Wide Open Spaces with Ilise Litwin

Season 4: Episode 132: Music is Your Therapy

"Music is Life" a frequent statement that I make. Join me this week as I teach you how to deconstruct music from the lyrics. Identify your own Theme Song and to use music and it's lyrics as a healthy coping mechanism. "Music is Life".

How is Your Mind’s Eye?

Let me take you on a special trip through a wine vineyard. Visualizations and our memories can lead us to a productive way of coping with life's challenges.  Open up Your Mind's Eye to new beginnings and maybe even a natural sense of a high.

Season 4: Episode 130: It’s Time to take a Self-Inventory of Yourself

The Holiday Season can be very overwhelming, debilitating and anxiety provoking.  You may even find yourself experiencing the Holiday Blues.  Let's take a listen to this weeks podcast on how to take a Self-Inventory of yourself to ensure that this is the most nurturing Holiday Season that you have ever had.  Who knows, maybe you will even learn some new things about yourself.  Tis The Season to be Jolly.

Season 4: Episode 129: Do You have Imposter Syndrome?

Halloween is a time where we all put costumes on to hide who we really are.  Do you ever feel like a fraud at work, your experiences, education, social situations, skills and even in your home life? Pop in your earbuds and take a listen to this Podcast where I will help you acknowledge and identify how you feel like a Fraud or an Imposter in your daily life.  I will guide you through how to overcome Imposter Syndrome.

Season 4: Episode 128: Do You Feel Stuck in Your Mental Blocks?

Life is full of challenges and sometimes overloading our brains can lead to us feeling Stuck and having Mental Blocks.  This Podcast identifies 3 areas that are impacted by Mental Blocks and how you can clear your brain to be more productive. Sometimes you need to just Sit with Yourself to figure out what is going on internally and how you can move forward and evolve.

Season 4: Episode 127: Reality Television is Good for Your Mental Health

Are you a Reality TVAholic? Bravoholic or a TLC fan?  Reality Television can be good for your mental health.  Addictions fall into many categories and Reality TV is there.  I bet you watch some Reality TV and you aren't even aware of it.  Take a listen to hear about how Reality TV is a coping skill. You might be surprised the effect it has on your chemical make up.  Reality TV might be more like reality then you realize. This Episode I open up to you about my personal addiction.

Season 4: Episode 126: Chai=Life

Working on your mental health is a means to improving your life. In Hebrew the word Chai means Life. There is nothing more precious in this world then life.  If you are finding that the current news and unrest in the world is making you feel depressed then it is time to empower yourself.  This weeks Podcast is about me Empowering Myself.  Take a listen and hopefully I will motivate you to improve your Chai=Life.

Season 4: Episode 125: Do You Know Someone who has Breast Cancer?

As a therapist in the past I have worked on Mental Health Units where women who were going through cancer treatments would receive services.  I was in my 20's at the time and I don't think I truly grasped the scale of Cancer in all of our lives.  This Episode is dedicated to one of my best friends who is "Fighting Like a Girl!"  We don't address enough the impact a Breast Cancer Diagnosis has on the loved ones and the support system of someone who is diagnosed.  This week for Breast Cancer Awareness month we will talk about healthy ways that you can support someone with this diagnosis.  We all want to help but there is right way and a wrong way, we must be aware of this. Wear Pink this month.

Season 4: Episode 124: Do You have Rituals in Your Life?

Rituals are woven throughout religious practices and every day life.  This week we will discuss ways for you to incorporate nonreligious Rituals in your life as a form of a coping skill.  Coping with life can be complex and beginning new Rituals in your life can be a way to get through life with more control and balance.

Season 4: Episode 123: Are You Living Your Best Life?

We all have hopes and dreams that we have created since childhood.  This week we will focus on the goals you have accomplished and the goals that you have not  fulfilled.The question will be asked, "Are You Living Your Best Life?"  I will have you create a thought process that will open you to change and identify areas in your life that you may need to pivot with.  All this will lead you to "Living Your Best Life."