A New Dawn: Recent Episodes
Dawnette Brenner
We are Mental Health advocates! Podcast guests share their stories to humanize mental illness in our efforts to erase the stigma on a global scale and improve lives. Be mindful, listen, subscribe & rate us.
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Victor provides us with the history of the horrific abuse he faced growing up and provides the scenario and basis for his multiple personality disorder and multiple, ‘characters,’ surfacing in his life.
I have included the order of documents to be read, as he sent them to me:
1. My essay entitled “IsHopeAStrategy-IDontKnowYouTellMe”-Rev1 – explains my experiences for the last 55 weeks
2. Email to my circle of care “A quick note” – perhaps a long one too – explains my experiences, the consequences and reflections
3. My essay entitled “IamSorry-thedoublesidedrazorblade”-Rev1 – explains my position of hearing “I am sorry” Please understand I know it is a form of empathy, yet after the continued fight with the Ontario Canada MHA system over the last 5 years… I have heard this statement too many times.
Below I have included links to his podcast interview and published essay about living with DID, as he sent them to me.
1. Podcast Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDOjA-mW7i0
2. Published Essay: https://weareunsinkable.com/living-with-dissociative-identity-disorder-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
Characters: “Entities during dissociation”
Harris - Destructive, own email address, emails circle of care.
Victor -
The Poet - Manager and communicator of all personalities. Dissociative poetry author
Little Victor - 1st traumatic experience
Little Victor - 2nd Suicide attempt 4-10 years old
(Suicide Attempts) other suicide attempts have one identity for each
X - He has no idea who he is
The Beast - Pure violence, animalistic and beats up self
Management - No idea who this is.
Many more, he states he has about 13 entities that present themselves at various times.
Twitter: @VictorJanzen
Abby, another victim of THC Potent Drug from smoking daily for a short period of time. Thankfully her father intervened. Doug, her father, reached out to share her story as a worried dad and mental THC awareness advocate for parents. Listening to him discuss the the experience they had with hospitals to gain admittance and help for drug induced or mental health impaired individuals. If you’ve ever experienced this, it’s heart wrenching on all sides, especially with someon over age. Abby was 18 years old and this also happened to me with my son and my sister.
If you find any part of this podcast helpful or meaningful, reach out or comment. We all need to share our stories. Doug reaches out and helps kids on a regular basis. He’s spoken to me about a few and he cares deeply.
Abby was having psychotic episodes due to the THC potency. She was given anti-psychotics.
Doug can be found and is active on Twitter:
@no2potentTHC
Abby, we are grateful you are home and well.
John, from the Road to Mental Wellness, joins us for a second update on how he's been. He discusses his new podcast and enlightens us on where he is with his book. He focuses on 'men's health,' and how we can find commonalities between the genders or even those that are binary. We discuss 'covid coma' a bit, please enjoy.
John of "The Bipolar Battle" podcast and mental health advocate on Twitter joins us with his story. He describes his family as coming from the thought of 'mind over matter,' to get over struggles. He's living with Bipolar disorder and emphasizes the idea to 'embrace your journey,' as you live with mental illness.
If you would like to follow him you can reach him on Twitter.
Twitter: @BipolarBattle Website: thebipolarbattle.com Author of http://amzn.to/3dwkcVc
Luke from the UK shares his journey of mental illness. Please check out his blog at Discusslife.net.
Sharon is a mental health advocate, Emergency Management Field Officer, OFMEM, social worker, disaster responder, volunteer and also a speaker. She lives with PTSD, CPTSD, MDD and OCD and childhood trauma revealed itself in her early twenties. She tells her story beautifully and reveals how 'brushing under the rug,' doesn't help when it comes to childhood trauma. Her story, like many here, is one of hope, survival and recovery.
She writes in her blog, PTSDstoriesfromtheedge.com and you can find her on Twitter and Face book. Listen, comment and reach out if you'd like to tell your story.
Podcast link: Link
Site: PTSD Stories from the Edge
Twitter: @SDBak
Facebook: (coming soon)
Cameron returns for Season 3 where we get an update on his mental health, since our last episode and open the conversation about diversity in the world and the Covid19 pandemic. #compathy is something we discuss, based on emersing someone into other cultures to help break down the walls of racism. Thoughts about this can be heard in the episode, check it out.
