How to Find Your Strength in Times of Grief, Crisis, or Stress

When life falls apart—through grief, heartbreak, crisis, or overwhelming stress—it’s easy to feel like everything steady has been stripped away. But even in our hardest moments, there’s something we can always come back to. Something that can anchor us, guide us, and help us rise with clarity and strength.

In this episode, Melli shares one of the most powerful tools for inner resilience: reconnecting with your values.

You’ll discover:

The incredible story of Viktor Frankl and the human freedom no one can take from you

What values really are (and what they’re not)

A two step practice to use connection to your values to stay grounded in times of upheaval

This episode offers a grounded, compassionate reminder:

Even when you can’t control what’s happening around you, you can choose who you want to be in the middle of it.

Links for Further Support:

Calm in Crisis (for times of acute stress or upheaval):

https://melliobrien.com/calm-in-crisis-course/

Unwinding Anxiety (support for ongoing anxiety):

https://melliobrien.com/unwinding-anxiety/

📘 Melli’s Book ‘Deep Resilience’:

https://melliobrien.com/deep-resilience-book

🎁 Free Deep Resilience Care Package:

https://melliobrien.com/deep-resilience-care-package-signup/

5 Thought Patterns That Feed Depression — And How to Break Free

When you’re feeling low, it can seem like the world is grey and unchangeable. But often, the way we think is quietly fuelling the way we feel.

In this episode, Melli explores five common thought patterns that feed depression—and how to shift out of them using a simple, evidence-based tool called Catch It, Check It, Change It.

These patterns—like all-or-nothing thinking, rumination, and emotional reasoning—often run in the background, disguised as truth. But once we learn to see them clearly, we can begin to loosen their grip and reclaim our clarity, resilience, and inner peace.

You’ll discover:

The 5 thought patterns that deepen and sustain depression

Real-life examples to help you spot them in yourself

A 3-step method to shift into a more flexible and helpful mindset

How Melli used these tools to transform her own experience with depression

This episode offers a grounded, compassionate guide to understanding your mind—and gently rewiring it for strength and healing.

Links for further exploration:

Free Deep Resilience Care Package: https://melliobrien.com/deep-resilience-care-package-signup/

Melli’s Book ‘Deep Resilience' melliobrien.com/deep-resilience-book

🎧 Talk Back to Unhelpful Thoughts — The 3-Step Practice to Rewire Negative Thinking

Do you ever feel like your mind is working against you—spiralling into self-doubt, rehashing the past, or catastrophizing about the future?

You’re not alone.

Our minds are master storytellers—and many of the stories they tell are based in fear, insecurity, or old conditioning.

In this episode, Melli shares a simple, powerful 3-step practice to help you unhook from those unhelpful narratives and return to calm, clarity, and strength.

This isn’t about trying to get rid of negative thoughts. It’s about learning how to change your relationship to them—so they no longer run the show.

You’ll learn how to re-parent your inner dialogue, shift into the wise part of yourself, and guide your mind gently out of suffering and into a more supportive, empowered mindset.

You’ll discover:

🧠 Why your mind acts like a storyteller—and how it “hooks” you into distress and reactivity

🪞 The real reason we suffer isn’t the thought itself—but how we relate to it

🌀 The 3-step “Name It, Tame It, Reframe It” method to shift out of old thought loops

🧘‍♀️ How mindfulness creates space between you and your thoughts—so you can lead with wisdom, not fear

🌿 How to create more mental freedom, emotional resilience, and inner peace—without pushing thoughts away

Whether you’re facing anxiety, stress, or just want a clearer, kinder relationship with your own mind—this episode gives you a practical, evidence-based way forward.

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📘 Get your copy of Deep Resilience and access all the free guided meditations and gifts:

https://melliobrien.com/deep-resilience-book/