Mental Health Discovery and Recovery with Mary Joye LMHC

Mary Joye is speaking with Lee Glickstein who wrote "Be Seen Now:Exploring Insights into Being a Fearless Speaker."speakercirclesinternational.comListen to how we both talked about overcoming stage fright through the avenue of show business and now we're coaches and counselors. If you think you can't get over social anxiety, stage fright, or just simple conversation think again. Sit down at this think tank and enjoy Lee as we discuss overcoming social anxiety by facing your fears, using humor and implementing listening as opposed to being afraid of what to say. If you're prepared you won't be scared! Enjoy great conversations with the tools Lee imparts to you. 

https://www.laurienadel.com/about.htmlFrom Journalist to Therapist: Her BackstoryToday we call those events “breaking news.”  During her twenty years working as a writer-producer for CBS News, Reuters Television and ABC News, she came to realize that people whose lives were destroyed by violence would need long-term support. As a result of her experience covering the military dictatorship in Chile for Newsweek, Laurie worked with several human rights organizations upon her return to the States. She started the human rights committee of the Overseas Press Club and co-founded the Committee to Protect Journalists. (NY Times and  World Policy Journal.)In 1987, after burning out working the Iran-Contra hearings on the heels of a long Writers Guild of America strike,  Laurie came down with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) and was bedridden for nearly three years.  As there is no conventional treatment for this virus, she began studying the work of Dr. Herbert Benson who introduced meditation to the medical community.  She began a lifelong meditation practice and eventually went back to graduate school for doctorates in cognitive psychology and clinical hypnotherapy. In 2000, she completed post-doctoral clinical training in mind-body medicine with Dr. Benson at Harvard Medical School's Institute of Mind-Body Medicine.Her need to find new ways to help people struggling with mental health issues led her to travel to South America in the 1990s to study with indigenous healers and shamans in the jungles, mountains, and cities of South America.   Dr. Laurie integrates their teachings of connecting with nature into all of her sessions and workshops. A Reiki Master for the past two decades, she is expanding her Reiki practice to help animals and their human companions,  (animalreikiplanet.com)A psychotherapist in Manhattan during the week,  Laurie spent most weekends filing cover stories for The New York Times.  Her “On the Water” features covered the local marine environment and extreme water sports. Her column “Long Island at Worship” reported on communities of faith in the suburbs.  An expert in stress, health and trauma, Laurie has done more than 100 TV interviews including CBS News, CNN and the BBC. Her work has been featured in  The Wall Street Journal , Business Insider, People magazine and The New York Times. She was a guest on Oprah, talking about her revolutionary four-time best-seller Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power  which launched the psychic revolution.  Still in print after 33 years, Sixth Sense broke the story of the Pentagon's secret psychic espionage program.

Complacency can be the enemy. If you are struggling with gettiing out of your comfort zone, this will be explain why and more importantly, what to do about it.

https://edwardvilga.comIt was a pleasure to discuss Edward Vilga's RADICAL ABUNDANCE course and how money and emotions are intertwined.This body/mind/spirit point of view with fellow DailyOM.com course creator will assist you to think about money in a way that serves you and those around you. It will also give you practical tools to help you improve the way you think about financial wellbeing and how you react and act with money in the future.Edward Vilga is a Thought Leader, Artist and Entrepreneur. He is the author of 18 bestselling books, DVDs, and courses that focus on personal growth and transformation. Over 60,000 students are enrolled in his online programs. His work has been featured in People and Oprah's Magazine, along with TV shows such as Live! with Kelly Ripa, CBS' Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, and over 100 other media outlets. He has had gallery shows of his visual art in New York, LA, and San Francisco. Edward Vilga is a Yale graduate. He received his Executive MBA from Quantic. His mission is to empower people to find their own spirits, inspiring them to live lives that are Rich With Purpose andRadically Abundant.

https://simona-lifepurposementor.comSimona Mango is from the south of Spain and is a certified life coach including credentials from Evercoach from Mindvalley where the 6 phase meditation was born from founder and author, Vishen Lakihana. Simona and I collaborated on how the 6 phase meditation is a creative tool for enlghtened women's empowerment. We did a live coaching session and also spoke of how her career in opera has evolved.

https://www.faustruggiero.comFaust A. Ruggiero's professional career spans almost 40 years, and is diversified and compelling, as it has consistently established new and exciting cutting-edge counseling programs in its pursuit of professional excellence and personal life enhancement. He is a published research author, clinical trainer, and a therapist who has worked in settings that have included clinics for deaf children, prisons, nursing homes, substance abuse centers, inpatient facilities, major corporations, both national and international, and as the President of the Community Psychological Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania. In that capacity, he developed the Process Way of Life counseling program, and has developed it into a formal text presented in the Fix Yourself Handbook.

https://terrysidford.comSpeaker | Author | Professional Coach | Podcast HostTerry is a sought-after motivational TEDx speaker, Author, Television Host and Life Coach since 1998. She has assisted scores of people and organizations in achieving their dreams, which she believes is her own life's purpose. Terry's greatest joy has always been to help others unleash their potential and live life to the fullest.When you hear Terry's story you will be able to access your own courage as we share from her home in Utah.

