
E32. Packing for SUCCESS: Psychology of Turning Baggage Into Luggage
01/20/23 • 70 min
E32 - Packing for SUCCESS: Psychology of Turning Baggage Into Luggage
(Special Guest & Stowage Specialist: Donna Tashjian)
Problems the TBAL Team Can Help You Solve Today: Those who are HELD BACK by historical baggage; Anyone struggling with baggage of self-directed disgust: Everyone who could use help transforming hurts, habits, & hangups into stepping stones to success.
Today's guest, a Life Mastery Coach, shares strategies to help you RISE ABOVE painful past experience to live the life of your dreams. You’ll learn keys to turning YOUR baggage into luggage, allowing you to journey over & beyond baggage weighing you down. Donna is a fellow BELIEVER and master coach, having mentored for over 25 years.
STAY TUNED FOR:
***Donna’s FAVORITE HACK for “Baggage Stowage”
***Doc Heath’s end of interview “Beneath the Deep, Dark Recesses” Quirky Guest Question for DONNA
Live the A.R.T. LIFE! Become a TBAL TeamMate inner circle supporter on Patreon at patreon.com/TherapyBites
Show Your TBAL Team spirit & Buy Us A Cup of Coffee, which helps FUEL purchases of HIGH OCTANE equipment & resources that get POURED back into PERCOLATING highly CAFFEINATED CONTENT for YOU! Just click https://www.buymeacoffee.com/g6rLIt6PXu
IN THIS EPISODE . . . Join DONNA TASHJIAN, Doc Heath, & The TBAL Team to discover the SECRETS of self-acceptance, competence, confidence by transforming YOUR baggage into luggage on YOUR life’s journey.
This episode’s Baggage to Luggage Quote: “Reset, Refuel, Rethink is the Road to Resilience.” #DocHeath
Go to https://TherapyBites.myshopify.com & grab some DONNA TASHJIAN GUEST MERCH, specially designed to help keep this episode’s message “TOP of MIND” in your life! Don’t forget friends & family members who could use a mental boost too.
TODAY'S SPECIAL GUEST: Donna is the founder of Vibrant Living International a non-profit organization. She helps bring accelerated transformation to people across the world. Her passion is to help you reach your full potential. She has developed powerful programs to help women rise above a painful past & live the life of their dreams. She also produces a podcast is called “You Were Designed for Greatness” and has written 4 books.
***Stay Tuned after the interview for A.R.T. LAB’s Chief Shrinkstigator, Dr Ima’s ON THE COUCH Psycho-Malarky Scale (PMS) Guest Analysis.
TOP TAKEAWAYS:
1. The hurts of PAST as baggage in the PRESENT
2. Sabotaging “BAGGAGE” Thoughts
3. Transformation is THOUGHT-based
4. FEELINGS do not equal EVIDENCE
6. Power of DECLARATIONS to Create Your Reality
7. Choose BEHAVIORS that Serve YOUR Best Self (3 Key Journals to Begin NOW!)
SPECIAL SEGMENTS IN TODAY’S SHOW
***Fresh from the Therapy Couch...with Doc Heath for stories of Hurting, Helping, & Healing
***TherapyBites Psych-Secrets on social media pseudo-psychological “VULNERABILITY” poppycock.
FOR MORE INFO & FREE BOOK (“Umbrella On a Sunny Day”) by DONNA TASHJIAN, go to: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/60b547b12851d261212f5dea
NEXT EPISODE - “BIG VISION: Psychology of Transformation” with Special Guest Dr. Travis Fox.
Visit the TBAL Team Page: TherapyBites A.R.T. LAB
Full show notes & transcript at https://therapybites.podbean.com/e/luggage
Want to Dig Deeper into Today’s Topic?
Clarke, A., Simpson, J., & Varese, F. (2019). A systematic review of the clinical utility of the concept of self‐disgust. Clinical psychology & psychotherapy, 26(1), 110-134.
Frasca, J. (2021). Trauma inevitably equates to baggage 1. In Animals as the Third in Relational Psychotherapy (pp. 107-115). Routledge.
Galbiati, F., Carter, A., & McQuade, C. N. (2022). Unpacking the Cognitive Baggage: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1-5.
