EP 206: Marriage and Family Therapy with Ashley Turner
Marriage and family therapy is a good way to work out issues within the relationship. If you know that your marriage is on the rocks or have family issues that need to be addressed and resolved, going through therapy is a big help.
Sometimes, some things can be resolved without ending in a bitter divorce or separation. It is why therapists and marriage counselors exist. If you are in this predicament, this episode is for you.
In this episode, we welcome our guest, Ashley Turner is, a yoga–meditation expert, Licensed Psychotherapist, writer, facilitator, and 7-figure wellness entrepreneur.
She is the founder and CEO of The Center for Yoga Psychology – an innovative, scientifically grounded training center for yoga teachers, mental health clinicians, and dedicated students fusing yoga, mindfulness, trauma resolution, shadow work, and neuroscience.
It has fast become a go-to resource for evidence-based yoga, meditation, and breathwork for mental health.
Ashley has graced such lists as:
100 Women in Wellness to Watch ~ MindBodyGreen
100 Most Influential Yoga Teachers in the US – Sonoma
Top 100 Psychotherapy Blogs – FeedSpot
She is also a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and presenter at conferences and events worldwide. Her mission is to integrate yoga and meditation into the mainstream medical and educational systems by training highly-skilled professionals and helping them build fulfilling, highly profitable businesses.
www.AshleyTurner.co | www.Yoga-Psychology.co
Questions for Our Guest
The questions below are some we’d like to tackle. We often go off-topic, so we don’t expect to hit them all. If you have any ideas, please let us know.
Looking forward to our conversation!
Can you give a background about yourself and how you became a therapist, facilitator, and Priestess?
2. Being an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist), what do married people and families struggle with? Why do those people seek therapy?
3. What advice can you give people before they get married or settle down?
4. What are some things people should know before they start a family?
5. What is some advice you can give to healthcare professionals?
People that work in an environment that revolves around life and death?
Are people struggling to find a balance in their relationships or family?
6. Have you had any personal struggles in relationships or family? How did you overcome them?
7. You also describe yourself as a priestess: what does that mean?
8. Is yoga for everyone?
What’s the best way to get started?
9. What role do you see yoga and meditation playing in healthcare?
10. What are some proven scientific benefits of yoga? What holistic interventions can healthcare providers operating in the traditional medical system responsibly offer patients?
11. What type of meditation and yoga do you practice? Why?
What do yoga and meditation bring you?
12. What is trauma-informed yoga?
13. What Trauma-Informed care can we offer in healthcare settings to take care of the “whole person”?
14. What are the chakras?
How do they connect the body and mind?
15. And how could they be referenced in modern healthcare?
16. You speak a lot about addictions, traumas, and chakras; how are they all related?
Ending Question
Before we end the show, we have one last question we like to ask all our guests.
If you had the opportunity to have a Cup of coffee with anybody one last time, who would it be & why?
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction 02:10 About Ashley Turner 05:20 Recurring problems that arise in married life 08:54 How to Establish Effective Communication in Difficult Situations 14:44 How To Build And Foster Trust In Relationships 20:28 How To Identify The Ideal Relationship For You 27:04 How To Clarify Core Values & Priorities 30:30 Self-Care Strategies for Resilience in Healthcare 36:11 The Pathophysiological Benefits Of Yoga And Meditation 39:17 Yoga Meditation for Total Mind-Body Wellness 45:56 Trauma-Informed Yoga: Exploring Its Benefits and How It Works 52:09 Integrating Chakra System into Modern Healthcare 1:02:58 Wrapping up the show
In this episode, we will talk about Alternative Medicine. Alternative medicine is a range of medical therapies not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession, such as herbalism, homeopathy, and acupuncture.
What are the different types of Alternative medicines, also known as the practice of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
In the U.S., CAM is used by about 38% of adults and 12% of children. Examples of CAM include:
Different Types of Alternative Medicines:
Diet and the most common herbs
According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
In the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), researchers determined that 17.7 percent of American adults had used a dietary supplement other than vitamins and minerals in the past year.
