The Make it Mentionable Show

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My houseplants are teaching me things again! This week we’re talking about how to create space for growth. Hint: It doesn’t require a complete overhaul of your life–just a bigger pot.

Tune in to discover: 

💋🎙 What mental houseplants are and how to tell if yours are ready for new pots

💋🎙 How our thoughts and beliefs lead us to stagnate or grow

💋🎙 How to notice when your roots feel restricted and how to create space for them to grow

💋🎙 Two things that tempt us when we’re trying to grow that end up holding us back

💋🎙 Why a shift in perspective is sometimes the simplest (and most effective) pivot you can make

Are you tending to your mental houseplants? Where do you feel like you could use a bigger pot? Where are you thriving? Let me know in the comments.

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“You’re like an information sponge!” You’ve likely heard this phrase if you’re a self-identified lifelong learner like me. But sponges can only take in so much water before they start sloshing dirty water around instead of cleaning the counter. Similarly, we can only take in so much information before experiencing information overload.

If you’re hungry for knowledge, today’s episode will help you make sure you can digest all the info you take in without becoming creatively constipated.

Tune in for these highlights:

💋🎙 Why passive consumption can set us on the path to overwhelm

💋🎙 How our thirst for knowledge can lead to creative constipation (and what to do instead)

💋🎙 2 tips to avoid becoming a saturated sponge

💋🎙 How to digest new information more efficiently

Avoid becoming a saturated sponge by hopping over to the comments and letting me know something you’ve recently learned. 

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How we perceive a situation directly influences how we respond. But what or who determines your perception—you or your inner critic?

Tune in to discover:

💋🎙 How to recognize your inner critics

💋🎙 Sneaky voices that may mean an inner critic stole the show

💋🎙 Why trying to banish inner critics doesn’t work and what to do instead

So if you’ve ever…

• Spent an entire shower overthinking what you said at dinner last night,
• Felt uncomfortable relinquishing control,
• Passed up an opportunity because you worried you weren’t good enough,
• Reread an email four times before hitting send to make sure it was perfect,
• Felt guilty for not checking off your last to-do item, 
• Shamed yourself for indulging in that third drink,

…this episode was recorded for you.

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Feel stuck but unsure what choice to make? Know something is off but not sure what you want instead? Tired of sitting on the fence between decisions? 

This episode is sure to have some gems in store for you because we’re talking about embracing a life of choice.

Tune in to learn:

💋🎙 What a choice point is and how to use them to make your life easier. 

💋🎙 How to see more possibilities (even if you feel overwhelmed in responsibility)

💋🎙 Tips for identifying what you really want

I also share:

💋🎙 Ways social media impacts our perception, choices you have to take back control, and how I’m personally using social media right now

💋🎙 How I came to the decision to quit the PhD program years ago

💋🎙 How I dropped my procrastisnackin’ habit

After you tune in…

Where are you sensing you want to change or shake something up? What are some choice points you may not have been seeing?

!Let me know in the comments!

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It’s a special birthday edition! I turn 31 this week, and it just so happens this is the 31st episode of the show. Naturally, that requires something fun! Geoff joins me on the couch for a special Ask Me session. 

Geoff compiled a list of questions people might ask kids, tweens, and teens on their birthday and asked me instead. I didn’t get to peek beforehand, so you get my off-the-cuff answers.

You’ll learn…

💋🎙 Whether I’d rather be attacked by a bear or a swarm of bees

💋🎙 What I’m most afraid of (it took me a second to figure out what the answer truly is)

💋🎙 The pet peeve that gets me every time

💋🎙 What I would have named myself if given the choice 

💋🎙 If I’ve ever stolen anything 

…and more. 

We also talk about the importance of growing down while growing up.

How would you answer these questions? Hop on over to the comments and let me know.

Our food system is broken. As a result, our relationship with our bodies suffers. Health coach and functional health practitioner, Megan Brown, joins me to discuss our societal definition of aging, the role food plays in how we feel, and how we can nourish ourselves in a world filled with cluttered messages around health. 

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

💋🎙How food companies strategically mixup health information and marketing
💋🎙The importance of uncovering the root cause when it comes to health
💋🎙Nuances of the doctor-patient relationship and how to be your own health advocate
💋🎙How the cultural obsession with productivity seeped into the food system and how to reclaim true health💋🎙The dark side of convenience and its detrimental effects
💋🎙How we can nourish ourselves with confidence 

ABOUT MEGAN

Megan is a certified holistic health coach, functional health practitioner, wellness blogger, twin mama, food lover, and autoimmune warrior determined to make healthy not feel so damn hard. After being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at 22, she spent years dieting, restricting, and spending hundreds of dollars on supplements, all the while feeling stuck and confused as to how to navigate between managing this disease and trying to heal her body. That’s when she started studying nutrition, holistic health and healing and later founded No Rules Nourishment, LLC. 

