Nickens offers a compassionate insight and guidance for finding meaning after feeling lost. Welcome back everyone. This is Garfield Bone, co-host, slash producer, back in the studio with coach Demetria Nickens. Demetria, how are you doing?
Speaker 3:Feeling great, great, great, thank you.
Speaker 2:So, demetria, can a lack of purpose contribute to mental health challenges and what steps can someone take to rediscover their purpose?
Speaker 3:There are studies out not many, but if you research it, there's some studies out there that say that, let's say, college level age kids, right. When I think about these studies, they're always college level, 18 to 25. And they say that students that reported not having a sense of direction, not having this idea of sense of purpose, also reported anxiety, lack of sleep. They reported this idea of being a little lower on the spectrum of mental health, right, so going more towards challenge versus healthy. And so when we think about purpose, right, and being able to decide, okay, well, if we can think about this purpose, then we can have better mental health. Well, how do we do that? So we think about that. You have to really break it down. And I always like to start with this idea of values. And it sounds really easy, but when's the last time you thought about your top five values in your life, the things that define who you are, the decisions you make, what you do on a daily basis, right? And so when I think about okay, well, let's start with values, right, what are your top five values? Is it family, is it health? Is it spirituality? What are those values, right? Is it family? Is it health? Is it spirituality? What are those values right? What are those things that you know are the top five values, that kind of drive your decision-making, that drive kind of who you are right. When you start with values, you have a foundation, this idea of okay, these five things matter the most to me. So let's say, I don't know, health is one of them, and you know that health is a top five value. How does that value translate in your life? Does that mean you eat healthy? Does that mean you tell others to eat healthy? Does that mean that you exercise? What does that look like, right, when someone speaks on health? Do you speak on health, right? What does that look like when someone's saying something incorrect? Do you change that voice, right? What does that look like for you? And so that helps lead and direct into how you move through this life, which actually leads and directs to this idea of purpose. So that's one way.
Speaker 3:Another way is thinking about your traits and characteristics right. What makes you you Thinking about these things that are positive, self, when you think about who you are and the things that you know you do well, whatever those things are Right, could you make a list of those things you do well and then think about things and this is the harder part for most people. What are the things that you just know you're not good at All? Right, you just know you know what Not good at this thing. It is what it is. It's a part of who I am and being honest with yourself in those things. So when you can think about those traits and how they differ and kind of come together, then it also kind of shapes like okay, I know I'm good at this, Not necessarily good at this, great, and you can get people to help you with that.
Speaker 3:Connections are another way to figure it out. Your connections help shape your values, right? Your parents, whoever raised you, guardians what that looks like. They help shape what your values are. So your connections also help shape what that purpose may be for your life, right, but is it your purpose or is it the one that your parents or those guardians shaped for you? And so really understanding who you are as an individual helps you get to this idea of purpose.
Speaker 3:And so this is how I would help walk people through this idea of purpose, right Helping to understand who they are.
Speaker 3:Who are you truly? Where is your authenticity of you versus where someone else's influence comes in or has come in and changed what you really want to do and what you really, who you feel, like you are as a person and so, thinking about those things you know when I think about, you know, oh, your values, your traits, like. You know what makes you tick, what doesn't, you know what doesn't, what isn't beneficial to you, who are the connections in your life. All those things put together really help to form this idea of purpose for your life and say, oh, okay, well, what is it that I want to do from these things, these ideas that I have all together, these thoughts, these pieces of who I am? They can help shape what that looks like for me, moving forward with purpose. And so it's kind of interesting to see it all come together for someone, when it really does come together like the light bulb that comes on, when they really see how it shapes them and puts perspective into their life.
Speaker 2:I guess it's a lot of self reflection.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:What role does that play in rediscovering one's purpose?
Speaker 3:Yes, absolutely. It's a great way to say it.
Speaker 2:What's the first step someone can take today to begin reconnecting with their purpose?
Speaker 3:I would say do a values assessment. There's some really quick value assessment free online tools. I would just say search it, do a top five value assessment. Do a quick Google search. You'll find a quick, free thing you could do and really figure out what those top five are for you. That is a really good first step because I bet you would be surprised at what you see your top five values are.
Speaker 3:People think they know oh yeah, family is in there and friends and spirituality, and you know they think they know. But when they really assess it, when you really get down to it and really start thinking this against this do I value accountability versus honesty, right? Do I value achievement in my job versus just getting the job done right? Things like that, when people really start putting these two things together, they get really shocked about when you have to really narrow it down into things. Is this more important than this right? Is respect more important than something else? Right?
Speaker 3:And it's really shocking when you can get down to the nitty gritty of those five. You know, does my freedom matter more than you know? Just civil justice for everybody else, right? It's very shocking to kind of really understand where you feel like you are once you get down to those top five. You know, does this mean more to me than this? I would start there, right, because that tells you a lot about you and really moves you in a whole different direction of thought and perspective and how you think and make decisions in your life. I bet it would really change how you move through the world with that evaluation of values.
Speaker 2:And I'm just thinking as you're talking, over the last 10 years of politics. I think everybody's looking for clarity.
Speaker 3:Yes, especially in these times. Yes, absolutely no. In these times it matters, right, and it'll help drive you too right. When you feel clarity on feeling like freedom matters to me, right, and you see all the things that are going on and you recognize that your freedom is being jeopardized, then you decide one way or the other, that you want to do something about it. Right, you start to make decisions based on the things that you know genuinely matter to you. It is just the nature of who we are as people, and so when you really get those things bottled down to like, yeah, these are the things I genuinely care about and you know, you will start to make decisions based on those things and it will change your life.
Speaker 2:So you all need to get reconnecting with our purpose now.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Love it. Catch you on the next episode. You have a wonderful rest of the day.
Speaker 3:Thank you, thank you episode.
Speaker 1:You have a wonderful rest of the day. Thank you. You too. Thank you for tuning into the Doves Inner Beauty podcast, where we foster emotional awareness, one individual at a time. For a complimentary consultation, visit DovesInnerBeautycom or call 336-298-6599. That's 336-298-6599. That's 336-298-6599.