Upcoming events
Ask A Therapist: Finding Sincere Gratitude
Research tells us our lives are fuller and happier than we often give ourselves credit. Roughly 90% of our lives are good, while only 10% can be justified as “bad” or unsettling. When we have our numbers reversed, it’s because we do not practice sincere gratitude. In this week’s conversation, we look at what it means to find daily sincere gratitude: seeking, acknowledging, and appreciating the good in your life and the experiences, feelings, thoughts, people, etc. that contribute to it. Sincere gratitude is about feeling your way into your life through a sense of humility and value. We’ll explore a simple gratitude practice that you can use daily to increase the quality of your thoughts and mindset.
Ask A Therapist: Breaking Down The Question: What Do I Want?
There are four questions I ask myself daily: 1. What do I want? 2. What do I need? 3. How do I want to feel? 4. How will I get there? These four questions are direction-pointers that guide my thoughts, feelings, and actions. Over the next four weeks, we are exploring these four questions to help you set up and create a healthy, intention-focused 2025. We start this week with question one, exploring how to find what you want in life now and in the future.
Ask A Therapist: Breaking Down The Question: What Do I Need?
Continuing our journey through the four questions that are daily guideposts, we turn to examining what you need. To figure out what you need, we need to look at and tune into your current state of living—physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and even financially. Where do you feel most energized? Where do you feel drained? Reflecting on these states reveals what we need to shift or increase. We will break down these states and ask a host of questions to help you identify your needs and help you make changes to reach the good.
Ask A Therapist: Breaking Down The Question: How Do I Want To Feel?
Continuing our journey through the four questions that are the guideposts to your life’s experience, we turn to the question: How Do I Want To Feel? The quickest and most straightforward answer is “good,” “happy,” and “positive,” but that begs the question of why. Why do you want to feel that way? What is stopping you now from that good feeling? What can you increase or let go of to have a more constant base of what you want to feel? In this week’s conversation, we explore the question and walk through steps to identify what emotions you want active daily.
Ask A Therapist: Breaking Down The Question: How Will I Get There?
The final question in our four-week journey of self-exploration comes down to planning. Over the last four weeks, we broke down and learned what you truly want, need, and how you want to feel. Now, we put these learnings into action. We can lead ourselves to where we want to go when we know where we are. In this conversation, we break down how to set sustainable, workable intentions and how to create a goal plan that works in the short and long term.
Ask A Therapist: Calling Yourself Out
Taking personal accountability is often a difficult task. It requires us to own our actions, decisions, and the consequences. While acknowledging our missteps is not usually complicated, focusing on the mistakes without making excuses is. Personal responsibility is the backbone of your growth and developing integrity. In this week’s conversation, we look at your life’s compass. We are talking about where we must take accountability and where we need to let go. We are also walking through a tool that helps you break down the places you are unsure where the responsibility lies.
Ask A Therapist: Developing A Strong Sense of Self
Developing a sense of self is necessary to thrive in your life, both in the present and the future. When we begin the journey of self-exploration and growth, we often do not know where to start. In this week’s conversation, we look at the pathway to creating a solid sense of self through exploring your values, interests, and boundaries, reflecting on your experience, and understanding what truly matters to you. Embracing who you are and honoring the past and the present allows you to focus on a sense of self. We are breaking it all down in this deep-dive conversation.
Ask A Therapist: Your Attachment Style In A Nutshell
Attachment styles are patterns in which we connect with others. Our earliest experiences shape our connections. Understanding your attachment style can offer insight into how you handle relationships and where you may need to work to change behaviors that are not serving you. In this week’s conversation, we are diving into the four main types: Secure, Anxious, Avoidant, and Fearful-Avoidant; why this may be your style, and I’ll hand over a few tips and tools to help you create solid footing and connection in your current relationships.
Ask A Therapist: How Anger Hides Other Emotions
Anger is a hot emotion. It works to tell us something is wrong and helps guide us to mental, emotional, and physical safety. It is not inherently bad, as it can motivate change. However, it is sneaky as it hides in other emotions, such as sadness, disappointment, and guilt. When this is present, anger can simmer into frustration and resentment. In this week’s conversation, we are diving into recognizing hidden anger, why you sometimes need the emotion, and how to transform it into something constructive.
