The Mental Health Adjacent Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sabby Rosenblatt
When someone we love is struggling with mental health issues, it is not uncommon to be directly affected by it. More often than not, we focus so much on helping those we love that start seeing self-care as a luxury, rather than the necessity it actually is. This puts our own wellbeing at risk. That is why this show is focused on providing support for the supporters. We will be sharing tools, experiences and stories to help you cope and remind you, you are not alone. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mentalhealthadjacent/support
The healing journey looks different for everyone. Some people find therapy to be the best support for them, whole others benefit from a more holistic approach.
Today I'm joined by Cristina Pettersen Carpio, a Confidence & Holistic Life Coach and Healer. As the founder of the Powerful Confident Warrior Women Community her main goal is to help women discover their inner healing power and overcome self-love and confidence challenges so they can feel peace, love, joy, connect with their confidence, achieve their goals and have fulfilled lives.
In the episode we chat about the power of spirituality and inner work, and how leaning into it can help in the healing journey. We also go over the importance of learning about ourselves, recognizing the kind of thoughts that inspire our feelings and actions, and the key role self-care takes in being a supporter.
With a big focus on the energetic side of things, Cristina offers a different look at what the healing journey can look like.
To connect with Cristina:
Website: www.livinghealthierideas.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedIn.com/in/CristinaPettersenCarpio
Facebook: www.facebook.com/livinghealthierideas
Instagram: @coachcristinapettersen
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Emotions are messengers. If we dig deeper than the surface level, they come to bring us lessons about ourselves. The more we try to push them down, the longer they will linger, until we decide to listen.
In the episode I'm joined by Karla Myra, a certified Emotional Empowerment and Hypnotherapist coach, who specializes in supporting women who are ready to confidently speak up and express themselves in all areas of their lives to create healthy, loving relationships and the soul-aligned life they're meant for.
Karla shares her experience as a supporter for her brother, who struggles with paranoia. She also goes over the role spirituality has played in providing her healing and solace through her experience.
As an emotional empowerment coach, Karla shares the lessons she has learned as a supporter by listening to the messages her emotions have beneath them and she gives some tips on how we can each manage to do the same.
To connect with Karla:
Instagram: @karla.myra
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/karlamyra
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Being a mom comes with its own set of challenges. But when you add supporting a child that’s struggling with their mental health, those challenges become even more expansive.
That is why Kelly Jacobson focuses mainly on supporting moms juggling the work and home life by teaching them how to be present and manage their mindset. She is a licensed clinical therapist and personal development coach, expert on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Kelly is also the owner of Stronger Therapeutic Counseling + Coaching Services in Batavia, IL and the creator of the Strong Mama, A Guided Workbook for moms of daughters with Anxiety. The workbook is inspired by her belief that a healthy mom fuels a healthy family.
Aside from her practice, Kelly has her own experience as a supporter of someone that is struggling with their mental health. That is why she knows first hand the challenges it entails. This is why we partnered together to create the workshop “Ditch the eggshells: 5 days to own your boundaries and improve communication” To sign up for the workshop: https://mailchi.mp/56fbe6153d16/workshop
To connect with Kelly: Website: https://yourstrongerself.me/ Workbook: https://yourstrongerself.me/product/strong-mama-a-guided-workbook/ IG: @yourstrongerself FB: @yourstrongerself.me Pinterest: @yourstrongerself be
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When we are supporting a romantic partner struggling with their mental health, connection and intimacy can often take a back seat. It’s easy to get lost in the shuffle of daily life and not find time to be present with one another.
Today’s episode focuses on how we can create space in the relationship to connect with put partner. How we can approach sex and different ways to ignite intimacy.
My guest, Carla Carreira is a somatic experiencing practitioner and sex and intimacy coach. She currently is completing an M.S. in Sexology and a PhD in Psychology. Carla is also honing her leadership skills as an assistant for the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute practitioner’s course, evolving her movement theater therapy group classes, growing as a public speaker, and writing a semi-autobiographical novel about intergenerational trauma, grit and resilience.
Aside from her professional experience, Carla herself has struggled with her mental health and has served as a supporter for others. In the episode she shares lessons from the personal challenges she has overcome, as well as tips she has gathered from her time practicing.
