Survival Kit for The Mental / Bipolar Sundays

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A Survival Kit in the making for humans in the spectrum interested in storytelling, art, and THE MIND. Mental health/illness for days. Hosted by San Canessa, a Salvadoran artist, bipolar and Neurodiversity activist.

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    • Apr 11, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
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    • 48 EPISODES


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    46 - Being Worthy While Not Doing.

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2021 16:39


    Bringing in notes of compassion when relating to not doing; an opportunity to reflect and notice our internal systems and mechanism while experiencing down time. To support this podcast: subscribe, write a review, share it with a buddy, and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. Cheers!

    45 - Reminders from the Tropics : Focused Attention!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2021 13:58


    Welcoming the spring and the heat of the tropics. A litte reminder of focused attention and the power behind this little tool. To support this podcast, subscribe, write a review and share it with a buddy! Email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    44 - Break-Down to Break-Through with Queen of Air.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 42:24


    A snowy coffee time chat with Gina in the Santa Fe mountains. Tool of the week: BREATHE. Check of Queen of Air at www.soundcloud.com/queenofair and find her in Spotify as Gina Gibbons. To support, write a review, subscribe, share with a buddy and email me your mental tool kit at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    43 - A Trip to the Animal Cemetary with Kim

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 57:05


    Driving to the store with Kim, through the Crestone Mountains and landing in Cielo Azul, an animal cemetary. Talks of the feminine and integrating energies in order to align with mental health. Journeying through life and cycles. To support this podcast please subscribe, write a review, share it with a buddy and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com for any questions and interests. Gracias!

    42 - Fuck It. An Act of Freedom.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2021 22:46


    A short manifesto around mind-ing your own thoughts and energy! It's not easy to create new neuropath ways but Fuck It, we shall create them anyways. Thanks for listening! I go slightly into the works of Human Design which you should check out www.human design.com. To support this podcast please subscribe, share it with a buddy, write a review, and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    41 - In Conversation with Christen Minnick : Healing Cycles of Abuse

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021 55:43


    Thank you so much to Christen Minnick for joining us this week and for sharing vulnerable stories around cycles of abuse and trauma. Deep gratitude for the resource of community and the power that arises when we lean into education and literacy. You can reach Christen at minnickchristen@gmail.com To support this podcast you can subscribe, write a review, share it with a buddy and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com

    40 - Our Inner Systems and Inner Child with Dr. Alejandra Herrera

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2021 46:00


    A dive deep with Dr. Herrera regarding mental health, the health care system, our inner child and journey. One step at a time, the organism is always a work in progress and there is indeed so much to learn and continue to discover. For inquiries please email mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. To support this podcast please subscribe, write a review, tell a buddy. Gracias!

    39 - January Wrap Up With San Canessa

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2021 17:15


    A wrap up of this months interviews and rant about current state of affairs regarding mental health literacy and meaning. Expanding our vocabulary and listening to other folks stories is a key factor, in charge of new - neuropathways baby! To support this podcast please subscribe, write a review, share it with a buddy and/or email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    38 - The Gnarly Monsters of Misdiagnosis with Rose Costello.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2021 58:43


    A drive through the tunnels of grief and misdiagnosis with Rose Costello. We are diving into food, cooking, dancing, and movement. Tool for the week: getting to know your program! Join us in conversation and peer education. To support this podcast please subscribe, write a review, share with a buddy and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    37 - Understanding Your Load & PEER literacy with Ariel Erglis.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2021 46:58


    Join a peer conversation with two bipolar neurodivergents this week. Tool of the week : know and understand your load! A quest to create more content and solidarity for those experiencing mental illness and the dance, the martial arts, and the patience that this super power requires. Ariel Erglis joins us from Sydney with a cup of coffee. To support this podcast please share, write a review, tell a friend, and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com

    36 - Finding your Pleasure. In conversation with Nakhter Ahad.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2021 52:25


    Welcoming this new year, straight or not into this body sensory conversation with Nakhter Ahad. Nakhter is a Somatic Therapist, body worker, and so much more. Joining us from the Bay Area and presenting us with the tool of finding pleasure. To support this podcast please subscribe, write a review, share with a buddy, and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    35 - Where are we going?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2020 6:10


    Cheers to a close of this years run with Survival Kit For The Mental. We will be back next year with a new layout, form and tool guide world. Guess and themes around the health and the arts. Please stay tuned, thank you for listening, and more to come in January! To support this podcast, please subscribe, write a review, share with a friend and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com

    34 - Taking care of the mental health while riding a bicycle.

