Mental Health Spotlight: Eating Disorders & More!
Hello! I'm therapist Caise, the host of Mental Health Spotlight.
I love to capture recovery stories!
I am honored to help, and sometimes hold hope,
for my clients on their individual paths.
I hope this podcast helps you find inspiration, resources & Hope!”
I post weekly podcasts that include mental health and eating disorder focused interviews with clients, families and providers of care as well as education and strategies for recovery!
Thanks for listening! Caise Rode McHale MSSA, LISW-S
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- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Eating Disorder Recovery Parent Talk: HZ-"I listened to my intuition in helping my daughter be autonomous while committed to recovery."
In this episode, HK is a mother and mental health clinician who watched her now 23-year-old daughter's anxiety and life transitions turn into debilitating Anorexia. Marvelously, they fought their way…
00:41:32 |
Thu 16 Feb 2023
EMDR w/Sarah Novak: 'EMDR channels feelings in a new pathway instead of the old automatic one.'
In this episode, Sarah Novak, MSW, LISW-S educates on how EMDR works and what to expect. She explores the many settings where it is appropriate and its overall efficacy borrowing from research and he…
00:27:23 |
Sat 07 Jan 2023
Anxiety & Focus Series: Anxiety & Medication
In this episode, a discussion about the timing and efficacy of using medication for anxiety management transpires. Identifying providers, assessing for functioning, severity and lethality and how & w…
00:19:06 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Anxiety & Focus Series: Hot Air Balloon Visualization - Letting Go
In this episode, I introduce a soothing visualization exercise to capture thoughts or worries and send them off into the horizon with your breath-propelled hot air balloon. Learn to visualize, let go…
00:06:43 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Anxiety & Focus Series: Meditation Variations for Focus, Anxiety & Stress
In this episode, breathing, sensory awareness, Yoga Nidra and focus meditation are sampled.
Thanks for exploring Hope with me! Caise
"RECOVERY STARTS WITH ONE BOLD NEW CHOICE."
#therapist #stressrel…
Thanks for exploring Hope with me! Caise
"RECOVERY STARTS WITH ONE BOLD NEW CHOICE."
#therapist #stressrel…
00:11:04 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Anxiety & Focus Series: Conduct Thoughts for Less Anxiety
Wouldn't it be great to conduct your thoughts when they are ill-timed, harmful, don't serve you in the moment or when thoughts complicate sleep. In this episode, an introduction into passive & delibe…
00:12:05 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Anxiety & Focus Series: Chakra Meditation
In this episode, we dive into the following skills, tools & techniques: Borrowing from Chakra points, or energy centers in the body, this body scan focuses inward, allowing progressive relaxation thr…
00:06:42 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Anxiety & Focus Series: Middle Body Visualization
In this episode, relax your sympathetic nervous system, ground, increase focus or reset with a visualization that directs your attention inward to a center anchor.
Thanks for exploring Hope with me! …
Thanks for exploring Hope with me! …
00:03:45 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Anxiety & Focus Series: Square Breathing Variations
In this episode, square or box breathing, a simple way to practice breathing as a reset or anxiety reducing skill, is introduced. Follow a simple cadence or make it your own with inhales and exhales …
00:03:30 |
Sun 01 Jan 2023
Eating Disorder Recovery Parent Talk: IG - "She was bones wrapped in flesh, a bag of sticks."
In this episode, IG shares her daughter's eating disorder recovery story. She brings invaluable advice & promise as she talks terrible to marvelous aspects of fighting an ED. Discussion includes leve…
00:33:14 |
Sun 27 Nov 2022
Eating Disorder Overshoot Client Talk: 'It's not body dysmorphia, I'm actually seeing what's there.'
In this episode, we explore a client perspective on how overshoot can happen, its impact on recovery and ways to manage body image and health/activity expectations in recovery. Includes trusting the …
00:12:20 |
Mon 12 Sep 2022
Eating Disorder Overshoot w/Taryn McPherson, RD: "Allow your body to build back trust in you."
In this episode, Registered Dietician and ED nutrition specialist, Taryn McPherson walks us through the tough and anomalous topic of 'overshoot'. She educates on the body in famine, re-establishing t…
00:21:31 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
Eating Disorder & Athletes: HK-'It's hard to ignore your body in a leotard.'
In this episode, HK takes us on a roller coaster ride through her life with ED, sports, injuries, allergies & illness. Looking inward to build self-awareness and adapting traits to her benefit have b…
00:30:18 |
Fri 05 Aug 2022
Eating Disorder Levels of Care
In this episode, we explore a quick introduction to levels of eating disorder treatment from outpatient to hospitalization.
Thanks for exploring Hope with me! Caise
"RECOVERY STARTS WITH ONE BOLD NEW…
Thanks for exploring Hope with me! Caise
"RECOVERY STARTS WITH ONE BOLD NEW…
00:10:28 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
Eating Disorders & College: SA - "I'm trying to live a life that I've never lived before."
In this episode, SA brings a candid, honest viewpoint right from the edges of recovery. From the BS and cliche's to the true value of making hard choices to live a life you never knew and choosing to…
00:20:26 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
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