No, Not Crazy: Recent Episodes
Jessica Hornstein
We’ve all experienced invalidation that makes us question ourselves and sometimes, even feel a little crazy. From relationships to healthcare, from workplaces to spiritual communities, from media influence to societal bias and more, No, Not Crazy will explore the messages we internalize, their effects on our lives, and the ways we can free ourselves from them.Sharing stories and speaking with experts, we’ll dig into the experiences that dismiss our truths and undermine our knowing.
Join educator and coach, Jessica Hornstein, as we learn how to better validate ourselves and others so, together, we can all feel a little less crazy.
- Why your healing can't be reliant on others, even if they are part of the original harm
- What helping your children looks like and why it may not be what you think
- Why courage is sometimes necessary for compassion toward yourself and others
- Realize that everyone can reconnect with their inherent creativity to process emotions and explore self-expression
Tracey Yokas creates stuff. When she isn't writing about mental health and wellness, she can be found playing with paint, glitter, and glue. A former entertainment industry professional, Tracey has an affinity for color coded art supplies and is dedicated to supporting women in the journey towards authenticity and fulfills her mission by creating safe spaces where art, words, and vulnerability meet in dynamic community.
Tracey has a master's degree in counseling psychology and is the author of the book, Bloodlines: A Memoir of Harm and Healing in which she shares her family's journey with mental illness and healing so that others will know they are not alone and hope is real.
Tracey's website: traceyyokascreates.com
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Find Tracey's book, Bloodlines: A Memoir of Harm and Healing here
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· Recognize that domestic violence includes physical, emotional, financial, sexual, verbal, and even spiritual forms of abuse.· Why staying together for the children generally does not protect them physically or emotionally.· Explore how men and women typically experience abuse in different ways. · Learn how abusers systemically use gaslighting and other means of control from the beginning of relationships.· How to best support someone you think or know is in a domestic abuse situation. Sybil Cummin is a licensed professional counselor and approved clinical supervisor specializing in working with survivors of domestic violence and narcissistic abuse, including the youngest witnesses. She specializes even further by focusing her work with survivors who are experiencing abuse post-separation, and abuse in our family court system. She created The Rising Beyond Community and The Rising Beyond Podcast to offer hope and strategies for healing from abusive relationships and offers training for other mental health professionals on working with this population. Sybil’s website: www.risingbeyondpc.com Find Sybil on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/risingbeyondpc/ Find Sybil on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/risingbeyondpowerandcontrol If you need Domestic Abuse support, here is the website Sybil referenced during the conversation:https://www.domesticshelters.org/If you enjoyed the show, please follow, rate, and review wherever you're listening.
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- Explore how imposter syndrome manifests in both our personal and professional lives.
- Understand the relationship between imposter syndrome and anxiety and depression.
- Find out what tools will help you challenge your false beliefs about yourself.
- Why imposter syndrome affects creatives and entrepreneurs in very specific ways.
- Understand the possible internal and external causes of imposter syndrome.
Bre Clark is a seasoned multimedia journalist and news personality. In 2013, she earned the distinction of becoming the first African American news anchor in the state of Idaho. She has been focused throughout her career on helping others share their stories while holding officials accountable. With a decade of experience in broadcast news and public relations, she now hosts the show The Real Deal with Bre Clark. Over the years, Bre has interviewed countless politicians, experts, celebrities, social media influencers, and everyday people, in that process she discovered that what most were searching for was authenticity.
Bre’s website: https://www.breclarktv.com
The Real Deal with Bre Clark: https://www.youtube.com/@BreClarkTV
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- What do you think—are humans inherently aggressive or inherently altruistic?
- Think about how to facilitate cooperative teams and communities which make all members feel heard and valued.
- What can we do to activate a capacity for altruism and course-correct humanity?
- Discover one simple question that can instantly build connection and shift power dynamics.
- Understand how leaders significantly undermine their goals and their organization's goals by mistreating or neglecting others.
Dr. Harvey Hornstein, now retired, was a practicing psychotherapist, and a professor in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at Columbia University for over 30 years, during which time he also served as the Director of the Division of Psychology and Education. He also has consulted with executives at major companies all over the world to create healthier and more effective workplaces in industries such as technology, banking, insurance, entertainment, air travel, and more.
He is the author of 9 books including Cruelty and Kindness, Brutal Bosses and Their Prey, and The Haves and The Have Nots.
He also happens to be my dad!
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- Examine the belief that reaching for your deepest desires is riskier than staying in your familiar, stuck place.
- The important distinction we must make which illuminates our obstacles to longing.
- Hear about the personal experience I’ve been having lately of opening to deeper longing and what it feels like.
- Explore the potentially soul-crushing consequences of choosing to deny your longing and, conversely, the potentially life-changing opportunities of choosing to embrace it.
- Understand that on the other side of the courage and vulnerability it takes to admit what you want and need, there is strength, truth, and the fullest version of your life.
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- The transformative force of letting go: making space to embody a more expansive and fulfilled version of yourself.
- How to step into your power and start aligning your choices with the belief that you deserve the life you desire.
- Using the question “why?” to get honest with yourself and get to the bottom of what you want to change in your life.
- How to build the confidence to know that you can navigate big changes, even when they’re scary.
- Why discomfort may be exactly what you need to get unstuck, and why it may not be as uncomfortable as you fear.
Dr. Anancia Stafford received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology, her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health, and holds a doctorate degree in Counselors Education and Supervision. She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, an adjunct professor in the counseling department at DePaul University, and the CEO of the mental health private practice, Inner Peaces Counseling and Consulting LLC in Chicago, Illinois.
She also is the author of It’s Time to Get on Track: A Mood and Behavior Tracker. Having extensive clinical experience with a wide range of popul,ations and mental health conditions, Dr. Stafford currently focuses on self-esteem, codependency, depression, anxiety, and self-accountability in adults and adolescents.
