Pathway 2 Empowerment
We strive to empower people on their journey to complete wellness of mind and body through emotional growth, healing, movement, and exploration. People are meant to thrive and live happy fulfilling lives, and our mission is to help everyone go from surviving to thriving.
Episodes
119 episodes
Back To School - Healthy Expectations For Athletic Performance
So many parents out there get caught up in their child's sports performances, whether it's to live vicariously through them, or they are just pushing them to succeed. Sometimes it's hard to decipher where the line is from having healthy expecta...
Back To School - Healthy Expectations Vs. Toxic Perfectionism
We all want what is best for our children, but sometimes we can take it too far. In today's episode we are discussing the difference between having healthy expectations of academic success for your child and having a toxic level of perfectionis...
Back To School - Managing Social Batteries
The start of the school year usually starts the beginnings of a slew of other social obligations for your family that typically don't slow down until Christmas break. Today we are talking about ways that we can manage our families social engage...
Back To School - Navigating Social Landscapes
In this episode we discuss a lot about relational aggression, peer pressure, and helping your child to navigate the social landscape they may find themselves in at school, extracurricular activities, or within friend groups.
Back To School - Compassion & Self-Confidence
Building your child's self-compassion and confidence is a life skill that will suit them throughout every area of their lives, today we are discussing how these skills can help them particularly within the school setting. We also go over specif...
Back To School - Anxiety
Back to school can bring a lot of anxiety for our children, today we are talking about things that we can do to help minimize the anxiety our child experiences and how to help them manage and cope with it.
Back To School - Safety Review
Reviewing safety protocols with your children before each school year starts is an essential part of the back to school preparations. Today we go over different safety protocols you can review with your child so that you know they are prepared ...
Back To School - Building Routines
Our kids bodies need time to adjust to different sleep schedules, and to get back into the swing of the school year routine. Today we are talking about why they need time to adjust, what things need adjusting, and how to go about that so that y...
Manifestation - Aligned Action
Taking aligned action is the key to your dream reality. All the steps we have discussed up to this point lead to this final step - taking action that is alignment with your dreams and goals. Today we are discussing how to take aligned action.&n...
Manifestation - Upgrading Identity & Self-worth
We are only capable of manifesting what we embody, in order to manifest our dream life we must upgrade our identity and self-worth to embody who we want to become. In this episode we discuss strategies to cultivate the self-worth and identity n...
Manifestation - Regulated Nervous System
We can only manifest as much as our nervous system feels safe to have and it won't feel safe to have the things you dream of until it is regulated and calm. In today's discussion we talk about why we need to regulate our nervous system in order...
Manifestation - Gratitude Mindset
We simply cannot expect the Universe to deliver our wildest dreams if we are continuously signaling lack of gratitude for our current reality. Having an attitude of Gratitude cultivates the framework for successful manifestation. Today we are d...
Manifestation - Identity
Have you ever wondered how your identity, your limiting beliefs, perfectionism and shadow self limit or prohibit your ability to manifest your dreams and goals? In this episode we discuss how our beliefs about our worthiness and our limiting be...
Manifestation - Law Of Attraction & Law Of Assumption
Your subconscious is trying to keep you safe but it's using an outdated map so we have to reprogram our subconscious mind and shift our identity in order to manifest our dreams. Today we are discussing the Law of assumption and the law of attra...
Manifestation - Cognitive Tools
Today we are discussing cognitive and psychological tools that we can use in the manifestation process. Some of these include journaling and scripting, goal priming, confirmation bias, and mental rehearsal. We describe what each of these things...
Manifestation - Neuroscience
For the month of August we will be discussing different aspects needed for Manifesting your dream reality. We will be bridging Neuroscience with Psychology to decode the art of manifestation which is actually rooted in Science, not "woo-woo" li...
Evasive Conversational Tactics - Weaponized Empathy
Have you ever had your empathy used against you? Weaponized Empathy is a manipulative conversational tactic that uses your compassion and desire to be understanding to control or deflect blame and avoid accountability. Today we are talking abou...
Evasive Conversational Tactics - Toxic Positivity
When people want to brush things under the rug and only have "good vibes" even in the face of loss or trauma, it is a form of cognitive manipulation. Forcing a cheerful narrative over genuine pain is weaponizing optimism. Today we are talking a...
Evasive Conversational Tactics - "Protecting My Peace"
When someone refuses to have any hard conversations by using the blanket statement "I'm protecting my peace" to shut them down, they are holding the relationship hostage through their emotional avoidance. This creates an unhealthy power dynamic...
Evasive Conversational Tactics- Deflective Defensiveness
Have you ever had someone turn the conversation back on you when you're trying to bring up an issue so they can blame shift? Today we are going into detail about what deflection is and how you can learn to communicate in a more effective way.&n...
Weaponized Incompetence- The Over Functioning Trap
When one partner feigns inability or ignorance to successfully offload labor, be it emotional, mental, or domestic, it forces the other partner into an over-functioning parental role within the relationship which is like poison to a relationshi...
Weaponized Incompetence - Claiming Confusion
In today's episode we discuss examples of the claiming confusion aspect of weaponized incompetence. Where one partner may manage companies at work but then come home and claim to be confused about simple household tasks. How can we navigate cha...
Shutting Down A Partners Feedback by Labeling It As Unsupportive Of Your Diagnosis
In this episode we share real life examples of partners shutting down their partners valid emotional feedback by labeling it as triggering or unsupportive of their neurodivergent or mental health diagnosis. We sprinkle in information on how the...
Using Your Mental Health Diagnosis To Avoid Changing Behavior
For the month of July we are switching things up a bit and giving more personal examples of each topic we discuss while still answering questions and giving information about the topic and how things could have been handled better. In today's e...
Cultivating A Secure Attachment In Your Children
Children learn whether or not the world is safe, whether they are inherently worthy, and whether or not emotional expression is safe long before they learn to read or write. We as primary caregivers are tasked with this foundational learning th...