What is Financial Therapy? with Rachel Duncan, MA, Counselor and Financial Therapist
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🎙 Episode 23: What is Financial Therapy?
📅 Release Date: December 14, 2024
👥 Guest: Rachel Duncan, MA, Counselor and Financial Therapist
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In this enlightening episode of Tea with the Experts, Dr. Leah Merle sits down with Rachel Duncan, a counselor and financial therapist who brings a unique blend of mental health expertise and financial guidance to her clients. Rachel specializes in helping people understand and reshape their relationship with money, combining therapeutic techniques with financial literacy to support emotional and financial well-being. Together, Dr. Leah and Rachel dive into the emerging field of financial therapy, discussing how our beliefs, habits, and emotions around money impact our mental health, relationships, and quality of life. Rachel shares insights into common financial stressors, offers strategies to create healthier financial habits, and explains why financial therapy can be a game-changer for individuals and couples.
Whether you’re struggling with debt, feeling stuck in your financial habits, or just curious about what financial therapy entails, this episode is packed with practical tips and eye-opening perspectives. So, grab your favorite cup of tea and join us for a conversation that connects mental and financial wellness. Don’t forget to subscribe for more expert insights and transformative stories!
*Disclaimer:* The content of this podcast is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional mental health counseling, therapy, or psychological care. If you are experiencing mental health issues or need support, please seek advice from a licensed mental health professional in your area. If you are in crisis or experiencing an emergency, please contact emergency services in your local area immediately.
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🎙 Episode 22: What is Grief? Part - 3
📅 Release Date: January 8, 2025
👥 Guest: Dr. Dani Baker
In this illuminating episode of Tea with the Experts, Dr. Leah Merle sits down with Dr. Dani Baker, a renowned grief therapist and educator, to delve into the intricacies of grief and its often-avoided realities in Westernized cultures. Together, they examine societal pressures to “move on” quickly after loss, explore emotional avoidance surrounding grief, and challenge misconceptions about the “stages” of grief. Dr. Baker provides compassionate insights into healthier, trauma-informed approaches to processing loss, inviting listeners to rethink and reshape their relationship with grief.
In the third installment of a three-part series on grief, designed to help you better understand one of life’s most profound experiences, Dr. Baker continues to explore how westernized societies often minimize the bio/psycho/social/cultural impact of loss such as; sudden, expected, gradual, ambiguous, obscured, and stigmatized. Grouped together these types of losses form an all-encompassing framework for Disenfranchised Grief.
Next, Dr. Baker discusses how disenfranchised grief in an emotionally avoidant and grief illiterate culture is grief that is not openly acknowledged, socially accepted, or publicly mourned. As a result, those who’s grief goes unacknowledged continues to minimize, isolate, and invalidate many grievers and their right to healthy grieving opportunities.
Finally, Dr. Baker offers suggestions on how to eradicate barriers that impact the ability to support people who experience disenfranchised grief, along with resources to help grievers process, adapt, and integrate their losses as they navigate their grief journeys.
Don’t miss this powerful conversation that seeks to destigmatize grief and foster a deeper sense of connection and healing.
*About Dr. Dani Baker:*
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🎙 Episode 21: What is Grief Part 2
📅 Release Date: Jan 1, 2025
👥 Guest: Dr. Dani Baker
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In this illuminating episode of Tea with the Experts, Dr. Leah Merle sits down with Dr. Dani Baker, a renowned grief therapist and educator, to delve into the intricacies of grief and its often-avoided realities in Westernized cultures. Together, they examine societal pressures to “move on” quickly after loss, explore emotional avoidance surrounding grief, and challenge misconceptions about the “stages” of grief. Dr. Baker provides compassionate insights into healthier, trauma-informed approaches to processing loss, inviting listeners to rethink and reshape their relationship with grief.
In the second installment of a three-part series on grief, designed to help you better understand one of life’s most profound experiences, Dr. Baker discusses natural grieving styles of a healthy griever, which are experienced along a continuum - at one end is the instrumental griever and the other the intuitive griever - and over time, most grievers find their way closer to the middle as a blended griever.
Next Dr. Baker discusses that most many grievers experience a primary loss, as well as secondary and tertiary losses, highlighting the complexities and layers of loss healthy grievers are impacted by during times of overwhelming sorrow.
Finally, Dr. Baker shares a broad overview of what healthy grief can look like for many people processing, adapting, and integrating significant loss. To do this, Dr. Baker breaks grief down over an 18-month period, discussing grief via windows of time highlighting typical experiences of grief as well as how to support grief during these fluid experiences of moving in and out of natural grief.
Please note: This part of this discussion is not meant to be seen as hard and fast or a structured step by step process,
What is Grief? | Exploring Loss in Westernized Cultures with Dr. Dani Baker | Part 1
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🎙 Episode 20: What is Grief – Part 1
📅 Release Date: December 25, 2024
👥 Guest: Dr. Dani Baker
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In this illuminating episode of *Tea with the Experts,* Dr. Leah Merle sits down with Dr. Dani Baker, a renowned grief counselor and educator, to delve into the intricacies of grief and its often-avoided realities in Westernized cultures. Together, they examine societal pressures to “move on” quickly after loss, explore emotional avoidance surrounding grief, and challenge misconceptions about the “stages” of grief. Dr. Baker provides compassionate insights into healthier, trauma-informed approaches to processing loss, inviting listeners to rethink and reshape their relationship with grief.
This is the first installment of a three-part series on grief, designed to help you better understand one of life’s most profound experiences. Don’t miss this powerful conversation that seeks to destigmatize grief and foster a deeper sense of connection and healing.
*About Dr. Dani Baker:*
Every year, countless individuals face the profound challenges of grief after significant loss events. Yet, we live in a society that often struggles to understand or support the complexities of grieving. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Dani Baker has dedicated her career to helping grieving individuals, families, and groups navigate the multi-faceted landscape of grief. Using an integrative, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive approach, Dr. Baker collaborates with her clients to create spaces where healing and growth can flourish.
**Resources Mentioned in This Episode:**
*Books:*
Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore
Grief Works by Julia Samuel
Grieving While Black by Breshia Wade
It’s OK That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine
Remember Love by Cleo Wade
The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
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