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2020 7:08


    Gathering on a Sunday once again, to come up or not, with a tool kit to survive this mental times. Join me on a stationary bicycle and experience the thought process that occurs while chasing this endeavor. To support this podcast please subscribe, write a review, share it with a buddy. To reach me : mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    33 - JoMo : Joy Of Missing Out!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2020 7:36


    Tool for the Week: JOMO. Welcome to the Joy of Missing Out and the vast spaciousness and freedom that incorporating this belief into your life might or might NOt bring. In Joy! To support this podcast please subscribe, write a review and share it with a friend. Email me with any queries at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com

    32 - Holy Family Gatherings

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2020 9:08


    How do we survive this gathering time? Tell me more, share your tools and let's come up with a tool kit. Maybe you hate it, maybe you love it. Tell me more.

    31 - Hungry to heal? Eat some popcorn.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2020 17:16


    Diving into the way we relate to healing in this healing obsessed culture and inviting the art of living into our narrative in the quest of expansion. To support this podcast you can subscribe, write a review, share it with a friend and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    30 - Ways of Relating with Body : To Medicate or And Meditate.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2020 16:31


    Deep dive into ones own body politics and ways of relating with body and neurology, exploring the inclusivity of Medicate and meditate. To support this podcast please email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com, share with a friend, subscribe and write a review! Thanks!

    29- Can't get out of bed?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2020 14:36


    Tool for survival this week is simple and yet demands continuous reinforcement: NO JUDGEMENT. Feeling shitty, feeling low, feeling anxious, feeling concerned ? No judgement, the tool to allow things to be as they are. This provides us space to shapeshift and embody whatever it is we are in demand of feeling and doing. The ability to hold no judgement is indeed a superpower, check it out. To support this podcast, please subscribe, write a review, share it with a friend, and email me with any stories or chats at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. Thanks!

    28- Relapse or Triumph?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2020 16:11


    Weird times internally and externally. This weeks rant involves a question and exploration into whether going back to the beginning is a sign of relapse or triumph. Join me in this exploration! Support this podcast by sharing it with a buddy, emailing me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com, subscribe and write a review!

    27- Staying Sane in Internet Times

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2020 14:26


    A brief recap on why I came to do this podcast. A run down into harnessing a tiny bit of awareness towards our relationship to the internet and news. One or two tools on how to self-regulate and inquiry around our way of relating with our time online. To support this podcast, please subscribe, write a review, tell a friend. For any inquiries and stories please email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. Thanks for tuning in!

    26 - How to Keep Sane in Insane times.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2020 14:48


    Well well well. Back to the beginning and focusing inward is our way to keep sane in these insane times. Join me in a rant around how and why and where this is going. Always focusing on our mental health and sometimes, a little art. To support this podcast please share, subscribe, write a review. To connect with me please email mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com

    Episode 23 - Moody While in Relationship

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 21:38


    How to navigate ones moods swings, when moody, when I'm in relationship? And attempt to share a process of relating in which communication and self responsibility can be the key to sailing through what could be treacherous waters. Please email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. To support this podcast please subscribe and write a review!

    A New Season : PROMO Season 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 1:18


    Coming to Yours Truly October 2020

    Episode 25 - Befriending Death, Closing Chapters, and understanding Folklore.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2020 21:01


    Befriending Death, closing chapters, and understanding folklore. An exploration through our humanity and how this is what keeps us connected, sane, and in relationship to life. Reach out with your stories and feels at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. To support this podcast please subscribe and write a review.

    Episode 24 - Discerning Identity from Projection and Diagnoses.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2020 19:07


    Well let's take a seat or a jog and remind ourselves that we do have the remote control when choosing how we define our neurology and our story. A super power made human indeed, and worthy of reminder. To support this podcast please subscribe or write a review and email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com with your stories and questions. Thanks!

    Episode 22 - Exploring the Underworld as Permission to Exploring Ourselves

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 22:44


    Lets dive into the thread between the underworld/seasonal changes and mental health/illness. Are there other ways in which we can learn to relate or interpret cycles of depression and deep rest. Why should these be shamed? And why are they still so misunderstood? By ourselves? By culture? Based on a rant after the read “Decent Into The Goddess” by Sylvia Brinton Perera. Email me your thoughts and feels at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com . To support please subscribe, write a review and share it with a buddy!

    Episode 21 - Epigenetic - How Thoughts and Environments Shape body and life.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2020 21:29


    Epigenetics: What turns genes on or off, sounds that trigger certain responses an separation and sounds that trigger nurturing connection. So here we are exploring our environments and the possibilities of conducting our thoughts. May you have the courage to play and don't everything. Email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. To support this podcast please subscribe and write a review.

