After nearly 20 years without meds to treat my bipolar disorder I have decided to dip my toes back in the pharmacological pool. Why is that? Why has it been so long between episodes? What else is going on? How can YOU get involved? It is all answered in this update.
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I this episode I talk with Jackie Simmons, international speaker, the host of The Suicide Prevention Show, the co-founder of the Teen Suicide Prevention Society, and the author/compiler of the book: Make It A Great Day: The Choice Is Yours and author of The “Why Not?” Workbook: Breaking the Silence on Teen Suicide.
We talk about ways to discuss suicide prevention with your kids, learning to manage grief and the four questions that just might save someone's life.
In this episode I talk with Crystal Partney, founder of Scattering Hope, an organization created to bring Hope to Survivors of Suicide Loss. We have a great conversation about managing survivors guilt, dealing with her personal loss and finding a way to help others in the wake of such tragedy. It's a great conversation.
In this episode I talk with Hannes Bend. We talk about losing people in the times of this pandemic, opening up about our mental health and the underestimated life changing power of your breathing. We also talk about his company breathing.ai. a truly mindful technology that adapts your screen to effortlessly elevate your mood, health, and performance.
In this episode I talk with Adam Smith. We talk about how surviving a suicide attempt created a desire to change his life, causing him to quit drinking and lose over 28kg (62 lb) in just 18 months.
He is now a life coach that specialises in educating people on overcoming self doubt, habit creation and building confidence.
Doug Hughes is a retired mailman living on the Gulf Coast of Florida. In previous jobs, he’s been a restaurant manager, computer programmer, and he’s held a few dozen other jobs from mopping hospital floors to driving for Uber.
He made a daring and unauthorized flight in a 250-pound ultralight gyrocopter with 535 letters, one to every member of Congress, landing on the west lawn of the US Capitol Building in 2015. After proving his dedication, he demonstrated his expertise on the crisis of institutional corruption in dozens of media appearances and speaking engagements. The flight earned Doug four months in prison, it also cost him his job with the U.S. Postal Service and the gyroplane, a deal he does not regret.
Doug is an activist, especially but not exclusively on big money in politics, speaking, demonstrating, and writing on the subject whenever an audience will tolerate him.
In this episode I speak with EFT practitioner Ann Hince. She tells me about growing up with trauma, dysfunction and a lingering PTSD that would take decades to release. She talks to me about how using EFT changed her life and how she now uses these techniques to help those people who really want inner change, inner peace, have the desire and will to do the inner work to achieve it.
Ashley Michelle's life changed forever after walking into a murder scene, hearing the door lock behind her, and being told she was next!
From that moment forward her life has been dedicated to overcoming PTSD, depression, and anxiety. She chose to write about her healing process in the book ""Finding Strength Through Tragedy", hoping to inspire people to overcome their own challenges.
In this episode I speak with Helen Bratton, Internationally accredited Recovery Life Coach, Speaker & Author. She tells me about having a near-death stroke at 36, disability, depression, addiction and her triumphant recovery.