FOR OUR READERS . . . GOBBLE UP THE WHOLE THING!!! (Transcript):
E32 - Packing for SUCCESS: Psychology of Turning Baggage Into Luggage
(Special Guest & Stowage Specialist: Donna Tashjian)
Problems the TBAL Team Can Help You Solve Today: Those who are HELD BACK by historical baggage; Anyone struggling with baggage of self-directed disgust: Everyone who could use help transforming hurts, habits, & hangups into stepping stones to success.
Today's guest, a Life Mastery Coach, shares strategies to help you RISE ABOVE painful past experience to live the life of your dreams. You’ll learn keys to turning YOUR baggage into luggage, allowing you to journey over & beyond baggage weighing you down. Donna is a fellow BELIEVER and master coach, having mentored for over 25 years.
STAY TUNED FOR:
***Donna’s FAVORITE HACK for “Baggage Stowage”
***Doc Heath’s end of interview “Beneath the Deep, Dark Recesses” Quirky Guest Question for DONNA
Live the A.R.T. LIFE! Become a TBAL TeamMate inner circle supporter on Patreon at patreon.com/TherapyBites
Show Your TBAL Team spirit & Buy Us A Cup of Coffee, which helps FUEL purchases of HIGH OCTANE equipment & resources that get POURED back into PERCOLATING highly CAFFEINATED CONTENT for YOU! Just click https://www.buymeacoffee.com/g6rLIt6PXu
IN THIS EPISODE . . . Join DONNA TASHJIAN, Doc Heath, & The TBAL Team to discover the SECRETS of self-acceptance, competence, confidence by transforming YOUR baggage into luggage on YOUR life’s journey.
This episode’s Baggage to Luggage Quote: “Reset, Refuel, Rethink is the Road to Resilience.” #DocHeath
Go to https://TherapyBites.myshopify.com & grab some DONNA TASHJIAN GUEST MERCH, specially designed to help keep this episode’s message “TOP of MIND” in your life! Don’t forget friends & family members who could use a mental boost too.
TODAY'S SPECIAL GUEST: Donna is the founder of Vibrant Living International a non-profit organization. She helps bring accelerated transformation to people across the world. Her passion is to help you reach your full potential. She has developed powerful programs to help women rise above a painful past & live the life of their dreams. She also produces a podcast is called “You Were Designed for Greatness” and has written 4 books.
***Stay Tuned after the interview for A.R.T. LAB’s Chief Shrinkstigator, Dr Ima’s ON THE COUCH Psycho-Malarky Scale (PMS) Guest Analysis.
TOP TAKEAWAYS:
1. The hurts of PAST as baggage in the PRESENT
2. Sabotaging “BAGGAGE” Thoughts
3. Transformation is THOUGHT-based
4. FEELINGS do not equal EVIDENCE
6. Power of DECLARATIONS to Create Your Reality
7. Choose BEHAVIORS that Serve YOUR Best Self (3 Key Journals to Begin NOW!)
SPECIAL SEGMENTS IN TODAY’S SHOW
***Fresh from the Therapy Couch...with Doc Heath for stories of Hurting, Helping, & Healing
***TherapyBites Psych-Secrets on social media pseudo-psychological “VULNERABILITY” poppycock.
FOR MORE INFO & FREE BOOK (“Umbrella On a Sunny Day”) by DONNA TASHJIAN, go to: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/60b547b12851d261212f5dea
NEXT EPISODE - “BIG VISION: Psychology of Transformation” with Special Guest Dr. Travis Fox.
Visit the TBAL Team Page: TherapyBites A.R.T. LAB
Full show notes & transcript at https://therapybites.podbean.com/e/luggage
Want to Dig Deeper into Today’s Topic?
Clarke, A., Simpson, J., & Varese, F. (2019). A systematic review of the clinical utility of the concept of self‐disgust. Clinical psychology & psychotherapy, 26(1), 110-134.
Frasca, J. (2021). Trauma inevitably equates to baggage 1. In Animals as the Third in Relational Psychotherapy (pp. 107-115). Routledge.
Galbiati, F., Carter, A., & McQuade, C. N. (2022). Unpacking the Cognitive Baggage: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1-5.
