Are you ready to live your best life? As something we are all constantly pursing, Dr. Daisy Monterroso, a licensed mental health counselor and Doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy, explores what it means for us to truly live our best lives. Moving from the laughter, the enjoyable moments, and a good time, we explores 5 things you can begin to focus on so you can truly live your best life that may feel simple, but are so complex to incorporate in our lives.

Topics explored:

1. Understanding your values
2. Doing what you can be proud of
3. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses
4. Being okay with the mediocre and boring
5. Live in Community with others.

Host:

Dr. Daisy Monterroso, LMHC, DMFT, BCaBA, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapist, and Behavior Specialist that is the proud owner of a collaborative clinic, Monterroso Integrative Services. Her unique perspective brings insight to "The Truth About" podcast as she explores difficult topics and get to the truth so we can live our best lives.

Join as Dr Daisy Monterroso & Rachel smith come together to explore the influences that bring sex and guilt to our $ex lives. In this podcast, the two explore what shame is, why there is shame in $ex, and how to free yourself and your partner from Shame in $ex. Discussions explored:

- What is Shame?

- Why is there shame surround $ex?

- How to free yourself from shame?

- How to support your partner dealing with shame?

- What it means when there is shame after traumatic experiences and what a person may need.

Special Guest: Rachel Smith, LMFT, CST is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Sex Therapist, my main mission is to help you foster true intimacy within people and their relationships by guiding you through the therapeutic healing journey. In the field for 10 years, Rachel Smith has had the honor of sharing insights with countless women, men, and couples. She has developed heartfelt partnerships with The Mom Collaborative and iHelpMoms.com, and have contributed to multiple articles for WeddingWire.com and Bride.com, while also being personally featured in VoyageMIA Magazine for their “Inspiring Stories” series.

Have you felt like a failure? We are influenced by societies ideas but we take on all the grief. In this podcast, Dr. Daisy explores the truth about failure, the difference between failure and failing & how we can use failing to be successful. ***NOTE: The podcast sound got cut, but the episode was good good to re-do! Enjoy

Have you been working your butt off to be successful? Join Dr. Daisy as she debunks the ideas of success, discusses the reality of what experiencing success truly is, and gives tips on how to move to being successful. In this podcast, Dr. Daisy redefines success, which allows us the opportunity to experience success over and over and normalize that success is more that what we thought it was.

Do you ever feel that you are not capable enough? Do you ever wish you had more confidence? In this podcast Dr. Daisy Monterroso breaks down our ideas of confidence, what is confidence, how do we increaase our confidence and where we find confidence in our lives.

We all want to tell people what to do and hold peple accountable for their actions. But do you hold yourself accountable? Are you in a season in your life, where you dont have the things you want or you are not in the place you want to be? Find out how accountability can take you back into a space of control! In this episode we explore:

• What is accoutability
• The problem with not holding yourself accountable
• What we are to hold ourselves accountable for?
• What accountability is NOT.
• Accountability versus responsibility
• And how to live our best lives!

Lets jump in as we get to the Truth About making your list for dating! What a world we live in, where we have the most access to others in the world but often feel that looking for our person to do life with feels farther than ever! In this episode we break down:

1) The ideas of dating

2) What marriage is

3) What are the influences that are making dating more difficult

4) How do we make a list that will help us move towards a healthy romantic relationship, and move aware from the shallow spaces of love.

Join me, as we speak our truth and live our best lives.

As a Dr. in Marriage and Family Therapst, I spend alot of time hearing about people's relationship issues. One relationship that many people forget is influential in their lives, is the relationship we have to our problems. Our struggles, like a loving, misunderstood family member, influences our daily lives and at times places us in spaces we are not proud of. In this episode I will explore the relationships we have with our struggles and how to begin to understand. I will be exploring 4 ways we can begin to improve the relationship we have with our struggles and begin to move towards living our best lives.