MYND MVMT: Recent Episodes
Samantha Benigno
Move your body. Train your mind. Change your life! That's what Mynd Mvmd is all about. We are a group of mental health and health & wellness experts that specialize in the mind &and body relationship. We use biopsychology, the knowledge of how the mind body work together to create our experience and evidence based science to help people improve their mental health, overall well being and make large scale life changes a reality!
In the second part of this two part series, Mynd Mvmt Founder, Samantha Benigno, MA, MS, CASAC, RYT introduces what the recovery process from addiction really looks like. Defining recovery as "creating new wiring in the brain that stands up under stress, and over time, Samantha helps those less familiar with recovery begin to develop a clear understanding of what it means. Here she covers topics such as the science behind "a natural recovery", explains how the 12 Step model works to change the brain, and shares what parents can do to leverage their power and influence (to support their child towards meaningful change).
In part one of this two part series, Mynd Mvmt founder Samantha Benigno, MA, MS, CASAC, RYT shares her expertise as a career mental health professional, counselor, parent coach, as well as a person in recovery. Here she cover's important "mistakes", she says parents (and loved one's of those struggling with a chemical dependency) too often make when dealing with their child's addiction. Here she offers information, direction, and guidance to parents so they can begin to carve out a new, and informed, strategy that supports their loved one's change.
Mynd Mvmt team members & good friends, Integrated Wellness Companion Chris Shellman, & therapist, clinical coach, yoga teacher, Samantha Benigno meet to discuss the lessons they've learned in the 16 weeks post Covid.
Members of the Mynd Mvmt team, Registered Dietician & Nutrition, Health Coach Morten Jensen and CEO Samantha Benigno meet to discuss why people always recommend meditation, what it can do, and how to get started!
Mynd Mvmt team clinical director and CEO discuss how people are reacting to the post Covid world and what it will take to move this forward for everyone,
Relationship Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, LCSW Danielle Porto joins the Mynd Mvmt team to discuss the treatment of addiction and what role Telehealth has or can have going forward.
Mental health & wellness professionals discuss how this incredibly challenging time may be impacting us mentally, physically, psychologically & emotionally and what the hell we can do about it!
Anxiety, Addiction, & Trauma Specialist guest Evin Lawson, LCSW joins the Mynd Mvmt team to discuss what we can all do to get through this challenging and intense time of uncertainty.
6/3/20 Join the Mynd mvmt team of health and wellness professionals as they discuss the truth about meat and the meat industry. How to know what is really in the meat we purchase and how to make better choices to improve your overall health and wellness.
5/29 Expert Round Table discussion on addiction. Discussing the impacts of COVID-19 on substance abuse.
5/27 Biohacker Adam Pellegrini and Nutrition & Health Coach Morten Jensen discuss the low carb diet craze. Are carbs really bad? How? Why? The Mynd Mvmt team unpacks carbohydrates and the truth about how to eat for health, wellness, emotional health and having the body you want too!
In today's discussion Mountainside's, one of the premier treatment programs on the East Coast, Business Development/Marketing Respresentative Lloyd Fitzsimmon's joins Mynd Mvmt Clinical Director and trauma specialist Molly Bates, LCSW and CEO Samantha Benigno, MA, MS, CASAC, RYT to discuss the impact COVID19 is having on treatment programs, recovery, addiction and the 12 Step community across the U.S.
5/12 Expert Roundtable weekly discussion with Mynd Mvmt Intimacy and Relationship Coach Molly Godfrey. Molly and Mynd Mvmt CEO Samantha Benigno, MA,MS,CASAC,RYT, discuss the impact of the "stay at home" order and the level of additional stress and anxiety the Corona Virus is putting on our romantic relationships. Samantha and Molly explain that from a psychological perspective when we feel out of control or helpless it is not uncommon for us to turn our attention to trying to control everything we think that we can. Including those around us!
That said, it is very easy to get stuck in a pattern of feeling like our partners are driving us mad and like it is their responsibility to make us feel better! It is easy to get trapped thinking, "I can't be happy unless or until they make a change"! For some its the small things like putting the toilet seat down, and for others it can look something like, "If you touch that bottle of booze one more time tonight I am packing my things and moving out!"
Molly and Sam discuss what you can do to try and avoid this urge to control others, improve your overall health and wellness, and ultimately save your relationship during this crazy time.