    Episode 20 - Many Voices from A Single Throat

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 22:17


    What would it be like if we allowed all voices to speak? How would this expand our own knowing and witnessing of self? What freedom would it bring? Starting with the self, and from there allowing others to do so. May we have the courage to play and doubt everything. Email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com and check out my art at www.sancanessa.com. 25% of each artwork is going towards mental health programs in El Salvador.

    Episode 19 - In The Bardo State

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2020 12:05


    Let explored this Bardo. Attempting to make sense of it. No sense is made. Please email me with your story at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com.

    Episode 18 - Allowing Joy & Grief To Manifest In The Body At The Same Time

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2020 23:28


    Another Sunday in quarantine, I seek to explore the multiplication of emotional landscapes that exist within the body at the same time! Throw guilt, shame, beliefs and appropriate out of the soup when navigating emotions, together, maybe one day, we will create a cultural body language that welcomes us all, emotionally, neurologically, somatically... email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. To support this podcast please subscribe and write a review, and most importantly SHARE with a buddy or two. Also, check out artwork at www.sancanessa.com

    Episode 17 - Drop the Gun and take The Cannoli

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2020 26:05


    What does it meant to be responsible for one's own uncertainty? The power of reclaiming the present moment and honoring the desire to be taken care of, the rejection of this same desire, and the negotiation of the extremes inside our thoughts and emotions, with the pursuit of inclusivity and trust. Welcome to being responsible over one's own uncertainty! Please subscribe, write a review, email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com with rants or questions!

    Episode 16 - I am suffering, Hello Chronic Judgement!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2020 17:07


    Yep. In a way we all wish to leave. Welcome chronic judgement and how we continue to feed this due to the need to keep leaving. So yes! Learning to stay. Email me your rant of how you feel at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com. To support please subscribe and write a review! Lots of love.

    Episode 15 - The Donatella Pause

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2020 23:14


    Taking the Pause - what the hell does it mean to play pause who are we when upon the pause? What do we feel? Where do we wish to go? How do we stay? What do you hold on to and yesss... is there a purpose? Tune in and tune out. To support please subscribe and write a review. And to express and reach out please email mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com, and for more inquiry do explore www.sancanessa.com

    Episode 14 - Zoom Time

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2020 22:03


    Zooming into how we respond to being sick, ill or in a state of unease. Tune into our weekly rant about how to make sense of it all. From a sprained ankle to trans generational trauma. One wink at a time, share your trama or drama with me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com and if you don't care to do it and want to know a bit more about me, check out this website www.sancanessa.com . To support this podcast: subscribe and write a review!

    Episode 13 - On Loneliness

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2020 21:52


    40 and something days in, held within, diving into the quarantine gifts of self reflection and feeling over doing. What is loneliness? How and where does it show up for you? Are you friends? Do you speak the same language. I have no idea, yet may we have to courage to play and doubt everything. Email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com for any inquiries and if you would like to share a little bit of your story. This podcast ends with a little excerpt of She of The Mountains by Vivek Shraya. If you would like to check a little bit of my art work and why we do this podcast please visit www.sancanessa.com

    EPISODE 12 - Allowing The Fog - Stretching Can Make You Moody

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2020 24:10


    Questioning our survival mechanisms, what makes us stiff? What makes us flexible? What kind of flexibility are we familiar with? What new corners of our home and psyche are we gonna explore? A rant about mood and fog, waiting for the rain, and some revelations in the condensation. For inquiries and sharing stories please email mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com and subscribe, write a review, send a virtual squeeze to support this podcast! May you have the courage to play and doubt EVERYTHING. Bless.You.

    Episode 11 - Witnessing is The Brand

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2020 25:51


    Survival Kit for The Mental claims Witnessing as the brand-mark-label yo explore during these pandemic times, and indeed a deep dive into the exploration of witnessing the self and the world, including all the in betweens. May you have the courage to play and doubt everything. Share your stories with me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com and to support this podcast please subscribe and write a review!

    Episode 10 - Connection & Correspondance

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2020 23:48


    Pandemic time call for awareness of the awareness in regards to the tools we have fostered and are discovering to survive and be kind in this mental times. Exploring long distance relationships, correspondence, love languages, embodiment and forms of connection. To FaceTime or not to FaceTime, what will we choose to do today? Please email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com for any inquiries, stories to be shared and themes you would like me to explore. To support this podcast please subscribe and write a review! Lots of love.

