June 26, 2025 • 36 mins
Host: Celeste, The Therapist
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Welcome to another episode of Celeste the Therapist Podcast! In today's episode, Celeste, a seasoned therapist from Boston with over 15 years of experience, dives into the topic of grounding yourself during chaotic times. Drawing from her extensive experience in the mental health field, Celeste shares practical steps and insights to help you navigate through the turmoil. Reflecting on significant events like the pandemic and the challenges of 2025, she discusses the collective struggles we face and her own journey of guiding others while managing her personal experiences. Tune in for a heartfelt and practical discussion aimed at helping you find stability and peace amidst the chaos. Don't forget, you can also catch this episode on YouTube!
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(00:02):
Thank you all so much for joining another episode of Celeste the therapist podcast.
My name is Celeste. I'm a therapist from Boston If you've never been into
my podcast before I want to say thank you so much for coming
through I appreciate you what I do on this podcast is
I talk about things that we're going through and I I Work on
helping you think about ways to deal with them with really
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practical steps. I'm a very practical person and
today we're talking about getting grounded in the midst of
chaos and Uh, you know some so I
am a real therapist for people that's never been here before, you know People because
my tagline is celeste a therapist and people say are you really a therapist? I'm really a
therapist And i've been a therapist uh
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for Well, I've been in the mental health field for
over 20 years and I've been a therapist since for
15 years. And it's so interesting. So
over the last 15 years, we've gone through so many things. And
I think about the pandemic, I think about all
the chaos during the pandemic, and I think about 2025, the
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new president that we have, and just the chaos. And
sometimes I'll be like, dang, yo, Celeste, how you doing it?
Because since the pandemic in
2020, I feel like that's the first time where I feel like the same thing
I'm walking people through is the same thing I'm going through. And also, there's
this collective thing that's taking place around the
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country around the world. And, um, I am walking
people through it as I'm working on walking myself through
it. It's very interesting. Um, and so as
I have the privilege to, uh, record
this podcast, if you're listening to me on audio, I'm also on YouTube. I
have the privilege of recording this. I, um, I'm grateful for
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the people that continue to follow me and press play and
listen to the podcast. and people
that let me know how much this podcast has helped them. The
things that I do, I wanna share it with you because they really helped me.
And so that's why today I wanna talk about how to get grounded in the
middle of chaos. And I'm just gonna give you these 10 things to
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think about. I'm gonna share my screen just
so you can see it visually, but
I'm pretty much gonna talk about it. I
really wanna help you find your center. Before I go through the 10 things that
I wanna share with you that I want you to work on doing, and literally
everything that I'm talking about, it doesn't cost money. I'm so
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big on decolonize what mental health looks
like. This podcast is free. The things I'm gonna talk about
you doing is free. But I talk about
being grounded a lot, and I really wanna start with the definition of
what grounded means. So being grounded, it
generally means being present, being aware, and connected
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to your current reality with a sense of stability and
balance. It implies being in touch with your emotions, thoughts,
physical sensations, and having a strong connection to
the moment. In a figurative sense, it
also suggests being sensible, reasonable, and having a practical outlook
on life. And so when you
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think about the definition Being grounded doesn't mean life is
perfect. Being grounded doesn't mean that everything goes the way you
want it to go. Being grounded allows you to deal
with the things that are happening in life. One
of the things people say is that I'm very consistent in
my presence, right? Regardless of what's going on,
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I'm going to show up as who I am. not
allow you to take me out of character, not allow myself, even on social
media, there are people that I've been following for a while, and
when they say something that I struggle with seeing, I
don't go to war in comments, I just unfollow. And
that's me protecting my peace. Looking at the statement,
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is it annoying? Yes, but they have a right to feel how they feel about
certain subjects, but I don't have, I choose not
to be a part of That a lot of times we don't even recognize That
the way that we're feeling is because we're we're making a
choice to engage in certain chaotic things that we are doing
Um, and so when you think about being grounded because I talk
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about like i'm very grounded I say that a lot, but I recognize I
haven't talked about the definition when I talk about being
grounded That means i'm very aware of what's going on my physical body
and how I feel Um side note like i've been eating
really really clean lately in this period cycle.
Over the last few years, my cycle, I have really
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less cramps. It's not as heavy and bad as
it was before. This is such a side note. But
if you listen to the podcast, you know I'm always gonna do a quick side note. This
cycle that I had, I've been really clean lately. I've been walking
more. I've been really eating clean, drinking water. And
I had absolutely no cramps. And it's so
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funny because I've seen, in my mind, I was thinking
about like, wow, this cycle's really good. And I'm
so present and grounded, I recognize I've been eating clean.
And I'm like, wow, what you put in your body really does affect your body.
It's something I don't say, even I just watched Dr. Holistic, I
love him, he's a black uh he's black doctor
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on instagram and youtube and he struggled
with high blood pressure and stuff all his life he changed his eating habits started
helping other patients changed theirs the hospital didn't like it so
he went out on his own the hospital wanted him to stick to the script But
he was saying how when I eat, I poop. And
the person he was talking to was like, wow, I love that for you. And
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he said, this is what it's supposed to be all the time. And
so we don't even realize, I talk about the mind and how we hold
on to pain. And we literally hold on to so much
crap in us because we haven't been taught. We
haven't been taught that it's not supposed to be that way. So we get
used to just dealing with crap in our, literally
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in us. And we get used to dealing with
our mind, feeling like crap, literally. So I,
you know, there's a lot of chaos happening in the world. And
I can't solve all the problems, right?
I can only do what I can do. I don't have control over
what's going on and it breaks my heart. A lot of the things that I
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see, like it really, I really struggle with seeing some of the things
I see, like my heart breaks and I don't understand
why. I'm not a religious person, but I'm a very
spiritual person. And I always tell myself, lean
not on your own understanding when these things come up, because I don't understand it.
Even before now, in general, as the work that I do, the stories that I
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hear, that make no sense to me. I
lean not on my own understanding. That's literally what
I say to myself when those things are happening. So
let me help you with some practical ways to work on
your mental health and staying grounded in the middle of chaos.
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So if you are somebody that is struggling with that, this
is gonna be a great episode for you to kinda
listen to and get your mind right. First
is professional support. Nothing wrong with
seeking out professional support, therapist, coach, right?
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Who else? Like a pastor, somebody
that you trust that's
a professional. I started with that
because sometimes it's like, oh yeah, of course, like see
a therapist, but also I recognize that a
lot of people don't have access to therapy. may not have
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access to a coach. And so I
don't want you to feel like, well, if I don't have a therapist, how
can I work on getting grounded? But that is one of the things.
The second thing I want you to think about is mindfulness and meditation.
Mindfulness and meditation is something you
can just practice every day. And I really want you to be practical about it.
