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Mental Uplift
by Nina Kricak
Hello! My name is Nina and welcome to the Mental Uplift Podcast! Where we bring awareness to mental illness and mental health through I am statements because I believe that living with a mental illness everyday almost becomes a part of you! In the Mental Uplift Podcast you will be hearing my story as well as other because I believe that no one is alone even if the world may feel lonely sometimes.In each episode you will hear about different types of struggles and victories and build your toolbox with different self care activities!
Episodes
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Let's Catch Up and Talk About the Future
The last episode I said that I was back, the plan was to be back and make podcasts every week and then I disappeared and today I talk about why! I got slide blinded by the wonderful and dangerous thing called love! Life just got in the way! I talk about what has happened and also my goals for the...
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I am Back - Life Update
Hello everyone! Welcome back to the Mental Uplift Podcast! I took a break for a bit because I was super busy and don't want to take the joy of something that is here for me to cope. I am reflecting on the first half of 2021 and talking about some of my goals for the rest of the year! For the rest...
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I am Creative: A Conversation with a Black Powerful Creative
As June was Black Lives Matter Month I wanted to learn about Black Creatives! My sorority sister, Sierra, is a video maker and a photographer and a writer! She has an interesting take on life and experiences, she took the time to educate me on people of color in the film industry. Please check…
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I am PRIDE: Conversation with a Bi-Sexual
I have a conversation with one of my sorority sisters about her journey of accepting the fact that she is bi-sexual! I love seeing the people I love walking into their truth and feel free their whole energy changes! This is something also that I need and want to learn more about so more...
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I am not sure how to feel
I have no idea how to feel right now! I have so much things that I keep going back and forth on literally every aspect of my life! I share everything, sorry for my rant, but hopefully it helps someone! Thank You! Stay Uplifted! Website: https://www.mentaluplift4.com IG and Facebook: @mentaluplift...
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Mental Health Challenge: Reward Yourself
Take a minute to reward yourself!! You have done an activity every day this month for your mental health! Take yourself for a date or plan a vacation! When you reward yourself for achieving a goal you create motivation to work hard and achieve the next goal. Thank You! Stay Uplifted! Website:...
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Mental Health Challenge: Reflection
Take a second to reflect on how you are feeling after these 30 days! How is your mental health? Take a pause and write down your thoughts! While reflecting I want to thank all of you for listening these past 30 days and have learned more of where I want to take this podcast! Also sorry for the...
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Mental Health Challenge: Food Saving Tips and Meal Prep
Today I talk about cleaning your fridge and share some food saving tips for you and your family! Thank You! Stay Uplifted! Website: https://www.mentaluplift4.com IG and Facebook: @mentaluplift Art By: Em Carpenter Facebook and IG: @emcarpenterartistry Music By: Nana Kwabena YouTube Studios!
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Mental Health Challenge: Move Your Body Outside
It is Sunscreen Day on a rainy day in Michigan, LOL! Today we are talking about moving your body however do it outside!! We also talk about how moving your body has an effect on depression, anxiety, ADHD, and PTSD. Resource: The Mental Health Benefits of Exercise - HelpGuide.org Thank You! Stay...
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Mental Health Challenge: Sunrise Sunset
Take a minute for a minute to pause and look at the pretty colors that a sunrise and sunset bring! Slow down for a extra minute of gratitude with a sunrise and take a minute of extra peace with a sunrise! Send your favorite sunrise or sunset! We love to see them! Thank You! Stay Uplifted!…
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Mental Health Challenge: Marie Kondo and Creating
Marie Kondo sentimental items, such as, pictures. The next activity is Create something new! Embrace your creativity! Send us a picture of what you create! Each different way of creativity has a different affect on the brain. Thank You! Stay Uplifted! Website: https://www.mentaluplift4.com IG and...
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Mental Health Challenge: Marie Kondo and Essential Oils
Marie Kondo Misc. Clean up and declutter you don't normally think about, laundry room, bathroom or garage maybe? Essential Oils are a great natural way to get a boost of energy and concentration! What is you favorite scent?! Resource: Essential Oils for Energy: Boost Your Mood, Motivation, and...
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Mental Health Challenge: Marie Kondo and Nurture
Today's challenge is to declutter all the paper in the household! Recycle old mail, receipts, and any paper you have laying around. If no paper then think about getting a plant to water and take care of daily! Or get an animal, adopt or foster an animal that you can love and take care of…
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Mental Health Challenge: Marie Kondo and Tech Detox
Marie Kondo book sis the next step for decluttering your home! Grab all your books throughout the house into a pile and keep the books that you enjoy or that you have not read yet that still spark interest! All other books that you do not choose to keep I suggest donating to your local library to...
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Mental Health Challenge: Marie Kondo and Movies
Today's challenge part 1 may help anyone who is struggling with anxiety. Declutter your clothes through the Marie Kondo method! Reward yourself by having a movie night! Pick your favorite movie and snacks and build a fort to enjoy it! Thank You! Stay Uplifted! Website…
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Mental Health Challenge: Nourish You Body/ Try new foods
Take the time to try a new restaurant or a new meal! For the next month I'm going to track what I put in my body to see how I can fuel my body naturally! I love trying new foods also so to see how they make the body feel you may find a new favorite Resource: How Nutrition Impacts the Brain and...