Elle graces us with her delightful demeanor. She’s an artist in true form from her pop culture videos, to her artwork. Stay tuned, she her own podcast coming to share paranormal stories from people that have experienced them.
Here’s more information and links from her site: She is a young artist, youtuber, and writer living with ADHD, DPRD, and depression. She cycles between three types of content:
Youtube videos about the intersection between pop culture and mental health
Writing about asexuality and advocacy (usually on Medium, but I am hoping to expand to other platforms)
Vlogs pertaining to mental health and queer things, such as reviewing queer media, my own gray ace/demisexual experiences, and reviewing asexuality in pop culture
She still creates art, but her patreon is not focused around it anymore. If you look through old posts, you'll be able to see it.
These post types are cycled from week to week. For example, week one would be a youtube video for my main channel, the next week would be asexuality & aromantic advocacy, and the third week would be a vlog.
Patreon - patreon.com/secretladyspider Ko-fi- ko-fi.com/secretladyspider Twitter- Twitter.com/scretladyspider Medium - https://link.medium.com/qFLs1SEdJab YouTube Main - YouTube.com/secretladyspider YouTube Vlogs - YouTube.com/secretladyspidervlogs Instagram main - Instagram.com/secretladyspider Art Instagram - Instagram.com/secretladyspiderartist
Skip, a 26 year veteran, physician, author, speaker and MH advocate for individuals suffering depression. His message is prodominately for men, but we also were inspired by his story and it touched out lives too. See our website for links to his social media; https://www.anewdawnaa.com/.
Evan Whitehead, M.Ed @EvanWhitehead00, Nat'l Consultant/Certified Trainer of the @ahaprocess /Dist. Administrator/Educational Consultant/Mental Health Advocate. Building Capacity 2 Achieve Sustainability! It was a pleasure to speak with him and I support all of this efforts, which mimic my efforts in many ways. Therapeutic day school crisis intervention experience, which began his journey into special education, social emotional learning in contained classes; similar to my son's experience in school as well. Academics are secondary to survival and existence in the face of trauma and he, as well as I, has tackled this head on. Please listen and reach out if you feel so compelled.
www.strategicpm.us www.strategiclearningsolutions.com Twitter @evanwhitehead00 Voxer EW00 evanwhitehead11@gmail.com
Jody of returns to discuss her road towards advocacy, her struggles and triumphs. She’s a podcast host, trauma trained coach, mental health advocate and Twitter support mentor to many. Her articles can be found on “The Mighty” or read about her in a story, and anthology of women who have survived and become beacons of hope.
Jody#BraveWingsTrauma&Crisis Informed Peer Support @ONELASTKICK71
Welcome Katherine from Butterfly Tears and Kisses blog in her debut video as our third guest to “Ditch the Mask.” Please find her video on our YouTube Channel, where you can also watch all of our Ditch the Mask Campaign videos.
Katherine sheds light on why she’s worn masks, as well as identifying why she felt they were put there in the first place. Stigma about mental illness has been a real conversation grabber in both our podcasts and throughout the first few “Ditch the Mask” videos we’ve done. Our hope, along with Katherine, is to rid the world of stigma through dialogue, showing our faces and having candid conversations about the reality of struggles with mental health.
Feel free to reach out the Katherine on her blog at: https://butterflytearsandkisses.com/
She’s also active on Twitter: BTearsandKisses
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Tracey Maxfield is doing all the things I dream about, she wrote a book about coming out of the Rabbit Hole of depression and is a speaker in schools across the globe. Her philosophy meshes with mine, help teach kids how to cope with the stresses of life, manage anxiety, emotions and how to breathe properly. Our school children are stressed out and you can gain a deeper understanding of her thoughts, listen to the podcast.
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Tracey Maxfield RN., BSN., CDP., GNC©., DDS
Speaker, Educator, Consultant, Advocate, Peer Specialist
Author: Escaping the Rabbit Hole: my journey through depression
NAASCA Ambassador for B.C. Canada
Purple Angel Ambassador
Cell: 250-826-3535
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www.traceymaxfield.com
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Linda worked on the frontlines and as an Incident Commander, where she put 30 years of her life on the line. Her podcast and book tell the story of her life, her struggles and what it’s like to live before, during and after as a California fire-fighter. She lives with PTSD and struggles with the stigma of mental health in the department, amongst friends and tells us her story.
You can find her at https://www.encouragegreen.com/ where she offers support and encouragement to others, after a career in fire-fighting or other service where PTSD could be present.
First responders struggles are real and her book outlines her 30 year career and offers hope, based on her real life experience. Find her book https://www.encouragegreen.com/book-launch
“I was blindsided. That’s probably the best way to describe how it felt, as a perfect storm of forces was brewing, never before experienced by any of us, and descended it’s wrath that day…and changed everything.” - Linda Green
Linda Green was the Incident Commander on the devastating Valley Fire, which destroyed almost 2000 structures as it burned across 76,000 acres in the CAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit, and the heartbreak of lives lost. But in the months that followed this life-altering traumatic event she refers to as “her fire”, she knew something was very wrong, even though life seemed to be marching on as always...until it wasn’t. The nuances were there immediately but were masterfully disguised by her well-worn habits of performance and responsibility. She didn’t yet realize her free fall had begun into her own personal “hellfire”. Linda was diagnosed with a Post-Traumatic Stress Injury just months before her retirement in 2016.
It's me, Dawnette Brenner and I share my experience as a teacher using mindfulness in the classroom. We must make a change in this world, especially where our kids are concerned. #Mindfulness is part of my daily Mental Health check-ins and I'm supported and helped so many kids. Teachers, this is a call to action. Parents inform your teachers. We must get our legislation changed, mental health education/curriculum must be part of our teachers daily lessons. We must make room for it.
Be on the look out for a curriculum book soon to be released on TeachersPayTeachers and also through various publishers. I'll be offering training and a class to inform teachers how to incorporate this, it's so easy.
Hayley Wheeler - emotional empowerment coachHAYLEY T WHEELERI work with adults and children to help them conquer their anxiety and depression. I coach people who are ready to challenge and conquer anxiety, depression or stress, to accept their super power and take back control of their life and business.In 2015, I ended up in my pit of despair – depression. I didn’t realise at the time, looking back it was bleak time. Having got the right help and support myself and through my own understanding of anxiety and depression, I created my own coaching model which helps adults and children with their mental health struggles.When I had depression, and when my son had anxiety, we didn’t receive the right help. I felt stuck. I locked myself away as much as I could, still doing what I needed to do, but nothing that I wanted to do. My business was failing, my marriage was failing, and my parenting was failing. I felt like I had no power to control this.My own journey has brought me to the point where I want to work with other people who are feeling stuck in the same way. I want to work with adults and children on giving that sense of power back. My mission is to help people understand the cause of their mental health struggles, and be able to conquer it.I am passionate about the impact coaching can have, as I believe it can not only help manage mental health, but conquer the problem. Emotional empowerment coaching helps you develop skills, tools and knowledge that will support you in finding an emotional balance, and manage your reaction and response to your anxiety, depression or stress, events and situations which affect your mental health. I believe that self knowledge is our super power, it gives us the ability to conquer anything. Read more online at www.hayleytwheeler.co.ukFacebook Hayley T Wheeler https://www.facebook.com/pg/SelfKnowledgeisaSuperpower/about/?ref=page_internalTwitter and insta @hayleytwheelerHayley WheelerAuthor, Emotional Empowerment Coach and business mentorwww.hayleytwheeler.co.ukT: 07966189084E: Hayley@hayleytwheeler.co.ukF: Hayley T WheelerT: @hayleytwheelerI: @hayleytwheeler
Melanie and Krystal founded "Joy for Jan,' after the grief of losing their mom to suicide. They have a blog, videos and products for sale, all supporting scholarships for kids making a difference in their lives.
Advocates and sisters, a dynamic duo, began in a small town. Check out their sites and enjoy listening to our podcast interview.
