Kelly Mental Health

Just Breathe.: Fantasy

15/2/2018

Voiced by Piper Rasmussen
Adapted from the resource Guided Imagery for Groups by Andrew E. Schwartz
Intro music by Eric Bartel

Explore subconscious fantasies and the potential consequences of living them out.

Everyone has fantasies. A fantasy takes us away from you present situation and allows us to visit a place or to have an experience that takes place solely in our mind. Fantasies can range from positive, pure and noble - like being responsible for world peace activities - to those which might be deemed negative and evil by most standards, or at best nonproductive.

All fantasies flow from a source within us, and therefore have important reasons for existence. Some people may be uncomfortable with their fantasies, reluctant to discuss them with others, or even unwilling to admit that they fantasize. They may feel that the acknowledgement of a certain fantasy might be too scary or threatening to their daily existence.

If a fantasy involves performance of a tremendous good, identifying it can enable you to enact some small part of it with your limited resources.

A fantasy may involve evil or monumental waste; in that case, if you acknowledge it, you can begin to shape it, tame it and put it in perspective. An unacknowledged fantasy, though it appears harmlessly buried, still works its power on your life through subconscious desires. Therefore, it is much healthier to open the door and face it.

In this experience you are going to allow yourself to live out a fantasy of your choice, within the safety and confinement of your imagination. It may be something incredibly good that you never had the power to do, or it may be something you could never allow yourself to act out.

Whatever you experience, you must remember that it will all be fantasy; it is not a part of your real world, nor will it ever have to be.

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Just Breathe.: Beach Tides

31/1/2018

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Voiced by Piper Rasmussen
Adapted from the resource Guided Imagery for Groups by Andrew E. Schwartz
Intro music by Eric Bartel

Affirm your patterns for handling crisis and making decisions in the ebb and flow of your life tides.

As a part of the process of living, we experience repetitions, falling into daily routines that make our lives smoother and somewhat predictable. On a larger scale, we have our own personal style in approaching crises and important decisions.

After undergoing major changes, we fall back into our routine to gather or consolidate our personal resources in a similarly characteristic style. We even resist major changes in a repetitive way.

This exercise is designed to help us become acutely aware of these repetitions so that we can expand or change the way we experience them or let them go.

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Let's Talk! with Linda Kelly: Perfectionism

18/1/2018

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Intro music by Ben Sound
Voiced by Linda Kelly

Most people would consider having high standards a good thing. Striving for excellence can show that you have a good work ethic and strength of character. High standards can also push you to reach your peak level of performance.

Perfectionism, on the other hand, involves a tendency to set standards that are so high that they either cannot be met, or are only met with great difficulty. Perfectionists tend to believe that anything short of perfection is horrible, and that even minor imperfections will lead to catastrophe.

In this episode, listen as Linda dissects the personality trait that causes issues from procrastination to depression. In other words, perfectionism creates all sorts of mental health problems. Here's how to change it.

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