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Thrive with Rachael and Dr. Lou
This recording marks one year since Rachael and Dr. Lou first started their podcast series. Whether you've listened to one episode or all of them, thank you for listening and joining along on this journey to thriving! In the upcoming season of the...
6:26•25 Aug 2021
One Year of Thriving: Rachael and Dr. Lou Look Back and Plan Ahead
Episode Overview
- The hosts reflect on a year of sharing practical thriving skills used with clients and in their own lives.
- Publicly talking about their practices helps keep them accountable and consistent in their recovery and mental health habits.
- They emphasise real-life application of strategies, not just theory or worksheets, especially during a personally and globally difficult year.
- Skills discussed are intended to be useful across different ages and demographics, and they welcome challenges and feedback to refine what they teach.
- Future plans include longer, once-a-month episodes featuring guests who share their own journeys with mental health, substance use and thriving.
“Life is hard... And being able to process through those and not change how we think purposefully, what we do. Those are the things we can control.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This anniversary chat between Rachael and Dr. Lou looks back over a full year of their podcast and gives a clear sense of what they’re trying to do: make practical mental health and recovery skills feel usable in everyday life. From the start, their aim has been simple: talk honestly about what it means to thrive while dealing with mental health challenges, addiction, and the plain chaos of life.
As Rachael puts it, it’s been helpful to “review the skills that I talk about every day with my clients and things that I use in my personal life to be able to thrive each day.” You’ll hear them reflect on how sharing publicly keeps them honest too. Dr. Lou jokes about his “fear that somebody's going to call me out… ‘are you still going?’” and how that accountability pushes him to keep practising what he teaches.
Rather than just chatting about theory, they’re proud of focusing on “actual application of how you can implement various strategies in your life when things come up.” They talk about a tough year personally and globally, and how sticking to what they can control – thoughts, choices, schedules – has helped them and, they hope, their audience. The episode also sets the stage for what’s next.
Future sessions are planned monthly and a bit longer, with more guests sharing how they’ve handled mental health and substance use struggles and what thriving looks like for them. Rachael and Dr. Lou invite people from any background to get involved, especially if they’ve tried the skills and want help adapting them.
If you’re looking for practical, real-world tools to support sobriety and emotional health – and you like hearing professionals use their own skills on themselves – this episode might be the nudge you need to ask: how could these ideas fit into your life today?
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