Join Todd as he expands on the circles of support idea by giving a brief overview of the Pyramid of support from his book: Team Positive: How to Build Support for Someone Coping with Chronic Illness. This is a significant part of the book (the entire second section) boiled down into a 3 minute presentation to help you better understand and use the concept in your efforts. This was pulled from a larger presentation which you can jump to here: https://youtu.be/EC5XWTPc77M You can find more topics, worksheets, and support materials here: https://www.wellnesstalks.org/ FOLLOW: https://twitter.com/tschmenk LIKE: https://www.facebook.com/beteampositive VIEW US: https://www.instagram.com/beteamposit... #chronicillnesssupport #toddschmenk #teampositive ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLrcleR83xA

Designed for the person dealing with chronic illness but useful in building support for caregivers of those coping with chronic illness, this longer video gives an in-depth look at how to build support for chronic illness. These are the chronic illness essentials to help increase chronic illness motivation. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89zzoKyzBc

Join Todd Schmenk as he walks you through an automatic thoughts record exercise using the life map. It is a simple exercise which allows you to survey the mental and physical landscape so that you can actually SEE the personal experience along with what you typically do in response to it. It also points to what to do instead by looking at what matters (personal values) and little steps you can take to move in the direction of those values (committed actions). 0:00 Introduction 0:59 What you will need 1:31 Setting up the life map 1:48 Lower-left Personal Experience 3:22 Upper-left "What Do You Do?" 4:45 Hopeless Behavioral Loop 6:30 Pain of Presence & Pain of Absence 6:40 Lower-right Values Identification 7:16 Upper Right Committed Action 9:02 Examples FOLLOW: https://twitter.com/tschmenk​ LIKE: https://www.facebook.com/beteampositive​ VIEW US: https://www.instagram.com/beteamposit​... Want to join a community? Help support this effort and help others gain access to useful information? Consider signing up here https://www.patreon.com/toddschmenk​ #ACT​ #toddschmenk​ #lifemap ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cym5LJh2ySs

Hey All! Join me, Todd Schmenk, as I walk you through three specific strategies for managing your energy levels including the life domain assessment, a simple energy tracking technique, and a way to balance out the minds natural tendency to focus on only the negative. These are tried and true ideas and skills coming directly from my experience in working with thought dealing with ongoing stress and even those having to manage a chronic illness were energy tends to get used up more quickly. This is part one of four. Join Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/toddschmenk to see how to become more involved. Get weekly exercises and tips. Support access to mental health. Help in making better quality videos. Thanks for any consideration. LIKE: https://www.facebook.com/ToddSchmenkMEd #mindfulness #toddschmenk #ACT The main goal of this channel is in educating people on how the human mind and body work to help develop greater psychological flexibility. When skills and concepts are practiced with purpose and intent, it has been demonstrated that a good deal of our suffering can be decreased. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cONqW-MhFgc