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I talk about perfectionism a lot because it’s a sneaky little coping mechanism with more tentacles to grip us than an octopus 🐙 But today we’re loosening that grip.

In today’s episode, I’m diving deeper into perfectionism and sharing two phrases you can adopt right away that have consistently helped me loosen the grip perfectionism once had in my life.

Plus, hear about how the lead singer of Snow Patrol showed up on stage with a music stand and started one of his songs over (even though he’s been playing them for 20 years).

Drop me a note in the comments if this episode resonates and let me know how you plan to use the phrases.

Is there a topic you want me to cover on the show? A question you’re dying to ask? Send me a text at (512) 710-5124.

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This week’s episode is just you and me talking about joy. More specifically, we’re talking about trapped joy because I’ve found that sometimes joy is one of our most terrifying feelings. I break down what trapped joy is and how we can start experiencing more joy in our daily lives.

You might be experiencing trapped joy if you’ve ever been on a date and found yourself not wanting to show how happy you are, so you bite the inside of your cheek. Or maybe you’re like me, and it’s really easy to talk about something challenging you’re going through, but sharing what’s great can feel significantly more uncomfortable. 

We’re talking about how to experience and express your joy more fully this week, and it starts with unleashing your trapped joy. I tell the story of how I was terrified to express joy this past Thanksgiving and share my top Joy Inducers right now.

Joy is a theme that appears in many episodes of this show. During this episode, I also reference these episodes: 

💋🎙 Episode 26 with Emily Carter on Rest and Relaxation

💋🎙 Episode 21 with Julie Schoen on Fulfillment 

💋🎙 Episode 18 with Stormy Sweitzer on Wonder, Awe, and Magic

💋🎙 Episode 17 with Dr. Sophia Town on Flourishing

Joy can be contagious. What are your top Joy Inducers? Share them with me in the comments here: https://alyssapatmos.com/show/

Is there a topic you want me to cover on the show? A question you’re dying to ask? Send me a text at (512) 710-5124.

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Laura was 14 when she found out she had 28 days left to live. Her body was deteriorating rapidly due to anorexia, and she needed help. The way Laura tells her story is incredibly powerful and sets the tone for a conversation that wanders through questions often left unspoken. We discuss eating disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, the role control can end up playing in both, and most importantly, hope.

As we navigate this topic, we also cover:

• What happens when we feel like our body is the only thing we can control?

•  What happens when healing doesn’t have an end stamp that says, “I’m cured!” and instead is an ongoing process of maintenance and management?

• Where does perfectionism hide in our lives beyond school and work?
  
  
• How do you love and appreciate your parents while acknowledging their role in the coping mechanisms you’ve chosen?

This is one of the most intimate episodes of the show thus far. I hope you feel like you’re around the table with us as you tune in.

ABOUT LAURA

Laura is a people-loving, deep feeling, loud laughing, Gemini. 😉 Her passion is to help illustrate others’ incredible life stories and welcome the most vulnerable, raw parts of us as humans in any photo she takes. 

Laura is the photographer responsible for many of the pictures we use for alyssapatmos.com and the cover art for Make it Mentionable. Since the first time I stepped behind her camera, she’s been a dear friend.

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Emily Carter joins me to talk about rest, relaxation, time, and leisure. These topics often make for hot articles, but how often are they talked about through the lens of trees, bees, and nature? That’s where we’re going in today’s episode. 

Often, the distortion we feel around our time leads to burnout or a general sense of unfulfillment. In this episode, Emily and I dive into how our relationships with time, rest, and community influence how each of us feels daily and what we can do to feel more alive. 

One of my favorite things is turning back to nature because nature holds so much wisdom, and it’s right in front of our face (even though I live in the middle of a major city). Emily’s obsession with the pawpaw tree kicks us off, and my recent obsession with bees helps us go even deeper.

My orchid is also discussed because it seems I’m learning something weekly from watching it grow.

Tune in if you feel out of rhythm and want to get back to feeling in sync. Or if you find yourself wondering about time frequently like both Emily and I do.

ABOUT EMILY

Emily is a community builder, podcast host, and founder of Change Agent Studio. Her work and current curiosity centers around how our relationships with time, community, ourselves, and work influence how we experience life on the daily. She’s also in love with pawpaws (aka – the Indiana Banana). It’s a unique fruit, native to the Midwest, that’s a cross between bananas and mangos. Have you tried one? Let us know in the comments.