Check them out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joyforjan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joyforjan/ Website: https://www.joyforjan.com/
Sam is a strong Mental Health advocate on Twitter and has been supportive of all people living with mental illness that he's come in contact with on Twitter. He wears several masks and today we talk about a few descriptors he's given them, as he wrote them on his mask. The Video vodcast will release on our youtube channel next week, so stay tuned for that. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6_NdPpIelddMoXjmKCaDp_z4akWdeTGM
Welcome to our introductory podcast for Season 2 of A New Dawn podcast.
We are here with, "Bipolar Mama of 3," as she ditches her mask, as my first video & podcast guest of season 2.
Please find the video version of this podcast on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7jue8iV4cTwdyEFYESf_OQ
The importance of removing the social media mask she’s worn for several years was apparent during our interview. She’s still apprehensive, but yet well aware her bravery will help others. Thank you, Janna, for being the first, meeting you has been a joy. I’m hopeful for our future work together. Watch our "Ditch the Mask," Introductory Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNzhkHCw2ZY&t=11s
Sammie shares her story of being self-sufficient at a young age and living with bipolar disorder, depression, OCD, anxiety and childhood schizophrenia. "My Brain Works Differently Than Yours"
She's been supportive of her autistic stepbrother and showed compassion towards her mom with her struggles. She calls herself the #blacksheep of the family.
Jordyn shares her story of living with physical limitations and mental illness simultaneously. She runs a blog called "Chronically Unimaginable" and advocates to help others.
Her mission is to kick the stigma of mental illness.
Anne Moss Rogers graciously accepted our podcast invitation. She’s real and raw. You can find more about her journey through the podcast. She’s an advocate and travels speaking to raise awareness of suicide and prevent other parents and family members from losing a child. She also speaks directly to children and youth. Read more, after listening by clicking on the links below:
emotionally naked
emotionallynaked.com
Mental Health Raw & Open Podcast
Upcoming Presentation on Preventure
Words Matter: Addiction
Bereaved Parents, July is Our Month
“There’s nothing you could have done”
As much as I want you to get well, I love you even if you don’t
Lynn Nanos is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in her eleventh year as a full-time mobile emergency psychiatric clinician in Massachusetts. After graduating from Columbia University with a Master of Science in Social Work, she worked as an inpatient psychiatric social worker for approximately seven years. She is an active member of the National Shattering Silence Coalition that advocates for the seriously mentally ill population. She serves on its Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee committee and co-chairs its Blog committee.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42196913-breakdown
Quora answers to psychiatric questions: https://www.quora.com/profile/Lynn-Nanos-2
Her book, “BREAKDOWN: A CLINICIAN'S EXPERIENCE IN A BROKEN SYSTEM OF EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRY: SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS REFORM BOOK”
She’s written several articles, done research on the seriously mental ill patients experiencing major psychosis, and those that are unaware they have anything wrong with their brain function.
Website: https://lynnnanos.com/
Starr, an amazing soul shares her spiritual awakening through her writing. Her poems are powerful, healing and speak the truth. Listen and comment should they move you like that have done us and many others.
Comment about this episode on https://www.anewdawnaa.com/podcast
She'll get your message. Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed this, please go to iTunes and rate us. Thank you.
- Art Piece
- Being Seen
- I Am My Own Medicine
- I Want To Be The One You Write Poems About
Isaiah is a young man who advocates erasing the stigma of mental illness. I met him at a NAMI "In Our Own Voice," Training - he's an amazing young man and has a great story.
He is on the Autism Spectrum and lives with Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar, NVD, and ADHD. He's a gamer and active in his community, our local community. He is on FB as ParaDX He suffered Traumatic Brain Injury and has visual and tactile challenges.
Katherine is a registered nurse, mother, wife and blogger. She lives with both Postpartum Depression and Bipolar 1 Disorder. Her story is like so many in the world and she’s removed her mask to discuss it with us.
She’s a mom too and blogs about her life living with her mental illnesses and parenting on ButterflyTearsandKisses.com.
Blog - https://butterflytearsandkisses.com
Facebook - https://m.facebook.com/BTearsandKisses/ …
Instagram - http://Instagram.com/butterflytearsandkisses/ …
Pinterest - http://pinterest.ca/butterflytearsandkisses/ …
Twitter https://twitter.com/BTearsandKisses
Hiya is an author and lives with clinical depression and anxiety which started in 2014. She is native to India and due to family conflict went into a deep depression and learned to rise above and find her truth. She breathes, writes and looks on the bright side to cope and find hope.
