Mental Health News Radio

Therapy with a twist of irreverence is sorely needed in today's world. Balancing our head/heart connection by diving into the depths of our souls while simultaneously laughing our asses off takes some deep work. We won't call it being fearless. We all have fear. It's just owning the uncomfortable within, feeling that fear, and diving in anyway. Enter Sarah Buino and her podcast Confessions of a Wounded Healer, newly added to Mental Health News Radio Network.Join she and your host Kristin Sunanta Walker for those conversations we love - no holds barred. Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF founded Head/Heart Therapy, Inc. in 2014. After working for several years at respected social service agencies around Chicago, Sarah envisioned creating a new group practice that would be a welcoming place where clients can feel free to show up authentically and creatively however they so desire. Head/Heart’s vision is a reflection of Sarah’s own philosophy and personal experiences of living a rich, examined and sometimes untraditi

How does our emotional and mental state of being affect our relationship with money? Does your bank account balance control your emotions and what you feel about yourself? Can you change your emotional state so that money doesn't control it? All of this and more with our new podcaster Joan Sotkin and her show The Prosperity Show. Joan Sotkin helps entrepreneurs and practitioners experience freedom from struggle personally, professionally, and financially. She is THE expert when it comes to understanding how emotions learned in early childhood can affect a person's business and financial outcomes. Thousands have benefited from her groundbreaking book Build Your Money Muscles, her podcast, The Prosperity Show, and her unique style of coaching. www.joansotkin.com

Tune in to hear what the state of Michigan is doing to provide Mental Health services to all of their secondary schools. It's much needed and we hope other states follow their lead!Matt is the Director of Student Services for MASSP and MASC/MAHS Michigan Student Leadership. Our student association facilitates over 30 programs and events a year, working with hundreds of schools and over 10,000 students from across the state of Michigan. Matt graduated from Central Michigan University with a Bachelors degree in Psychology and with a Master of Arts in Counseling. Matt and his wife, Riley, are the proud parents of four wonderful children (debatable depending on the day): Auden, Laken, Reddick and Sutter.https://massp.com/SMHThis event is the first summit and SOLD OUT! We are excited to participate with Dr. Lisa Day, Frank King, Sahen Garcia and Kristin Sunanta Walker talking about Social Media Addiction!

The horsemanship world is an interesting place. People who believe that force, anger, these are just dumb animals, etc. will argue forever and write off anyone that practices compassion, empathy, partnership, leadership. This will go on as it has until the end of time. When you bring horses into a therapeutic environment all of the "take control over your horse" practices go right out the window. That will never work when it comes to utilizing horses with people that struggle with their mental health. Guess who struggles with their mental health at some point in their lives? EVERYONE. You'd think and, maybe, hope that all of the strides we see from working in partnership with these amazing animals would trickle into the world of horses outside the counseling realm. Tune to to this show, hold back that need to write off what our guest does successfully without anger, without treats, and without those tired old fashioned ways of managing horses. Listen. Be open. Have an experience of letting a horse choose. It

Finally we have the right host at the right time for our network podcast The Animal Effect. Join Kristin and Prairie Conlon as they discuss animals and mental health. Get to know the host of your new favorite podcast!Prairie is a licensed mental health therapist who utilizes animal assisted interventions in all walks of her mental health practice. She has a master’s degree in professional counseling and a postgraduate degree in military behavioral health counseling. She is certified as an equine assisted psychotherapist and has presented at national conferences on her techniques for providing equine therapy for military members and their families, with special emphasis on transitioning from the military back to civilian life. Prairie is a certified Accelerated Resolution Therapist and helps train future trauma therapist in this modality. She consults for several non-profits for veteran and first responder trauma work to include the Lone Survivor Foundation and Horses that Heal. Prairie is a passionate support

Join frequent guest Thomas Dahlborg, Sr. discussing how we can ensure Youth Sports are a mentally healthy extracurricular activity.Expanding on the message of “The Big Kid and Basketball,” Maine author and Coach, Thomas H. Dahlborg, Sr., taps into his 35 years of healthcare leadership and performance improvement experience to bring the healthcare Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) best practice to youth sports --- renamed and refocused as the Player and Family Advisory Council (PFAC). And through this system create: •Improved access to fitness, athletics and sport for all youth•Improved well-being of players, families, and communities•Players better positioned for success on and off the field/court/ice•Better quality, safety, performance outcomes and experience for players and families•Increased Engagement (players and families/coaches and administrators/communities)•MoreDahlborg, who recently presented “Successfully navigating the non-X's and O's of Coaching” at the Maine Parks and Recreation Associa

