Millennial Mental Health Podcast: Recent Episodes
Stephanie Konter-O'Hara
Millennial Mental Health is a podcast all about mental health, self-improvement and allowing people to hear professionals, and every day people talk about different topics that inspire them, and help them cope with the world today. Stephanie Konter-O'Hara, LPC mission is to reduce stigma of mental health, spread awareness of different issues facing individuals experiencing mental health issues, advocate for others, and teach skills to people that are struggling.
Today's episode is all about finance and mental health, including the struggles people face managing their money. The correlation between a persons well being mentally and even physically impacts how we save and spend money and the vice versa is also true. Tune in to find out more and hopefully some solutions as well.
This week on Millennial Mental Health Podcast Lori Johnson, LPC comes on to talk about mental health, substance abuse, OCD, and what treatments have been proven to be effective. Lori runs In Focus Counseling in Lakewood, CO https://www.infocuscounselingdenver.com/
Michael Konter came on to talk about how COVID impacted our society, mental health, and culture.
Christy Pennison came on to the podcast this week to talk about ways to recover from perfectionism and to live a life that is full, messy and imperfect. Christy Pennison runs Be Inspired Counseling & Consulting in Alexandria, LA.
https://beinspiredcc.com/
Today we have Jon and Alyssa Hopkins on the podcast, Jon Hopkins is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Alyssa Hopkins is in digital brand marking. In this episode we explore:
Mental health has been something people have been talking about more and more over the past 5 years or so, what do you think that has added to the overall conversations of spirituality/religion?
How has society’s issues impacted mental health in the average millennial in your opinion, what about other generations?
Where is the intersection of mental health and spirituality lay when working with individuals in a mental health crisis?
How does your mental health impact your considerations for work, business, etc?
How do you think it informs the average millennial choices of how they spend their time, their money etc?
Todays podcast I talk about choices and provide some tips for people struggling with indecision. Hopefully this podcast will provide you with some practical tools that you can use right away to manage the stress/anxiety that making choices can cause.
Today on the podcast Adriana Zuno a student at the University of Denver and an intern at WellMinded Counseling explores social media and its impact on mental health. The topics covered are:
With new platforms of social media popping up left and right, it doesn’t seem like things will slow down anything soon with this way of being connected, how do you think this connection is properly us forward and how do you think it’s holding us back from connection?
How do you think people show up differently online than they would in person? Is the way people are showing up online different than they would 5 or 10 years ago?
In the Netflix documentary Social dilemma they talk about both the harms/failures of social media as well as potential positives, how do you think the research on social media can inform our current choices and is impact on our mental health?
Different age groups show up differently online, what differences do you see across different generations?
For people that struggle with social media impacting their mental health do you have any tips on how to guide them to minimize its impact?
Solo episode with Stephanie Konter-O'Hara, LPC exploring what a work life balance can look like, some tips & tricks, why its so important and practicing being realistic with yourself.
Hannah Norling joins the podcast today, she is a student at the University of Denver in the Counseling Psychology program and an intern at WellMinded Counseling. She focuses on eating disorder recovery and body positivity in her work with clients. Today we touched on: What does the body positive community mean to you?
What do you think are the pros and cons to the body positive community?
Where do you think the body positive community got a lot of its steam from?
For those that are not in support of the body positive community what do you think they need to hear to perhaps change their minds?
First episode that introduces Stephanie Konter-O'Hara, LPC and the premises of Millennial Mental Health. Stephanie Konter-O'Hara mission is to reduce stigma of mental health, spread awareness of different issues facing individuals experiencing mental health issues, advocate for others, and teach skills to people that are struggling.
Stephany and Iris own Locksmith Escape Games in Sanford, Florida. We started our business in 2018. Iris became a mother a couple of months before we opened our doors. Stephany became a mother in 2020, at the beginning of the lockdowns due to COVID-19. Since then our life has been a constant juggling act between being wives, mothers and business owners. Iris is currently 7 months pregnant with her second child.
In the podcast we discuss the following:
What does being a parent mean to you and how do you think being a parent now is different from when your parents had you?
How has becoming a parent impacted your mental health?
Mom guilt is probably one of the most talked about mental health issue, do you struggle with it, and how have you dealt with it?
What resources have you used in the transition of becoming a mother?
Social media, has it had an impact on motherhood or your feelings around it?
How has being a parent in America impacted some of the decisions you’ve made about parenting and motherhood?
Are there specific things that you want the listener to know or for me to ask you?