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By:

Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

Summary

Do you have Chronic Pain? Ready for Pain Recovery? This episode is for YOU!

We have a special guest today—Dr. Les Aria, a Pain Psychologist & Co-founder of Menda.Health, who specializes in helping people recover from chronic pain. Today, he’ll explain what polyvagal theory is and how it can help you feel safe when you’re dealing with chronic pain.

This week’s episode, Part TWO, on polyvagal theory and its application to chronic pain therapy. Polyvagal theory is the science of feeling safe, and it’s based on decades of research by Dr. Stephen Porges, who pioneered research into the autonomic nervous system and its relationship with emotions.

Watch our episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/jucIIsQkvig

Check out Dr. Les Aria’s Pain Recovery App: https://www.menda.health/

Topics Covered:

The only question you brain is trying to answer
3 worlds our body & brain responds to
Easy ways to recognize nervous system dysregulation
90 seconds to correct your emotional experience
Why intense attraction can’t be trusted
Why we are attracted to people who dysregulate our nervous system
Our brain is reacting to past while in the present
What we need to experience to believe we can heal ourself
Practice is the drive changer of your nervous system
Co-regulation

Connect with Dr. Les Aria:

Website: https://lesariaphd.com/| Youtube: Myndfulness here| Dynamic Healing Podcast |Instagram @drlesaria

Connect with Christine:

Twitter | Instagram | website | Youtube | FB

Disclaimer: The information and recommendations in this Podcast are only opinions of the host and guests of How Coronavirus Saved My Life Podcast — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howcoronavirussavedmylife/message

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episode 34: the polyvagal (How to Heal Chronic Pain with Dr. Les Aria, part TWO)

September 11, 2022September 11, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

Summary

Do you have Chronic Pain? Ready for Pain Recovery? This episode is for YOU!

Check out Dr. Les Aria’s Pain Recovery App: https://www.menda.health/

Topics Covered:

The only question you brain is trying to answer
3 worlds our body & brain responds to
Easy ways to recognize nervous system dysregulation
90 seconds to correct your emotional experience
Why intense attraction can’t be trusted
Why we are attracted to people who dysregulate our nervous system
Our brain is reacting to past while in the present
What we need to experience to believe we can heal ourself
Practice is the drive changer of your nervous system
Co-regulation

Connect with Dr. Les Aria:

Website: https://lesariaphd.com/| Youtube: Myndfulness here| Dynamic Healing Podcast |Instagram @drlesaria

Connect with Christine:

Twitter | Instagram | website | Youtube | FB

mental health, podcast

episode 34: the polyvagal (How to Heal Chronic Pain with Dr. Les Aria, part ONE)

September 4, 2022September 4, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

It Always Seems Impossible…Until It’s Done
Nelson Mandela

Summary

Do you have Chronic Pain? Ready for Pain Recovery? This episode is for YOU!

We have a special guest today—Dr. Les Aria, a Pain Psychologist who specializes in helping people recover from chronic pain. Today, he’ll explain what polyvagal theory is and how it can help you feel safe when you’re dealing with chronic pain.

This week’s episode, Part One, on polyvagal theory and its application to chronic pain therapy. Polyvagal theory is the science of feeling safe, and it’s based on decades of research by Dr. Stephen Porges, who pioneered research into the autonomic nervous system and its relationship with emotions.

Check out Dr. Les Aria’s Pain Relief App: https://www.menda.health/

Topics Covered:

Healing Chronic Pain through the Vagus Nerve
Ways to stimulate your Vagus Nerve
Polyvagal Framework Ladder of Feeling Safe
Mind Body Connection
Trauma and Chronic Pain brain pathways
Autonomic Nervous System
Long Covid Symptoms
Shut Down Phase of Relapse connected to Trauma
Why slow breathing is key
Wisdom of your Frontal Lobe
Safe and Sound Protocol

Connect with Dr. Les Aria:

Website: https://lesariaphd.com/

Youtube: Myndfulness here

Podcast–Dynamic Healing– here

Safe and Sound Protocol here

Listen, Download, and Share Christine’s Podcast:How Coronavirus Saved My Life

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Big hugs to all the listeners! My little podcast to help the world heal is starting to reach the ears and hearts of people around the world!

Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

A Mental Health Healthcare Practitioner who got Coronavirus in April 2020 which changed the course of my life. I created How Coronavirus Saved My Life Podcast as a love letter to humanity. Having Long Covid symptoms, a failing marriage, fear, burnout from healthcare, frustration were launching points to my self-healing. All the answers we are seeking are within. No one is going to save you but yourself through self-healing and unwinding your childhood programming conditions.

episode 41: the uncertainty (How to Embrace Uncertainty Rather Than Fearing It) – How Coronavirus Saved My Life

What is your relationship with Uncertainty? How do you respond to Uncertainty? How do you react when a plan changes unexpectedly? How do you react when a person reacts to you unexpectedly? Uncertainty is a word that can invoke fear, anxiety, and stress in our minds. However, uncertainty can also be a friend. This episode is about how I learned to embrace uncertainty through my uncertain experiences rather than fearing it, which can help you to become more resilient in the face of challenges. This episode explains why our brains are hardwired to think negatively and strategies for changing this pattern. Mantras for this episode: I embrace uncertainty Uncertainty creates opportunity Uncertainty shows me areas I need healing Uncertainty leads me to me Thank you for listening. My hope is for people not to suffer as much by discovering healing techniques through my experiences. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Connect with Christine for Mental Health Discussions and Tools for Recovery: https://howcoronavirussavedmylife.com Twitter | Instagram | website | Youtube | FB Check out Christine's other podcast with her sister The Family Burrito Disclaimer: The information and recommendations in this Podcast are only opinions of the host and guests of How Coronavirus Saved My Life Podcast — Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howcoronavirussavedmylife/message

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“That Makes Me Want To Cry”

August 11, 2022August 11, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

Teaching Yourself How To Parent | episode 32 | the warrior

My friend Belinda choosing Mental Health as an additional career to help her community and culture is beautiful.

Check out podcast episode 32. We speak OUR truth about broken mothers impacting our parenting and worthiness.

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A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; its sings because it has a song.
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episode 32: the warrior (Teaching Yourself How to Parent with Belinda Tyner)

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

Summary

How do you teach yourself to parent when you were raised by a broken emotionally immature mother? Then throw in society’s illusion of motherhood where it is expected mothers are born nurturers who saves everyone with a unrealistic superwomen mentality. What happens to your self-esteem when your mother was none of these misguided societal illusions? (hint: unworthiness)

In this episode I speak with Belinda Tyner, an Adult Geriatric Nurse Practitioner about her journey of becoming a warrior while teaching herself how to parent through the challenges of raising a child with ADHD.

Topics Discussed:

The illusions of motherhood
Teaching yourself how to parent
Meeting your child’s needs where their at
Conditioning of the Superwoman Syndrome
Asking yourself “what do I need?”
Being raised by parents in survival mode
Importance of praising a child with ADHD during the good moments
Importance of ADHD diagnosis ASAP
Being tired of doing it all

ADHD and Parenting Resources:

The Whole Brain Child BookLD@school National Institute of Mental Health

Listen, Download, and Share Christine’s Podcast:How Coronavirus Saved My Life

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Big hugs to all the listeners! My little podcast to help the world heal is starting to reach the ears and hearts of people around the world!

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Personal, Podcast, Racism, Mental Health, Coronavirus

episode 2: the crumble

July 1, 2022June 30, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

My former husband, my prom date — My prom date, my former husband

Summary

Coming out of quarantine only to realize my marriage was over. One of the most devastating parts of my journey.

Listen, Download, and Share Christine’s Podcast:How Coronavirus Saved My Life

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Big hugs to all the listeners! My little podcast to help the world heal is starting to reach the ears and hearts of people around the world!

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mental health, mental health, podcast, self help

episode 1: the fear

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

A picture of me several days before I got Coronavirus in April 2020 — Me at work days before my Coronavirus journey started

Summary

The beginning of my coronavirus journey which leads to unexpected discoveries within. A pivotal moment in my backyard when I thought I was going to die. I couldn’t breath. My brain told me I needed to call 911 or was I was going to die. My gut told me if I called 911 I would die because I believed it. This was the moment I decided to listen to my gut which forever changed the course of my life.

Listen to my bizarre coronavirus and long-covid symptoms which happened in parts–cramped hands, excruciating headaches, numbness and tingling in my hands and feet, covid toe, brain fog, dry mouth, weird tongues, etc.

Resources:

Vagus nerve info

The Vagus Nerve: your secret weapon to in fighting stress

Listen, Download, and Share Christine’s Podcast:How Coronavirus Saved My Life

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Big hugs to all the listeners! My little podcast to help the world heal is starting to reach the ears and hearts of people around the world!

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Burnout symptoms and contributing factors

mental health, nursing, podcast, self help

episode 26: the burnout

April 26, 2022April 26, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

Summary

In this episode of How Coronavirus Saved My Life podcast, is my personal story of burnout as a nurse.

Burnout is real. Burnout is definitely real if you’re a healthcare worker. Then throw additional gasoline on burnout if you’re a nurse working in the pandemic. Double the gasoline if you’re a nurse working on a covid unit.

Listen to my journey of why I became a nurse, the life changing events of 2001 leading me to my calling, and the surprising person who always encouraged me to become a nurse.

Check out my Blog Post about Burnout.