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Mental Health Challenge: Podcast
Through finally discovering what listening to podcasts can do, I finally decided to create my own. Through podcasting you can learn so many things, but also just hear peoples stories kind of like the goal for this one! Enjoy listening! and also at the end I talk about my favorite podcasts! Give...
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Mental Health Challenge: Fears
Make a list of fears, and then plan a time to over come one those fears! This Summer or Fall I am going planning to go skydiving. I am terrified of heights and jumping from a plane even in an emergency, so this will be interesting. Every 3 or 4 months I decide to do something that scares even if...
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Mental Health Challenge: Read a Book
Escape to another world while reading the words on a page or listening to an audiobook. There's so many books I have always said I wanted to read and just never got to it! I now read a book a month, granted I haven't done it in a while but I can't wait to get into it! I also dedicate a part of my...
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Mental Health Challenge: Dedicate 1 Hour
Wake up an hour early to dedicate that hour to yourself, and it even saves you time in the morning so you're not rushing out the door. You can also dedicate 1 hour to yourself at night. While I dedicate an hour of my time in the morning it has helped me manage my anxiety a bit and helped me…
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Mental Health Challenge: Gratitude + Meditation
Gratitude and meditation is a great practice of mindfulness. I practice gratitude daily in a journal writing 5 things I am grateful for. Meditation is a bit harder for me so I also talk about a type of meditation called the body scan. What are you grateful for today?! Resources: Giving thanks can...
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Mental Health Challenge: Be Kind to Yourself!
So many times people spend most of their days comparing them selves to others and criticizing themselves for not looking a certain way or doing something a certain way. Everyone has their own story and everyone has their own path! BE KIND TO YOURSELF For every one negative thought or comment…
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Mental Health Challenge: Dance
Today is Chicken Dance Day! It's the weird facts you just keep in your mind for events like this! So today I take you down the rabbit hole I went down about some different types of dances and were they originated from! Resources: Types of Dance – Dance Types, Categories and Styles…
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Mental Health Challenge: Smoothie
Everyone loves a refreshing smoothie because they are delicious but how many people know why we drink them! Enjoy some cool facts about the effects of smoothie on the mind and body! Some smoothie recipes included! Resources: 23 Important Benefits of Drinking Healthy Smoothies (thatsmyjamok.com)...
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Mental Health Challenge: Pilates
Lesson for the day: If you want people to listen to a podcast episode the audio is very helpful! Pilates is a new found love of mine for now! My dad has told me to do Pilates since I was young! He said with my body type it would be a better workout for me, which I don't know what that means but…
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Mental Health Challenge: Walking!
Hope you enjoy the warmer weather kicking in! I hope you are getting ready and learning about what walks can do. Resources: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/5-great-reasons-you-should-take-a-walk-today/ Thank You! Stay Uplifted! Website: https://www.mentaluplift4.com IG and Facebook:...
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Mental Health Challenge: Water Intake
Do you ever struggle with headaches or fatigue, it may be because you are dehydrated! Enjoy some tips on how to get your water intake so you are hydrated and why you should drink water for health! Resource: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-to-drink-more-water Resource:...
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Mental Health Challenge: Yoga + Clean space with flowers
As we celebrate Mother's Day! We have a fun activity you can do with you mom, Yoga! Also people associate flowers and a clean space to Mother's Day so we decided to combine the two together. I hope you enjoy! Resource: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/286745#philosophy Resource:...
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Mental Health Challenge: HIIT Workout
HIIT is High Intensity Interval Training it is a very specific and particular type of training that is repeated, extremely hard bouts of work interspersed with periods of recovery. During your work intervals, you’ll be challenging yourself nearly to your max! HIIT is a convenient way to workout…
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Mental Health Challenge: Dress Up/Dress Down
Look Good. Feel Good! Dress up or wear your pajamas! Be comfortable and wear an outfit you feel confident here! Resource: https://www.riskology.co/dress-well/ Thank You! Stay Uplifted! Website: https://www.mentaluplift4.com IG and Facebook: @mentaluplift Art By: Em Carpenter Facebook and IG:...
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Mental Health Challenge: Plan Trip + Drive and sing!
Planning a trip and exploring a new place can help you grow in ways you may not be aware of. While you are traveling you are immersed in another culture! I know with COVID many people don't feel comfortable to travel or have lost their job so financially can't travel, so an alternative is to make…
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Mental Health Challenge: Spa Day
Everyone loves a good spa day! Did you know that having a spa day can release stress and also release toxins in your body. Take a picture of any face masks or hair masks so people can support different products! I use a FabFitFun Box to keep trying new products but products are you obsessed with...
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Mental Health Challenge: Learn Something New
Did you know that learning something new can lower your chances of dementia? Take the time today to explore a road you always pass by but don't ever drive through, or read a book about something you have always wondered but never had the time to explore! Thank You! Stay Uplifted! Website:...