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So when you wake up in the morning, before
you grab your phone and check your email, before you
go on social media, I really need you to be intentional about this
process. It's literally how I start my day. Get
up in the morning. stretch go use the bathroom and
set your timer for five minutes right um you can
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even do like a meditation on youtube for five minutes
but if you're not if you're not if you're not trying to do that right now that's
okay but set your timer for five minutes and just breathe
in and breathe out and just take time to Think
about what you have going on today. If you feel like your mind's racing, that's
okay. At least you understand that it's racing, right? But try
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to, if you are not somebody that is into pausing,
like you haven't taken moments to pause, first
thing in the morning, I like it first thing in the morning because you can set the tone. And
I'm saying five minutes because I am trying to help you start
with something small. I don't want you to set the goal to 20 or 30 minutes,
something that you're not used to doing. But mindfulness does
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not have to be something that takes up a
lot of time to start, right? It doesn't have to
cost money, right? But taking time to
just sit and breathe and be by yourself, right? If
you wanna take it a step further, start thinking about
what you have going on for the day, right? Taking time to
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breathe and think about, okay, I gotta do whatever it
is you gotta do, right? Five minutes, starting with
five minutes. You can always increase it,
right? You can also add it for the nighttime before
you go to bed, thinking about, how was my day? Another
way you can practice a practical meditation practice is
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in the shower. In the shower, you
are being still in the shower, the water's hitting you,
you have the soap, you can touch your body, you can feel yourself,
your feet is touching the ground. you can take
that moment and just breathe, right? And just ask yourself, like,
how am I really feeling? Some of you are so used to
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being the caregiver or the person that takes care of everyone that
you don't even ask yourself, how am I feeling? So
be comfortable with doing that for yourself, right? Because
if anybody, it's one thing, like nobody's gonna come
and save you. And I think a lot of times we don't recognize that
we're doing so much for other people and we have nothing left for
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ourselves. and our system is in overdrive all
the time. So those are some practical ways to
think about practicing mindfulness in the morning. Start
first thing in the morning before you go to bed, or you can even do
it in the shower. I try to incorporate new things that
you're doing with a routine that you already have. The
second thing I want you to think about is nature. Being
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in nature is such a great tool for
people to use. It's a natural resource. There's
like some water, a little small pond that's not
far from my house. Sometimes when I drive that way and I
literally will take a deep breath and it feels so good. and
then a breath out. Even just now, that breath I just took just now,
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if you can hear it and you're not watching, that
felt so good. It felt like I was resetting, right? When I started talking
about the chaos in the world, I felt like sad, like my
chest tightened up a little bit because I just started thinking about some things recently
that I've been made aware of and it just made me feel sad. And
then I just breathed and it felt really good. But
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spending time, Spending some time outdoors and
just sitting still in nature can be really helpful. I happen to
have some hiking trails near my house, but even if you don't have
hiking trails, walk out in front of your door and
get some sun. Go for a small walk. Even
if you don't feel like it, as I'm talking about these things to
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do, what I need you not to say to yourself is
like, oh, I didn't feel like doing it today. I don't want you to do that. You're
never going to feel like doing something that's good for you if you're not
used to doing it. I'm going to say that again for the people in the back. If
you're not used to doing something healthy, it's
not gonna feel good It's not gonna feel like something you want and
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I always give this example But there was a time where after
I worked out I would go to Burger King. So give me a whopper That was like my favorite
meal and I'm not knocking whoppers But that's crazy work
to be going to the gym and then go to Burger King's after like make it
make sense to us and when I learned that um,
I was doing it all backwards and I went
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and got a bunch of greens, and I tell this story a lot, and
I was like, yes, I'm on this healthy journey, and it took time for me
to figure out how to make this stuff. The stuff that I brought went
bad. Even when I tried it, it tastes disgusting. I didn't
know what I was doing, so I said, all right, Celeste, let's just start with breakfast. I
started making smoothies for breakfast, and over time, my
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taste palette started to change. and it
tasted really well, it tasted so good. So from breakfast to
lunch to dinner, that was, my daughter's 12, so that was about maybe
11, 10 years ago. Today, like, I just, I can't do fast food. But
like, give me some fresh greens, some kale, some couscous, like,
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you know, I'm on it. I love me some fresh food. Before, I just
didn't realize how much that I,
I needed it and because it was something that
was foreign to me, I rejected it, right?
So even like relationships, side note, like some
people who's been through a lot of hard things and hard relationships, you'll
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tell yourself you want a healthy relationship, but then when that healthy person
presents itself, you don't realize you start self-sabotaging. I
literally did that. You would self-sabotage and
not realize it, but there's this rejection that takes place
because you're not used to chaos. You're not used to all the, I
mean, you're used to chaos. You're used to trauma. So if none of
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that's happening, it's kind of scary. Even with your individual
self, we're talking about getting grounded in chaos. I'm not getting off topic, but
even with your individual self, when you start therapy, when you start
working on yourself, It feels so hard. There's this rejection that
takes place within your body. It's like, Celeste, wait, hold on for a second.
What are we doing? The reason why that's happening is because
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you've been so used to living a certain way and your system's gotten
so used to living a certain way that doing the opposite feels really
scary. So one thing I need you to take
out your vocabulary is I don't feel like it, right? Because feelings
change, they waver. There's times where I want something sweet real
quick, you know what I'm saying? I feel like it runs in my family after I eat,
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I need something sweet. And I've been fighting that sweet thing
because that's what I want all the time. and it's been working,
but 10 minutes later, that feeling goes away.
I'd be like, all right, Celeste, you don't need it. You don't need it. Drive past, you don't need that bakery. And
then by the time I get home, I'm good. So feelings are gonna
change. They're gonna waver. So I need you to not think about what
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it feels like. So being in nature can really create
a calming effect over your life in
the moment. We're talking about getting into the moment. It could be really helpful.
Another great resource is journaling. So
writing down how you feel, being able
to express your emotions and getting it out on paper can be
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super therapeutic. I have a guided journal that I
created, but you don't have to get the journal in order to do this. You
can get a notebook from the dollar store. You can use your phone,
notes on your phone. I always share, these are questions
that I ask my kids at night during our check-in time, is how are you
feeling? What went well today? What did you do to prepare for tomorrow?