If you think you have PTSD or just want to understand the DSM criteria better, this epsiode explains and offers guidelines for symptom relief. IT IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE for therapy, just an overview of basic PTSD symptoms and ways to recognize and neutralize them.

Dr. Dana McNeil and are discussing the insidious and dangerous topic of people pleasing. This is what it is, how you got that way and more importantly what to do to fix this maladaptive coping skillDr. Dana McNeil is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and is the founder The Relationship Place, a group practice with locations in her hometown of San Diego, California. Dr. Dana's practice specializes in couples' therapy and utilizes an evidence-based type of couples' therapy. Dr. Dana is a certified Gottman Method therapist and Bringing Home Baby instructor. She also leads trainings at the Gottman Institute to help clinicians master the art of couples therapy. Dr. Dana makes presentations about her work with couples at conferences such as Therapy Reimagined, UCLA's Emerging Behaviors Conference, CAMFT and the Gottman Institute. She is often featured on relationship podcasts such as the Practice of the Practice, the Practice of Therapy, Modern Therapists Survival Guide, and Relationship Advice, to name a few. Dr. Dana regularly contributes to media publications and television appearances for outlets such as the Business Insider, MSN, Yahoo, Bustle, Parade, Oprah Living, Martha Stewart Living, Reader's Digest, and AARP. Dr Dana is the resident relationship expert on the Cox Communications show “I Do” and will be featured in an upcoming documentary on the art of couples therapy. She is also the host of the podcast “The D-Spot” all about modern relationships. Her new book called “D-Spot Conversations” which is a book all about navigating today's complicated relationships. Her contacts: Website: www.danamcneil.com

This is the clinical definition of what post-traumatic stress disorder is in a clinical perspective from the diagnostic and statistical manual of the American psychiatric association. DSM-5. It is not meant to self diagnose, but as an overview of symptoms. in future episodes, we will be discussing coping skills for some of the symptoms that many of us have without having post traumatic stress disorder.

Guest, Adriana Barton, author of "Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound joins us sharing about the healing power of music. There's a lot of neuroscience to prove how and why it works for a healing tool for mental health and overall well being.

There are many insidious tools a narcissist uses to go undetected to get you to bend to their will. We will discover them and teach you coping skills to recover from them and be aware of them in the future.

Many people are choosing spiritual interventions in addititon to or in lieu of tradtional mental health counseling. This conversation explores the topic in depth from two schools of thought.

Empathy, Sympathy and Compassion are closely related but have sublle differences, too. Learn how all of these human virtues have a bright side and one to watch out for so you don't develop compassion fatigue. The world needs kindness and compassion and this will help you think about ways you can expand your awareness about giving and how it helps your mental health!

Nancy Perpall is a former nurse and attorney turned fiction writer. As an attorney, her area of practice was exclusively Family Law, where she represented all genders, races, religions, and nationalities. This experience led her to realize that everyone feels the same level of despair when they go through a divorce or end an intimate relationship. She also learned that most people would rather chew cut glass than read relationship advice presented through research and statistics. She hopes her novels will educate, entertain, and inspire readers to poke holes in the wall they may have erected around themselves and discover the love waiting for them on the other side.

We all hear about how wonderful it is to set healthy boundaries but narcissists do not honor them. They push back and find them a challenge so it is best to make them in a different and more confident way. This will tell you how to do that.

Elizabeth and I get in the trenches with the way women can inspire other women when we collaborate. She is founder of Best Ever You Network and has been a force in making women be the best they can be. We had a theme arise...If she can do it, I can. Her story will help you believe in yourself.

The subject of undue influence, or being controlled do things against your will is what Seth Nelson and I are talking about on this episode. Seth is a Tampa family lawyer and mediator known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems. He has always wanted to help people and after law school he found he could do the greatest good by representing people through one of the most difficult times of their lives. Being a divorcee himself, as well as a father, he understands what you're going through. Seth continues helping people on his podcast, "How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships".

This one came from the heart because decisions are sometimes forced upon you and I certainly been there am there. We all get forced to make decisions sometimes. Newton's first law states, An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. There are many unbalanced forces that act on us such as divorce, grief, or trauma. This goes into how and when to make decisions and how and when not make decisions.

