In my quest to stave off seasonal depression before it starts, I’m treating a chronic IT Band pain with a relaxing massage. Treating physical pain and illness helps reduce emotional vulnerability, and makes it easier to manage depression.
This week, I was honored to be a guest on Selling the Couch, Melvin Varghese’s #1 podcast for mental health private practitioners. He asked me to talk about balancing my own mental health with the challenges of managing a therapy practice. We discussed everything from how depression shapes your mindset and how to change it to how shifting old beliefs about money frees you up to focus on the work.
Pain is part of everyone’s life, and sometimes painful situations can’t be immediately changed. That’s when it helps to have a plan to tolerate your pain. I suggest clients put together a crisis survival kit which is a personalized collection of items to have on hand to use to get through a painful moment rather than acting on an urge that will make the situation worse.
Rebekah Shackney, LCSW
P: 917-721-2257 | E: rebekah@rebekahshackney.com