Her message is to meditate and breathe to cope with anxiety and other things life throws at you.
You can find her on Instagram @Hiyaoxfordgirl
https://www.instagram.com/hiyaoxfordgirl/
Search: "Hiya says"on her website: https://www.mirakee.com/ to find her work.
Mr. Maisey's message to the world is to reach out to him because the message from his experiences is a message shared is a problem half solved.
TRIGGER WARNING: Discusses suicidal attempt in prison at 6 minutes into the podcast. His book, "Young Offender" is due to release in the UK this July and in Canada and USA this October 2019.
Michael was lost, in the streets and out of control, due to his parents' drug and alcohol abuse, as well as childhood physical and sexual abuse. But, he turned his life around and now Michael Maisey is an actor and writer, known for Sparrow's Call, The Basement and Functional. He has been married to Sacha Wright since October 26, 2018. They have two children.
He participates in #TimeForChange Campaign in London.
Warrior Within Men’s Retreat in 2018
He tells more of his story in his book: “My Life on the Streets, In Prison, Out of Control, Making Amends. Young Offender.” Pre-order link for the book on amazon.co.uk out in July 2019. Pre-order link for the book on amazon.com for buyers in the USA out October 2019.
Website: https://linktr.ee/mistermaisey
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mistermaisey/
You don’t want to miss this episode. He’s a powerful warrior and proof that anyone can turn their life around. We’ve all been through hard times, but he faced his hopelessness, near the edge of suicide, in its clenches and came out the other side. He’s been a ray of sunshine through his Instagram community and other engagements. I can’t wait to get and read his book. I look forward to working with Michael in the near future.
Michelle is from New Jersey and shares her story about being raised by a mother who had Bipolar Disorder. She is now an advocate for mental health awareness and wrote a book about it, you can read an excerpt here: http://breakingintomylife.com/excerpt/
Please visit her page for FAQs as well.
She conveys a message about mental health:
We are not our past. It is possible to triumph over past challenges with perseverance.
Let’s separate the person from their illness. They are not their illness. They are loving individuals doing the bet they can with what they have been dealt.
Caregivers must establish some boundaries and make their own wellbeing a priority so that they can provide the best level of support to those they love.
The brain is just another organ. I look to the day when we talk as openly about brain health as we do heart health. When that happens people won’t be ashamed or suffer in silence.
If you are suffering and don’t feel comfortable talking to your loved ones or a therapist, find other outlets to keep talking. Find resources like www.18percent.org or https://www.7cups.com/ to express yourself and get connected to others who might have experienced what you are. You are not alone and you don’t have to navigate it alone. You are human and it is ok to not be ok.
If you care for someone who you think is struggling, don’t look away and don’t “hope” they will get through it on their own. Try to create a safe space for them to share. Just by listening and asking them to tell you more, you will help them by allowing them to feel heard. You don’t have to fix anything. Just be there for them and listen to them.
Please let us know what you think, comments are welcome on our blog https://www.anewdawnaa.com/podcast
Jey is a non-binary person who struggled while growing up. He was removed from his home country of Vietnam and taken to Canada at the age of 3, after losing both of his parents. He shares his life with us and the fact that he felt alone and isolated, with the exception of one friend. This friend provided unconditional acceptance and although Jey still is struggling, he's more aware and working toward becoming the person that his life prevented him from being, his authentic self. Stay tuned for his future YouTube videos.
(Continued podcast story) #CALLTOACTIOONSara talks about her brother’s ill-treatment while having a mental illness. He was unjustly arrested while having a psychotic episode and cardiac arrest, prompted by being prescribed five different cocktails drugs for his bipolar disorder and Agoraphobia. He was denied family access, he wasn’t hospitalized or provided with therapy or proper treatment. They merely proceeded to move him into an institution further from the location and to one without mental healthcare.
The state of main, specifically this Kennebec County Jail has a wrongful death suit going right now for similar practices with people that live with mental health.
