Live From Love

Do you or someone you love suffer from anxiety attacks? So does someone in my family.  Here is how I help them get through it, and it can help you too!

In this podcast I get super vulnerable and share with you my own personal journey to mental health.  I hope you’ll listen and then come leave me some feedback! Show Summary   So I wanted to talk to you today about my journey to mental health and how I found Life Coaching.   Transparency. Not wanting to just show the good. Vulnerability creating connection. No shame.    I’ve probably always had some issues, but it really began soon after I first got married the first time.   Married life wasn’t what I expected.  He wasn’t what I expected.  He changed A LOT after we got married and I pretty much struggled from the beginning.   By the time we had been married for 5 years and had two kids, I started fasting, praying, and going to the temple about divorcing him.  My answer then and for the next 7-1/2 years, was “Now is not the time, you have more work to do” and while I was determined to be faithful and follow the direction of the spirit, it definitely affected my mental health.   A few years later,

What is mental health? How do get to be mentally healthy and how do we maintain it? In this podcast I will share with you: 4 Things Mentally Healthy People Do 10 areas that contribute to mental health 7 Ways to Maintain your Mental Health You don’t want to miss this one!    Show Notes:   Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis of The Chic Site 3 in 30 Podcast Dr. Leah Weiss   This post contains affiliate links.   Show Summary   Today I want to talk to you about mental health.  I think it is something we are really lacking in today’s world and something that is so important.  Most people think that mental health is just a lack of mental illness.  A lack of depression or anxiety.  I also think some people think they are mentally healthy because they don’t have a diagnosed mental illness like bipolar or schizophrenia.  But what I want to offer you today is that mental health is not just a lack of mental illness, but it is a state of awareness and well-being.  It determines how we handle stress,

Losing someone can be one of the hardest experiences we have as humans.  In today’s podcast I share with you 8 ways you can support others through grief.   Show Summary   Today I want to about grief.  An amazing man who recently moved out of my ward and neighborhood passed away on Saturday and a lot of my thoughts have been centered around him, his wife, their family, and then reflecting back to other times when people I know have grieved and when I have as well.   I’ve experienced a lot of grief in my life, and it’s never something that is easy, but the way we think about the person, the situation, and the death, makes a big difference in how we experience grief.   For example - I’ve mentioned before that my Grandma passed away a few months ago.  She was in her mid 80’s, she had lived a long full life.  She had suffered from dementia the last few years and had had two broken hips in the last 6 months.  And while I love her deeply, and I was still so sad that she was gone and I wouldn’t  be able to ta

Are you living your life out of fear? Fear of the unknown? Fear of being hurt? Fear of failure? Fear of judgement? Fear of your emotions?  Fear keeps us stuck and from living our best life.  In this podcast we will examine all the ways emotional fear changes how we show up in the world, how it keeps us trapped, and how we can face our fears and live our best life!   Show Summary   Thoughts are like clothes, you have to try them on and see if they resonate with you.  You don’t have to agree with everything I say.  You can take what you want and leave the rest and that is totally fine.  I know that a lot of my view come from an LDS perspective and if that isn’t ok, with that is totally fine.  I think MOST things can be translated to any religion or spirituality, but if they don’t for you, that is totally fine!  I get that I’m not for everyone, and I’m ok with that!   Now, if there is something I talk about that you have questions about or want to know how you can apply it to your own life, please sign up

Have you spent your whole life avoiding negative emotions?  Do you stuff them down or resist them at all costs?  Chances are you were never taught how to identify and process emotions.  On today’s podcast I will teach you in 5 steps how to identify and process your emotions so that you can live the life you were meant to!     Show Summary   So today we are talking about identifying and processing emotions.  What is an emotion?  When we think thoughts, our brains send a chemical reaction to our body which is what we know as emotions.  Sometimes our emotions can seem overwhelming and we can’t handle them.  We are actually conditioned from very early on in our life to resist emotions that are painful.  As mother’s we teach our children not be angry, or sad.  We do everything in our power to help our children not experience anything painful.  But what we should be teaching them (and what I wish someone had taught me) was HOW to deal with them.  Not resist them.  Not push them deep down and pretend they are n

We all know that we SHOULD forgive, but sometimes we don't know how.  When it's something big and the pain is too great, how do we move past it and forgive?   Show Summary   Today I would like to talk to you about forgiveness. And not just that you SHOULD forgive, but how you actually do that.   Forgiveness is key to having a happy marriage.  Our spouses are far from perfect, and as their spouse we get a front row seat too all of their bad habits and behaviors.  Things that we may once have found endearing can grate on our nerves if we let it.  But lets remember…we LOVE them.  We do.  So we can forgive them of those little annoying daily things that happen over and over and over and over….   But what about when its a big thing?  How do we forgive when trust has been broken.  When promises are made and broken time and time again.  When we have been betrayed.     This is what is hard.  Right?   When someone does something that you're feeling hurt by, it can be painful, but it is nothing more than a

How to build confidence in yourself so that you can be happier and show up better in your marriage and other relationships.   Show Summary   Hello everyone, so today I want to talk about confidence and how having confidence can really help you in your marriage and it can really help you in any relationship.  Confidence is a really important part of your mental and emotional health.  And building confidence is not something you can just do once and be done with.   It’s something that requires constant maintenance and is an important skill to learn.  It’s also something that people also don’t understand how to get better at. So that’s what we are going to talk about today.   So first lets talk about why we don’t have confidence.     Now in the LDS church, we believe that we are literal sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father.  We are DIVINE.  We all have infinite worth.  And that’s a really beautiful concept.  But why do we not believe it?   So there is a disconnect between this divinity and h

Life Coach Amanda Louder discusses 5 important steps you should take before you decide to get a divorce.