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Ground and Grow with therapist, Kayla Estenson Williams. Hey, Kayla here! I am a Minnesota-based licensed marriage and family therapist, yoga teacher, and mental health content creator. In this podcast I chat about topics related to mental health and guide meditations so that you have tools to help you ground and grow- and most importantly- so that you know you’re not alone.
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Monday Jan 15, 2024
Societal Myths Around Aging
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Our society holds a lot of myths around aging. Many of us may feel some avoidance around aging, fear of aging, or rigid self-expectations around growing older.
So, let's challenge a few of the big ones!
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Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Practicing Self-Care While Trying to Conceive, with Arielle Pinkston
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Arielle Pinkston joins the podcast today to share information about how to connect to self-care while you are trying to conceive. She shares a bit about her own difficult fertility experience, why self-care supports us during this time, as well as how we can practice being gentle and compassionate with ourselves in the process.
Arielle is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in California who specializes in holistic mental health as well as anxiety. If you live in California, you can work with her for therapy, or you can access some of her other offerings from wherever you live!
The Good Mood Guide to Pregnancy
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Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Parts Work Meditation
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Here is a nice meditation for those of you doing some inner child work. In this meditation, we will hold space for the different parts of yourself to explore wounds and initial responses to those wounds. We will slow things down by identifying how you can meet your needs from your authentic self. Thank you for practicing along with me!
If you enjoyed this episode, I greatly appreciate a rate and review as that helps me grow my show!
Check out these links for my other relevant offerings!
Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
Monday Oct 16, 2023
What is Parts Work?
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Parts work (within Internal Family Systems therapy) is a main part of the work that I do- and I find it can be such a helpful framework when we are unlearning old patterns and reconnecting to some new ones. This episode is a nice overview of parts work and how we can work to put it into practice.
I referenced Richard Schwartz's book, "No Bad Parts" here and recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more!
Check out these links for my other relevant offerings!
Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
Monday Sep 18, 2023
The Costs of Infertility Treatment
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
There are many different costs of infertility treatment- from financial costs, to your time, to your mental health. Here, I'll share info from my personal experience on the different costs of infertility treatment.
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Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Preparing for Parenthood, with Gayane Aramyan
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Gayane Aramyan, MA, LMFT is joining us on the podcast today to share some important insights around preparing for parenthood. She will discuss some important conversations to have with your partner/support system, some things to cope ahead for, as well as how therapy or other services can support your process.
Gayane offers individual and couples therapy in-person or virtually in California. Find her's website and instagram here:
www.instagram.com/therapywithgayane
Check out these links for my other relevant offerings!
Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Am I adult enough to do this?
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Struggle with feeling confident in "adulting"? Me too. In this episode, I'll share why we struggle with this, how common it is, some of my personal experiences with it, as well as some ways you can navigate these fears with confidence.
Check out these links for my other relevant offerings!
Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
Monday Aug 07, 2023
What it means to invest in your therapy
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Therapy works- if you invest in the process. In this episode I talk about how to be invested in the process so that you can see the biggest outcome of your work.
Check out these links for my other relevant offerings!
Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
Monday Jul 24, 2023
My ”Mom Mode”
Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
This episode is a bit of a life update on my experience in parenthood and work as a therapist, discussion on early parenthood, as well as discussion of holding space for connection with yourself in whatever life phase you are in.
Check out these links for my other relevant offerings!
Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.
Minnesota Attachment Collective Instagram
Monday Jul 10, 2023
The 3 Biggest Lessons I Learned in my First Year of Motherhood
Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
My baby recently turned one year old, and it had me reflecting on what I have learned about myself as a mother over this past year. So, here are a few of the biggest lessons that I have grown into during my first year of motherhood!
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Check out these links for my other relevant offerings!
Where you can find my therapy services as well as services from others in my practice!
Where you can find all the additional good stuff: my workbooks and worksheets, online yoga classes, and other offerings.