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Mental Health Challenge: Journaling
Bring a pen and paper together and see all the wonderful things that come from it and the many places to explore! Journaling has many positives effects! Take a listen to why you should journal and the affects on the brain. Here are some journal prompts: 1. Where are you in your life and what are...
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Mental Health Challenge: Budgeting
Please take a look at your budget and where your money is going! Take a minute to budget out the next month! I truly believe that some women are in a bad situation because they don't know how to handle money, or don't have the money to to leave the situation. When I first started to budget, I was...
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Mental Health Challenge: Vision Board + Goals
I love creating Vision Boards! They provide a daily visualization of dreams and goals, Visualization is one of the most popular and effective mind workouts that you can do. Grab a poster board from the dollar store, grab pictures from a magazine or use Canva and Google Images! Vision boards helps...
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I am Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Statistics
When you thought you uploaded an episode but didn't attach audio, oh boy! Here are some statistics about sexual assault. I feel like this would have been a great way to close up the month and to show just how much you are not alone if you have experienced sexual assault! Websites Used:...
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I am RAINN: Research
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Mont so I thought I would highlight this organization that has helped a lot in research and healing. RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault...
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I am Sexual Assault: Research
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month so I wanted to share some interesting facts I learned about Sexual Assault. Although through COVID people stayed socially distant sexual assault was still happening. Many time sexual assault happens by someone you already know and now it's happening online…
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I am Youth Violence Prevention: Research
It was Youth Violence Prevention Week. Where I originally thought that that would be included in Domestic Violence Month, I was wrong. Youth Violence is a topic I never thought about so I am sharing all the stuff I have learned. See Below for website to learn more and get involved! I also watched...
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I Am Growth: Reflecting a the time in my Sorority!
Hello! My sorority has celebrated 31 years on April 9, 2021! And my ship sisters have celebrated 5 years of being together! So I decided it would be fun to share 5 lessons I have learned while being in Greek Life and also shared some things about my sisters that have inspired me about them! If...
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I am a Leader
I don't think of my self as a leader but when I see people leading in a way that is not effective and may even be called harmful, it gets under my skin! I have a rant about Leadership and what you should do as a leader! These are my morning thoughts about being a leader. If it sounds scattered...
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I am a Creator of Spaces of Empowerment: Living with Bipolar II
Today I talk to a sorority sister! Since our common denominator is or sorority and college we decided to start there! We talk about our mental state in college and how it has changed to now! Disclaimer: At some point we talk about medications. If you are taking medications for your mental health...
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I am Blue: Conversation with a Former Police Officer
My first in person guest! Today I have a conversation with a former Detroit Police Officer. I talk to him about being a Black Police Officer and what it means to him. We also talk about stuff he wishes to see change. I understand that having this conversation may be hard for some but I also feel...
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I am A Letter to Suicide
I try really had to get an episode out each week but I will be honest last week was hard. It was my friends death anniversary and I was buried with emotions. I wrote this to show the effect my friend had on my life. My friend took his life February 16, 2012, he saved my life two month prior. This...
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I am Resilient: A Conversation about dealing with Anxiety in the Black Community.
Today I have my first guest! My sorority sister, Khalidha, talks about dealing with anxiety during 2020, and about mental health in the black community. Khalidha is a powerful black women who has had people tell her she can't do something but she has proved everyone wrong. She knows her worth and...
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I am Resetting
Is anyone else excited about a new month falling on a Monday! I am always kind of excited for Mondays because I get to wake up early do my morning routine and get to work, on weekends I let my self sleep in or let my body wake me up. I get so excited about waking up early! The past few weeks have...
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I am a Night Person
Here are some reasons to set up a night routine! Having a night time routine as an adult is sometimes pretty weird, but it gives me the optimal sleep! Still something I need to work on, but with the right amount of good sleep adults will have less physical and mental problems. I also share my...
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I am a Morning Person
Here are some reasons to set up a morning routine! Having extra time in the morning has helped my anxiety by a crazy amount!! I love my morning routine so here are some reasons to why it is important to have a morning routine, the benefits, and tips to have a morning routine. I also share my...
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I am Still Growing
This is my personal development journey! My personal development journey is still new and still forever growing! What is your journey! You make what ever you want from it! Remember no journey is a straight line. It is a never ending roller coaster ride. There are highs and lows, things that…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hello! My name is Nina and welcome to the Mental Uplift Podcast! Where we bring awareness to mental illness and mental health through I am statements because I believe that living with a mental illness everyday almost becomes a part of you! In the Mental Uplift Podcast you will be hearing my story as well as other because I believe that no one is alone even if the world may feel lonely sometimes.In each episode you will hear about different types of struggles and victories and build your toolbox with different self care activities!
HOSTED BY
Nina Kricak
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Hello! My name is Nina and welcome to the Mental Uplift Podcast! Where we bring awareness to mental illness and mental health through I am statements because I believe that living with a mental illness everyday almost becomes a part of you! In the Mental Uplift Podcast you will be hearing my story...
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