Dr. Stafford on IG: https://www.instagram.com/drstafford_/
Dr. Stafford’s book, It’s Time to Get on Track: A Mood and Behavior Tracker: Find it here.
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- How it’s possible, within a faith-based context, to validate and connect with others who have different beliefs and heal divisions.
- Why asking questions should be an integral part of faith systems and why that scares the patriarchy.
- Hear about the shocking realization that illuminated the misogynistic and abusive behavior of the pastors Meghan grew up with.
- Ways we can become aware of what oppressive systems we may be unknowingly upholding.
- How to give yourself grace for what you didn’t know and mistakes you may have made.
Meghan Tschanz is the author of Women Rising and the host of the well-loved Faith and Feminism podcast. After growing up in the conservative evangelical church, she came to a reckoning with her upbringing while serving as a missionary working with exploited women. Since then, she has been set on dismantling harmful systems within (our) faith. She and her husband live with their little girl and two rescue dogs in Athens, Georgia.
Meghan's Website: https://www.meghantschanz.com/
Meghan's Book, Women Rising: Find it here
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- Identifying signs that you are not embodying the fullest expression of yourself.
- Why you can move forward when you stop fearing your fear.
- How to begin naming an undefined feeling that your life is out of alignment with your core.
- Discovering hidden pieces of yourself at any age that are crucial to living the life you’re meant to live.
- What you can do to free yourself from invalidation and self-doubt when society diminishes, dismisses, ignores, or judges your experience.
Gabriel Ayuso is a parent, coach, and trans guy who has made self-realization into a lifetime endeavor. In his work with others and in his own life, he has seen first-hand how critical is that we overcome invalidation and social conditioning in order to learn to love and trust ourselves and become who we are meant to be. He believes this is the pathway to a kinder, transformed world.
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- Finding your Yeses and Nos: What questions you’ll want to ask yourself to learn more about your sexuality.
- Why sexuality is the final frontier of human development and essential to the full expression of who you are.
- How to distinguish between making a compromise for a relationship and making a compromise of your soul.
- Appreciate the ways that your intimacy with yourself and others is about so much more than sex.
- The importance of finding or creating a safe space where you can talk about your sexuality.
Dr. Juliana is a licensed marriage and family therapist and counselor with a PhD in counseling education. For 20 years, she has worked with clients to help them manage relationships, sexuality, confidence, infertility, and more. Her work has been featured on Oprah, the Doctors, the Discovery Channel, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Women's Health, and more. Some of her courses include REVEALED, Be Your Own Sexpert, and The Wanting.
Dr. Juliana's Website: https://dr-juliana.com/
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- Learn about Andrew's devastating experience within a spiritual community and the growth that arose from it.
- Discovering the love, joy, power, stamina, passion, and beauty within yourself that connects you directly to your divinity.
- How we can move through this time of global peril to become a world with extraordinary new powers of love, compassion, and justice.
- The ways your individual dark night of the soul can lead to a more expanded, authentic, creative, joyful, regenerated self.
- Exploring the radical regeneration map available to us all that offers hope for personal and global transformation.
Andrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed writer, poet, translator and mystical teacher. He is the author of over 40 books, including Son of Man, The Hope, Love is Everything, Turn Me to Gold, and Engoldenment. He has taught all over the world, given over 20 courses for the Shift Network and is the founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism.
Andrew’s Website: https://www.andrewharvey.net/
Andrew’s book, Radical Regeneration: find it here
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- What is the role of finding our sacred purpose in validating ourselves? And how do we find it?
- Understand the way in which our survivalist society perpetuates a culture of shame and self-hatred.
- How showing ourselves that we matter brings us closer to self-love and healing.
- Why the journey to reshape our inner world is a beautiful and challenging warrior’s path.
- The small question of…where does humanity go from here? Why we must begin authentically embodying ourselves and authentically relating to others.
About Jeff: A former criminal lawyer and psychotherapist, Jeff Brown is the author of seven popular books. He is the producer and central subject in the award-winning spiritual documentary Karmageddon. Jeff is also the founder of Soulshaping Institute and Enrealment Press. In a world saturated with spiritual teachers and self-help gurus, Jeff brings a refreshingly honest and human approach to what he calls grounded spirituality.
Jeff’s Courses: https://jeffbrown.co/courses/
Jeff’s Substack—The Enrealment Newsletter: https://jeffbrown42.substack.com/
Jeff's book, Hearticulations: find it here
Jeff's book, Soulshaping: find it here
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- What is invalidation? Why does it matter to your life? Is it always intentional and malicious?
- The Invalidation Wound: Find out how it affects us when we internalize invalidating messages from family, friends, partners, institutions, corporations, narcissists, and more.
- Explore how this conditioning could be running the narrative of your life in ways you may not realize but which deeply undermine your agency and self-concept.
- Why shifting to a default state of validation will change our lives and the lives of others—and make the world a better place while we're at it.
- Let's build a ValidNation together! What steps can we take to begin learning how to better validate ourselves and others?
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We’ve all experienced invalidation that makes us question ourselves, and sometimes, even feel a little crazy. From relationships to healthcare, from workplaces to spiritual communities, from media influence to societal bias and more, No, Not Crazy will explore the messages we internalize, their effects on our lives, and the ways we can free ourselves from them.
Sharing stories and speaking with experts, we’ll dig into the experiences that dismiss our truths and undermine our knowing.
Join educator and coach, Jessica Hornstein, as we learn how to better validate ourselves and others so, together, we can all feel a little less crazy.
Find Jessica on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nonotcrazy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nonotcrazy/ Website: https://www.nonotcrazy.com