Exploratory conversations about mental health, neurodivergence, relationships and spirituality.
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Exploratory conversations about mental health, neurodivergence, relationships and spirituality.
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Join Barry Toone and Kristin Walker with their guests, geneticist and infectious disease specialist Dr. David Vigerust to talk about the facts when it comes to the Coronavirus. How do our first responders take precautionary measures to safeguard their health while being on the frontlines helping us? Why we have it all wrong when it comes to wearing a mask. How we should be looking at South Korea when it comes to proper testing and accurate information. Why it is important to stay away from venues such as conferences for the time being. And - why we must stop harassing, bullying, and emotionally terrorizing our fellow human beings out of misinformation, panic, and fear -based thinking.
Frank King, The Mental Health Comedian, also shares his experience as one of the passengers of the MS Westerdam cruise ship where no one tested positive for the virus. He was tested, cleared to go home, and then became a target of the worst of humanity with trolling, death threats, bullying, and harassment. He is not the only one and we discuss how that kind of behavior will have a detrimental impact on all of our mental health.
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Join Lisa Erickson, author of Chakra Empowerment for Women, discussing sexual trauma and how she uses a unique modality to help women heal.
Lisa is a chakra-based energy worker, writer, and teacher specializing in women’s energetics and sexual trauma healing. She has trained in multiple energy healing modalities and is certified in both mindfulness meditation instruction and trauma sensitivity. Lisa is a member of the International Association of Meditation Instructors, the American Holistic Health Association, the Energy Medicine Practitioners Association, and The Breathe Network, a non-profit dedicated to supporting holistic healing for sexual trauma survivors. She is also the creator of a popular DailyOM course Awakening Your Feminine Chakras.
Lisa’s interest in the chakras and energy healing began over 30 years ago, when she began meditating as part of a yoga class soon after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College. She went on to study chakra and kundalini meditation seriously with a formal teacher for many years. During this time she was a technology executive in New York City, and her own meditation practice helped her to thrive within the high demands of her career. She also studied Shotokan karate, achieving a second-degree black belt. She pursued certification as a mindfulness meditation instructor, including trauma-sensitivity, and taught both mindfulness and chakra meditation at corporate retreats, community centers, and rape crises centers.
As she pursued more energy healing training, she migrated to private session work. She draws on many different energy healing traditions, including the work of world-re-knowned intuitive healer and author Cyndi Dale, with whom she has trained. She is a certified Feeding Your Demons facilitator through Lama Tsultrim Allione. She has done extensive research on the subtle body mappings of multiple traditions, and combined this research with her own private practice experience to develop her Women’s Energetics work. As part of this work Lisa offers both regular classes and private phone sessions to help women release limiting conditioning and draining energy patterns in order to fully own their personal power. She also provides meditations and tools women can use for support during crucial life transits, including pregnancy, motherhood, perimenopause and menopause.
A major focus of Lisa’s work is energy work for women sexual trauma and abuse survivors. She has published a free e-book on this topic: Healing the Subtle Body Wounds of Sexual Trauma and Abuse: 10 Practices for Self-Healing and Empowerment. She also is a practitioner with The Breathe Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting survivors of sexual violence to healing arts practitioners who offer trauma-informed, mind-body-spirit techniques to support integrated and sustainable healing. Much of her private phone session work centers on supporting sexual abuse and trauma survivors in their healing process.
In addition to teaching and private sessions, Lisa also writes for her popular women’s spirituality blog, Mommy Mystic, where she has long shared insights and resources on sexual trauma healing, energy work for women, chakras, women mystics, and women’s spirituality. She was the Buddhism editor at Bellaonline.com, and a founding writer for the former online magazine MeditateLikeAGirl.com.
Lisa regularly speaks at conferences and is available for speaking engagements. Past workshops include sessions at the National Sexual Assault Conference and the Women’s Spirituality Conference.
www.chakraempowermentforwomen.com
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Horses. Kristin talks about them a lot. We needed a refresher, however, on the details of how horses actually help human beings with their mental health, especially trauma. Andy Kaufmann joins in the discussion to also pinpoint how non-riding therapeutic work with horses can help everyone. He is one of the founders of Checkpoint One which is non-profit that helps veterans and other first responders with trauma, PTSD, mental illness, and mental wellbeing.
www.checkpointone.org
www.stepstoneconnect.com
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Kristin discusses tech wellness with August Brice. How has the world of technology impacted our mental health?