5/11 Addiction Expert Round Table. Mynd Mvmt Team Joined By Mountainside Treatment Center Business Development Representative /Marketer to discuss how COVID has positive and negatively impacted the landscape of addiction treatment and addiction recovery.
Mynd Mvmt Health & Wellness team gets together to discuss ways to ensure you stay healthy & strong during this critical time. We attack health myths, and give you the straight truth on what really works, and why! Ways to stay health and strong no matter what the world is doing around you. With Mynd Mvmt Nutrition & Health Coach Morten Jensen & Mynd Mvmt CEO Samantha Benigno, MA,MS,CASAC,RYT.
During this bizarre and challenging time where thousands of us around the world are stuck at home, how can we find the motivation to really make this time an amazing opportunity? That's what this discussion is all about. What motivation is and how we can leverage that knowledge to get more of it! With CrossFit Pro and Education Counselor Nikki Berger and Mynd Mvmt CEO, Clinical Coach, Counselor, & Yoga Instructor Samantha Benigno.
5/7 Roundtable panel discusses ethics in yoga and yoga culture. Given a series of damaging allegations against yoga's most highly touted Guru's the question remains, "What is our responsibility as yoga teachers to practice what we preach?" Yoga instructor and Yoga Therapist Molly Bates, LCSW. Yoga Instructor & LMHC Angela Sanko. Discussion facilitated by Yoga Instructor, Mynd Mvmt CEO Samantha Benigno Orpaz, MA,MS,CASAC, RYT.
Divorce, domestic abuse, substance abuse all on the massive rise! Will your relationship survive through this time? How do navigate love, dating, romance, and your relationship amidst this global crisis! With Mynd Mvmt's Intimacy & Relationship Coach Molly Godfrey.
The Mynd Mvmt teams CEO & Clinical Director, trauma specialist Molly Bates, LCSW discuss the various ways COVID is impacting us, and how to begin to manage the difficult emotions, thoughts, and experiences people are having.
5/1 Immune Health Round Table: How to Stay Healthy & Strong During This Health Crisis. Finishing up the 7th week of our stay at home the Mynd Mvmt teams CEO, Director of Movement, and Nutrition & Health Coach get together to discuss Immune health from their different areas of training and expertise. Today the topic centered around stress... how stress impacts our immune system and what to do about it.
Todays Expert Round Table we heard from Mynd Mvmt Biohacker Adam Pellegrini and Registered Dietician Sydney Greene, as well as Nutrition & Health Coach Morten Jensen on how to begin approaching making a change to your nutritional health that will stick for a lifetime!
Join the Mynd Mvmt team for our Tuesday conversation with Intimacy and Relationship Coach Molly Godfrey. Tuesday's we explore love, sex, partnership, attachment, and all things in between during one of the most difficult times in our history. Amidst a global pandemic. If you have questions you want to send go to myndmvmt.com or email us at info@myndmvmt.com.
Addiction Professionals, and those in recovery from addiction get together to discuss what addiction is, how it manifests and what to do about it. The round table shares their expertise and their experiences. Today's discussion centered around the theory of addiction as an attachment disorder. It means that what makes people susceptible addiction is difficult emotions around people starting very young, and finding relief in drugs and alcohol until in time drugs and alcohol take the place of having close safe trusting relationships. Definitely don't want to miss this!
4/27 Week 7 of the pandemic and people seem to be getting a bit restless. What are the consequences of entitled anger and acting out on it? How are the masks and PPE effecting all of us while we're out in the world? When are we going back and when we do what will it be like? Learning how to handle all of this and more. With professionals Molly Bates. Samantha Benigno and Nicole Berger
Grief, Loss & Trauma During the Global Pandemic Episode 3. LCSW Molly Bates and Mynd Mvmt CEO/Founder discuss the realities of life in our new world as well as ways to get though this time successfully.
4/24 End of Week 6 of the stay at home order. Mynd Mvmt health and wellness team discuss Immune Health. How to make sure and keep yourself health and strong with a lot more stress than normal. Round Table discussion included Justin Oelgeschlager, Director of Movement, Adam Pellegrini Bio-Engineer, Samantha Benigno, Mynd Mvmt Founder, and Morten Jensen, Nutrition & Health Coach.
Using the Ancient Wisdom of Yoga to Grow Through the Corona Virus Pandemic with Special Guest Astrologer and Yoga Therapist Regine Urbach. Regine explains from an astrological perspective why the pandemic is happening and how to best use this time as a gift.