You can find Carla on: www.carlacarreira.com Instagram: @conexion_consciente LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamarinacarreira/
Thinking about getting married? Nicole Locorriere just launched a premarital counseling course. She’s offering an exclusive 15% OFF to the listeners with the coupon MHADJACENT. To check it out: https://millenniallifeacademy.teachable.com/p/premarital-counseling
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As a supporter, it's easy to forget our voices matter. Feelings of helplessness, overwhelm and isolation can be common. We get so focused on service the person we are supporting that it can be easy to forget about our own self.
That is what Abisola Akinwande herself experienced during her childhood, being a supporter for her mother, who struggled with her mental health. Years later, Abisola has found healing and has been able to reclaimed her voice, using her past challenges as source of inspiration to help others going through their own hardships.
In the episode, Abisola recounts her own story as a supporter, and shares some of the lessons she has picked up throughout her journey.
We also talk about that has shaped her current mission, which is to support women through relationship struggles, traumatic life events, feelings of deep loneliness, unworthiness, imposter syndrome, low self-esteem and many more issues we often silently shoulder as women. Abisola believes in the power of revealing and healing inner wounds that leave many women so fragmented in life. Through a strong foundation of self-awareness, self- love, and self-acceptance, she teaches women how to bring a deeper level of peace and acceptance to their entire life.
To connect with Abisola:
Facebook: The Peace Your Puzzle Coaching Academy
or her personal page: Abisola Akinwande (send her a message letting her know it's from the podcast)
Instagram: @peaceyourpuzzle and @abisolaspeaks
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Resilience is an essential skill to get through life. There are ways in which we can train ourselves to build more of it. And it's important to teach the younger generations how to be more resilient.
In this episode I chat with Lindsay Weisner, a clinical Psychologist in Long Island, New York, who specializes in working with suicidal teenagers. Lindsay shares the ways in which she helps foster resilience in the kids she works with and some important things parents need to keep in mind. Growing up with a suicidal mother herself, she has first-hand experience of what it's like to be in the supporter role for people that are struggling.
Dr. Weisner graduated from Georgetown University in 1999 and was awarded a fellowship in child development at the NIH/NICHD. She received her doctorate from C.W. Post, LIU, and went on to pursue post-doctorate training at the American Institute of Psychoanalysis.
Aside from her practice, she is the current host of the Neurotic Nourishment Podcast, the co-author of the recently-released book Ten Steps To Finding Happy and the author of the Psychology Today blog, The Venn Diagram Life.
To connect with Lindsay:
Instagram: @psychshrinkmom
YouTube: @Dr Lindsay Kallen Weisner
iTunes: The Neurotic Nourishment Podcast
https://anchor.fm/neuroticnourishment
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Steps-Finding-Happy-Satisfaction-ebook/dp/B086MF17TX/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ten+steps+to+finding+happy&qid=1593702912&sr=8-1
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-venn-diagram-life
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Being a supporter for someone that is struggling with their mental health can sometimes take a toll on our own mental wellbeing. A lot of emotions come up and we don't always know the best way to deal with those feelings.
My guest in this episode is Ruth Ronan, a Mind Health Coach that specializes in Subconscious Release Technique (SRT) and Emotion Code. Through her work, Ruth helps people process their emotions, finding the root cause that may be hiding in their subconscious and helping them remove the blocks.
She is a retired Chicago Police Sergeant with 27 ½ years of service. While in the force, she took courses in Peer Support and Crisis Intervention Training in order to support those that may be struggling with their mental health. She assisted both those that were in the force with her and on the field whenever she had to respond to crisis situations.
Ruth is also passionate about health & fitness and believes in the power of the mind-body connection. She is eager to help those who are struggling remove the unconscious blocks that may be keeping her stuck. She is a huge believer in SRT since it has been more helpful to her than traditional therapy and medication.
On our episode together, we talk over some of her experiences and the learnings she has acquired throughout the years. She shares the self-care practices she has found most helpful for herself and the importance to ensure you make time for yourself. She reminds us of the importance of filling your own cup before you fill anyone else's.
Connect with Ruth on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ruth.ronan.94
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Although conversations around mental health are more common now a days, there is still a lot of stigma around the topic. This can lead to people being closed off to the idea of reaching out for help, even when they really need it.
In this episode, I chat with Nicole Locorriere, M.S. AMFT, an associate marriage and family therapist located in New Jersey. A dedicated fighter against the stigma that surrounds mental health care, she has a project called Spill the tea in Therapy, meant to encourage people to reach out for help.