Dietary supplements
Herbal medicine
Nutrition/diet
Over the centuries, man has gone from a simple diet consisting of meats, fruits, vegetables, and grains, to a diet that often consists of foods rich in fats, oils, and complex carbohydrates. Nutritional excess and deficiency have become problems in today’s society. Both of these issues lead to both acute and chronic diseases. The goal is to balance the body’s nutritional well-being. Dietary and herbal approaches may include:
Often sold dietary supplement form or natural products may include herbs, probiotics, antioxidants, omega-3 fatty acids, chemicals such as glucosamine sulfate and chondroitin sulfate (two supplements said to aid in the treatment of osteoarthritis), and a variety of other substances.
Traditional alternative medicine
This field includes the more mainstream and accepted forms of therapy, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, and Oriental practices. These therapies have been practiced for centuries worldwide. Traditional alternative medicine may include:
Acupuncture
Homeopathy
Naturopathy
Oriental medicine
To restore the body’s balance and harmony between the opposing natural forces of yin and yang, which can block qi (chee) that causes disease.
Qi, vital energy, is said to flow along channels called meridians and help the body to maintain health. In acupuncture, needles puncture the skin to tap into any of the hundreds of points on the meridians where the flow of qi can be redirected to restore health.
What are Meridians?
Simply put, a meridian is an ‘energy highway’ in the human body. Meridians can be mapped throughout the body; they flow within the body and not on the surface, meridians exist in corresponding pairs, and each meridian has many acupuncture points along its path.
The 12 standard meridians are divided into Yin and Yang groups. The Yin meridians of the arm are Lung, Heart, and Pericardium. The Yang meridians of the arm are the Large Intestine, Small Intestine, and Triple Burner. The Yin Meridians of the leg are Spleen, Kidney, and Liver.
Mind-body (2nd most commonly used)
Mind
Even standard or conventional medicine recognizes the power of the connection between mind and body. Studies have found that people heal better with good emotional and mental health. Therapies using the mind may include:
Meditation
Biofeedback
Hypnosis
Hypnotherapy is a popular type of mind-body therapy. Also known as hypnosis, it’s been found to promote weight loss, alleviate back pain, and aid in smoking cessation in some scientific studies.
Meditation is used to achieve healthier blood pressure and sounder sleep. There’s also evidence that meditation may benefit people struggling with chronic pain, anxiety, fears, and depression.
Body
Touch has been used in medicine since the early days of medical care. Body techniques are often combined with mindfulness. Examples of body therapies include:
Chiropractic and osteopathic medicine
Massage
Body movement therapies
Tai chi
Tai chi can boost upper- and lower-body flexibility as well as strength. Balance. According to some studies, Tai chi improves balance and reduces falls. … Tai chi helps train this sense, a function of sensory neurons in the inner ear and stretch receptors in the muscles and ligaments.
Yoga
External energy
The belief is external energies from objects, or other sources directly affect a person’s health. An example of external energy therapy is:
Reiki: Reiki is a form of alternative medicine called energy healing. Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing, through which a “universal energy” is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient to encourage emotional or physical healing.
Qigong: Chinese exercise and healing technique that involves meditation, controlled breathing, and movement exercises.
Practitioners of energy therapies often aim to manipulate biofields by applying pressure and/or placing the hands in or through these energy fields.
While such energy fields have not been scientifically proven, there’s some evidence that specific energy therapies may have beneficial effects.
Senses
Some believe the senses, touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste, can affect overall health. Examples of therapies incorporating the senses include:
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro 00:25 A Moment of Silence 01:17 Welcome to the show 02:40 What are the different types of alternative medicine? 03:34 Diet and Herbs 05:44 Traditional medicine 08:53 Therapies of the mind 12:46 Touch 14:16 Yoga 15:05 Tai Chi 16:52 External Energy 18:20 Reiki 19:57 Senses 23:48 Recap of episode 24:20 A moment of silence 25:13 End of Show
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