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Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress Relief for Real Life

Meditation Teacher & Mental Health Counselor, Cheri Augustine Flake, LCSW: Meditation, Stress Relief, Healthy Habits, Spirituality, Mental Health, Self-Care, Self-Help, Happiness, Mindfulness

Are you stressed out, overwhelmed, or just plain over it? Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake teaches you proven stress management techniques and meditation for beginners that fit into real life.Licensed mental health counselor Cheri Flake brings 25+ years of clinical experience to help you master stress relief through accessible meditation, mindfulness practices, and anxiety management strategies. Whether you"re dealing with work stress, sleep trouble, emotional eating, or attention problems, you"ll

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29:05

Meditate Like A BOSS With Binaural Beats!

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/06/07

Have you ever tried binaural beats? A lot of people use them to focus or to help with sleep but many people don't know that binaural beats are also really helpful for meditation. Today, I am going to tell you a bit about how and why they work and then we'll try them out together. This is episode 10 of my 12 week season: Let's Meditate Anyway! Motivational Insights By A Seasoned Therapist Who Meditates

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35:22

Using Technology To Find Inner Peace

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/06/01

Technology seems to be a barrier to inner peace as we are essentially practicing being distracted all day everyday with our phones. So, how can we use our devices to help us find inner peace? Today I will show you how to actually use that little personal assistant that you never leave home without to make your life calmer, more productive so you can be more present, in the moment and live a much more peaceful life. This is episode 9 of my 12 week series: Let's Meditate Anyway! Motivational Insights

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28:37

Procrastination & Meditation: How to Get Job Done!

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/05/25

There are a couple of super simple procrastination tips that most people don't know about that can help you get started on whatever you are blowing off AND help you get the job done! Surprisingly, procrastination has little to do with motivation...at least not in the way we typically think about feeling motivated and more about how we think and manage our emotions. This is episode 8 of my 12 week season: Let's Meditate Anyway! Motivational Insights By A Seasoned Therapist Who Meditates

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33:00

Meditation & Perfectionism: How Stillness Can Help...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/05/17

Perfectionism is impossible to live up to because we keep changing the rules no matter how well we do or try. Perfectionism leads to chronic disappointment and a loud inner critic. The anxiety around perfectionism is real but meditation can help!The perfect problem can also leave you frozen and contributing to the procrastination problem (we will cover that next week!)One thing to remember is that you are already perfect just the way you were made so maybe the focus needs to be on becoming who you

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Meditation...WTF?

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/05/16

Meditation is the new IT thing…Less stress sounds good, your doctor recommends it and the end of a yoga class always feels so close so good! But what exactly are you supposed to be doing? Clearing your head?? Yeah, right! And how are you supposed to find time to do it every damn day??My name is Cheri Augustine Flake and I'm The Stress Therapist. I've been working in the Metro Atlanta mental health community for over 25 years. I teach people how to get better at stress, stop procrastinating, and stay

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41:39

Meditation & Communication: Conflict Resolution &...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/05/11

Today's guest is psychotherapist, Keith Wilson author of Constructive Conflict: Building Something Good Out of All Those Arguments and The Road to Reconciliation: A Comprehensive Guide to Peace When Relationships Go Bad. As a therapist, I can tell you this guy knows what's up, he is funny, real, super smart and kind....just the psychotherapist you need to make your relationships better. Meditators look inward, get still and have to listen and face ourselves. What you get from the experience betters

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22:49

Meditate & Decide: Who Are You Gonna Be?

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/05/03

There is no doubt about it, meditation changes you. Affirmations are a great way to make changes in your life, but have you ever considered when is the best time for affirmations? Because you are meditating on the reg, your brain is undergoing all of these lovely changes and this is having a profound effect on YOU. So, while you're noticing that you have the upper hand on what you think, how you react and how you behave in general, who are you gonna be??This is episode 5 of season 3: Let's Meditate

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23:19

Meditation & Your Power: I WILLpower & I WON'Tpower

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/04/26

Meditation strengthens your willpower by actually changing your brain. Today, I am going to give you some homework to strengthen your powers even more! Then, we will meditate using a mantra that my daughter (at three years old!) will chant for you so we can all call on Lord Ganesha to remove our obstacles along the way.This is episode 4 of my Season 3: Let's Meditate Anyway! Motivational Insights by A Seasoned Therapist Who Meditates

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31:31

Meditation And Concentration: The Cure for Attention...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/04/19

Sadly, many people who need meditation in their lives in order to help with inattention and concentration problems, will never find their way to the practice because they find meditation, the actual cure for these problems, so very difficult. It seems like a Catch - 22, but I can show you why it's not. Help! I need to be able to concentrate, clear my head, stay focused (insert other attention complaints here!) in order to meditate! Not true. In fact, meditation is honing the skill of concentration

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15:03

I'm POSITIVE This Meditation Will Fill You to the Top...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/04/13

COVID BLOWS! But, let's meditate anyway! This is me putting my money where my mouth is… today, in the interest of full disclosure, I feel horrible. Yesterday I tested positive for Covid. Today, I am grateful that although I took all morning to get it together, I am well enough to show up for you! Maybe not perfectly, maybe for not as long as usual and certainly, this isn't me at my best, but it's me, right now and with super gratitude for my every breath.

