Magnified Grace
Magnified Grace is the premier podcast that addresses mental health, addiction, the journey to gain healing, and to focus on relationships. This podcast aims to address many of the issues that challenge our society, typical stigmas, and how we can respond to those challenges; particularly when it comes to addiction and recovery! We view these topics through a grace-based lens and with patience, perseverance, and understanding.
Episodes
Welcome back! Thanks for joining the podcast once again where we continue to discuss attachment traumas! In this episode your host, Manny, addresses self-sabotage, what it is, and why people develop the need to self-sabotage. Trauma-blocking behaviors are also discussed and why these behaviors are connected to attachment and our attachment styles and relationships! Have a listen and please share this very informative podcast w...
Greetings all! In this episode we dive into the Psychological Symptoms of Attachment Trauma. We go into depth on the tendencies to feel guilt, shame, and humiliation from our childhood trauma(s) and we discuss why individuals may experience hyper-reactive stress, and we barely scathe the surface on Enmeshment and the incessant need to please others no matter what! Ultimately people need to understand that trauma, in all its form...
Magnified Grace begins a new series on Attachment Trauma and Disorders. Amidst the rising popularity in attachment types and attachment personalities, there also arises the lesser known facts about Attachment Trauma and how this can directly shape and affect how you form attachments! In this first episode of the series, your host Manny discusses what Attachment Trauma is and its impacts on your physical health. Our bodies are a...
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to 2023! In this episode, I discuss the goals and objectives I wish to accomplish in order to bring more online presence to the podcast, how to promote it, what may change as far as the content is concerned and finally.....we talk about family! We discuss how we are, at times, selfish when it comes to making decisions that can be sometimes self-serving. And while self-serving isn't always a...
Welcome back to Magnified Grace! I'm back with another episode pertaining to our mental health and relationships! Today we are talking about confirmation bias, what it is, how it impacts our relationships, and why understanding what confirmation bias is matters to us. We need to understand what our core beliefs and convictions are so that we can eventually get to a place where we choose to challenge those beliefs and convic...
In today's podcast, I discuss the current events of supply chain issues, COVID, and how it has impacted Adderall and thus creating the Adderall shortage. This can be a real problem! This problem won't be going away any time soon according to the experts and main stream media. So what can we do about it? What are the alternatives? How can we change our mindset and perceive this as an opportunity to do things a little ...
Hey! I'm your host Manny and I'm glad to be back with you and feeling 100% after being a little under the weather. This week I discuss exercise addiction and how to spot the signs that your gym time may be a compulsive behavior over just a healthy lifestyle. We discuss what exercise addiction is, what it looks like, the signs and symptoms of this addiction, the types of exercise addiction, and the risks associated with...
In this week's episode I discuss what grace is, what repentance is, why we need both and what they mean for our recovery. We also talk about the merits of living a life of repentance and constant growth; that we are always under construction and we should strive to never stop growing until the day we pass! We also discuss why grace isn't weakness and how there can actually be immense strength and self control that comes...
In this week's episode, I discuss some really good, positive memes versus some not-so-good and confusing memes. I decided to change it up a bit and start a podcast series where I review both positive recovery memes and some recovery memes that can be confusing and even promote negative self-talk. I break down some memes so take a listen and let me know your thoughts on this new series!
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This topic is near and dear to my heart since I seriously struggled a lot with approval addiction and I really put a lot of value in what other people thought of me. But then as I was getting better, becoming more sober, and beginning to see my self-worth and value, I began to cure myself of this kind of addiction. Losing ourselves to approval addiction for the sake of gaining the validation from others wrecks havoc on our mental...
In this week's episode we talk about the very opposite of healthy boundaries and address what some unhealthy boundaries look like! I discuss some examples and help people realize and identify what those unhealthy boundaries are in the hopes that people will change course and make adjustments in their lives to thrive! TRIGGER WARNING: A Bible verse was used in the making of this episode, but as I have said before, I will on...
In this week's episode, we discuss healthy boundaries and how to set them! We define what makes a boundary healthy and what makes them good! If the boundary isn't life-giving or life-changing for the better, it's probably not a good boundary! We discuss why we need boundaries in our lives and in relationships and finally we also dive into the consequences of not having healthy boundaries.
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TRIGGER WARNING! This episode is packed full of some unpopular opinions and some Bible verses, BUT.....they are here to encourage you and to shed some light into this thing called "depression!" We talk about what depression is, the risks of depression, depression and its link to addiction, and Andrew Tate's perspective on depression. It's all found in this episode and it's definitely worth listening to! ...
Whoa...I know I'm gonna be stepping on some toes with this one, but we have to cover it! In this week's episode, we talk about ADHD, Adderall, and addiction, and the impacts these topics have on our mental health. We cover what ADHD actually is and its symptoms, what Adderall is and its unique properties and what it's used for, and finally we talk about the correlation between ADHD and addiction! Finally, I h...
Greetings! This week, we talked about cross addictions. We cover in today's episode:
- What cross addictions are
- How it's defined
- Why people choose cross addictions
- How it can lead to a depraved state
- How cross addictions feed off of each other
- Treatment and Help
The reality is that cross addictions tend to happen by accident and are not always the fault of the addict, but with the right timing of love, encouragement,...
Greetings to all! It's your host Manny with some exciting news! We have updated the name of the podcast to reflect the true heart and nature of the podcast and the content of this channel. I believe that the re-naming of this podcast encapsulates the course and audience that we are trying to reach. Join me as we look at my reasons for re-naming the podcast, what the new name will do for the podcast in the long-term, t...
In this week's episode we talk about positive thinking, what it is, why it's important to pursue, and how we can go about practicing positive thinking in order to heal and overcome negative thoughts. We also discover the health benefits of thinking positively and adjusting our mindset in order to make positive thinking part of our belief system that drives our actions and even our physical health. Questions to ponder fo...
Hey all, this week we talked about insecurities and its affect on mental health and even our physical health and why this needs to be addressed before it gets worse. We discuss some of the causes of insecurities and how some of them are based on our environments growing up or our current environment. We also discuss insecurities in romantic relationships and the effects of insecurities over time. I also give some insight on...
Whew! This one is my longest podcast yet and it's jam packed with all kinds of statistics on social media and its impact on our mental health as well as some of the positive outcomes if we choose to NOT consume as much social media and instead, choose real-life friends and social interactions in place of media! Some of those experiences that are the by-product of social media are: inadequacy, isolation, depression and anxiet...
In this week's episode I decided to try something a little different! I've decided to review a book! In this episode, I expand a bit more on the subject of shame and what better way to expand on shame than to review a book that is precisely on that very subject? This week, I talk about why I recommend this book and who I would recommend this book to in order to understand the deeper concepts behind shame. I also ...
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