Mental Health Mondaze
Mental Health Mondaze is a hybrid mental health podcast that blends honest host conversations, reflective storytelling, and practical frameworks drawn from therapy, research, and lived experience. Each episode explores what mental health concepts actually look like in daily life—what works, what doesn't, and what we're still learning.
Episodes
Loneliness, Community & Belonging
Have you ever been surrounded by people and still felt completely alone? We explore what it means to truly feel connected- and how we can intentionally create more meaningful connection and belonging in our lives.
Conflict Repair
Conflict is inevitable, so how can we handle it better? In this episode, we explore what meaningful repair looks like - from taking responsibility and understanding impact to navigating apologies, boundaries, and behavioral change.
Communication Tools
What does it actually mean to communicate well? In this episode, we explore practical tools for expressing our needs, listening beyond our assumptions, navigating difficult conversations, and communicating in ways that create connection- even when we don’t agree.
Building Healthy Romantic Relationships (Part 2 of 2)
We continue our conversation about building healthy romantic relationships, exploring boundaries, interdependence, communication, and how to foster intentional connection.
Building Healthy Romantic Relationships (Part 1 of 2)
What makes a romantic relationship truly healthy? In Part 1, we explore the foundations of healthy relationships, understanding and communicating our needs, and how vulnerability, attachment patterns, and boundaries can shape the way we connect with our partners.
Boundaries in Friendships, Family, & Work
Boundaries aren't about building walls, they're about honoring our needs and strengthening our relationships.This week on Mental Health Mondaze, we explore why boundaries can be difficult to set, how unmet needs can shape our relationships, and practical ways to create healthier connections with friends, family, and at work.
Why We Relate the Way We Do: Attachment, Nervous Systems & Relational Dynamics
Have you ever felt completely secure with one person but anxious with another? Calm with one boss but constantly rehearsing what you're going to say with another?Maybe you're not simply "an anxious person."Different relationships can activate different parts of our nervous system. In this episode, we're exploring attachment - not as a label or a life sentence, but as an adaptive pattern shaped by
Season One Reflections
Before we dive into Season 2, we're taking a moment to reflect on the journey so far. In this episode, we revisit the key themes from Season 1, including:• Emotional literacy and naming feelings • Nervous system basics (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn) • Regulation tools and nervous system reset practices • Boundaries, patterns, and survival responses • Therapy vs. real-life practice • Self-awaren
Habits, Routines & Sustainable Regulation Practices
Habits and routines are shaped by nervous system responses, past experiences, environment, conditioning, and more. In this episode, we explore how these influences show up in the patterns we tend to live by, and how greater awareness and flexibility can support a more regulated, sustainable way of moving through everyday life.
Self-Awareness & Identity (Who We Are Beyond Survival Patterns)
Who are you beneath the roles you've played and the patterns you've learned along the way? In this episode, we explore how Identity is often shaped by unconscious coping strategies and adaptations developed throughout life. We discuss how greater self-awareness can help us recognize these patterns, and why reconnecting with ourselves beyond them can feel both challenging and freeing.
Therapy vs. Real-Life Practice (Insight vs. Integration)
In this episode, we explore the difference between insight and integration, discuss what therapy can and cannot provide, and share realistic ways to apply inner work in everyday life and relationships.
Boundaries, Patterns & Survival Responses in Relationships
In this episode, we explore how survival responses show up in relationships, why patterns can be hard to break (even when they’re no longer serving us), and how this connects to the ways we set and experience boundaries.We share what we’ve learned and what’s helped us through our own lived experiences.
Regulation Tools & Nervous System Reset Practices
Feeling overwhelmed or stuck in survival mode? You're not alone.In this episode, we dive into regulation tools and nervous system reset practices that can help you reconnect, reset, and feel more grounded. As always, we share what we’ve learned and what’s helped us in our own lived experiences.
Nervous System Basics
Ever wonder why you react the way you do under stress? In this episode, Anna and Bryon break down the basics of the nervous system, how survival responses like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn show up in everyday life, and how it connects to emotional literacy.
Emotional Literacy
In this episode, Anna and Bryon unpack emotional literacy—why naming your emotions matters and how you can begin practicing it in your daily life.
Introduction to Mental Health Mondaze
Meet Anna and Bryon, and welcome to Mental Health Mondaze: The Relatable Podcast.
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