Meditation Teacher & Mental Health Counselor, Cheri Augustine Flake, LCSW: Meditation, Stress Relief, Healthy Habits, Spirituality, Mental Health, Self-Care, Self-Help, Happiness, Mindfulness
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Are you stressed out, overwhelmed, or just plain over it? Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake teaches you proven stress management techniques and meditation for beginners that fit into real life.Licensed mental health counselor Cheri Flake brings 25+ years of clinical experience to help you master stress relief through accessible meditation, mindfulness practices, and anxiety management strategies. Whether you're dealing with work stress, sleep trouble, emotional eating, or attention problems, you'll learn practical stress therapy methods that work for busy people living in the real world.Cheri is absolutely unlike any therapist, meditation teacher or hypnotherapist you have ever encountered. Kn…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A warm, practical stress show that turns everyday irritations into prompts for meditation, gratitude, and self-regulation.
Stress Therapy with Cheri Flake is a practical Health & Fitness show about stress, meditation, and the awkward work of building a practice when life keeps interrupting.
You get meditation homework with pink-hair energy and zero patience for holiday martyrdom.
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A blunt, usable reset for holiday overwhelm.
The episode focuses squarely on holiday stress, arguing against the idea that January will magically make more time appear. Its advice stays practical, moving through gifts, wrapping, music, candles, and the simple reminder to check in with whether there is still room to…
A practical gratitude reset that reframes everyday duty as an act of service.
The piece treats Thanksgiving less like a holiday and more like a pressure valve. Sherry Flake argues that gratitude helps mental health when it stays attached to the work people actually do: packing lunches, cooking, cleaning, and showing up for family, pets, and colleagues.
A brisk case for retreats that treats distraction as a practice problem.
Sherry Flake frames retreats as a reset for attention rather than a luxury, and that keeps the piece grounded. It moves cleanly from silence to the discomfort of being alone with one’s own thoughts, then lands on a plain example of taking charge of the phone instead of letting…
A blunt, friendly reset on how much self judgment people carry around.
Sherri Flake comes out with a simple line that lands hard: nothing is wrong with you. From there, she keeps circling back to the way people turn habits, tastes, and labels into a test of who they are.
A brisk reminder that the mind can make skipping meditation sound like common sense.
An episode about meditation resistance, it stays grounded in a simple point: the mind can make skipping feel reasonable when it is really just bargaining.
A practical case for asking for help without pretending control is ever complete.
Sherri Flake's episode on asking for help keeps its focus tight: the habit of holding everything together can become its own kind of strain. She treats the subject plainly, and that plainness helps.
A practical reset on building habits through repetition, not a one-day burst.
This episode offers a practical reset on why January-style resolve so often falls apart, and how change works better when it stays smaller, steadier, and kinder.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Cheri Flake discusses the habit of being easily offended as a significant source of stress, offering insights from her clinical experience and referencing examples like stand-up comedy to explore practical stress management techniques.
The host introduces the podcast and discusses how meditation helps separate oneself from thoughts, offering tips for managing stress and changing thought patterns.
The host introduces a classic stress therapy episode focusing on dealing with frustration when everyone seems annoying or unkind, based on her experience as a psychotherapist.
This episode segment introduces a refresher on meditation and stress management with humor, led by a psychotherapist with over 25 years of experience.
This episode segment introduces the concept of Southern Hospitality Syndrome, where people prioritize others over themselves, and discusses self-care and stress management from a psychotherapist's perspective.
The host, a psychotherapist, introduces a podcast about stress therapy and motivation, sharing insights from her experience with schizophrenia patients.
This classic replay episode features David G, a top meditation teacher, discussing how to make meditation a habitual daily practice for lasting benefits.
The host introduces a discussion on personal control and destiny, relating it to stress therapy and her experience as a psychotherapist, while sharing a personal anecdote about a Lucinda Williams t-shirt.
The host discusses the concept of manifesting, addressing common annoyances with the term and exploring how it can be applied practically and spiritually, including insights from Yogananda on material needs.
This episode segment discusses how unresolved desires and misalignment between thoughts and behaviors contribute to stress, with the host, a psychotherapist, offering guidance on addressing this issue.
This episode emphasizes starting meditation as a daily habit to gain awareness and change negative thoughts, featuring a replay from the stress therapy podcast.
The host introduces a serious discussion on the importance of meditation, particularly for stress relief and mental health, drawing from personal experience as a psychotherapist.
Cheri Flake challenges listeners to embrace self-acceptance by sharing personal stories from silent retreats and everyday life, revealing how our self-criticism often projects onto judging others.
She talks about why meditating can feel so hard to keep doing every day.
Sherry Flake talks Thanksgiving and the pressure that comes with gratitude season.
The episode opens with a workshop invite for January 17, 2026.
Sherry Flake talks holiday stress like it is something you can actually work with.
Sherry Flake opens by saying retreats can change the way someone handles stress, attention, and silence.
Cheri Flake explores why asking for help is difficult, especially for moms, and shares personal stories from her husband's cancer recovery.
This episode teaches listeners how to connect with and use their intuition as a tool for stress management and personal growth.
The host discusses the importance of being your authentic self and introduces her love for The Bachelor TV show.
The host discusses the paradox of nothing mattering while emphasizing that everything matters, introducing stress therapy techniques.
A licensed mental health counselor teaches meditation and stress management techniques for real-life situations.
Host Cheri Flake interviews Zygmar Berg, founder of the Love Tuner, a mindfulness tool for meditation and stress relief.
A psychotherapist explains how the brain tricks people into stopping meditation and how to overcome those mental obstacles.
A licensed therapist explains how the ego uses physical sensations to sabotage meditation and new habits, part of a series on brain tricks.
The host introduces a series on how the ego sabotages meditation and healthy habits, drawing on her experience as a psychotherapist.
Host Cheri Flake introduces a lesson about finding unexpected teachers and previews stress management techniques.
A special episode where the host introduces a guest interview from Sense of Soul Podcast about forgiveness, framed within the show's stress therapy theme.