Her brother is bipolar and was in the booking area and solitary confinement, while disoriented, for more than two weeks. This happened on April 29th and he’s still locked up without therapy, medication and without the essential treatment a person under a psychotic breakdown needs.
Watch Sara’s video: https://youtu.be/OdbmxZ_gULU
Facebook Page: Justice for Jacob Where you can interact with Sara and Coleen, Jacob’s girlfriend.
Email: MrsMumbles@live.com
Sara Kate: 603-921-6077
Watch Coleen’s Video: (Jacob’s girlfriend) https://www.facebook.com/groups/2384524181865085/permalink/2389412808042889/
Email the Governor of Maine to invoke change:
Sara talks about her brother’s ill-treatment while having a mental illness. He was unjustly arrested while having a psychotic episode and cardiac arrest, prompted by being prescribed five different cocktails drugs for his bipolar disorder and Agoraphobia. He was denied family access, he wasn’t hospitalized or provided with therapy or proper treatment. They merely proceeded to move him into an institution further from the location and to one without mental healthcare.
The state of main, specifically this Kennebec County Jail has a wrongful death suit going right now for similar practices with people that live with mental health.
Her brother is bipolar and was in the booking area and solitary confinement, while disoriented, for more than two weeks. This happened on April 29th and he’s still locked up without therapy, medication and without the essential treatment a person under a psychotic breakdown needs.
Watch Sara’s video: https://youtu.be/OdbmxZ_gULU
Facebook Page: Justice for Jacob Where you can interact with Sara and Coleen, Jacob’s girlfriend.
Email: MrsMumbles@live.com
Sara Kate: 603-921-6077
Watch Coleen’s Video: (Jacob’s girlfriend) https://www.facebook.com/groups/2384524181865085/permalink/2389412808042889/
Email the Governor of Maine to invoke change:
Jaycob is not only an advocate but also has his own podcast, "Stories of Hope with Jayc" https://www.spreaker.com/show/3510480
He was born with Spina Bifida, was just recently diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and is full of hope. He seeks the brightest stories and finds them inspirational. Please check out his Twitter posts and his new podcast. Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaycm1344
Marlane shares her life with mental illness, childhood trauma, abuse, and working memory failure. She's an advocate on Twitter and will work with assisting those in crisis.
She’s actively involved in supporting people with mental illness, so if you’re in crisis or in need, reach out. You can DM her @SamandDeanfan_1
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamandDeanfan_1
Jody shares her long battle with childhood trauma, discovering her mental illness later in life. She's living with PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, depression and is a suicide survivor. #sicknotweak
Jody is a huge advocate for mental illness, she also working on a novel. She’s trained in peer trauma with Bravewings Trauma-Informed Peer Support group and working towards starting her own group meetings.
She’s living with cPTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression and is a suicide survivor. Her trauma stems from childhood sexual abuse and she lived in and out of foster homes. She’s a warrior and is seeking to create her own podcast.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/onelastkick71
WordPress: https://jodyb2016.wordpress.com/
Amethyst's experiences have propelled her recently into the world of advocacy. She is a suicide survivor and lives with Complex PTSD, battered woman syndrome, borderline personality disorder, and depression. Her motto is #nothingwasted and don't lose your integrity.
She’s also a mental health advocate and survivor of suicide. Her message is clear in her story, #nothingwasted. She uses all life’s lessons to fight for people living with mental illness and her passion is with the African American community, where she finds stories tend to be hushed and kept secret.
She works with the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention and will be at the May 5th FREE event at the Chicago Heights Recreation Center, 1400 Chicago Rd, Chicago Heights, IL 60411. (Check it out)
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bea.holder.96
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmethystRocks1
Kevan is a mental health advocate and he talks about his difficult child-hood life in his home and school life. A speech impediment led to bullying in school and he shares why he didn’t enjoy his senior year of high school, due to his struggles with depression from the bullying.
Leadership counsel through his high school afforded him the opportunity to partake in a summer camp. Three years returning to camp, a younger kid in the summer camp inspired him to return to school. He’s pursuing education to support work in the mental health community. He’s been a peer counselor and an advocate, after living through these events. HisMENtalHEalth began as a result of a school project, which he’s turned into a larger platform and movement in the world.
