Trust Tree Talks

Jocelyn Fitzgerald, LMFT, ATR-BC

Episode Summary

Hosts Lisa Schauer and Elizabeth Holmes are joined for an informative and fun conversation with therapist Jocelyn Fitzgerald exploring self-care, routines and what resilience can look like during these challenging times. From tapping into your ancestral energy for support to how you can incorporate art therapy into your life, we’re finding lots of ways to reframe whatever it is that 2020 has left on our doorstep.

Episode Notes

• 0:00 – Introduction to Trust Tree Talks.
• 0:59 – Mental Health Resources
• 1:37 – Intro Jocelyn Fitzgerald, LMFT, ATR-BC
• 2:50 – Taking care and building resilience
• 3:42 – Collective trauma of 2020
• 4:55 – Great Grandmas bringing the strength
• 5:46 – Shout out to Ron Simms
• 6:51 – Separating self-care from the hype
• 8:00 – Practices for self-care
• 8:45 – Feelings 101
• 9:40 – What’s your anger hiding?
• 10:51 – Is there a place in business for feelings?
• 12:33 – Wheel of Awareness
• 14:54 – The productivity dilemma
• 16:29 – Jocelyn teaches us a calming breath exercise
• 18:10 – Jocelyn’s self-care practice
• 19:45 – The importance of routine
• 20:05 – Jocelyn’s path to art therapy
• 21:12 – How to overcome art resistance, or What if I draw like a first grader?
• 24:00 – Perfectionism and comparison 
• 24:21 – Jocelyn’s trip to Eritrea 
• 27:30 – Driven by a yes
• 28:10 – Intro to EMDR
• 32:52 – Jocelyn’s book – using your imagination for calm & peace
• 34:09 – Mental health is a necessity not a luxury
• 36:00 – What issues should we look for after we emerge from the pandemic
• 37:26 - “I don’t need a therapist”
• 40:03 – You will stop crying
• 42:01– Fear of feeling your feelings 
• 43:36 – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
• 44:23 – Jocelyn’s reading recommendations
• 47:43 – Why did you pursue this work?
• 49:01 – Dominic steps in
• 50:00 – The Living Museum
• 53:53 – Support a culture of kindness
• 54:15 – You fall in love with people when you hear their stories
• 56:00 - #100happydays with a kindness twist
• 57:28 – Reframing the conclusion of 2020
• 58:00 – Advice for your younger self
• 58:41 – A Day in My Blue Jeans Project with teens
• 1:01:42 – What kids are going through right now
• 1:04:25 - Closing; how you can support Trust Tree Talks

Mentioned in the episode:

• Trust Tree Group
• Jocelyn Fitzgerald, LFMT, ATR-BC
• 100 Happy Days
• NAMI Mental Health Crisis Line
• Suicide Prevention Hotline
• Wheel of Awareness
• Permission to Feel
• A Field Study on the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol for Ongoing Traumatic Stress Provided to Adolescent Eritrean Refugees Living in Ethiopia
• EMDR
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
• Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
• Tiny Habits
• Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
• Brené Brown
• Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
• Article: Art Journals Offer Creative Outlet during Covid-19
• The Living Museum

Produced by Chris Martin Studios