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and what are you grateful for? My goal is
to help them create systems for themselves and
to learn how to be in the moment on a daily basis because
there's so many things happening and it's so easy for us
to get distracted and not recognize what's going on in our life. So
journaling is another great tool. So that's
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the fourth one. The fifth one is physical activity. Please,
let's not talk about what we don't feel like doing because I don't want to hear that. Feeling
like doing it and doing it are two different things. We go to work
and we don't feel like doing it because we got to
get paid and we got to pay those bills. When it comes to physical
activity, I hear it a lot. I don't feel like it. Every
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day I do something physical, whether it's walking, going to the
gym, doing something at my house. A
lot of times, more times than not, I don't feel like doing
it. But how is it, Celeste, that you're able to do
it? Sometimes it's because I start first thing in the morning, but everybody doesn't have
that luxury. But the main reason why I'm
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able to do things beyond what I feel like Especially with
the physical activity because this is something that I really try to encourage My
people to do because with your mental status what you feed
your body Moving your body and sleep those
three things. Let's forget about the chaos that's happening in the world feeding
your body nutritious food moving your body and sleeping can
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affect your mental status and I just told you
about how I don't have the same cramps anymore because
of how clean I've been eating. So I want you to
be mindful of the physical activity that you're doing. And
if you don't do it, I need you to do it. And if
you can focus on the reward after, how
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many times, I'm sure you could think how many times you have found
yourself not feeling like going for a walk or
working out. And afterwards you'd be like, dang, that felt good, man. I don't
know why I don't do that on a regular basis. And for me,
I get myself up, I do it, and
I also know I'm going to feel good after. I've
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been doing it for so long that I know it. So it's easy for me to envision myself
across the finish line. So if you haven't been
used to doing any physical activity and you want to start, don't set
the bar too high because I don't want you to psych yourself up and then feel
bad that it can't happen as quickly as you want it to happen. But
what I want you to do is try 15 minutes, right? Go outside, go
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for a 15 minute walk, even if it's up and down your street.
If you're not ready to take that step outside, up and down your
stairs, around your house. Be mindful of
the physical activity that you're doing and make sure you are trying
to do it because it really helps. There's something about
moving things out of us, the toxins out of
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us, even when we're sick, You know how if peace
sometimes people in the hospital try to get them to walk around and move a little bit before
they leave Because they they recognize there's something powerful about
moving your body like physically and mentally There's these endorphins that
go off these happy happy things that happen in
our system Um, so I want you to think about physical activity
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and it doesn't have to be the gym. It could be dancing It could
be some yoga going go on youtube and type in yoga Go
on youtube and and put a dance. I'd be i'd be um plugging youtube
because it's free, you know They'd be trying to get me to get those ads. I still I
mean get the um package. I still haven't gotten the package but Put
some music on and just start dancing. We're decolonizing what
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what mental health looks like. We're decolonizing physical activity You
don't need a nice. Um gym suit to move your
body. You don't need um a peloton to move
your body, you know Like, those things are nice,
right? A nice gym suit, a nice Peloton is nice, but if
you ain't got it, I don't want you to stop and tell yourself, well, when I
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get the Peloton, I'll do it. When my gym clothes come in, I'll do it. No,
start moving your body now. So that's the fifth thing. And
these are in no order. All of these things matter, right?
And I want you to think about, like, what can I start today if none of them you've
been doing? This next one is important, please. Like, digital
detox. please do me
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a favor and check out how much screen time
on your phone that you've been utilizing social media, that
you've been playing games, because it's not just social media, games are
addictive. And I get it, it's a nice way to distract,
right? You're watching funny stuff. Sometimes, unfortunately,
you're seeing trauma and that trauma can get addictive where you're watching
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and looking and reading the comments and going back and forth with people.
A digital detox can be so therapeutic. I
have screen time on my phone. Every
15 minutes, if I'm on Instagram, it goes off and I'd be like, oh, it's
been 15 minutes. I'm very intentional about
how much I consume. Because I don't want what
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I'm consuming to consume me. I'm gonna say that again for the people in the back
I am very intentional about what I consume Because I
don't want the negative things that I'm consuming to consume me
And so I'm constantly in engulfing myself in
positivity in the mornings, you know my kids the house here
they hear the motivational video going off as I'm working out and I really don't
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play about my mind because I recognize how fragile it is
Especially in these chaotic times and I want to make sure that
I'm feeding it with something healthy the things that I listen to
I know what it is like these are things where I talk
about but hearing it said to me and Letting it
emerge in my mind is so powerful The
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next thing that we're talking about is a gratitude practice
so we have four more Creating a
gratitude practice can be extremely helpful
when you are making time to think about what you're grateful for.
it's hard for your mind to focus on what you don't have, right?
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If we're focusing on what we don't have, then we're
never going to see what we have. We're never going to see the possibilities of
what's possible. And it's so easy to go into
this sucks and that's happening. You know, my
friend, I said this before, but she said, you always know how to make You
always know how to see the positive in things and it's not because I
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am naive to the reality of life. I just told you life is hard.
I've been dealing with a lot of hard things, helping people walk through a
lot of hard times. It's very hard. So
it's not that I don't understand life is hard. Life is very hard.
But I choose not to allow the hard things to consume me,
right? I choose to look at the beauty in
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the struggle. I literally have a tattoo. that
says it's beauty in the struggle. It's actually the first
thing I got on my arm. J. Cole has a song. It's
beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success. It's love
yours. And I remember hearing
that song and it really touched me. And I
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said, I'm going to put that on my arm so I can see it every day. It's beauty in the struggle.
20 years ago, if you said this to me, that would make no sense. I
had to work my way up to this mindset. I'm always going to share that because I
can be a very positive person, but I
don't want you to think that it's because my life has been so easy. I don't
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want you to think it's because, oh, well, it's easy for you because you
have all these things, you have this and that. No, it's not the things that
created where I am. It's my intentionality with
my mindset that got me to this place. Cause there's people with way more
things than me that are way more miserable than you, you
know? So it's not the things that allow
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for my mindset to be what it is. Um, it's
really the gratitude and I'm
very intentional about thinking about those things and
reframing. I wanted to go for an
hour walk and I only had 40 minutes. And I remember saying, oh,
it was only 40 minutes as I'm looking at my timer. And then immediately
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I was like, nah, Celeste, you did 40 minutes. It wasn't only 40 minutes,
you did that. My voice is so powerful
that it's hard for you to change it. There's nothing you
can say to me that can change how I feel because the
voice in my head that I have is going on 24 seven.
So I'm not going to let you change up how I feel. So
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creating a gratitude practice, the questions I
ask my kids, what are you grateful for? That's
one of the questions that I ask them and I am clear about today.
What are you grateful for today? It forces them to go back into their
day and think about what happened today and how they're grateful for
it. So creating a gratitude practice can be extremely,
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extremely helpful. Connecting
with others is a great one. I
know that sometimes people don't have healthy people in their life and
I'm not naive to that fact. I understand, you know, my
closest friends I met as an adult. There
are people that I grew up with that I don't talk to anymore. I
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recognize that we weren't in alignment, right? And I had to grieve that
relationship and it's okay, those relationships. But
connecting with others, if you have family support, that's great. If
not, find a community online. There are so many positive
communities that are going on. Currently, the
stuff that I have is only in person, like the somatic classes at
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my wellness center, I'll talk about that at the end, are
only in person. But my goal down the road
is to create a digital platform,
right, so people can practice the
things that I'm offering, not just in person, but online. There
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are groups, there are free groups. NAMI is a great group in the United
States. There's chapters in every state. And some states
have Zoom components to it where you can
join a support group online, right? So find
your tribe, right? Try to connect with like-minded people.