He copes by keeping busy, meditating and staying positive about everything. “The glass half full” mentality. “It’s a mindset and a choice!”
hismentalhealth #mentalhealth #advocacy
Find him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hismentalhealth/
Toby shares his advocacy through his artistic drawings, telling stories of those with mental illness. He sees into their souls and helps their colors become more vibrant behind the smile. His campaign is his art. Toby lives with Schizophrenia and lives in England.
He talks to people and once they open up, he sees colors as they fill in around the individual. His art has been on display in England and he’s done several art shows. He will be featured on a special segment of 20/20 in the near future.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobybrownartist/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TobyBrownArtist
Website: https://www.tobybrownartist.com/
John from Canada discusses how his role in mental health and fire fighting potentially led to his Major Depressive Disorder. His advocacy is #sicknotweak and he writes a blog too. He struggles with GAD and Major Depressive Disorder and he advocates actively on Twitter and through his blog: http://www.theroadtomentalwellness.com/
His advocacy has inspired his "SickNotWeak" and "Whatever it Takes," mentality. Check out his blogs and find him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArenburgJohn
Kajsa, mental health blogger and survivor of deep depression and anxiety. Come check her out on MentalHealthNaps, where she blogs and Tweets.
Mo, mental health sufferer, psychology student and blogger discusses her experience coming to terms with having Borderline Personality Disorder, the anxiety, depression and her road to acceptance. "TreatYoBrain"
My son shares his struggle with bipolar growing up, his take on schools and therapists. He also wanted the music intro clip of eminem's song. Enjoy.Please reach out and be on the show anewdawnaa@gmail.com
Stress has many negative effects on the body. I discuss articles found on the web and my interpretation of them on "Brain Dumping," and the importance to destress your body.
Meg from Washington state discusses her childhood trauma, bipolar disorder and anxiety as well as CPTSD.
Author & producer Anissa discusses her struggles in life and how she's overcome them, guided through internal lessons and growth.
Cameron discusses his bipolar disorder and the anxiety that encompassed his journey of mental illness. He also talks about his advocacy. Listen and subscribe to hear more guests.
Vincent is from Montana, lives in New York and suffers from 7 mental health disorders. He shares the experience of the trauma he faced from "911" his depression and anxiety.
You can follow Vincent on Instagram at https://www.redsgram.com/u/fightingdepressionwithphoto He shares his story as it happens on Instagram, as well as some deep internal dreams/reality of thought in the form of poetry.
~A New Dawn
Grace, as unfilteredmental health, shares her life experience with bipolar, chronic pain and substance abuse. She delves into her struggles and how she coped and got out of it. She's continually struggling and it's a constant battle, but one where she also advocates and helps others through her social media platform.
Grace shares her experience, in the moment on Instagram and you can follow her at http://picdeer.com/unfilteredmentalhealth where she blogs about her journey.
She's amazing and also just went through weightloss surgery, so she also advocates for that aspect of social shame.
~ A New Dawn https://www.anewdawnaa.com/
Alice Pirola discusses the experience of abuse during her childhood and how her life was thrown for a loop for making what she thought was the right decision. The outcome of all of this would lead to a Borderline Personality Disorder. She suffers anxiety, depression, OCD and PTSD as well and has not only become an advocate for mental illness, she's a speaker for NAMI. She's also publishing a book this year, "Searching For Grey," which can be used by clinician's, family members of sufferers of mental illness.
She is a speaker during her NAMI meetings and also participates on the website "The Mighty," which is a website forum for the advocacy of mental health sufferers.
~A New Dawn - https://www.anewdawnaa.com/
Story of the struggles of one young girl, growing up abused in America, later to be diagnosed with Bipolar disorder. She discusses her advocacy for others, as well as her brother who took his life. Listen in and comment on iTunes.
She has been a victim of abuse, discrimination and also faced with abuse from a previous tenant where she lived.
Despite these limitations and constant attacks, she rises above, records videos and writes her stories.
Her book: https://www.amazon.ca/MULATTO-DAUGHTER-AMERICA-Florencia-LaChance-ebook/dp/B07F3M799B
Author Interview: https://authorsinterviews.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/here-is-my-interview-with-florencia-lachance/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/insightfulgirrl?lang=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/florenciab.lachanceauthor
Just me discussing some myths of bipolar disorder and offering my analysis and other research-based information on the subject.
