Welcome to Mental Oasis
Your sanctuary for calm, clarity, and connection.
The Mental Oasis© Podcast is your Monthly retreat into thoughtful conversations, guided reflections, and uplifting stories that nurture your mental well-being. Whether you're seeking mindfulness, healing insights, or simply a moment of peace in a noisy world, you've come to the right place.
Join your host, Christine Forte Klotz, as we explore the many layers of mental health—with compassion, curiosity, and real-life wisdom. Because everyone deserves a space to breathe, grow, and feel heard.
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What does it mean to truly accept ourselves? How do we do this genuinely and compassionately? Join Dr. Christine Forte Klotz to examine these questions and others in this guided meditation episode.
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How do we know the unconscious exists? Dr. Forte Klotz shares her thoughts on this and guides listeners in a reflection on unconscious conflicts.
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Mental Oasis© is back in 2025! In today's episode we begin to take a look at the impacts that our unconscious minds have on our choices and behavior. How do we frame the questions of what it is that we want to learn about ourselves?
We'll be exploring this theme more in future episodes this winter & spring.
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The energetic experience of feeling discouraged or drained is common to all human beings - our energy can feel like a VERY finite resource at times. Take a moment with today's episode to connect to inner reserves of compassion and to the collective emotional experience in order to replenish energy and feel restored.
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In today's episode of Mental Oasis© we practice mindfulness with eyes open. This is a practice for grounding in the present in a different way from how we might usually with eyes closed. Join us for this expansion of heart and awareness!
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Join Dr. Christine Forte Klotz for this bonus episode to reflect on 2022, meditate on intentions for 2023, and take a moment for centering.
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In this episode, we explore how the fear of making mistakes can hold us back—from speaking up, taking action, or simply being ourselves. What if we gave ourselves permission to be imperfect?
This is a gentle reflection on loosening the grip of fear, showing up with vulnerability, and finding the courage to move forward—even when we don’t have it all figured out.
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Seeking a moment to restore and re-center yourself in a busy day? Join us as we get back to basics of reconnection with the moment in this episode of Mental Oasis©.
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In this episode of Mental Oasis© Dr. Christine Forte Klotz explores reflecting on how we define self-care and what it means in our lives.
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In this episode we explore how to notice and be present with our discomforts with feeding the stories around them.
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