Topics:

Nurse Burnout
Why I choose nursing
The slow rollercoaster of burnout starting in nursing school
Baby nurses vs veteran nurses
Nurses eating their young
The ICU environment filled with stressful noises, constant fight or flight, emotional impact of telling family members their loved one died,
The acuity of an inpatient psychiatric unit
How long covid symptoms forced me to make myself a priority
Forgetting to put myself on the list

Mayoclinic.org Job Burnout Questions here.

Thank you to all my listeners! My little podcast I made to help the world heal is starting to reach the ears and hearts of people around the world! Big hugs!

Christine’s Resources:

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Email me at: Christine@Howcoronavirussavedmylife.com

Disclaimer: The information and recommendations in this Podcast are only opinions of the host and guests of How Coronavirus Saved My Life Podcast — This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howcoronavirussavedmylife/message

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9 Common Burnout Symptoms of a Healthcare Worker

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

My Nursing Journey of Burnout in Healthcare

April 18, 2022 by Christine Zethraus, PMHNP-BC

How Working in Healthcare has Impacted my Emotional and Physical Well-being

My Burnout Beginning

Burnout is REAL. Burnout is definitely real if you’re a healthcare worker. Then throw additional gasoline on burnout if you’re a nurse working in the pandemic. Double it if you’re a nurse working the ICU.

Before I became a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, I worked as an ICU nurse for 5 years in a Level I Trauma Center. What does a “Level I Trauma Center” mean? Level I Trauma Center means my patients had a variety of life-threatening critical injuries such as gunshot wounds, car wrecks, plane crashes, strokes, sepsis, etc. Think constant extreme stress (fight or flight).

I purposely choose to work in the ICU because I knew this intense training and experience would be beneficial for my planned advanced nursing school. Quite frankly I had no clue what I was getting myself into. Looking back, I’m actually grateful I was naïve about my new adventure because this was the beginning of my nurse burnout story. The beginning of my nursing burnout signs affecting my emotional and physical well-being.

Hint: I didn’t listen or see the burnout signs.

Pandemic Burnout

Fast forward 12 years later where I am now a Mental Health Nurse Practitioner working during the Covid-19 Pandemic dealing with a different kind of trauma. An emotional one. And I’m not just talking about my patients. My own personal emotional trauma of FEAR. Fear of getting covid, fear we are all going to die, fear I would need heart surgery because of my long covid symptoms, fear there would be no food on the shelves, fear my lung damage due to long-covid, fear my family would die, and fear the world was ending.

**Fear was the dominate emotion during the pandemic**

I made the assumption my healthcare professional burnout was because of working during the pandemic. Nope. My burnout started long before working in mental health during the pandemic. My burnout started in nursing school when I put everyone and everything else before my own well-being. My burnout started when I was not myself a priority.

I first noticed my burnout symptoms when I had Coronavirus then Long-Covid Symptoms in 2020. Having Long-Covid forced me to slow down, forced me to re-evaluate what’s important, forced me to make myself priority. I had no other choice because I was on a path to chronic illness, auto-immune disease and most likely early death.

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episode 24: the strategy (Conversation with Marielle Honse about Human Design Types, Authority, and Centers)

April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Christine Zethraus, PMHNP

Picture of buddha and the word awakening — ***Marielle and I discuss Human Design***

Summary

In this podcast episode….

Coach Marielle Honse and I continue our conversation about my favorite topic —Human Design.

Before listening and downloading this episode….

Listen and download my previous episode– episode 21: the design —if you haven’t already. Marielle and I start with the basics of human design, what human design is, and how each person has a unique human design.

Highly recommend Marielle’s one on one 8 week Human Design Coaching or a personal Human Design reading. It’s a game changer! For real!

Marielle’s Instagram here

Topics Discussed:

Human Design

Types (MGs/G, Projectors, Manifestors, Reflectors)
Authority
Centers (Root,Sacral, Solar Plexus, Spleen, Heart/Ego, Identity/G-Center, Throat, Ajna/Mind Center, Head)
Defined and Undefined Centers

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How to Heal Chronic Pain with Dr. Les Aria, (part TWO), episode 34

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episode 34: the polyvagal (How to Heal Chronic Pain with Dr. Les Aria, part TWO)

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episode 34: the polyvagal (How to Heal Chronic Pain with Dr. Les Aria, part ONE)

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episode 41: the uncertainty (How to Embrace Uncertainty Rather Than Fearing It) – How Coronavirus Saved My Life

“That Makes Me Want To Cry”

Teaching Yourself How To Parent | episode 32 | the warrior

episode 32: the warrior (Teaching Yourself How to Parent with Belinda Tyner)

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episode 2: the crumble

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episode 1: the fear

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episode 26: the burnout

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9 Common Burnout Symptoms of a Healthcare Worker

Pandemic Burnout

episode 24: the strategy (Conversation with Marielle Honse about Human Design Types, Authority, and Centers)

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