    Episode 09 - Dating Your Boundaries in Pandemic Times

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2020 26:12


    Welcome to an explorative space where quarantine is a global state. Through the madness and comfort of our space we get to explore the way in which our inner boundaries can be reframed as reflective. A tool kit in the making, and a blabber of a potential peep into the world of your subconscious and these mechanisms of defense. May you feel held and safe wherever you are. Find the support you need, mental, physical and emotional and spiritual. Don't forget, REACH OUT. I cannot see you but I Can hear you. Email me at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com To support this podcast please subscribe and write a review! Share around this little pebble with your community and deep love for you all. Thank you for your time and love.

    Episode 08- Looking into Your Ears with Kelly Montes- Bipolar Sunday

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2020 41:52


    We welcome Kelly Montes once again to Survival Kit for the Mental in the attempt to make sense of it all. More than ever, shit is hitting the fan and this Coronita is bringing up a lot of nasty mucus stuff which I myself am grateful to be getting some guidance, some community loving and some shared practices, and tips to keep ya mentals in these insane times. Supporting movements like cultural somatics, insight meditation, Comedy Central, and more. Thanks for your time. Keep the compassion an insane sanity present. Please email your stories and experiences that come up and through while spending time making your Survival Kit to mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com and check out my artwork if you want to distract yaaaself at @sancanessa on instagram. To support this podcast please subscribe and write a review! Voice notes also available if ya wish to share one at https://anchor.fm/san-canessa/message

    Episode 07- Welcome Mat To All Emotions with guest Kelly Montes -

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2020 45:20


    Welcome to a session of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction with Kelly Montes. We explore the Illusion of control in these Mental Times! May we doubt everything our mind says in the hope of one day truly following our self care and self acceptance inner compass. Please share your self care stories at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com, check out mbsr techniques online and keep breathing!! Lots of love

    Episode 06 - Belonging into A Paradigm Shift

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2020 23:19


    Welcome to episode 06 of Survival Kit For The Mental. During this time we shall explore the identity of belonging and the invitation of expansion within the paradigm of Neurodiversity. How do you Belong? And what does this feel like? A little rant about new possibilities in regards of surviving these mental times! For supporting this podcast please subscribe on apple podcast, Spotify, google play and share with anyone who navigates and or has interest in mental health and wellness. And email me about your feels, rants and messages that come up at mentalpopcorntime@gmail.com

    Episode 05 - Come As You Are

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2020 15:52


    Welcome to Survival Kit for the Mental, Episode 05 with San Canessa. This week we explore the deep waters of poetic self-Acceptance in coming as YOU are. Showing up for these mental times, in the perfect suit, which is YOU.

    Episode 04 - The Relapse Love Affair

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2020 19:45


    Dearest relapse. You suck. A compassionate and mental approach to the realness of relapse and how to endure these unwanted times. May we have the courage to hug our leg and the wisdom to doubt everything. Welcome to Survival Kit for The Mental.

    Episode 03 - Triggers, Tigers and Rain

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2020 24:53


    Welcome to Episode three of Survival Kit for the Mental. A space where your host San Canessa explores the ins and outs of navigating sensitivities, anxieties and triggers! Together maybe one day we will create a survival kit to endure these mental times, may this episode inspire you to reflect, reject and recover, from the endless labyrinth of dealing with yo-self. This podcast attempts to make sense of it all and to encourage doubting EVERYTHING. May the arts and our mental states guide us back into a loving version of self.

    Episode 02 - FEAR OF GROWING UP - Survival Kit for The Mental

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2020 23:59


    Welcome to Survival Kit for The Mental, in attempt to make sense of it all. This segment talks about the FEAR OF GROWING UP, the things done to avoid this process, a little bit of why and the act of DOING IT WHILE YOU ARE DeepRESTING or depressed. A little bit of inspiration and camaraderie in these times that make no sense. Discovering one or two tools in the process. Keep making art. Keep loving. Keep being YOU. AND FUCK THE REST. Survival Kit for the Mental is an invitation to take a breathe, a break, and dive deeeeep into deeep sheeeep, trancending THE DEMONIZING THOUGHTS.

    Episode 01 Survival Kit for The Mental - Authenticity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2020 22:26


    This is a pursuit to make sense of this life. A survival kit in the making. Exploring the love for mental health and the confusion of mental illness. Inclusive the power of the arts and expression.  This is a humorous take on the trials and tribulations of what it is to be bi-polar, and most importantly AUTHENTIC. Love notes and thoughts from a Salvadoran artist called San Canessa. This episode is an attempt to define AUTHENTICITY. Lets Popcorn Time!

    Survival Kit for The Mental / Bipolar Sundays (Trailer)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020 0:59


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