After a busy season, Carrie is back—and kicking off November with a powerful reset: gratitude. Not the fluffy kind, but the kind that rewires your stress response and supports real, measurable health gains. In this episode, Carrie explains how practicing gratitude can shift your brain out of negativity bias, boost serotonin and dopamine, raise heart-rate variability (hello, parasympathetic “rest-and-digest”), improve sleep quality, ease anxiety, lower blood pressure, and even calm inflammatio...
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After a busy season, Carrie is back—and kicking off November with a powerful reset: gratitude. Not the fluffy kind, but the kind that rewires your stress response and supports real, measurable health gains. In this episode, Carrie explains how practicing gratitude can shift your brain out of negativity bias, boost serotonin and dopamine, raise heart-rate variability (hello, parasympathetic “rest-and-digest”), improve sleep quality, ease anxiety, lower blood pressure, and even calm inflammatio...
Breaking Through Depression & Trauma: Exploring Ketamine & Innovative Mental Health Treatments with Gwen Dudley (Episode 67)
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1 month ago
Breaking Through Depression & Trauma: Exploring Ketamine & Innovative Mental Health Treatments with Gwen Dudley (Episode 67)
In this episode of Thrive with Carrie, I sit down with Gwen Dudley, Community Outreach Specialist at The Mood Center in Annapolis, to explore powerful new approaches to mental health care. Gwen shares her personal journey with grief and healing, and explains how innovative treatments like ketamine infusions, Spravato, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are helping people find breakthroughs when traditional therapy and medications fall short. We discuss: What ketamine therapy is and h...
Thrive with Carrie
After a busy season, Carrie is back—and kicking off November with a powerful reset: gratitude. Not the fluffy kind, but the kind that rewires your stress response and supports real, measurable health gains. In this episode, Carrie explains how practicing gratitude can shift your brain out of negativity bias, boost serotonin and dopamine, raise heart-rate variability (hello, parasympathetic “rest-and-digest”), improve sleep quality, ease anxiety, lower blood pressure, and even calm inflammatio...