Rebeccah Silence is a hope dealer, emotional healing life coach, trained counselor, inspirational speaker, and media personality. She has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands via more than twenty years dedicated to the healing of emotions and emotional wellness. She has survived near death experiences and we share how these can bring you back to a better life to use trauma to refine you instead of define you. You are not what happened to you...you are someone who has had a life experience to learn and grow from and share with others.

Everything that is said should be true, but should everything true be said. Not to a narcissistic person! The truth does not always set you free when you expose a narcissist or confront one.

Today I interviewed Kevin Cassidy, author of "Falling Down to Find Myself". He was a kid who was bullied in his childhood and used creativity to fight the adversity as stuntman in movies such as Guardian of the Galaxy, Hunger Games and more. He is also and writer and motivational speaker. He works with Ninja Nation to help others discover how to be resilient and achieve above and beyond what they think they can.

This is all about happiness and how to achieve it with guest Pamela Gail Johnson, author of Practical Happiness

This is a quick look into what may stop you from wondering if you have been abused by a narcissist. They want you to self-doubt, so watch out and listen.

Is it really that simple that having fun is the antidote for fear? It is simple but has complex neuroscience to back it up so you can learn to discover that fear can be reframed into excitement. You can also take a break from fear and worry and go have some fun for some relief to what is troubling you. This way you can face the problem with a refreshed perspective. Fear releases stress hormones that can wreak havoc and fun releases dopamine and other feel-good chemicals your body can make all by itself with just a little help from finding enjoyment to activate the brain's pleasure center.

This is the first in a series of breaking four mental health myths. They are,1. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger 2. Everything happens for a reason 3. You are never given more than you can handle4. Time heals all wounds5. Hurting people hurt peopleYou will discover how these statements are pat answers we believe through conditioning and repetition. However, they are not helpful to those suffering something. Discover how what we say or hear may be a myth we blindly accept as fact.

We hear so much about gratitude and some of us can be skeptical about how powerful it can be. With a simple exercise included in this podcast about being thankful, you will be able to feel in your physical senses. Gratitude makes you look for good things and changes the way you think, act and feel. This also explores how gratitude is a tool of postraumatic growth, too.

Broken Hearts do not heal quickly but they can heal better and faster with a technique called, Embrace, Replace and Erase. In this episode you will discover why a broken heart feels so badly and what you can do to expedite the alleviation of your pain.

This episode reframes shame in a positive way to act as a catalyst and an agent for change. You do not have to live in the shadow of shame anymore. You are human and can discover the subtle but powerful difference between humility and humiliation. Humility will help you embrace your humanity and learn from your mistakes. It will reduce the diminishing and dehumanizing dark force of humiliation. You can discover what it will take to lift yourself up from the effects of toxic shame and drive you toward being the person of a higher, healthier conscience.

You can control a narcissist by counterintuitively controlling your responses and reactions around them. This is not about repression of your emotions but giving you 3 simple ways to find expression of your truth and emotions to a narcissist without losing your temper or your mind. You can do this calmly, confidently, efficiently and powerfully.

Narcissists set you up to get you upset and one of the ways they do this is to talk over you. You can retain your power and peace by this short and simple tool of using silence. It's not about repression but an expression of your feelings without saying a word. It will help you change your intention and the narcissist's ability to have this be an effective tool to set you up to get you upset.

There has long been a nature vs. nurture debate with behavioral health. It's a combination of both and your DNA may have a lot to say about your mental health but your family history is not your destiny. You can change your life by changing your thoughts which will activate a better life at a cellular level.

There is research to back up how beneficial it is to have a change of scenery and learn to vacate your problems and recreate your life. This can be around the world or close to home. This episode explains how travel can change your mental and physical wellbeing and the simple neuroscience behind it. Enjoy the ride and journey is as much fun as the destination.

Has anyone ever asked you why you just can't leave a bad relationship? Why is it so difficult to break up with someone who has you in a trauma bond, built with intermittent reinforcement of phases and phrases of love bombing and discarding you. This is the foundation and dynamic of narcissist abuse. It hurts and getting free is like breaking an addiction. A trauma bond creates the same physiological symptoms as an addiction but you can get free and relieve the cognitive dissonance and dissociation from your true self. This will guide you and assist you to reconnecting with yourself while detaching from the bonder with good boundaries. When you become conscious of your physiological hook you can break the cycle and this will teach you how!

This is the first episode about mental health discovery and recovery. You will learn that this show is about venting your problems, but more importantly reinventing your life. You will get a holistic view of mental health and practical tools and guidance to live a happier and healthier life!