Why do some people become emotionally and or physically violent after the consumption of alcohol? Join Dr. Dominic Parrott for a discussion about the link between alcohol and aggression, bystander intervention, and intimate partner violence. Dr. Dominic Parrott is currently a professor in the department of psychology at Georgia State University, the Director of Clinical Training, and Chair of the Clinical Psychology Program. He is one of the faculty for the Center for Research on Interpersonal Violence. A focus of his work is on alcohol-related aggression, intimate partner aggression, and campus sexual violence.https://shared.cas.gsu.edu/profile/dominic-parrott/

Join hosts Frank King, The Mental Health Comedian, and Kristin Sunanta Walker with their guest, Foster Rhodes, for an impromptu discussion about narcissism. What do comedians know about self absorbed, toxic, and emotionally damaging people? Plenty. For more information about Foster please visit her website at www.backstage.com/u/fosterrhodes/

How do people in the healing profession work on their own healing? Are they the proverbial "worst patient" when it comes to their own healing? How hard is it for the shaman (known as the wounded healer) to receive their own healing?Let's start by acknowledging that most healers or shamans do not see themselves as "healers". They help facilitate healing - your healing. They are a skilled practitioner in the healing arts guiding their clients or patients towards their own healing powers. As an example, they do not run around telling everyone who will listen that they are Healed and a Healer nor would they state they have Healed anyone. This is called arrogance which is not the way of any shaman. Join Martha Juchnowski and Kristin Walker as they discuss what it means to be in the healing arts and their own journeys with receiving their own healing.Martha is a registered nurse, psychic medium, and spiritual healing facilitator.

September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day and we are pleased to have Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas join Mental Health News Radio Network with her podcast Hope Illuminated. She joins Kristin Walker and Frank King to discuss her show, why suicide awareness and prevention is her mission, and what we can all do to help anyone suffering.Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas sees issues of suicide prevention and mental health promotion from a host of perspectives. Clinical psychologist. Mental health advocate. Faculty member. Researcher. And suicide loss survivor.She has earned an international reputation as an entrepreneur and innovator in social change. Along the way, she’s helped establish many large-scale, gap-filling mental health efforts, including Man Therapy (www.ManTherapy.org) and National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention.She has held leadership roles with the International Association of Suicide Prevention, the American Association of Suicidology, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, United Suicide Survivo

John Zacharias joins us to talk about his calling: working with senior citizens and their mental health. John graduated from Towson University (formerly Towson State), 1988, Summa cum Lauder with a Sociology major w/Gerontology concentration. His first job was working in a senior center in NW Philadelphia. He visited homebound elderly and helped arrange services to keep them out of nursing homes. He also worked with the American Cancer Society as an intake coordinator and as Director of Social Services in a retirement community in Shelburne, Vermont. Last but certainly not least, he worked for 18 years in another retirement community in Richmond (Masonic Home of Virginia) caring for his mom who had bone cancer.

Is there Joy in Leadership? Can there be? How do you cultivate it for yourself and help those you are leading find it? Join Catherine Limpo and Kristin Walker as they delve into how we find our own joy as female leaders, as well as, inspire it in others!Kristin is the founder and CEO of Mental Health News Radio Network and CEO of everythingEHR. Over the course of her career as a technology consultant she has worked with some of the largest organizations in the world. Catherine Greer Limpo has and does work in high level executive positions in many industries, including those that are still heavily male dominated. She has a unique perspective about how things have changed for women in leadership and shares her knowledge and experience with the listeners of our show.