August is a Tech Wellness Advocate. That means her passion is making sure that you have the information you need to thrive in a world brimming with tech. She loves tech, however, her relationship with her digital devices and tech gadgets is guided by mindfulness… it’s from that place, that she founded TechWellness.com
She began this tech wellness journey over 25 years ago when she developed something called Electromagnetic Sensitivity. ES led her to 25 years of research and discovery, unlocking the key to health and wellness, safety and security. The energy of a cellphone did not react well with her body, so she was able to watch as friends developed affection and dependence on their devices. This led her to pursue research on tech addiction and cyber-security issues with technology. The path culminated in a nice balanced ratio and respect for technology which we call the Tech Wellness Ways.
www.techwellness.com
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Join guest host, Dr. Kristina Hallett, and Deb James as they discuss how Occupational Therapy is utilized with mental health patients.
Deb James is an Occupational Therapy graduate of Boston University. She has worked as an OTR/L in almost all practice settings, as well as working in finance after receiving a M.B.A. She has spent the last decade working as an OTR/L in behavioral health settings, where she has found her true calling. Deb is currently working towards her post-professional Doctorate of Occupational Therapy.
https://www.baypath.edu/academics/faculty-directory/biography/deb-james/
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Dr. Kristina Hallett and Elizabeth Belliveau discuss trauma, treatment, and how mental health practitioners approach and support individuals who have experienced trauma.
Elizabeth is a full-time faculty member at Bay Path University and operates Enlightened Interventions, LLC, an integrative counseling and wellness center in Worcester, MA.
https://www.baypath.edu/academics/faculty-directory/biography/elizabeth-belliveau/
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Welcome Leah Barrett to Mental Health News Radio Network with her podcast Precarious. Leah shares her journey with a life threatening illness and why it is important to be a voice in the world of podcasting.
A bit about: Leah Barrett
I'd like to help. I'm a trained psychotherapist: a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. I've worked for over 15 years helping people struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, life transition and eating disorders. I'm a Master's Level Nutritionist. With over 20 years of experience in the field, I help people adopt healthy eating patterns for a lifetime, not a quick fix. I'm a Certified Personal Trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. I create exercise/fitness plans for individuals and work one-on-one in a personal training setting.
I am a Master Nutritionist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Personal Trainer. I've combined these three disciplines in order to best help individuals, groups and organizations better implement lifestyle changes by examining barriers to making change with a special emphasis on motivational interviewing. I hold certifications with the National Academy of Sports Medicine, YogaFit, Spinning and CrossFit in addition to CPR/First Aid and AED.
www.leahbarrett.com
www.mhnrnetwork.com
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Join host and former EMT, Stephen Kavalkovich, as he talks about his journey as a first responder and his podcast (one of the largest on Mental Health News Radio Network), Rescue the Rescuer.
www.rescuetherescuer.com
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This show is for our heroes and their families who are on the front lines: Our First Responders. The services that our armed forces and first responders provide to all Americans are too numerous to mention. The sacrifices their families make are equally as important. The honor of being able to provide these services and activities is the least we can do for all of them.
Join veteran Andy Kaufmann and horse whisperer Kristin Anna of Checkpoint One as they discuss what their organization does and working with these incredible animals helps first responders with their mental well being!
www.checkpointone.org
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Join one of the founders of Stepstone Connect, Barry Toone, and Kristin as they talk about how online counseling has paved over many of the barriers first responders have to getting mental health treatment.
Mr. Toone is an entrepreneur, businessman, speaker, and attorney. He is co-founder, CEO, and, General Counsel of Stepstone Connect, a telebehavioral company headquartered in Woods Cross, Utah. Stepstone Connect has a network of trauma-trained clinicians throughout the United States providing a wide-range of mental, emotional, and behavioral-health services using secure, on-line, HIPAA-compliant technology. Stepstone Connect proudly works with America's First Responders and Veterans through its growing professional network and contractual relationships with police, fire, and other first-responder agencies across the U.S. at the federal, state, and local level. Mr. Toone co-hosts a weekly podcast (First Responder Mental Health Network) with Kristin Walker, CEO of the Mental Health News Radio.
Prior to founding Stepstone, Mr. Toone was a trial lawyer and litigator. He was the Managing Partner of Bowman and Brooke in Phoenix, Arizona, the largest product liability defense firm in the U.S. He has represented many of the world's largest corporations, including Ford, Toyota, Honda, Yamaha, Mazda, GM, and Polaris. He has taken depositions in 46 of the 50 states and handled jury, bench, and appellate matters across the United States
Mr. Toone is licensed and in good standing with the State Bars of Utah, Arizona, Texas, and Missouri.
www.stepstoneconnect.com
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