Lisa Dumas is a somatic therapist passionate about educating adults and teens about calming anxiety and compassionately attending to mental health challenges in self and community. Join her each week as she shares stories, skills and conversations to help you soothe an anxious mind and body and remember you’re stronger than you think you are.
Long-time nurse, business owner and yoga/Ayurveda educator Aimee Pruitt is back on the pod sharing how to create boundaries and burnout resistance when caring for others as a career or as a parent or…
Who better to speak about what it’s like to love someone who has struggled with their mental health than Lisa’s long-time partner, Cliff Dumas. Listen to hear how Cliff discovered the truth of Lisa’s…
After personally encountering nurses sharing stories of their degraded mental health due to the staggering pressure they’ve experienced throughout the last 2.5 years, Lisa talks to her former co-host…
Yessica Avencena is a psychotherapist and the founder and CEO of Aspire Behavioural Health clinics and MindfulYou healing centers in California’s Central Valley. Yessica and Lisa discuss the mental h…
This week Lisa shares tools for feeling grounded and how important it is to ground ourselves while supporting others. She offers more information about holding space for loved ones struggling with an…
For us “worriers”, a lot of energy can be directed toward navigating our anxious inner dialogues and attempting to protect ourselves from the uncomfortable symptoms of anxiety. Cultivating a more pea…
Lisa has been treating herself as she would a yoga therapy client by prescribing herself some tools to support bouts of lower mood and exhaustion related to big life transitions. Time in nature is a …
Lisa is in her third week living in an empty nest and shares how she and her husband are working with acceptance to find peace as parents. She offers some inspirations on the art of letting go and di…
This week Lisa shares about the reality of saying goodbye to her daughter as she launches to college in Scotland and how to relate with more than one emotion at a time. She offers some inspiration an…
Yoga Therapy for Anxiety and Autoimmune Conditions with Susan Frankovich
This week features an interview with one of Lisa’s colleagues, Yoga Therapist Susan Frankovich. Lisa and Susan explain the di…
This week Lisa shares the many ways her life changed over quarantine and the inspirations that supported her through a cross-border move, disenchantment with the wellness industry and a newfound purp…
Our first brand new episode in a year chronicles Aimee’s experience as a new business owner and a nurse navigating the pandemic and the practices that helped her along the way.
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One year ago, Aimee and Lisa stepped away from the podcast, not knowing when they would return, because who could make a plan in 2020? Aimee had to prioritize her work as an experienc…
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From an Ayurvedic perspective, the beginning of summer signals the start of “pitta” season, a time of year related to the element of fire. For those of us with already “fiery” natures…
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In the midst of worldwide protests to end systemic racism, white people are being called to acknowledge and dismantle our biases and take actions that can sustain change toward equali…
After a pause from the podcast, Aimee and Lisa are back with a conversation about processing the collective challenges we’ve been facing. They share how celebration and joy can exist alongside worry …
This week Aimee and Lisa acknowledge the challenge to remain steady amidst the ever-changing news and regulations announced to battle the spread of COVID-19. They share what’s coming up for them, wha…
While Aimee is called to use her skills as a registered nurse in Columbus, Ohio, Lisa hosts solo and offers a practice she hopes will be helpful.
There’s a lot of information out there about the ben…
This week we talk to Masters Level Counselor and EMDR Facilitator Susan Guttridge about how to process our own varied emotions and reactions to social distancing while being in close proximity to tho…
As a registered nurse for the last 25 years, host Aimee Pruitt is on the front lines of our current health crisis in her home state of Ohio. She’s feeling strongly about the actions that we are takin…