48. Coping Skills VS. Healing and Growth in Mental Health

Episode 48Welcome to the Healing Pod! Today we are touch on the difference between hiding in coping skills and opening up to potential healing and growth. Coping skills are for regulation. They get us through the tough moments. If we keep running from discomfort though and never use new skills to challenge that which we could not do before, there is no growth. We need closure, we need autonomy, we need to be able to live life, not to slowly isolate it down in order not to face things that are hard, because even then the hard things find a way through. If you want to give us something to talk about, or join in a podcast episode, feel free to post on any of our social media or submit an anonymous story here: https://forms.gle/77KgEmvVpLYBMAHt6As always, thank you to the wonderful Dr. Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being. And thank you to Dr. Keith Christie of Journey Together and Mia Karpack for helping us get our socials up and going! https://journeytogetherpc.com/ Stay tuned for episodes featuring some of his top notch clinicians!Come join us and chat, complain, or send in what mental health you would like to hear us ramble about! Find us on Facebook, TikTok, and instagram at The Healing Pod We are online at https://www.PeasInTheHealingPod.com  You can email us any questions, suggestions, comments, or memes at [email protected]  If you want to hunt down the bits and bobbles that have been cut out of our episode, join us for another live recording, or just to buy us a cup of coffee, come join us at https://www.patreon.com/TheHealingPod