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Meditation for Peace

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/04/05

I am traveling this week so we will not have a lesson together but we will certainly, meditate anyway!Today we meditate for peace. Peace for ourselves, our families, our communities, our nation, and certainly, we meditate for global peace.Nothing feels better the meditating on and for peace.It's Season 3! Meditate Anyway!: Motivational Insights and Meditations with A Season Therapist Who Meditates

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19:14

Let's Meditate Anyway! The BEST Reason to Meditate...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/03/29

There are LOADS of reasons not to meditate. Just like with any new, healthy habit, you can come up with thousands of reasons each day to avoid it, blow it off or just forget about it. You might "Need a break" or" deserve some time off," you can color it anyway you want because at the end of the day there are thousands of reasons to NOT do something. But, have you considered this? What is your reason TO go ahead and just get the job done? The psychic energy you are spending on finding excuses would

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44:50

davidji: Meditation Wisdom & Simple Tools To Get &...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/03/22

davidji, named last week in USA Today as 1 of the top 5 Meditation teachers to follow in 2022 is our guest today! davidji is a world renowned teacher, recording artist, meditation master and award winning author. Today, he will share his wisdom both professional and personal on how and why to meditate and also how to make meditation a consistent daily habit. davidji is famous for his simple and practical tools to start and keep up a meditation practice. 16 seconds to bliss and RPM are only a couple

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20:35

A Daily Meditation Practice: Overcoming Excuses &...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/03/15

The route to a successful, daily meditation practice is all in your head! This is my shortest podcast yet because the biggest excuse to not meditate is TIME…Your brain knows that you value it more than any other thing and so your ego uses it to talk you out of so many things…Valid excuses to not meditate: There are none. Both procrastination and excuse making are not about your thoughts so much as the emotions that come along with them. It's time to tweak the way you think AND feel so you can

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29:02

Meditation...What the Hell? The Psychology Behind...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/03/08

The "What the Hell Effect" is a very real psychological phenomena that can help you with meditation or any new healthy habit that you are trying to make a part of your every day living. Understanding where stops and starts, successes and failures, and everything in between come from can help you stay on track!This is week 10 of my 12 Week Series~Making Meditation Habitual: How to Build a Daily Meditation Practice That Lasts a Lifetime!

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30:39

Meditation: Practical Ways to Make It A Habit that...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/03/01

James Clear in his book, Atomic Habits gives us great insight into making meditation a habit that lasts. Wanting meditation to be habitual and actually creating a daily meditation habit are two entirely different things. Today, we look at the practical approaches to creating any new healthy habit ~ including meditation.Nobody meditates because it's easy, but you can do hard things! There are some clinical studies that can assist you while you're making this beautiful practice a part of your life and

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37:17

Meditation & Visualization: The Science Behind...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/02/22

Thoughts seem to be branded the bad guy in meditation but we can learn how to use thoughts to our advantage when we are creating any new habit, including a daily meditation practice. Thinking about how you think about meditation is definitely going to effect your meditation practice. But also, examining how you think and talk to yourself is relevant as well. Just noticing what's going on in your head and tweaking these thoughts is the key to making any new change stick, including a daily meditation

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35:17

Loving Meditation: How to Make Meditating Easier

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/02/14

Like any new habit, Learning how to meditate comes with its own obstacles. For the beginner, loving meditation, may seem tough!Although, years ago on retreat, I learned from a Buddhist monk these three ways that our egos pull us out of meditation time and time again. It’s time to learn how to get past them and meditate anyway!These hindrances have been the most helpful way to explain to my clients exactly what is going on in their mind when they want to just give up, walk away from their cushion and

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37:54

Why Is It SO Hard to Meditate EVERY SINGLE Day??

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/02/08

Probably the most common complaint that I get about meditation is, “I Just Can’t Meditate.” It’s true that some people have great success with meditation right off the bat, but in my experience, this is really rare. Especially when we are talking about keeping it up!Most people get wrapped up in thoughts and emotions and the next thing they know they are checking their email, unwrapping a piece of chocolate or have found some other distraction or dopamine rush to follow. In a time of

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37:38

How Do Strange Meditation Props Help Me Meditate...

Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake: Meditation & Stress... ·

2022/02/01

Props like crystals, incense, cushions, candles & mala beads can help make meditation a habit that lasts. What's up with all of these esoteric, crunchy things and how can they help your meditate daily? Today we will use these items (along a few tricks of my own!) and a little bit of our ego to get us to keep coming back to the practice day after day. This is week 5 of my 12-week series ~ Making Meditation Habitual: how to build a daily practice that lasts a lifetime!

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