Relationships, Intimacy, and Communication Amidst this Crazy Time. Mynd Mvmt and Relationship Coach Molly Godfrey and Mynd Mvmt CEO/Founder and career mental health professional Samantha Benigno Orpaz discuss relationships, communication, and how early childhood habits and patterns of communication can and does impact how we behave and what we expect in our love relationships.
Todays panel includes special guest Dr Jeffrey Kassinove Psychologist & Cofounder of Therapy West and Academics West along with Mynd Mvmt's VP and Clinical Supervisor, Molly Bates LCSW, and Nicole Berger Education Counselor & Wellness Coach. Discussion centered around the Hans Selye model of Stress and what happens to the mind and body when we continue to max out our stress response over time.
Join Integrated Wellness Coach Chris Shellman and CEO/Founder of Mynd Mvmt Sam Benigno as they discuss recovery, change, faith and life after drugs & alcohol. 60 minutes. The Sunday 10 pm Conversation.
Mynd Mvmt CEO & VP, Samantha Benigno, & Molly Bates, career mental health professionals who specialize in trauma, discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is impacting us all. Today's discussion included various ways people are reacting to the pandemic and how we can help ourselves those we love to get through this challenging time.
4/17 Mynd Mvmt Round Table on Immune Health, the Mind & Body Relationship, and How to Begin the Process of Change
Round table discussion of mental health and wellness professionals, yoga instructors & yoga therapists discussing the ancient wisdom go the yoga tradition. Todays discussion was beginning to look at the 8 Limbs of Yoga from the Ashtanga tradition; the Yama's & Niyama's. The topics were non attachment and cleanliness as guidelines for how to handle the COVID -19 pandemic.
4/15 Myth Busting: The Truth About Nutrition With Pro Round Table Registered Dietician Sydney Greene, Nutrition & Health Coach Morten Jensen and Mynd Mvmt CEO/Founder Samantha Benigno, MA,MS,CASAC, RYT
4/13 With so many competing messages about what to put in your body, and what not to put in your body, how does anyone know what the hell to eat anymore? Now, with so many people stuck at home and concerned about moving less and eating more, what the hell should we or shouldn't we be eating? These are the questions we asked the experts in nutrition to unpack for us.
03/23 Managing Anxiety & Stress Through the Corona Virus. Round table professionals in mental health & health & wellness get together to discuss the fear response and how to manage anxiety & fear during this strange time.
4/13 Managing Anxiety & Stress Through the Corona Virus. Round table professionals in mental health & health & wellness get together to discuss the fear response and how to manage anxiety & fear during this strange time. Special guest DR Lisa Avila also joined.
Molly Godfrey Intimacy & Relationship Coach, Samantha Benigno, MA, MS, CASAC, RYT talk about How to repair "bad" relationship habits, develop open communication, improve intimacy and use mindfulness as a tool for being in a happy healthy, ideal relationship.
Join Intimacy and Relationship Coach Molly Godfrey & Mynd Mvmt CEO/Founder & career mental health & substance abuse clinician Samantha Benigno as they discuss relationship dynamics and how to help couples through this time together stuck at home. Molly & Sam discuss relationship dynamics, how the masculine and feminine within, as well as estrogen and testosterone impacts our needs, communication and ability to be in partnership ...to live happily ever after.
4/9 Kundalini Yoga Therapist and Social Worker Molly Bates, LMHC & Yoga Instructor Angela Sanko, and Mynd Mvmt founder, Counselor, Clinical Coach, and Yoga Instructor Samantha Benigno discuss how yoga became a profound teacher in their lives and in what ways others can begin to use yoga to feel better, and improve their lives despite a global pandemic with far reaching consequences.
Join Intimacy and Relationship Coach Molly Godfrey & Mynd Mvmt CEO/Founder & career mental health & substance abuse clinician Samantha Benigno as they discuss relationship dynamics and how to help couples through this time together stuck at home. Molly & Sam discuss relationship dynamics, how the masculine and feminine within, as well as estrogen and testosterone impacts our needs, communication and ability to be in partnership ...to live happily ever after.
4/11 Grief, Loss & Trauma - The Fall Out From Covid-19. JOIN Mental Health professionals, Samantha Benigno, MA,MS,CASAC, RYT, & Molly Bates, LCSW, RYT in discussing how to deal with the grief, loss and trauma many us are now experiencing as a result of a global pandemic that nobody saw coming.