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Debby Waldman Encore — “How Covid-19 and Power Tools Helped Heal My Relationship With My Son”

Special Episode for Suicide Prevention Week:
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/.

Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health.

Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

Episode 28: Kerri-Anne Brown, LMHC

In this episode of The Self-Care Chronicle, I connect with Kerri-Anne Brown, LMHC. Kerri-Anne discusses the ever-changing nature of her self-care toolbox.  

Kerri-Anne Brown is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who specializes in helping individuals and couples living with fertility challenges, perinatal loss, birth trauma, and difficulties with postpartum adjustments. Read more about her work and practice at https://drmarshabrown.com/.

Ep – 230  Mena Mirhom

In this episode I speak to Mena Mirhom, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Columbia University Medical Center, co-author of, “Women’s Pearls: A Focus on Women’s Mental Health,” advisory board member of Healthcorps and a partner to the NBA’s Player Association re: mental health, whose wakeup call was noticing the lack of justice with regard to mental health care for women and minorities and want to correct that. https://www.healthcorps.org/staff/dr-mena-mirhom/

My Suicide Story

In honor of Suicide Prevention Week, join Alec as he discusses his experience with suicidal thoughts and tendencies.

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, there is hope. Please visit your local emergency center, call 911, or call 1-800-273-8255. More resources below:

crisistextline.org
thetrevorproject.org
veteranscrisisline.net
nami.org

Frank King Encore — From Comedy Writer to Suicide Prevention Speaker and Trainer

Special Encore Episode for Suicide Prevention Week:

Frank King was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years. But these days he’s helping prevent suicide.
Depression and suicide run in Frank’s family. He was just a young boy when his grandmother committed suicide, an image that’s seared into his mind. He’s thought about killing himself more times than he can count. He’s fought a lifetime battle with Major Depressive Disorder and Chronic Suicidality, turning that long dark journey of the soul into five TEDx Talks and sharing his lifesaving insights on mental health awareness with associations, corporations, and colleges. Find out more about his work at TheMentalHealthComedian.com. And Check out Mentalhealthfirstaid.org and NAMI.org to learn more about suicide prevention.

Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health.

Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com

Ep – 229 Howard Getson

In this episode I speak with Howard Getson, CEO of Capitalogix whose wakeup call was dialing the operator when he was two and a half to tell her that his nanny was physically abusing (and ended up killing) his nine month old brother. Since then his life as been one of taking charge and control and building a future and companies and helping the world make the most of what comes next. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hgetson/

 

Toby Younis and Shelley Carney — Helping Encore Entrepreneurs Make Sense of Technology

Toby Younis and Shelley Carney are encore entrepreneurs at AGK Media Studio. Their mission is to help other encore entrepreneurs master the technology necessary to produce live stream video, podcast episodes and blogs all at the same time so they can achieve visibility and credibility in the online marketplace. Find out more at: http://agk-media.com.

Check out https://copenotes.com/zestful for an innovative app that supports mental health.

Find out more about the Zestful Aging Podcast at ZestfulAging.com.

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