FOR OUR READERS . . . GOBBLE UP THE WHOLE THING!!! (Transcript):
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E31. Quantum Leaps: Psychology of Falling Down Getting Up
E31: Quantum Leaps: Psychology of Falling Down Getting Up
(Special Guest & Professor of Pretzel: MICHAEL B. HARRIS)
AUDIENCE/Problem: Anyone impatient with their PROGRESS through life? Those wondering how to take the next BIG step & in WHAT direction? Everyone curious about how SMALL steps conquer MOUNTAINS?
STAY TUNED FOR: MICHAEL’S FAVORITE “QUANTUM” hack!
Live the A.R.T. LIFE! Become a TBAL TeamMate inner circle supporter on Patreon at patreon.com/TherapyBites
Show Your TBAL Team spirit & Buy Us A Cup of Coffee, which helps FUEL purchases of HIGH OCTANE equipment & resources that get POURED back into PERCOLATING highly CAFFEINATED CONTENT for YOU! Just click https://www.buymeacoffee.com/g6rLIt6PXu
IN THIS EPISODE . . . Join MICHAEL HARRIS, Doc Heath, & The TBAL Team & learn how CAPTURING the QUANTUM in your life & making SMALL moves in the HEALTHY direction can accomplish LASTING MAJOR LIFE CHANGE.
Doc Heath's “Quantum Quote”: “Life, like a pretzel, is best consumed with a salty mind.”
Go to https://TherapyBites.myshopify.com & grab some Professor of Pretzel Michael Harris GUEST MERCH, specially designed to help keep this episode’s message “TOP of MIND” in your life! Don’t forget friends & family members who could use a mental boost too.
TODAY'S SPECIAL GUEST is an author, coach, trainer, yoga teacher, entrepreneur & co-founder of Endless Stages. After having ENOUGH self-sabotaging & becoming willing to make a change, he stopped DREAMING of change & began to take massive ACTION applying the Law of GOYA. Sobriety, walking, food & yoga changed everything. Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) alerted him “your MESS is your MESSAGE.” Michael owned successful yoga studios & coached studio owners worldwide to $40+ million in sales & helped certify 7,000 yoga teachers.
***Stay Tuned after the interview for A.R.T. LAB’s Chief Shrinkstigator, Dr Ima’s ON THE COUCH Psycho-Malarky Scale (PMS) Guest Analysis.
TOP TAKEAWAYS:
1. Small Steps can CONQUER the BIGGEST mountains
2. Humans are engineered for STEPPING beyond SETBACKS
3. Pain is BUILT - not in the body - but rather in the BRAIN
4. Master CATASTROPHIZER -OR- MASTER Catastrophe
5. 90% of PHYSICAL issues rooted in MENTAL programming
6. You become the BEST at what you practice the MOST
7. The power of QUANTUM leaps is going FAR one small step at a time
SPECIAL SEGMENTS IN TODAY’S SHOW
***Let’s Get Ready to REASON...w/Doc Heath on Social Media SMACKDOWN!
***A.R.T. LAB Creature Feature SAFARI SARAH foraging for fickle FIGHT, FLIGHT, FREEZE ALMONDS
MORE INFO from MICHAEL HARRIS, go to: https://www.michaelbharris.com/ Discover how to masterfully get your story and message out to the world. FREE copy of the book “Falling Down Getting Up at: www.MichaelBHarris.com/book
NEXT EPISODE - “Packing for Success: Psychology of Turning Baggage Into Luggage” w/ Special Guest & Empress of Empowerment Donna Tashjian
Visit the TBAL Team Page: TherapyBites A.R.T. LAB
Full show notes & transcript at https://therapybites.podbean.com/e/quantumleaps
Want to Dig Deeper into Today’s Topic?
Covey, S. R. (1989). The 7 habits of highly successful people. New York: Fireside.
Duckworth, A. (2016). Grit: The power of passion and perseverance. New York, NY: Scribner.
Duhigg, C. (2012). The power of habit: Why we do what we do in life and business (Vol. 34, No. 10). Random House.
Fogg, B. J. (2019). Tiny habits: The small changes that change everything. Eamon Dolan Books.
FOR OUR READERS . . . GOBBLE UP THE WHOLE THING!!! (Transcript): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HwAdHibW1eFji3xpfrFNXbmgZL4PnNDE2HtyBxXICZo/edit?usp=sharing
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E33. BIG VISION: Psychology of Transformation
E33 - BIG VISION: Psychology of Transformation
(Special Guest & Success Scientist: Dr. Travis Fox
AUDIENCE/Problem the TBAL Team Can Help You Solve Today: Those who have become LOST on the ROAD to SUCCESS; Anyone ready to TURN BACK & GIVE UP on their DREAMS; Everyone who could use a MENTAL SUCCESS BOOST!
STAY TUNED FOR:
***Dr. Ima’s A.R.T. LAB Analysis of Dr. Travis’ PMS Performance
***Dr. T’s FAVORITE “Success Quest” hack!
***Doc Heath’s end of interview “Beneath the Deep, Dark Recesses” Quirky Guest Question for Dr. Travis.
***Dr. T’s Top Notch Success Quote located in the transcript BELOW:
Live the A.R.T. LIFE! Become a TBAL TeamMateinner circle supporter on Patreon at patreon.com/TherapyBites
Show Your TBAL Team spirit & Buy Us A Cup of Coffee, which helps FUEL purchases of HIGH OCTANE equipment & resources that get POUREDback into PERCOLATING highly CAFFEINATED CONTENT for YOU! Just click https://www.buymeacoffee.com/g6rLIt6PXu
IN THIS EPISODE . . . Join Dr. Fox on a “transFUNmational” journey with Doc Heath & The TBAL Team to discover the MAGIC of imagination & experimentation.
This episode’s “Big Vision Quote: “The most important skill in SUCCESS - as indicated by its 2nd & 3rd letters - is VISION .” - #DocHeath
Go to https://TherapyBites.myshopify.com & grab some Dr. Travis Fox GUEST MERCH, specially designed to help keep this episode’s message “TOP of MIND” in your life! Don’t forget friends & family members who could use a mental boost too.
TODAY'S SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Travis Fox has 14K+ hours on global stages. He has developed an adventure that is MORE than just engaging, exciting, & memorable for all audiences; It’s just TOO MUCH FUN! In fact, it has been said that it’s MESMERIZING. Holding doctorates in both Psychology & Clinical Hypnotherapy, Dr. Travis started out on the PGA Tour as creator of the first Psychological Golf Infomercial on the Golf Channel. Continuing his career in Film & Television, he has over 30+ Awards; most notably as an Emmy Award Winning Producer. Dr. Travis Fox continued his career in front of audiences around the globe and all this while expanding his entrepreneurial journey. Dr. Travis has been named by Yahoo Finance as a top 20 entrepreneur for 2020 & even more recently Top 20 Instagram Influencers by BuzzFeed.
TOP TAKEAWAYS:
- Who’s Driving the BUS in YOUR Life?
- Awakening from your self-induced, self-defeating mesmerism
- Hacking your brain’s GATE-KEEPER to Success
- Self-TransFUNmation & Success
- Oppression to Impression to Expression
SPECIAL SEGMENTS IN TODAY’S SHOW
***Let’s Get Ready to REASON...with Doc Heath on Social Media SMACKDOWN of Pseudo-Psychological ABUSE!
***A.R.T. LAB Library CouchCrumbs Quote on “The H3 Element”.
MORE INFO from Dr. Travis Fox, go to: http://www.UltimateBusinessQuest.com Download the app from Apple App store or Google play & start your Quest to build from entrepreneur to empire.
NEXT EPISODE - “Living in Your Own Spotlight: Psychology of Starring in YOUR own Life” w/ Special Guest & Father of AfFORmations, Dr. Noah St. John.
Visit the TBAL Team Page: TherapyBites A.R.T. LAB
Full show notes & transcript at https://therapybites.podbean.com/e/transformation
Want to Dig Deeper into Today’s Topic?
Hayles, N. K. (2014). Cognition everywhere: The rise of the cognitive nonconscious and the costs of consciousness. New Literary History, 45(2), 199-220.
Lamont, P. (2020). Hypnotism and suggestion: A historical perspective. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Roberts, D. S. (2019). Markus Iseli, Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious.
FOR OUR READERS . . . GOBBLE UP THE WHOLE THING!!! (Transcript): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yw6ntj6uXEkdI0juqqntAy8gAeNxNO-ao6IbN7LhW0E/...
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