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There's something powerful when you are connecting with like-minded people
and they get it. It's like, oh yeah, you get that. I've
helped people connect with different platforms and
groups that are in alignment with what they're going through, whether it's
eating disorder, some kind of addiction. And
they come back and they're like, oh my God, it was so amazing. Like these
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people get it. Like they're my community. They're my family. And
I want you to think about that. I know sometimes it's hard when you've
been hurt, but staying by
yourself in isolation, especially when you're struggling, is
a really hard place to be because you'll find
yourself starting to believe the negativity that's happening in your
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head. So if you are finding yourself very isolated,
I would encourage you, even if you're not ready to do anything in
person, to find a digital online platform with
like-minded people, whether you're going through depression, anxiety, some
trauma, don't do it alone. I
don't believe we were meant to do life alone. The
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last two things, creative outlets, that's
really helpful. Engaging in things like painting, drawing,
for people that are creative. I'm not a creative person. Well,
I guess people would say I'm creative with some of the things that I do, but as far as
like painting and drawing and stuff, it's just not my jam. But
I have a lot of people that I know that I work with, they love it, like
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it's their jam. and my guided journal acts, how are you
feeling? But I also have a little circle face where people can draw in
how they're feeling, because I recognize that there are just creative people around
the world. And when you're not tapping into that
creativity, there's something inside you that feels like it's dying, right? Even
if it's not about making money, there's some nurses that are
saving lives, but they also are drawing and
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coloring because it just feels good to them. So Creative
Outlets is something that can be really helpful. The
last thing I wanna say about getting grounded, right? In the
middle of chaos, right? Take what you can from this, right?
Leave what doesn't work, but there are a lot of these
things that I'm talking about are very practical or things that you can start
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right now in this very moment. But the last thing is establishing a
routine. Creating structure in chaos is
the best thing that you can do. When the pandemic happened, And
um, I remember i'm like, I didn't know what was going on. We didn't know
what was going on But then i'm working with people helping them like and
I said, you know what? Let's let's start with the routine Um
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a routine allows your mind to settle down a little bit,
right? so, um If all you do is go and
work go to work and come home try to create something where
you're intentional about it, like a mindfulness practice, a gratitude
practice, a walking thing, right? Try
to allow yourself to create systems where
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you're not just going the way with the wind blows. You know how like a leaf,
the window's open, I'm looking outside, like a leaf can like fly,
it's there, but then it's over there. If a wind comes, it's going to
blow there. Don't be like a leaf just like blowing everywhere,
right? Be get grounded and
getting grounded. You need some kind of systems. You need some kind
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of routines And you need some some times where you're
allowing yourself to take care of yourself Because if you're not
doing that then when somebody calls you and they need something you
don't recognize. Oh wait I don't have the capacity to
do that now or even picking up the phone some of you are picking up the phone And
you're letting people vent and talk to you about things.
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You don't want to talk about Work already left nine
to five is seven o'clock and y'all still talking about the same thing And
you're trying to figure out why you can't sleep why you're ruminating on work
why it's sunday and you're thinking about oh my gosh I gotta
go to work monday. So then you don't enjoy sunday Create
a routine. Start to be intentional
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about what you put your focus on, because your mind can
only go at the pace that you take it. If you are not allowing your mind to
bring in gratitude, to smell the roses, to be
in the sun, to journal, to be
creative, if you're not allowing your mind to do that, and you're
just scrolling on social media, playing games, and
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watching the news, then that's where your mind is gonna be. Your
mind's going to be like a leaf, which what's happening today, if I'm
in this place, all right, we're fearful today. But if
that's not the life you want, then you have to work on creating systems
for yourself. So I hope this was
helpful. I hope this makes sense. I
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want to share some of the offerings that we have coming up for July at
my center. If you are in the Stoughton
area, if you go to my website, stwyt.com, you
can find it and I'm on the MindBody app. So
excited about that. But I'm going to share some of the offerings we
have. So our last offering for June is a
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sound healing class by Jillian. And
this is going to be great. So, you know, these classes, they
help with anxiety, it helps calm your body down.
So this is happening Thursday, June 26. These
classes are happening once a month that I'm about to talk about. So,
um, we have rest and restore that's happening July 1st,
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I believe. And then, um, we also have a, so
rest and restore is a gentle practice with a guided experience that
combines, uh, breath work and chair yoga. and
a calming meditation. It helps relieve tension and
stress. We also have a mindful yin. And
this is basically combined stillness and
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mindfulness meditation. So we're using our breath and awareness to
connect with our body. We also have a restorative
yoga class. This is a gentle meditative practice
That uses props like blankets and bolsters to support the
body. And you're held in different spaces, a very relaxing,
recharged space to be in. And
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then we added this new monthly class that we had last month and
it's actually a trauma-informed yoga. So
if you have struggled with some trauma, this is a really good class
and we have an amazing practitioner that runs this class,
but a trauma-informed yoga. So
it's for a gentle grounding class designed to help you reconnect with your
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body's wisdom. Our body has wisdom, right? Just
because things have happened doesn't mean that we can't change. the
algorithm of our body don't believe what the people told you i'm telling
you right now if you're still breathing there's room for change um the
slow flow practice emphasizes choice consent and safety supporting
your nervous system regulation body awareness and self-compassion Um,
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and then, um, another class, um, we're having this month is
befriending the inner critic cultivating self-compassion. So
if you struggle with your inner dialogue, you know, I said today, my
inner dialogue is a beast. Like you can't tell me anything other
than what I know I am. Um, but this is focused on
shame resilience and internal dialogue, starting with a short talk on
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the inner critic and reframing exercises with changing your
inner dialogue, moving into a heart opening trauma informed Slow
flow and ending with a medal of kindness meditation. Um, so
all of these classes are on the website Um, my website
is stwyt.com as you can see on the screen Um,
and you can also follow me everywhere at celeste the therapist I
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also want to share my website
so you can kind of see how it works. And
let me just share my screen really quick and then we're gonna
go. So if you go to stwyt.com, you'll see this
right here. And as you can see, the next class is happening is
a sound healing class. But if you go to events right
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here, you will see the, the
monthly calendar. And like today, there's no class,
but if you look for Thursday, there is a sound healing
class. And all you got to do is go to book and it will show
you a description of the class. And once you confirm it,
you will be able to sign into MindBody and book it. My
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goal, you know, my goal is to have classes throughout the
week, right? So we started with one, then two, then three.
Now we have four monthly classes. I
added a fifth one. You can look at the full calendar and
like our next class is July 1st, I believe. So
I'm gonna go here. And here it is right
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here. And then if you scroll down, you
can see it this way
too, where it gives you descriptions of the classes and
you can look at the schedule that way as
well. Um, so stwit.com you
can find those everywhere I just want to say, you know Thank you
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so much for rocking out with me if anything I ever say resonates for
you understand you have the power to create change But first you
got to have faith to believe in yourself And when you have faith when you
start believing in yourself, I promise you nobody can take that away from you, baby Thank
you all so much for rocking with me. Don't forget. I'm on Instagram Facebook YouTube These
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Center is stwy T and my Name
on social media as Celesta therapist until next time beautiful people.