Ask A Therapist: Emotional Bypassing Vs Emotional Processing
Our emotions are guides, impulses, to direct your thoughts and feelings toward what is most important to you in the short and long run. In times of heightened emotions, trauma, or even day-to-day living that feels heavier, many of us have the habit of pushing our emotions aside and bypassing the need/act of processing what is currently working to get our attention. In this week's Ask A Therapist, we are breaking down the difference between emotional bypassing and emotional processing, and I'm handing over a tool that helps you break down what is happening within the span of your day that may cause you to create the bypassing in the first place. When we do not check in, offer ourselves a gauge point, we often do not address what's needed and necesssary until a problem or emotion begins to overwhelm us. Learning how to process correctly, in the moment an emotion occurs, and doing so with a gounded process helps you live mindfully, actively, and with a great sense of joy. Can't wait to join you this coming Monday! Don't forget to join the Ask A Therapist Group under my teacher profile to ask questions before or after this conversation.
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Peaceful Planet Foundation
Danielle A. Vann: Building Resiliency — Auditorium
Mrs. Vann is an Author, Coach, Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, and Host of the podcast, The Get Your Life Together, Girl. She will focus on mental and emotional wellness and what it takes to build and own resiliency.
release of road trip nation documentary
Texas is a state big enough to fit all sorts of people. But how do you decide the type of person you want to be in the first place? Watch as Anthony, Chandler, Keilahn, and Yesenia—four young Texans eager to find where they fit—explore Dallas, Houston, and other nearby locales to figure out their first steps into the world of work. Danielle A. Vann is interviewed by the entire cast about Mindfulness, her story, and what it takes to live a life of purpose.
TAKING OVER @TheMentalHealthTherapist Page for a Conversation about CBT & Ways to Help Yourself Heal
Join Danielle A. Vann live on IG on the @thementalhealththerapist page to have a conversation about how to best serve the healing process & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Taking Over @Habits_Book's IG Page for A Conversation on Habits & Goals
Join Danielle A. Vann as she takes over @Habits_Books IG International Book Page to Chat about Good Life Habits!
Setting & Achieving Long-term Goals through Mindfulness
Join Danielle A. Vann and the Lifestyle Docs of Houston as we discuss setting and achieving long-term goals through mindfulness! Click the link to sign up for free: Special Event - EmBee Lifestyle Docs
To learn more about the Lifestyle Docs of Houston visit them at EmBee Lifestyle Docs | Houston's First Holistic Lifestyle Medicine Clinic.
Storyrocket live with partner bowker
Danielle Vann co-hosts Storyrocket LIVE with President and Two-time Emmy-winner Ana Benitez. Join us live with Bowker and Storyrocket.com as we teach authors how to create their platforms.
Get YOUR LIFE TOGETHER MONDAY
Join Danielle A. Vann LIVE on Instagram each Monday morning as she talks about ways to increase your happiness, inspiration and motivation, and how to become your best self! It’s a great way to get your week started! You don’t want to miss it!
Get Your Life Together Monday
Join Danielle live as she challenges you think more mindfully and discusses thought-provoking growth.
Features: vann ON PBS
thought leader danielle A. vann on Roadtrip Nation
“If it doesn’t feed my soul, it’s not worth being in my soul.” - Danielle A. Vann
Road Trip Nation
Watch Danielle A. Vann on Road Trip Nation speaking about Mental Health & following your dreams.
Features: vann in the news
danielle a. vann on a mission for literacy
Forty-four percent of our nation’s adults are reading and writing at a fourth-grade level. What’s even scarier is nearly 20 percent of high schoolers graduated last year without the skill to read.
Despite this staggering facts, the White House has released its proposed budget for FY2019 that slashes federal funding for a vital tool in education— libraries and museums.
Increasing Literacy
Watch Danielle A. Vann on TheDove TV speaking about literacy rates in America.
BeingFictional on The Whizbang Machine
I saw a post on my local city’s Facebook page a few months ago about an author and fellow resident who was having a book signing at our local Half-Price Books. I was really excited to meet her because supporting local authors is a great way to expand my reading horizons and also to give them support and help get the word out about their writing.
Seventh Annual Literary Classics
Seventh Annual Literary Classics Book Awards Presentation, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Youth Book Awards Ceremony. Literary Classics International Book Awards and Top Honors Book Awards presentation.
Danielle On the Tom Barnard Podcast
Listen as Danielle and Tom Barnard talk about literacy and the declining rates of reading among our youth.
Where are they now?
We interviewed Danielle A. Vann in an article where she talked about a book that she had collaborated on. Since then, to say that she has been busy would be an understatement! We got in touch with Danielle to see where she is now. Read on to learn more.
DANIELLE A. VANN ON THE THINK bUSINESS pODCAST WITH JON DWOSKIN
Danielle and Jon dive into passion and creating your best life! Listen to the episode.