Debby Waldman — “How Covid-19 and Power Tools Helped Heal My Relationship With My Son”
Debby Waldman is a writer and ex-pat American who has lived in Edmonton, Alberta, since 1992. We were knitting buddies in New Haven, Connecticut in the mid-1980s when she was a newspaper reporter there, but we lost touch until recently, when a mutual friend sent me her New York Times essay, “How Covid-19 and Power Tools Helped Heal My Relationship With My Son”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/well/family/depression-suicide-covid-woodworking-canoe-cutting-boards.html
The essay is in part about how the pandemic gave her a chance to pursue a long-time dream, to learn woodworking, but it’s also about another step in her journey to understand and come to grips with her family’s legacy of mental illness. She has recently completed a draft of a memoir about the effects of the secrets and silence that surrounded the suicide of her father, a Reform rabbi, when she was 13. Learn more at https://www.debbywaldman.com/.
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Dr. Ginger Campbell — Embracing Uncertainty in the Time of COVID
Dr. Ginger Campbell has been a physician for almost 40 years, and a podcaster since 2006. Her Podcast, “Brain Science”, explores how the recent discoveries in neuroscience are helping explain how our brain makes us human. She calls “Brain Science” the “show for everyone who has a brain”, because it is accessible to people of all backgrounds. Dr. Campbell also recently published the second edition of her book “Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty”. Find out more at BrainSciencePodcast.com.
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The Whirlwind of Grief, the Holidays & COVID
Kristina McNeal joins me in chatting about the journey of grief, its heightened reality during the holidays and how incorporating certain self care strategies can make a massive difference in our journey.
Kris shares her passion as a grief coach as well as its connection with empowering women to connect their own mental wellness with the things they put in and on their bodies focusing on removing toxins for a healthier way of living.
You can follow Kris’s work on empowering women in raising their awareness of what they put on in and in their bodies visit her site at www.consciouslivingvip.com as well as on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/consciouslivingvipgroup,
https://www.instagram.com/puremakeup_by_kris/
If you are interested in receiving grief coaching, which will assist in helping you where you are and the journey of where you desire to be, you can contact Kris at kris@consciouslivingvip.com
Blurred Lines – Words of hope from Black Lives Matter advocate AND police officer, Alisha Zellner
As a police officer and black woman, Corporal Alisha Zellner speaks candidly about what it feels like to live in two worlds. During a time in our history when outspoken advocates for change are rising up and taking to the streets, Alisha took her emotions about racial tension and demand for change to the streets…literally.
Logging 564 miles on her bike, Alisha initially set out on her own but quickly gained a group of followers who wanted to make a statement in a way that promoted mental AND physical health. Alisha chronicled her journey, while challenging followers to think beyond themselves and look back at what history has taught us.
This podcast is incredibly inspiring, due in large part, to Alisha’s positive outlook. Her message of love and acceptance is one everyone needs to hear! Alisha’s story has been picked up by magazines and radio stations across the nation. She is pursuing her Masters in Social Work, loves biking on the Colorado trails and is using her platform to create positive and lasting change. She can be found at: https://instabio.cc/Bike4BlackLives
Episode 108 – How to Survive COVID Overwhelm
Being a professional creative is hard enough- it’s even harder during a worldwide pandemic! In this episode of The Power of Purpose, Judy and Jason discuss strategies on how to keep all of “your plates spinning” while dealing with the extra stress brought on by COVID-19.
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Men and Mental Health
Join Kristin Sunanta Walker and Joseph P. Mitsch for a new series on Men and Mental Health, played on Mental Health News Radio!
About Joe…..
A product of a broken home.. Raised by a single mother, Alecia. Always felt out of place growing up feeling the need to pretend I was someone I wasn’t. Teenage years became lost in the drug world which stole over 2 decades of my life. Made the decision to get clean in 2013 and went to work in the recovery field as a motivational speaker where I harnessed my non-traditional recovery approach.
Today with over 7 years removed from substance abuse I pride myself on being an independent, open minded free thinker. No longer associated with the field of recovery I have embarked on a journey of self-healing, confidence building and goal setting to discover ones true purpose in life.
Overcoming childhood trauma, drug & alcohol abuse, the passing of my mother, I have developed a unique outlook on life and pride myself on a layman’s point of view being able to look at, make decisions and formulate my own opinions without being told what to think, believe or do with my life.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t… You’re right” -Henry Ford
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How Can Two White Women of Privilege Talk About Black Lives Matter?
Rachel Lankester is the founder of Magnificent Midlife, an online hub with several offerings including a podcast. Rachel wants to change the world for women in midlife and beyond and the perceptions of how the world views us, and how we view ourselves. She is passionate about challenging outdated ideas about menopause and aging. In this episode we talk about another kind of discrimination–systematic racism. We talk about Black Lives Matter and what we can do to support racial equality. We are acutely aware we are two privileged white women attempting to understand an experience that we can never really truly understand. But we hope our efforts help others feel more comfortable discussing these issues that are of profound importance. Find out more about Rachel and her many offerings at https://magnificentmidlife.com/
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Your Hidden Power #158 – Are Your Body/Mind Out of Balance, Due to COVID19?
Host Doug Stephan and co-Host/Astrologer Laura Banks, https://www.stargalnetwork.com/ she can be contacted at: 352-552-1243 welcome Senior Health Reporter for The Epoch Times, Conan Milner. www.theepochtimes.com/author-conan-milner Ever felt that your body is out of balance? Maybe more than usual during this crazy time? Could be your yin-yang are out of balance. The yin-yang philosophy says the universe is made up of competing and complementary forces of dark and light, sun and moon, male and female etc. It aims for balance. In an exciting development, Western medicine is now starting to learn how foods stir these dualities of metabolic responses –
without calling foods yin or yang. Next, our weekly visit with Mystifier Uri Geller. www.urigeller.com Then, Psychic Scout Mary O’Maley www.psychicscout.com discusses Male versus Female energy. Finally, co-Host/Astrologer Laura Banks, https://www.stargalnetwork.com/ discuss whether Host Doug Stephan should have been born a woman, rather than a man.
Coping through Covid: Back to School Edition for Parents, Educators & Students
Back to School has a whole new meaning this year for millions of students, parents and educators. Whether we’re distance learning, home schooling, or in the classroom there’s SO much to digest and SO many emotions involved.
Renee Collins, teacher, parent and ambassador of goodness joins me for this week’s episode. We talk about the anxiety and stress involved with the decisions we are forced to make as parents as well as the significance of having a supportive and encouraging tribe. Renee shares how complicated our current situation really is, the importance of utilizing compassion in all we do and how critical it is to look beyond our own personal bubble.
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