Thank you all so much for joining another episode of Celeste the therapist podcast.
My name is Celeste. I'm a therapist from Boston If you've never been into
my podcast before I want to say thank you so much for coming
through I appreciate you what I do on this podcast is
I talk about things that we're going through and I I Work on
helping you think about ways to deal with them with really
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practical steps. I'm a very practical person and
today we're talking about getting grounded in the midst of
chaos and Uh, you know some so I
am a real therapist for people that's never been here before, you know People because
my tagline is celeste a therapist and people say are you really a therapist? I'm really a
therapist And i've been a therapist uh
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for Well, I've been in the mental health field for
over 20 years and I've been a therapist since for
15 years. And it's so interesting. So
over the last 15 years, we've gone through so many things. And
I think about the pandemic, I think about all
the chaos during the pandemic, and I think about 2025, the
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new president that we have, and just the chaos. And
sometimes I'll be like, dang, yo, Celeste, how you doing it?
Because since the pandemic in
2020, I feel like that's the first time where I feel like the same thing
I'm walking people through is the same thing I'm going through. And also, there's
this collective thing that's taking place around the
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country around the world. And, um, I am walking
people through it as I'm working on walking myself through
it. It's very interesting. Um, and so as
I have the privilege to, uh, record
this podcast, if you're listening to me on audio, I'm also on YouTube. I
have the privilege of recording this. I, um, I'm grateful for
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the people that continue to follow me and press play and
listen to the podcast. and people
that let me know how much this podcast has helped them. The
things that I do, I wanna share it with you because they really helped me.
And so that's why today I wanna talk about how to get grounded in the
middle of chaos. And I'm just gonna give you these 10 things to
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think about. I'm gonna share my screen just
so you can see it visually, but
I'm pretty much gonna talk about it. I
really wanna help you find your center. Before I go through the 10 things that
I wanna share with you that I want you to work on doing, and literally
everything that I'm talking about, it doesn't cost money. I'm so
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big on decolonize what mental health looks
like. This podcast is free. The things I'm gonna talk about
you doing is free. But I talk about
being grounded a lot, and I really wanna start with the definition of
what grounded means. So being grounded, it
generally means being present, being aware, and connected
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to your current reality with a sense of stability and
balance. It implies being in touch with your emotions, thoughts,
physical sensations, and having a strong connection to
the moment. In a figurative sense, it
also suggests being sensible, reasonable, and having a practical outlook
on life. And so when you
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think about the definition Being grounded doesn't mean life is
perfect. Being grounded doesn't mean that everything goes the way you
want it to go. Being grounded allows you to deal
with the things that are happening in life. One
of the things people say is that I'm very consistent in
my presence, right? Regardless of what's going on,
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I'm going to show up as who I am. not
allow you to take me out of character, not allow myself, even on social
media, there are people that I've been following for a while, and
when they say something that I struggle with seeing, I
don't go to war in comments, I just unfollow. And
that's me protecting my peace. Looking at the statement,
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is it annoying? Yes, but they have a right to feel how they feel about
certain subjects, but I don't have, I choose not
to be a part of That a lot of times we don't even recognize That
the way that we're feeling is because we're we're making a
choice to engage in certain chaotic things that we are doing
Um, and so when you think about being grounded because I talk
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about like i'm very grounded I say that a lot, but I recognize I
haven't talked about the definition when I talk about being
grounded That means i'm very aware of what's going on my physical body
and how I feel Um side note like i've been eating
really really clean lately in this period cycle.
Over the last few years, my cycle, I have really
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less cramps. It's not as heavy and bad as
it was before. This is such a side note. But
if you listen to the podcast, you know I'm always gonna do a quick side note. This
cycle that I had, I've been really clean lately. I've been walking
more. I've been really eating clean, drinking water. And
I had absolutely no cramps. And it's so
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funny because I've seen, in my mind, I was thinking
about like, wow, this cycle's really good. And I'm
so present and grounded, I recognize I've been eating clean.
And I'm like, wow, what you put in your body really does affect your body.
It's something I don't say, even I just watched Dr. Holistic, I
love him, he's a black uh he's black doctor
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on instagram and youtube and he struggled
with high blood pressure and stuff all his life he changed his eating habits started
helping other patients changed theirs the hospital didn't like it so
he went out on his own the hospital wanted him to stick to the script But
he was saying how when I eat, I poop. And
the person he was talking to was like, wow, I love that for you. And
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he said, this is what it's supposed to be all the time. And
so we don't even realize, I talk about the mind and how we hold
on to pain. And we literally hold on to so much
crap in us because we haven't been taught. We
haven't been taught that it's not supposed to be that way. So we get
used to just dealing with crap in our, literally
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in us. And we get used to dealing with
our mind, feeling like crap, literally. So I,
you know, there's a lot of chaos happening in the world. And
I can't solve all the problems, right?
I can only do what I can do. I don't have control over
what's going on and it breaks my heart. A lot of the things that I
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see, like it really, I really struggle with seeing some of the things
I see, like my heart breaks and I don't understand
why. I'm not a religious person, but I'm a very
spiritual person. And I always tell myself, lean
not on your own understanding when these things come up, because I don't understand it.
Even before now, in general, as the work that I do, the stories that I
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hear, that make no sense to me. I
lean not on my own understanding. That's literally what
I say to myself when those things are happening. So
let me help you with some practical ways to work on
your mental health and staying grounded in the middle of chaos.
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So if you are somebody that is struggling with that, this
is gonna be a great episode for you to kinda
listen to and get your mind right. First
is professional support. Nothing wrong with
seeking out professional support, therapist, coach, right?
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Who else? Like a pastor, somebody
that you trust that's
a professional. I started with that
because sometimes it's like, oh yeah, of course, like see
a therapist, but also I recognize that a
lot of people don't have access to therapy. may not have
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access to a coach. And so I
don't want you to feel like, well, if I don't have a therapist, how
can I work on getting grounded? But that is one of the things.
The second thing I want you to think about is mindfulness and meditation.
Mindfulness and meditation is something you
can just practice every day. And I really want you to be practical about it.