Join author, channel, and medium Athena Demetrios for a discussion about healing and what it means to walk between two worlds. About Athena:In 1979, a strange series of events became an Initiation which swiftly opened doorways into other dimensions. Although I did not understand it at the time, I was being awakened by the Ascended Master Saint Germain to the Cosmic Laws of the Universe. Beginning the journey inward, connecting to my God Self, 37 years later I remain both a devoted student and Teacher of Light. Upon occasion, various Masters will bring forth messages both verbally and in the written word. In the early eighties, through another sequence of mysterious events, I crossed paths and encountered my “Mystical Muse” James Martin Peebles (1822-1922). Dr. Peebles informed me of a past life connection we shared as we lectured and worked together on several projects in the 1800’s during the Spiritualist movement. This information has been documented. I have come to understand my fascination and contact w

Join Kristin and Dr. Julia Mossbridge as they discuss what truly is important in life: Love and Time. What's important about those two things is truly our perception of both. In addition to being the founder and research director of Mossbridge Institute, LLC, Dr. Mossbridge is a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University, a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Science Director at Focus@Will Labs, and an Associated Professor in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.Her focus is on teaching and learning about love and time, and she pursues this focus by speaking about love and time, leading projects, conducting research, and coaching technology executives and engineers.She is currently engaged in four love-centered projects: 1) LOVING AIs, a project designed to bring unconditional love into artificial intelligence (especially artificial general intelligence), 2) a project in which she is examining whether hypnosis can be

Photographer, runner, speaker and mental health advocate, Alan Scherer joins Kristin to talk about the winding paths that friendships can take.www.fierceful.org

Phil Saviano is a victim of child sexual abuse by a Massachusetts Catholic priest in the 1960s. In 1992, at the age of 40, he went public about his abuse, generating national headlines. Through the pursuit of a civil suit, he gained evidence that least 7 bishops in four states had known that his abuser, Fr. David Holley, was a child molester. After settling his lawsuit with no confidentiality restrictions, he established the New England Chapter of SNAP, the national support network. Through SNAP, he formalized his outreach to other victims of child clergy abuse and assumed a role of expert and media spokesperson on the issue. Phil’s year 2001 contributions to the Boston Globe’s landmark investigation of clergy abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston, MA are portrayed in the movie “Spotlight,” the Academy Award Winning Best Film of 2016. Mike Rezendes is a member of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team and shared a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for revealing the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. In more than two de

Join Dr. Evian Gordon and Kristin Walker to discuss how revolutionizing the brain impacts your mental health! Dr. Gordon is the Founder and Chairman of Brain Resource Company and TotalBrain (2000). Founder of the largest standardized International Brain Database. Scientific Chairman and Founding Director, The Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Hospital. Director of BRAINnet.net.He is the Principal Investigator of the first study (iSPOT) to predict treatment response in Depression. Over 250 peer-reviewed scientific publications. H-Index of over 70. Recipient of the inaugural Royal Societies Eureka Prize for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research (2003). He also published the first book on Integrative Neuroscience, titled: “Integrative Neuroscience: Bringing together biological, psychological and clinical models of the human brain” (Harwood Academic Press: London, 2000). The Brain Database has over 1 million Datasets from 6-100 years of age and in 10 Brain Disorders and over 40 leading US Corporates (including Boei

David answers questions from listeners below:"I was listening to a Christian based podcast and I started thinking about different cultures and all the different theories people have about life, religion, morals and the best way to live your life. You (Kristin) came to my mind and David because I thought of this after I listened to his show because you both know so many different types of people. Out of all those different types of people, who is the happiest? Who does the most for others? Who spreads the most positivity? Or is there not an answer for that question? How much does religion play a part in it all?""What have you experienced in terms of a patient who comes to you with severe mental anguish who seems to merely be figuring out that the construct they've been living under is just that - a construct? To the outside world this person is so mentally 'disturbed' that traditional psychiatry would have them locked in a mental institution.""How much do you think we create our own reality? I find myself havi

Rabbi Steve Leder joins us to talk about grief, suffering, and transformation. He shares with us why he wrote the best-selling book More Beautiful than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us and shared that it included an apology for all the people he had counseled in the past. He had an awakening after a life threatening car accident that left him in chronic pain, with depression, and an Opioid addiction. Through that experience he learned that much of what he'd endeavored to help people with he didn't truly understand. This show is a great reminder as to why our suffering is transformative and can lead to a deeper and richer life experience. We also discussed that the very act of suffering is not a call to martyr yourself. None of us actually wants to suffer. If we can avoid it we certainly work hard at trying, but leaning into it can transform your life.Twice-named by Newsweek Magazine as one of the ten most influential rabbis in America, Steve Leder is the Senior Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Ang

Faith means different things to different people. When you have suffered tremendous loss whatever your definition of faith is can be shaken. Often you feel as though it has been shattered. Join Kristin with Martha Juchnowski continuing the discussion about her grieving process from the passing of her son. In this episode Martha talks about finding your faith and discovering a new definition.