We Are All... ON THE SPECTRUM | with Bianca Thomas

Text our show Key Takeaways:- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps reshape thoughts and beliefs.- Personal trauma can significantly impact mental health and relationships. Your past and your trauma only defines you to the degree that you allow it to. - Acknowledging your pain is the first step to healing.Licensed mental health counselor Bianca Thomas, blends cognitive behavioural therapy with warmth, humor, and lived experience, showing how honest self-examination can move you from pretending to be okay to actually building a life that feels stable, meaningful, and yours. Bianca opens up about growing up in a strict, image-driven environment, and the relationship that compounded her pain. She explains how she recognized patterns consistent with borderline personality disorder and what changed when a business partner challenged her to do the real inner work.Bianca speaks to the need for awareness, personal responsibility and getting the help we need. She emphasizes that we've all at one point fallen on the spectrum of various mental health disorders, due to the symptoms we generally tend to experience while dealing with life's challenges. We dig into stigma, speaking on why asking for help still feels risky, how shame keeps people stuck, and why labels describe clusters of human experiences rather than moral flaws. We conclude with a final takeaway that, you can’t control where you started, but you can choose the meaning you make from it and the behaviours you practice next. All links to our guest's work and official siteWebsite ➡️ https://evolveventurestech.com YouTube ➡️ @EvolvewithBianca TikTok ➡️ https://www.tiktok.com/@evolvewithbiancaInstagram ➡️ https://www.instagram.com/evolvewithbianca/Books Mentioned: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Dr. Gabor Maté with Daniel MatéSupport the showConnect with us!!! Instagram @discovertheothersideoffear Youtube The Other Side of Fear Podcast Kertia's Email: [email protected] to be a guest on The Other Side of Fear? Send Kertia Jené a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/kertiajohnsonOR connect with us via our email.⚠ HEALTH DISCLAIMER ⚠All health and mental health topics within the content of this body of work are for informational, discussion, reflective, and entertainment purposes only. The Other Side of Fear and its contents does not replace nor does it claim to replace the knowledge, expertise and advice of licensed healthcare professionals. Disclaimer:The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of The Other Side of Fear, its subsidiaries, or any entities they represent.