Ep.20/ Reframing Collective Mental Health with Kristin Gattens
With mental health disorders and symptoms of anxiety and depression being at an all time high, this conversation is a look at our collective wellbeing and how we can use our challenges and feelings of dis-ease to align to our highest potential.
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This episode is recorded with therapist and spiritual life coach Kristin Gattens. Kristin is in fact MY therapist and I wanted to get her on the podcast because of her unique and innovative approach to therapy. Kristin combines her background in clinical psychology and counselling with her further training in life coaching, holistic healing and spiritual psychology. Kristin worked in a clinical setting for 15 years but as you will hear, she became aware of some of the limitations within a conventional approach to therapy for some people and set up her own practice integrating various approaches and modalities, focused on shifting people back into their power and their authentic alignment and looking for solutions within themselves.
In this episode:
- The limitations Kristin found within a conventional setting and the progressive ways we can begin to view and heal collective mental and emotional wellbeing.
- The general feeling of dis-ease felt by the population at large, including symptoms of generalised anxiety and depression.
- Taking a holistic approach to mental and emotional wellbeing to understand the root cause of individual and collective dis-ease
- Feeling flat when we "have it all" and the place of spiritual psychology within that
- Limiting beliefs and fears standing in the way of what we really want
- Finding true meaning, purpose and fulfilment within our lives through our own authentic alignment: what that feels like, the process of excavating who we truly are and taking action to radically shift our mindset, our energetics and our lives
Referenced:
- Bruce Lipton "Biology of Belief"
- Gabor Mate
- Michael Singer "Doing the Real Work to Free Yourself"
https://youtu.be/SDp9I9qwjrQ
- Russell Brand & Ricky Gervais "God VS Atheism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Szj5jJeUec
- Matthew McConaughey "Green Lights"
“People usually come to see me when they’re at a transition point, being like ‘hey I’ve done all the things that I’m supposed to do… the career, the house, the money.. and I still feel like crap.. there must be something wrong with me’ Because we’re told that if you do all the things you’re going to feel happy and then when you don’t, now what? Really understanding what gives you meaning and purpose and connects you to something bigger than yourself - we’re never encouraged or taught that at all. People come to me and see how they’re feeling as an inherent flaw rather than a gift. And if learn how to use that and align with that then the sky’s the limit really.”
- Kristin Gattens
You can find Kristin at https://inspiredsoulutions.co.uk
