Let’s Be Well Together Podcast - Episode 125
Date: June 18, 2024

Participants: Elise Seifert, Sheila Webster, John Webster and Cameron Earnshaw
Guest: Bronwyn Schweigerdt

Start Times and Segments:

[0:00:16] What’s On Your Mind: We heard about some of Elise’s university castle experiences on Episode 122. Sheila said it scratched the surface. She dives into the back story.

[0:11:27] Expanding Minds Interview: [Mental Wellness] We interview Bronwyn Schweigerdt, whose life experiences led her to a path as a therapist. She recognized a need to express anger that she was holding, and to have it validated by someone else. Dissociated anger makes us sick, both mentally and physically. What’s sharable is bearable. Our feelings are not tolerable in isolation. That’s when they hurt us. That’s where they stagnate inside our bodies and make us sick. If you feel it and you share it with someone else, it does release. Anger is like a light on our emotional dashboard, like a light in a car that says, “check the engine”. Something needs attention. I can master the anger instead of letting the anger master me. We do that by validating it for ourselves, then expressing it in a healthy way using boundaries, assertiveness or an accountability of sorts. Bronwyn hosts a podcast called Angry At The Right Things, sharing information as a marriage and family therapist.

[0:30:21] Adventures of the Starving Artist: Cameron and his Rockstar Music lessons team were meeting people at the Ottawa Children’s festival, then he took some of the Rockstar group to enjoy go karts.

[0:34:40] Move That Body: Sheila was off travelling twice, and worked more than usual between trips. She missed her gym and workout routine. We talk about getting back into a routine after an absence.

[0:38:31] Running Popup: John was listening to Moby Dick audiobook on a run. A line by Captain Ahab made him think, “the only real owner of anything is its commander”. Does that mean we can become the owners of ourselves by becoming the commanders of ourselves?

[0:41:16] Flipside of the Coin: Sheila loves games – card games, board games and much more. John doesn’t typically volunteer to join, but enjoys them when he does.

Guest Information: Bronwyn Schweigerdt is an evocative psychotherapist with a master's degree in counseling and nutrition. She helps people reconnect to their anger and heal relationship with themselves. Her goal is to elicit feelings people are ashamed to have. She knows that even though feelings are invisible, they don’t evaporate, but store away in our bodies until processed. According to Bronwyn, these feelings haunt us and cause mental illness until we express them into words with someone who can hear and validate them. She hosts a podcast called Angry At The Right Things, sharing information as a marriage and family therapist.

Bronwyn’s podcast link: Angry At The Right Things

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Thanks for joining us,
(-(-_(-_-)_-)-) Your wellness check-in team
John, Sammy, Cameron, Sheila, Elise, Isabelle, Noura and Julie