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So when you wake up in the morning, before
you grab your phone and check your email, before you
go on social media, I really need you to be intentional about this
process. It's literally how I start my day. Get
up in the morning. stretch go use the bathroom and
set your timer for five minutes right um you can
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even do like a meditation on youtube for five minutes
but if you're not if you're not if you're not trying to do that right now that's
okay but set your timer for five minutes and just breathe
in and breathe out and just take time to Think
about what you have going on today. If you feel like your mind's racing, that's
okay. At least you understand that it's racing, right? But try
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to, if you are not somebody that is into pausing,
like you haven't taken moments to pause, first
thing in the morning, I like it first thing in the morning because you can set the tone. And
I'm saying five minutes because I am trying to help you start
with something small. I don't want you to set the goal to 20 or 30 minutes,
something that you're not used to doing. But mindfulness does
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not have to be something that takes up a
lot of time to start, right? It doesn't have to
cost money, right? But taking time to
just sit and breathe and be by yourself, right? If
you wanna take it a step further, start thinking about
what you have going on for the day, right? Taking time to
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breathe and think about, okay, I gotta do whatever it
is you gotta do, right? Five minutes, starting with
five minutes. You can always increase it,
right? You can also add it for the nighttime before
you go to bed, thinking about, how was my day? Another
way you can practice a practical meditation practice is
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in the shower. In the shower, you
are being still in the shower, the water's hitting you,
you have the soap, you can touch your body, you can feel yourself,
your feet is touching the ground. you can take
that moment and just breathe, right? And just ask yourself, like,
how am I really feeling? Some of you are so used to
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being the caregiver or the person that takes care of everyone that
you don't even ask yourself, how am I feeling? So
be comfortable with doing that for yourself, right? Because
if anybody, it's one thing, like nobody's gonna come
and save you. And I think a lot of times we don't recognize that
we're doing so much for other people and we have nothing left for
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ourselves. and our system is in overdrive all
the time. So those are some practical ways to
think about practicing mindfulness in the morning. Start
first thing in the morning before you go to bed, or you can even do
it in the shower. I try to incorporate new things that
you're doing with a routine that you already have. The
second thing I want you to think about is nature. Being
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in nature is such a great tool for
people to use. It's a natural resource. There's
like some water, a little small pond that's not
far from my house. Sometimes when I drive that way and I
literally will take a deep breath and it feels so good. and
then a breath out. Even just now, that breath I just took just now,
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if you can hear it and you're not watching, that
felt so good. It felt like I was resetting, right? When I started talking
about the chaos in the world, I felt like sad, like my
chest tightened up a little bit because I just started thinking about some things recently
that I've been made aware of and it just made me feel sad. And
then I just breathed and it felt really good. But
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spending time, Spending some time outdoors and
just sitting still in nature can be really helpful. I happen to
have some hiking trails near my house, but even if you don't have
hiking trails, walk out in front of your door and
get some sun. Go for a small walk. Even
if you don't feel like it, as I'm talking about these things to
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do, what I need you not to say to yourself is
like, oh, I didn't feel like doing it today. I don't want you to do that. You're
never going to feel like doing something that's good for you if you're not
used to doing it. I'm going to say that again for the people in the back. If
you're not used to doing something healthy, it's
not gonna feel good It's not gonna feel like something you want and
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I always give this example But there was a time where after
I worked out I would go to Burger King. So give me a whopper That was like my favorite
meal and I'm not knocking whoppers But that's crazy work
to be going to the gym and then go to Burger King's after like make it
make sense to us and when I learned that um,
I was doing it all backwards and I went
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and got a bunch of greens, and I tell this story a lot, and
I was like, yes, I'm on this healthy journey, and it took time for me
to figure out how to make this stuff. The stuff that I brought went
bad. Even when I tried it, it tastes disgusting. I didn't
know what I was doing, so I said, all right, Celeste, let's just start with breakfast. I
started making smoothies for breakfast, and over time, my
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taste palette started to change. and it
tasted really well, it tasted so good. So from breakfast to
lunch to dinner, that was, my daughter's 12, so that was about maybe
11, 10 years ago. Today, like, I just, I can't do fast food. But
like, give me some fresh greens, some kale, some couscous, like,
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you know, I'm on it. I love me some fresh food. Before, I just
didn't realize how much that I,
I needed it and because it was something that
was foreign to me, I rejected it, right?
So even like relationships, side note, like some
people who's been through a lot of hard things and hard relationships, you'll
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tell yourself you want a healthy relationship, but then when that healthy person
presents itself, you don't realize you start self-sabotaging. I
literally did that. You would self-sabotage and
not realize it, but there's this rejection that takes place
because you're not used to chaos. You're not used to all the, I
mean, you're used to chaos. You're used to trauma. So if none of
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that's happening, it's kind of scary. Even with your individual
self, we're talking about getting grounded in chaos. I'm not getting off topic, but
even with your individual self, when you start therapy, when you start
working on yourself, It feels so hard. There's this rejection that
takes place within your body. It's like, Celeste, wait, hold on for a second.
What are we doing? The reason why that's happening is because
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you've been so used to living a certain way and your system's gotten
so used to living a certain way that doing the opposite feels really
scary. So one thing I need you to take
out your vocabulary is I don't feel like it, right? Because feelings
change, they waver. There's times where I want something sweet real
quick, you know what I'm saying? I feel like it runs in my family after I eat,
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I need something sweet. And I've been fighting that sweet thing
because that's what I want all the time. and it's been working,
but 10 minutes later, that feeling goes away.
I'd be like, all right, Celeste, you don't need it. You don't need it. Drive past, you don't need that bakery. And
then by the time I get home, I'm good. So feelings are gonna
change. They're gonna waver. So I need you to not think about what
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it feels like. So being in nature can really create
a calming effect over your life in
the moment. We're talking about getting into the moment. It could be really helpful.
Another great resource is journaling. So
writing down how you feel, being able
to express your emotions and getting it out on paper can be
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super therapeutic. I have a guided journal that I
created, but you don't have to get the journal in order to do this. You
can get a notebook from the dollar store. You can use your phone,
notes on your phone. I always share, these are questions
that I ask my kids at night during our check-in time, is how are you
feeling? What went well today? What did you do to prepare for tomorrow?
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and what are you grateful for? My goal is
to help them create systems for themselves and
to learn how to be in the moment on a daily basis because
there's so many things happening and it's so easy for us
to get distracted and not recognize what's going on in our life. So
journaling is another great tool. So that's
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the fourth one. The fifth one is physical activity. Please,
let's not talk about what we don't feel like doing because I don't want to hear that. Feeling
like doing it and doing it are two different things. We go to work
and we don't feel like doing it because we got to
get paid and we got to pay those bills. When it comes to physical
activity, I hear it a lot. I don't feel like it. Every
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day I do something physical, whether it's walking, going to the
gym, doing something at my house. A
lot of times, more times than not, I don't feel like doing
it. But how is it, Celeste, that you're able to do
it? Sometimes it's because I start first thing in the morning, but everybody doesn't have
that luxury. But the main reason why I'm
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able to do things beyond what I feel like Especially with
the physical activity because this is something that I really try to encourage My
people to do because with your mental status what you feed
your body Moving your body and sleep those
three things. Let's forget about the chaos that's happening in the world feeding
your body nutritious food moving your body and sleeping can
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affect your mental status and I just told you
about how I don't have the same cramps anymore because
of how clean I've been eating. So I want you to
be mindful of the physical activity that you're doing. And
if you don't do it, I need you to do it. And if
you can focus on the reward after, how
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many times, I'm sure you could think how many times you have found
yourself not feeling like going for a walk or
working out. And afterwards you'd be like, dang, that felt good, man. I don't
know why I don't do that on a regular basis. And for me,
I get myself up, I do it, and
I also know I'm going to feel good after. I've
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been doing it for so long that I know it. So it's easy for me to envision myself
across the finish line. So if you haven't been
used to doing any physical activity and you want to start, don't set
the bar too high because I don't want you to psych yourself up and then feel
bad that it can't happen as quickly as you want it to happen. But
what I want you to do is try 15 minutes, right? Go outside, go
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for a 15 minute walk, even if it's up and down your street.