Nate Roeder shares his story of late onset bipolar, substance abuse and the PTSD he received after his horrific episode a few weeks back. Come listen.
Ania shares why she's advocating and writing about mental illness, as a sufferer herself.
Podcaster, YouTuber Levi discusses his life of sexual and alcohol abuse and the road to recovery. You are not alone.
Levi has been on a long journey of alcohol abuse, trying to mask the pain of being sexually abused. He suffered from depression and being bullied.
Find him at: http://powerfullevib.libsyn.com/
Student Ayesha at the University of Toronto works as a community advocate, supporting peer mental health awareness. She's pursuing a degree in law, where she'll work to advocate for mental health.
Sharman, a previous marriage and family therapist, a counselor for adults with severe mental illness and an author discusses her story with depression and work, as well as wishes for the stigma to be eliminated.
Suzette Brenner is an advocate of using meditation and self reflection to help cure anxiety and depression. Tapping and other therapies, as well as recovery centers to support drug addition. Never give up, keep at it and self love is important. She has learned to cope with bipolar2 disorder. Listen to her story.
Author Nilza Elita supports advocacy of mental health and raising awareness. She wrote about a character that suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, in an effort to help normalize the two illnesses. Her book is also released this week. Go find her on Instagram and check out her book.
Episode 9 - Robbie on humanizing mental illness. He shares his story and experience speaking on the issue of mental illness to help humanize it world-wide.
Episode 7 - Julia Blake Author discusses her book and the bullying she endured as a child.
An author friend in England who wrote a book to portray her life in grade school and the bullying that took place.
Episode 6 - Author Kristen Granata Speaks up about Mental Illness for herself and her book.
Author Paul McGregor discusses the issue of suicide as it pertains to his coping with the loss of his father to suicide, in an effort to raise awareness. We open-dialogue about the needs in the world in the face of suicidal statistics, making a difference and reducing the stigma and labels. His book, Man Up, Man Down is available on Amazon, check it. Please subscribe to the show, DM A New Dawn on Instagram to be on the show and rate us. We want to raise mental health awareness world wide.#suicide #podcast #mentalhealthawareness #worldmentalhealthday2018 #Pmcgregor #advocacy #depression #anxiety #endthestigma
Dontstaystuck is the theme of this podcast. Speaking to a mother with bipolar disorder, we hear first-hand what it's like suffering from this illness. #bipolardisorder is a mental health condition that faces people worldwide and 450 million people have some type of anxiety in the world. We #dialogue on our podcast towards the end goal of raising awareness of mental health, ending the stigma, discrimination and neglect in the world.
Reflections from someone struggling with Bipolar. Madison talks with us about her means to cope with her mental illness, how she learned of it and offers advice to others. #bipor #coping #podcast #mentalhealthawareness #realpeople #dialoge #therapy
Interview with an author, anxiety/depression and other ailment sufferer. She's inspirational and gives others hope, despite her illness.
This #podcast is different from the rest, as laws prevented me from speaking to Rima about her #illness. So in an attempt to #breakthesilence we emailed and thus her story was told. #sufferinginsilence
Interview with author Sarah J Delagarde, author of #solacium and #murder #friendship #schizophrenia #dialogue about #mentalhealthstigma #awareness
In this #podcast we dialogue about having a child-hood friendship through adulthood with someone suffering schizophrenia and finding out they committed a horrific crime. Why is it that we cannot tell if someone suffers a mental illness? Can we still befriend them afterward and does it change the relationship? We talk about this, take a listen. #subscribe and rate us.
Podcast 1 The "Why?" - A New DawnAA Introduction to the #why of the #podcast. #dialogue about #mentalhealthawareness #stigma of #bipolardisorder
My son is now an adult, but we spent years struggling to learn how to coexist in a single-parent household, with four kids, one with bipolar disorder and a mom. The experience shed light on the need to dialogue, support and help others. My book and advocacy has been about my son but my podcast is to reach millions.
Please rate it, subscribe and follow us on Instagram: #anewdawnaa