EPISODE · Oct 30, 2022 · 57 MIN
Home: It's a Feeling
from The Positive Mind · host Kevin O'Donoghue LMHC, Niseema Dyan Diemer SEP LMT BCPP
The feeling of home is as universal as it is personal. Home can be a place of safety and refuge, or chaos and instability. No matter which, home is the place you identify with in some way, it carries meaning, memories and shapes your identity. Homesickness is a powerful feeling that something just isn't right, coupled with a longing for things to be stable, predictable, familiar and safe. But, it is a fact of life that everybody has to leave home; how a person manages that stress can say a lot about their relationship with themselves and their ability to take a sense of "home" with them wherever they go. Kevin and Niseema talk about how homesickness can lead to depression, a sense of being lost, rootless and adrift. It's the mysterious and universal feeling of home that seems to root us in our very being, providing a shelter for those days and times when all seems lost. ------------------------------------ For more information or support contact Kevin or Niseema at: [email protected], or call 212-757-4488. You can sign up for our weekly newsletter at www.tffpp.org. These are challenging times and we hope this episode served to validate and ease your anxiety about what you may be experiencing. Please feel free to also suggest show ideas to the above email. Thank you for listening, Kevin and Niseema www.tffpp.org https://www.kevinlmhc.com www.niseema.com www.thepositivemindcenter.com PRODUCTION CREDITS Opening Music : Another Country, Pure Shadowfax, Shadowfax Break Music: Original Composition by Geoff Brady End Music : TFFPP Theme - Giullian Goiello for The Foundation for Positive Psychology The Positive Mind is produced with the help of: Engineering: Geoff Brady Research and Production Associate: Connie Shannon Website Design and End Music: Giullian Gioello Marketing and PR: Jen Maguire, Maguire PR, [email protected]
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The feeling of home is as universal as it is personal. Home can be a place of safety and refuge, or chaos and instability. No matter which, home is the place you identify with in some way, it carries meaning, memories and shapes your identity. Homesickness is a powerful feeling that something just isn't right, coupled with a longing for things to be stable, predictable, familiar and safe. But, it is a fact of life that everybody has to leave home; how a person manages that stress can say a lot about their relationship with themselves and their ability to take a sense of "home" with them wherever they go. Kevin and Niseema talk about how homesickness can lead to depression, a sense of being lost, rootless and adrift. It's the mysterious and universal feeling of home that seems to root us in our very being, providing a shelter for those days and times when all seems lost.
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