Welcome to the show! Here's a little bit about your host (the relevant stuff), what to expect for our three times per week episodes, and how to find related resources.

This show is designed to help you reconnect to the world if you are feeling isolated, dissociated, depressed or otherwise disconnected. Then expect some daily words to help you find some energy to engage with connected action for meaningful change.

Episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday every week.

Credits, contact, and more info

This podcast series was created, written, edited, produced and is hosted by Jen deHaan.

Jen has a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Developing Healthy Communities: Nutrition, Behavior, and Physical Activity from Tufts University, a degree in adult education in the arts, and various certifications and experience in group fitness instruction.

Artwork, logo, and graphics: Jen deHaan.

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This podcast is a StereoForest production. Made and produced in British Columbia, Canada.

The content provided in this podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This podcast is not a substitute for professional mental health services, therapy, counselling, or medical care. The views expressed are personal opinions and experiences, and individual results may vary. If you have specific mental health concerns, please consult with qualified healthcare professionals. We have some resources to get started here to search for local resources. Please see this page on our site for more info.

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This is a Stereo Forest production from StereoForest

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.com.

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Information, resources, and opportunities to support the show

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and connect with others are available at StereoForest

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.com daily reconnect.

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This podcast is for informational and educational purposes

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only and is not a substitute for medical

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advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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If you have specific mental health concerns, please

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consult with a qualified health care professional.

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In this introduction, I'll cover what to expect

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for this ongoing resource and what other things

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are available to you as part of this

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project.

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So, welcome to the first episode of The

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Daily Reconnect.

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I'm your host, Janda Han, and these short

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episodes, which I'll start off delivering Monday, Wednesday,

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and Friday, will help you reconnect to the

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present when you feel disconnected or dissociated from

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the world.

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Together, we will try to re-engage with

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our bodies and our minds to reconnect with

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reality and the world as much as we

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can anyways.

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This is especially important now that we're living

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in interesting times.

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Maybe isolated times in a rapidly wildly changing

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world.

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So, what you're feeling, whatever that might be,

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makes sense.

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We all handle difficulty and stress and change

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and isolation and disconnection in our own ways.

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For me, particularly because I'm quite physically and

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socially isolated, stress often results in this feeling

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of an odd disconnection.

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It's really hard to describe, but everything feels

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and to a certain extent even looks unreal.

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Maybe partially because of my Groundhog Day existence.

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Sometimes we might disassociate on purpose, just to

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cope.

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But stressful situations, which can vastly differ amongst

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all of us, often result in these similar

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kinds of experiences.

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And any and all of this is entirely

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valid.

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So, it's important to mention I am NOT

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a professional in mental health or anything like

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that.

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Which is, well, I'll add that little preamble

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before these episodes start.

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But I am a human and human connection

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can help.

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And that is the fundamental purpose of this

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project.

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There's often no one that's coming to help

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or save us, but we can try to

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reach out and help one another.

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So the episodes, which I expect to be

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roughly 10 minutes in length or so, we'll

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see what feels right over the coming weeks,

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will contain two main sections.

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The first part will help you re-engage

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with yourself.

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We'll do this in a bunch of different

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ways, primarily using simple exercises that I'll walk

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you through.

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The second part will be designed to motivate.

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Many, or even most of us, we can't

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count on anyone from that place of power

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coming to save us, like I mentioned, right?

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Especially in our world now.

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So we need to come together as individuals

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to help ourselves, so we can work together

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collectively in action to make change.

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And when that's sustained, it can be quite

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powerful and strong.

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Being disconnected doesn't help us or others.

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Reconnecting to ourselves and then others might.

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I won't include toxic positivity or blind optimism

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or ignore the reality of the vast variety

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of our unique situations.

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I'm a lifelong skeptic with a desire to

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have hope when I can, and I thrive

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on those deep dives and facts, and I

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really dislike assumptions.

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I understand that there's so much variety out

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there in things around access, capacity, and culture.

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So I'll try to keep everything fairly high

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level as much as I can, so you

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can hopefully apply these exercises and the motivation

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to your own situation.

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I know everything that I say, it won't

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work for everyone, but I'll do my best,

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and I welcome conversation and input, of course.

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So if you want to get involved and

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feel connected to other listeners, Stereo Forest has

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a Discord server, and I'll link the channel

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in the show notes that will be dedicated

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to the show.

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The link will go right to that channel.

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So you can use that to connect with

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the show, with me, and with each other.

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We are real humans, and we need human

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connection during this time.

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There's power in connection.

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It's active.

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It helps during difficult times, and some form

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of connection helps us carry on and get

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the work that needs to be done accomplished

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during hard times, like now.

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So that's what to expect for The Daily

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Reconnect.

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We will get started in the next episode

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with visualizations and exercises, and see where this

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takes us together.

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Thank you so much for listening.

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Thank you for listening to The Daily Reconnect.

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Episodes are released on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

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every week.

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This show was created, written, hosted, edited, and

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produced by Jenda Han.

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Links to contact information, ways to support the

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show, transcripts, the free newsletter, and our community

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Discord can be found in the show notes.

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This is a Stereo Forest production.