If you're not ready to take that step outside, up and down your
stairs, around your house. Be mindful of
the physical activity that you're doing and make sure you are trying
to do it because it really helps. There's something about
moving things out of us, the toxins out of
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us, even when we're sick, You know how if peace
sometimes people in the hospital try to get them to walk around and move a little bit before
they leave Because they they recognize there's something powerful about
moving your body like physically and mentally There's these endorphins that
go off these happy happy things that happen in
our system Um, so I want you to think about physical activity
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and it doesn't have to be the gym. It could be dancing It could
be some yoga going go on youtube and type in yoga Go
on youtube and and put a dance. I'd be i'd be um plugging youtube
because it's free, you know They'd be trying to get me to get those ads. I still I
mean get the um package. I still haven't gotten the package but Put
some music on and just start dancing. We're decolonizing what
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what mental health looks like. We're decolonizing physical activity You
don't need a nice. Um gym suit to move your
body. You don't need um a peloton to move
your body, you know Like, those things are nice,
right? A nice gym suit, a nice Peloton is nice, but if
you ain't got it, I don't want you to stop and tell yourself, well, when I
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get the Peloton, I'll do it. When my gym clothes come in, I'll do it. No,
start moving your body now. So that's the fifth thing. And
these are in no order. All of these things matter, right?
And I want you to think about, like, what can I start today if none of them you've
been doing? This next one is important, please. Like, digital
detox. please do me
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a favor and check out how much screen time
on your phone that you've been utilizing social media, that
you've been playing games, because it's not just social media, games are
addictive. And I get it, it's a nice way to distract,
right? You're watching funny stuff. Sometimes, unfortunately,
you're seeing trauma and that trauma can get addictive where you're watching
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and looking and reading the comments and going back and forth with people.
A digital detox can be so therapeutic. I
have screen time on my phone. Every
15 minutes, if I'm on Instagram, it goes off and I'd be like, oh, it's
been 15 minutes. I'm very intentional about
how much I consume. Because I don't want what
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I'm consuming to consume me. I'm gonna say that again for the people in the back
I am very intentional about what I consume Because I
don't want the negative things that I'm consuming to consume me
And so I'm constantly in engulfing myself in
positivity in the mornings, you know my kids the house here
they hear the motivational video going off as I'm working out and I really don't
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play about my mind because I recognize how fragile it is
Especially in these chaotic times and I want to make sure that
I'm feeding it with something healthy the things that I listen to
I know what it is like these are things where I talk
about but hearing it said to me and Letting it
emerge in my mind is so powerful The
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next thing that we're talking about is a gratitude practice
so we have four more Creating a
gratitude practice can be extremely helpful
when you are making time to think about what you're grateful for.
it's hard for your mind to focus on what you don't have, right?
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If we're focusing on what we don't have, then we're
never going to see what we have. We're never going to see the possibilities of
what's possible. And it's so easy to go into
this sucks and that's happening. You know, my
friend, I said this before, but she said, you always know how to make You
always know how to see the positive in things and it's not because I
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am naive to the reality of life. I just told you life is hard.
I've been dealing with a lot of hard things, helping people walk through a
lot of hard times. It's very hard. So
it's not that I don't understand life is hard. Life is very hard.
But I choose not to allow the hard things to consume me,
right? I choose to look at the beauty in
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the struggle. I literally have a tattoo. that
says it's beauty in the struggle. It's actually the first
thing I got on my arm. J. Cole has a song. It's
beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success. It's love
yours. And I remember hearing
that song and it really touched me. And I
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said, I'm going to put that on my arm so I can see it every day. It's beauty in the struggle.
20 years ago, if you said this to me, that would make no sense. I
had to work my way up to this mindset. I'm always going to share that because I
can be a very positive person, but I
don't want you to think that it's because my life has been so easy. I don't
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want you to think it's because, oh, well, it's easy for you because you
have all these things, you have this and that. No, it's not the things that
created where I am. It's my intentionality with
my mindset that got me to this place. Cause there's people with way more
things than me that are way more miserable than you, you
know? So it's not the things that allow
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for my mindset to be what it is. Um, it's
really the gratitude and I'm
very intentional about thinking about those things and
reframing. I wanted to go for an
hour walk and I only had 40 minutes. And I remember saying, oh,
it was only 40 minutes as I'm looking at my timer. And then immediately
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I was like, nah, Celeste, you did 40 minutes. It wasn't only 40 minutes,
you did that. My voice is so powerful
that it's hard for you to change it. There's nothing you
can say to me that can change how I feel because the
voice in my head that I have is going on 24 seven.
So I'm not going to let you change up how I feel. So
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creating a gratitude practice, the questions I
ask my kids, what are you grateful for? That's
one of the questions that I ask them and I am clear about today.
What are you grateful for today? It forces them to go back into their
day and think about what happened today and how they're grateful for
it. So creating a gratitude practice can be extremely,
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extremely helpful. Connecting
with others is a great one. I
know that sometimes people don't have healthy people in their life and
I'm not naive to that fact. I understand, you know, my
closest friends I met as an adult. There
are people that I grew up with that I don't talk to anymore. I
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recognize that we weren't in alignment, right? And I had to grieve that
relationship and it's okay, those relationships. But
connecting with others, if you have family support, that's great. If
not, find a community online. There are so many positive
communities that are going on. Currently, the
stuff that I have is only in person, like the somatic classes at
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my wellness center, I'll talk about that at the end, are
only in person. But my goal down the road
is to create a digital platform,
right, so people can practice the
things that I'm offering, not just in person, but online. There
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are groups, there are free groups. NAMI is a great group in the United
States. There's chapters in every state. And some states
have Zoom components to it where you can
join a support group online, right? So find
your tribe, right? Try to connect with like-minded people.
