Tag: destigmatize mental health

Join Kristin and Jodi as they talk about the mental health struggles that come from anxiety. Jodi podcasts on her own and co-hosts with one of our own – Matt Pappas of Beyond Your Past!

As a family therapist for over 20 years, Jodi shows people how to create Practical Miracles even in the most difficult times. As an inspirational speaker, she helps Generation Z and their parents find their Diamond Confidence, teaching usable tools to push past fear, connect with their personal agency, and expand their consciousness. As an anxiety-survivor, she totally gets it. As a mom of teens, she double-dog gets it. Through her TEDxWilmington talk, “Calm Anxious Kids,” and her bestselling book, You 1, Anxiety 0, Jodi is changing the way we understand the current mental health crisis. Grab her newest book, Anxiety…I’m So Done With You: A Teen’s Guide to Ditching Toxic Stress and Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness.

https://jodiaman.com/

Join Kristin and Dr. Ashley Elliott as they talk about how Covid-19 is impacting her counseling and advocacy work.

Dr. Ashley Elliott is Doctor Vivid. She enhances lives and visions one creative step at a time. She is a Doctor, a Mental Health Specialist, a Consultant, and a Motivational Speaker.

Twitter: @DoctorVivid

You may have heard of grounding as a spiritual practice, but did you know that grounding legitimately has positive effects on the body? Listen to Kristin, and co-host Georgia, speak with Laura Koniver, MD about her book, “The Earth Prescription: Discover the Healing of Nature with Grounding Practices for Every Season,” and the health benefits of grounding. We hear how science reflects an ongoing practice of grounding your body to the Earth has incredible physical and mental health benefits. Dr. Koniver discusses further how helpful grounding is for anxiety and depression, even your circadian rhythm.

Laura Koniver, MD, is an artist, author, holistic physician, and internationally recognized grounding advocate. Koniver has been featured as an expert in four motion pictures about grounding, and is also the author of the children’s book, “From the Ground Up.”

https://www.intuition-physician.com/

Join John Pallies and Kristin for an in-depth discussion on the business side of mental health organizations.

Mr. Pallies is responsible for accounting, budgeting, information systems and internal controls. His goals include devising planning and performance management systems, and providing expertise in financial reporting and control to assist management in the formulation and implementation of strategy.

To accomplish this he works with the rest of the management team to ensure that resources are efficiently and effectively acquired, maintained, and deployed in the best interests of all of JBRC’s stakeholders.

Mr. Pallies has more than 20 years’ experience as a senior financial manager in non-profit organizations serving low-income populations experiencing challenges with homelessness, mental health and addiction.

He has a Master of Science in Management from the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Rutgers University and is a Certified Management Accountant.

www.jbrcnj.org

Kristin and cohost, Georgia, speak with Drew about living life and working through life with anxiety and agoraphobia.

Drew is the creator and host of The Anxious Truth, a slightly unorthodox anxiety podcast that’s been in full swing since 2015. With over 500,000 downloads (and growing), The Anxious Truth has spawned a large, vibrant and engaged social media community of amazing humans supporting, inspiring, encouraging and empowering each other to overcome anxiety and fear.

Having suffered with anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and depression several times over a 20 year period, Drew got it together once and for all in 2008. Since then life has been happy, productive, and “normal” (although we’d all be hard-pressed to define normal at times).

For the last 15 years Drew has been active in the online anxiety community, working to use his experience and understanding to help those that are following down the path he’s traveled. His no-nonsense approach to these problems and willingness to provide direct, actionable advice even when it might not be easy to hear, has established him as a unique voice in the community.

https://theanxioustruth.com/

Join Alexandra and Kristin as they talk about fashion and how adaptive fashion lines have grown to include Mental Health!

Alexandra Herold about the importance of adaptive clothing for persons with disabilities.

Patti + Ricky is the Adaptive Fashion Marketplace adults and kids with disAbilities, chronic conditions, hidden disabilities such as sensory processing, anxiety, autism to aging seniors, and caregivers.

Shopping does not typically include or embrace differences and individuals with disAbilities. Patti + Ricky changes this with an inclusive shopping experience for all.
https://www.pattiandricky.com/

Join Kristin and her guests, Lori and Jennifer, discussing how behind the scenes workers in the entertainment industry (the people who build the sets, hold the cameras, set up the lighting, etc.) are so heavily stigmatized when it comes to mental health.

Lori Rubinstein is the Executive Director of the Behind the Scenes Foundation, a 501(c)3 charity which she has been with since its founding in 2005. Lori has been in the entertainment industry for over 40 years. She was the Executive Director of the Entertainment Services and Technology Association, an industry trade association, for almost 30 years until her retirement in 2018. During her tenure she oversaw the creation and development of the ANSI-accredited Technical Standards Program and the Entertainment Technician Certification Program among other initiatives. Her experience in the industry also includes working as a professional dancer, as a lighting designer and stage manager for dance, symphony, theater and musicals, and for industry businesses including a theatrical lighting supply company, a theater consultancy firm, and a manufacturer of entertainment products.

www.behindthescenescharity.org

Jennifer Leff, LCSW is a Senior Director at MusiCares, the charity of the Recording Academy. Prior to her work at MusiCares over the past ten years, Jennifer had a private practice in New York City for 13 years where she worked with adults and couples, many of whom were in the creative arts world. Prior to her private practice, she worked in hospital settings with individuals living with chronic and severe and persistent mental illnesses and was also the director of an outpatient mental health clinic.

www.musicares.org

Join Bob Samuels and Kristin for a discussion about politics and mental health.

Robert Samuels teaches advanced writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has doctorates in Psychoanalysis and English, and he is the author of fifteen books, including Freud for the Twenty-First century and Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump.