Podcasts about mequell

Mequell and Adam talk about the newly rolled out 988 Suicide Crisis Hotline and how to be a good help yourself as you're responding to a crisis. They also send a huge shout out to ALL of the cheerleaders and warriors in the mental health world working to make it a safer and more supportive space.

Mequell and Adam are joined by Katie Clark, founder of Peak Behavioral Consulting and Board Certified Behavioral Analyst (BCBA). Katie has years of experience in studying what she calls "the science that backs all the other sciences" which is essentially gathering, tracking and analyzing behaviors and why we do them. Mequell was geeking out the entire episode because tracking and analyzing data was the catalyst in figuring out her own mental illness and Katie is the only person who's ever been as excited about it as she is. Katies insight is invaluable and madly applicable in the world of mental illness both for us and for our kiddos. Katie is brilliant, hilarious and also uses cool vocabulary words like maladaptive and antecedent. Oh and she also doesn't like big birthday parties... Website www.peakbehavior.com Instagram @peak_behavior --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by Crystal Partney, CEO of Scattering Hope which is an organization to help support after losing someone to suicide. Crystal started this organization after losing her own sister Gina and talks about the heart and soul behind her work. She is hosting a virtual summit July 11 - 24 featuring so many speakers addressing so many aspects of healing! Y'all go listen cuz it's gonna be awesome! She also founded a sister organization Owl and Thistle offering ways to support and love to prevent suicide. www.scatteringhope.com www.owlandthistle.com Instagram: @scattering.hope Meme of the week brought to you by: Instagram: @bipolar_2_life --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by LMFT Jessica Westover to address legitimate issues within families living with mental illness. She offers very practical tips and ideas on how to improve relationships including taking breaks or "giving it a minute" as Mequell always likes to say :) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam answer a listener question of how to recognize the different stages of mania and what you can do to help. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam have a discussion around personality changes that can occur with medications answering a listener question. Sometimes those changes cause a swing a personality that lands in a spot (just like the depression) that is not your warriors true self. This doesn't mean that medication doesn't work or isn't worth taking. All this means is there is still a little more work to do to get them back to their very best selves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by Clinical Mental Health Counselor Jeni Gessel MCMH - LAC for an enlightening (and complicated) discussion surrounding boundaries. Whether you are the warrior or cheerleader in dealing with mental illness keeping relationships healthy is the most important thing we can do. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by Fitness and Wellness Management expert Cheri Johnson of the Six Pack Dad Tribe who also happens to live with OCD. Along with an excellent discussion around OCD and her experience Cheri also shares principles of good habits, nutrition and exercise that have helped her cope. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam respond to a listener question of how to handle things when the situation is reversed and the husband (and sometimes primary provider) is the one who struggles with mental illness. There are a whole different range of feelings, challenges and hurdles when figuring out how to provide for and support your family in all the ways when traditional roles might need to be reexamined. They are joined by Laura who graciously shares her own experience with her husband who deals with mental illness and the difficult journey that has brought them to the happy place they are now. Laura is oh so wise and inspirational! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the pros (and cons) of having an emotional support animal (our cavapoo Leonora) along with some research and studies that have been done about the benefits. Pros: lick licks and puppy cuddles Cons: lady pants and extra responsibility when you're down Would we recommend? Still yes --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam respond to a question several listeners have posed recently which is "How do I help my struggling child?" These kids are in situations where their parents are afraid for their safety and trying to keep them alive but the question becomes "How do I balance expectations in helping my child progress while still ensuring their safety?" Obviously a complicated question which requires the professional help of great psychiatrists and psychologists. Mequell and Adam discuss things that helped them navigate this time period with Sam in particular and how they relied heavily on the guidance of Sams psychiatrist which was to set all expectations aside just for a minute and give Sam a chance to stabilize. This advice was exactly opposite of all the parenting advice they got from everywhere else but when dealing with mental illness and teens sometimes traditionally great parenting advice ends up actually being the worst advice. Bonus info: Sam shared tips from his own perspective on how parents can help their teens most effectively. (Go back and listen to Episodes 9 and 10 for more background on Sams situation and why his current advice is actually quite brilliant!) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the reality that there are no ready made heroes who come to the table with all of the tools in place to be an amazing cheerleader to the mental illness warriors. Everybody starts off as a remedial hero and learns through both education and proper tools and also from stepping in it along the way. All it takes to become a great support person though is a desire to do so and a willingness to learn. Here are 3 simple things to do today to become a better cheerleader for your warrior. xoxoxo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by Sam Stapley (the lovely Eliza's husband from a few episodes back) as he shares his experience, wisdom and knowledge gained by his exposure to mental illness. He shares how invaluable the tools and communication learned through therapy have been for both of them. We say all the time how mental illness has made both our marriage and our lives better and Sam confirms that he and Eliza have had the same experience. Having mental illness is a hard thing in a relationship it's true but Sam shares that not only is their marriage much stronger but he is a better human being after going through this experience with Eliza. Get yourself a man like Sam! (or a man like Adam, you're great too babe ;) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by author and goal setting expert Skye Fagrell who walks us through successful goal setting principles ..... aaaand then Mequell translates them into what someone with mental illness may feel like when going through the whole goal setting exercise. Hopefully listeners understand the best kind of goals for them, how to balance aggressive goal so they're motivating and not defeating, ways to make your goals work through the ups and downs of mental illness and that putting on clean underwear and brushing your teeth are perfectly acceptable goals to have. Carpe Diem 2022! Huzzah!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by Eliza Stapley a young married BYU student to talk about her own experience with mental illness and how it affected dating her now husband Sam, going through pregnancy and ultimately losing her babies. Even though the experiences have been heartbreaking Eliza shares a message of hope about how learning to live with her mental illness prepared her in a way to deal with the grief of loss. She's a gem that Eliza! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the top five reasons people stop treatment citing the NAMI study. Yeah figuring out the right treatment is hard. Yeah it takes time. Yeah there will be course corrections along the way. But yeah it's also worth it when you finally feel good again. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by Spencer Holt PhD. Spencer is corporate business leader and executive coach who teaches and trains CEOs and business executives around the world in ways to be more effective both as leaders and as people. Spencer has developed part of his coaching to address anxiety and guide corporate leaders on how to effectively deal with it in the workplace. He draws on valuable insight from his own career and experiences and brings that insight to the table for both leaders and those of us who deal with anxiety on a day to day level. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Joel Beckstead to discuss more in depth about how to be vulnerable in a healthy way. He answers listener questions about how to respond, appropriate ways to share and how to come out still feeling okay even if the response isn't what we wanted. He discusses how to have successful relationships and deep connections regardless of the type of struggles each person comes into the relationship with. Someone doesn't have to "get mental illness" to connect with you they just have to be willing to come into your world and see things from your perspective which is the same way we can support and connect with other people too. Most importantly vulnerability is a lifelong process for both those sharing and for those receiving. Great advice Joel! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam answer some listener questions and situations about how to handle all the "critics" in your life. You know, the ones who tell you to choose to be happy or try harder to cure your mental illness. 'insert eye roll here' It's a tricky situation because we do want to help educate those we love and interact with but we also need support while being a warrior. Then there are some people who just need the boot. Regardless of who the critics in your life are here are a few ideas on how to handle them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by The Vegas Therapist Ryan Wynder, LMFT for a discussion about the specific challenges that can be faced by men when dealing with depression and other types of mental illnesses. Cultural and societal expectations can create more difficulties for men at work and in relationships with vulnerability, emotion and asking for help. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam follow up on the discussion with Mark Bell LMFT who joined us a few episodes ago about sexual and emotional intimacy with significant others. The discussion today is more of a practical application for parent/child and other types of relationships because when mental illness is involved it can be trickier than normal. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by Amanda Merrill who lost her AMAZING brother Todd to suicide. She dispels some misconceptions people may have about those who lose their life this way and also generously provides insights, feelings she dealt with and suggestions for those wanting to help. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam are joined by licensed marriage and family therapist Mark Bell who is a sex addiction specialist to discuss the topic of how mental illness can affect sexual intimacy. They answer listeners questions about both lack of desire in down cycles along with addressing issues of hypersexuality during mania. Good thing we had an expert for this one! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the recently published NAMI study (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and the differences between what those with mental illness say are the biggest difficulties living with it vs. what those who have no experience with mental illness think the hardest things are. The difference is eye opening! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam start Season 3 with a discussion about how supplements can affect medication answering the question "What in the heck happened in July???" They also talk about why people may not reach out when they're feeling down. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam talk about how mental illness and depression are not a static thing. It's a constant balancing act to regulate and manage your cycles with the ups and downs of life and sometimes you find yourself at the bottom. Again. And it sucks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss how to show love and support to somebody after a suicide attempt including both what to say and also what not to say. PS this episode was really hard to record and made us cry --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the difficulties of mania. Even though the extra energy feels AHmazing the distorted thinking makes it very difficult to control your thoughts kinda like upside down world in Stranger Things. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam have a lawyerly discussion from Adams side and a practical discussion from Mequells side about things to do to succeed at work and the protections offered to those with mental illness by the ADA. Give it a listen and then go be your baddie self and rock it at work. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the differences between mania and hypomania and how to spot and manage triggers --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Kendra Karren joins Mequell and Adam to discuss how to recognize mania, her diagnosis of Bipolar Type 1 and things that she's learned along the way. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mental Health Advocate Darlyn Remington join Mequell and Adam for Mental Health Awareness Month to discuss ways to be a strong advocate for mental illness warriors --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the additional difficulties mental illness can create when helping your teen and offer ideas to come out of it with your relationship intact --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

The whole family joins Adam and Mequell to talk about the importance of sibling relationships and how to work through difficulties when dealing with challenges such as mental illness in the family. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss 6 common misconceptions about mental illness referencing NAMI and St. Lucie Mental Health Hospital --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mike joins Adam and Mequell to discuss the importance of Under Complicating in your life. Mike was one of the founding members of the L&D team at Facebook. He shares his unique message that success in the corporate world is achieved the same way as success in personal life and shares his thoughts about the great strides that have been made in addressing mental health and wellness as business owners and corporations. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Vice President for State and Federal Advocacy at Mental Health America; Debbie Plotnick joins Mequell and Adam on this weeks episode. In addition to sharing her experiences with mental illness from her own family she also discusses policies, funding and programs from the top down so that when mental illness warriors and cheerleaders who love them fight from the bottom up there will be a safe place to land in the middle where the most amount of people can get the education and help that they need. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Adrienne St. Clair, journalist and podcaster joins Mequell and Adam to share her experience being admitted to an in patient facility and how the key is to never give up when things are dark because brighter days are just around the corner. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Psychiatrist Dr. Henry Schulte joins Mequell and Adam and answers many questions about when to consult a psychiatrist and shares his knowledge about medications. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Therapist Paula Fontenelle joins Mequell and Adam to discuss the complicated grief that comes after losing a loved one to suicide. Paula's many resources can be found on her website: https://www.understandsuicide.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss what steps to take when you are at rock bottom --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell poses questions to Adam about his beliefs and experiences growing up and now about mental illness --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell answers multiple questions from listeners and discusses them with Adam --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam talk about how mental illness can affect your faith and the connection you feel with God --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam visit with guest Ty Anderson about his experience and journey with schizoaffective disorder --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adams oldest son Max joins them for a discussion about the challenges and also the benefits of growing up in a home with mental illness and how ultimately it has the power to bring us closer. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Cara Jones joins Mequell and Adam to share her story of how mental illness and perfectionism drove her to try and find relief through addiction. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the specific things that cheerleaders can do to help mental illness warriors lift the weight. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam begin Season 2 discussing the strength of mental illness warriors and how others can be cheerleaders --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam answer a listeners question about what music she listens to and how it helps. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam answer a few listener questions they've received during the break --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam wrap up Season 1 and discuss tips to simplify the holiday season and keep your mental health intact. Happy Holidays! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Author Skye Fagrell joins Mequell and Adam for a discussion about how physical and intellectual fitness relate to mental fitness and health --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss charting in more detail and how to most effectively manage the cost of medications --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Mark Bell joins Mequell and Adam for a discussion around addiction. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss how perfectionism can be detrimental to your mental health.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam catch up with Ella as she shares how she's managed her time and energy living away at college so she doesn't get overspent. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the question of when to get professional help if you're experiencing symptoms and what that help would look like --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell  and Adam talk about how expectations can contribute to feeling like a burden and how to combat that --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss her decision to be vulnerable by writing a book and the rewards that have come from that through creating connections  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

September is National Suicide Awareness Month and we all have a role to play in helping create awareness in how we can help people that struggle with mental illness. Mequell Buck is an Author, public speaker, wife, mother of three, triathlete, and suicide survivor. She gives tremendous insight into her journey to thriving with mental illness and what we all can do to help those around us.

Mequell and Adam discuss talking points about a newly released movie about mental illness: Words on Bathroom Walls which happens to be her all-time favorite. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the two leading factors that contribute to suicide and how to combat them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Clinical psychologist Dr. Joel Beckstead joins Mequell and Adam to discuss the number one health care crisis in America. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the role of a good psychologist and how they differ from psychiatrists. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the importance of controlling the fundamentals in order to maximize stability in managing mental illness --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the importance of being flexible with education options for your teens --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mental illness is often misunderstood and can sometimes put a strain on relationships. Mequell and Adam share a few tips they have learned over 24 years of marriage to help you protect your relationships and stay connected with those you love.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss what the process of finding the right medication combination looks like in real life --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss the many different treatment options available and all of Mequell's many experiences with them before finally settling on treating her mental illness with medication. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam discuss ways to manage your time and energy to work around mental illness and avoid burn out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell shares insights from her own life as they discuss how to understand and prevent suicide. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam introduce themselves and the podcast.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message

Mequell and Adam explain what mental illness is and how to be a good friend to someone struggling. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mequell-buck/message