We touch upon some of the usual topics, like communication and boundaries, but we also go over signs of relationship decline and ways to counteract these different symptoms that are damaging to any bond.
Nicole also shares some techniques to ground oneself to diffuse some of the most critical situations.
Connect with Nicole on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolelocorrieremft/
Nicole's website: https://www.nicolelocorriere.com/
"Spill The Tea in Therapy" tote bags: https://www.nicolelocorriere.com/product/spill-the-tea-in-therapy-canvas-tote-bag/
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/nicolelocorrieremft
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A lot of the times, we have emotions we don't know how to process. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping, allows for those emotions to work their way out of our system.
In this episode I chat with Sandra Streit, an EFT practitioner, about the different ways this technique can assist in dealing with tough times. Sandra also shares her own experiences struggling with mental health, and the lessons she has learned from them. She shares some of her challenges as well as the things she can now see more clearly in retrospect.
Communication is one of the big overarching themes of this episode, for which Sandra gives some amazing tips on how to approach the more comforting talks. She notes the power of asking for permission before sharing feedback and the importance of understanding what we expect to gain from a conversation.
Sandra's web page: https://www.tapintoyourinnerchild.com
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Boundaries are really tough. It can be difficult to enforce them, especially when someone we love is struggling. However, healthy boundaries are essential for your wellbeing, as well as that of the person you are supporting. Crossing the line between being a supporter and being an enabler can happen easily, without even realizing it.
In this episode I'm joined by Amber Lea Gray a former counselor turned pastor. Her journey as a mental health provider started in an acute mental health hospital. She also hosts a podcast called Growth & Grace, where she mixes pep talks and practical tips to help people find joy, purpose and achieve the life they dream about.
She believes deeply that life is a journey where we are constantly growing and in need of grace. Both as a pastor and a podcaster she aims to address important conversations and address issues such a mental health openly.
In our chat, she shares tips on how to establish healthy boundaries and how to stand by them, even when it's challenging. For example, writing a boundary contract when all parties are calm.
You can follow me on social media on: https://www.instagram.com/mh.adjacent/
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You can find and connect with Amber on the following links:
www.amberleagray.com
www.instagram.com/amber.lea.gray
www.facebook.com/heyamberleagray
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Struggling with mental illness can give a lot of new perspectives to the role of supporting someone else. At the same time, it's important to recognize everyone's experiences are different and unique.
In today's episode I'm joined by one of my closest friends, Mafalda. She shares about her own experience struggling with anxiety, and her role as a supporter for others in her life, especially through her activism work. Mafalda shares the lessons she has learned by being on both sides and gives some encouraging words on the importance of boundaries.
Communication can be tough when someone in our life is struggling with their mental health, so hearing from someone else's experience can help put things in perspective and understand a little bit of what it's like to be on the other side.
You can follow me on social media on: https://www.instagram.com/mh.adjacent/
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Mafalda's social media:
https://www.instagram.com/sakurach4n
https://www.facebook.com/SakuraCh4n
https://twitter.com/TheQueenMutt
Mafalda's social activism causes:
https://www.facebook.com/SlutwalkPorto/
https://instagram.com/slutwalkporto
https://m.facebook.com/SomosBlergh/
https://instagram.com/somos_blergh
https://www.facebook.com/redeexaequo/
https://instagram.com/redeexaequo
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What does Mental Health Adjacent even mean, anyway? The answer to this question is provided in today's episode.
Welcome to the Mental Health Adjacent podcast, where I provide support and tools for the supporters of those that are struggling with their mental health.
Whether it be a partner, a parent, a sibling, or whoever else you're close to that is currently struggling, being in the supporter role of someone with a mental illness can be hugely detrimental to a person's own wellbeing. Especially when we forget just how key of a role self-care plays in sustaining our mental wellbeing.
My name is Sabby and I will be the host for the show. After three years in a relationship with someone that struggles with anxiety and depression, I have made it my goal to provide the supporters the support and tools they need to look after themselves, before they can take care of someone else.
In today's very first episode I introduce myself and share the very personal story that led me to creating this podcast. I also explain what the show will be like, the kind of episodes and content you can expect, and what Mental Health Adjacent is all about.
You can follow me on social media on: https://www.instagram.com/mh.adjacent/
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