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Noggin Notes aims to educate and enrich your noggin about mental illness and wellness. Conversations range from factual and data-based to theoretical and idea-based. We welcome your input at info@nogginnotes.com or info@zephyrwellness.org. Noggin Notes is not intended as a substitute for professional counseling but we really do hope you can adopt and use some of what we share in order to improve your own life and to seek peace and wellness every day.
Episodes

Monday Feb 18, 2019
Podcast Episode: A Principle of Intentionality
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Intentionality is a conscious state of being in the present moment. One of the central elements of social cognition, and people's folk theory of mind in particular, is the concept of intentionality.
It structures people’s perception of behavior from infancy on, grows to a complex conceptual framework that links behavior to mind, and underlies distinct information processing paths in the explanation, prediction, and moral evaluation of behavior.
The concept of intentionality itself may be a very complex feature that incorporates the different traits, and perhaps more.
Join us today as Jake dives in with anecdotes and personal examples of intentionality.
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Monday Feb 11, 2019
Podcast Episode: Reaching Wellbeing With RunTalkRun
Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
We had the honor of having on our show an amazing lady. She is from the United Kingdom who has created a community that allows people to support people. In her words “I create spaces for people to feel ‘heard’.”
RunTalkRun is a physical & virtual running community committed to supporting one another and being open about mental health. They come together on a weekly basis for a gentle 5k jog and a chat about the difficulties in their lives in a safe space, helping each other with whatever difficulties they might be going through.
In today's episode Jake chats to Jessica Robson about her journey and all the activities RunTalkRun has created and involved in.
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Monday Feb 04, 2019
Podcast Episode: Finding Your Spiritual Life Path
Monday Feb 04, 2019
Monday Feb 04, 2019
The meaning of life has been the query of humanity since ancient times. And still today we are no closer to knowing how to find our spiritual calling than they were!
Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many perspectives. In general, it includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, and it typically involves a search for meaning in life.
You will notice as you read on that many practices recommended for cultivating spirituality are similar to those recommended for improving emotional wellbeing. This is because there is a connection between the two—emotional and spiritual wellbeing influence one another and overlap, as do all aspects of wellbeing.
In todays episode Jake digs deeper on the topic of spirituality with Pastor Louie Locke.
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Monday Jan 28, 2019
Podcast Episode: Motivation: Psychological Factors Behind Behavior
Monday Jan 28, 2019
Monday Jan 28, 2019
In today's episode we discuss motivation. It is defined as the process that initiates, guides, and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. Motivation is what causes you to act, whether it is getting a glass of water to reduce thirst or reading a book to gain knowledge.
While motivation and emotion can be intricately linked, they are two fundamentally different things. Motivation describes the wants or needs that direct behavior toward a goal; in contrast, an emotion is a subjective state of being that we often describe as a feeling. Emotion and motivation are linked in several ways: both influence behavior and can lead us to take action, and emotion itself can act as a motivator. For example, the emotion of fear can motivate a person to leave a stressful situation, while the emotion of happiness can motivate a person to be more productive on a project that reinforces that emotion.
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Monday Jan 21, 2019
Podcast Episode: Ethics in Therapy! How Is Your Therapist Treating You?
Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 21, 2019
In today's episode we go over ethics of clinicians in the mental health profession. We believe it is very important to become familiar with the basic ethical guidelines that therapists should follow before you begin therapy with a new therapist, and we encourage you to do so. Unfortunately, media portrayals of therapy do not always provide examples of ethical, effective therapy experiences and many myths about therapy persist.
Jake provides information to ethical codes because we feel it is important for people to know the difference between ethical and unethical behavior. Most therapists intend to “do no harm” and strictly follow ethical guidelines. Overall, mental health professionals are a good people.
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Monday Jan 14, 2019
Podcast Episode: Understanding Emotions Part V: Fear and Surprise
Monday Jan 14, 2019
Monday Jan 14, 2019
Facial expression recognition is mediated by a distributed neural system in humans that involves multiple, bilateral regions. There are six basic facial expressions that may be recognized in humans (fear, sadness, surprise, happiness, anger, and disgust); however, fearful faces and surprised faces are easily confused in rapid presentation.
In today's episode Jake explains how the concept of surprise and fear is relevant to many aspects of human behavior. It also affects beliefs about other events. When a person takes an unexpected stance that violates his or her self-interest, the person’s arguments are surprising and quite often more persuasive.
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Monday Jan 07, 2019
Podcast Episode: Understanding Emotions Part IV: Disgust and Contempt
Monday Jan 07, 2019
Monday Jan 07, 2019
In today's episode Jake breaks down the 4th part of Understanding Emotions. He discusses Disgust and Contempt.
Analyzing the contempt as an intergroup emotion, we suggest that contempt and anger are not built upon each other, whereas disgust seems to be the most elementary and specific basic-emotional antecedent of contempt.
Want to enjoy positive work relationships, healthy relationships with friends, family and partners? Dump the contempt. Listen well. And pump up the positivity! When those more vulnerable feelings are explored in safety and grieved dyadically, a corrective emotional experience may occur. You can’t build a temple of appreciation without fully excavating the building site.
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Monday Dec 31, 2018
Podcast Episode: Understanding Emotions Part III: Guilt and Shame
Monday Dec 31, 2018
Monday Dec 31, 2018
In today's we discuss deeper into Guilt and Shame. Jake discusses potentially the unhealthy cycles of shame and guilt. We encourage you to think of instances in your life where you may be requiring deed based performances from people in order for you to extend forgiveness, and ask yourself are these deeds really necessary for you to forgive them?
Similar to respect and trust, it is up to us to extend these to people. Is it really necessary for us to require people to ‘earn’ these things from us with an arbitrary deed? On the flip side, maybe you think certain people in your life are requiring too much from you. Jake gives everyday examples of where this may occur and delves deeper into forgiveness and the emotions of shame and guilt.
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Monday Dec 24, 2018
Podcast Episode: Baseball and Mental Illness
Monday Dec 24, 2018
Monday Dec 24, 2018
In todays podcast episode, we discuss Baseball, Mental Health, CBD Oils and more. Jake is joined by the awesome Austin Byler who is a retired professional baseball player.
Austin was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 9th round of the 2014 MLB June Amateur Draft from University of Nevada-Reno (Reno, NV) and the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 11th round of the 2015 MLB June Amateur Draft from University of Nevada-Reno (Reno, NV).
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Monday Dec 17, 2018
Podcast Episode: Understanding Emotions Part II: Excitement and Joy
Monday Dec 17, 2018
Monday Dec 17, 2018
Jake discusses the emotions of Excitement and Joy. Happiness is a blurred emotion. It can mean different things to many people. Most of us will agree that happiness is an emotional state of well-being defined by positive feelings ranging from contentment to intense joy.
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