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There's something powerful when you are connecting with like-minded people
and they get it. It's like, oh yeah, you get that. I've
helped people connect with different platforms and
groups that are in alignment with what they're going through, whether it's
eating disorder, some kind of addiction. And
they come back and they're like, oh my God, it was so amazing. Like these
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people get it. Like they're my community. They're my family. And
I want you to think about that. I know sometimes it's hard when you've
been hurt, but staying by
yourself in isolation, especially when you're struggling, is
a really hard place to be because you'll find
yourself starting to believe the negativity that's happening in your
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head. So if you are finding yourself very isolated,
I would encourage you, even if you're not ready to do anything in
person, to find a digital online platform with
like-minded people, whether you're going through depression, anxiety, some
trauma, don't do it alone. I
don't believe we were meant to do life alone. The
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last two things, creative outlets, that's
really helpful. Engaging in things like painting, drawing,
for people that are creative. I'm not a creative person. Well,
I guess people would say I'm creative with some of the things that I do, but as far as
like painting and drawing and stuff, it's just not my jam. But
I have a lot of people that I know that I work with, they love it, like
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it's their jam. and my guided journal acts, how are you
feeling? But I also have a little circle face where people can draw in
how they're feeling, because I recognize that there are just creative people around
the world. And when you're not tapping into that
creativity, there's something inside you that feels like it's dying, right? Even
if it's not about making money, there's some nurses that are
saving lives, but they also are drawing and
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coloring because it just feels good to them. So Creative
Outlets is something that can be really helpful. The
last thing I wanna say about getting grounded, right? In the
middle of chaos, right? Take what you can from this, right?
Leave what doesn't work, but there are a lot of these
things that I'm talking about are very practical or things that you can start
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right now in this very moment. But the last thing is establishing a
routine. Creating structure in chaos is
the best thing that you can do. When the pandemic happened, And
um, I remember i'm like, I didn't know what was going on. We didn't know
what was going on But then i'm working with people helping them like and
I said, you know what? Let's let's start with the routine Um
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a routine allows your mind to settle down a little bit,
right? so, um If all you do is go and
work go to work and come home try to create something where
you're intentional about it, like a mindfulness practice, a gratitude
practice, a walking thing, right? Try
to allow yourself to create systems where
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you're not just going the way with the wind blows. You know how like a leaf,
the window's open, I'm looking outside, like a leaf can like fly,
it's there, but then it's over there. If a wind comes, it's going to
blow there. Don't be like a leaf just like blowing everywhere,
right? Be get grounded and
getting grounded. You need some kind of systems. You need some kind
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of routines And you need some some times where you're
allowing yourself to take care of yourself Because if you're not
doing that then when somebody calls you and they need something you
don't recognize. Oh wait I don't have the capacity to
do that now or even picking up the phone some of you are picking up the phone And
you're letting people vent and talk to you about things.
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You don't want to talk about Work already left nine
to five is seven o'clock and y'all still talking about the same thing And
you're trying to figure out why you can't sleep why you're ruminating on work
why it's sunday and you're thinking about oh my gosh I gotta
go to work monday. So then you don't enjoy sunday Create
a routine. Start to be intentional
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about what you put your focus on, because your mind can
only go at the pace that you take it. If you are not allowing your mind to
bring in gratitude, to smell the roses, to be
in the sun, to journal, to be
creative, if you're not allowing your mind to do that, and you're
just scrolling on social media, playing games, and
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watching the news, then that's where your mind is gonna be. Your
mind's going to be like a leaf, which what's happening today, if I'm
in this place, all right, we're fearful today. But if
that's not the life you want, then you have to work on creating systems
for yourself. So I hope this was
helpful. I hope this makes sense. I
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want to share some of the offerings that we have coming up for July at
my center. If you are in the Stoughton
area, if you go to my website, stwyt.com, you
can find it and I'm on the MindBody app. So
excited about that. But I'm going to share some of the offerings we
have. So our last offering for June is a
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sound healing class by Jillian. And
this is going to be great. So, you know, these classes, they
help with anxiety, it helps calm your body down.
So this is happening Thursday, June 26. These
classes are happening once a month that I'm about to talk about. So,
um, we have rest and restore that's happening July 1st,
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I believe. And then, um, we also have a, so
rest and restore is a gentle practice with a guided experience that
combines, uh, breath work and chair yoga. and
a calming meditation. It helps relieve tension and
stress. We also have a mindful yin. And
this is basically combined stillness and
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mindfulness meditation. So we're using our breath and awareness to
connect with our body. We also have a restorative
yoga class. This is a gentle meditative practice
That uses props like blankets and bolsters to support the
body. And you're held in different spaces, a very relaxing,
recharged space to be in. And
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then we added this new monthly class that we had last month and
it's actually a trauma-informed yoga. So
if you have struggled with some trauma, this is a really good class
and we have an amazing practitioner that runs this class,
but a trauma-informed yoga. So
it's for a gentle grounding class designed to help you reconnect with your
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body's wisdom. Our body has wisdom, right? Just
because things have happened doesn't mean that we can't change. the
algorithm of our body don't believe what the people told you i'm telling
you right now if you're still breathing there's room for change um the
slow flow practice emphasizes choice consent and safety supporting
your nervous system regulation body awareness and self-compassion Um,
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and then, um, another class, um, we're having this month is
befriending the inner critic cultivating self-compassion. So
if you struggle with your inner dialogue, you know, I said today, my
inner dialogue is a beast. Like you can't tell me anything other
than what I know I am. Um, but this is focused on
shame resilience and internal dialogue, starting with a short talk on
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the inner critic and reframing exercises with changing your
inner dialogue, moving into a heart opening trauma informed Slow
flow and ending with a medal of kindness meditation. Um, so
all of these classes are on the website Um, my website
is stwyt.com as you can see on the screen Um,
and you can also follow me everywhere at celeste the therapist I
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also want to share my website
so you can kind of see how it works. And
let me just share my screen really quick and then we're gonna
go. So if you go to stwyt.com, you'll see this
right here. And as you can see, the next class is happening is
a sound healing class. But if you go to events right
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here, you will see the, the
monthly calendar. And like today, there's no class,
but if you look for Thursday, there is a sound healing
class. And all you got to do is go to book and it will show
you a description of the class. And once you confirm it,
you will be able to sign into MindBody and book it. My
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goal, you know, my goal is to have classes throughout the
week, right? So we started with one, then two, then three.
Now we have four monthly classes. I
added a fifth one. You can look at the full calendar and
like our next class is July 1st, I believe. So
I'm gonna go here. And here it is right
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here. And then if you scroll down, you
can see it this way
too, where it gives you descriptions of the classes and
you can look at the schedule that way as
well. Um, so stwit.com you
can find those everywhere I just want to say, you know Thank you
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so much for rocking out with me if anything I ever say resonates for
you understand you have the power to create change But first you
got to have faith to believe in yourself And when you have faith when you
start believing in yourself, I promise you nobody can take that away from you, baby Thank
you all so much for rocking with me. Don't forget. I'm on Instagram Facebook YouTube These
episodes are on YouTube. So definitely holler at me. Give me a like
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share the episode and on social media my Wellness
Center is stwy T and my Name
on social media as Celesta therapist until next time beautiful people.
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